Strange News from Another Star is a collection of eight short stories written by the German author Hermann Hesse between 1913 and 1918.

"Flute Dream" was added for the English publication in 1972 as per an arrangement Hesse had made for the final collected edition of his works.

These stories were also published in The Complete Fairy Tales of Hermann Hesse in 1995 with a new English translation by Jack Zipes.

They are essentially fairy tales dealing with dream worlds, the subconscious and magic.

In these stories, Hesse challenged conventional intellectual life and the orthodoxy of the world.