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Poems from the Twilight Historyradio.org Historyradio.org Stories & Poems from the Twilight ISBN 978-82-691924-0-7 Cover by George Snow (george-snow.com), adapted from “Mist on local lake” at https://pxhere.com/en/photo/585316 2 Historyradio.org Contents Stories......................................................................................................0 J.-H. Rosny: “The May Bug: The Story of Its Capture”..................................1 Margie Harris: “While Choppers Roared”..................................................13 Michael Henrik Wynn: “Deception”...........................................................44 Aleister Crowley: “The Vixen”..................................................................54 Rigmor Solem: “The Woman from Fez”......................................................59 Margie Harris: “Cougar Kitty”..................................................................63 Tod Robbins: “Spurs”...............................................................................99 J.-H. Rosny: “Bride of a Day”..................................................................121 Poems..................................................................................................126 Michael Henrik Wynn: “Once Upon a Time”.............................................127 Robert E. Howard: “Babel”.....................................................................128 Angel Uriel Perales: “The Bondage Quintet”............................................129 Aleister Crowley: “The Summit of the Amorous Mountain”.......................143 3 Historyradio.org Joshua Kwesi Knowlife: “The State of the Mind”......................................144 Alfred Lichtenstein: “The Drunkard”.......................................................146 Isaac Rosenberg: “In Piccadilly”.............................................................147 Michael Henrik Wynn: “Acute Deafness”.................................................148 Stephen Vincent Benet: “Ghosts of a Lunatic Asylum”.............................149 Joshua Kwesi Knowlife: “Embers”...........................................................150 Okamoto Jun: “Night train”....................................................................151 Amy Lowell: “A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.”.........................................152 4 Historyradio.org Introduction he stories and poems in this ebook come from no particular place T and no particular time. What binds them together is their dark theme, as well the passion with which the subject matter is presented. I like spicy food. In fact, I like sugary treats too. This glutinous preference for color and flavor has guided me in my selection of these stories and poems. Of the more famous writers in the collection, are J.-H. Rosny. I use the plural because J.-H. Rosny is the pen name for two Belgian brothers: Joseph Henri Honoré Boex (1856–1940) and Séraphin Justin François Boex (1859–1948). They are perhaps best known today for their stories set in prehistory, but they were important writers in the history of French science fiction. In fact, their influence almost equals that of Jules Verne. The stories that I include were written in the late nineteenth century, and I was so lucky to discover two anonymous translations in the Santa Fe Daily New Mexican and in The Omaha Daily Bee, both published in the latter part of the 1880s. These are not science fiction stories, though. One is a dark story about a mental patient who kills her guard and the other a sad and sentimental text about a dying girl. They are both brilliant in their own way. The second prose writer to which I will draw your attention, is Margie Harris. She wrote tough gangster stories, violent revenge dramas. She published her stories in magazines such as Mobs and Gangster Stories in the late 1920s and early 1930s. She was one of the best paid writers in the business, a sort of female Quentin Tarantino, a no-nonsense hard- 5 Historyradio.org boiled yarnspinner. In my view, she makes even Chandler look like a kitten. Her stories are taken from the collection Margie Harris: Queen of the Gangsters, edited by John Locke. I am grateful to Mr Locke for letting me interview him, and for allowing me to publish some of the pulp writings he has so prodigiously collected. Not much is known about the identity of Margie Harris, he informs me. We do not know when she was born or when she died. She suddenly disappears from public view in the late 1930s and is never heard of again. Scholars estimate that she was about 50 years old in 1930. Whoever she was, she must have had intimate knowledge of the American underworld because her characters navigate the bars and the speakeasies with the greatest familiarity. There are other writers in this ebook with a claim to fame. I have included a poem and a short story by the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley (1875–1947), commonly known as “The Great Beast”. The short story was published only six years before Crowley wrote his great novel Moonchild (1917). Even so, in 1911 he still had some way to go before he was able to produce significant literature. Another minor celebrity is Tod Robbins, or Clarence Aaron Robbins (1888- 1949), as his real name was. He penned a couple of successful crime novels, as well the horror story “Spurs”, which is included in this book. “Spurs” was first published in 1923 in Munsey's Magazine. The piece became the literary foundation for the infamous 1932 Tod Browning movie Freaks, a love story featuring midgets and several characters with disabilities. It is also a crime story, and the plot is perhaps best left to your own discretion. Besides my own attempt, “Deception”, there is a short story by the contemporary Norwegian novelist, Rigmor Solem, in the book. Mrs Solem 6 Historyradio.org has a wonderfully rich life from which to draw inspiration. She is both well traveled and well read, and when the opportunity came my way to translate one of her more spooky tales, I did so. The result is found in this book, a ghost story set in Morocco. One of her short novels has just been published in English, in a translation by me. The book is filled with colorful anecdotes, including some from Uganda where she worked as a teacher just before Idi Amin came to power. In my search for sinister poetry, I ended up in the First World War, an upheaval that shook the literary establishment to its very foundations. Old rules were discarded, and evocative imagery appeared. I have included poems by two Jewish men from both sides of the trenches, one German and the other British. Alfred Lichtenstein (1889-1914), who wrote “The Drunkard”, was an early victim of the war, at the Somme. He was a German expressionist writer of some note, and known for ridiculing his friends in fictional form. In the introduction to his 1999 book The Pity of War, historian Niall Ferguson makes the claim that Lichtenstein might have been the first of the anti- war poets. “The Drunkard” was taken from the Gutenberg publication The Verse of Alfred Lichtenstein produced by Michael Pullen. Isaac Rosenberg (1890–1918) was one of the brilliant poets of the period. But the poem included here, “In Piccadilly”, is one of his earlier works, and is taken from his second collection Youth (1915), published just before he enlisted in the army. He was by all accounts a sickly man with chronic health problems, but that didn't stop him from doing his bit. He was killed in the last year of the war. Historians disagree about whether 7 Historyradio.org he was shot by a sniper or whether he died in combat. In this ebook there are poems by two Pulitzer Prize winners who were active during the war, but who did not participate the fighting: Amy Lowell (1874–1925) and Stephen Vincent Benét (1898–1943). At 70, Heath Street, in Brookline Massachusetts stands the 8,448-square- foot mansion which once was the seat of the prominent Lowell family. Amy Lowell occupied it both as a child and as an adult. She was an imagist poet and a follower of Ezra Pound, and I have included a very lovely poem by her from 1914. A media celebrity in her own day, she even appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. She was the sister of Percival Lowell, the astronomer who became famous for speculating that there were canals on the planet Mars. Unfortunately, Amy Lowell's poetry has always fallen into the shadow of Pound's more famous works, a man whom she herself tirelessly promoted during the First World War. She was in London during the fighting, and even attended a reading given by the legendary war-poet Rupert Brooke at the Poetry Bookshop. Benét was a poet and short story writer from Pennsylvania. He did civilian service during the conflict. He was a member of the famous Elizabethan Club, an important literary society at Yale. Benét won his Pulitzer for an ambitious narrative poem, but I have selected one of his shorter, more sombre works from 1918. When Benét passed away in 1943, professor Henry W. Wells of Columbia University wrote: “Will he be remembered chiefly as a man of letters and a largely personal force in our political and cultural life, or considered a notable poet? Will he grow, as Amy Lowell has grown, more a figure in American biography than in American literature....?” The few texts in this collection are perhaps not sufficient to provide any answers. 8 Historyradio.org The esteem of Robert E. Howard (1906–1936), the creator of Conan the Barbarian, however, has only grown after his death. Howard was too young to be drafted for war duty. He became one of the giants of what is known as pulp
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