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"I called the Erlking, but someone kept me from keeping him penned up.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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Finally, we have The Erlking, which is the tale of something that goes bump in the night.
Short Story Sunday - Nocturnes by John Connolly Stephanie 2009
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Finally, we have The Erlking, which is the tale of something that goes bump in the night.
Archive 2009-10-01 Stephanie 2009
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If I wasn't fast enough to call the Erlking before one of the Kemmlerites, or if he escaped my hold and ran loose through Chicago, people would die.
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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"Even if you do figure out how to call the Erlking, it sounds like he might be kinda dangerous."
Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005
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"Erlking" had been much applauded, and when it was decided to have it published, the decision was announced.
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898
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Seeing that the publishers were unwilling to print the work of an unknown musician, two of Schubert's friends undertook to publish the "Erlking," one of his first songs, at their own risk.
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898
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"Erlking" and the "Wanderer," for a sum equal to about four hundred dollars.
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898
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Before all this had taken place, Johann Vogl, an admired opera singer in Vienna at the time, had learned Schubert's "Erlking," and had sung it in March,
The World's Great Men of Music Story-Lives of Master Musicians Harriette Brower 1898
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By the way, other instrumental settings occur to me: those of several of Schubert's songs ( "Erlking," "Gretchen," "The Young Nun," and a few others) that I wrote for Fraulein Genast.
Letters Liszt, Franz 1893
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