The first modern translation of one of Theodor Storm's finest stories. Grieshuus is a dense short narrative set against the historical canvas of the wars that swept northern Europe in the 17th and 18th centuries, telling through dramatically shifting perspectives the story of the fall of a noble family whose seat is Grieshuus manor on the north German heath. Supreme in his gift for creating and sustaining atmosphere, Storm interweaves local legends and superstitions with regional chronicles of the period in which eyewitness accounts foretell terrible times' to come.