Book Collector Mark Valentine interview, youtube : https://youtu.be/SYsL7BUO6c4
Arthur Machen – The Hill of Dreams, Tales of Horror and the Supernatural
De la Mare
Algernon Blackwood – The Centaur, Julius of Avalon, short stories are best Tongues of Fire, The Lost Valley, Incredible Adventures
Hope Hodgson – The Night Land, The House on the Borderland
Dunsany – Idle days on the Yann
M.P. Shiel – short stories (as good as Poe and Machen), The White Wedding
William Gerhardi – influence on Evelyn Waugh
R. Austin Freeman – detective fiction second to Conan Doyle – The Eye of Osiris
Hubert Crackanthorpe – The Yellow Book, Vignettes (travel sketches), Wreckage (short stories), “an exquisite felicity of dreariness” – henry james
H.A. Manhood – ‘30s strange stories.
Claude Houghton – ‘I am Jonathan Scrivener’ – frustrating ending. ’30s. metaphysical thrillers
E.E. Dawling – Leopards of England
David Lindsay – A Voyage to Arcturus, Sphinx
Ronald Fraser – Flower Phantoms (art deco eroticism)
Park Barnets – The Book of Jade (poems)
N.B – Norman Boothroyd – A Book of Deadly Sonnets – cross between william mcgonagall and lord dunsany
Francis l’Eric Brent Young – Undergrowth
Sarbon? – pulps
W.F. Morris – Bretherton (ww1 detective book)
Denton Welch – witty vivid human style for when you’re feeling down
Robert Byron – witty vivid human style for when you’re feeling down
Oliver Onions – The Hand of Kornelius Voyt (about a human chess piece)
Two Piero Plays, The Dream Stone and the Dream Gate – Lieutenant Eric Lyle of the Highland Light Infantry
Peter Vansittart – Secret Protocols
J.C. Snaith
Mary Butts – Armed With Madness
Frank Baker – The Birds, Miss Hargreaves, Before I Go Hence
Phyllis Paul – Metaphysical thrillers
Charles Williams
British Rainfall 1910 – Collection of rain gauge readings and reports from across the country.
The 1890s – Dowson’s poems
