Frederick Rolfe, a.k.a. Baron ­Corvo, though best known for his novel Hadrian the Seventh and his eccentric personality, was also a master of the short story, which found expression in odd pseudo-biographical pieces and fictions that expressed his own unique sense of style.
 
The present ­collection contains seven of Rolfe’s best short prose works; previously confined to hard-to-find limited editions, these stories are here available for the first time to a broader public.