Everett F Bleiler Books In Order

Anthologies edited

  1. Five Victorian Ghost Novels (1950)
  2. Frontiers in Space (1955)
  3. Three Gothic Novels (1966)
  4. Mother Goose’s Melodies (1970)
  5. Three Supernatural Novels of the Victorian Period (1975)
  6. Three Victorian Detective Novels (1978)
  7. A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories (1981)

Non fiction

  1. Science-Fiction, the Early Years (1991)
  2. Science-Fiction (1998)

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Non fiction Book Covers

Everett F Bleiler Books Overview

Five Victorian Ghost Novels

‘The Uninhabited House’ by Mrs. J. H. Riddell, ‘The Amber Witch’ by J. W. Meinhold, ‘Monsieur Maurice’ by Amelia B. Edwards, ‘A Phantom Lover’ by Vernon Lee, and ‘The Ghost of Muir House’ by Charles Beale.

Three Gothic Novels

The Gothic novel, which flourished from about 1765 until 1825, revels in the horrible and the supernatural, in suspense and exotic settings. This volume, with its erudite introduction by Mario Praz, presents three of the most celebrated Gothic novels: ‘The Castle of Otranto’, published pseudonymously in 1765, is one of the first of the genre and the most truly Gothic of the three. ‘Vathek’ 1786, an oriental tale by an eccentric millionaire, exotically combines Gothic romanticism with the vivacity of The Arabian Nights and is a narrative tour de force. The story of ‘Frankenstein’ 1818 and the monster he created is as spine chilling today as it ever was; as in all Gothic novels, horror is the keynote.

Mother Goose’s Melodies

A collection of nursery rhymes with historical and bibliographic notes on different editions of Mother Goose and the variations in the rhymes appearing in them.

Science-Fiction, the Early Years

With Bleiler’s Science Fiction: The Early Years, the field of pre modern science fiction is opened for the first time to readers, librarians, and scholars. Bleiler describes more than 3,000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances, mainstream work with science fiction elements, and more. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before. Each of the entries is exhaustive, with bibliography, including previous periodical publications, and a full summary of the story, with historical and critical comments. Author biographical data, where available, accompany each item. An appendix surveys ideas and systems that have proved important in early science fiction: Atlantis, Fourierism, the single tax, Theosophy, the hollow earth, the open polar seas, and similar concepts. The text also includes title, author, date, and magazine indexes, as well as a 65 page motif and thematic index. The author s introduction provides a new understanding of the nature of science fiction and its origins, and contains an exhaustive analytical table of science fiction motifs as they fit into conceptual scheme of the sciences. In addition to its obvious value to the field of science fiction, the book covers many powerful issues in American cultural history feminism, racial and ethnic prejudices, crank scientific theories, extreme social and economic systems, occult ideas, as well as varying attitudes toward science and advanced technology.

Science-Fiction

Complementing Science Fiction: The Early Years, which surveys science fiction published in book form from its beginnings through 1930, the present volume covers all the science fiction printed in the genre magazines Amazing, Astounding, and Wonder, along with offshoots and minor magazines from 1926 through 1936. This is the first time this historically important literary phenomenon, which stands behind the enormous modern development of science fiction, has been studied thoroughly and accurately. The heart of the book is a series of descriptions of all 1,835 stories published during this period, plus bibliographic information. Supplementing this are many useful features: detailed histories of each of the magazines, an issue by issue roster of contents, a technical analysis of the art work, brief authors’ biographies, poetry and letter indexes, a theme and motif index of approximately 30,0000 entries, and general indexes. Science Fiction: The Gernsback Years is not only indispensable for reference librarians, collectors, readers, and scholars interested in science fiction, it is also of importance to the study of popular culture during the Great Depression in the United States. Most of its data, which are largely based on rare and almost unobtainable sources, are not available elsewhere.

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