Of Kings and Things
| Format | Price | Buy |
|---|---|---|
| Of Kings and Things Hardback Special Edition | £40.00 | |
| Of Kings and Things Paperback Edition | £15.99 |
Description
Of Kings and Things
**Now expected 28 June 2018**
Of Kings and Things
Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
Edited by David Tibet, with an afterword by Tim d'Arch Smith
256pp (approx)
210 x 148
Black and White
ISBN: 9781907222573
Please Note: Now shipping mid-April
Available for pre-order in two editions:
Signed Hardback Special Edition: Including book plate, and a limited edition 'Studies of Death' tote bag. Limited to 500 copies only.
Standard Edition Paper Back.
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.
Of Kings and Things 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.
About the Editor
David Tibet is a British poet and artist, founder of the music group Current 93.
Of Kings and Things
Strange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock
Edited by David Tibet, with an afterword by Tim d'Arch Smith
256pp (approx)
210 x 148
Black and White
ISBN: 9781907222573
Please Note: Now shipping mid-April
Available for pre-order in two editions:
Signed Hardback Special Edition: Including book plate, and a limited edition 'Studies of Death' tote bag. Limited to 500 copies only.
Standard Edition Paper Back.
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.
Of Kings and Things 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.
About the Editor
David Tibet is a British poet and artist, founder of the music group Current 93.