Six stories of the uncanny and the sensuous by the French Romantic Théophile Gautier, translated by Lafcadio Hearn. Cleopatra grants one night of love to a young man who must die at dawn; a priest lives a double life with a beautiful vampire in ‘Clarimonde’; and in ‘Arria Marcella’ a visitor to Pompeii falls in love with a woman buried by Vesuvius.
Lush, decadent tales in a translation that is itself a classic, for lovers of gothic and fantastic fiction. Download the free EPUB.