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Book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Barry Pain Volume 1

Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Barry Pain Volume 1 written by Barry Pain and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of Barry Pain's tales of terror Barry Eric Odell Pain was born in Cambridge, England in 1864. A graduate of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, he joined the staff of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White periocals. He became a regular contributor to the literary magazine The Granta and to Cornhill Magazine, Punch and The Speaker. In keeping with many authors of his era, his literary output was prodigious. Credit for the recognition he eventually achieved is said to have come from endorsements by Robert Louis Stevenson who compared Pain's writings to those of Guy de Maupassant. There is a dark side to some of Pain's writing, although he has been more widely recognised as a parodist and writer of lightly humorous stories. This darker side of Pain's work has resulted in a substantial legacy of supernatural, horror and weird fiction. This is possibly why his work, particularly the very well-known, 'The Undying Thing', was highly regarded by H.P. Lovecraft. In the first volume of this comprehensive three volume Leonaur collection of Barry Pain's fiction of the strange readers will discover 'The Glass of Supreme Moments', 'The Missing Years', 'The Unfinished Game', 'This is All' and many others. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Barry Pain Volume 1

Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Barry Pain Volume 1 written by Pain Barry and published by Leonaur Limited. This book was released on 2022-05-04 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume one of Barry Pain's tales of terror Barry Eric Odell Pain was born in Cambridge, England in 1864. A graduate of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, he joined the staff of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White periocals. He became a regular contributor to the literary magazine The Granta and to Cornhill Magazine, Punch and The Speaker. In keeping with many authors of his era, his literary output was prodigious. Credit for the recognition he eventually achieved is said to have come from endorsements by Robert Louis Stevenson who compared Pain's writings to those of Guy de Maupassant. There is a dark side to some of Pain's writing, although he has been more widely recognised as a parodist and writer of lightly humorous stories. This darker side of Pain's work has resulted in a substantial legacy of supernatural, horror and weird fiction. This is possibly why his work, particularly the very well-known, 'The Undying Thing', was highly regarded by H.P. Lovecraft. In the first volume of this comprehensive three volume Leonaur collection of Barry Pain's fiction of the strange readers will discover 'The Glass of Supreme Moments', 'The Missing Years', 'The Unfinished Game', 'This is All' and many others. Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.

Book The Undying Thing and Others

Download or read book The Undying Thing and Others written by Barry Pain and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the course of a long career, chiefly as a humorist, British writer Barry Pain (1864-1928) wrote a substantial body of horror fiction. His early volume, Stories in the Dark (1901), contains a number of powerful specimens, including "The Undying Thing," a tale of a hideous entity lurking in the woods that was much appreciated by H. P. Lovecraft. Later collections-Here and Hereafter (1911), Stories in Grey (1912), and the untitled collection in the series "Short Stories of To-day and Yesterday" (1928)-each contain their modicum of weird specimens, including such notable items as "Smeath," involving precognition; "Linda," a tale of a pact with the Devil; "Not on the Passenger-List," in which a dead husband torments his living wife on a ship; and "The Reaction," about a powerful drug. This volume collects, for the first time, the totality of Pain's weird writing, and also includes the rare novel The Shadow of the Unseen (1907), cowritten with James Blyth, an effective tale of witchcraft. The volume features an introduction by S. T. Joshi, one of the world's leading authorities on supernatural fiction.

Book Stories in the Dark

Download or read book Stories in the Dark written by Barry Pain and published by Olympia Press. This book was released on 1901 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Robinson Crusoe s Return

Download or read book Robinson Crusoe s Return written by Barry Pain and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Tales of Pain and Wonder

Download or read book Tales of Pain and Wonder written by Caitlín R. Kiernan and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Included in this collection are 21 short stories by the award willing author of Silk. Caitlin R. Kiernan has added a new voice to the world of horror and supernatural writing. Her stories consistently make it into The Years Best Fantasy and Horror and The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror. Her writing is unique, thought provoking, and leads you to places that you fear, yet find fascinating.

Book The Athenaeum

    Book Details:
  • Author : James Silk Buckingham
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1911
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 760 pages

Download or read book The Athenaeum written by James Silk Buckingham and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 760 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Book Review Digest

Download or read book Book Review Digest written by and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 706 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Bram Stoker

Download or read book The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of Bram Stoker written by Bram Stoker and published by . This book was released on 2009-08 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More tales of horror and the peculiar from the master of the genre In volume two of the Leonaur five volume collection of Bram Stoker's writings of dark doings, elemental evil and those dead (and undead), readers will discover the bizarre and gothic novel, 'The Lady in the Shroud, ' the title alone of which is enough to alert the reader as to what is in store. This substantial volume is enhanced by the inclusion of seven pieces of shorter fiction to thrill and unsettle-'A Dream of Red Hands, ' 'The Secret of the Growing Gold, ' 'A Gypsy Prophesy, ' 'Crooked Sands, ' 'The Crystal Cup, ' 'In the Valley of the Shadow' and 'The Man from Shorrox.' This collection of the macabre is available in softcover and hardback with dust jacket for collectors. Leonaur hard backs are cloth bound, with gold foil stamped spines and head and tail bands-a credit to your book ca

Book The End of the Story

    Book Details:
  • Author : Clark Ashton Smith
  • Publisher : eStar Books
  • Release : 2014-08-01
  • ISBN : 1612107931
  • Pages : 103 pages

Download or read book The End of the Story written by Clark Ashton Smith and published by eStar Books. This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Clark Ashton Smith Single. Set the in the Land of Averoigne a narrative by written by the young Christophe Morand about his unaccountable disappearance in 1798.

Book The Eliza Stories

Download or read book The Eliza Stories written by Barry Pain and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The more I think about myself, the more—I say it in all modesty—the subject seems to grow.” So begins The Eliza Stories, and although the book takes Eliza’s name, her husband is revealed to be the true comic hero, as he displays a self-importance that far outstrips his modest station in Edwardian suburbia. Eliza uncomplainingly smoothes over arguments and watches from the sidelines as her other half tries to scramble up the social ladder. From insulting the domestic staff to ill-advisedly lending money to social superiors, our narrator is by turns patronizing and authoritarian. And just when you think you can’t stand anymore, their son Ernest brings a new and sinister twist to the tale. Written and set in the early 1900s, this is a comic gem.

Book The Sense of an Ending

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  • Author : Julian Barnes
  • Publisher : Vintage
  • Release : 2011-10-05
  • ISBN : 0307957330
  • Pages : 158 pages

Download or read book The Sense of an Ending written by Julian Barnes and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-10-05 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A novel that follows a middle-aged man as he contends with a past he never much thought about—until his closest childhood friends return with a vengeance: one of them from the grave, another maddeningly present. A novel so compelling that it begs to be read in a single setting, The Sense of an Ending has the psychological and emotional depth and sophistication of Henry James at his best, and is a stunning achievement in Julian Barnes's oeuvre. Tony Webster thought he left his past behind as he built a life for himself, and his career has provided him with a secure retirement and an amicable relationship with his ex-wife and daughter, who now has a family of her own. But when he is presented with a mysterious legacy, he is forced to revise his estimation of his own nature and place in the world.

Book Nocturnes

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  • Author : John Connolly
  • Publisher : Simon and Schuster
  • Release : 2006-10-10
  • ISBN : 1416534601
  • Pages : 497 pages

Download or read book Nocturnes written by John Connolly and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2006-10-10 with total page 497 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bestselling author John Connolly's first collection of short fiction,Nocturnes,now features five additional stories -- never-before published for an American audience -- in a dark, daring, utterly haunting anthology of lost lovers and missing children, predatory demons, and vengeful ghosts. In "The New Daughter," a father comes to suspect that a burial mound on his land hides something very ancient, and very much alive; in "The Underbury Witches," two London detectives find themselves battling a particularly female evil in a town culled of its menfolk. And finally, private detective Charlie Parker returns in the long novella "The Reflecting Eye," in which the photograph of an unknown girl turns up in the mailbox of an abandoned house once occupied by an infamous killer. This discovery forces Parker to confront the possibility that the house is not as empty as it appears, and that something has been waiting in the darkness for its chance to kill again.

Book The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories

Download or read book The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories written by Michael Cox and published by Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection of thirty-five English ghost stories written during the Victorian Era.

Book Science Fiction  Fantasy    Horror

Download or read book Science Fiction Fantasy Horror written by and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.

Book McClure s Magazine

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  • Author :
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1928
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 126 pages

Download or read book McClure s Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Guide to Supernatural Fiction

Download or read book The Guide to Supernatural Fiction written by Everett Franklin Bleiler and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: