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Maurice Magre (1877-1941) was one of the most far-ranging and extravagant French writers of fantastic fiction in the first half of the 20th century, and perhaps the finest of them, because of the fertility and versatility of his imagination and the manner and purpose for which he deployed it.
This volume, the third of a series of twelve dedicated to Magre’s works, offers six stories featuring fictitious biographies of sexually voracious women, as well as his classic fantasy novel Priscilla of Alexandria (1925).
Priscilla was a contender for the Goncourt Prize, but the jury decided
against it because of its shocking imagery, violence and amorality. It
is, however, those qualities that make it a masterpiece, and its perversity
can now be seen as a virtue as well as a remarkable achievement. It has
retained its power to shock today, when melodramatic inflation has raised
the stakes in generic horror fiction.
CONTENTS:
Vies des courtisanes [Courtesans’ Lives, 1923]
Priscilla d’Alexandrie [Priscilla of Alexandria, 1925]
Introduction, Afterword and Notes by Brian Stableford
Cover by Mike Hoffman
Published by Black Coat Press in September 2017
ISBN: 978-1-61227-667-0
