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cover by Mike Hoffman A SURFEIT OF MIRRORS by Henri de Régnier adapted by Brian Stableford There are swords and mirrors there, jewels, dresses, crystal cups and lamps, along with the murmur of the sea, or the breath of forests. Listen to the springs sing. The gardens they animate are symmetrical. There, the statues are marble or bronze; the yew-trees are trimmed; the bitter odor of box-trees perfumes the silence; roses grow on the cypress. Make a tour of the pools. Go into the labyrinth, spend time in the arbors, and read my book, page by page, as if you were a solitary walker, turning over a beetle, a pebble or a dead leaf with the tip of your jasper-handled walking-stick... US$24.95/GBP 16.99 5x8 tpb, 380 pages ISBN-13: 978-1-61227-076-0 Henri de Régnier (1864-1936) was by far the most prolific and the most popular of the Symbolist writers. His high fantasy stories, collected in La Canne de jaspe (1897) and Histoires Incertaines (1919), both included in this volume with several additional genre tales, were best-selling books, reprinted numerous times and still in print today. A Byronesque man born out of his time, spiritually anchored in the 18th century, Régnier updated classic fairy tales and told stories of ghosts, monsters and creatures from Faerie, all set against the cold palaces and enchanted forests of the past centuries. In this classic of high fantasy, you will discover untold tales of Bluebeard and Scheherazade, learn of the legends of the Lady of the Seven Mirrors and the Knight Who Fell Asleep in the Snow, marvel at the adventures of Hermagore the Fisherman and Monsieur d'Amercoeur, who frequented the beds of princesses and the courts of kings, who bore the sword and wore the mask... Brian M. Stableford has been a professional writer since 1965. He has published more than 60 science fiction and fantasy novels, as well as several authoritative non-fiction books. He is also translating the works of Paul Féval and other French writers of the fantastique for Black Coat Press which also published his most two recent fantasy novels: The New Faust at the Tragicomique, The Wayward Muse and The Stones of Camelot. Contents: SYMBOLIST TALES [Contes à soi-même, 1894 + La Canne de Jaspe, 1897]: Instead of a Frontispiece Bluebeard's Sixth Marriage (1892) Eustase and Humbeline (1893) Manuscript Found in a Cupboard Hermogenes (1893) The Tale of the Lady of the Seven Mirrors The Knight Who Fell Asleep in the Snow The Living Doorknocker The Unexpected Cup Monsieur d'Amercoeur THE BLACK TREFOIL [Le Trefoil Noir, 1895] UNCERTAIN STORIES [Histoires Incertaines, 1919]: The Sealed Pavilion Marceline; Or, The Fantastic Punishment The Glimpse Addendum: The Last Chapter of "Marceline" ADDENDA: The Widowhood of Scheherazade [Le Veuvage de Shéhérazade, 1925] Paradise Regained [Le Paradis retrouvé, 1937] Introduction and Notes by Brian Stableford.