Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1892 and never before translated fully into English, "The King in the Golden Mask" gathers 21 of Marcel Schwob's cruelest and most erudite tales. Melding the fantastic with historical fiction, t...

Not for sale in Estonia! First discovered, celebrated and published by the Surrealists at the age of 14 (they declared her the "new Alice"), Gisele Prassinos quickly found herself established in the literary world as a fount of automatic tales frei...

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Stairway to the Sun & Dance of the Comets" brings together two short books, originally published in 1903, by the antierotic godfather of German science fiction, Paul Scheerbart. "The Stairway to the Sun" contains four...

Not for sale in Estonia! First published in French in 1983, "The Cathedral of Mist" is a collection of stories from the last of the great Francophone Belgian fantasists: distilled tales of distant journeys, buried memories and impossible architectu...

Not for sale in Estonia! "A Terrace in Rome" describes the tormented life of Geoffroy Meaume, a 17th-century engraver of encrypted shadows and erotic prints. After a passionate affair in his youth concludes with his face being burned by acid thrown...

Not for sale in Estonia! "The Pig is the Sun..." So begins Oskar Panizza's outrageously heretical and massively erudite essay on the pig, originally published in 1900 in his journal Zurich Discussions. Moving from the Rig Veda to the Edda to Ovid,...

Not for sale in Estonia! "Life in the Folds", originally published in French in 1949, is the Belgian-born author and artist Henri Michaux's (1899-1984) most direct exploration of the many forms of suffering, a laboratory of fantastical, destructive...

Not for sale in Estonia! riginally published in book form in French in 1887, Joris-Karl Huysmans' "A Dilemma" remains a particularly nasty little tale, a mordantly satiric and cruel account of bourgeois greed and manipulation that holds up as clear...

Not for sale in Estonia! If Honore de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity – the "mode" itself, fashion – his "Physiology of the Employee" examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: burea...

Not for sale in Estonia! In 1916, Hugo Ball (1886-1927) cofounded the Cabaret Voltaire in Zurich and penned the "Dada Manifesto", launching what would become the Zurich Dada movement. That same year he completed his semi-autobiographical novel, "Fl...