Thomas Burke (author)

Thomas Burke ( * in November 1886 in Eltham in London, † September 22, 1945 in London) was a British writer of horror fiction.

Thomas Burke, who was one of the most famous English short story writers of the 1900er/1910er years, mostly wrote horror stories from London's Chinatown and the East Dock End, where he had grown up.

His first successful short story was Limehouse Nights (1916 ), a collection of settled in the poor district of Limehouse stories. Many of his books have the Chinese character Quong Lee as narrator figure.

1919 John Penn wrote the poem in the USA from Limehouse Nights The Lamplit hour in a piece of music has to offer. In the same year director DW Griffith made ​​from this collection the story, The Chink and the Child as the basis for the screenplay of his film Broken Blossoms.

In Memory Thomas Burke remained mainly by the story The Hands of Mr. Ottermole ( from Burke's collection The Pleasantries of Old Quong, 1931), which had been selected by a jury of crime fiction writers as the best detective story of all time. She was selected in 1957 for the television series Alfred Hitchcock Presents and filmed and directed by Robert Stevens. The TV movie beamed the same clammy mood like Alfred Hitchcock's own Stummfilmklassiiker The Lodger.

Bibliography of his stories

  • The Bloomsbury Wonder. London: Mandrake Press, 1929.
  • Broken Blossoms: a selection of stories from Limehouse Nights. London, 1920.
  • Dark Nights. London: Herbert Jenkins. Includes novelette The Bloomsbury Wonder.
  • East of Mansion House. London: Cassell, 1928 New York: Doran, 1926.
  • The Flower of Life. Boston: Little, Brown, 1931.Constable, 1929.
  • The Golden Gong and Other Night - Pieces. Ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson. Afterword reminiscence by Grant Richards. Ashcroft: Ash_Tree Press, 2001.
  • Go Lovely Rose. Brooklyn, N. Y.: Sesphra Library, 1931.
  • Limehouse Nights. London: Grant Richards, 1917.
  • More Limehouse Nights. New York: George H. Doran, 1921.
  • Night Pieces: Eighteen Tales. London: Constable, 1935.
  • The Pleasantries of Old Quong. London: Constable, 1931.
  • The Sun in Splendour. London: Constable, 1927 New York:. George H. Doran, 1926.
  • Twinkletoes: a Tale of Limehouse. New York: Robert M. McBride, 1918.
  • Whispering Windows: Tales of the Waterside. London: Grant Richards, 1921.
  • The Wind and the Rain: A Book of Confessions. London: Thornton Butterworth, 1924 New York:. Doran, 1924.
  • The Song Book of Quong Lee of Limehouse. London: Allen & Unwin, 1920, New York:. Holt, 1920.

Secondary literature

  • R. Thurston Hopkins, In the Footsteps of Thomas Burke, Chapter XIII of London Pilgrimages ( London: Brentano 's, 1928), pp. 193-210.
  • Barry Milligan, Pleasures and Pains: Opium and the Orient in Nineteenth - Century British Culture ( Charlottesville & London: UP of Virginia, 1995).
  • George A. Wade, The Cockney John Chinaman, The English Illustrated Magazine ( July 1900): 301-07.
  • Anne Witchard, Aspects of Literary Limehouse: Thomas Burke and the ' Glamorous Shame of Chinatown, Literary London: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Representation of London, 2, 2 (September 2004): 7 pp. ( in the web archive )
  • Thomas Burke, the ' Laureate of Limehouse ': A New Biographical Outline, English Literature in Transition, 48, 2 ( January 2005):
  • Anne Veronica Witchard: Thomas Burke's dark chinoiserie: Limehouse nights and the queer spell of Chinatown, Farnham: Ashgate, 2009, ISBN 978-0-7546-5864-1
  • Author
  • Literature ( 20th century)
  • Literature ( English )
  • Story
  • Horror Literature
  • Fantastic Literature
  • Crime Fiction
  • Briton
  • Born in 1886
  • Died in 1945
  • Man
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