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."