My favorite of the bunch, bar none, is The Great White Space by the renowned Basil Copper, his earliest novel of the weird. This grandiose tale possesses everything a classic Mythos story should: a gloomy mystery overshadowing the world; intrepid investigators, creepy documents, mounting hints of monstrous peril, rousing adventure, and a genuine feeling that the worst is yet to come/5(6). · The great white space by Basil Copper, , St Martin's Press, Hale edition, in English. · Valancourt Books recently released a new edition of The Great White Space () by Basil Copper. I snapped it up right away and devoured it (metaphorically, of course) over the course of a day. Basil Copper (April ) was an incredibly prolific author who wrote novels and short stories in horror and mystery.
First published in , The Great White Space is a horror novel by British author Basil Copper. The novel, which is dedicated to H.P. Lovecraft and August Derleth, follows a crew of researchers as they embark on an expedition into a remote part of Asia. The Great White Space was originally published in hardcover in the UK by Robert Hale in December , and in the US by St. Martins Press in The three paperback editions above were published in the following order: Manor Books (July , pages, $, cover artist unknown). The Great White Space () is one of a handful of standalone novels by Basil Copper () whose literary output was made up of hundreds of short stories including a number starring a Sherlock Holmes-like detective, Solar Pons, and fifty-eight novels featuring hard-boiled detective, Mike Faraday, set in Los Angeles.
Copper's novel The Great White Space () describes an expedition into a remote part of Asia to discover the location of the mysterious Old Ones. The Great White Space was influenced by Edgar Allan Poe and Lovecraft and includes elements of the latter author's Cthulhu Mythos stories. One of the great British horror writers of the 20th century, Basil Copper () was best known for his macabre short fiction, which earned him the World Horror Convention's Lifetime Achievement Award in The Great White Space () is a tale in the mode of H. P. Lovecraft and is recognized as one of the best Lovecraftian horror novels ever written. Vintage Treasures: The Great White Space by Basil Copper. Vintage Treasures: The Great White Space. by Basil Copper. Wednesday, Octo John ONeill. Comments. 11 comments. Basil Copper received a Lifetime Achievement Award at the World Horror Convention in , and is remembered today for his short fiction (collected in the mammoth two-volume set Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper from PS Publishing), and for his much-loved Solar Pons stories.
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