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Gathered together in the present volume, edited and translated from the
French by Brian Stableford, are sixteen tales of hashish and opium, many
of which have never appeared in English before. From the pioneering "The
Club of Hashishins" by Théophile Gautier, to Louis
Latourrette's bizarre "The Phantom of Opium," this hallucinogenic
sampling of psychotropic fashionability and fin-de-siècle exoticism,
with its quasi-autobiographical accounts of smoking dens and decadent
forays into dreams and visions, will be a welcome addition to all drug
libraries, and of the greatest interest to any connoisseur of psychoactive
literature.
Cover by a follower of Chokha
Published by Snuggly Books in September 2020
ISBN: 978-1-64525-040-1
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