The Snuggly Sirenicon

Edited and Translated by Brian Stableford

The present volume is a book of sirens, edited and translated from the French by Brian Stableford.

The notion of sirens—or, more pedantically, sirènes was taken up with particular relish by writers who described themselves as Symbolists, having picked up the torch of French Romanticism in order to carry forward its quest to defend fertile, inventive and richly meaningful imagination against the corrosions of positivistic thought.

Featuring stories by Remy de Gourmont, Catulle Mendès, and many others, The Snuggly Sirenicon is a key collection of the microsubgenre of mermaid fiction, the inherent fascination of that motif ensuring that it is anything but tedious.

About Brian Stableford
Brian Stableford has been publishing fiction and non-fiction for fifty years. His fiction includes an eighteen-volume series of “tales of the biotech revolution” and a series of half a dozen metaphysical fantasies set in Paris in the 1840s, featuring Edgar Poe’s Auguste Dupin. His most recent non-fiction projects are New Atlantis: A Narrative History of British Scientific Romance (Wildside Press, 2016) and The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French roman scientifique (Black Coat Press, 2016); in association with the latter he has translated approximately a hundred and fifty volumes of texts not previously available in English, similarly issued by Black Coat Press.

Contents:
Sirens’ Creek, by Paul Arène
The Last Siren, by Pierre Mille
The Cantatrice, by Maurice Renard
The Song of the Sirens, by René Vivien
Mr. Cuffycoat’s Curious Adventure, by André Lichtenberger
The Last Siren, by Bernard Lazare
An Amorous Adventure at Sea, by Henri de Régnier
The Pensive Lady, by Remy de Gourmont
The Sorrow of the Sirens, by Catulle Mendes
The Sirens no Longer Sing, by Renée Vivien or Hélène de Zuylen de Nyevelt
The Last Siren, by Maurice Magre
The Sirens, by Pierre Mille
A Sirens’ Nest, by Paul Arène
The Innocent Siren, by Remy de Gourmont
The Little Woman of the Sea, by Camille Lemonnier
The Last Siren, by Lucie Delarue-Mardrus
The Man of the Sea, by Arnold Mortier
The Fisher of Men, by Camille Mauclair
The Flower of Youth, by Maurice Magre

Paperback, 226 pages. Release date: September 21, 2021
ISBN-13: 978-1-64525-078-4
Price: US$16.50