<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>Jane de La Vaudère was one of the most unusual writers of the <em>fin de siècle</em>, renowned both for her scandalously scabrous Parisian novels, and her accounts of <em>moeurs antiques</em>, some of which--notably <em>Le Mystère de Kama</em> (1901)--set new standards of excess.</p><p>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 Vaudère are surely a landmark in the annals of the fantastic.</p>
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