Brooke, Jocelyn
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1908-1966) UK journalist and author; during active service in World War Two, he worked as a pox wallah (a medical aide who concentrated on venereal diseases); he is most noted for psychological fantasias like The Scapegoat (1948) and The Goose Cathedral (1950). The Image of a Drawn Sword (1950) casts an Equipoisal sf hue over the extremities of psychological horror that follow its protagonist's recruitment into a merciless army at some point – wanly interfused by hints of Timeslip from Roman times – after World War Two. The Crisis in Bulgaria, or Ibsen to the Rescue! (graph 1956), with the author's own collage illustrations, surrealistically combines Victorian fantasy and Parody. [JC]
Bernard Jocelyn Brooke
born Sandgate, Folkestone, Kent: 30 November 1908
died Bishopsbourne, Kent: body discovered at home 29 October 1966: death due to atherosclerosis
works
- The Scapegoat (London: The Bodley Head, 1948) [hb/]
- The Goose Cathedral (London: The Bodley Head, 1950) [hb/John Trevelyan]
- The Image of a Drawn Sword (London: The Bodley Head, 1950) [hb/]
- The Crisis in Bulgaria, or Ibsen to the Rescue! (London: Chatto and Windus, 1956) [graphic novel: illus/Jocelyn Brooke: hb/John Woodcock]
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