Black Water: The Book Of Fantastic Literature

By Howard Fast, Silvina Ocampo, Charles Dickens, CYNTHIA OZICK, Jean, Cocteau, Charles Williams, Daphne Du Maurier, Graham Greene, Italo Calvino, Horacio QUIROGA, Jorge Luis Borges, Bruno Schulz, Saki, Alex Comfort, L. P. Hartley, Hermann Hesse, JULES VERNE, David Garnett., Juan Manuel, M.R James, Marguerite Yourcenar, MARCO DENEVI, E. M. Forster, Ray Bradbury, Francis King, Brian Moore, Manuel Mujica Láinez, Giovanni Papini, George Hitchcock, Tennessee Williams, Alberto Manguel, Hilaire Belloc, Joanne Greenburg, Jun'Ichir Tanizaki, Max Beerbohm, Adolfo Bioy Casares, Edith Wharton, Julio Cortz̀Ar, Marcel Aym, I. A. Ireland, Virgilio Piera, Flann OBrien, Robert Smythe Hichens, Rynosuke Akutagawa, Pedro Antonio De Alarcn, Joo Guimares Rosa, Lon Bloy, Andr Pieyre De Mandiargues

This huge anthology offers a kaleidoscope of brilliant writing from the Magi of the imagination. Alberto Manguel has selected 72 fantastic tales from life on the edge of the twilight zone, with sto...

The Book Of Masks: An Anthology Of French Symbolist & Decadent Writing

By Camille Mauclair, RACHILDE, Joris-Karl Huysmans, Maurice Maeterlinck, Paul Verlaine, Jean Lorrain, Francis Jammes, Malcolm Green, Arthur Rimbaud, Jehan Rictus, Stuart Merrill, Francis Poictevin, Jules Renard, Andrew Mangravite, Saint-Pol-Roux, Paul Fort, Emile Verhaeren, Remy De Gourmont, Marcel Schwob, Jules Laforgue, Laurent Tailhade, Alastair Brotchie, Robert De Montesquiou, Stanley Chapman, John Harman, Pierre Quillard, Gustave Kahn, Georges Eekhoud, Ernest Hello, Hugues Rebell, Albert Samain, Alfred Vallette, Iain White, Terry Hale, Andr Gide, Paul Claudel, Henri De Rgnier, Stphane Mallarm, Lon Bloy, Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam, Comte De Lautramont, Jean Moras, Flix Vallotton, Flix Fnon, Tristan Corbire, Adolphe Rett, Ephram Mikhal, Pierre Lous, Duard Dujardin, G-Albert Aurier

This anthology is the largest ever selection from the Decadent and Symbolist writers of the French fin-de-sicle a period whose social and spiritual ills had so much in common with those of today....

French Decadent Tales

By Jean Lorrain, Georges Rodenbach, Gustave Geffroy, Jules Barbey D 'Aurevilly, Remy De Gourmont, Marcel Schwob, Jules Laforgue, Guy De Maupassant, Jean Richepin, Octave Mirbeau, Stephen Romer, Lon Bloy, Auguste De Villiers De L'Isle-Adam, Pierre Lous, Catulle Mends

'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 extraordin...

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