Rolling dead and forgotten author thread

It's a good book, but I think the only English translation (which is the version I've read) is seriously abridged, and it shows a bit. Professor Unrat, which was the basis for 'The Blue Angel', is better.

Oh yeah, I'll have to look for that, thanx

Powys brothers obviously weird and fascinating, but only read Wolf Solent (laboriously fucked up pastoral - enjoyable tho) and about half of Porius. They somehow seem too ponderous to fully contemplate investigating fully, but I might get a kick if/when I go and see that Writing the Land exhibition at the British Library.

Whenever this thread is revived it always makes me think I must have another go at Peter de Polnay, even though I haven't read anything I've hitherto liked by him. Odd.

s seward to thread maybe - he recommended Wolf Solent and might have read a few more.

don't know if this is the same Wendy Walker, but quite a read, and pretty much pertaining to this thread:
http://exploringfictions.blogspot.com/2010/02/wendy-walker-sexual-stealing-on-gothic.html

― dow, Monday, June 25, 2012 6:48 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Yeah that's definitely the same ww I was talking about. She's awesome. And her husband Tom Lafarge.

Too bad green integer seemingly doesn't want to publish her newer stuff

That article was way cool

rex warner?

dead & forgotten author i'd like to read if i could find any of his work: tom mallin

Warner's The Aerodrome was one of Anthony Burgess' 99 best post-1939 novels (there was also a tv adaptation on the BBC many years ago)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ninety-nine_Novels

Warner also did lots of translations for Penguin Classics, and wrote some of his own modern interpretations of tales from Ovid etc.

looking around, seems moorcock did an intro to one of his republished novels and ballard was a fan.

did read the aerodrome and the professor years ago and have been thinking about revisiting and maybe checking out some of his others. though those two did seem very much of their time/place; probably helped by the editions i read being wwii era penguins complete with ads in the back for anthrax free shaving brushes. think it might have been a mention by orwell that alerted me to warner... inside the whale, maybe?

pretty sure I read The Wild Goose Chase many years back. pretty sure Warner's history as a scab during the General Strike turned me off him. so long ago tho.

don't know if this is the same Wendy Walker, but quite a read, and pretty much pertaining to this thread:
http://exploringfictions.blogspot.com/2010/02/wendy-walker-sexual-stealing-on-gothic.html

― dow, Monday, 25 June 2012 23:48 (3 years ago)

Excellent piece, thankyou!

Have I read any of these?
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171010-the-great-writers-forgotten-by-history

Alexander Baron is indeed excellent. Same with Julian Maclaren-Ross.
Patrick Dennis not so much... Auntie Mame is an acquired taste I did not acquire.
Frank Baker's The Birds is very good too, and if du Maurier had not read it then the similarities are astonishing.

I grew up with dozens of Frank Richards books in the house so that's a little off base for me. Loved them and still enjoy dipping into a Bunter book every now and then. As for the others, one of them portrayed by Johnny Depp, another had a recent film adaptation with Amy Adams. I'm not sure they're forgotten, just a bit old-fashioned.

I've got an unread Braddon collection.

There's no way Ann Radcliffe is forgotten, she still gets taught in universities, she has hundreds of reviews on goodreads and you often see her in the classics section of bookshops. However I was recently discussing with others how rarely she is discussed by horror people.

I don't think that Depp thing is getting a sequel any time soon