Monday, 29 May 2017

Brian Stableford's translations for Snuggly Books

I just noticed that Snuggly Books has an impressive list of translations of Decadent literature from French and Italian. Some of the names that appear in the catalogue are dear to Confusio Linguarum. So far the following have been released in a translation by Brian M. Stableford:

The Soul-Drinker: And Other Decadent Fantasies by  Jean Lorrain
Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker by Jean Lorrain
The Tarantulas' Parlor: And Other Unkind Tales by Léon Bloy
The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales by Victor Joly

Sunday, 28 May 2017

Blurb for the Book

Here is the official blurb for the recently published book by D. F. Lewis and myself:

"Life is an abandoned Amusement, a pleasure of ruins. Few are the solitary souls with a penchant for the sublime who spend their existence being irresistibly attracted to crumbling buildings and abandoned places. This book is an ode to this particular attraction – the feeling of Ruinenlust. Part fiction collection, part ensemble of essays, the volume presents a collaboration of two minds preoccupied with the themes of ruination. The eight fictions by D. F. Lewis, collected here for the first time, feature characters thrust into depopulated, often devastated landscapes as we follow their encounters with an enigma. The fictional pieces are accompanied by a literary equivalent of the Kaiserpanorama experience wherein the reader is presented with ten short essays by Sławomir Wielhorski centering on some of the most attractive vistas of ruins and decay in weird fiction from the early Gothics to the modern masterpieces of the genre."


Hardcover, Limited to 118 numbered copies, 102 pages
Published March 2017 by Mount Abraxas/Ex Occidente Press
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