Before Bella and Edward, Stefan and Damon Salvatore, and Abraham Lincoln, Vampire Hunter, there was Lestat and Louis, The Lost Boys and Buffy Summers. Before True Blood and Let the Right One In, there was Dark Shadows and Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles. Then there is the most prominent of them all: [...]
Thirty tales of theft, onanism, incest, murder and a host of other forms of perversion and cruelty from the "ungrateful beggar" and "pilgrim of the absolute," Leon Bloy. "Disagreeable Tales," first published in French in 1894, collects Bloy's narrative sermons from the depths: a cauldron of frightfu[...]