Thomas Kent Miller élabore des récits issus de deux sources d'imagination distinctes. Un aspect de son écriture plonge dans la fin du 19e et le début du 20e siècle, explorant les royaumes atmosphériques des histoires de fantômes victoriennes et édouardiennes et puisant son inspiration chez les géants littéraires de l'époque. Cette inclination historique informe ses romans pastiches qui revisitent des personnages appréciés dans leurs cadres temporels d'origine. Inversement, une autre facette de sa production créative est ancrée dans les visions rétro-futuristes du cinéma de science-fiction des années 1950 et 1960, en particulier dans sa représentation de Mars. Son travail dans ce domaine examine méticuleusement des sous-genres cinématographiques spécifiques, offrant aux lecteurs une exploration ciblée de l'histoire du cinéma.
The Sussex Beekeeper at the Dawn of Time ... flirts with the crossover and steampunk genres. The book knits together a transcribed oral memoir, newspaper clippings, and myriad letters and journal pages from across two millennia, much of it held together by the pithy comments ... of a certain elderly beekeeper residing in Sussex, England. ... In a sense, much of the book comprises a straightforward objective record of the excavation of "historical" minutiae and "forgotten" manuscripts.... -- Cover, page [4]
Across Ethiopia and beyond, Sherlock Holmes encounters both the hideous and the divine, ripping asunder the fragile veil separating us from worlds unknown -- all while in the company of the renowned Allan Quatermain. The last of Allan Quatermain's true African adventures to appear, "The Treasure of the Lake", was published nearly a century ago in 1926. Those who lusted to vicariously accompany Quatermain on new perilous treks into the vast reaches of the "Dark Continent" (as they had in "King Solomon's Mines") had no choice but to remain disappointed. UNTIL NOW! Recently found amongst some obscure papers at Brown University, this new manuscript chronicles a complex and mysterious quest headed by Quatermain deep into the earthquake-and volcano-ripped Danakil Desert of Ethiopia in 1872, accompanied by his devoted aide-de-camp Hans and a host of nineteenth century's most prodigious luminaries, including astronomer Maria Mitchell, volcanologist Axel Lindenbrock, and gunnery sergeants Daniel Dravot and Peacy Carnehan. Along the way, this ragtag troop is brutally attacked in the desert by its trophy-hunting denizens, and then they discover a 2,000-year-old lost city. Yet Holmes' and Quatermain's quest is not merely one of surviving in Ethiopia's beautiful yet torturous landscapes; they must confront horror and overcome it
Holmes framed for murder! Who is the mysterious Issa? The sounds of running and men crying out came closer. Suddenly Sigerson's door burst open and an army of yellow- and maroon-clad police monks fell upon us, dragging us out into the street without so much as a word of explanation, through the mud and dung and then east across the Bridge of the Pleiades and on to the Jo-Kang, the Tibetan cathedral, the Holy of Holies of all Buddist Asia, then along several corridors and down numerous staircases and finally we found ourselves in the presence of the High Regent himself, the fourteen-year-old Dalai Lama! You are holding one of the rare stories to come to light involving "Sigerson," the name Sherlock Holmes went by during the years when the world thought he was dead--his Great Hiatus! This story also has the distinction of being the true first sequel to Horace Holly's She, which was published in 1887 under the byline of Holly's agent, H. Rider Haggard. The only heretofore known sequel, Ayesha: The Return of She, was published in 1904 and records events that occurred two decades after She. This new tale, then, is a record of the events that took place between the two previously published adventures.
More African Adventures! - H. Rider Haggard's greatest hero returns in three new adventures. From battling the Spirits of the Dark Continent to fighting alongside a fearless Arab Warrior, Allan Quatermain takes on all challenges.-Here are two tales by DeWayne Dowers and Wayne Carey plus "Allan Quatermain and the Star of Wonder," a full length novella by Thomas Kent Miller.-This is old-fashioned action and adventure guaranteed to entertain pulp fans everywhere.
