(Book titles are subject to change)
Jeffrey Amherst
The Australian Airforce 1914-18
Redvers Buller's African Campaigns
The Liverpol Rifles in the Great War
John Wesley Hardin
Never Surpassed-The 52nd Regiment of Foot
The British Navy in Battle
Zulu and Sudan
Lady Hobo
The Crusades
Gillett, Texas Ranger
The Viking Wars
London Men in Palestine
The RFC in the Great War
The French & Indian Wars
Shapes that Haunt the Dusk
Bunbury of Maida
The Lady of Latham
Supernatural SAKI
and many others
Author(s):
Barry Pain
Date Published:
2022/05
Page Count:
320
Softcover ISBN-13:
978-1-915234-55-1
Hardcover ISBN-13:
978-1-915234-54-4
Volume one of Barry Pain’s tales of terror
Barry Eric Odell Pain was born in Cambridge, England in 1864. A graduate of Corpus Christi college, Cambridge, he joined the staff of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White periocals. He became a regular contributor to the literary magazine The Granta and to Cornhill Magazine, Punch and The Speaker. In keeping with many authors of his era, his literary output was prodigious. Credit for the recognition he eventually achieved is said to have come from endorsements by Robert Louis Stevenson who compared Pain’s writings to those of Guy de Maupassant. There is a dark side to some of Pain’s writing, although he has been more widely recognised as a parodist and writer of lightly humorous stories. This darker side of Pain’s work has resulted in a substantial legacy of supernatural, horror and weird fiction. This is possibly why his work, particularly the very well-known, ‘The Undying Thing’, was highly regarded by H.P. Lovecraft.
In the first volume of this comprehensive three volume Leonaur collection of Barry Pain’s fiction of the strange readers will discover ‘The Glass of Supreme Moments’, ‘The Missing Years’, ‘The Unfinished Game’, ‘This is All’ and many others.
Leonaur editions are newly typeset and are not facsimiles; each title is available in softcover and hardback with dustjacket.