“The next title to be published by the Tartarus Press will be Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker by Jean Lorrain, translated by Brian Stableford. Lorrain was an archetypal doomed decadent of the 1890s whose chosen drug, ether, killed him horribly, though not before it had inspired him to write a series of morbid
tales which are translated and collected by Brian Stableford for the first time. It will be published in the slightly different format which we have just used for John Gale’s collection of prose poems, A Damask of the Dead. It will also have 1890’s style boards printed in two colours, and a dustjacket.”