Prince Narcissus and Other Stories

Appearing here in English for the first time in a translation by Shawn Garrett is Robert Scheffers minor masterpiece of decadence Prince Narcissus. Glutted with over-the-top imagery and set largely against a backdrop of Venice it tells in glistening prose of the bizarre suffering of Prince Mitrophane Moreano impassioned by his own image and armed against fleeting youth with only the science of the cosmetic box and his singular madness.Included in the current volume are four additional tales which show Scheffers broad range covering the grounds of the conte cruel horror the occult and the naturalist nouvelle.