Of Kings and Things: Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

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Eric Stanislaus Stenbock David Tibet

Of Kings and Things

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Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock

Eric Stanislaus Stenbock, David Tibet

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Strange Attractor Press
15 January 2019

Poetry by individual poets; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Short stories

Series: Of Kings and Things

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 greatestexemplar of the Decadent movement of the late nineteenthcentury.

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 adachshundcalled 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 Thingsis the first introduction to Stenbock's writing for the general reader, offering fifteen stories, eight poems and one autobiographical essay by this complex figure.

By: Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
Edited by: David Tibet
Imprint: Strange Attractor Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 518g
ISBN: 9781907222573
ISBN 10: 190722257X
Series: Of Kings and Things
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 January 2019
Recommended Age: From 18 years
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Founder of the long running cult band Current 93, David Tibet is widely known as an artist and songwriter. His song cycles present a rich vein of ethereal imagery, arcane reference, and the supernatural, creating their own sound-worlds of heartfelt and mysterious poignancy.