Item #67217 The Red Spider. Delphi Fabrice, Gaston-Henri-Adhémar Risselin.

The Red Spider

Snuggly Books:
Sacramento: 2021
Hardcover, Limited edition, New sans dust jacket as issued,
202 pp.


This hardcover edition lmited to 100 copies. “’Delphi Fabrice’ (the pseudonym of Gaston-Henri-Adhémar Risselin, 1877-1937), the most adamant of Jean Lorrain’s disciples, is credited with authoring over one hundred books. None, however, is more bizarre than ‘The Red Spider’, here presented in English for the first time in a virtuoso translation by Brian Stableford. The novel, seeking to out-Decadent the most decadent of its predecessors, features Andhré Mordann, an ether-drinking hero seemingly modelled on Lorrain himself, who, in this ‘black, black, black tale’—a tale of true horror and madness—traverses the boulevards of decline, hobnobbing with drunken prostitutes and homosexual strong-men, licentious merrymakers and waterfront idlers—and, of course, the dancer gloved in imperial crimson.” #67217

Price: $35.00