Diligensen från Lyon

ALASTOR PRESS 

When it comes to erotic debauchery, the decadent Lord Algerton has tried everything. When he – drunk – comes across a fallen woman late one night in the slums of Paris who offers him the “Stagecoach from Lyon” for the imaginary sum of one hundred francs, he rudely pushes her away. But the next day he can’t help but wonder what this “stagecoach” could be. Together with the book’s narrator, Richard Lesclide himself, the lord embarks on a feverish hunt that takes him through Europe’s pleasure establishments of both the better and the worse kind. But no one seems to have heard of the mysterious “Stagecoach from Lyon”… or do they just not want to say anything?

This novel from 1882 is a titillating erotic picaresque that offers piquant humor and magnificent decadence. For what really lies behind the words “Stagecoach from Lyon”? Heavenly pleasures or something else, something ecstatic and terrible.

Title: The Stagecoach from Lyon
Original title: La diligence de Lyon
Author: Richard Lesclide
Language: Swedish
Translator: Hillevi Hellberg

Designer: Beatrice Bohman
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
Published: September 2017

ISBN: 9789189633438

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Alastor Press is a Swedish independent publisher with a focus on literature that moves in the dark, esoteric and artistically distinctive. The publisher is known for its careful editions of both classic and contemporary works in areas such as decadence, symbolism, horror and philosophical fiction. With an eye for the obscure and cult, Alastor Press highlights writing that challenges, seduces and lingers.