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Time Out

'Divided into five sections (Possessed Souls, Dream and Nightmare,
Death, The Macabre, Satire) that tell you all you need to know, the
stand out works are those of Gustav Meyrink, Strobl and Schnitzler
and Franz Csokor's wonderful, mad chiller "The Kiss of the Stone
Woman".

'The best stories faultlessly follow the traditional template of
deepening mystery grafted onto time-honoured methods of signalling
narrative action. Recommended'

City Limits

The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy,- editor Brian
Stableford

Beginning in 1804 with Nathan Drake's `Henry Fitzowen,' The
Dedalus Book of British Fantasy traces the development of the genre
through the stories and poems of Coleridge, Keats, Dickens,
Disraeli, William Morris, Christina Rosetti, Tennyson and Vernon
Lee until the end of the century and Richard Garnett's `Alexander
The Ratcatcher'.

Each text has been chosen to illustrate the development of the
various aspects of fantasy in British Literature - the comic, the
sentimental, the erotic and the allegorical - and the contribution
that these authors made to the emergence of a new genre.

`there are a number of items which very few people will be
familiar with that are real gems, John Sterling's "Chronicle of
England" and Christina Rosetti's Goblin

Kaleidoscope, BBC Radio 4

The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins) - editor Brian
Stableford

Every aspect of The Dedalus Book of Decadence (Moral Ruins) received
praise, from the brown and gold of its cover (Times Higher Educational
Supplement), the introduction (The Independent), the choice of stories
(City Limits), and the whole book (Time Out). It was a critical and
commercial success, which featured in the Alternative Bestsellers List.

A few comments:

,an invaluable sampler of spleen, everything from Baudelaire and
Rimbaud to Dowson and Flecker. Let's hear it for luxe, calme et volupte'

Anne Billson in Time Out

'The Dedalus Book of Decadence looks south to sample the essence of
fine French decadent writing. It succeeds in delivering a range of
writers either searching vigorously for the thrill of a healthy crime or
lamenting their impuissance from a sickly stupor.'

Andrew St George in The Independent

Tales of the Wandering Jew - editor Brian Stableford

`This homage to one of the world's great stories collects the
Wandering Jew's many English-language manifestations, a
fascinating journey down the tangled roads of European Literature,
as infinite as those Ahasuerus is still walking. This collection offers
you the chance to hitch a lift on the immortal sufferer's back. It's
not the sort of offer anybody should turn down.'

City Limits

`Geoffrey Farrington's Little St Hugh is a wonderful 13th century
tale of fury and repentance, with a touch of The Monk. The
historical style is impeccable.

Ian MacDonald's Fragments of an Analysis of a Case of Hysteria is
brilliantly written, mixing the early analyses of Freud, the Jew,
and an evocative and disturbing foreshadowing of the Holocaust.
Scott Edelman provides a bit of bizarre allegory with The
Wandering Jukebox.

The whopper is the editor's own - Stableford's brilliant, appalling
Innocent Blood. A heroin addict dying from AIDS, is chained up in
a cellar by the Jew, and their relationship is a horror show of
uncommunicated pain. Some powerful stuff here.'

Locus

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The legend of The Wandering Jew appears in several other books
published by Dedalus: The Architect of Ruins - Hervert
Rosendorfer; The Green Face - Gustav Meyrink; and The
Wandering Jew - Eugene Sue

' These pieces of furniture amounted to (often ornately carved) wooden boxes,
inside of which glowing coal could be stored, the resulting heat rising through
holes in the top upon which the feet would be placed to warm. Tr.

' 'Make haste, the road is long. From now on we shall live a' the edge of the
world, in a distant land remote from mine.' Tristia 1.3 Tr