The spectre of Gilles de Rais, the Satanist and child-killer, eclipses French history like a dark star. Satanic Alchemy is a testament to the legend of Gilles de Rais and his status as history’s first ever Devil-worshipping serial killer. Gilles de Rais … Continue reading →
Villiers de L’Isle-Adam’s The Future’s Eve (L’Éve Future, 1886) is a visionary interrogation of technology, humanity, and ideal love. When Lord Ewald asks his friend (a fictionized Thomas Edison) to replace Alicia, his flawed lover, Edison births Hadaly, a lifelike … Continue reading →
As strange, unsettling, and memorable as The Seed, The Bridges is a remarkable novel which carries with it all the compassion, human insight, and lyrical power of all of Tarjei Vesaas’s novels. It describes the changing relationships between three teenagers—a … Continue reading →
Tarjei Vesaas’s The Seed is set on a small, idyllic-seeming Norwegian island which is visited by a stranger during a particularly hot summer. After a young girl is murdered, the stranger is blamed and hunted down by the islanders. The … Continue reading →
Constantly portrayed as the reclusive spinster, the dressed-in-white Belle of Amherst, Emily Dickinson has always been regarded as the epitome of American Victorianism.. However, during her lifetime she wrote poems full of erotic imagery, many dealing explicitly with the subject … Continue reading →
by Various Authors Edited by Norman Conquest Selections from the Pocket Erotica Series published by New Urge Editions Featuring works by Anonymous / Nina Ansani / Louis Aragon / Catherine D’Avis / RJ Dent / Denis Diderot / Eurydice / Laure … Continue reading →
Incunabula presents a new modern English translation, by the acclaimed translator and writer R J Dent, of André Breton’s The Surrealist Manifesto, a work whose influence on the artistic world of its time was enormous and whose repercussions are still perceptible … Continue reading →
Misfortunes of the Immortals is Paul Éluard and Max Ernst’s second Surrealist collaboration. Their first was Repetitions, a poetry collection. In Misfortunes of the Immortals the image was no longer relegated to the function of mere illustration. Ernst and Éluard … Continue reading →
Translated into modern English by R J Dent Most of the poems and prose pieces in Scattered Leaves were written by René Crevel in 1924, eleven years before he committed suicide. Consequently, Crevel’s final collection was first published posthumously in … Continue reading →
An Anthology of High Strangeness With contributions from 33 authors, visual artists, and experimentalists, UNHEIMLICH is an intricate weave of creative fiction that interrogates the unwelcome corners of our urban life. Featuring work by: Abichaos, Alex Antiuk, Alicestfu, Art Stanton, … Continue reading →
