Barry Eric Odell Pain was an English journalist, poet and writer. He became a prominent contributor to The Granta. He was known as a writer of parody and lightly humourous stories. In 1889, Cornhill Magazine's editor, James Payn, published his story The Hundred Gates, and shortly afterwards Pain became a contributor to Punch and The Speaker, and joined the staffs of the Daily Chronicle and Black and White. Pain's works include: In a Canadian Canoe (1891), papers reprinted from The Granta: Playthings and Parodies (1892), The Kindness of the Celestial (1894), The Octave of Claudius (1897), Eliza (1900), Another English Woman's Love Letters (1901), The Shadow of the Unseen (1907), An Exchange of Souls (1911) and others.
Novels
The One Before (1902)
Eliza (1904)
The Memoirs of Constantine Dix (1905)
The Shadow of the Unseen (1907) (with James Blyth)
An Exchange of Souls (1911)
As Far as They Had Got (1911) (with others)
Eliza (1904)
The Memoirs of Constantine Dix (1905)
The Shadow of the Unseen (1907) (with James Blyth)
An Exchange of Souls (1911)
As Far as They Had Got (1911) (with others)
Collections
In a Canadian Canoe (1891)
Stories and Interludes (1892)
Stories in the Dark (1901)
The New Gulliver (1912)
One Kind and Another (1914)
Short Stories of Today and Yesterday (1928)
Three Men in the Dark (2017) (with Robert Barr and Jerome K Jerome)
Stories and Interludes (1892)
Stories in the Dark (1901)
The New Gulliver (1912)
One Kind and Another (1914)
Short Stories of Today and Yesterday (1928)
Three Men in the Dark (2017) (with Robert Barr and Jerome K Jerome)
Books containing stories by Barry Pain
Spectral Sounds (2022)
Unquiet Tales of Acoustic Weird
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 33)
edited by
Manon Burz-Labrande
The Horned God (2022)
Weird Tales of the Great God Pan
(British Library Tales of the Weird, book 32)
edited by
Michael Wheatley
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