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Monthly Archives: May 2013
H.P. Lovecraft’s “The Library Stacks”
The Library Stacks Synopsis, from Bloom’s Literary Reference Online In the early part of the 20th century there was no clearly defined field of horror fiction. Most of what got published was grouped loosely under the heading “weird fiction,” … Continue reading
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Japanese science fiction of the 1930s.
Hayato. Hayato was created by Sato Minoru and appeared in Gaikoku no n?j? (The Foreign Farm, 1931). Sato (1896-1945) was a Japanese journalist. The Foreign Farm is set in the near-future, in Brazil, where a Japanese colony has been established. … Continue reading
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A Future War “South Wins” dime novel.
Prentiss, Will. Wll Prentiss was created by “Lieutenant Harry Lee,” the pseudonym of George W. Goode,” and appeared in Blue and Gray Weekly #1-32 (1904-1905) and Blue and Gray Weekly #1-8 (1906). Goode (?-1953) was a dime novel writer for … Continue reading
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Young Wild West’s Weird West Weekly, a 1915 dime novel.
Young Wild West. Young Wild West was created by “An Old Scout,” the pseudonym of Cornelius Shea, and appeared in 644 stories in Wild West Weekly from 1902 to 1915 and 29 stories in Young Wild West’s Weird West Weekly … Continue reading
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Tamil science fiction from 1906.
Nowhere. Nowhere was created by J. R. Rankaraju and appeared in “Parppavar” (“The Visitor,” Indian Ladies’ Magazine, Sept 1906; as a novel, 1909). Jegadhabi Aregupathy Rankaraju (1875-1959) is one of the pioneers of modern Tamil fiction and was known in … Continue reading
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The Occult Detective quilters of Gee’s Bend.
Gee’s Bend. The fictional Gee’s Bend was created by “Elizabeth Keckley” and debuted in “The Witches of Boykin” (Colored Library of Sport, Story and Adventure, Sept. 25, 1886). “Elizabeth Keckley” was the pseudonym of an anonymous African-American writer. (The real … Continue reading
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Jane Austen’s unfinished novel.
Knightley, Mister. Mister Knightley was created by Jane Austen and appeared in Emma (1815). Knightley also appeared in the unfinished novel Masters and Mysteries (1796). Described by leading Jane Austen scholar Kathryn Sutherland as “the most ground-breaking of Austen’s abortive … Continue reading
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