A Book of Bargains (Solis Classics)

Vincent O'Sullivan (1868-1940), an American-born writer and long resident in Europe, was a central figure of the English Decadent Movement. His early books of (mostly fantastic) verse -- POEMS (1896) and THE HOUSES OF SIN (1897) -- were among the movement's key documents, as was his first story collection, A BOOK OF BARGAINS (1896).The morbid stories in this collection were written under the shadow of Poe but are distinctly fin de siècle in their sin-soaked diabolism. The after-death nightmare "When I Was Dead" is a minor masterpiece.