Krabat (novel)

Krabat is a fantasy novel by Otfried Preußler, a German author born in Liberec (Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). It's a story based on a Wendish legend. The book was first published in 1971. The English translation first was published as The Satanic Mill from 1972 to 1991, then republished in 2000 as The Curse of the Darkling Mill, in 2011 as Krabat and in 2014 as Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill. It is the basis of the 1978 Czech animated feature film The Sorcerer's Apprentice and the 2008 live-action Krabat (the 1975 television film Die schwarze Mühle is based on a different novelization of the same folk tale).

Krabat (novel)

Krabat is a fantasy novel by Otfried Preußler, a German author born in Liberec (Reichenberg), Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic). It's a story based on a Wendish legend. The book was first published in 1971. The English translation first was published as The Satanic Mill from 1972 to 1991, then republished in 2000 as The Curse of the Darkling Mill, in 2011 as Krabat and in 2014 as Krabat and the Sorcerer's Mill. It is the basis of the 1978 Czech animated feature film The Sorcerer's Apprentice and the 2008 live-action Krabat (the 1975 television film Die schwarze Mühle is based on a different novelization of the same folk tale).