Claude Askew (1865–1917)
Autore di Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer
Opere di Claude Askew
The Golden Girl — Autore — 1 copia
Opere correlate
Dracula's Guest: A Connoisseur's Collection of Victorian Vampire Stories (2010) — Collaboratore — 291 copie
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Collaboratore — 187 copie
Dracula's Brood: Vampire Classics by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, M.R. James and Others (1987) — Collaboratore — 172 copie
The Weiser Book of Occult Detectives: 13 Stories of Supernatural Sleuthing (2017) — Collaboratore — 23 copie
Supernatural Sherlocks : Stories from The Golden Age of the Occult Detective (2017) — Collaboratore — 21 copie
The Rivals of Dracula: Stories from the Golden Age of Gothic Horror (2015) — Collaboratore — 20 copie
Cheap Century Return : an Unorthodox Excursion to the Victorian Railway Bookstall. (Pt 2) — Collaboratore, alcune edizioni — 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome legale
- Askew, Claude Arthur Cary
- Data di nascita
- 1865-11-27
- Data di morte
- 1917-10-05
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Lost at sea
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- UK
- Luogo di nascita
- Holland Park, Kensington, Middlesex, England, UK
- Luogo di morte
- Aboard the Italian steamer Città di Bari, about 37 miles from Paxo (torpedoed)
- Relazioni
- Askew, Alice (wife)
Utenti
Recensioni
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Opere correlate
- 13
- Utenti
- 78
- Popolarità
- #229,022
- Voto
- 3.6
- Recensioni
- 4
- ISBN
- 2
Anyway, the thing is a sort of novella parceled out as a string of loosely connected stories. Vance is just recalling old experiences in the first half but then asks Dexter to come along for the ride as new experiences arise. The stories themselves are truly bad, full of hackneyed plot devices and various genre tropes, however the whole has a certain quaint by the fireplace charm.
Nobody, including toddlers, would be frightened by any of this, as the stories read more like Edwardian fairy stories with the sprites replaced by spooks. There is some thickly veiled moral ambiguity that wouldn’t be present in most Victorian tales of this kind.
I actually didn’t hate it like I should have.… (altro)