The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse

Briusov, the self-proclaimed leader of the Russian decadent movement, describes
revolution or the spread of madness leading to the collapse of highly advanced but
decadent civilizations that indulge in refined pleasures and ritualized orgies as they
await the final hour. Andreyev portrays the collapse of all moral values on a personal level in his famous story "The Abyss," which caused an uproar when it
was first published. Femmes fatales lure men to destruction, but the most seductive enchantress in the anthology is death itself, particularly in the work of Sologub, who is Russia's most decadent writer of all.

This collection will certainly provide a reprieve from everyday life, with page after page of cruelty, corruption, sensuality, desperation and death.