Deuce Richardson dropped me a line to advise that awhile back I got name-checked on The Classic Horror Blog.
M. Grant Kellermeyer pulls a quote from something I wrote on Arthur Machen as he surveys Machen’s character Dyson — in general, but specifically covering the story “The Inmost Light.” With lots of amusing asides on other “occult detectives.” Who could argue that William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki the Ghost-Finder isn’t by far the best of the major occult dicks?
Dyson, of course, while he can be squeezed into the category, isn’t a lot like John Silence, Blackwood’s investigator, or the others. Machen pulls his own take off, as you’d expect. I guess I simply can’t see Dyson showing up for a cocktail party in London with Carnacki and company.
Just the mention of the topic makes me want to do yet another reread on the entire Dyson series.
When I did the note Kellermeyer quotes from I had the nagging thought that I was missing one of the Dyson tales during that reread. Deuce happened to come to the rescue that time and pointed out that the story I inadvertently skipped was none other than “The Inmost Light.”
