ABSTRACT
The Romantic imagination stirred up and enjoyed fearful adventures and nightmarish thoughts, especially of young women at risk. The movies of the early twentieth century, such as The Perils of Pauline, concentrated on similar themes. Fantastic and extreme, even brutal, mysteries became popular in the late eighteenth century with the Boulevard melodramas of writer Arnould-Musset. 1 In the nineteenth century, the short tales of writer T. E. Hoffman strongly influenced choreographers and dancers and their taste for the fantastique.
