TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tibbetts,John C.
AU  - Ahlquist,Dale
TI  - The dark side of G.K. Chesterton: gargoyles and grotesques 
SN  - 9781476684970
AV  - PR4453 .C4 Z768 2021
U1  - 828/.91209 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Jefferson, North Carolina
PB  - McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
KW  - Chesterton, G. K.
KW  - Gargoyles in literature
KW  - Grotesque in literature
KW  - Literary criticism
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Chesterton and his gargoyles : "a gnarled fantasy" -- "The the tale be told" : the weird tales -- "Sometimes I see things in the dark" : the detective stories -- "Will someone please explain the explanation?" : locked rooms and miracle crimes -- Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges : "The precarious subjection of a demoniacal will" -- "It is a new planet and it shall bear my name" : Chesterton and science fiction -- "Thursday's children : Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and The Surprise
N2  - ""This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. "Everything is different in the dark," wrote Chesterton; "perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is." Chesterton's use of the theme of "gargoyles" provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works-Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton."-Provided by publisher"--
ER  -