Fitz-James O'Brien

Fitz-James O'Brien (25 October 1826 – 6 April 1862) was an Irish–American writer of works in fantasy and science fiction short stories.

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The Wondersmith and Others,fitz-James O'Brien is the author of The Wondersmith and Others.

The Wondersmith and Others,fITZ-JAMES O’BRIEN ranks with Edgar Allan Poe as one of the greatest writers of modern horror to emerge from the nineteenth century. The Wondersmith and Others collects for the first time in a single volume the complete macabre tales, dream stories, and fantasies of the Irish-Born American who, from 1852 until his death from a wound during the Civil War, was the pre-eminent writer of supernatural stories of his time. In her detailed Introduction to this volume, Jessica Amanda Salmonson discusses the almost mystery-shrouded background of O’Brien’s arrival in New York, the friends and acquaintances of his bohemian existence in the city, and the manner in which many of his stories, fantastic and horrific though they are, also satirise the newspaper and magazine industry of the time. Such well-crafted tales as “The Wondersmith”, “The Diamond Lens”, “Jubal, the Ringer”, “The Wonderful Adventures of Mr Papplewick”, “The King of Nodland and his Dwarf”, and “The Dragon-Fang Possessed by the Conjuror Piou-Lu” will thrill and chill, and introduce a new generation of readers to the work of this much overlooked author of the macabre.

Edition Details

• Dust Jacket illustrated by Jason Zerrillo.
• This is a full clothbound edition limited to 400 copies.

External Links

• The Wondersmith and Others. ISFDB entry for The Wondersmith and Others