About John Kendrick Bangs
John Kendrick Bangs wrote comic, occasionally savage, spoof fantasy. His name is immortalised in the term "Bangsian Fantasy" - fantasy set in the afterlife, of which Philip Jose Farmer's Riverworld series is a direct descendent.
Series
Houseboat on the Styx
1. A Houseboat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades (1895)
2. The Pursuit of the Houseboat: Being Some further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes (1897)
3. Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder (1901)
1. A Houseboat on the Styx: Being Some Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades (1895)
2. The Pursuit of the Houseboat: Being Some further Account of the Divers Doings of the Associated Shades, Under the Leadership of Sherlock Holmes (1897)
3. Mr. Munchausen: Being a True Account of Some of the Recent Adventures Beyond the Styx of the Late Hieronymus Carl Friedrich, Sometime Baron Munchausen of Bodenwerder (1901)
Idiot
1. The Idiot (1895)
2. The Idiot at Home (1902)
3. The Inventions of the Idiot (1904)
4. The Genial Idiot (1908)
5. Half-Hours With the Idiot (1917)
1. The Idiot (1895)
2. The Idiot at Home (1902)
3. The Inventions of the Idiot (1904)
4. The Genial Idiot (1908)
5. Half-Hours With the Idiot (1917)
Novels
Roger Camerden: A Strange Story (1887)
Coffee and Repartee (1893)
Toppleton's Client: Or A Spirit In Exile (1893)
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (1895)
A Rebellious Heroine (1896)
Olympian Nights (1902)
Uncle Sam Trustee (1902)
Emblemland (1902)
Mrs. Raffles: Being the adventures of an amateur crackswoman. Narrated by Bunny (1905)
A Proposal under Difficulties (1905)
R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq, Detective And Amateur Cracksman By Birth (1906)
Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907)
The Autobiography of Methuselah (1909)
Echoes of Cheer (1912)
The Time Shop (1999)
Coffee and Repartee (1893)
Toppleton's Client: Or A Spirit In Exile (1893)
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica (1895)
A Rebellious Heroine (1896)
Olympian Nights (1902)
Uncle Sam Trustee (1902)
Emblemland (1902)
Mrs. Raffles: Being the adventures of an amateur crackswoman. Narrated by Bunny (1905)
A Proposal under Difficulties (1905)
R. Holmes and Co.: Being the Remarkable Adventures of Raffles Holmes, Esq, Detective And Amateur Cracksman By Birth (1906)
Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream (1907)
The Autobiography of Methuselah (1909)
Echoes of Cheer (1912)
The Time Shop (1999)
Collections
New Waggings Of Old Tales (1888) (with F D Sherman)
The Water Ghost: And Others (1894)
The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces (1896)
Paste Jewels: Being Seven Tales of Domestic Woe (1897)
Ghosts I Have Met: And Some Others (1898)
Cobwebs from a Library Corner (1899)
The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899)
Over the Plum Pudding (1901)
Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy (1902)
Phoenixiana: Or Sketches And Burlesques (1903)
The Real Thing (1909)
Songs of Cheer (1910)
A Little Book of Christmas (1912)
The Foothills of Parnassus (1914)
The Mantal-piece Minstrels: And Other Stories (1969)
Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs (1973)
Tiddledywink Tales (1981)
The Water Ghost: And Others (1894)
The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces (1896)
Paste Jewels: Being Seven Tales of Domestic Woe (1897)
Ghosts I Have Met: And Some Others (1898)
Cobwebs from a Library Corner (1899)
The Enchanted Type-Writer (1899)
Over the Plum Pudding (1901)
Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy (1902)
Phoenixiana: Or Sketches And Burlesques (1903)
The Real Thing (1909)
Songs of Cheer (1910)
A Little Book of Christmas (1912)
The Foothills of Parnassus (1914)
The Mantal-piece Minstrels: And Other Stories (1969)
Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs (1973)
Tiddledywink Tales (1981)
Non fiction
Three Weeks in Politics (1894)
The Dreamers: A Club (1899)
Peeps at People (1899)
The Booming of Acre Hill: And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life (1902)
Potted Fiction: Being a Series of Extracts from the World's Best Sellers, Put Up in Thin Slices for Hurried Consumers (1911)
Line O' Cheer For Each Day O' The Year (1913)
From Pillar to Post (1916)
The Dreamers: A Club (1899)
Peeps at People (1899)
The Booming of Acre Hill: And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban Life (1902)
Potted Fiction: Being a Series of Extracts from the World's Best Sellers, Put Up in Thin Slices for Hurried Consumers (1911)
Line O' Cheer For Each Day O' The Year (1913)
From Pillar to Post (1916)
Anthologies containing stories by John Kendrick Bangs
American Ghost Stories (1928)
Victorian Nightmares (1977)
The 16th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980)
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
Victorian Nightmares (1977)
The 16th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980)
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999)
Short stories
| The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall (1894) | |||
| Ghosts That Have Haunted Me (1898) | |||
| The Affliction of Baron Humpfelhimmel (1901) | |||
| Three Months in a Balloon (1901) |
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