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John Kendrick Bangs

Lifespan
1862 – 1922
Nationality
American
Active
1893 – 1911
Works held
9

John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922) was a prolific American humorist and editor whose comic fantasies set among the famous dead, above all A House-Boat on the Styx (1895), were so distinctive that the afterlife-comedy subgenre is named ‘Bangsian fantasy’ after him. Light, clever and endlessly inventive, his work is a charming corner of the genre’s prehistory.

The works

  1. 1911
    Cover of Jack and the Check Book Jack and the Check Book
  2. 1907
    Cover of Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream
  3. 1906
    Cover of Andiron Tales Andiron Tales
  4. 1902
    Cover of Olympian Nights Olympian Nights
  5. 1901
    Cover of Mr. Munchausen Mr. Munchausen
  6. 1899
    Cover of The Enchanted Typewriter The Enchanted Typewriter
  7. 1897
    Cover of The Pursuit of the House-Boat The Pursuit of the House-Boat Cover of The Pursuit of the House-Boat The Pursuit of the House-Boat
  8. 1893
    Cover of Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile Toppleton's Client; Or, A Spirit in Exile

Wrote across

1890s1900s1910s

Recurring themes

FantasySocial SFAdventureJuvenileHorror

Kindred authors shared themes

VariousAnonymousCarl JacobiE. F. BensonEdmond HamiltonFrank Belknap LongFrank R. StocktonJulian Hawthorne

Contemporaries writing in the same era

H. G. WellsL. Frank BaumEdgar Rice BurroughsLuis SenarensE. NesbitLord DunsanyAlgernon BlackwoodJack LondonVictor AppletonWilliam Morris

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