While Alfred Kubin is known primarily for his macabre illustrations which adorn the works of some of the century’s most celebrated authors, including DostoevskyDostoevsky, Fyodor, E.T.A. HoffmannHoffmann, E.T.A., and Edgar Allan PoePoe, Edgar Allan, this chapter focuses on Kubin’s sole literary work The Other SideKubin, Alfred (1909). This self-described “fantasticFantastic novel” tells an inscrutable and disturbing story, featuring vivid descriptions—indeed, multiple illustrations—of the most unhinged socialSociety/social derangement, from public orgies and rape to mass murder and cannibalism. Set in the so-called Dream Kingdom, the book presents a truly nightmarish vision. After a brief psychoanalyticalPsychoanalysis/psychoanalytical interpretation, my analysis takes an historical approach, focusing on the tension between the novel’s opposing forces—the seemingly supernatural Austrian, Claus Patera, and his brash American adversary, Hercules Bell. On the one hand, Bell’s apparent victory over Patera heralds the rise of the New World: the unstoppable march of progress; on the other, the neurotic nature of the Dream Land as well as its gory demise establish the novel as a prime example of decadent literature. Subsequently regarded as an anticipation of the Great War or the collapse of the Habsburg Empire, The Other SideKubin, Alfred is a monument to the spirit of anxiety that defined the fin du siècle.