A novel by this author lends its name to the estate owned by the critic Farewell in Roberto Bolaño’s By Night in Chile. (15[1])After procuring a Baedeker Guide of London, the protagonist of one of this author’s novels stops into a tavern and imagines its patrons (-5[2])as Dickens characters. A novel by this author climaxes in a black mass (15[1])attended (15[1])by the protagonist, a writer who is researching (15[1])an occultist child murderer. In a novel by this author, the protagonist’s home is adorned with a lengthy (*) aquarium, (10[1])a painting of Salomé by Gustave Moreau, (10[2])and a tortoise shell inlaid (10[1])with (10[1])gemstones. (10[2])This author likely (10[1])wrote (10[1])the “yellow book” (10[2])with which Henry Wotton is said to have “poisoned” Dorian Gray. That novel by this author of Là-bas (10[1])is about the reclusive aesthete Jean des Esseintes (“dayz eh-SANT”). For 10 points, name this Decadent French author (-5[1])of À rebours, or Against the Grain. ■END■ (10[1]0[5])