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<h3><strong><em>Of Kings and Things: </em>
<em>Strange Tales and Decadent Poems</em>
</strong><strong>by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock</strong></h3>
<h3><strong>Edited by David Tibet,
with an afterword by Tim d'Arch Smith
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256pp (approx), 210 x 148</h3>
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<h3>Illustrated with rare archive material.</h3>
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<h3>ISBN: 9781907222573

£40/15.99</h3>
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<h3>Available 1 March 2018</h3>
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<h3><strong style="font-size: 16px;">Available for pre-order in two editions:</strong></h3>
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 	<li><strong>Signed, hardback cloth-bound special edition, including book plate and a limited edition 'Studies of Death' tote bag.
Limited to 500 copies only - £40</strong></li>
 	<li><strong>Standard high quality paperback - £15.99  </strong></li>
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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 recherché literature.

<em>Of Kings and Things</em> 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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