The Road to Darkness contains two decadent and highly controversial novels; Daniel Jesus (first published in 1905) and Severin (first published in 1914) and the short story The ghost of the Jewish Ghetto (first published in 1914). "A series of disgusting orgies with some mystical drivel wrapped round the obscenities." Arthur Eloesser. In this book Paul Leppin captures the mysterious and erotic atmosphere of old Prague.