This was the "yellow book" that corrupted Dorian Gray? Idgi, I guess he was kind of similar to des Esseintes during that tangent where he went off collecting all those gems, but he seemed much more to embody the "billionaire vampire" archetype and was chasing women until the very end.
>>25597664It was a fictional book inspired by A Rebours, it wasn't exactly it. I've read that Wilde thought about actually writing it, but never followed through.
The King in Yellow