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  • An Idyll in Sodom
    Georges de Lys / Brian Stableford
    Georges de Lys’s An Idyll in Sodom, originally published in 1889, and here made available in its first English translation, by Brian Stableford, is a significant contribution to a subgenre of French Romantic fiction consisting of lush representations of 'moeurs antiques' [ancient mores], a spectacular landmark of which was established with Salammbô by Gustave Flaubert, to whom ...
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    16,54 €

  • The Enchanted Castle
    Alphonse Esquiros / Brian Stableford
    The Enchanted Castle, originally published in 1846, and here presented in English for the first time in a translation by Brian Stableford, is author Alphonse Esquiros’ quintessential tale of magnetism. A hybrid transfiguration, the short novel combines the key motif of the story nowadays known in English as 'The Sleeping Beauty' with the legend of Pygmalion and Galatea, and car...
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    17,78 €

  • Double Heart
    Marcel Schwob / Brian Stableford
    Double Heart, Marcel Schwob’s first collection of short stories, here presented in English for the first time, in an expert translation by Brian Stableford, was originally published in 1891, all of the stories in it having previously appeared in the daily newspaper L’Écho de Paris while the author was part of a 'stable' of writers attached to the newspaper, commissioned to supp...
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    20,21 €

  • The Last Siren
    Lucie Delarue-Mardrus / Brian Stableford
    Lucie Delarue-Mardrus (1874-1945) was the first female journalist to be recruited to the stable of writers formed by the Parisian daily newspaper Le Journal to supply its 'Contes du Journal' feature with copy on a regular basis, from July 1906 until February 1908. She supplied the paper with thirty-five stories, which were never collected in book form in France, but translation...
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    21,99 €

  • The Elusive Shadows
    Brian Stableford
    They’re essentially frustrating-things I glimpse out of the corner of my eye, but which disappear as soon as I try to look at them directly. For me, they’re always peripheral. Elusive shadows, as you say. They modify the color of whatever they’re gliding over, but they don’t seem to have any color of their own. As for shape and structure, I only have the vaguest impression . . ...
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    17,41 €

  • Snuggly Tales of Hashish and Opium
    Brian Stableford
    'What benevolent demon must I thank for thus surrounding me with mystery, silence, peace and perfumes? O bliss! That which we ordinarily call life, even when it can encompass happiness, has nothing to compare with this life beyond life which I have come to understand, and which I savor minute by minute, second by second.'-Charles Baudelaire, 'The Double Room'Gathered together i...
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    19,53 €

  • The Modesty of Sodom
    Gustave Guiches / Brian Stableford
    Originally published in 1888, The Modesty of Sodom, the outrageous text for which Gustave Guiches (1860-1935)  is most remembered, is here presented for the first time in English, in a wonderful translation by ­Brian Stableford.  Still as avant-garde as ever, The Modesty of Sodom is one of the purest and most strident exercises of fin-de-siècle Decadent art. As well as employin...
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    12,21 €

  • Monsieur de Bougrelon and Other Stories
    Jean Lorrain / Brian Stableford
    Monsieur de Bougrelon, which originally appeared in serial form in Le Journal between 20 January and 10 May 1897, is here presented in English in a wonderful and fully annotated translation by Brian Stableford. This literary masterpiece, the eponymous “hero” of which is an extraordinary invention, remarkably exotic even by the standards of an era in which the intersection of ne...
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    16,38 €

  • Syta’s Harem and Pharaoh’s Lover
    Jane de La Vaudère / Brian Stableford / TBD
    Presented here, for the first time in English, in fabulous translations by Brian Stableford, are two exotic novels by Jane La Vaudère, one of France’s most interesting, and most Decadent, writers.In the first, Syta’s Harem, we are taken to a proto-anthropological India, to an ancient kingdom which is ruled by Princess Syta, a beautiful woman idolized by the members of her male ...
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    23,07 €

  • The Revelations of Time and Space
    Brian Stableford / TBD
    Zephaniah Corcoran has just returned to Earth after a seven-year jaunt to Jupiter where his special—some would say dubious—talents were put to the test in attempted communication with the Jovian cloud-whales. With no time to adjust to life on an Earth half alarmed and half fatalistic at the prospect of final catastrophe, he is headhunted for a reprise of his old job: being proj...
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    23,86 €

  • Decadent Prose Pieces
    Léo Trézenik / Brian Stableford
    Proses Décadentes by “Léo Trézenik” (Léo Épinette, 1855-1902), here published in its first-ever appearance English as Decadent Prose Pieces, in a fabulous translation by Brian Stableford, was one of the first volumes to advertise itself brazenly as a contribution to a nascent Decadent Movement, albeit ironically and in jest—an irony and humor entirely appropriate to the spirit ...
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    12,08 €

  • A Malediction
    Emile Erckmann / Erckmann-Chatrian / Brian Stableford
    Histoires et contes fantastiques, here translated by Brian ­Stableford as A Malediction, was the first volume of prose of Erckmann-Chatrian, the pseudonym of Émile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890), who wrote in ­collaboration.Ranging from the Romantic melodrama of the title novelette, which has never before appeared in English, to the horrific fantastic o...
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    15,56 €

  • The Gate of Ivory
    Bernard Lazare / Brian Stableford
    First published in 1898, and here made available for the first time in English in a translation by Brian Stableford, The Gate of Ivory was the last of Symbolist Bernard Lazare’s volumes of fiction to be released before his time was wholly taken up with the Dreyfus Affair.Embedding tales within tales, this literary portmanteaux moves into the foreground of the reading experience...
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    17,62 €

  • The Path of Amour
    Marie Krysinska / Brian Stableford
    Marie Krysinska (1857-1908), the inventor of vers libre, has long been overlooked, despite her important contribution to French letters. In this, the first volume of her work ever to be offered in English, in a splendid translation by Brian Stableford, two very different, and complimentary, selections of her prose are offered.The first is a complete translation of Amour Chimine...
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    19,55 €

  • Weird Fiction in France
    Brian Stableford
    Weird fiction has long been not only unappreciated but actively maltreated by orthodox esthetic evaluation, but its stature has improved considerably in modern times, and that has encouraged a reexamination of the genre’s history.It has required nearly two centuries since the beginnings of modern weird fiction in the cradle of the Romantic Movement for the concept to be properl...
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    27,45 €

  • Automata
    Brian Stableford
    In 1737, French inventor Jacques de Vaucanson (1709-1782) constructed a life-sized automaton known as the Flute Player, which established him as a pioneer in the field. It was swiftly followed by a Tambourine Player and the Digesting Duck.Vaucanson’s endeavors in matters of industrial automation are largely forgotten, but the ingenious toys he built in order to advertize his sk...
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    29,71 €

  • Hauntings
    Édouard Dujardin / Brian Stableford
    Hauntings, by Édouard Dujardin (1861-1949), was originally published in French in 1886 and is here presented in its first-ever English translation by Brian Stableford. It appeared one year before the work on which the author’s fame is largely based, Les Lauriers sont coupés, which was the first stream-of-consciousness novel ever written, and which was certainly hugely influenti...
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    13,94 €

  • Hannibal’s Ring
    Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly / Brian Stableford
    Written in 1834, but not published until eight years later, in 1842, due to its bizarre style and format, Hannibal’s Ring is one of the most interesting of the early works of Jules-Amédée Barbey d’Aurevilly.Presented here for the first time in English, in a translation by Brian Stableford, this short novel or extended prose poem is an autobiographical tale of amorous obsession,...
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    12,15 €

  • Three Flowers and The King of Siam’s Amazon
    Jane de La Vaudère / Brian Stableford
    In La Vaudère’s first venture into exotic erotica, the Java-set Three Flowers of Sensuality (1900), we follow Stéphane, a French artist abroad, and his adventures with three dancing girl sisters who have been kept and raised in closed religious communities dedicated to the celebration of female deities. In the second novel in the present volume, The King of Siam’s Amazon (1902)...
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    23,02 €

  • Reincarnation and Redemption
    Gilbert-Augustin Thierry / Brian Stableford
    Gathered together and translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, the current volume contains three bizarre novellas of the paranormal by Gilbert-Augustin Thierry (1843-1915), originally published in periodicals of the day. Written when the author was heavily involved with the French Occult Revival, these feverish tales of reincarnation and redemption are pr...
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    16,66 €

  • Living with the Dead
    Brian Stableford
    The concluding volume of the trilogy, Living with the Dead is set in and around Toulouse, shortly after the death in Paris of Jane de La Vaudère. Madame Louvot is now serving as Paul Furneret’s housekeeper. He is living close to an old convent leased by the residents of which apparently have orders not to communicate with him, although they supply gods from their farm and their...
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    32,97 €

  • Fards and Poisons
    Jean Lorrain / Brian Stableford
    Fards and Poisons, originally published in 1903 and here made available for the first time in English in a translation by Brian Stableford, is one of the more eccentric works of the ever-eccentric Jean Lorrain. Defying the standard narrative expectations of short stories, the items in this volume might be seen as a series of gossipy character sketches, of actresses and mystics,...
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    20,69 €

  • The Painter of Spirits
    Brian Stableford
    Paul Furneret, a young artist working in Paris in 1901, is invited to attend a séance at Camille Flammarion’s observatory after having participated in an experiment in “automatic drawing” at another séance a week earlier, in which he drew a picture, while unconscious under hypnosis, of a young woman recognized by one of the participants as his dead daughter. Paul’s friend, Vict...
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    23,19 €

  • The Quiet Dead
    Brian Stableford
    Paul Furneret returns to Paris after a four-year interval. He again contacts Camille Flammarion, Jane de La Vaudère and Madame Zosima;, who now runs a women’s refuge and employs hypnosis to enable  women to “remember” their alleged past incarnations.One night, he is intercepted by Baron de Rochemure, who had recognized his daughter in the sketch Paul produced during his first a...
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    24,26 €

  • Mephistophela
    Catulle Mendès / Brian Stableford
    Mephistophela, among the most unsettling works of the prolific author Catulle Mendès, was originally published in 1889 and is presented here for the first time in English in a superb translation by Brian Stableford. Telling the story of Baronne Sophor d’Hermelinge, a woman as thoroughly martyrized by her creator as any other heroine in the history of fiction, in spite of the en...
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    26,21 €

  • The Tyranny of the Word
    Brian Stableford
    The novel is set in the 1480s, during the war in which the French annexed Bretagne. At the Benedictine Abbey in Paimpol, a scholarly monk named Ollivier, reputed to have practiced necromancy, is buried under the watchful eyes of two Dominican heresy hunters, the burial only attended by his fellow scholar Brother Primael, who believes him to be innocent of any wrongdoing, and be...
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    23,21 €

  • Isis
    Auguste Villiers De L'Isle Adam / Auguste Villiers de L’Isle Adam / Brian Stableford
    Here, presented in English in a long-belated translation by Brian Stableford, is Isis, the first novel of the acclaimed author of Contes cruels, Villiers de l’Isle-Adam. Deserving to be reckoned as one of the foundation-stones of Decadent prose fiction, redolent with echoes of Byron and Poe, reconfigured in the Baudelairean manner, and flamboyant with Gautieresque elements, thi...
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    16,55 €

  • The Truths of Darkness
    Brian Stableford
    Simon Cannick, with the dubious assistance of possible extraterrestrial influence, seems to have largely recovered from his temporary death, his peculiar and continual lapses into dreamspace notwithstanding. However, fate, like the neider, is hydra-formed. Douglas Jefferson is willing to play dirty in the long game of inheritance and the longer game of resentment; Simon’s half-...
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    21,53 €

  • From a Faraway Land
    Remy de Gourmont / Brian Stableford
    Originally published in 1898, From a Faraway Land, here translated into English for the first time by Brian Stableford, is one of the quintessential collections of Symbolist short fiction, by Remy de Gourmont, one of France’s greatest writers.With their sophisticated understatement, and hybridization of the narrative techniques and strategies developed by the suppliers of newsp...
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    17,51 €

  • A Woman Appeared to Me
    Renée Vivien / Brian Stableford
    Appearing here together for the first time in English, in an exquisite translation by Brian Stableford, are the two markedly different novels issued by Renée Vivien under the title of A Woman Appeared to Me.First published in 1904 and 1905, these masterpieces of symbolist fiction recount Vivien’s obsessive, torturing love affairs, most especially with the American writer Natali...
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    21,99 €


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