Reviews Winter 2022 Thom Metzger, Shock Totem; independent 2022. Evil bureaucrats sterilized by dreams of power, corporate conspiracy, cops and mental institution staff, populate Shock Totem’s fallen world oozing chemical…
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Reviews: Decadent Music, Demonic Poetry, Arabesque Tales
Three Generations, Chamber Music by Ivan, Alexander and Nikolai Tcherepnin, David Witten, piano; Quan Yuan, violin; Sue-Ellen Hershman-Tcherepnin, flute; Donald Berman, piano. Nikolai Tcherepnin, Piano Music; David Witten, piano. Toccata…
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Errant Vice & The Faerie Queene
Jean Lorrain: Errant Vice, translated by Brian Stableford, Snuggly Books 2018 Another brilliant book by the unsung master of French decadence. The stories and the novella gathered between these covers…
Reviews of Jean Lorrain’s “Nightmares of an Ether Drinker,” Michael Gibson’s “Symbolism,” Thom Metzger’s “Big Noise on the Astral Plane”
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker was the most enthralling book to cross our desk in months and months. The translator, Brian Stableford, a venerated elder of the SF community, begat…
The Sphinx
The Sphinx was first printed in 1894 in a limited edition, one year before Wilde’s trial. Wilde was then a celebrity, at the height of his arrogance and impudence, and…
Nina Antonia’s Incurable
The Haunted Writings of Lionel Johnson, the Decadent Era’s Dark Angel edited by Nina Antonia, Amazon link here.the publisher, Strange Attractor Press, is well worth a visit. Symbolism, Pre-Raphaelites, the…