The Pantomime Man and Others

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Richard Barnham Middleton’s ‘The Ghost Ship’ is one of the best-loved ghost stories in English literature, about which Arthur Machen wrote, ‘I declare I would not exchange this short, crazy, enchanting fantasy for a whole wilderness of seemly novels.’ Middleton himself (1882-1911) was a tragic figure, a young man impatient for success, who managed to live the archetypal life of the Romantic Bohemian poet, complete with poverty, unrequited love for an impossible woman (a prostitute), despair, and