Rolling dead and forgotten author thread

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