Pulp fin de siècle

James Champagne

 

Over the course of 24 hours, on a Spring day in Paris in 1893, seven archetypal figures of the “Yellow Nineties”—a priest, a Symbolist, a dandy, an actress, a whore, a diabolist, and a Decadent—drift into and out of each other’s lives, sometimes taking center stage, other times assuming bit parts. The resulting narrative mosaic created by these seven interwoven tales can thus be described as both the summation and the reflection of late 19th-century Parisian Decadentism re-mannered as a Neo-Decadent novel.

 

 

Hardcover edition of 75 hand-numbered copies, thread-stitched and lithographically printed in Italy on rough-textured 140 g/m Italian paper, with 120 g/m Terra Rossa endpapers (made from 10% cotton fibres, virgin fibres and recycled fibres).

The cover, featuring the wonderful art of Aaron Lange, is printed on white Fedrigoni Imitlin, with a similarly illustrated dustjacket printed on a 180 g/m clay-colored version of the same paper as the endpapers.

 

About the Author
James Champagne’s previous works include the novel Confusion (self-published, 2006) and two Weird Fiction short story collections, 2012’s Grimoire: A Compendium of Neo-Goth Narratives and 2015’s Autopsy of an Eldritch City: Ten Tales of Strange & Unproductive Thinking (both published by Rebel Satori Press). His work has also appeared in the anthologies Userlands: New Fiction Writers From the Blogging Underground, Mighty in Sorrow: a Tribute to Current 93 & David Tibet, Marked To Die: A Tribute to Mark Samuels and Drowning in Beauty: the Neo-Decadent Anthology.  His novel Harlem Smoke, was published by Snuggly Books in 2019. James Champagne was born in 1980 and lives in Rhode Island.

 

Limited edition of 75 copies.
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-181-1
Size: 15.5 x 21.5cm
Printed in Italy, 2025
Price: Euro 45.00