Les Chants de Maldoror is a remarkable work, noted for its macabre beauty and its status as one of the earliest examples of Surrealist writing. This long narrative prose poem passionately celebrates the principle of Evil in an elaborate style, akin to religious fanaticism.

The enigmatic author, Isidore Ducasse, who styled himself as Comte de Lautréamont, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay in 1846 and died in Paris at the young age of twenty-four. Upon its initial publication in 1868-9, Maldoror went largely unnoticed. However, it was later hailed as a work of genius by eminent writers such as Huysmans, Léon Bloy, Maeterlinck, and Rémy de Gourmont. The Paris Surrealists eventually canonized Lautréamont as one of their principal "ancestors."

This edition, translated by Guy Wernham, includes a long introduction to a never-written, or now lost, volume of poetry, thus providing almost all the surviving literary work of Lautréamont.

He's a charming monster... A macabre hero... A serial killer who only kills bad people.

Dexter Morgan has been under considerable pressure. It's just not easy being an ethical serial killer - especially while trying to avoid the unshakable suspicions of the dangerous Sergeant Doakes (who believes Dexter is a homicidal maniac...which, of course, he is). In an attempt to throw Doakes off his trail, Dexter has had to slip deep into his foolproof disguise.

While not working as a blood-spatter analyst for the Miami Police Department, he now spends nearly all his time with his cheerful girlfriend, Rita, and her two children, sipping light beer and slowly becoming the world's first serial couch potato. But how long can Dexter play Kick the Can instead of Slice the Slasher? How long before his Dark Passenger forces him to drop the charade and let his inner monster run free?

In trying times, opportunity knocks. A particularly nasty psychopath is cutting a trail through Miami - a man whose twisted technique leaves even Dexter speechless. As Dexter's dark appetite is revived, his sister, Deborah (a newly minted, tough-as-nails Miami detective), is drawn headlong into the case. It quickly becomes clear that it will take a monster to catch a monster - but it isn't until his archnemesis is abducted that Dex can finally throw himself into the search for a new plaything. Unless, of course, his plaything finds him first...

With the incredible wit and freshness that drew widespread acclaim to Darkly Dreaming Dexter, Jeff Lindsay now takes Dexter Morgan to a new level of macabre appeal and gives us one of the most original, colorful narrators in years.