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Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Beddoes, Thomas Lovell

June 30, 1803 – January 26, 1849 (aged 45)

Birth place: Clifton, Bristol, England, UK

5 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
July 1927 105 Poem The Old Crow of Cairo Weird Tales, July 1927
July 1947 107 Poem The Phantom-Wooer Avon Fantasy Reader, No. 3
July 1950 69 Poem Death's Jest-Book (excerpt) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 1950
1985 12 Poem The Oviparous Tailor Borderland #2, 1985
February 2017 Poem The Old Ghost Spectral Realms, Winter 2017

3 English-language books

The son of a distinguished scientist, Beddoes studied at Oxford, Göttingen, Würzburg. Obsessed with death, the theme dominated his works. He committed suicide in 1849.
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