Mon 26 Mar 2018
Book Noted: JONATHAN E. LEWIS, Editor – Strange Island Stories.
Posted by Steve under Books Noted[7] Comments
JONATHAN E. LEWIS, Editor – Strange Island Stories. Stark House Press, trade paperback. Published today!
CONTENTS:
Introduction
GHOSTS AND SHAPE SHIFTERS
“Monos and Daimonos†by Edward Bulwer (New Monthly Magazine, May 1830; The Student: A Series of Papers, 1835)
“Hugenin’s Wife†by M.P. Shiel (The Pale Ape and Other Pulses, 1911)
“The Far Islands†by John Buchan (Blackwood’s Magazine, November 1899; The Watcher by the Threshold and Other Tales, 1902)
“The Ship That Saw a Ghost†by Frank Norris (A Deal in Wheat and Other Tales of the New and Old West, 1903)
“The Gray Wolf†by George MacDonald (Works of Fantasy and Imagination, 1871)
“The Camp of the Dog†by Algernon Blackwood (John Silence: Physician Extraordinary, 1908)
“Island of Ghosts†by Julian Hawthorne (All Story Weekly, April 13, 1918)
BIZARRE CREATURES AND FANTASTIC REALMS
“The Fiend of the Cooperage†by Arthur Conan Doyle (The Manchester Weekly Times, October 1st 1897; Round the Fire Stories, 1908)
“Spirit Island†by Henry Toke Munn (Chambers Journal, November 1922)
“The Purple Terror†by Fred M. White (The Strand Magazine, September 1899)
“Friend Island†by Francis Stevens (All-Story Weekly, September 7, 1918; Fantastic Novels Magazine, September 1950)
“In the Land of Tomorrow†by Epes Winthrop Sargent (The Ocean, December 1907 and January 1908)
“The Isle of Voices†by Robert Louis Stevenson (Island Night’s Entertainment, 1893)
“Dagon†by H. P. Lovecraft (The Vagrant, November 1919; The Outsider and Others, 1939)
“The People of Pan†by Henry S. Whitehead (Weird Tales, March 1929; West India Lights, 1946)
HUMAN HORRORS
“The Sixth Gargoyle†by David Eynon (Weird Tales, January 1951)
“Three Skeleton Key†by George G. Toudouze (Esquire, January 1937)
“Good-by Jack†by Jack London (The House of Pride and Other Tales of Hawaii, 1912)
“The Isle of Doom†by James Francis Dwyer (The Popular Magazine, April 15 1910)
“An Adriatic Awakening†by Jonathan E. Lewis
Notes for Further Reading
March 27th, 2018 at 7:50 am
I reviewed Jonathan’s STRANGE ISLAND STORIES last month:http://georgekelley.org/forgotten-books-459/
Wonderful anthology!
March 27th, 2018 at 11:50 am
Yes, thanks for your review, George. Glad you enjoyed the book!
Here are a couple more reviews, the first from James Reasoner:
http://jamesreasoner.blogspot.com/2017/12/coming-from-stark-house-strange-island.html
and from John ONeill at the Black Gate blog:
https://www.blackgate.com/2018/03/24/strange-island-stories-edited-by-jonathan-e-lewis/
March 27th, 2018 at 12:59 pm
Steve, you should be very proud of Jonathan’s accomplishments! I hope he edits more fine anthologies!
March 27th, 2018 at 1:11 pm
Jon has a number of projects he’s working on or has in mind, but at the moment, no anthologies. That could change, though!
March 27th, 2018 at 8:26 pm
Great lineup of stories. Top flight choices.
March 27th, 2018 at 9:15 pm
Being close by and watching while Jon was picking out the stories was a lot of fun.
Scanning them and converting pdf files to text files (my job), not nearly as much fun.
March 27th, 2018 at 11:42 pm
Steve,
It is never fun being the tech guy to genius. Much easier to be the compiler than the converter.
If there is another of these you might suggest he check out George Worts, Gordon Young, Louis Becke, and William Russell, all writers in the the public domain, and a few writers who might have stories in PD like Robert Carse, Donald Barr Chidsey, Garland Roark, E. Hoffman Price.
There is a great one in a spy story anthology Hans Stefan Santesson did in the sixties (for Lancer I think) set in Jamaica in WWII that begs to be reprinted. I want to say the author is John Bretherton, but honestly I can’t even recall the anthologies name though it should be easy to spot in Hubin.