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9 unusual facts about 1895 in literature


Aristopia

Aristopia: A Romance-History of the New World is an 1895 utopian novel by Castello Holford, considered the first novel-length alternate history in English (and among the earliest alternate histories in general).

Hastur

In Chambers' The King in Yellow (1895), a fin-de-siècle collection of horror stories, Hastur is the name of a potentially supernatural character (in "The Demoiselle D'Ys"), a place (in "The Repairer of Reputations"), and mentioned without explanation in "The Yellow Sign".

In the Court of the Dragon

"In the Court of the Dragon" is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

Journey to Venus

Journey to Venus the Primeval World; Its Wonderful Creations and Gigantic Monsters is an 1895 science fiction novel written by Gustavus W. Pope.

Publishers Weekly lists of bestselling novels in the United States

The list features the most popular novels of each year from 1895 through 2010.

Select Conversations with an Uncle

Select Conversations with an Uncle, published in 1895, was H.G. Wells's first literary publication in book form.

The Prophets' Paradise

The Prophets' Paradise is a sequence of eerie prose poems forming an open-ended short story published by Robert W. Chambers in his short story collection The King in Yellow (1895).

The Repairer of Reputations

The Repairer of Reputations is a short story published by Robert W. Chambers in the collection The King in Yellow in 1895.

The Three Impostors

The Three Impostors is an episodic novel by British horror fiction writer Arthur Machen, first published in 1895 in The Bodley Head's Keynote Series.



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