Nightmare Jack and Other Tales is edited and introduced by Richard Dalby, who provides an extensive biography of Metcalfe and a summary of his work. The volume also features an afterword by Alexis Lykiard, who calls John Metcalfe 'one of the literary missing. Almost, but not exactly a ghost'. From the flaps of Nightmare Jack and Other Tales (Ash-Tree Press, ) Writing about John Metcalfe (–) in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, T. E. D. Klein said that the author’s work “is marked by a rare artistry, wit, and intelligence—and by a restraint too often lacking in the genre”. --Nightmare Jack and Other Tales is edited and introduced by Richard Dalby, who provides an extensive biography of Metcalfe and a summary of his work. The volume also features an afterword by Alexis Lykiard, who calls John Metcalfe 'one of the literary missing.
NIGHTMARE JACK AND OTHER STORIES does just that. Seventeen of Metcalfe's finest supernatural and macabre works form this splendid collection: from the delicate ambiguity of 'The Double Admiral', 'The Bad Lands', and 'Brenner's Boy', through the nightmare of 'Mortmain' and '"Beyondaril"', to his masterpiece of sustained horror, 'The Feasting Dead'. Enjoyable collection of subtle, thematically varied weird tales from a (unjustly) nigh unknown author. Quite a few of these stories are ambiguous, open ended affairs such as 'The Double Admiral' or truly excellent 'The Bad Lands' wherein nervously exhausted vacationer gains entrance into inexplicably eerie otherworld that seems to be visible to only one other person. John Metcalfe. (William) John Metcalfe was born in Heacham, Norfolk in , the son of William Charles Metcalfe, an author of sea stories for boys. Metcalfe graduated with a degree in philosophy from the University of London in and for the next two years, until the outbreak of the First World War, he taught in Paris.
From the flaps of Nightmare Jack and Other Tales (Ash-Tree Press, ) Writing about John Metcalfe (–) in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, T. E. D. Klein said that the author’s work “is marked by a rare artistry, wit, and intelligence—and by a restraint too often lacking in the genre”. John Metcalfe's tales of the macabre and the supernatural are amongst the finest in the genre, and are comparable to the stories of such authors as Walter de la Mare, L.P. Hartley, and Robert Aickman. Nightmare Jack And Other Stories. by John Metcalfe () Description: Published by Ash-Tree Press Near Fine Condition. In our North Central store.
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