Those Whom The Old Gods Love
- Written by Harvey Peter Sucksmith
- ISBN: 0-9520492-4-4 (978-0-9520492-4-1)
- Format: Hardcover, ix+207pp
- Publish Date: April 1994
- Publication Type: Collection
- Original Price: £16.50
- Genre: Supernatural Fiction
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Harvey Peter Sucksmith
Harvey Peter Sucksmith (1912–1999) was a scholar and collector whose fiction appeared chiefly in the 1930s and 1940s. His stories mix antiquarian settings with a more visionary, almost Symbolist dread than the usual Jamesian manner.
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Harvey Peter Sucksmith’s only book of weird fiction moves from pagan dread in the title story to uncanny machinery, translation, and visionary unease. A Blake scholar as much as a fiction writer, he treats myth and imagination as modes of knowledge; the subtitle, “and other ghostly tales of vision and dread,” signals a collection closer to English visionary romance than to the donnish antiquarian tale.
Edition Details
- Limited to 200 numbered copies; first edition published April 1994.
- Bound in pictorial boards in a dust jacket; cover Those Whom the Old Gods Love by Andrew King; illustrations throughout by Andrew King.
- Subtitle on title page: "and other ghostly tales of vision and dread".
- Information from a review in Ghosts & Scholars #18, 1994.
Contents:
- Foreword
- From The Author To The Reader
- Those Whom The Old Gods Love
- “Any More Ghost Stories For Me?”
- That Infernal Machine
- The Boat Of The Dead
- The Carving Over The Fireplace
- A Silver Horn
- “Adders And Serpents, Let Me Breathe Awhile!”
- The Man Who Translated An Unknown Language
- At The Bridge
- Ape Island
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