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A "solid feature" focusing on this entry should highlight the —the tension between his "rational" legal career and his "irrational" artistic life—and how this duality birthed the modern fantasy and horror genres . Feature Profile: The Jurist of Nightmares

: His nighttime creative bursts produced masterpieces like The Nutcracker and the Mouse King and The Devil's Elixir , influencing everyone from Edgar Allan Poe to Franz Kafka . Hoffmann, E T A ( LH ) rar

: He pioneered the concept of the "uncanny" ( das Unheimliche ), using dolls and automatons to explore human psyche, a theme later analyzed by Sigmund Freud. A "solid feature" focusing on this entry should