DECADENT FICTION
ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-0-8
Softcover, $16.24 181 pages ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-3-9 Hardcover, $23.24 181 pages PURCHASE - AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV212MPS Published February, 2023 |
Presented here in new English translations by Shawn M. Garrett is an expanded version of the Peruvian author Clemente Palma's first volume of Decadent and Supernatural stories, as well as some bitter fairy tales - MALEVOLENT TALES ("Cuentos Malévolos") - includes the delirious "Lina's Eyes," the blasphemous "Fifth Gospel," and the horrific "The White Farm." Also appended are seven extra stories, including "The Vampires" and the apocalyptic "The Tragic Day," as well as an afterword from the translator.
CONTENTS: Baskets / Idealism / The Last Faun / Parable / A Vulgar Story / Lina's Eyes / A Puppet Tale / The Fifth Gospel / The Last Blonde / The Prodigal Son / The White Farm / The Legend Of Hashish / I Have A White Cat / Mythological Reveries / The Scorpion Prince / The Necromancer / The Vampires / The Tragic Day / The Butterflies |
ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-1-5
Softcover, $16.24 166 pages ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-4-6 Hardcover, $23.24 166 pages PURCHASE - AMAZON: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0BV4BDLBB Published February, 2023 |
Malignant Stories (1920) by Clemente Palma (Strange Stories #2)
"Historietas Malignas" (1920), a collection by Peruvian author Clemente Palma is presented in a new English translation as MALIGNANT STORIES, along with 15 additional pieces from Palma's career. Here you will find the extended supernatural novella "MORS EX VITA (Death From Life)", the darkly sardonic fairy tale "The Best Gift," the surreal and phantasmagoric "A Strange Walk," and the nasty conte cruel of "Andronicus" among others, along with an afterword from the Translator.
CONTENTS: MORS EX VITA (Death From Life) / The Cigarette Man / The Adventure Of The Man Who Was Never Born / In The Wagon / Fears / The Judge's Granddaughter / A Strange Walk / Andrónicus / Love Note / The Walpurgis / Carnival Of Flowers / Dmitri / The Defeat Of Venus / The Drunkard's Creed / Drunken Anacreon / The Best Gift / The Smoke Darlings / The Old Fauns / Praise And Rant |
ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-8-4
Softcover, $16.24 170 pages ISBN-13: 979-8-9876810-9-1 Hardcover, $23.24 170 pages PURCHASE - AMAZON: www.amazon.com/Vampire-Froyl%C3%A1n-Turcios/dp/B0BVP5SS1Z/ Published February, 2023 |
Froylán Turcios' "El Vampiro" (1910) — here translated into English for the first time as THE VAMPIRE — is one of this Honduran writer's oddest works, a Romantic/Gothic novel with overtones of Decadence (Italian Decadent Gabriele D'Annunzio was a large influence on Turcios). The idyllic life of young Rogerio Mendoza and his beautiful cousin Luz are disrupted not just by a predatory priest, but by a legacy of violence and mysterious death in his family line, even as their home contains a locked room that must never be opened. Those seeking a Honduran version of DRACULA should seek elsewhere, but this intoxicating and beautiful tragedy casts a strange spell all its own. Includes an Afterword by the Translator.
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