Böcker av William Gillard

Between the years of 1886 and 1939, the world saw the first automobiles, rapid urbanization, the decay of empires, vast economic inequality, the first airplanes and the terrifying secrets of the atom. It was a time of cataclysmic cultural and technological transformation, and spawned the rise of the literary genres of science fiction, fantasy and horror. This work assembles gems of late nineteenth and early twentieth century genre literature, including stories by such literary giants as H.P. Lovecraft, Robert E. Howard, C. L. Moore, A. Merritt and E. M. Forster, as well as smaller authors like Clare Winger Harris, Marie Corelli, William Hope Hodgson and others. An array of incisive nonfiction pieces on cultural and scientific advances of the time period provides a context for the anthology's stories.

Building on the ideas of the nineteenth-century Gothic and utopian movements, speculative writers anticipated literary Modernism and blazed alternative literary trails. This book documents the Gothic and utopian roots of speculative fiction and explores how these authors played a crucial role in shaping the culture of the new century.

This book provides an informal history and tour of the Niagara Escarpment, the backbone of Ontario and one of Canada's natural wonders exhibiting a wide diversity of landscape, people, and industry, in the present and in the past.