John Kendrick: 133 books

The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx startled--and annoyed--by the arrival of a house boat on his mystical river. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is to be appointed the boat's janitor. What follows are eleven stories set on the house...

Humorous and horrifying collection of short stories.

An American author, editor and satirist. Contents The Pursuit Of The House-boat The Idiot The Enchanted Typewriter R. Holmes & Co. The Autobiography Of Methuselah Ghosts I Have Met And Some Others Mr. Munchausen Alice In Blunderland A House-boat On The Styx The Inventions Of The Idiot The Genial...

Excerpt: ““Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad” …The second, well he was a rubber-doll, who talked through a whistling hat. His speech ran over with folderol, but his jokes they were never at. He squeaked and creaked with his heart care-free, such things as this tale will tell, but whether asleep or at work was he The little maid loved him well….”

Mr. Bangs turns his light and ingenious fancy to the task of retelling the familiar fairy tales of our youthful days. In several of them it is Wall Street that replaces the land of "Never-Never" and "Once Upon a Time," and the personages in the drama are more interested in high finance than in fairy treasures. It is all admirable fooling, and done in the author's best vein.

"Jimmieboy" has added two years to his age since his adventures with the Tiddledywinks, and is consequently a much brighter boy than he was at that time. His adventures in the camp of the Tin Soldiers are most amusing, and the book promises to be a very general favorite with thelittle people.

"While travelling through the classic realms of Greece some years ago, sincerely desirous of discovering the lurking-place of a certain war which the newspapers of my own country were describing with some vividness, I chanced upon the base of the far-famed Mount Olympus..." By the American author and satirist, and the creator of modern Bangsian fantasy.

Excerpt:" Mollie had been romping in the hay all the afternoon. With her were Flaxilocks, the French doll, and young Whistlebinkie, the rubber boy, who had got his name from the fact that he had a whistle set in the top of his beaver hat. Flaxilocks and Whistlebinkie could stand a great deal...

An extravaganza that ranges all the way from dry Stocktonian humor to roaring farce. The central idea is that of the exchange of souls between bodies, and we may easily imagine the opportunities it offers a writer intent only upon the possible humorous complications. The "client" is an exiled spirit...

Charon, the Ferryman of renown, was cruising slowly along the Styx one pleasant Friday morning not long ago, and as he paddled idly on he chuckled mildly to himself as he thought of the monopoly in ferriage which in the course of years he had managed to build up.

The trouble with Harrowby Hall was that it was haunted. What was worse, the ghost did not merely appear at the bedside of the person who saw it, but insisted on staying there for one hour before it would disappear. There she would stand until everything about her was thoroughly drenched. It never...

Much that Mr. Bangs writes seems to be very easily written. (...) As a popular humorist, Mr. Bangs has long been conspicuous, and there is no reason why everybody who has found his previous works amusing should not laugh long and heartily over the jokes of The Dreamers. - The New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art

Prolific novelist Stuart Harley has published many books, but wealth and popular acclaim have continued to elude him. In an attempt to help him secure his fortune, Harley's publisher recommends that he write stories with more appeal to female audiences. Harley agrees and begins to work, but he soon finds...

“That’s what I thought; and when you can’t work ruin stares you in the face, eh? Now I have a manuscript—” “Oh Lord!” I cried. “Don’t. There are millions in the same fix. Even my cook writes.” ______________________________ One perfect evening the author receives...