The collected nightmare worlds of a master of the bizarre

American author Edward Lucas White was born in Bergen, New Jersey in 1866 and was an academic who, after attending John Hopkins University, taught at the University School for Boys in Baltimore. He wrote several notable historical fiction novels, and laboured for years on a massive work of utopian science fiction, ‘Plus Ultra’ which remains unpublished and is estimated to be 500,000 words in length. However, White’s most noteworthy literary legacy is his outstanding shorter fiction of horror...