The famous French writer Boris Vian was also known as an inventor, songwriter and jazz performer, journalist, screenwriter, and critic. These activities would have been enough for several lifetimes, and not for the 39 years allotted to him. An expert and connoisseur of the “black novel,” he published several works in this spirit under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, and they were a noisy, scandalous success. As a result of a high-profile trial, the author was even sentenced to prison. This edition includes the novels “I Will Come to Spit on Your Graves” and “All the Dead Have the Same Skin,” published under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan as an example of so-called sadistic prose.