{"product_id":"of-kings-and-things","title":"OF KINGS AND THINGS","description":"\u003cp\u003ePart of a collection. In immaculate shape unless noted otherwise. \u003cbr\u003eThis book appears to be unread, like new. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block html-block sqs-block-html\" data-block-type=\"2\" data-sqsp-block=\"text\" id=\"block-yui_3_17_2_1_1715688963621_7196\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-block-content\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"sqs-html-content\" data-sqsp-text-block-content=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis Strange Attractor Press edition is now out of print and commanding silly prices. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStrange Tales and Decadent Poems by Count Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\u003cbr\u003eby Eric Stanislaus Stenbock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdited by David Tibet\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eStenbock 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOf 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":":AJNA:","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67844626350142,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0208\/4004\/files\/bc934d99-e677-49a8-b7a8-5177ccacfc67.jpg?v=1791665674","url":"https:\/\/www.theajnaoffensive.com\/products\/of-kings-and-things","provider":":AJNA:","version":"1.0","type":"link"}