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
A Leopard Never Changes its Spots by Hilary LawrenceThe Grass May Not Be Greener by Hilary LawrenceLoose Lips Sink Ships by Hilary LawrenceLa plaie by Nathalie HennebergSmallcreep's Day by Peter Currell Brown
At Home Among Unsuspecting Victims
35 books — 14 voters
Descent from Heaven by Deborah BoedekerMeaning of Folklore by Alan DundesJuan Luis Martinez's Philosophical Poetics by Scott WeintraubFolk-Lore of Shakespeare by T.F. Thiselton-DyerThe Translation and Transmission of Concrete Poetry by John  Corbett
•-The Rope & The Cuckold-
178 books — 2 voters

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
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
132 books — 9 voters

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

Eric Ambler
In a dying civilization, political prestige is the reward not of the shrewdest politician, but of the man with the best bedside manner. It is the decoration conferred on mediocrity by ignorance.
Eric Ambler, The Mask of Dimitrios

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La société des cafés de la fin du monde A place for fans of the decadents, the surrealists, the symbolists, the expats, the occultists, …more
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The Flowers of Decadence Here lies the lost souls who cling to the decaying beauty of Decadent literature and poetry. A g…more
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