![]() ![]() That story, while occasionally containing anecdotes that distract from the tale, is also a tale of a youth who escapes England on board a ship following his own entanglement with the law. ![]() Indeed, if one is to compare Medusa to anything, it should be Visiak's own The Haunted Island (1910), his first novel. Indeed, Wagner puts it on his list of 33 best Horror novels, though given the man put something as flawed and mishandled as The Cadaver of Gideon Wyck on the same list means that is in and of itself no great honour. Medusa is often cited as a masterpiece of the form. Visiak, who apparently only wrote the few occasional scattered tales that never even found an anthology to this day, does not even have that luxury. Wakefield, in that his actual books are no easily accessible to the public, beyond maybe a snippet that gets released in anthologies ad nauseam. However, one assumes that most people know Visiak not from any perusal of his work per se, but from reading about other people talking about how they perused his work.įor, despite being an oft cited and oft repeated name in various biographies, essays and studies of the Weird and Fantastic in fiction, Visiak shares the fate of H. Edward Harold Physick, pacifist, author and life long admirer of Milton is better known under his pseudonym of E. ![]()
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