Who Do You Think Are The Most Neglected and Forgotten Writers?

[BAYLOR]

Since you invite discussion of authors in all genres, I will propose Madison Jones as my choice of an author who received some recognition in his lifetime but who has become unjustly obscure.

http://www.sffchronicles.co.uk/forum/538937-madison-jones-1-an-exile-i-walk-the.html

I'm going to start today a rereading of novel A Cry of Absence, which, a few years ago, was the first novel by him that I read.

Indeed I did say all genres. I did bring up Norman Douglass who wrote South Wind which both he and his books were celebrated at one time

Also Cornell Woolrich He gave us such great books as Night has a Thousand Eyes , Rendezvous in Black , The Black Angel and so many other wonderful books. He was very prolific and popular in his day .

 

[Vertigo]

George Allan England

 

[BAYLOR]

Manley Bannister. The one book ive read by him Conquest of Earth . It was a very good book. never found any other books by him I don't even see him in used bookstores.

 

[Kzinti]

There was a prodigy in the 1920s who was published at age 9. She went out one night and was never heard from again. I don't remember her name, but I found her by going on Wikipedia and looking up prodigies.

 

[BAYLOR]

Curt Siodmak

 

[j d worthington]

Erckmann-Chatrian
Hanns Heinz Ewers
Edward Lucas White
Guy Endore
Maurice Level
A. C. and R. H. Benson
L. P. Hartley
Oliver Onions (save for "The Beckoning Fair One")
Robert S. Hichens
Ralph Adams Cram

There are a host of very good writers of the weird, supernatural, terror, or suspense tale who, though once quite popular, are forgotten to all but knowledgeable fans now....

 

[JunkMonkey]

Could a mod please do something about that superflous M in the title of this thread? It is beginning to irk me.

 

[j d worthington]

Could a mod please do something about that superflous M in the title of this thread? It is beginning to irk me.

Sorry, but we don't tend to mess with thread titles much, unless there is a pressing need to, as it causes other technical problems....

 

[JunkMonkey]

Then I shall just have to remain irked.

 

[j d worthington]

Then I shall just have to remain irked.

Considering the number of times this happens with a thread and it drives me up the wall... for what it's worth, you have my sympathy.....

 

[BAYLOR]

Then I shall just have to remain irked.

Apologies about the M . Not sure why I said Whom instead of Who.

 

[BAYLOR]

Cornell Woolrich

 

[Randy M.]

J.D. mentioned,
Guy Endore
A. C. and R. H. Benson
L. P. Hartley


Baylor endorsed,
Cornell Woolrich


I second these. Hartley was one of the most literate ghost story writers I've come across. And every few years Woolrich seems on the verge of being rediscovered with a new collection or edition of one of his novels published, and then just disappears again.

Endore's The Werewolf of Paris was recently republished in the U.S. and I reread it for the first time in 30 years. It was better than I remembered, well worth seeking out.

Randy M.

 

[BAYLOR]

John James

 

[Toby Frost]

Was the prodigy you mentioned Barbara Newhall Follett?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Newhall_Follett

 

[BAYLOR]

Jack Williamson whose writing career started in 1928 and end in 2006 He gave us such classic as Humanoids , Darker Then You Think. Came up with the concepts of Terraforming and Genetic Engineering.

 

[Ogma]

There was a prodigy in the 1920s who was published at age 9. She went out one night and was never heard from again. I don't remember her name, but I found her by going on Wikipedia and looking up prodigies.

Her name was Barbara Newhall Follett.

Oops beaten to it

 

[J-Sun]

SF Signal's stealing our content! (Which is only fair as I start a lot of threads inspired by their stuff, but duly credited, of course.) This article/mind meld is on the same subject as this thread, so I thought people following this would find that interesting. I especially like the general "short story" bit, along with Brown, Bulgakov, Reed, and Simak.

 

[JonLaidlow]

After being out of print in the UK for a few years, Julian May's Saga of the Exiles and Milieu Trilogy were republished last year with some hideous new covers. The Saga is still great fun, still ridiclously fan-ish in that she somehow manages to include aliens, time travel, psychic powers and germanic mythology AND make it all work. The resolution to the whole thing is a slight disappointment (as I remember, though I haven't reached it yet in my re-read) but not crushingly so.

Her later fantasy works were fairly formulaic but I do remember she did a nice homage to pulp SF in the Rampart Worlds trilogy. Eminently forgettable but a fun holiday read.

 

[BAYLOR]

After being out of print in the UK for a few years, Julian May's Saga of the Exiles and Milieu Trilogy were republished last year with some hideous new covers. The Saga is still great fun, still ridiclously fan-ish in that she somehow manages to include aliens, time travel, psychic powers and germanic mythology AND make it all work. The resolution to the whole thing is a slight disappointment (as I remember, though I haven't reached it yet in my re-read) but not crushingly so.

Her later fantasy works were fairly formulaic but I do remember she did a nice homage to pulp SF in the Rampart Worlds trilogy. Eminently forgettable but a fun holiday read.

I Haven't seen any Julian May books on the shelf for several years. Ive heard all kinds of good things about thoses book.


What about Katherine Kurtz ? Has anyone seen any of the Deryni books ? It is marvelous series and with the popularity such series as Game of Thrones and Outlander , I m surprised no one has brought this series to the small screen .