The Poet and the Lunatics

The Poet and the Lunatics: Episodes in the Life of Gabriel Gale is a 1929 work by G. K. Chesterton. It consists of a series of short stories about Gabriel Gale, who is a poet and painter. Every story involves another character who is mad in some way. The work is sometimes called a novel, and usually categorized as detective fiction.

The stories were first published in Nash's Magazine in 1921. John C. Tibbetts describes them as "among Chesterton's most evocative twilight tales."

Contents The Fantastic Friends The Yellow Bird The Shadow of the Shark The Crime of Gabriel Gale The Finger of Stone The House of the Peacock The Purple Jewel The Asylum of Adventure

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