Dark Side of G.K. Chesterton

This is a critical study of the great British man of letters G.K. Chesterton, devoted to the novels, stories and essays that explore the darker fringes of his wild imagination. &quote;Everything is different in the dark,&quote; wrote Chesterton; &quote;perhaps you don't know how terrible a truth that is.&quote; Chesterton's use of the theme of &quote;gargoyles&quote; provides the thematic structure of the book. It covers the detective stories of Father Brown and others, the locked rooms and miracle crimes in his writing, his status as a science fiction writer, and the riddles and paradoxes of three works--Job, The Man Who Was Thursday, and the play The Surprise. This volume also includes an interlude about Chesterton and Jorge Luis Borges and a robust appendix including interviews about the formation of Ignatius Press's Collected Chesterton.