The Spectre-Barber

by Johann Karl August Musäus

English-language translations of Stumme Liebe include:

• "The Spectre-Barber", translated by Sarah Elizabeth Utterson in Tales of the Dead (1813)
• "The Dumb Lover—A True Story", translated anonymously in La Belle Assemblée (1814) (transcription project) (scan needed)
• "The Spectre Barber", translated anonymously in Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations (1823)
• "The Dumb Lover", translated by Thomas Roscoe in The German Novelists (1826)
• "Dumb Love", translated by Thomas Carlyle in German Romance (1827) [1874]
• "The Red Mantle" (extract), translated anonymously in Edinburgh Literary Journal (1831)
• "The Grateful Ghost", translated anonymously in Royal Lady's Magazine (1831)
• "The Spectre Barber", translated by Helen Smith in The Decameron of the West (1839)
• "Mute Love", translated by Adolf Zytogorski in Select Popular Tales from the German of Musaeus (1845)
• "The Barber's Ghost", translated by Adolf Zytogorski in The Nymph of the Well and The Barber's Ghost (1848) (scan needed)

See also

• "The Barber’s Ghost: A Fact" by S***** (1824) (external scan) – a short story inspired by this tale
• "The Barber’s Ghost" by Sigma (1825) (external scan) – a poem based on the above story