Women's Weird 2 - More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Roland Topor playwright

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In the vein of the well-known drug writings of De Quincey and Baudelaire from a century earlier and those of his contemporaries Walter Benjamin and Jean Cocteau –- and foreshadowing the later writings of Aldous Huxley and Carlos Castaneda on psychoactive drugs –- Witkacy composed Narcotics in 1930 to discuss and document not only his own experimentation with different substances but the nature of addiction itself and the prevailing social attitude toward drugs

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The Hunt (1949)

Women's Weird 2 - More Strange Stories by Women, 1891-1937 Roland Topor playwrightWomen's Weird 2: More Strange Stories by Women, 1891 1937 ISBN 9781912766444 paperback from Handheld Classics *** For fans of the best selling Womens Weird anthology comes the next installment of stories by female writers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century that embrace the supernatural, horror, and the Gothic. Edited by literary historian Melissa Edmundson, Womens Weird 2 features thirteen classic Weird short stories that showcase how