The Snuggly Satyricon

edited and translated by Brian Stableford

How many people, over the centuries, must have read the famous Satyricon attributed to Titus Petronius, more commonly known as Petronius Arbiter, and then thrown it away in disgust, having observed that although it is clearly advertised by its title as a book of satyrs, it does not feature any—not, at least, in a literal sense?

Here, at any rate, in The Snuggly Satyricon, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford, is the first honest satyricon, featuring an entire chorus line of satyrs, fauns, aegipans and the Great God Pan himself—in whose divine image, of course, satyrs were made. Indeed, in the twenty Decadent tales and Symbolist fantasies in the present volume, the reader will be provided with satyrs of all sorts, some made of stone or wood, some of flesh and blood, and all of the most refined reverie.

Never marching to the beat of the charivari of conventional thought, The Snuggly Satyricon will be sure to make the reader cry “Io Pan!”

Contents:

Saint Satyr, by Anatole France
Aegipan, by Léon Cladel
The Faun, by Remy de Gourmont
Hyalis the Blue-Eyed Faun, by Albert Samain
Under the Oleanders, by Catulle Mendès
The Last Satyr, by Théo Varlet
The Isle of Satyrs, by Maurice Montegut
The Death of Monsieur de Nouatre and Madame de Ferlinde, by Henri de Régnier
The Doors of Saint-Maclou, by Maurice Leblanc
Amycus et Célestin, by Anatole France
The Little Faun, by Catulle Mendès
Gabrielle and her Faun, by Frédéric Boutet
Venus and the Faun, by Paul Adam
Pan’s Flute, by J. H. Rosny
The Mask of the Faun, by Saint-Blancard
Sentimental Hesitation, by Henri de Régnier
The Punished Outrage, by Gaston Derys
Pan and the Syrinx; or, The Invention of the Flute with Seven Pipes, by Jules Laforgue

About Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford has been publishing fiction and non-fiction for fifty years. His fiction includes a series of “tales of the biotech revolution” and a series of metaphysical fantasies featuring Edgar Poe’s Auguste Dupin. He has previously translated for Snuggly Books a number of titles, including The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies by Jean Lorrain, and The Unknown Collaborator and Other Legendary Tales by Victor Joly.

Paperback, 230 pages. Release date: February 18, 2020
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-021-0
Price: US$17.50

Hardcover, 232 pages. Release date: February 18, 2020
Price: US$34.50

Also available, edited by Brian Stableford: The Snuggly Satanicon (Snuggly Books, 2021); The Snuggly Sirenicon (Snuggly Books, 2021).