Received word this morning that Michael Cox - editor, biographer, and latterly novelist - has succumbed to the cancer which he's been battling for some
years. It was during this battle that he conceived of and wrote his first novel, The Meaning of Night, but he's perhaps best known here for his
excellent anthologies (such as the seminal Oxford Book of English Ghost Stories), his biography of M. R. James, his work with the Equation Chillers
series from Thorsons, and his overseeing of the Oxford Sherlock Holmes for World's Classics in the 1990s. He was also a lovely, kind, and funny
man, and he'll be greatly missed.
RIP Michael Cox
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Posts: 4389 (03/31/09 10:18:08) Shocklineraholic |
oh yeah, I've always enjoyed his anthologies.
Yes . . . I really am a Democrat.
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Posts: 1059 (03/31/09 11:11:37) Shockliner |
As I read this I am literally reading his story from the anthology Shades of Darkness, and enjoying it immensely. I had just decided to dig my copy of The
Meaning of Night to the top of my TBR pile.
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Posts: 5219 (03/31/09 11:21:22) Top-Tier Shockliner Demon |
That is tragic. I haven't read the novel, yet, just some of his stories and anthology and academic work.
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Posts: 37 (03/31/09 12:06:21) |
God. That's awful news. Very sorry to hear it.
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Posts: 749 (03/31/09 13:08:11) |
So sad...
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Posts: 159 (03/31/09 13:46:46) Veteran Shockliner |
Aw, hell.
THE MEANING OF NIGHT is delightfully amoral. I've got its prequel/related novel, THE GLASS OF TIME waiting for me as soon as I'm done with Carlos Ruiz Zafon's new one. Bill Subterranean Press |
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Posts: 117 (03/31/09 16:28:05) |
This is sad news indeed. The Meaning of Night really introduced Michael to a much larger audience, so it's even more tragic that he's passed
on just after being discovered by so many new readers.
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