The Alabaster Book of Occult Fiction
Edited by Brian Stableford
The Alabaster Book of Occult Fiction, the fourth in a series of books of occult fiction of many colors, brings together twenty-one tales from the French occult revival of the nineteenth century and the early part of the twentieth century. Including key figures, such as Jules Bois and the esoterist Jean-Gaston Buorgeat, and numerous other practitioners, such as Jane de La Vaudère and Claude Vignon, the ex-wife of Éliphas Lévi, this volume, much of the contents of which appears in English for the first time, is sure to give new insight into one of the most interesting periods of the occult.
Containing a varied and rich array of stories, about necromancy and magnetism, seers and mystical love, The Alabaster Book of Occult Fiction, edited and translated by Brian Stableford, who also supplies a brilliant, scholarly introduction, is an indispensable addition to any library of the supernatural and occult.
About the Editor
Brian Stableford has been writing for fifty years. His fiction includes include eleven novels and seven short story collections in a series of “tales of the biotech revolution”; a series of metaphysical fantasies set in Paris in the 1840s, featuring Edgar Poe’s Auguste Dupin, most recently Yesterday Never Dies (2012); and a series of supernatural mysteries set in an artist’s colony, most recently The Pool of Mnemosyne (2018). Recent novels independent of any series include Vampires of Atlantis (2016) and The Tangled Web of Time (2016). He also translates antique works from the French, with particular interests in the Symbolist and Decadent Movements, roman scientifique and the fantastique.
Contents:
CHARLES NODIER: One o’Clock
X. B. SAINTINE: The Sorcerer’s Child
S. HENRY BERTHOUD: The Antique Ring
HENRI MARTIN: The Evil Eye
ALPHONSE BROT: Faust
ALPHONSE ESQUIROS: Ebn Sina
JULES JANIN: The Magnetized Corpse
CLAUDE VIGNON: The Guest of the Dead
VICTOR-EMANUEL MICHELET: The Redemptrix
GABRIEL DE LAUTREC: The Talisman
GILBERT-AUGUSTIN THIERRY: Larmor’s Redemption
JULES LERMINA: The Spell-Caster
R. DE MARICOURT: The Eye of the Dragon
JULES BOIS: The Sardonyx Chimera
JANE DE LA VAUDERE: Astral Amour
GASTON BOURGEAT: The Skeleton
MAURICE BEAUBOURG: The Amorous Shade
JEAN RICHEPIN: The Other Eyes
ÉDOUARD L’HOTE: Necromancy
HAN RYNER: Light-of-Sorrow
ÉMILE GOUDEAU: The Communication of William Trystor
Paperback, 362 pages. Release date, August 15, 2023
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-118-7
Price: US$24.00
Hardcover, 364 pages. Limited edition of 100 copies.
Release date, August 15, 2023
Price: US$38.00
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The collection of Books of Occult Fiction of many Colors:
The Zinzolin Book of Occult Fiction
Edited by Brendan Connell
(6.2022, volume 1)
The Vermilion Book of Occult Fiction
edited by Brian Stableford
(9.2022, volume 2)
The Zaffre Book of Occult Fiction
edited by Brendan Connell
(3.2023, volume 3)
The Viridian Book of Occult Fiction
edited by Brendan Connell
(June 2024, volume 5)