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Most of these ten stories belong to a loosely-knit series tracking the potential effects of possible developments in biotechnology on the evolution of global society.
CONTENTS:
Introduction: The Philosophy of Decadence by Brian Stableford
"An Invitation to the Voyage" by Charles P. Baudelaire
The Disciple) by Oscar Wilde
Des Esseintes' Dream (excerpt) by Joris-Karl Huysmans
Faustine (poem) by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Verses from The Songs of Maldoror (1868) by Comte de Lautréamont
Viol D'Amour by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
Péhor by Remy de Gourmont
Roxana Runs Lunatick by R. Murray Gilchrist
Passages from A Season in Hell (excerpt) by Arthur Rimbaud
The Virgin of the Seven Daggers by Vernon Lee
The Future Phenomenon by Stéphane Mallarmé
The Teacher of Wisdom by Oscar Wilde
Funeral Oration by Jean Lorrain
Amor Profanus (poem) by Ernest Dowson
The Portals of Opium by Marcel Schwob
The Sphinx (poem) by Oscar Wilde
Saint Satyr by Anatole France
Don Juan Declaims (poem) by James Elroy Flecker
Occult Memories by Villiers de l'Isle-Adam
The Testament of a Vivisector (poem) by John Davidson
Crowd Scene by Octave Mirbeau
Berenice by Edgar Allan Poe
The Cord by Charles P. Baudelaire
Witch In-Grain by R. Murray Gilchrist
Autumnal Lament by Stéphane Mallarmé
Duke Virgil by Richard Garnett
The Shutter by Pierre Louÿs
The Doer of Good by Oscar Wilde
The Vanquished Shadow by Catulle Mendès
The Outcast Spirit by Lady Dilke
To Each His Chimera by Charles P. Baudelaire
The Visit by Ernest Dowson
Beatrice by Marcel Schwob
Narcissus (poem) by James Elroy Flecker
A Heroic Death by Charles P. Baudelaire
An Original Revenge by W. C. Morrow
A Posthumous Protest by Jean Lorrain
The Conqueror Worm (poem) by Edgar Allan Poe
The Temptations: Eros, Plutus and Fame by Charles P. Baudelaire
A Wine of Wizardry (poem) by George Sterling
Published by Dedalus in
March 1992
ISBN: 0-946626-80-4
