This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and (if not signed in) for advertising. By using LibraryThing you acknowledge that you have read and understand our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Your use of the site and services is subject to these policies and terms.

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

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Rating	Favorited	Events
738 (3,054)	44	24,119	(3.61)	0	0

organize | filter

Works by John Kendrick Bangs

A House-Boat on the Styx 143 copies, 7 reviews
R. Holmes & Co. 99 copies, 3 reviews
The Pursuit of the House-Boat 71 copies, 4 reviews
The Enchanted Typewriter 37 copies, 2 reviews
Mr. Bonaparte of Corsica 27 copies, 1 review
A Little Book of Christmas 24 copies, 2 reviews
Mr. Munchausen; being a true account of some of the recent adventures… 22 copies
Coffee and Repartee 21 copies
Ghosts I Have Met and Some Others 19 copies
The Water Ghost and Others 19 copies
Alice in Blunderland: An Iridescent Dream 16 copies, 1 review
The Idiot 15 copies
Mrs. Raffles Being the Adventures of an Amateur Crackswoman 15 copies, 2 reviews
The Booming of Acre Hill And Other Reminiscences of Urban and Suburban… 12 copies

Ghosts I Have Met 11 copies

Cobwebs from a Library Corner 11 copies

Over the Plum Pudding 11 copies

The Inventions of the Idiot 10 copies

The Dreamers A Club 10 copies

Paste Jewels 8 copies

The Genial Idiot 8 copies

A Rebellious Heroine 8 copies

The Time Shop 8 copies

Olympian Nights 8 copies

The Autobiography of Methuselah 8 copies, 1 review

Toppleton's client : or, a spirit in exile 7 copies

The Idiot at Home 7 copies

Half-Hours with the Idiot 6 copies

Coffee and repartee and The idiot 5 copies

The Bicyclers and Three Other Farces 5 copies

Jack and the Check Book 4 copies

(show all 65 works)

organize | filter

Also by John Kendrick Bangs

The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (Contributor) 293 copies
Ghosts: A Treasury of Chilling Tales Old & New (Contributor) 256 copies, 1 review
Knights of Madness: Further Comic Tales of Fantasy (Contributor) 245 copies
Alfred Hitchcock's Haunted Houseful (Contributor) 227 copies, 2 reviews
Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New (Contributor) 209 copies, 2 reviews
American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps (Contributor) 205 copies, 2 reviews
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (Contributor) 167 copies, 2 reviews
The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy (Contributor) 157 copies
Victorian Nightmares (Contributor) 129 copies, 4 reviews
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (Contributor) 86 copies, 2 reviews
The Screaming Skull and Other Great American Ghost Stories (Contributor) 54 copies
The Whole Family: A Novel (Contributor) 52 copies, 2 reviews
Great Ghost Stories (Contributor) 43 copies
Alternative Alices: Visions and Revisions of Lewis Carroll's Alice Books :… (Contributor) 35 copies, 1 review

Ghosts for Christmas (Contributor) 34 copies, 1 review

Christmas Ghosts: Seventeen Great Ghost Stories in the Christmas Tradition (Contributor) 31 copies

Spirits of Christmas (Contributor) 25 copies

Fiends and Creatures (Contributor) 18 copies

Horrors in hiding (Contributor) 16 copies

Great Ghost Stories: 34 Classic Tales of the Supernatural (Contributor) 13 copies, 1 review

Fun Phantoms: Tales of Ghostly Entertainment (Contributor) 8 copies

International Short Stories American (Volume 1) (Contributor) 7 copies

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

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

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

Members

Top members (works)

bibliopolitan (37), dwhodges01 (36), PitcherBooks (23), Maddz (13), Crypto-Willobie (12), ChrisRiesbeck (11), bookstopshere (11), harrygbutler (10), SESchend (10), naokoken (10), SRCbksUHM (8), cosmicdolphin (8), lyzard (7), antiquary (7) — more

Recently added

joiken (1), jholla_ab (1), B_R_Hughes (2), tjahonen2 (1), Rebekah0415 (1), LinnyNatei (1), Railsplitter (1), pilarvm (1)

Legacy Libraries

Graham Greene (1), USS California (Armored Cruiser No. 6) (1), Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas (1), Gerald Brosseau Gardner (1), Edward St. John Gorey (1), Carl Sandburg (1)

Member favorites

Members: None

Add to favorites

Related tags

19th century (33) American literature (22) anthology (310) Archive.org (20) Christmas (22) collection (30) comedy (15) detective (16) ebook (38) fantasy (293) fiction (349) free ebook (22) ghost stories (72) ghosts (48) Gutenberg.org (19) hardcover (17) HC (13) Holmes (13) horror (215) humor (189) Kindle (54) Library of America (25) literature (24) mystery (94) parody (14) pastiche (21) public domain (24) read (17) science fiction (20) sf (14) sff (21) Sherlock Holmes (90) Sherlockiana (14) short stories (301) stories (15) supernatural (25) to-read (96) unread (40) USA Lit (19) Victorian (20)

Events on LibraryThing Local

No events listed. (add an event)

Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical name

Legal name

Other names

Date of birth

Date of death

Burial location

Gender

Nationality

Country (for map)

Birthplace

Yonkers, New York, USA

Place of death

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Places of residence

Yonkers, New York, USA (Birth)

Ogunquit, Maine, USA

Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA

Education

Columbia University (1883)

Occupations

Relationships

Bangs, Agnes Hyde (wife)

Gray, Mary (wife)

Organizations

Harper's Magazine

Awards and honors

Agents

Short biography

Disambiguation notice

Links

Project Gutenburg page

Member ratings

Average:

(3.61)

0.5	1
1	4
1.5	2
2	25
2.5	7
3	110
3.5	21
4	109
4.5	3
5	64

Improve this author

Combine/separate works

Author division

John Kendrick Bangs is currently considered a "single author." If one or more works are by a distinct, homonymous authors, go ahead and split the author.

Includes

John Kendrick Bangs is composed of 8 names. You can examine and separate out names.

Combine with…

Ambrose Bierce (combine) (never combine)
Hugh Lamb (combine) (never combine)
Sam Moskowitz (combine) (never combine)
Never? | Search

About | Contact | Privacy/Terms | Help/FAQs | Blog | Store | APIs | TinyCat | Legacy Libraries | Early Reviewers | Common Knowledge | 140,102,593 books! | Top bar: Always visible

Copyright LibraryThing and/or members of LibraryThing, authors, publishers, libraries, cover designers, Amazon, Bol, Bruna, etc. | static: /