Ruination in Bloom

Charles Schneider

 

 

 

“RUINATION IN BLOOM” is a 68-page masterful collection of Decadent, or Neo-Decadent poetry, a rare flower for the connoisseurs of all things macabre, grotesque and fantastic.

Originally published in 2015 by Ex Occidente Press in an edition of only 85 copies, Purple Beared Uncle offers this new edition, subsidized by a poem not in the previous edition.

 

About the Author
Charles Schneider has spent his life ceaselessly exploring the realms of the fantastical, weird and macabre. Born with a torturously nostalgic sense of being out of time and place, both his pen & ink artwork & his oil paintings match the grotesquely antiquated, gleefully decadent tone of his written works. His horror stories and poems are languidly consumed by jaded connoisseurs of outré literature. In this vein, is his collection of tales titled The Mauve Embellishments, which Thomas Ligotti called a display of moral and mental deterioration, and his bouquet of rare flowers of poetry, Ruination in Bloom, which you now hold.

 

 

The details of the book and its THREE EDITIONS are as follows:

1. Limited Edition Paperback
Limited edition paperback of 100 hand-numbered copies, thread-stitched and printed in Italy on a 120 g/m Italian ecological paper made from seaweed and recycled fibre. The interior text is printed entirely in scarlet and dark blue inks. The cover is printed on ivory 240 g/m felt-marked Aquarello Italian paper.
Limited edition of 100 copies. 68 pages.
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Size: 148mm x 210mm
Printed in Italy, 2025
Price: Euro 22.00

 

 

2. Limited Edition Hardcover
Limited edition hardcover of 60 hand-numbered copies, thread-stitched and printed in Italy on a 120 g/m Italian ecological paper made from seaweed and recycled fibre, with 140 g/m flamingo-colored endpapers. The interior text is printed entirely in scarlet and dark blue inks. Cover details forthcoming.
Limited to 26 copies. 68 pages.
Size, unbound: 153mm x 215mm
Printed in Italy, 2025
Price: Euro 45.00

 

 

3. Roman Numeral Edition
Limited edition hardcover of 26 hand-numbered copies, thread-stitched and printed in Italy on a 120 g/m Italian ecological paper made from seaweed and recycled fibre, with 140 g/m flamingo-colored endpapers. The interior text is printed entirely in scarlet and dark blue inks. The cover is made of dark green “lizard”, with author and title embossed on spine.
Limited to 26 copies. 68 pages.
Size, unbound: 153mm x 215mm
Printed in Italy, 2025
Price: Euro 68.00