Snuggly Tales of Femmes Fatales

"And me, what have I done? I had the age of their illusions and their desires made me young. Beautiful in their amour, I smiled at their dream and my smile protected them against death by smiling at them. Today, the number of years forgotten in my presence and the weight of their regret is overwhelming me, their awakening has aged me by a thousand years, and now I am condemned to live for a thousand years, hideous and sad, the life that each of them might have lived down here."-Jean Lorrain, "Oriane Vanquished"

Gathered together in the present volume, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford, are seventeen tales of femmes fatales, many of which have never appeared in English before. From the pioneering "The Amorous Revenant" by Théophile Gautier, to Jules Lermina's horrific "The Titaness," this significant sampling of those seductively attractive females who lead men into problematic positions will be sure to appeal to connoisseurs of dark fairy tales, fin-de-siècle decadence, and those who simply revel in the frissons offered by this irresistible antiquarian subgenre.

Author: Brian Stableford, Théophile Gautier, Maurice Renard
Publisher: Snuggly Books
Published: 07/19/2022
Pages: 296
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.67d
ISBN13: 9781645251002
ISBN10: 1645251004
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Fantasy | General
- Fiction | Occult & Supernatural

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