Rachilde’s Substack
Rachilde & Co. BooksRachilde & Co. publishes decadent books and ephemera inspired by the nineteenth century and beyond.
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Rome AD 39. Paris 1857. London 1890. Washington, DC 2026.
In different eras in history, forces coalesce to create decadent times. Those times have returned. Inspired by France’s nineteenth-century decadent literar...
The Decadent Story
What is a decadent story? Decadence is an elusive term. It is characterized, by turns, as artificial, decaying, and self-indulgent. In Decadence: A Very Short Introduction, David Weir describes the cities and their eras when decadence was i...
Aesthetes & Sadists: The Decadent Protagonist
A thin plot is typical in a decadent novel, but that’s beside the point. What makes a novel decadent? The protagonist. Here are four excellent characters from popular decadent novels:
A rebours (Against Nature) (1884) by Joris-Karl Huysman...
Sheridan Le Fanu
Rachilde & Co.’s Carmilla
Rachilde & Co. Books just published Sheridan Le Fanu’s sapphic vampire novel Carmilla (1872). Here’s that edition’s “About the Author” section.
Dark Romantic writer Sheridan Le Fanu was born in Dublin in 1814. E...
Top 5 Decadent Roman Emperors
Mosaic from the 1976 BBC show I, Claudius
Many years ago, my parents and I marveled at the Roman emperors depicted on the award-winning BBC television drama I, Claudius (1976), based on Robert Graves’s novel of the same name and re-aired b...
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Rachilde & Co. is an indie press of decadent books—especially those written by women and LGBTQ+ authors. Named after Queen of Decadence, Rachilde (1860–1953), the most prominent woman author of the Decadent Movement. rachildeandcompany.com
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