Absinthe-Cards, Recto 1. Cut along gray lines.

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Abstinthe-Cards, Verso 1.

I am the son of a man and

a woman, from what I have
been told.
This astonishes me... I
believed I was something
more.

The charm of horror only

tempts the strong.

Jean Lorrain

Comte
de Lautramont

I believe I am in Hell,
therefore I am.

But, truly, I have wept

too much! The Dawns are
heartbreaking. Every moon
is atrocious and every sun
bitter.

Arthur Rimbaud

2
One should always be
drunk. Thats all that
matters...But with what?
With wine, with poetry, or
with virtue, as you chose.
But get drunk.

O Ocean, you remind me

somewhat of the bluish
marks one sees on the
battered backs of cabin
boys.

One may live without

bread, not without roses.

Comte
de Lautramont

Jean Richepin

They had finished their

lives before their death
which is not always the end
of life and often comes long
before the end.

I shed more tears than God

could ever have required.

Arthur Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud

Jules Barbey dAurevilly

Remembering is only a new

form of suffering.

Life has but one true

charm: the charm of the
game. But what if were
indifferent to whether we
win or lose?

What strange phenomena

we find in a great city, all
we need do is stroll about
with our eyes open. Life
swarms with innocent
monsters.

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire

My own self-consciousness
cries out to me coldly: how
does one love zero?

Live? Our servants will do

that for us..

The Earth, dost thou say?

What has the Earth ever
realized, that drop of frozen
mud, whose Time is only a
lie in the Heavens?

You see, the strangeness

of my case is that now I no
longer fear the invisible, Im
terrified by reality.

Villiers de LIsle-Adam

Jean Lorrain

Villiers de LIsle-Adam

Villiers de LIsle-Adam

Absinthe-Cards, Recto 2. Cut along gray lines.

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Absinthe-Cards, Verso 2.

Worshiping the Devil is no

more insane than worshiping
God...It is precisely at the
moment when positivism
is at its high-water mark
that mysticism stirs into life
and the follies of occultism
begin.

I wish to confound all these

people, to create a work
of art of a supernatural
realism and of a spiritualist
naturalism. I wish to
prove... that nothing is
explained in the mysteries
which surround us.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Chastity is the most

unnatural of the sexual
perversions.

Why, flowers are violent,

cruel, terrible, splendid...like
love.

Octave Mirbeau

Man has places in his heart

which do not yet exist, and
into them enters suffering,
in order that they may have
existence.

Remy de Gourmont

I desire her and I hate her.

I would like to take her in
my arms and embrace her
till she smothered, till she
was crushed and I could
drink death from her
gushing veins.

Life is an unpleasant
business. I have resolved to
spend it reflecting on it.

Joris-Karl Huysmans

Each man must grant

himself the emotions that he
needs and the morality that
suits him.

Remy de Gourmont

Lon Bloy

Octave Mirbeau

Yet, whether to the glory

or to the shame of human
nature, in what we call
pleasure (with an excess of
scorn, perhaps) there are
abysses as deep as those of
love.

...for I knew that the King

in Yellow had opened his
tattered mantle and there
was only God to cry to
now.

Books are the blessed

chloroform
of the mind.

Jules Barbey
dAurevilly

Robert W. Chambers

Robert W. Chambers

3
The larvae! The scent of
young blood entices and
draws them closer. Theres
no need to venture into
antiquity to evoke the shades
of the dead.

Jean Lorrain

And let me tell you this:

our higher senses are
blunted. We are so drenched
with material sin, that
we should probably fail to
recognize real wickedness
if we encountered it.

Every branch of human

knowledge, if traced up
to its source and final
principles, vanishes into
mystery.

Intelligence is perhaps
but a malady, - a beautiful
malady; the oysters pearl.

It was an accident that

has endowed man with
intelligence. He has made
use of it: he invented
stupidity.

Arthur Machen

Remy de Gourmont

Arthur Machen

Remy de Gourmont

Absinthe-Cards, Recto 3. Cut along gray lines.

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Absinthe-Cards, Verso 3.

Uninspired

Hopeless

Alone

Depressed

Heartbroken

Suicidal

Empty

Dispirited

Crushed

Rejected

Melancholy

Introverted

Miserable

Disintrested

Bored

Hollow

Absinthe-Cards, Recto 4. Cut along gray lines.

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe
Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe Absinthe

Absinthe-Cards, Verso 4.

Bicycle!

Bicycle!

Bicycle!

Bicycle!

The Player can use this card

once to move in one straight
line of any length until he hits a
wall. At that point he falls from
his bicycle, onto an adjoining
field perpendicular to the direction he was going.

The Player can use this card

once to move in one straight
line of any length until he hits a
wall. At that point he falls from
his bicycle, onto an adjoining
field perpendicular to the direction he was going.

The Player can use this card

once to move in one straight
line of any length until he hits a
wall. At that point he falls from
his bicycle, onto an adjoining
field perpendicular to the direction he was going.

The Player can use this card

once to move in one straight
line of any length until he hits a
wall. At that point he falls from
his bicycle, onto an adjoining
field perpendicular to the direction he was going.

Syphilis!

Syphilis!

Syphilis!

Syphilis!

Due to certain activities in the

Absinthe-den the player will
suffer from incurable syphilis
for the rest of the game. From
now on, he can only move using
the Drunken Dash.

Due to certain activities in the

Absinthe-den the player will
suffer from incurable syphilis
for the rest of the game. From
now on, he can only move using
the Drunken Dash.

Due to certain activities in the

Absinthe-den the player will
suffer from incurable syphilis
for the rest of the game. From
now on, he can only move using
the Drunken Dash.

Due to certain activities in the

Absinthe-den the player will
suffer from incurable syphilis
for the rest of the game. From
now on, he can only move using
the Drunken Dash.

Blackout!

Blackout!

Blackout!

Blackout!

The player has over-indulged.

His head is on the table. An
empty bottle of Absinthe smiles
wickedly at its victim. The
mouth of a dragon-faced opium pipe whispers cruel lulabies.
The player ends his turn here,
without doing the compulsory
dice roll or any further movement.

The player has over-indulged.

His head is on the table. An
empty bottle of Absinthe smiles
wickedly at its victim. The
mouth of a dragon-faced opium pipe whispers cruel lulabies.
The player ends his turn here,
without doing the compulsory
dice roll or any further movement.

The player has over-indulged.

His head is on the table. An
empty bottle of Absinthe smiles
wickedly at its victim. The
mouth of a dragon-faced opium pipe whispers cruel lulabies.
The player ends his turn here,
without doing the compulsory
dice roll or any further movement.

The player has over-indulged.

His head is on the table. An
empty bottle of Absinthe smiles
wickedly at its victim. The
mouth of a dragon-faced opium pipe whispers cruel lulabies.
The player ends his turn here,
without doing the compulsory
dice roll or any further movement.

Divine intervention!
The player can use this card
once to ward of possession if he
is found by the Eye.

Divine intervention!
The player can use this card
once to ward of possession if he
is found by the Eye.

Divine intervention!
The player can use this card
once to ward of possession if he
is found by the Eye.

Divine intervention!
The player can use this card
once to ward of possession if he
is found by the Eye.

Book-Cards, Recto 1. Cut along gray lines.

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book

Book-Cards, Verso 1.

The King
in Yellow

The
Book of Eibon

De Vermis
Misteriis

The
Necronomicon

Liber Al

The
Night Land

Unuassprechlichen
Kulten

The Book
of Henoch

Forbidden
Rituals

The Black
Art

The Alchymical
Wedding

The Key
of Solomon

The Doctrine
of Magic

A Treatise
on Demonology

The Inverted
Gospels

Satans
Sermons