The Road to Darkness (Empire of the Senses)

Fiction. Erotica. THE ROAD TO DARKNESS contains two decadent and highly controversial novels: DANIEL JESUS (first published in 1905) and SEVERIN (first published in 1914). "I have seldom read a more disgusting book"--Richard Schaukal. "A series of disgusting orgies with some mystical drivel wrapped round the obscenities"--Arthur Eloesser. Paul Leppin (1878-1945) was often termed the "troubadour" of the mysterious and erotic atmosphere of old Prague. A disciple of Gustav Meyrink, he matched his master in the evocation of the Czech capital. Translated from the German by Mike Mitchell.