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
Bruges-La-Morte
The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade by Cameron PierceThe New Decameron by Jan PotockiOf Kings and Things by Count StenbockThe Collected Writings of Francis E. Dec Esquire by Francis E. DecDecember Park by Ronald Malfi
A Short History Of Decoy
128 books — 4 voters
Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de LautréamontDiableries by Brian MayFantazius Mallare by Ben HechtThe City of Dreadful Night by James  ThomsonMalformed by Adam Voorhes
•The Ultra-Black Grave of Eternity
133 books — 10 voters

The Book of Jade by David Park BarnitzThe New Decameron by Jan PotockiThe City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems by James  ThomsonSmarra & Trilby by Charles NodierGondez the Monk by William Henry Ireland
Symbo-Gothicomantic
131 books — 9 voters
La plaie by Nathalie HennebergSmallcreep's Day by Peter Currell BrownOld Soggy No. 1 by Hart StilwellSpare Parts by Charles Henri FordInvasion of the Body Snatchers by Jack Finney
At Home Among Unsuspecting Victims
33 books — 6 voters


Yvan Goll
“ Decline is also a form of voluptuousness, just like growth. Autumn is just as sensual as springtime. There is as much greatness in dying as in procreation. ”
― Iwan Goll

Charles Baudelaire
“ We revel in the laxness of the path we take. ”
― Charles Baudelaire

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