Middleton, Richard

28 October 1882 - 1 December 1911

British poet and writer of novels and short fiction, best known as author of the humorous novel The Ghost Ship. Committed suicide at the age of 29.

Sites:
Brief biographical note
[Wikipedia]
Brief note
Focuses on Middleton's poetry [The Cambridge History of English and American Literature in 18 Volumes (1907-21), Bartleby]
Richard Middleton
Bibliography, w/ some cover images of Middleton works. [Guide to Supernatural Fiction, Tartarus Press]
Brief bibliography
[Fantastic Fiction]


Etexts:
"Children of the Moon" (PDF) [HorrorMasters]

The Ghost Ship
- at Project Gutenberg (303K)
- at ManyBooks.Net

"On the Brighton Road" [1912] (PDF)
A much-anthologized work that connects nicely with the burgeoning early C20 sense of the unknowability of the universe. Read it and see... [Blackmask]

"On a Dead Child"
[Poetry Archive]

"Shepherd's Boy" (PDF) [Horrormasters]

"Richard Middleton."