Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology

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April 30, 2018 will see the nativity of Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology, the new anthology from Snuggly Books. Co-edited by Daniel Corrick and Justin Isis, it is now available to order from the Snuggly Books website (along with all the other usual suspects: Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and so forth):

Drowning in Beauty Snuggly Books

Due to the fact that Snuggly Books is a publisher that is very popular in these parts, and also due to the fact that a fair number of contributors to the anthology are members of these forums (myself included), I've decided to initiate this thread to serve as a repository for all news and information related to the anthology. With that in mind, over the coming days this thread should be watched for updates (to give but a few examples, this weekend Dennis Cooper's blog will be hosting a giant day devoted to the book, its contributors, and Neo-Decadence in general, and Justin Isis intends to conduct a number of author interviews with some of the contributors in the future).

Those who need a quick refresher course in the subject of Neo-Decadence would be advised to check out the Neo-Decadence thread begun by Nirvana In Karma (another contributor) in March of 2016:

Neo-Decadence - Page 7 - THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK

From the book's back cover:

"From the ashes of countless decayed Modernities comes Neo-Decadence, a profaned cathedral whose broken stained glass windows still glitter irregularly in the harsh light of a Symbolist sun. Behind this marvellously vandalised edifice, a motley band of revellers picnic in the graveyard of the Real, leaving behind all manner of rotting delicacies and toxic baubles in their wake. During the last eighty years, world culture has seen an explosion of popular aesthetics, art-forms and the movements associated with them: clothing, trends in fashion, tattoos, recreational drugs, musical sub-cultures, cosmetics, photography—all of which can be the subject of obsessions, damnations and salvations. Devices and formats, initially vulgar, are worshipped, only to be forgotten by all but the few initiates who, through their maniacal fixations, manage to uncover their hidden allure. These twelve stories and their preceding manifestos, then, arise from a shift in aesthetic consciousness: synaesthesia, ecstasy in extremes, the Divine and Infernal alike seen through a neurasthenic lens of supreme focus."

CONTENTS
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Daniel Corrick - Introduction
Brendan Connell - First Manifesto of Neo-Decadence
Justin Isis - Second Manifesto of Neo-Decadence
Brendan Connell - Molten Rage
Justin Isis - The Quest for Nail Art
Damian Murphy - A Mansion of Sapphire
Yarrow Paisley - Arnold of Our Time
Ursula Pflug - Fires Halfway
Colby Smith - Somni Draconis
Colin Insole - The Meddlers
DP Watt - Jack
Avalon Brantley - Great Seizers' Ghosts
Daniel Corrick - Chameleon is to Peacock as Salamander is to Phoenix
Quentin S. Crisp - Amen
James Champagne - XYSchaton

Paperback, 256 pages
1st edition, April 30, 2018
ISBN-13: 978-1-943813-59-9
USA: $16.95