The Bull-Man and the Grasshopper , first published in 1876 as Une histoire de l’autre monde , and here presented in English for the first time ...

Marie Krysinska (1857-1908), the inventor of vers libre , has long been overlooked, despite her important contribution to French letters. In this, the ...

Jane de La Vaudère was one of the most unusual writers of the fin de siècle , renowned both for her scandalously scabrous Parisian novels ...

Jean Lorrain, one of the leading figures of the Decadent Movement, was a master of the conte cruel. Presented here, for the first time in English, are ...

Appearing here in English for the first time, in a translation by Shawn Garrett, is Robert Scheffer’s minor masterpiece of decadence, Prince Narcissus ...

The Reign of Satan , written by the radical Benjamin Gastineau and originally published in 1848, the same year the author was convicted for writing for ...

Mark Samuels—“the contemporary British master of visionary weirdness”, as Ramsey Campbell has called him—stands at the forefront ...

Four Windows. Four minds riding through derangement and beyond as clouds gather over the city of London. Four music students working hard to analyze a ...

Histoires et contes fantastiques, here translated by Brian ­Stableford as A Malediction, was the first volume of prose of Erckmann-Chatrian, the pseudonym ...

Thirty-six cities. Thirty-six stories of obsession. From ancient Thebes to present day Berlin, these little portraits of humans superimposed on their ...