sentimental fantasy story about a winged man; If Summer Don't (1921) (United Kingdom) / If Winter Don't (United States) - a parody of the bestseller novel If Winter Comes; Tamplin's Tales of His Family (1924); This Charming Green Hat Fair (1925); Essays of Today And Yesterday (1926); The Later Years (1927); Dumphry (1927)Stories Barry Told Me by his daughter, Eva (Mrs T.L. Eckersley) was published in 1927. Stories in the Dark and Stories in Grey contain several of Pain's horror stories. 'Dark' contains the famous "The Moon-Slave". Alfred Noyes was a friend of Pain's and for several summers they were near neighbours at Rottingdean. In Noyes' autobiography, one of the longest chapters is devoted to Pain. Noyes particularly admired Pain's novel The Exiles of Faloo, of which he writes: "It is the story of an island in the Pacific, to which a number of scoundrels of various kinds, together with other men not entirely scoundrels but broken by the law, had escaped 'beyond the law's pursuing.' They establish a Club, with rules designed for the circumstances, one of which naturally was that no credit should be given. Gradually, through the original flaws in character, the society ends disastrously in conflict with the native population. There is humour and heroism, beauty and tragedy in the tale and, like all great stories, it is a parable".An Exchange of Souls is credited with being inspirational to H. P. Lovecraft, specifically in his short story "The Thing on the Doorstep". In 2006, Hippocampus Press re-published An Exchange of Souls together with Henri Béraud's Lazarus. Adaptations In 1992 BBC2 adapted twelve of the stories from Eliza as "Life With Eliza", a series of 10-minute Edwardian comic monologues, featuring Sue Roderick as Eliza and John Sessions as her husband. In 2006 Eliza was serialised by BBC Radio 4. Notes References External links Author and Book Info.com Dictionary of Literary Biography Review of Pain's novels The Octave of Claudius and An Exchange of Souls, written by F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre N. T. P. Murphy, ‘Pain, Barry Eric Odell (1864–1928)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography'', Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 2 Jan 2008 Archival material at English male journalists English male poets English humorists English horror writers English fantasy writers People from Cambridge 1864 births 1928 deaths Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge People educated at Sedbergh School English male short story writers English short story writers English male