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
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
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAgainst Nature by Joris-Karl HuysmansLes Fleurs du Mal by Charles BaudelaireThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Decadence & the Fin-de-Siècle
240 books — 201 voters

The Best Bizarro Fiction of the Decade by Cameron PierceThe New Decameron by Jan PotockiOf Kings and Things by Count StenbockDec the Holls by Jasinda WilderThe Collected Writings of Francis E. Dec Esquire by Francis E. Dec
A Short History Of Decoy
128 books — 4 voters
Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de LautréamontDiableries by Brian MayThe City of Dreadful Night by James  ThomsonFantazius Mallare by Ben HechtMalformed by Adam Voorhes
•The Ultra-Black Grave of Eternity
133 books — 9 voters


Mae West
I used to be Snow White, but I drifted.
Mae West

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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