Thomas De Quincey

Thomas Penson De Quincey (15 August 1785 – 8 December 1859) was an English essayist, best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). Many scholars suggest that in publishing this work De Quincey inaugurated the tradition of addiction literature in the West.
His immediate influence extended to Edgar Allan Poe, Fitz Hugh Ludlow, Charles Baudelaire and Nikolai Gogol, but even major 20th-century writers such as Jorge Luis Borges admired and claimed to be partly influenced by his work. Berlioz also loosely based his Symphonie fantastique on Confessions of an English Opium-Eater, drawing on the theme of the internal struggle with one's self.
Dario Argento used De Quincey's Suspiria, particularly "Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow", as an inspiration for his "Three Mothers" trilogy of films, which include Suspiria, Inferno and The Mother of Tears. This influence carried over into Luca Guadagnino's 2018 version of the film.
Cadabra Releases:
Suspiria De Profundis: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow (7")
Suspiria De Profundis: Levana and Our Ladies of Sorrow (LP)
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== Major publications ==
* Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1822)
* On the Knocking at the Gate in Macbeth (1823)
* Walladmor (1825)
* On Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts (1827)
* Klosterheim, or the Masque (1832)
* Lake Reminiscences (1834–40)
* Revolt of the Tartars (1837)
* The Logic of the Political Economy (1844)
* Suspiria de Profundis (1845)
* The English Mail-Coach (1849)
* Autobiographic Sketches (1853)