Title: Là-bas : "La messe du chanoine Docre"

Title: Là-bas : "La messe du chanoine Docre" Title Record # 1766305
Author: Joris-Karl Huysmans
Date: 1891-00-00
Type: SHORTFICTION
Length: short story
Language: French

Note: This is an excerpt from Huysmans's novel Là-bas, first published as a serial from February 17th to April 20th 1891 in L'Écho de Paris, and as a book in 1891. The excerpt corresponds to chapter XIX.

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Year	Title
1891	Là-bas : "La messe du chanoine Docre" [as by J. K. Huysmans]

Year	Language	Title
1891	English	The Black Mass (chapter XIX from Là-Bas)
1891	English	The Black Mass (excerpt)
1928^ⓘChapter XIX of the novel. Translated by Keene Wallace.	English	The Black Mass, Episode from Là-bas (Down There) [as by J. K. Huysmans]
1970^ⓘTranslated by Victor Henning Pfannkuche, excerpt from Tief unten, 1921	German	Die Schwarze Messe des Kanonikus Docre [as by Joris Karl Huysmans]
1974^ⓘTranslated by Leni Lobez.	German	Die Schwarze Messe (excerpt)

Publications

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Title	Date	Author/Editor	Publisher/Pub. Series	ISBN/Catalog ID	Price	Pages	Format	Type	Cover Artist
Anthologie du conte fantastique français	1947-06-00	ed. Pierre Castex	Librairie José Corti			326	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	S.o'B.
Anthologie du conte fantastique français	1947-06-00	ed. Pierre Castex	Librairie José Corti			326	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Best Black Magic Stories	1960-00-00	ed. John Keir Cross	Faber and Faber		16/-^?Prior to decimilisation (1968-1971), UK books were priced in shillings, or shillings and pence, where 20 shillings equals one pound and 12 old pence equals one shilling. Shillings were indicated with a variety of suffixes, e.g. 3s, 3', 3", 3/ all mean 3 shillings. Any number after that is additional pence, usually 6 (half a shilling) but sometimes 3 or 9 (a quarter of a shilling or three-quarters of a shilling).	269	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth
Schwarze Messen: Dichtungen und Dokumente	1970-00-00	ed. Ulrich K. Dreikandt	Hanser (Bibliotheca Dracula #7)		DM 19.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	320	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Uwe Bremer
The Magicians: Occult Stories	1972-07-00	ed. Peter Haining	Peter Owen	0-7206-0152-5	£3.00^?£: UK pound	220	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Eliphas Levi
12 Okkult-Stories	1974-00-00	ed. Peter Haining	Heyne (Heyne-Anthologien #42)	3-453-45015-9	DM 5.80^?DM: German (Deutsche) mark	254	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth
The Magicians: Occult Stories	1975-00-00	ed. Peter Haining	Pan Books	0-330-24247-4	£0.60^?£: UK pound	236	pb^?Paperback. Typically 7" by 4.25" (18 cm by 11 cm) or smaller, though trimming errors can cause them to sometimes be slightly (less than 1/4 extra inch) taller or wider/deeper.	anth	Alan Lee
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror	1979-06-00	ed. Leonard Wolf	Clarkson N. Potter	0-517-53752-4	$14.95^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 473	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth	Virgil Finlay
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror	1979-06-00	ed. Leonard Wolf	Clarkson N. Potter	0-517-53635-8	$8.95^?$: US dollar	xvi+ 473	tp^?Trade paperback. Any softcover book which is at least 7.25" (or 19 cm) tall, or at least 4.5" (11.5 cm) wide/deep.	anth	Virgil Finlay
The Devil-Worshippers	2018-07-01	ed. The Dark Lords	Black Temple Publishing	978-1-64370-092-2	$16.63^?$: US dollar	260	hc^?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.	anth

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