NOBODY TOLD ME AUBREY BEARDSLEY ACTUALLY WROTE STUFF. In addition to doing art, that is. I've just read through his unfinished erotic novel, Under The Hill. Which is just silly Decadent/Aesthetic fluff. But it's really rich in imagery and lols. I love how even his prose is full of crazy, exotic, weird detail and has hidden or not-so-hidden porn ( Read more... )

Oh UNF, some nice Victorian debauchery and depravity:

The good old Grand Guignol, with all the associated blood and gore and guts. Man, if I had a time machine, I'd so go back and see that.

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It was Maurey who, from 1898 to 1914, turned the Theatre du Grand-Guignol into a house of horror. He measured the success of a ( Read more... )