Wednesday, November 25, 2009

The Wind in the Rose Bush

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Ever since having read the collection of ghost stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman published by Arkham House in 1974, entitled Collected Gho...
Sunday, November 1, 2009

Erle Cox, Out of the Silence

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The best known Australian lost race novel is Erle Cox's Out of the Silence, serialised in The Argus in 1919 before being published in ...
Friday, September 11, 2009

A "Lost" Lost Race serial

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The lost race novel set in Australia had a particular vogue in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Probably the best known ex...
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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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