La-Bas

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

I'm not sure if he's really on-topic for this group, but has anyone here read Huysmans' "La-Bas"? Huysmans is better known for "A Rebours" ("Against Nature"), probably the most extraordinary work to come out of the Decadence. "La-Bas" (published in 1891) deals with Satanism in Paris in the 1890s. Extremely controversial at the time, not surprisingly.

Abraham Merritt

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LJ-SEC: (ORIGINALLY POSTED BY dfordoom)

So what do people think of Abraham Merritt? I simply adored his fantasy novel "The Ship of Ishtar" (dating from 1922 or theeabouts), but I wasn't quite so convinced by his horror novel "Burn Witch Burn". I have to admit, though, that it had some nicely chilling images, and those dolls were creepy.