1. Fitz-James O'Brien As Microscopist In a short life of 33 years, FitzJames O'Brien (1828-1862) established himselfas a competent and imaginative writer, and was in fact something of an http://members.aol.com/Hbronstein/index/fobmic.htm

Fitz-James O'Brien and the Microscope In a short life of 33 years, Fitz-James O'Brien (1828-1862) established himself as a competent and imaginative writer, and was in fact something of an innovator in the frenetic and economically perilous literary life of his day. Some have placed him as the best American writer of short stories between Poe (1809 -1849) and Bret Harte (1836-1902), and he was certainly admired by his literary colleagues. His work, at its best, stands for itself. The Diamond Lens could be used as a texbook example of the application of Poe's Philosophy of Composition , with which O'Brien would have had to be familiar: a carefully-crafted tone, an economical style in which few superfluities of language can be detected, and a slow accelerando of pace to a denouement which is inevitable from the beginning, yet still riveting. Crucial to the success of the story is the blending of hard fact with extreme fantasy, the juxtaposition of technology and mysticism, a convincing and "scientific" setting against which is played an unworldly romance. The story was well received by public and critics, and established O'Brien as a lion of literary New York. It is important to remember that the impact on fiction-writing and public taste of Poe's detective stories and his stories dealing with the outre was only beginning to be felt. Critics who cite O'Brien's style as "florid" and "naive when it is not a little pompous and literary" should perhaps give more consideration to the cultural context of the work; the same can be said of Poe even more. Consider, too, that in the literary circles of the time, one wrote for the admiration of one's literary friends as well as for that of the public.

2. Fitz-James O'Brien BiographyA Brief Biography And Bibliography Of The Writings O Notes to What Was It? A Mystery By FitzJames OBrien. Matthews, Brander. 1907. The Short-Story http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/fobbio.htm

Irish Bohemian, American Fantasist Fitz-James O'Brien O f his life in Ireland and England very little is known. The available facts are so sketchy they do not include the names of his parents, while the tributes of his later friends contain statements that are sometimes contradictory. It has been established that Fitz-James O'Brien was born in County Limerick, Ireland on December 31, 1828. It is known is that he was an only child. His father was a lawyer or county coroner or somehow both and died when Fitz was about twelve. Whatever the father's occupation, he was successful, leaving a patrimony said to have been £8,000. Fitz's mother, described as "a lady of remarkable beauty," did not remarry for "a considerable time" though "when O'Brien was still a lad." Fitz was educated at Trinity College, Dublin though "not in any profession." After college, around 1849, he went to London, where in the space of two and one half years he managed two remarkable achievements. First, he "squandered" his entire inheritance. But he was not idle, for he also published "a large number of poems, stories, and articles" in Irish, Scottish, and English periodicals. Thus O'Brien's Bohemian reputation was forecast; and thus illustrated the devil-may-care attitude by which he lived and died. Other "facts" are dubious. He may also have edited a periodical devoted to the World's Fair. He claimed to have been in the English Army, but this has not been corroborated. He later referred to "one true love" he had known in Britain, who may have been a woman married to an English officer; she, he said, "marred his life" and he said he "could never love again." One published work from this period has been identified perhaps. The story "An Arabian Nightmare," published anonymously in Charles Dickens'

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Project Gutenberg Author Index "O" O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862 O'Grady, Standish, 1846-1928 O'Meara, James, 1825-1903 O'Neill, Eugene, 1888-1953 ... Ozaki, Yei Theodora To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

4. Victorian And Edwardian Ghost Stories, Edited By Richard Dalby (Fear, 1910.). O'Brien, FitzJames, (1828-1862). The Lost Room, 1858. http://www.hycyber.com/HF/victorian_edwardian_ghost.html

The Mammoth Book of Victorian and Edwardian Ghost Stories, edited by Richard Dalby Carroll and Graf, New York, 1995. ISBN: 0-7867-0279-6 Fiction Index Allen, Grant, Pallinghurst Barrow, Illustrated London News, Anonymous Ghosts, 1887. (poem) ( Ghost Stories and Presentiments, Haunted, December, 1868.) Baring-Gould, S., H. P., A Book of Ghosts, Benson, A. C., The Slype House, The Isles of Sunset, Benson, Robert, The Watcher, 1903. (short short) ( The Invisible Light, Bierce, Ambrose, The Moonlit Road, Can Such Things Be? Braddon, Mary E., John Granger, Belgravia Annual, Broughton, Rhoda, Poor Pretty Bobby, Temple Bar, December, 1872.) Capes, Bernard, A Ghost-Child, Pall Mall Magazine, January, 1906.) Chambers, Robert W., The Bridal Pair, December, 1902.) Cowper, Frank, Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk, January, 1889.) Cram, Ralph Adams, Sister Maddelena, Black Spirits, and White, Crawford, F. Marion, Dickens, Charles, No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman, All the Year Round, Christmas, 1866.) Edwards, Amelia B., The New Pass, Monsieur Maurice, Erckmann-Chatrian [Emile Erckmann (1822-1899) and Alexandre Chatrian (1826-1890)] The White and the Black

5. Fitz-James O'BrienA Brief Biography And Bibliography Of The Writings Of Fitz-Jam FitzJames O'Brien page at The Literary Gothic, the web's premier guide to Gothic and supernaturalist literature written prior to 1950 O'Brien, Fitz-James. 1828 - 1862. Irish-born poet, journalist, and short-story writer who emigrated to America in 1852; O'Brien http://www.creative.net/~alang/lit/horror/fob.sht

Fitz-James O'Brien C alled "a Poe in the minor mode" and "the preeminent writer of supernatural stories of his time," Fitz-James O'Brien is best remembered for two or three widely anthologized stories that border on science fiction and for a supernatural poem. Mullen's caricature of Fitz-James O'Brien recruiting for the Union Army Reproduced from Poems and Stories (Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, 1881), ed. William Winter. Biography: Irish Bohemian, American Fantasist Bibliography: Works By and About O'Brien Online Texts by O'Brien Demon of the Gibbet (poem) The Diamond Lens (story) The Wondersmith (novella) Our Young Authors - Melville (review) [ascribed], from Putnam's Monthly Magazine , February 1853 Our Authors and Authorship, Melville and Curtis (review) [ascribed], from Putnam's Monthly Magazine , April 1857 Fitz-James O'Brien Page. Two critical pieces. (reviews) Other O'Brien Links Audiocassette of "The Diamond Lens," Read by George Gonneau, 60 minutes, Unabridged, Catalog #68003X, $12.95, Published by Spencer Library, can be ordered online from Vermont AudioBooks Fitz Hugh Ludlow by Don Dulchinos; author, friend of O'Brien.

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Fitz-James O'Brien C alled "a Poe in the minor mode" and "the preeminent writer of supernatural stories of his time," Fitz-James O'Brien is best remembered for two or three widely anthologized stories that border on science fiction and a poem that classifies as supernatural. Of his life in Ireland and England very little is known. The available facts are so sketchy they do not include the names of his parents, while the tributes of his later friends contain statements that are sometimes contradictory. It has been established that Fitz-James O'Brien was born in County Limerick, Ireland on December 31, 1828. It is known is that he was an only child. His father was a lawyer or county coroner or somehow both and died when Fitz was about twelve. Whatever the father's occupation, he was successful, leaving a patrimony said to have been £8,000. Fitz's mother, described as "a lady of remarkable beauty," did not remarry for "a considerable time" though "when O'Brien was still a lad." Fitz was educated at Trinity College, Dublin though "not in any profession." After college, around 1849, he went to London, where in the space of two and one half years he managed two remarkable achievements. First, he "squandered" his entire inheritance. But he was not idle, for he also published "a large number of poems, stories, and articles" in Irish, Scottish, and English periodicals. Thus O'Brien's Bohemian reputation was forecast; and thus illustrated the devil-may-care attitude by which he lived and died.

7. Bibliographies De SF... O'Brien, Fitz James (18281862) anglo-américain Le Roman Titre Année Édition La Nouvelle Titre Année Édition http://www.scifi.ovh.org/SF/Obri.htm

O'BRIEN, Fitz James Le Roman : Titre La Nouvelle : Titre

8. Authors Of American Verse Newell, Robert Henry (18361901). O'Brien, Fitz-James (1828-1862). Oakes, Urian (c.1631-1681) http://www.hti.umich.edu/english/amverse/authlist.html

Authors of American Verse Adams, Henry (1838-1918) Adams, John (1704-1740) Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888) Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907) Alger, Jr., Horatio (1832-1899) Allen, Elizabeth Akers (1832-1911 ) Allen, James (1739-1808) Allen, Paul (1784-1826) Allston, Washington (1779-1843) Alsop, George (1636-1673?) Arthur, T. S. (1809-1885) Barlow, Joel (1754-1812) Bates, Katharine Lee (1859-1929) Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932) Belknap, Jeremy (1744-1798) Bell, James Madison (1826-1902) Benjamin, Park (1809-1864) Benjamin, Robert C. O. (1855-1900) Bibb, Eloise A. (1878-1927) Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914) Blackson, Lorenzo Dow (b.1817) Bland, James A. (1854-1911) Bleeker, Ann Eliza (1752-1783) Blood, Benjamin Paul (1832-1919) Bodman, Manoah (1765-1850) Boker, George Henry (1823-1890) Botta, Anne C. Lynch (1815-1891) Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895) Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748-1816) Bradford, William (1590-1657) Bradstreet, Anne (1612 or 1613-1672) Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins (1796-1828) >Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878-1962)

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10. Project Gutenberg Author Record Project Gutenberg Author record. O'Brien, Fitz James, 18281862. Titles. http://www.ibiblio.org/gutenberg/authors/o_brien__fitz_james__1828.html

Project Gutenberg Author record O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862 Titles Golden Ingot, The My Wife's Tempter To the main listings page Main Project Gutenberg Web page (online)

11. Stories, Listed By Author O'Brien, (Michael) FitzJames (1828-1862) The Child That Loved aGrave, (ss) Harper's Apr, 1861 The Graveyard Reader, ed. Groff http://contento.best.vwh.net/s166.html

Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections: Combined Edition Stories, Listed by Author Previous Table-of-Contents NUETZEL, CHARLES (books) (continued) The Nova Incident, (ss) Images of Tomorrow , Powell, 1969 Planet of the Love Feast, (ss) Adam Images of Tomorrow , Powell, 1969 Preface, (pr) If This Goes On , ed. Charles Nuetzel, BCA, 1965 Royal Lesson, (vi) Images of Tomorrow , Powell, 1969 A Very Cultured Taste [as by George Frederic], (ss), 1960 Images of Tomorrow , Powell, 1969 Word to the Wise, (vi) Images of Tomorrow , Powell, 1969 The World That WOMB Made, (ss) Images of Tomorrow , Powell, 1969 NURSE, PATRICIA One Rejection Too Many, (ss) IASFM Jul/Aug '78 , ed. George H. Scithers, Dale, 1978 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Anthology , ed. George H. Scithers, Davis, 1979 Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Treasury ... Laughing Space NUSSBAUM, ALBERT F(rancis) The Counterfeit Conman ["A Left-Handed Profession"], (ss) AHMM Nov '75 Tricks and Treats A Left-Handed Profession, (ss) AHMM Nov '75; also as "The Counterfeit Conman". NUTT, CHARLES

12. Index Stories, Listed By Author, Part 9 19181944); O'Brien, (Michael) Fitz-James (1828-1862); O'Brien, JOHN;OBTULOWICZ, MAREK; O'BYRNE, ELAINE; O'CONNELL, MATTHEW J., trans. O http://contento.best.vwh.net/q9.html

Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections: Combined Edition Index: Stories, Listed by Author, Part 9 Previous Table-of-Contents MORGAN, CHRIS MORGAN, CYNTHIA ... MORPHETT, TONY ; [i.e., Anthony David Morphett] (1938- ) MORRELL, DAVID (Bernard) MORRESSY, JOHN MORRILL, ROWENA MORRIS, GOUVERNEUR ... MORRIS, RALPH ; pseudonym MORRIS, SCOT MORRIS, SUSAN MORRIS, VIC MORRIS, WILLIAM ... MORRISON, WILLIAM ; pseudonym of Joseph Samachson MORRISS, MACK MORROW, GRAY ; [i.e., Dwight Graydon Morrow] (1934- ) MORROW, W(illiam) C(hambers) MORTLOCK, BILL ; pseudonym MORTON, ELIZABETH MOSIG, DIRK W(alter) MOSKOWITZ, SAM(uel Martin) MOSKOWITZ, SAM(uel Martin) : "Psycho"-logical Bloch MOUDY, WALTER F(rank) MOURAVEC, HANS P. MOWSHOWITZ, ABBE MOZHEIKO, IGOR VASEVELODOVICH ; see pseudonym Kirill Bulychev MROZEK, SLAWOMIR MUDDERSNOOK, BLYDE ; pseudonym MUDFORD, WILLIAM MUDGETT, HERMAN W. ; pseudonym of William A. P. White MUIR, EDWIN MULHOLLAND, ROSA MULISCH, HARRY ... MUNOZ, CHARLES C. (1926- ); see pseudonym T. P. Caravan MUNRO, H(ector) H(ugh) (1870-1916); see pseudonym Saki MUNRO, JOHN

13. O O'Brien, (Michael) FitzJames (1828-1862) The Wondersmith, Atlantic MonthlyOct, 1859 A Csodakovács , Galaktika Feb '88, ford. Gyáros Erzsébet. http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Dunes/1891/O.html

O'BRIEN, (Michael) FITZ-JAMES The Wondersmith, Atlantic Monthly Oct, 1859 Galaktika O'BYRNE, ELAINE Death in Vesunna (with Harry Turtledove) [as by Eric G. Iverson], IASFM Jan 19 '81 Galaktika O'DONOGHUE, MICHAEL The Psycho, Dark Love OFFUTT, ANDREW J(efferson, V) Gone With the Gods, Analog Oct '74 Galaktika OLIVER, (Symmes) CHAD(wick) Far from This Earth, The Year 2000 , ed. Harry Harrison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1970 Galaktika Field Expedient, Astounding Jan '55 "Kint a terepen", Galaktika Transformer, Nov '54 Univerzum #20, Oct '58, ford. OLTION, JERRY (Brian) At the Crossroads: The Spacer's Tale, Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina , ed. Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam, 1995 OUNSLEY, SIMON Pulg's Grand Carnival, Wolf Riders , ed. David Pringle, GW Books, 1989 Farkaslovasok , szerk. David Pringle, Beneficium, 2000, ford. Foxx OVERSTREET, A. D. Warrior's Way, Sword and Sorceress #5, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW, 1988 Atlantisz

14. Great Tales Of Terror And The Supernatural, Edited By Phyllis Cerf Wagner And He Ship, 1911. O'Brien, FitzJames, (c. 1828-1862) What Was It? 1862. (reprintedin Weird Tales, December, 1925.). Onions, Oliver, (George http://www.hycyber.com/HF/wagner_great_tales.html

Great Tales of Terror and the Supernatural, edited by Phyllis Cerf Wagner and Herbert A. Wise The Modern Library/Random House, New York, 1943, 1994. ISBN: 0-679-60128-7 Fiction Index Aiken, Conrad, Silent Snow, Secret Snow, Arlen, Michael, The Gentleman from America, May Fair, La Grande Breteche, Benson, E. F., Caterpillars, The Room in the Tower, Mrs. Amworth, Visible and Invisible, Bierce, Ambrose, The Boarded Window, In the Midst of Life, Blackwood, Algernon, Ancient Sorceries, John Silence, Physician Extraordinary, Confession, Wolves of God and Other Fey Stories, Bulwer-Lytton, Edward, The Haunters and the Haunted; or, The House and the Brain, Weird Tales, May, 1923.) Collier, John, Back for Christmas, The New Yorker, Collins, Charles Allston, (1828-1873) and Charles Dickens, (1812-1870) The Trial for Murder, All the Year Round, Christmas, 1865.) Collins, Wilkie, A Terribly Strange Bed, Connell, Richard, The Most Dangerous Game, Coppard, A. E., (Alfred Edgar Coppard) (1878-1957) Adam amd Eve and Pinch Me, Adam amd Eve and Pinch Me, Crawford, F. Marion

15. LitSearch: An Online Literary Database O'Brien, Fitz James (18281862) Works by this author http://daily.stanford.edu/litsearch/servlet/DescribeAuthor?name=O'Brien, Fitz Ja

16. LitSearch: An Online Literary Database Keyword Search Motif Search Custom Search Browse Authors Browse Titles. GoldenIngot, The by O'Brien, Fitz James (18281862). Copyright 2001 Keith Ito. http://daily.stanford.edu/litsearch/servlet/DescribeWork?work=2309

17. Link Edgar Allan Poe Translate this page Audioracconti di Poe. -Gli Allievi di Poe-. Scrittori. Fitz James O'Brien (1828-1862).Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889). Gaston Leroux (1868-1927). http://www.utopiaplanitia.it/poe/LinkEdgarAllanPoe.htm

-Siti in lingua italiana- Edgar Allan Poe Racconti e Poesie Eureka -Siti in lingua inglese- Edgar Allan Poe's House of Usher Heyward Ehrlich's Webliography The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Baltimore The Poe Decoder ... Audioracconti di Poe -Gli Allievi di Poe- Scrittori Fitz James O'Brien (1828-1862) Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (1838-1889) Gaston Leroux (1868-1927) Howard Phillips Lovecraft (1890-1937) Poeti Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867) Stéphane Mallarmé (1842-1898) -Non solo Poe- Nicolas Eymerich Official Page La pagina personale di Valerio Evangelisti e dei suoi romanzi Nuova Metropolis In Tenebris Sculptus di Andrea Bonazzi Galleria di scultura e arte fantastica Inside Horror Magazine La rivista italiana di cultura horror La Notte di Halloween Roseto degli Abruzzi La cittadina dell'ideatore del sito Le Streghe di Lilith Magia, storia e tradizioni della stregonoria

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Authors of American Verse Adams, Henry (1838-1918) Adams, John (1704-1740) Adams, John Quincy (1767-1848) Alcott, Amos Bronson (1799-1888) Aldrich, Thomas Bailey (1836-1907) Alger, Jr., Horatio (1832-1899) Allen, Elizabeth Akers (1832-1911 ) Allen, James (1739-1808) Allen, Paul (1784-1826) Allston, Washington (1779-1843) Alsop, George (1636-1673?) Arthur, T. S. (1809-1885) Barlow, Joel (1754-1812) Bates, Katharine Lee (1859-1929) Beadle, Samuel Alfred (1857-1932) Belknap, Jeremy (1744-1798) Bell, James Madison (1826-1902) Benjamin, Park (1809-1864) Benjamin, Robert C. O. (1855-1900) Bibb, Eloise A. (1878-1927) Bierce, Ambrose (1842-1914) Blackson, Lorenzo Dow (b.1817) Bland, James A. (1854-1911) Bleeker, Ann Eliza (1752-1783) Blood, Benjamin Paul (1832-1919) Bodman, Manoah (1765-1850) Boker, George Henry (1823-1890) Botta, Anne C. Lynch (1815-1891) Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth (1848-1895) Brackenridge, Hugh Henry (1748-1816) Bradford, William (1590-1657) Bradstreet, Anne (1612 or 1613-1672) Brainard, John Gardiner Calkins (1796-1828) >Braithwaite, William Stanley (1878-1962)

19. Author O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862. Title The Supernatural Author, O'Brien, Fitz James, 18281862. Title, The Supernatural tales of Fitz-JamesO'Brien. Pub info, New York, NY Doubleday, 1988-. Descript, v. ; 22 cm. http://catalog.lancasterlibraries.org:90/kids/1899,1901/search/cFic OCONAI P/cfi

Author O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862. Title The Supernatural tales of Fitz-James O'Brien. Pub info New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1988- Descript Contents v. 1 Macabre tales Add title Macabre tales.

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Author O'Brien, Fitz James, 1828-1862. Title The Supernatural tales of Fitz-James O'Brien. Pub Info New York, N.Y. : Doubleday, 1988-

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