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Author photo. George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-04746

George Grantham Bain Collection, Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Reproduction Number LC-DIG-ggbain-04746

John Kendrick Bangs (1862–1922)

Author of A House-Boat on the Styx

Includes the names: J K Bangs, John K. BANGS, John Kendrick Bangs, Kendrick John Bangs, John Kendrick Bangs, John Kenderick Bangs, John Kendrick; illus. by H.W. McVickar Bangs

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The Idiot series

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Works by John Kendrick Bangs

A House-Boat on the Styx 154 copies, 7 reviews

R. Holmes & Co. 107 copies, 3 reviews

The Pursuit of the House-Boat 79 copies, 4 reviews

The Enchanted Typewriter 40 copies, 2 reviews

Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica 27 copies, 1 review

A Little Book of Christmas 25 copies, 3 reviews

Coffee and Repartee 24 copies

Mr. Munchausen; being a true account of some of the recent adventures… 23 copies

Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others 21 copies

The Water Ghost and Others 20 copies

The Idiot 19 copies

Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream 16 copies, 1 review

Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman 15 copies, 2 reviews

The Inventions of the Idiot 13 copies

Dark Holidays: A Collection of Ghost Stories (16-in-1) (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review

The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban… 12 copies

Ghosts I Have Met 12 copies

Cobwebs from a Library Corner 12 copies

Olympian Nights 11 copies

Over the Plum Pudding 11 copies

The Dreamers A Club 10 copies

Toppleton's client : or, a spirit in exile 9 copies

The Idiot at Home 9 copies

The Genial Idiot 8 copies

A Rebellious Heroine 8 copies

The Autobiography of Methuselah 8 copies, 1 review

Paste Jewels 8 copies

The Time Shop 8 copies

Half-Hours with the Idiot 8 copies

Coffee and repartee and The idiot 6 copies

Mollie and the Unwiseman Abroad 6 copies

Jack and the Check Book 5 copies

Half-Hours with Jimmieboy 5 copies

Bikey the Skicycle and Other Tales of Jimmieboy 5 copies

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of John Kendrick Bangs:… 5 copies

Andiron Tales 5 copies

The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces 5 copies

Peeps at people, being certain papers from the writings of Anne Warrington… 4 copies

A proposal under difficulties; a farce 4 copies

In Camp with a Tin Soldier 4 copies

Mollie and the Unwiseman 3 copies

Présence d'esprits 3 copies

Angel over the Right Shoulder 2 copies

Budd Boyd's Triumph; or, The Boy-Firm of Fox Island 2 copies

Bert Wilson, Marathon Winner 2 copies

Cattle-Ranch to College 2 copies

From Pillar to Post; Leaves From a Lecturer's Note-book 2 copies

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of John Kendrick Bangs:… 2 copies

Andy the Acrobat 2 copies

Andy at Yale 2 copies

In Far Bolivia: A Story of a Strange Wild Land 2 copies

Courage, True Hearts: Sailing in Search of Fortune 2 copies

The Collected Supernatural and Weird Fiction of John Kendrick Bangs:… 2 copies

Andiron Tales and Other Works by John Kendrick Bangs (Unexpurgated… 2 copies

Annals of the Poor 2 copies

Pursuit of the House-Boat By: John Kendrick Bangs: Pursuit of the… 1 copy

From Pillar to Post 1 copy

Ghosts That Have Haunted Me 1 copy

Harper's lost reviews : The literary notes 1 copy

Alice in Blunderland By: John Kendrick Bangs, Illuistrated By: Albert… 1 copy

Tiddledywink Tales 1 copy

Thurlow's Christmas Story 1 copy

A House-Boat on the Styx Illustrated 1 copy

The Singular Problem of the Stygian House-Boat 1 copy

The fatal message 1 copy

The Affliction Of Baron Humpfelhimmel 1 copy

The real thing, and three other farces 1 copy

Three weeks in politics, (Harper's black and white series) 1 copy

Carmen: The Song of the Toreador 1 copy

Shylock Homes: His Posthumous Memoirs 1 copy, 1 review

Selected Works of John Kendrick Bangs (Illustrated) 1 copy

A Midnight Visitor 1 copy

The Foothills of Parnassus 1 copy

The Complete Works of John Kendrick Bangs (37 Complete Works of John… 1 copy

The worsted man; a musical play for amateurs, by John Kendrick Bangs 1 copy

Roger Camerden. A strange story 1 copy

Arrow Book of Ghost Stories 1 copy

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The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (Contributor) 301 copies

Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New (Contributor) 274 copies, 1 review

Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (Contributor) 260 copies

Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful (Contributor) 243 copies, 1 review

American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (Contributor) 222 copies, 2 reviews

Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New (Contributor) 218 copies, 2 reviews

The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (Contributor) 173 copies, 2 reviews

The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy (Contributor) 163 copies

Victorian Nightmares (Contributor) 132 copies, 3 reviews

The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Contributor) 94 copies, 3 reviews

Arrow Book of Ghost Stories (Contributor) 86 copies, 2 reviews

American Fantastic Tales (Contributor) 86 copies, 2 reviews

The Screaming Skull and Other Great American Ghost Stories (Contributor) 58 copies

The Whole Family: A Novel (Contributor) 54 copies, 2 reviews

Great Ghost Stories: Tales Of Mystery And Madness (Contributor) 45 copies

Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books :… (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review

Ghosts for Christmas (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review

Christmas Ghosts: Seventeen Great Ghost Stories in the Christmas Tradition (Contributor) 33 copies

Spirits of Christmas (Contributor) 27 copies

Fiends and Creatures (Contributor) 19 copies

Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural (Contributor) 17 copies, 1 review

Horrors in hiding (Contributor) 15 copies

Dreams and Wonders: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy (Contributor) 11 copies

Fun Phantoms: Tales of Ghostly Entertainment (Contributor) 9 copies

International Short Stories American (Volume 1) (Contributor) 8 copies

Dreamers of Dreams: An Anthology of Fantasy (Lost Race and Adult Fantasy… (Author) 4 copies

Worlds of never : three fantastic novels (Author) 1 copy

The Sixteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (Contributor) 1 copy

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Yonkers, New York, USA

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Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

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Yonkers, New York, USA (Birth)

Ogunquit, Maine, USA

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

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Columbia University (1883)

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Bangs, Agnes Hyde (wife)

Gray, Mary (wife)

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