Exposes the liveliest fin-de-siècle bohemian cabaret and journal in Paris. Le Chat Noir, a playground for painters, writers, poets, pranksters, and musicians, all gleefully demolishing the standards of art and good taste. Ms. Crépiat examines such eccentric personalities as Paul Verlaine, Alphonse Allais, Marie Krysinska, and Charles Cros. ORDER

A dead body is discovered in a boarding-house in Southampton, England. It looks like murder, but whodunnit? — howdunnit? — the room was locked! Devised by one of the world’s greatest humorists, this witty, impossible crime, offers all the pleasures a mystery-lover could wish for. ORDER

“Witkiewicz takes up and continues the vein of dream and grotesque fantasy exemplified by the late Strindberg or by Wedekind; his ideas are closely paralleled by those of the surrealists and Antonin Artaud which culminated in the masterpieces of the dramatists of the absurd—Beckett, Ionesco, Genet, Arrabal—of the late nineteen forties and the nineteen fifties.” -Martin Esslin. ORDER

The last work Alfred Jarry finished, a few months before his death. It is a bawdy three-act farce loosely based on the medieval legend of Pope Joan, with a huge cast and lively songs bubbling with rhymes and wordplay.An outrageous gem. ORDER

Featuring imaginary interviews with 15 artists: Yoko Ono, Andy Warhol, Alfred Hitchcock, Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin, Georgia O’Keeffe, Louise Bourgeois, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, Salvador Dalí, Leonora Carrington, Madge Gill, Balthus, Béla Lugosi, Agatha Christie and—yes—even Anonymous. ORDER

A zombie rises from the grave of French literature to stalk the earth once more! This bizarre novel – written in 1697 – marks the first mention of the word “zombie” in world literature. It is a wicked tale of lascivious lust and lunatic desires, a strange concoction of prose and verse, set in the sexual and racial hothouse of colonial Guadeloupe. ORDER