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Weird Fiction in Britain – | SpringerLink

I say 'Somewhat to my surprise' because I'm pretty sure that I'd never even heard of this one till we started on the The Judge's House reading group; so I assumed it was little known - and probably so because it wasn't much good. I have to admit that you have to get a long way in before mystery and a proper plot-line turn up to the start of Book III if I remember correctly , but I didn't find the earlier portion hard going - it was a bit like Stoker's 'if I won a massive, rollover, National Lottery jackpot' fantasy, and strangely engaging.

It's a bit early to get into comparisons, so I'll just say that it's a much weightier work than 'Worm' or 'Stars'. My sense of melodrama apparently doesn't rise to 19th century proportions. I'm slowly working through The Weird and coming across stories that are in other books that I own but haven't read yet. I've decided to read those books as I get to the relevant stories.

I'm also working through Dramas from the Depths by Reggie Oliver.

Finished Stoker's The Lady of the Shroud , last night. There's a good book there. Unfortunately, it's buried inside a much bigger one.

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On the evidence so far, he's a rather better short story writer than he is a novelist. Some of these are really rather good and the worst are quite reasonable. Making a start on his The Mystery of the Sea this evening. Another Stoker of which I'd never heard until recent weeks. I'm through the first sixteen chapters of The Mystery of the Sea - about a quarter of the way, I think - and though it's a bit leisurely-paced it's shaping up as the best Bram Stoker I've read so far I'm not including Dracula , which I haven't read for a few years, in that statement.

I'm quite enjoying it. I'm keeping fingers crossed that it doesn't wander off somewhere completely different; which is what The Lady of the Shroud did - several times. My old PC packed-in and I've been off-line for a week, so I've been catching up on some reading. I've almost finished The Oxford Book of Gothic Tales one to go : all good stories, pretty much; but I think one or two stretch the definition of Gothic a bit.

I got through the first half-dozen. Judging by these, I think I'd classify him as a satirist rather than a writer of Gothic. Baring-Gould manages to be a sort of guilty pleasure: the stories are entertaining even though you're aware that the attitudes the satire is coming from wouldn't sit well with you if you were talking to the man in person. For example, one of the best is about the horrid fate that comes on a woman who preferred to be out and about and enjoying life rather doing the housework and banging out six or seven children.

Being Stoker, it's not perfect, of course, but enjoyable and gripping. The odd thing is, it has an ancient castle, secret passages, caves, a woman in peril, an ancient secret, 'second sight', the spirits of dead people, a possible witch - and still manages to feel quite 'unGothic'.

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I'd probably best describe it as a blend of 'Boys Own' adventure 'Boy's Own'? I had not heard of The Mystery of the Sea until you mentioned it earlier in this thread. I must read more Stoker. It's a bit remiss of me not to have read more as I have been on a committee with Dacre Stoker and other family members campaigning for a Bram Stoker statue to be erected in Dublin. I remember many similar illustrations, possibly the same artist, in old books that were around the house when I was a kid. Oddly enough, I never remember ever seeing 'The Boy's Own Paper', even though it was published well into my teens.

We had 'The Hotspur' and 'The Wizard', which I imagine were quite similar - text-heavy stories rather than picture-strips. On the subject of Stoker's 'other works', I'm really floundering - finding it difficult to put together a coherent set of opinions on them. I found reading them fascinating, but Talking of study, it's really annoying that reputable literary studies of his works that go beyond Dracula all seem to be out of print, scarce, and really expensive.

I've really got to renew my library card. I haven't had a chance to read it yet, but it's interesting that the index has one entry for 'Stoker, Bram', eleven entries beneath that for Dracula , and no entries for any of his other works. It's been argued, I understand, that there were two contradictory currents in British society at the end of the 19th century. Against the decadent 'naughty Nineties' element there was also a backward-looking, pro-Empire, 'healthy' aspect to society, which got an enormous boost with the trial and conviction of Oscar Wilde.

Stoker, it seems to me, has a foot in to mix metaphors both camps.

Dracula can be mined for all kinds of conscious or unconscious kinkiness, Stoker worked in the theatre world, there's his strange mental enthralment to strong-willed men one of whom, Hall Caine - dedicatee of Dracula - has been linked to Ripper suspect Francis Tumbelty. But then, on the other hand a lot of his work appears to be rather moralistic melodramas that would sit very comfortably with the anti-decandent side of Victorian society.

Perhaps literary studies are thin on the ground because neither side can completely claim Stoker as their own. As an aside, I think the Boy's Own illustration is a steel engraving. Perhaps the materials and technology give its particular look, rather than indicating the work of a particular artist. I don't think I've previously read any fiction by Carter I've a vague idea I might have read some of her non-fiction, somewhere and it was a bit of a firework in my reading life for two reasons.

First of all, she's an interesting, new-to-me writer whom I'll definitely explore. Then there's the second reason - oh dear One of my favourite authors is Tanith Lee - I have her as such on my profile page. This story is so strikingly similar to Lee, both in style and narrative viewpoint, that there has to be a connection: either one is heavily influenced by the other or they were riding a literary tandem, as it were.

But Carter was in print five years before Lee - Carter's first book, Shadow Dance aka Honeybuzzard , sounds, in a review I've just read here, just like a Lee novel and it was published when Lee was only nineteen. Can a favourite author be a mere imitator? As I said above As they were both women writers growing up in Postwar Britain, the 'literary tandem' idea is at least possible. Very few, if any, writers are entirely original; we are all affected by the culture we live in.

I've read quite a bit of Angela Carter , none of Tanith Lee so, like you, I can't comment on this particular pair with any authority but it's what the author does with the story that makes it her own. It's a bit beyond passing similarities.


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In truth though, I cannot imagine enjoying Lee the less because of this. You take every book on its own terms, don't you? Oddly enough, I only read new stuff by her at infrequent intervals because - I've realised this lately - her output is so massive see here!

Also, I don't remember ever seeing a newspaper review of Lee - if I hadn't come across her books while browsing bookshop shelves I'd probably never have heard of her. Incidentally, compare this to the literarily 'kosher' Carter whose name, at least, will be familiar to anyone who actually reads at all widely - I remember Nights at the Circus being on radio, telly, Sunday supplements - everywhere. So, there are probably all sorts of little whiffs of literary snobbery churning round in the back of my mind so that I've subconsciously made Lee into a 'guilty' rather than an 'innocent' pleasure.

Anyway, I'm quite looking forward to exploring and comparing. In the meantime, I'm making a start on Caleb Williams. ETA - I haven't actually started on it yet - I'm still wading through Godwin's interminable prefaces. I just hope the actual work isn't so stiff, formal and long-winded. Next up, post eunuch-frenzy: an Octave Mirbeau crash-course I've only ever read Torture Garden all the way through. Shades of Sabine Baring-Gould! I've just realised that F Marion Crawford is another male. Can't I have just one Margaret Rutherford-esque lady penning horror stories - with pen and ink - by the light of one of those antique oil-lamps?

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How about this: actress Dulcie Gray was a regular contributor one of 'the hidden backbone of the series' to the long-running Pan Book of Horror Stories. I'm currently reading Susan Hill's latest ghost story, Dolly ; I've got a fifth of the way through The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror volume 23 ; and a collection of prequels and sequels to M R James stories entries to a contest by Ghosts and Scholars M R James newsletter is in my desk at work - for when I manage to take a lunch break.

The book Electric Eden fits at least as well into this category as it does as a straight forward history of the British folk revival. I don't recall ever having come across a Dulcie Gray story. I'm quite intrigued - another one to go on the 'to read' list.


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So I've just been having what you might call a 'spooky supper': Chinese takeaway and a half-bottle of white wine, with 'The Signalman' on the telly and then reading it from my neat little 'Collector's Library' Charles Dickens Ghost Stories there's no way I was going to get the touchstones to work for that one - you'd think they'd have more sense than to just title it 'Ghost Stories' - dozens of different books with the same title!

I'm not really a Charles Dickens fan, but I have to say that this is a really excellent story really faithful screen adaptation, too - no liberties taken at all. I could write a small essay on it just off the top of my head, there being that much going on in there - so much detail and observation, not to mention quite a lot of subtle, oblique social comment. I haven't actually read any of the stories, but I read part way through Helen Simpson 's I have the Vintage, edition introduction and then gave up on it. The trouble is that it tells you rather too much about allusion and reference in the stories - stuff you'd enjoy picking up on for yourself.

So if anyone hasn't read this and is thinking of doing so, I strongly recommend reading the stories first and leaving Simpson's introduction for afterwards. ETA - I probably wouldn't have made a start on it if Caleb Williams was a better book - I'm making hard work of that one. Taking a proper stab at Charlotte Dacre, currently: and thus far, Zofloya; or, The Moor is turning out to be wildly entertaining.