![]() ![]() Some tanning to free endpapers (as is usually the case with this book), else a fine copy in very good printed dust jacket with mild fading to spine panel, faint vertical crease in front panel, two short closed tears at edges, and light wear to corner tips with very slight loss. Bleiler, The Guide to Supernatural Fiction 1636. The protagonist is a young boy who remains sexually innocent, though haunted by other guilts: he survives while his companions perish." - Clute and Grant (eds), The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (1997), p. The tale moves gradually, in a slow crescendo, from its beginnings in a normal-seeming nineteenth-century England through adventures at sea and finally into a literal pit of fantasy - a vast circular hole occupied by the eponymous sea monster which eats sexually aware men alive. MEDUSA "is a hard to categorize as Lindsay's A VOYAGE TO ARCTURUS (1920). A weird story of a voyage to unknown waters, it earned a dreadful review from the LONDON TIMES when it first appeared, which helped it sink without a trace (the same paper forty years later in Visiak's obituary referred to the book as 'a tour-de-force')" - Sullivan (ed), The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural, p. "Visiak is now remembered by macabre enthusiasts for his genuinely original novel MEDUSA (1929). ![]() ![]() A presentation copy with signed inscription by Visiak to H. 7-286, original black cloth, spine panel stamped in yellow-green. ![]()
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