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• 1 • Mad Emperors: The Evolution of an Idea • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 12 • Renegade Romantics: The Birth of Decadence • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 21 • Genius and Madness: The Attractions of Decadence • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 31 • Against Nature: Decadence à la Mode • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 43 • Fin de Siècle: The Decadence of Decadence • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 51 • The Yellow Nineties: Decadence in England • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 66 • Influences: Decadence in Other Nations • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 79 • Echoes: The Achievements of Decadence • (1990) • essay by Brian Stableford
• 84 • To the Reader • (1990) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Au lecteur 1857) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
• 86 • The Glass of Blood • (1990) • short story by Jean Lorrain (trans. of Le verre de sang 1892)
• 95 • Languor • (1990) • poem by Paul Verlaine (trans. of Langueur 1884)
• 96 • The Grape-Gatherers of Sodom • (1990) • short fiction by Rachilde (trans. of Les Vendanges de Sodome 1893)
• 104 • After the Deluge • (1990) • poem by Arthur Rimbaud (trans. of Après le Déluge 1886)
• 106 • Danaette • (1990) • short fiction by Remy de Gourmont (trans. of Danaette 1894)
• 111 • Litany to Satan • (1916) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Les litanies de Satan 1857) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
• 113 • The Black Nightgown • (1990) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of La chemise noire 1886)
• 121 • The Double Room • (1990) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of La chambre double 1869) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
• 124 • The Possessed • (1990) • short story by Jean Lorrain (trans. of Le possédé 1895)
• 130 • Spleen • (1990) • poem by Paul Verlaine (trans. of Spleen 1874)
• 131 • The Faun • (1990) • short story by Remy de Gourmont (trans. of Le faune 1893)
• 136 • The Drunken Boat • (1990) • poem by Arthur Rimbaud (trans. of Le bateau ivre 1891)
• 140 • The Panther • (1990) • short fiction by Rachilde (trans. of La Panthère 1893)
• 147 • Spleen • (1990) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Spleen (Quand le ciel bas et lourd...) 1857) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
• 148 • Old Furniture • (1990) • short fiction by
  Catulle Mendès^?Catulle Mendes
  (trans. of Vieux meubles 1886)
• 154 • Don Juan in Hell • (1916) • poem by Charles Baudelaire (trans. of Don Juan aux Enfers 1857) [as by Charles Pierre Baudelaire]
• 155 • Don Juan's Secret • (1990) • short story by Remy de Gourmont (trans. of Le secret de Don Juan 1893)
• 161 • Theoretikos • (1881) • poem by Oscar Wilde
• 162 • The Court of Venus • (1990) • short fiction by Aubrey Beardsley
• 181 • Satia De Sanguine • (1990) • poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne (variant of Satia te Sanguine 1866)
• 184 • The Dying of Francis Donne • (1896) • short story by Ernest Dowson
• 196 • Baudelaire • (1894) • poem by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
• 197 • The Basilisk • (1892) • short story by R. Murray Gilchrist
• 206 • Magic • (1897) • poem by Lionel Johnson
• 209 • The Other Side • (1893) • short story by Count Stanislaus Eric Stenbock
• 225 • Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae • (1896) • poem by Ernest Dowson
• 226 • A Somewhat Surprising Chapter • (1990) • short fiction by John Davidson (1857-1909)
• 239 • The Translator and the Children • (1910) • poem by James Elroy Flecker
• 240 • Pope Jacynth • (1904) • short story by Vernon Lee
• 249 • Insomnia • (1899) • poem by John Davidson (1857-1909)
• 250 • The Nightingale and the Rose • (1888) • short story by Oscar Wilde
• 258 • Vinum Daemonum • (1897) • poem by Lionel Johnson
• 259 • Absinthia Taetra • (1899) • poem by Ernest Dowson
• 260 • The Ring of Faustus • (1894) • poem by Eugene Lee-Hamilton
• 261 • The Last Generation • (1908) • novelette by James Elroy Flecker (variant of The Last Generation: A Story of the Future)