In 1914, Arthur Machen published his fantasy of angels assisting the Allies in WWI. Occultist Ralph Shirley, acknowledging Machen's fiction, collected examples of other supernatural support on the battlefield. gaslight-arts.com/Bowmen-1914.... gaslight-arts.com/AngelWarrior... #RemembranceDay

"The Lusitania waits" (1916) is a patriotic story by Alfred Noyes (1880-1958) gaslight-arts.com/LusitaniaWai... #RemembranceDay

Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918) was more than a "tree poet". Here are author interviews and a poem about the Lusitania, written during his tenure with the New York Times. gaslight-arts.com/index.html#1...

World Digital Preservation Day 2025 youtu.be/IzKbfb6Pf0s?... #UCalgary

Marie Dressler, stage comedian par excellence, contributed this story to the short-lived _Poker Chips_ magazine: "Chips in her purse" (1896) gaslight-arts.com/ChipsPurse.h... #VicLit #poker #cardgames

An early transmogrification story: "The doctor's metempsychosis" (1893) by M Penrose gaslight-arts.com/DrMetem.html

There is a new Lurana W Sheldon webpage for her fiction and opinion pieces. gaslight-arts.com/LWS.html #VicLit #suffragist #freethinker

Three stories by M Quad [pseud for Charles Bertrand Lewis] added to gaslight-arts.com "The mad student, and how he made me a victim" (1875) "The magic glass: or, Detecting a murderer" (1875) "The lively adventure of the widow's cow" (1900)

Dutton Cook wrote Joe Miller's brief biography in 1883. Miller is remembered for having a joke book named after him. gaslight-arts.com/JoeMiller.html

Anonymous author "A C" contributed several stories to _The Young Ladies' Journal_ in 1873. Here is the most successful one which was reprinted in other periodicals over the decades: "The mysterious photograph; and how I found the original" gaslight-arts.com/MystPhoto-18... #VicLit #mystery

Hooray, website is up and running again! gaslight-arts.com stories of mystery, adventure and The Weird...

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_Black Cat_ prints another 🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock story with the timely theme of magnate vs labour. The story capitalizes "Union" if you need a hint about the author's sympathies. "The stolen sky-scraper" (1899) gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#S... #31FLPollock #CanLit

A story advocating youth & pep, with a tinge of anti-Captialism. "The bird from Cape Horn" (1899) by Frank Lillie Pollock gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#B... #31FLPollock #CanLit

A curiosity today: 🇨🇦Frank Lillie Pollock co-wrote this fully packed mystery with J D Ellsworth: "Dr. Gilbert's seven-dollar bill" (1900) gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#S... #31Pollock #CanLit #MysteryStory Bonus Stories: "The unpublished scoop" (1898) _Northern diamonds (1914, serial) continues....

Three Toronto college boys head north to solve a mystery. _Northern diamonds_ (1914) is an 8-part juvenile serial by 🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock. Presented daily here: gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#N... #31FLPollock #CanLit

Rounding off our 2nd week of posts about 🇨🇦Frank Lillie Pollock, the young writer, best known for his foreign reporting at this stage, shows how much he has studied fiction. "The short story: an experiment in classification" (1899) gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#S...

"The lady and the Kwang-Chiu" (1899) may be superficial, but the story doesn't pretend to recreate the Asian voice like many authors of this era would do. By 🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock. gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#K... #31FLPollock #CanLit

When "The iron star" (1898) surfaces, European royalty is most anxious to regain it. A story by 🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock. gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#I... #31FLPollock #CanLit

Another internecine Latin war features in "The dynamite pack-train" (1898) by 22-year-old 🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock. gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#D... #31FLPollock #CanLit

"Murder of the mail carrier" (1859) is a true crime report from Brantford, Ontario.🇨🇦 It details mistakes in the investigation, its conclusion and the repentance of a participant. gaslight-arts.com/MurderMail.h... #CanLit #truecrime #Victorian

Sour, pro-colonialism, pro-capitalism stories would become more fashionable in the next decade. "When the revolution came to San Sebastian" (1904) by 🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock (1876-1957). gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#W... The American _Pearson's_ reprinted the story in 1915. #31FLPollock #CanLit

After his trip to Egypt and Soudan, 🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock wrote this pro-Empire adventure, "Achmet's ride" (1898). This would be his second story in _Youth's Companion_ magazine, beginning a long association. gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#A... #31FLPollock #CanLit

🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock began reporting on global affairs at the age of 20. Here are some samples of his journalism from Cuba, Egypt, and New York City. gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#j... #31FLPollock #CanLit

Day Seven: One of 🇨🇦 Pollock's early appearances in _Black Cat_ magazine, a story with something big happening "below the surface" in the Suez. "In the world's gate" (1901) gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html #31FLPollock #CanLit #adventure

Our month-long celebration of Frank Lillie Pollock 🇨🇦 (1876-1957) continues with "The stronghold of the bees" (1904). It's a simple adventure, grippingly told. gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html#S... #31FLPollock #CanLit #apiary

Natural disaster and nitro-glycerine combine as a double threat, in "A torpedoed tornado" (1904) by Frank Lillie Pollock 🇨🇦 (1876-1957). gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html #31FLPollock #adventure #CanLit

The loss of honey becomes a life or death peril, in "The honey thief" (1904) by Frank Lillie Pollock 🇨🇦 (1876-1957). gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html #31FLPollock #apiary

🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock wrote his most reprinted scientific romance in 1906, called "Finis". It's very dramatic. gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html #31FLPollock #CanLit #SciFi

🇨🇦 Frank Lillie Pollock wrote fiction for _Argosy_, _Black Cat_, _Popular Magazine_ & many others. He was published most often in _Youth's Companion_, where his juvenilia often centered around honey-bees. read: "The golden queen" (1913) at gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html #31FLPollock #CanLit #apiary

Happy Canada Day.🇨🇦 Every Day in July we release work by versatile Frank Lillie Pollock 🇨🇦(1876-1957). Today, it's a story from _Argosy_ called: "Where death was made" (1902) gaslight-arts.com/GW-04.html Bonus, one of his first stories to be professionally published: "A feline highwayman" (1894)

Bring back whatever naming conventions led to this

Arion was an inventive rhapsode (ca. 627-585 BC) who, possibly, earned demi-god status in ancient Greece. Schlegel wrote a poem (ca. 1815) about his famous brush with pirates and miraculous escape. It was translated into English (1878) by "Ichabod Slipshod". gaslight-arts.com/Arion.html

It's 1878, and you need a quality hat from London. But you don't want to travel there, just to be measured. Solution: mail two sticks to your hatter.

Guy Delisle's new graphic biography of Eadweard Muybridge www.theguardian.com/books/2025/a...

Failed as a journalist and a lover, Aristide Vis retires to small-town France to brood. He is drawn into a murder mystery which, rather than being resolved, grows ever more complicated. "The death-mark" (1885) by Garrett Walker gaslight-arts.com/Death-Mark.h...

Enrico Caruso was the king of classical recordings in the 1910s but he wanted to add movies to his media empire. In MY COUSIN, he plays two roles, an opera singer who has sung all the greats and a penniless sculptor.

THE INSANE MINER. (1889) aka, "In a mine with a madman" gaslight-arts.com/InsaneMiner....

When you see the pretty heiress has a vengeful Italian step-father, the routine mechanism of melodrama is set. "A debt of vengeance" (1896) by C Osborne gaslight-arts.com/DebtVeng.html

Victorian magazines often would celebrate Christmas with extra fiction, even _The Fishing Gazette_ "The story of Mad Madge and the phantom angler of Broadyke Dam" (1891) by Edgar S Shrubsole gaslight-arts.com/MadMadge.html

A Georgia hunter's true tale (1894) of a Native American legend about a ghost pirate ship [inland!] He saw it. That's bad! gaslight-arts.com/SwampShip.html

William Anderson (1805-1866) frequently wrote character sketches drawn from his native Aberdeen [in dialect]. Margary Gunn was a medicine woman / spellcaster who inexplicably vanished one day. gaslight-arts.com/MargaryGunn....

American author Agnes Repplier travelled in Britain and wrote favourably of the available "English Railway Fiction" (1891). gaslight-arts.com/EngRailFict.... Many samples of what she saw are viewable at Emory University. yellowbacks.digitalscholarship.emory.edu

Three "exotic" Victorian stories by E J Rocke Surrage (1867-1939) The mystery of the golden llama (1895) The doom of the air-god (1897) The vision at the menhir (1899) find them at gaslight-arts.com

March 18, 1925: Twenty-year-old film star Anna May Wong during a personal appearance tour in Chicago.

My updated list! Ten surviving silent movies that I want to see on home media! My last list of this kind yielded a 60% release rate, so here's hoping lighting strikes twice! moviessilently.com/2025/02/22/m...

Pan (1914 ed) by Winifred Graham (1873-1950) A dilettante artist is surprised by her model. gaslight-arts.com/Pan-1914.html

"The condemned cell" (1894) by Sarah "Heavenly Twins" Grand. "A complete short story of great power and interest." Printed in Victorian newspapers around the world in the Christmas bumper of fiction. A review challenged, rightly, how it was a Christmas story. gaslight-arts.com/CondemnedCel...

Victorian magazine article about British "Elves, pixies & witches" (1885). gaslight-arts.com/ElvesPW.html

In 1888, the dogged reporter Nellie Bly filed this story from the streets of New York: THE CRUST DROPPER. A MENDICANT'S GAME WORKED ONLY ON THE FAIR SEX. gaslight-arts.com/CrustDropper...