A woman uses her incredible beauty to captivate both d'Albert, a young poet, and disguised as a man, his mistress, Rosette. In this shocking tale of sexual deception, Gautier draws readers into the bedrooms and boudoirs of a French château in a compellin
With this posthumously published anthology--a successor to his bestselling Italian Folktales--Italo Calvino, a contemporary surveyor of the otherwordly, pays homage to twenty-six of his nineteenth-century precursors. The resulting volume is both an educat
Sixteen short stories by Stephen King, William Tenn, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, August Derleth, Richard Matheson, Tanith Lee, and others deal with the nightmarish theme of female vampires. Reprint.
Pour l'amour de l'ingénue d'une troupe de comédiens nomades, le jeune baron de Sigognac qui se morfondait au château de la Misère en compagnie d'un valet, d'une haridelle, d'un chien et d'un chat, joue sur les tréteaux le rôle de Matamore, le « tra
He ceased to speak and commenced to regard me more attentively than ever, as though to observe the effect of his words on me. I could not refrain from starting when I heard him utter the name of Clarimonde, and this news of her death, in addition to the p
In this International Book Awards anthology finalist, the best vampire short stories from the first half of the 19th century are unearthed from long forgotten journals and magazines. They are collected for the first time in this groundbreaking book on the
Fables de vampires, histoires de doubles et de sortilèges, ce recueil évoque par bien des traits une taverne allemande d'Hoffmann, avec ses monstres inquiétants et ses fantômes grinçants. On y retrouve, en effet, les thèmes chers à la première gé
Romantic provocateur, flamboyant bohemian, precocious novelist, perfect poet—not to mention an inexhaustible journalist, critic, and man-about-town—Théophile Gautier is one of the major figures, and great characters, of French literature. In My Fanto
