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 H.B. MARRIOTT WATSON
(b.1863 d.1921)
H.B. Marriott Watson was a prolific author and journalist, writing more than forty books, including seventeen short story collections and a collection of essays. He specialised in adventures and historical romances, but he also wrote mystery, fantasy and supernatural fiction.
For the first nine years of his life, Marriott Watson lived in various localities in Victoria, as his father, an Anglican priest, took up ministries. Early in 1873, Marriott Watson left Australia for good when his father was made incumbent of St John's, Christchurch, in New Zealand. He was educated at Christ’s College, Christchurch, and Canterbury College. He graduated from university in 1883 and two years later he traveled to England, where he settled. He took up journalism and fiction and became a protégé of William Ernest Henley. Many of Marriott Watson’s early ‘decadent’ stories were published in Henley’s National Observer, and his first collection of short stories, Diogenes of London and Other Fantasies and Sketches was dedicated to Henley. Though not a prolific writer of supernatural fiction, a couple of his stories, notably “The Devil of the Marsh”, and “The Stone Chamber”, are regarded as classics of their kind. His life was marked by tragedy: his partner (they were never married), the well-known decadent poet, Rosamund Marriott Watson, died of cancer in 1911, and their only son, Richard, was killed in the retreat from St Quentin in 1918. Marriott Watson never recovered from this loss.

 

James Doig 

Novel
Marahuna, A Romance, Longmans, 1888
A lost race fantasy
 
Short Stories
Diogenes of London and Other Fantasies and Sketches, Methuen, 1893
(Includes: ‘The Devil of the Marsh’, ‘The Thing in the Copse’, ‘The Brazen Cross’, ‘The Sword of Kadi’.)
 
The Heart of Miranda and Other Stories, Lane, 1898
(Includes: ‘A Resurrection’, ‘The Stone Chamber’.)
 
Alarums and Excursions, Methuen, 1903
(Includes: ‘A Soldier of Fortune’.)
 
Chapman’s Wares, Mills and Boon, 1915
(Includes: ‘The Instrument’.)
 
Aftermath, Chapman and Hall, 1919
(Includes: ‘Over the Wire’, ‘The Mill House’, ‘The Séance’.)
 
The Devil of the Marsh and Other Stories, Ash-Tree Press, 2004
(Includes: 'Point Despair', 'The Devil of the Marsh', 'The Thing in the Copse',
'The Brazen Cross', 'The Sword of the Kadi', 'A Resurrection', 'The
Stone Chamber', 'A Soldier of Fortune', 'The Vixen', 'The Kid',
'Giovanna', 'The Instrument', 'Over the Wire', 'The Mill House', 'The
Séance', 'Appendix: The Dead Immortals'.)
 
  
 
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