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<strong>by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock</strong>

Edited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine.

Illustrated with exceedingly rare archive material.

HB/PB
256pp (approx), 210 x 148
ISBN: 9781907222573
£40.00/£15.99

<strong>Available 5 March 2018</strong>

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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.

Edited and introduced by David Tibet; with an afterword by Tim d'Arch Smith and a comprehensive bibliography by David Tibet, Ray Russell and Mark Valentine, <em>Of Kings and Things</em> is the first introduction to Stenbock’s writing for the general reader.

This volume offers fifteen stories, including all of those in his fabled collections <em>Studies of Death</em> and <em>Child of the Soul</em>,  over thirty poems and two essays by this complex, intriguing figure.

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