The Governess: A Professor Challenger Story

by Stephen Gallagher

In 1930, down-on-his-luck reporter Edward Malone seeks out The Lost World's Professor Challenger for one last, audacious journey into the ultimate unknown.

39 pages, Paperback

First published October 19, 2020

About the author

Stoker and World Fantasy Award nominee, winner of British Fantasy and International Horror Guild Awards for his short fiction, Stephen Gallagher has a career both as a novelist and as a creator of primetime miniseries and episodic television. His fifteen novels include Chimera, Oktober, Valley of Lights and Nightmare, with Angel. He's the creator of Sebastian Becker, Special Investigator to the Lord Chancellor's Visitor in Lunacy, in a series of novels that includes The Kingdom of Bones, The Bedlam Detective, and The Authentic William James. In his native England he's adapted and created hour-long and feature-length thrillers and crime dramas. In the US he was lead writer on NBC's Crusoe, creator of CBS Television's Eleventh Hour, and Co-Executive Producer on ABC's The Forgotten. Recent screen credits include an award-winning Silent Witness and Stan Lee's Lucky Man.

He began his TV career as a writer on two seasons of Doctor Who, and wrote two novelizations of his stories under the pseudonym John Lydecker.

** Photo by Lisa Bowerman **

Reviews

[Riju Ganguly]

A bitter, brutal, poignant and eventually deeply unsatisfactory tale. But... it felt so real, and so uncomfortably close to life that I wouldn't be able to dismiss it.
Read it, if you can get it.

[Stephen Theaker]

A sad story about Professor Challenger and Edward Malone set in the 1930s, which is very good despite being in the vein of Conan Doyle's spiritualist Challenger stories, rather than the good ones. It's very short but there's more substance in its thirty-seven pages than you'll find in some entire novels about the same characters – such as, for example, the one I wrote.

[Dave Butler]

a nice little chapbook - illustrated and well written gothic type story - though quite brief