Nightmares of an Ether Drinker
10 best books like Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Jean Lorrain): The White Hands and Other Weird Tales, The Dark Domain, Aucassin et Nicolette, Black Spirits and White - A Book of Ghost Stories, Rupetta, The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France, Les Diaboliques, French Decadent Tales, The Complete Wandering Ghosts, Cold to the Touch
| Author | Mark Samuels |
| ISBN | 1872621899 |
This is the first collection of strange stories by contemporary writer Mark Samuels. The themes that thread through these nine accomplished stories are drawn from the great tradition of the twentieth-century weird tale, and they are suffused with a distinctly cosmopolitan, European feel. Mark...
| Author | Stefan Grabiński |
| ISBN | 1873982259 |
Poland's strong Catholic faith engendered in its literature a lively awareness of the Devil and a love of the supernatural and the fantastic. These stories are explorations of the extreme in human behaviour, where the bizarre chills the spine, and few authors can match Grabinski's depiction of seething...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 2080720430 |
Aucassin et Nicolette is a medieval French chantefable, or combination of prose and verse (literally, a "sung story"), similar to a prosimetrum. It is the only known chantefable from what was once a very popular literary tradition, and it is from this work the term chantefable was coined in its concluding...
| Author | Ralph Adams Cram |
| ISBN | 1872621880 |
Sewn hardback printed on 130gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Bath Press in black wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands.
300 copies.
(Out of print).
With an Introduction to Black Spirits & White by Stefan Dziemianowicz, and an Introduction...
| Author | Nike Sulway |
| ISBN | 1905784503 |
Rupetta is a sewn hardback of 352 pages, printed lithographically, with silk ribbon marker, head and tailbands, and d/w.
Four hundred years ago, in a small town in rural France, a young woman creates the future in the shape of Rupetta. Part mechanical, part human, Rupetta’s consciousness...
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
| Author | Asti Hustvedt |
| ISBN | 1890951072 |
In France at the end of the nineteenth century, progress and material prosperity coincided with widespread alarm about disease and decay. The obsessions of our own culture as the twentieth century came to a close resonate strikingly with those of the last fin-de-siecle: crime, pollution, sexually...
| Author | Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly |
| ISBN | 2253036544 |
Quant aux femmes de ces histoires, pourquoi ne seraient-elles pas les Diaboliques ? N'ont-elles pas assez de diabolisme en leur personne pour mériter ce doux nom ? Diaboliques ! il n'y en a pas une seule ici qui ne le soit à quelque degré. Comme le Diable, qui était un ange aussi, mais qui a culbuté,...
| Author | Stephen Romer |
| ISBN | 0199569274 |
'He had become the dandy of the unpredictable.' A quest for new sensations, and an avowed desire to shock possessed the Decadent writers of fin-de-siècle Paris. The years 1880-1900 saw an extraordinary, hothouse flowering of talent, that produced some of the most exotic, stylized, and cerebral...
| Author | F. Marion Crawford |
| ISBN | 1592240399 |
For the first time, complete as the author intended them, here are all eight of F. Marion Crawford's supernatural pieces, including the rare story "The King's Messenger," as well as such classics as "The Upper Berth" (considered by many to be the finest ghost story ever written) and many more. Also features...
| Author | Simon Strantzas |
| ISBN | 1937128385 |
Sewn signatures, printed on 125gsm acid-free paper, and bound by Atheneum Press in blue wibalin cloth stamped in silver, with a silk ribbon marker and head and tailbands.
300 copies.
(Out of print).
Reality is a thin translucent membrane that separates this world from the one beyond,...
| Author | Angela Slatter |
| ISBN | 1905784252 |
Welcome to the beautiful magic, restless passion and exquisite horror of Angela Slatter's impeccably imagined tales.
In the cathedral-city of Lodellan and its uneasy hinterland, babies are fashioned from bread, dolls are given souls and wishes granted may be soon regretted. There are...
The Man Who Could Work Miracles
"The subsequent meditations of Mr. Fotheringay were of a severe but confused description. So far, he could see it was a case of pure willing with him. The nature of his experiences so far disinclined him for any further experiments, at least until he had reconsidered them. But he lifted a sheet of paper,...
The Collected Strange Stories Of Robert Aickman: I
| Author | Robert Aickman |
| ISBN | 1872621473 |
Sewn hardback, printed and bound by Antony Rowe. Jacket by Steven Stapleton.
Co-produced with Durtro. 500 copies printed.
(Out of print).
Contents:
-a quote from Stenbock
-Robert Aickman: An Appreciation, by David Tibet
-An Essay by Robert Aickman
-Remembering...
| Author | Marcel Schwob |
| ISBN | 0856354031 |
First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, The King in the Golden Mask gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob’s cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, these stories describe moments of unexplained violence both historical and...
| Author | David Lindsay |
| ISBN | 0809532344 |
Victorian-era romance—stiff-mannerisms and lacquered morality and formalized discourse—curiously carried through to Home County life in post-Great War England; yet, this being a book by Lindsay, endowed with an intriguing blend of supernatural-cum-psychological excavation, spiritual...
The Tattered Cloak and Other Stories
| Author | Nina Berberova |
| ISBN | 0811214737 |
The greatest collection by one of the great Russian writers is now back in print. First published in Europe in the 1930s and '40s, these searing, evocative stories by the late emigre writer Nina Berberova (1901-1993) are portraits of the lives of Russian exiles in Paris on the eve of World War II. The protagonists...
Death to the Pigs and Other Writings
| Author | Benjamin Péret |
| ISBN | 0803287216 |
One of the founders of surrealism, Benjamin Péret lived a life resistant to any aesthetic or political compromise. Though he was the writer most admired within the surrealist group itself, very little of his work has been previously translated. This, the first authorized collection, assembles...
| Author | Gyula Krúdy |
| ISBN | 0141193034 |
Life is a Dream (1931) is Gyula Krudy's magical collection of ten short stories. Creating a world where editors shoot themselves after a hard day's brunching, men attend duels incognito and lovers fall out over salad dressing, Life is a Dream is a comic, nostalgic, romantic and erotic glimpse into the...
| Author | Léon Bloy |
| ISBN | 1939663105 |
Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," Léon Bloy. Disagreeable Tales, first published in French in 1894, collects Bloy's narrative sermons from the depths: a cauldron of frightful...
Monsieur Vénus: A Materialist Novel
| Author | Rachilde |
| ISBN | 0873529308 |
Excellent decadent novel: moving and disturbing, with an ending that echoes, in an abstract way, many later horror films and stories.
The perversions presented are, by this point in time, passe: mainly a dominant/submissive relationship between a masculine rich woman and her "kept" lover,...
| Author | Géza Csáth |
| ISBN | 0140066896 |
"Csáth's short stories are and extraordinary, uneasy mixture of sentimentality, sadism, and sexual repressions - nasty tales, not dissimilar to some of the fictions of the contemporary United States and United Kingdom, both countries in which the collective dream has, latterly, also broken down...
| Author | Rémy de Gourmont |
| ISBN | 0946626812 |
`The Angels of Perversity' is a collection of 30 short tales by French philosopher/aesthetician/literary critic/fiction writer Remy de Gourmont (1858 - 1915), a leading voice of the fin-de-siècle decadent and symbolist schools who was heralded as the `critical conscience of a generation'....
