The acclaimed literary biographer looks at the early life of influential writer and public figure H.G. Wells, from his school days and his emergence as writer of extraordinary depth to the publication of The Time Machine.

Clark Ashton Smith (1893-1961) was a major writer of fantasy and science fiction during the first half of the twentieth century. Together with H. P. Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard, Smith was one of the "Three Musketeers" of legendary Weird Tales magazine, and contributed some of the most distinctive (and controversial) fantastic fiction to ever appear in Hugo Gernsback's Wonder Stories. His "City of the Singing Flame" and "Vaults of Yoh-Vombis" are...

An annual dedicated to the life and writings of one of America's most prolific and popular authors... Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue. Since Nolan composed his slim volume at the beginning of Bradbury's career, Bradbury has birthed hundreds of...

Ten years it's been, since Roy and Amanda were in college. Upon reintroducing themselves years later, Roy and Amanda took completely different paths to get where they are now. One with eye-burning hours of long work and the other with a surplus to enjoy everything life has to offer. The one aspect in common between Amanda's higher-class lifestyle and Roy's lower-class deprivation is a life of purpose and money. Eventually, Roy gets social mobility...

A newly married couple surrounded by the beauty of Paris, each in their own way struggling to define what marriage could and should look like. A high school teacher confronting echoes of his past as his current love negotiates the place of art in her own life. An artist explaining why the work that should have been the pinnacle of his career fell unexpectedly flat. A rich young man exploring and painting a new landscape and perhaps creating an alternate...

En principe, le fantastique dans la nature, dans les arts plastiques, dans la littérature devrait sinon être identique à lui-même, du moins relever de critères immédiatement identifiables, qui permettraient de le circonscrire avec évidence. Il n'en est rien. En premier lieu, « fantastique naturel » peut sembler une sorte de contradiction dans les...

In the depths of a small town a twisted tale of horror and survivor unfolds. Juanita, a survivor of brutal attack, is haunted by merciless actions of James, a man consumed by darkness. With her world shattered, Juanita finds refugee in the care of her aunt pearlie, but the scars run deep, leaving her locked away from the world, trapped in her own prison of fear. Brace yourself for a gripping and suspenseful journey that will leave you questioning...

Welcoming over 700 delegates across the two-day event, the 2021 Tolkien Society summer seminar was the highest attended event in the Society's history. It invited scholars to consider the role that diversity plays in Middle-earth's linguistic and literary make-up: how does he explore race, gender, sexuality, disability, class, religion and faith, and age? How do different fandoms receive his works? How can varying perspectives enrich our understanding...

Devoted to Tolkien, the teller of tales and co-creator of the myths they brush against, these essays focus on his lifelong interest in and engagement with fairy stories, the special world that he called faërie, a world they both create and inhabit, and with the elements that make that world the special place it is. They cover a range of subjects, from The Hobbit to The Lord of the Rings and their place within the legendarium he called the Silmarillion...