Exhibition: M. P. Shiel, Christopher Morley, etc.

Roberts 1895 edition of
M. P. Shiel's Prince Zaleski.
Providence Atheneum.

The University of Delaware exhibition "London Bound: American Writers in Britain, 1870–1916" includes M. P. Shiel (author of the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstone work Prince Zaleski, 1895, and friend of Arthur Machen); Baker Street Irregulars founder Christopher Morley; and Stephen Crane's "The Ghost," to which authors such as Henry James, H. Rider Haggard, and A. E. W. Mason (the latter the author of At the Villa Rose, 1910) contributed. The exhibition is on display until Dec. 17.

Happy birthday, Stephen Crane.

Stephen Crane---poet; journalist; and author of the classic Civil War novel The Red Badge of Courage (1895), Maggie: A Girl of the Streets (1893), and other works---was born today in Newark, New Jersey, in 1871. He died in 1900 at age 28 of tuberculosis.

To read "A Tale of Mere Chance" (1896), Crane's parody of Edgar Allan Poe, go here. Other supernaturally oriented works include "Ghosts on the New Jersey Coast" (1894) and "The Ghostly Sphinx of Metedeconk" (1895).