Posts Tagged ‘Montague Summers’
Posted by demonik on November 20, 2009
Phil Baker – The Devil is a Gentleman: The Life and Times of Dennis Wheatley (Dedalus, October 31st, 2009)
Cover design: Jonathan Barker
Blurb
One of the giants of popular fiction, with total sales of around fifty million books, Dennis Wheatley held twentieth-century Britain spellbound. His Black Magic novels like The Devil Rides Out created an oddly seductive and luxurious vision of Satanism, but in reality he was as interested in politics as occultism. Wheatley was closely involved with the secret intelligence community, and this powerfully researched study shows just how directly this drove his work, from his unlikely warnings about the menace of Satanic Trade Unionism to his role in a British scheme to engineer a revival of Islam.
Drawing on a wealth of unpublished material, Phil Baker examines Wheatley’s key friendship with a fraudster named Eric Gordon Tombe, and uncovers the full story of his sensational 1922 murder. Baker also explores Wheatley’s relationships with occult figures such as Rollo Ahmed, Aleister Crowley, and the Reverend Montague Summers, the shady priest and demonologist who inspired the memorably evil character of Canon Copely-Syle, in To The Devil – A Daughter.
Like Sax Rohmer and John Buchan, Wheatley has now moved from being perceived as dated to positively vintage, and this groundbreaking biography offers a major reassessment of his significance and status.
Click on the cute Dedalus logo for more info …..
….. and then buy it for me for Christmas! :)
Posted in *Dedalus*, Dennis Wheatley | Tagged: Aleister Crowley, Biography, Black Magic, Canon Copely-Syle, Dedalus, Dennis Wheatley, Eric Gordon Tombe, Montague Summers, non-fiction, Phil Baker, Rollo Ahmed, The Devil Rides Out, To The Devil - A Daughter, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on April 11, 2009
Montague Summers (ed.) – Victorian Ghost Stories (Fortune, 1933)
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Sutherland Menzies – Hugues, the Werewolf
J.S. Le Fanu – The Dream
J.S. Le Fanu – A Chapter in the History of the Tyrone Family
J.S. Le Fanu – The Dead Sexton
Catherine Crowe – The Italian’s Story
Catherine Crowe – Round the Fire
Anon – The Mysterious Stranger
Mark Lemon – The Ghost Detective
Thomas Hood – The Shadow of a Shade
Anon – The Dead Man of Varley Grange
Anon – The Ghost of the Bank of England
Katherine Tynan – The Picture on the Wall
E. & H. Heron – The Story of Medhams Lea
F.G. Loring – The Tomb of Sarah
Posted in *Fortune*, Montague Summers | Tagged: Anon, Catherine Crowe, E. & H. Heron, F.G. Loring, J.S. le Fanu, Katherine Tynan, Mark Lemon, Montague Summers, Sutherland Menzies, Thomas Hood, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on April 11, 2009
Vere H. Collins – Ghosts and Marvels: A Selection Of Uncanny Tales from Daniel Defoe to Algernon Blackwood (H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1924)
M. R. James – Introduction
Daniel Defoe – The Apparition Of Mrs. Veal
Walter Scott – Wandering Willie’s Tale
F. Marryat – The Werewolf
Lord Lytton – The Haunted And The Haunters; or, The House and the Brain
Nathaniel Hawthorne – Young Goodman Brown
Edgar A. Poe – Ligeia
J. S. Le Fanu – A Strange Event In The Life of Schalken the Painter George Eliot – The Lifted Veil
Mrs. Oliphant – The Open Door
R. L. Stevenson – The Body-snatcher
W. W. Jacobs – The Monkey’s Paw
H. G. Wells – The Crystal Egg
Algernon Blackwood – Ancient Sorceries
Barry Pain – The Moon-slave
M. R. James – Casting the Runes
Posted in *Oxford*, Vere H. Collins | Tagged: Algernon Blackwood, Barry Pain, Daniel Defoe, Edgar A. Poe, F. Marryat, George Eliot, H G Wells, Lord Lytton, Montague Summers, Mrs. Oliphant, Nathaniel Hawthorne, R. L. Stevenson, Vault Of Evil, Vere H. Collins, W. W. Jacobs, Walter Scott | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on April 11, 2009
Montague Summers (ed.) – The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories (Fortune Press, 1936)
Montague Summers – Introduction
J.W. Polidori – The Vampyre
Charles Maturin – Leixup Castle
Alexander Pushkin – The Queen of Spades
Erckmann-Chatrian – The Polish Jew
J. S. Le Fanu – Schalken, the Painter
J. S. Le Fanu – Wicked Captain Walshawe of Wauling
J. S. Le Fanu – Dickon the Devil
Charles Ollier – The Haunted House of Paddington
Mrs. Hartley – Chantry Manor-House
Anonymous – The Story of Salome
Anonymous – The Spectre Hand
Anonymous “The Tregethans’ Curse: or, the Weird Woman
Montague Summers – The Grimoire
Anonymous (Montague Summers ?) -The Man on the Stairs
Posted in *Fortune*, Montague Summers | Tagged: Alexander Pushkin, Anonymous, Charles Maturin, Charles Ollier, Erckmann-Chatrian, J S Le Fanu, John Polidori, Montague Summers, Mrs. Hartley, Supernatural fiction, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on September 6, 2007
Peter Haining (ed) – Werewolf: Horror Stories Of The Man-Beast (Severn House, 1987)
Cover: Trevor Newman
Introduction – Peter Haining
Catherine Crowe – The Lycanthropist
Henry Beaugrand – The Werwolves
Algernon Blackwood – The Wolves Of God
Oliver Onions – The Master Of The House
Montague Summers – The Phantom Werewolf
Guy Endore – The Wolf Girl
Seabury Quinn – Fortune’s Fools
Robert E. Howard – Wolfshead
Paul Selonke – Beast Of The Island
Jane Rice – The Refugee
Robert Bloch – The Man Who Cried ‘Wolf!’
Ralph Thornton – I Was A Teenage Werewolf
T. H. White – The Point Of Thirty Miles
Basil Copper – Cry Wolf
James Farlowe – The Demythologised Lycanthrope
Posted in *Severn House*, Peter Haining | Tagged: *Severn House*, Algernon Blackwood, Basil Copper, Catherine Crowe, Guy Endore, Henry Beaugrand, James Farlowe, Jane Rice, Montague Summers, Oliver Onions, Paul Selonke, Peter Haining, Ralph Thornton, Robert Bloch, Robert E. Howard, Seabury Quinn, T. H. White, Trevor Newman, Vault Of Evil, Werewolf | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on September 2, 2007
Richard Dalby (ed.) – The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories: Volume 1 (Robinson 1990)
Preface
Robert Aickman – The Unsettled Dust
Louisa Baldwin – How He Left the Hotel
Nugent Barker – Whessoe
E.F. Benson – The Shuttered Room
Ambrose Bierce – An Inhabitant of Carcosa
Charles Birkin – Is there Anybody there?
Algenon Blackwood – The Whisperers
L.M. Boston – Curfew
A.M. Burrage – I’m Sure it was No. 31
Ramsay Campbell – The Guide
R. Chetwynd-Hayes – The Limping Ghost
Wilkie Collins – Mrs Zant and the Ghost
Basil Copper – The House by the Tarn
Ralph A. Cram – In Kropfsberg Keep
Daniel Defoe – The Ghost in all the Rooms
Charles Dickens – The Bagman’s Uncle
Arthur Conan-Doyle – The Bully of Brocas Court
Amelia B. Edwards – In the Confessional
Shamus Frazer – The Tune in Dan’s Cafe
John S. Glasby – Beyond the Bourne
William Hope Hodgson – The Valley of Lost Children
Fergus Hume – The Sand-Walker
Henry James – The Real Right Thing
M.R. James – The Haunted Dolls’ House
Roger Johnson – The Wall-Painting
Rudyard Kipling – They
D.H. Lawrence – The Last Laugh
Margery Lawrence – Robin’s Rath
J. Sheridan Le Fanu – The Dream
R.H. Malden – The Sundial
Richard Marsh – The Fifteenth Man
John Metcalfe – Brenner’s Boy
Edith Nesbit – Uncle Abraham’s Romance
Fitz-James O’Brien – What was It?
Vincent O’Sullivan – The Next Room
Roger Pater – The Footstep of the Aventine
Edgar Allan Poe – William Wilson
Forrest Reid – Courage
Mrs J.H. Riddell – The Last of Squire Ennismore
L.T.C. Rolte – The Garside Fell Disaster
David G. Rowlands – The Tears of St. Agatha
Saki – The Soul of Laploshka
Sapper – The Old Dining-Room
Montague Summers – The Between-Maid
Mark Twain – A Ghost Story
Mark Valentine – The Folly
H. Russell Wakefield – Out of the Wrack I Rise
Karl Edward Wagner – In the Pines
Manly Wade Wellman – Where Angels Fear
Edward Lucas White – The House of the Nightmare
Oscar Wilde – The Canterville Ghost
William J. Wintle – The Spectre Spiders
Posted in "Constable-Robinson*, *Constable/Robinson*, Richard Dalby | Tagged: A. M. Burrage, Algenon Blackwood, Ambrose Bierce, Amelia B. Edwards, Arthur Conan Doyle, Basil Copper, Charles Birkin, Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Daniel Defoe, David G. Rowlands, E. F. Benson, edgar allan poe, Edith Nesbit, Edward Lucas White, Fergus Hume, Fitz-James O'Brien, Forrest Reid, Ghost, Ghost Stories, H. Russell Wakefield, Henry James, J. Sheridan Le fanu, John Metcalfe, John S. Glasby, Karl Edward Wagner, L T C Rolt, Louisa Baldwin, Lucy M. Boston, M. R. James, Manly Wade Wellman, Margery Lawrence, Mark Twain, Mark Valentine, Montague Summers, Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Nugent Barker, Oscar Wilde, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, R.H. Malden, Ralph A. Cram, Ramsey Campbell, Richard Dalby, Richard Marsh, Robert Aickman, Robinson, Roger Johnson, Roger Pater, Rudyard Kipling, Saki, Sapper, Shamus Frazer, Tiger, Vault Of Evil, Vincent O'Sullivan, Wilkie Collins, William Hope Hodgson, William J. Wintle | Leave a Comment »
Posted by demonik on September 1, 2007
Posted in anthologists A-Z | Tagged: Anne Riddler, Anthony Rampton, ‘Richard Peyton’, David Sutton, Donald Speed, Dorothy L. Sayers, Frederick Pickersgill, J. J. Strating, Jeremy Scott, Kay Dick, Laurette Naomi Pizer, Lynn Picknett, Mark Ronson, Michael Sissons, Michel Parry, Montague Summers, Pamela Search, Peter C. Smith, Peter Haining, Robert Phillips, Stephen Jones, Vault Of Evil | Leave a Comment »
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