Friday, August 28, 2009

"Classic Fantasists on Film": Lord Dunsany's Dean Spanley

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It was a surprise for me to learn recently that a novel by Lord Dunsany had been newly filmed, and even more of a surprise to learn that of...

My Talks with Dean Spanley

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The cover of the first edition of Lord Dunsany's My Talks with Dean Spanley (London: William Heinemann, 1936), left , has always seemed ...
Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Arthur Conan Doyle Exhibit at the University of Michigan

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Yesterday I was in Ann Arbor , researching at the University of Michigan libraries. Displayed in the elevators at the graduate library...
Saturday, August 15, 2009

The Demon of Brockenheim

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Australian journals and periodicals are a largely untapped source of supernatural and fantastic fiction. This is a shame because there are s...
Thursday, August 13, 2009

“Classic Fantasists on Film”: William Hope Hodgson

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There are three filmed adaptations of fiction by William Hope Hodgson (1877-1918), two of them being based on his most-anthologized short st...
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Saturday, August 8, 2009

"Late Reviews"

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Aiken, Conrad. Punch: The Immortal Liar: Documents in His History (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921) I read this short book because I had...
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Yellow Vengeance

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Oriental villains were also a staple of British theatre. According to Steve Nicholson in The Censorship of British Drama , Chinese villains...
Thursday, July 30, 2009

New Le Fanu

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Just published by The Swan River Press of Dublin is My Aunt Margaret's Adventure , an unsigned mystery story from The Dublin University ...