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The Classic Erotic Trilogy of Sleeping Beauty
The Sleeping Beauty Trilogy
The Claiming of Sleeping Beauty / Beauty's Release / Beauty's Punishment
by Anne Rice
Celebrate the daring gifts of Anne Rice, writing as A. N. Roquelaure, with this beautifully repackaged boxed set of the three erotic novels in her acclaimed Sleeping Beauty trilogy.
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Maldoror
and the Complete Works of the Comte de Lautréamont
by Comte de Lautréamont
tr Alexis Lykiard, 2 vols in one w/bibliography &c
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The Melancholy of Anatomy: Stories
by Shelley Jackson
Amusing, touching, and unsettling, The Melancholy of Anatomy is that most wonderful of fictions, one that makes us see the world in an entirely new light. Here is the body turned inside out, its members set free, its humors released upon the world. Hearts bigger than planets devour light and warp the space around them; the city of London has a menstrual flow that gushes through its underground pipes; gobs of... (more)
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The Decadent Cookbook (Literary Cookbooks)
by Medlar Lucan
The Decadent Cookbook is not another installment in the seemingly-serialized publication of prosaic cookbooks written by "celebrity chefs," but rather an accessible guide for people with an interest in history, a sense of humor, and a penchant for the unconventional. This is not the hundredth book on Provençal cuisine nor is it the seven hundredth book about Italian dining. Through their own irreverent narrative... (more)
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The Last Party: Studio 54, Disco, and the Culture of the Night
by Anthony Haden-Guest
Studio 54 was the epicenter of disco culture and pre-AIDS debauchery. Now, journalist and nightworld denizen Anthony Haden-Guest takes us behind the velvet rope that separated the celebrities from the wanna-bes, into an all-night world of revelry, sensation, and decadence. Going beyond the endless partying with Liza, Bianca, Halston, Andy, and Mick, Haden-Guest probes the seamy underside of Studio 54: the drugs,... (more)
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Mary Magdalen: A Chronicle
by Edgar Saltus
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Confessions of an English Opium Eater
by Thomas de Quincey
In this remarkable autobiography, Thomas De Quincey hauntingly describes the surreal visions and hallucinatory nocturnal wanderings he took through London-and the nightmares, despair, and paranoia to which he became prey-under the influence of the then-legal painkiller laudanum. Forging a link between artistic self-expression and addiction, Confessions seamlessly weaves the effects of drugs and the nature of... (more)
The Ghost Girl, A Novel.Edgar. Saltus
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The Ghost Girl, A Novel.
by Edgar. Saltus
Edgar Saltus- Imperial PurpleEdgar Saltus
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Edgar Saltus- Imperial Purple
by Edgar Saltus
An Excerpt from the book- THAT WOMAN When the murder was done and the heralds shouted through the thick streets the passing of Caesar, it was the passing of the republic they announced, the foundation of Imperial Rome. There was a hush, then a riot which frightened a senate that frightened the world. Caesar was adored. A man who could give millions away and sup on dry bread was apt to conquer, not provinces... (more)
The truth about Tristem Varick;: A novelEdgar Saltus
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The truth about Tristem Varick;: A novel
by Edgar Saltus
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A TRANSIENT GUEST
by Edgar Saltus
Publisher: Belford, Clarke
The Paliser CaseEdgar Saltus
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The Paliser Case
by Edgar Saltus
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The Dancers at the End of Time
The Dancers at the End of Time
by Michael Moorcock
Enter a decaying far, far future society, a time when anything and everything is possible, where words like 'conscience' and 'morality' are meaningless, and where heartfelt love blossoms mysteriously between Mrs Amelia Underwood, an unwilling time traveller, and Jherek Carnelian, a bemused denizen of the End of Time. The Dancers at the End of Time, containing the novels An Alien Heat, The Hollow Lands and The End... (more)
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The Messiah of Death Saga: Book 1
Demonmachy
Demonic Apocalypse
by Brant Danay
As the universe slowly dies, all demonkind is at war in a tournament of genocide, for the nirvanic afterlife of the Jh'a'vyraa shall only be attained by the single remaining entity or pair of soulmates to survive the cosmos-spanning battles at the edge of time. Chariah, a death-addicted Necrodelic who smokes the flesh of his victims through a giant, blood-filled bong, and traverses the galaxies in a bestial... (more)
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At Louche Ends: Poetry for the Decadent, the Damned and the Absinthe-Minded
by Maria Alexander
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Godchildren
by Nicholas Coleridge
All the godchildren, looking back on that fateful dinner, remembered it in the same way: the vacant wooden throne at the head of the table, the huge array of wine glasses and water glasses that were always a feature of dining at any of Marcus’ houses, the sense of expectation and dread that hung over them like a cloud of mustard gas. In his magnificent island home overlooking the sea, the great tycoon Marcus... (more)
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The Dud Avocado
by Elaine Dundy
The Dud Avocado follows the romantic and comedic adventures of a young American who heads overseas to conquer Paris in the late 1950s. Edith Wharton and Henry James wrote about the American girl abroad, but it was Elaine Dundy’s Sally Jay Gorce who told us what she was really thinking. Charming, sexy and hilarious, The Dud Avocado gained instant cult status when it was first published and it remains a timeless... (more)
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My Blue Notebooks
The Intimate Journal of Paris's Most Beautiful and Notorious Courtesan
by Liane de Pougy
Liane de Pougy, known as Paris's most beautiful and notorious courtesan, was a Folies-Berg&egravere dancer who became a princess and died a nun. Between 1919 and 1941 she wrote her intimate memoir, My Blue Notebooks . Making modern tell-alls seem downright tepid by comparison, this long-out-of-print classic is a fascinating look into the mind of an audacious woman of great intelligence and humor. In My... (more)
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When Dreams Come True: A Story of Emotional Life
by Edgar Saltus
This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies.... (more)
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Sade: A Biography (A Harvest Book)
by Maurice Lever
To some the Marquis de Sade was a monster; to others an apostle of sexual freedom and a literary genius. In this "masterful" (Publishers Weekly) and monumental work, Maurice Lever reconstructs the complex life of the "divine marquis" in all its splendor and perversity. Unprecedented access to the Sade family archives has allowed Lever to paint the definitive portrait of Sade and of his milieu -- self-absorbed... (more)