IN MY OPINION

The listing which follows is a continuing feature of the Rhodomagnetic Digest. The books mentioned are part of the personal collection of J. Lloyd Eaton, first chairman of the Society. It is one of the largest and most comprehensive collections of fantasy and science fiction in the world. For more information see Volume I, number 2 or 6 of the Digest.

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by J. Lloyd Eaton

Stories are rated as follows:

*** Good to excellent.
** Fair to good.
X When included in the rating may be considered an additional * by those who enjoy cerebral stimuli. It may also serve as a warning to those who want an evening of light reading.
* A fantastic, but not good escape reading; for collectors and students only. Read at your own peril!
- Not fantastics; masqueraders, religious, occult, economic treatises, thinly disguised as fantasy; too poorly written even for the collector.
() Not fantastics; marginal.
C Not in the Checklist.
s Short story collections. Total number of stories given, with each fantastic listed and described.

Carew, Henry

** The Vampires of the Andies. Jarrold's; Lon.; '25 - Fantastic adv.; rather metaphysical and not too plausible

Carfrae, Elizabeth

- The Devil's Jest. G&D - poor, not fantastic.

Carleton, William

* The Evil Eye; or, The Black Spectre. Excelsior; N.Y.; 1896 - Long Gothic with spectres and banshees.

Carling, John R.

(**) The Viking's Skull. Little, Brown; Bos., '04 - Fair mystery story of murder and treasure. One passage of clairvoyance. Not a true fantastic.
* The Weird Picture. Little, Brown; Bos.; '05 - Horror.
C- The Doomed City. Clode; N.Y.; '10.

* The Scattering and the Aurdlian. - Fantasy.
- The Writer and the Prince.
- Solomon's Seal.
(Levities)
- The Widow's Clock.
* Above Proof. - Fantasy.
- Dona Pollonia's Corset.
* The Lady Killer. - Ghost.
- A Doll and a Moral.

- A Jay of Italy. Methuen; Lon.; '05 - Not fantastic.
(**) The Lake of Wine. Hunemann; Lon.; 1898 - Good adv.; Not fantastic.
- Our Lady of Darkness. Blackwood & Sons; Lon.; 1899 - Not fantastic.
Cs Loaves and Fishes. Collins; Lon. & Glasgow; N.D. - Shorts (21).

(**) A Gallows Bird. - Quite a villain!
* A Ghost-Child.
* The Ghost Luck.
* Poor Lucy Rivers. - Ghost writing.
* The Jade Button. - Longevity & luck.

Capon, Paul

C** The Other Side of the Sun. Hunemann; Lon., '50 - Sci-fiction; interplanetary.

Cardinal, Jane

*** The Living Idol. Paul; Lon.; N.D. - Lost race thriller; really quite good.

Carey, Joyce

* The African Witch. Morrow; N.Y.; '36 - A novel about effects of Ju-Ju on African culture.

Carr, John Dickson

*** The Burning Court. Harpers; N.Y.; '37 - Witchcraft.
C*** The Devil in Velvet. Harpers; N.Y.; '51 - Devil sends back to 17th century England to solve a murder mystery.

Cs Beyond Infinity. Fantasy Press; Reading; '51 - Novelettes (14).

* Beyond Infinity. - Space travel; "fountain of youth."
** Morning Star. - Visitor.
** Those Men From Mars. - change things.
** Mutation. - Better, in the past.

Cx True Ghost Stories. Ogilvie; N.Y.; '15.
Cx The Invisible World. Rider; Lon.; N.D.. - Scientific researches in psychic phenomena.

** The Adventures of Jones. Harper; N.Y.; 1895 - very "tall tales;" e.g. extracting electricity from cats by the "Cat Motor."

C(**) Terror Island. Chelsea House; N.Y.; '25 - Fair treasure story, not fantastic.

C** Fighting Against Millions; or, the Detective in the Jewel Caves of Kurm. Street & Smith; N.Y.; 1893; wraps - Lost race, and the coincidences fall thick and fast.

*** The People of the Moon. Electrician Pub. and Marshall, Hamilton & Kent; Lon.; N.D.. (1890?) - Good adventure sci-fict of races of people in and on the moon.

* At Midnight on the 31st of March. Houghton, Miffin; Bos.; '38 - Blank verse fantasy-community suddenly moved out of this time

* The Elephant God. Putnam's; N.Y.; '21 - The king elephant is tame and loves him.
* The Monkey God. Sears; N.Y.; N.D. - The sacred monkeys protect him.
- The Jungle Girl. Allen; Lon., '33 - A little of the king elephant again - not fantastic.
C** The Tiger Girl. Allen; Lon., '34 - His only true fantastic - a fair yogi magic and were-tiger ---- but why the title of Tiger Girl?

** The Witchfinders. Penn; Phila.; '34 - Adventure in Old England.

C- The Startling Exploits of Dr. J.B. Ivies. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington; Lon.; 1896 - mild humor, not fantastic.

** Lemuria; the Lost Continent of the Pacific. Rosicrucians; San Jose, Calif.; '35 - They had a third eye & Calif. is all that remains of the Garden of Eden.

*** The Death Guard. Hutchinson; Lon.; N.D. - Sci-fict. Synthetic life and future war.

C- Snare for Witches. Dodd, Mead; N.Y.; '48 - A novel about New England witchcraft scares. Not fantastic.

C- White Man. Bobbs-Merrill; Indianapolis; '19 - Not fantastic.

** 6000 Tons of Gold. Flord & Vincent; Meadville, Pa.; '19 - What to do?

*** The Last Secret. Dial; N.Y.; '43 - Sci-fict. Just written soon enough. Good problem.

** Missing. A Tale of the Sargasso Sea. Transatlantic; N.Y.; 1896 - Fantastic enough, but poorly written. A questionable "fair."

s The King in Yellow. Harper; N.Y.; '02 - Shorts (9).

*** The Repainter of Reputations. - Horror-future 1920-mad.
*** The Mask. - Sci-fict. to marble?
*** The Yellow Sign. - Horror, something alive?
*** The Demoiselle d'Yo. - Time slips.

Data entry and page scans provided by Judy Bemis

Data entry by Judy Bemis

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