The Double Star and Other Occult Fantasies, Paperback/Jane de la Vaudere

Jane de La Vaud re was one of the most unusual writers of the fin de si cle , renowned both for her scandalously scabrous Parisian novels, and her accounts of moeurs antiques , some of which--notably Le Myst re de Kama (1901)--set new standards of excess. Presented here is her first volume of short stories to be available in English, superbly translated by Brian Stableford: nine extravagant tales of hypnotism and magic, reincarnation and vengeance, animal tamers and necrophilia. Sublimely Gothic, exquisitely hallucinatory, these strange, fatalistic pieces by La Vaud re are surely a landmark in the annals of the fantastic.