NecronomiCon 2024

August 17, 2024

Panelists

Jon Black • Jack Haringa • Kenneth Hite • Sean Moreland • LC von Hessen

For those interested in a more thorough exploration of the Decadent Movement and its influence on weird fiction, the following works have all be identified as essential reading by at least one of your panelists.

Decadent Works

‘Novels (Prose and Poetical)

• Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Against Nature.
• Huysmans, Joris-Karl. Saint Lydwine of Schiedam (LC)
• Comte de Lautremont. Les Chants de Maldoror (Sean)
• Mirbeau, Octave. The Torture Garden. (LC)
• Villers de L’Isle-Adam, Auguste The Future Eve (LC)

Poetry

• Baudelaire, Charles. Les Fleurs du Mals (The Flowers of Evil), (Jon)
• Thompson, James (nom de plume, Bysshe Vanolis). The City of Dreadful Night (Sean)
• Swinburn, A.C. “Garden of Prosperpine,” poem (Sean)

Short Stories

• Dowson, Ernest. “Absinthia Taetra” (Ken)
• Gautier, Theophile: “Clarimonde” or “The Dead Woman in Love” (Jon)
• de Maupassant, Guy. “Night” (Ken)

Visual Artists

• Aubrey Beardsley (Ken)
• Felician Rops (Jon)

Classic Weird Fiction influenced by Decadents

• Chambers, Robert W. “The Yellow Sign” (Ken)
• Ewers, Hanns Heinze. Alraune. (Ken)
• Howard, Robert E. “The Black Stone” (Jon)
• Lovecraft, H.P. “The Hound,” Pickman’s Model, and “The Tomb” (Jon)
• Machen. Arthur. “The White People” (Ken)
• Smith, Clark Ashton. “The Hashish-Eater, Or the Apocolypse of Evil” (Ken)

Recent Decadent-Inspired Fiction & Authors

(Sean and Jon, mostly Sean)

• Michael Cisco
• Junji Ito
• Caitlin Kiernan
• Thomas Ligotti
• William Joseph Martin
• China Miéville
• Shola von Reinhold’s novel Lote