{"product_id":"morbid-tales-paperback","title":"Morbid Tales - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn these eight immaculately realised strange stories, Quentin S. Crisp delves deep into the decadence of contemporary life. The fresh originality of the tales and their settings: an English country garden in 'Cousin X'; contemporary Japan in 'A Lake': is matched by the elegance of the writing. They are unified, perhaps, by a yearning for the achingly perfect, ecstatic moment. As Mark Samuels points out in his Foreword, Crisp's fiction is '. . . too multi-layered, too individual, to be labelled. One can spot influences here and there, a dash of this and a sprinkling of that, but the end result is much greater than the sum of its parts.'\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51373897253087,"sku":"9781718126596","price":26.93,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/a12-A5vXLh9781718126596.webp?v=1789164556","url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/products\/morbid-tales-paperback","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}