by E. H. Visiak
I did not leave this house. Diomedea helps us. She is coming now.
END
Bibliography
Poetry
Buccaneer Ballads (1910)
Flints and Flashes (1911)
The Phantom Ship (1912)
The Battle Fiends (1916)
Novels
The Haunted Island (1910)
The War of the Schools (1912; with C V Hawkins)
Medusa: A Story of Mystery (1929)
The Shadow (1936)
Short fiction
Medusan Madness (1934)
"I Am a Murderer" (1935) with A Vesselo
Rescued (1935)
The Legacy (1935)
Carson (1936)
The Shadow (1936)
The Uncharted Islands (1936) with John Gawsworth
The Queen Of Beauty (1976)
In a Nursing Home (A Euthanasian Subject) (1991)
Literary criticism
Milton Agonistes: a metaphysical criticism (1923)
The Animus Against Milton (1945)
Mirror of Conrad (1956)
The Portent of Milton: Some Aspects of His Genius (1958)
The Strange Genius of David Lindsay (1970; with J B Pick and Colin Wilson)
As editor
The Mask of Comus (1937)
Milton's Lament for Damon and his other Latin poems (1935; with Walter W Skeat)
Richards' Shilling Selections from Edwardian Poets (1936)
Milton: Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, with English Metrical Translations of the Latin, Greek and Italian Poems (1938)
Autobiography
Life's Morning Hour (1969)
Notes
Medusa was published, with the subtitle "A Story of Mystery and Ecstasy and Strange Horror”, in 1929 by Victor Gollancz, London, published a second time in 1946 and in 1963 published a third time in the series "Rare Works of Imaginative Fiction", again by Gollancz.
The 1991 German edition was the first translation of the work into another language.
It was reprinted in a limited hardback edition by Centipede Press (US) in 2010.
The main text of this ebook is taken from the 1963 Gollancz edition. The Afterword is translated (loosely and poorly, via Google) and adapted from the 1991 German edition.
The short story “Medusan Madness” and its introduction are taken from the reprint in The Thrill of Horror (1975), edited by Hugh Lamb.
1 We did also hang out lanterns to take them (MS. annotation).
2 Editor’s Notes:-
(i.) The story of Psyche and Eros is usually held, of course, to illustrate the three stages in a soul’s existence - its pre-existence in a state of natural bliss, its travail on earth, and its future state of happy immortality. Mr Huxtable only relatively identifies the first state with early childhood, which may be said to be its reflection.
A striking variation on this theme is Blake’s poem beginning, “How sweet I roamed from field to field.”
(ii.) Mr Huxtable’s comparison of these paradise stories is strengthened by the fact that Nemesis is represented in Greek sculpture as standing behind Eros holding a twig from an apple tree, her customary attribute.
Table of Contents
THE INTRODUCTION
PART ONE
The Author’s Childhood
The Author Brings About his Grandfather's Death
He goes to school: The Lamentable Sequel
His acquaintance with Mr. Huxtable
Strange Mysterious Adventures Before Embarking
PART TWO
The Voyage Commenced
The Ghost Scare
Mr Falconer Provides Obadiah
Some Remarkable Adventures: The Author Arrives at in Pernambuc
Violent Strange Behaviour of Obadiah: Pernambuc Described
The Author Ashore at Pernambuc
Departure From Pernambuc
Mr Huxtable’s Sorrow
Astonishing Mystery of the Pirate Ship
Mysterious Writing of the Little Mute Man and Discovery of a Monster
Obadiah’s Narrative
Obadiah’s Narrative Continued
Quest for the Rock Pillar: Appearances of Lights in the Sea
Mr Huxtable’s Philosophy
The Inexpressible Light
Gorgonian Terror
Mr Huxtable’s Consummation
Afterword
Bonus short story - Medusan Madness
Bibliography
Notes
Footnotes