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Ernest Cromwell Peake arrived in the Hankow region of inland China in 1899, the first medical missionary to attempt to bring modern medicine to the rural Chinese. Over the next twelve years, he overcame substantial obstacles-including the intense hostility of the local population toward foreigners and Western medicine-to build a hospital and successfully deliver up-to-date medical care to thousands. In the course of that time, he also married and had a son-the celebrated writer and artist Mervyn Peake, who spent his first twelve years living with his family in Hankow.
This biography of Mervyn Peake (1911-1968) explores the life and extraordinary imagination of one of Britain''s most singular writers and artists. In the space of thirty years Peake produced more than two hundred and fifty poems, four novels (including the celebrated Titus Groan, Gormenghast and Tit
This is a landmark, leviathan-sized anthology of fiction's wild and strange, featuring an all-star cast of authors, such as William Gibson, George R.R. Martin, Stephen King, Angela Carter, Franz Kafka, China Mieville, Clive Barker, Haruki Murakami, Neil Gaiman, and Michael Chabon. From Lovecraft to
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