Jules Verne, one of the founding fathers of science fiction, was the author of such thrilling and perennial favorites as Around the World in Eighty Days, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, as well as more than sixty other novels of adventure and explora...
I've struggled with this one. Seriously struggled. While this is certainly a collection of locked-room mysteries, the style, scope and even quality of the stories vary so much that the collection seriously lacks focus. With a smaller collection, that might be all right, but with such a significan...
In this truly mammoth guide, Mike Ashley analyzes and explicates the line between the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it. Ashley gives us a firm identity not only for King Arthur, but also for Merlin, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table—as well as identifyin...
R. F. KeatingIt was in the early autumn of 1896 that, returning one day from visiting by train a patient in Hertfordshire and being thus in the vicinity of Baker Street, I decided to call on Sherlock Holmes, whom I had not seen for several weeks. I found him, to my dismay, in a sad state. Althoug...
Sans dessus dessous (1890), translated as Topsy-Turvy but better known as The Purchase of the North Pole, brings back the members of the Baltimore Gun Club, twenty years after their moon venture. The Gun Club acquire the land at the North Pole where they believe are vast mineral deposits. In orde...
Nennius’s Battle List One of the most discussed items in all Arthuriana is Nennius’s list of twelve battles. It is a list which seems to offer so much, and yet reveals so little. Clearly identifying the battle sites should enable us to pinpoint Arthur’s theatre of operations, and ultimately ident...
He started his career in the old pulp magazines in the 1940s. He stockpiled stories written during the Second World War and some of these, possibly rewritten, did not appear in magazines until well into the 1950s. Most feature the larger-than-life and frequently over-bombastic character of Senato...
I just wanted to get it over with and away from the city.I crept out from under the iron hound, making certain there was nobody around except the resident stylite, and trotted off to my appointment.I was halfway there when someone called my name.“Victor! Stop!”My first impulse was to flee, but co...