The Demon of the Gibbet

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Infidelity and marital issues are perhaps the theme of The Demon of the Gibbet. Two men fight over one woman, her husband and the demon. Surprisingly, the latter wins Maud and her husband Norman could not do something about it. Or another interpretation would be death, as the husband constantly repeats the name of God for his wife to devote herself to prayers before she breathes her last.

Fitz James O’Brien was an Irish-American Civil War soldier, novelist, and poet frequently quoted as one of the first authors of science fiction.

He was born as Michael O’Brien in Cork, Ireland and when he was young their family settled at Limerick, Ireland. He went to the University of Dublin and is presumed to have been a soldier in the British army at some time. He left college and moved to London and in a span of four short years used up his huge sum of inheritance, in the meantime correcting a periodical in assistance of the World’s Fair of 1851. Around 1852, he migrated to the U. S., in the course of altering his name to Fitz James, and from then on, he became ardent in writing.

While he was studying, he had presented a talent for poetry composition, and two of his poems, Loch Ine and Irish Castles, first appeared in The Ballads of Ireland in 1856.

His first works in America were underwritten to the Lantern, which was then corrected by John Brougham. Later, he contributed for the Home Journal, the New York Times, and the American Whig Review. His earliest imperative literary tie up was with Harper’s Magazine, and starting in February 1853, with The Two Skulls, he wrote over 60 essays in books and poetry to that magazine. He also contributed for the New York Saturday Press, Putnam’s Magazine, Vanity Fair, and the Atlantic Monthly.
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