“A fantastic filmmaker in the true sense of the word, Walerian Borowczyk was the Méliès of surrealism, a Freudian curator of fetish objects and patron saint of all things perverted. Harking back to interwar avant-garde while anticipating today’s artist-turned-directors, Borowczyk for three decades carved out a niche for himself in the uncharted space between fine art, arthouse and grindhouse. This series, organized around the short stories and illustrations collected in Anatomy of the Devil (the first stand-alone publication of Borowczyk’s fiction in English translation), reveals the Franco-Polish alchemist of the erotic at his most imaginative.”—Daniel Bird, series curator