Studies of Death

Studies of Death

Count Eric Stenbock

 

 

 

During his lifetime the eccentric Count Eric Stenbock published a single collection of short stories, Studies of Death. These seven tales, at once feverish, morbid, and touching, are a key work of English decadence and the Yellow Nineties.

 

About the Author
Stanislaus Eric Stenbock (1860–1895), Count of Bogesund, was born in the South West England to Lucy Sophia Frerichs, an English cotton heiress, and Count Erich Stenbock, who was of a distinguished Swedish noble family of the Baltic German House of nobility in Reval. He inherited his family’s estates in 1885 and returned to live in his manor house at Kolkbriefly for a period before returning to England. In his life he published three volumes of poetry and one collection of short stories, Studies of Death. He died as a result of alcoholism and opium addiction.

 

 

Studies of Death StenbockPaperback, 104 pages
Release date: May 23, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-94381-375-9
Price: US$13.60

 

 

Studies of Death StenbockHardcover, 106 pages. Limited edition of 70 copies.
 Release date: June 4, 2018
Price: US$27.00