Charles Dickens

William James

H. G. Wells

Aleister Crowley

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Stephen Crane

Charles Baudelaire

Horacio Quiroga

Guy de Maupassant

Peter Mark Roget

Jean Lorrain

Thomas de Quincey

Havelock Ellis

Marie Corelli

Fitz Hugh Ludlow

Greg Boyd

Maurice Level

Benjamin Paul Blood

Jean Richepin

Jordan Jones

Leo Tolstoy

Fred V. Williams

Ernest Dowson

Théophile Gautier

J. C. O’Day

Hendrik DeLeeuw

Harry Hubbell Kane

Claude Farrère

Santiago Dabove

Ahmad Mahmood

Sampurnanand

Eugenio Buona

Gaston Danville

Edward Levinstein

m. i. blue

Michael Stephans

From antiquity to the present, people have sought artificial paradise in the stimulations and insights afforded by the use of intoxicants. Famous literary figures have often been the first to experiment with little-known drugs, and to champion their unique fascination upon the human imagination. In this remarkable anthology, a dazzling array of authors, including H. G. Wells, Marie Corelli, Guy de Maupassant, Leo Tolstoy, Charles Dickens, Stephen Crane, Sadegh Hedayat, Santiago Dabove, Jean Cocteau, William James, Charles Baudelaire, Théophile Gautier, and a host of others from many cultures and historical periods, raids a pharmacopoeia containing ether, absinthe, morphine, hashish, opium, cocaine, heroin, alcohol, chloral hydrate, psilocybin, ayahuasca, carbon tetrachloride, LSD, amyl nitrate, ecstasy, and angel dust, in flights of descriptive prose of unparalleled suggestive power and visionary splendor.

The Drug Experience in Literature

Pipe Dreams

Sampurnanand

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