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Barry Pain
Book List in Order: 17 titles
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The Eliza Stories
- Feb-2002
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"The more I think about myself, the more -- I say it in all modesty -- the subject seems to grow.” So begins The Eliza Stories, and although the book takes Eliza’s name, her husband is revealed to be the true comic hero, as he displays a self-...
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In A Canadian Canoe, The Nine Muses Minus One, And Other Stories
- Nov-2007
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Marge Askinforit
- Mar-2010
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning...
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Barry Pain's Puzzle Stories: Detection Without Crime // The Problem Club
- Mar-2013
- / Mystery
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Barry Pain's repertoire included fantasy, romance, and horror stories, most showing his trademark humor. In the first set of stories included here, Pain turns the detective tale on its head, as Horace Fish, an amateur investigator of life's little pu...
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The Exiles of Faloo
- Jan-2014
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Excerpt from The Exiles of Faloo
Soames Pryce. Let me hear you both by all means. At present it doesn't seem to me to matter a curse whether we elect him or not. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare ... -
The Gray Cat
- Feb-2015
- / Fantasy
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This early work by Barry Pain was originally published in 1901 and we are now republishing it as part of our Cryptofiction Classics series. 'The Gray Cat' is a short story about a cat, a little statue, and a mysterious death. The Cryptofictio...
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Stories in the Dark
- Jan-2022
- / Horror
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British horror master Barry Pain's collection contains some of his best work, including the classics "The Moon-Slave" and "The Undying Thing" plus seven more."As a writer of parody and lightly humorous stories his name has become widely known." -- E...
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Eliza
Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet and writer. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humourous stories. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine's editor, James Payn, publishe...
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If Winter Don'T
Barry Eric Odell Pain (1864-1928) was an English journalist, poet and writer. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humourous stories. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine's editor, James Payn, publishe...
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The Memoirs Of Constantine Dix
Excerpt from The Memoirs of Constantine Dix
Bingham sacked his third footman. The fellow had got as drunk as an owl, and had been insolent. He had no character, and he was a fool; so he came to London. There he hung about the docks, and spent ... -
The One Before
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Playthings And Parodies
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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Stories And Interludes
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and...
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The Undying Thing
Barry Pain was a prolific and popular mystery and horror writer whose career spanned forty years. Though somewhat neglected in his day, he is now seen as an important writer, and a great inspiration for authors such as H. P. Lovecraft. Many of the ea...
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The Bottom of the Gulf
Collecting tales of Roman glory and decadence written by science fiction authors, this melding of past and future themes includes stories by Poul Anderson, Gordon R. Dickson, David Drake, and Robert E. Howard...