Decadence


Against Nature
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Les Fleurs du Mal
Là-Bas (Down There)
The Craziest Book Ever Written
Salomé
The Torture Garden
Venus in Furs
Il piacere
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker
Les Diaboliques
Monsieur Vénus
The Great Gatsby
Paris Spleen
Monsieur de Phocas
Ruined Landscapes Paintings of the Balkan War Zone by Ross YockeySolitude, Vanity, Night by Kirsten LodgeWorm Work by Janelle A. SchwartzDecadence by Otto M. UrbanMusic and Decadence in European Modernism by Stephen Downes
Poisoned On Your Dying Bed
100 books — 2 voters
Descent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John  CorbettFolk-Lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton-Dyer
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
178 books — 2 voters

Maurice Rollinat by Maurice RollinatAus der Chronik des "Schwarzen Ferkels" by Adolf PaulYoung Ofeg's Ditties by Ola HanssonLes Chants de Maldoror by Comte de LautréamontRêvenance Omnibus, Vol. I by Monocle-Lash Anti-Press
Action On The Basement Shelf
100 books — 1 voter
The New Decameron by Jan PotockiThe Book of Jade by David Park BarnitzThe City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems by James  ThomsonSmarra & Trilby by Charles NodierDeath's Jest Book by Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Gothicomantibolisms
131 books — 9 voters


Mario Praz
The exotic and the erotic ideals go hand in hand, and this fact also contributes another proof of a more or less obvious truth - that is, that a love of the exotic is usually an imaginative projection of a sexual desire.
Mario Praz, The Romantic Agony

Joris-Karl Huysmans
(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening cli ...more
Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

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