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This early work by Eric Stanislaus Stenbock was originally
published in 1893 and we are now republishing it as part of our
Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Other Side: A Breton Legend' is
a short story in the werewolf genre.
An introduction to the Decadent writer Stanislaus Eric Stenbock for
the general reader, offering morbid stories, suicidal poems, and an
autobiographical essay. Described by W. B. Yeats as a "scholar,
connoisseur, drunkard, poet, pervert, most charming of men," Count
Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860-1895) is surely the greatest
exemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenth century. A
friend of Aubrey Beardsley, patron of the extraordinary
pre-Raphaelite artist Simeon Solomon, and contemporary of Oscar
Wilde, Stenbock died at the age of thirty-six as a result of his
addiction to opium and his alcoholism, having published just three
slim volumes of suicidal poetry and one collection of morbid short
stories. Stenbock was a homosexual convert to Roman Catholicism and
owner of a serpent, a toad, and a dachshund called Trixie. It was
said that toward the end of his life he was accompanied everywhere
by a life-size wooden doll that he believed to be his son. His
poems and stories are replete with queer, supernatural, mystical,
and Satanic themes; original editions of his books are highly
sought by collectors of recherche literature. Of Kings and Things
is the first introduction to Stenbock's writing for the general
reader, offering fifteen stories, eight poems and one
autobiographical essay by this complex figure.
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