Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton

John C. Tibbetts is a professor at the University of Kansas. His many books on the arts include film, music and literature. He has been twice a finalist for the prestigious Bram Stoker Award.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgmentsA Note on Chesterton Page ReferencesForeword by Dale AhlquistPrologue: “Under a Crooked Sky”Introduction: The Table Is SetChapter One. Chesterton and His Gargoyles: “A Gnarled Fancy”Chapter Two. “Let the Tale Be Told”: The Weird TalesChapter Three. “Sometimes I See Things in the Dark”: The Detective StoriesChapter Four. “Will Someone Please Explain the Explanation?” Locked Rooms and Miracle CrimesInterlude: Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges: “The Precarious Subjection of a Demoniacal Will”Chapter Five. “It is a new planet and it shall bear my name” Chesterton and Science FictionChapter Six. Thursday’s Children: Job, The Man Who Was Thursday and The SurpriseEpilogueAppendix A. “On the Road to Top Meadow”Appendix B. “The Man Who Knew Too Much”: The Story of Ignatius Press’ Collected ChestertonAppendix C. “A Mastery of Miracles”: G.K. Chesterton and John Dickson Carr (by Douglas G. Greene)Appendix D. “G.K. Chesterton, Ray Bradbury, and George Bernard Shaw” by Jonathan EllerAppendix E. Father Brown’s ­Space-Age Adventure: “The Spear of the Sun” G.K. Ch*st*rt*nChapter NotesBibliographyIndex

“The Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton: Gargoyles and Grotesques presents an extensive study of the detective story in general, with an emphasis on the classic school, from Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, and G.K. Chesterton to contemporary practitioners Ellery Queen and John Dickson Carr. Special attention is devoted to that exotic branch known as the so-called ‘miracle crime,’ which in Chesterton's hands tests the boundaries of reality and fantasy.”—Jon Lellenberg, Conan Doyle biographer and author/editor of the Baker Street Irregulars’ Archival History Series