Halidom, M Y

Entry updated 18 November 2024. Tagged: Author.

Main pseudonym of the UK businessman and author only identified in 2005 as Alexander Huth (1838-1914), who also wrote as Dryasdust, under which name he is perhaps best known for the first version of Tales of the Wonder Club (coll 1899-1900 3vols; each vol subsequently published as by Halidom, vt Tales of the Wonder Club: New and Revised Edition 1903; Tales of the Wonder Club: Second Series: New and Revised Edition 1904; Tales of the Wonder Club: Third Series: New and Revised Edition 1905). Most of the stories here assembled are supernatural. The Wizard's Mantle (1890; rev 1903 as by Halidom) also appeared initially as by Dryasdust. Further titles, all as by Halidom, and some including suggestions of sf, were The Spirit Lovers (coll 1903), A Weird Transformation (1904), about a reanimated corpse, The Woman in Black (1906), Zoë's Revenge (1908), The Poet's Curse (1911), in which William Shakespeare's grave is desecrated with disastrous consequences, and The Poison Ring (1912). [JC]

Alexander Huth

born London: 23 December 1838

died London: 12 December 1914

works

• Tales of the Wonder Club (London: Harrison and Sons, 1899-1900) as by Dryasdust [coll: published in three volumes: the individual volumes are undated, and the whole has been described as "a bibliographic mess" by George Locke in The Spectrum of Fantasy (1980): the first volume probably appeared in 1899, and the last two volumes seem to have appeared in 1900: hb/]
  • Tales of the Wonder Club: New and Revised Edition (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1903) as by M Y Halidom [rev vt of volume one of the above: hb/]
  • Tales of the Wonder Club: Second Series: New and Revised Edition (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1904) as by M Y Halidom [rev vt of volume two of the above: hb/]
  • Tales of the Wonder Club: Third Series: New and Revised Edition (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1905) as by M Y Halidom [rev vt of volume three of the above: hb/]
    • The Last of the Wonder Club: (Third Revised Edition): The Gypsy Queen: A Romantic Play: (Third Revised Edition) (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1905) as by M Y Halidom [vt of the above: it has not been established if this edition is further revised: hb/]
• The Wizard's Mantle (London: self-published, 1902) as by Dryasdust [illus/hb/the author]
  • The Wizard's Mantle (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1903) as by M Y Halidom [rev of the above: pseudonym changed to Halidom: hb/]
• The Spirit Lovers and Other Stories. Preserved by M Y Halidom (London: Simpkin, Marshall and co, 1903), as by M Y Halidom [coll: hb/]
• The Gypsy Queen: A Romantic Play (London: Elkin Mathews, 1903) as by M Y Halidom [play: hb/]
• A Weird Transformation (London: Thomas Burleigh, 1904) as by M Y Halidom [hb/]
• The Woman in Black (London: Greening and Co, 1906) as by M Y Halidom [hb/]
• Zoë's Revenge (London: Greening and Co, 1908) as by M Y Halidom [hb/]
• A Son of Desolation (London: Greening and Co, 1909) as by M Y Halidom [hb/]
• The Poet's Curse (London: Greening and Co, 1911) as by M Y Halidom [hb/]
• The Poison Ring (London: Greening and Co, 1912) as by M Y Halidom [hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
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