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The author', the ageing Simplicissimus and his former comrade Tearaway (a character from Simplicissimus) happen to meet in a village inn. First of all 'the author' describes how he was caught by Courage and her band of gypsies and conned into writing her life-story for her. In the main part of the novel, Tearaway then recounts his adventurous life, which takes him through the horrors of the Thirty Years' War and then to Hungary to fight agains...

In America, in one year alone, four million people go missing: a husband says he is just popping out to the shops and never comes back, a work colleague goes outside for a cigarette and does not return...Two journalists investigating a similar phenomenon in Spain are on their way to visit a man who used to be a police officer in the missing persons department, but who has spent the last fifteen years in an insane asylum. Both journalists feel ...

Italy has a long history of short story writing -going back to Boccaccio (d. 1375) - and most of Italy's major writers produced collections of novelle. One of the greatest exponents is Giovanni Verga. The themes of his major novels are to be found in his short stories. Verga embraced "verismo", the Italian form of French naturalism, where authorial comment and description is at a minimum. He creates an atmosphere and emotions in his writing wh...

The ghoulish misdeeds and conflicted psychology of the undead are memorably explored in this classic supernatural thriller, published in England in 1983 and previously unavailable in the US. In the terse, atmospheric opening pages, an unnamed narrator finds a partially charred manuscript in the vicinity of an abandoned country house in Cornwall that has mysteriously burned to the ground. It's the "Narrative of John Richard Le Perrowne, " born ...

Sebastien Roch is a brilliantly drawn portrait of a boy's psychological, sexual and political coming of age in provincial France against the background of the Belle Epoque. We follow Sebastien as he enters a jesuit college as a natural, unspoiled innocent child and develops into a corrupt, disillusioned, tortured adolescent until his senseless death at the age of 21 on the battlefield.It is a powerful finale to Mirbeau's trilogy of "angry youn...

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Debut novel from an upcoming Spanish-born author.

Featuring contributions by the bad, dangerous and eccentric free spirits of contemporary society, perfect for the modern libertine.

France's greatest living novelist covers fifty years of rural and Parisian life, from World War II to the present day. She follows the life of an albino child abandoned at birth at a convent and her subsequent life as a servant, a domestic in a brothel, and as an abandoned street-walker.

Modern Spanish classic.

When the unnamed narrator crosses the causeway to the Chateau of Gamehuche, he enters a surrealist nightmare of debauchery and violence. The proceedings at the chateau are presided over by the master of Gamehuche, M. de Montcul, formerly the English diplomat, Sir Horatio Mountarse. With a cast of willing and not-so-willing acolytes, he serves up an over-refined cuisine of obscenity, sexual perversion and unspeakable cruelty. The book could be ...

First published by Dedalus in 1997, this locked-room detective novel from 1908 is a classic of early 20th-century detective fiction. At the heart of the novel is the enigma: how could a murder take place in a locked room which shows no sign of being entered? The novel is also about the rivalry between detective Frederick Larson and a young investigative journalist, Rouletabille. Larson finds a suspect who is put on trial, only to have him clea...

Dedalus Occult Reader brings together for the first time a unique collection of European fiction, offering some of the finest flowers and bizarre blooms from the hermetic gardens of literary occultism.

Blood-soaked, lightning-fast, first-person philosophical thriller that reveals the cynical, self-justifying mind of a political fanatic in the apocalyptic landscape of Algiers 1959-60, by the author of The Limits of Vision and The Arabian Nightmare. Philippe Roussel, an intelligence officer in the French Foreign Legion, spends his days torturing FLN terrorist Al-Hadi at the Legionnaire redoubt of Fort Tiberias. At night, he makes love to Chant...

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It is 1289, and Kubilai Khan rules the largest empire the world has ever known. A man of driving ambition, the Venetian merchant Vincente Montefoschi prepares to lead a caravan on the perilous journey from Lesser Armenia to Peking, capital of the great Khan's empire. Spurred by hopes of Kubilai's conversion to Christianity, the Armenian King Hethum II lends his patronage to Montefoschi's mission, sending with him to China a supremely gifted il...

A superbly atmospheric story set in the old Prague ghetto featuring The Golem, a kind of rabbinical Frankenstein's monster, which manifests iitself every 33 years in a room without a door. Stranger still, it seems to have the same face as the narrator. Made into a film in 1920, this extraordinary book combines uncanny psychology of doppelganger stories with expressionism and more than a little melodrama... Meyrink's old Prague - like Dicken's ...

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This volume provides his first piece of fantastical prose, The Coffee Pot, and his last, Spirite. The latter may seem something of a sequel to the former, continuing to chart a path of male erotic fantasy, but the combination is of greater value for making visible some of the consistencies and evolutions of Gautier's oeuvre as a whole.