Background
Oldknow, Antony was born on August 15, 1939 in Peterborough, England. Son of William Fleming and Gertrude Ada (Webster) G. came to the United States, 1966, naturalized, 1995.
('The shouting had stopped. They all stood rigid, their fa...)
'The shouting had stopped. They all stood rigid, their faces up. I could only assume they were sniffing the air. Then suddenly they lunged forward between the trees, at first, luckily for me, hitting them, yet eventually getting round them, bringing their spades with them. I began running as fast as I could away from them, but, just as I thought I was out of their reach, I'd get my foot caught in a root, or snagged on a low branch, so I sprawled on the ground. They looked like blind gravediggers; the box in their leader's hand looked like a tiny coffin. They were getting closer. Suddenly one of them was in front of me, lunging with a spade. I screamed . . .' A narrator recollects his childhood spent in England's Fen country, and what should have been idyllic becomes a waking nightmare; conference-goers notice strange occurrences in the apparently disused factory across the road from their lodgings; an amateur dramatics group gets more than it bargained for when the leading lady comes to town and mysterious deaths occur; a model railway enthusiast is alarmed when he recognises a strange correlation between events that take place on his layout and events in real life; and a traveller begins to notice something very odd about the man sharing his compartment, and the story he tells. Welcome to the strange world of Antony Oldknow's THE PASSION PLAY AND OTHER GHOST STORIES: a sinister world of madness, tragedy, death, and worse, which is separated from our own existence by the thinnest of walls, and often overlaps and envelops it. Sometimes the protagonists survive; but those who do are not always the fortunate ones. . . .
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Oldknow, Antony was born on August 15, 1939 in Peterborough, England. Son of William Fleming and Gertrude Ada (Webster) G. came to the United States, 1966, naturalized, 1995.
Bachelor in English with honors, University Leeds, England, 1961. Master of Education, University Leeds, 1963. Master of Science in Phonetics, University Edinburgh, Scotland, 1964.
Doctor of Philosophy in English, University North Dakota, 1983.
Lecturer English, Cowdenbeath (Scotland) Technology College, 1962-1964;
assistant professor linguistics, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada, 1964-1966;
assistant Professor of English, North Dakota State University, Fargo, 1966-1972;
graduate teaching assistant department English, U. North Dakota, Grand Forks, 1972-1976;
instructor English, U. North Dakota, 1976;
instructor English, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, 1976-1979;
academic coordinator, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, 1980-1984;
instructor English, U. Kansas, Lawrence, 1984-1987;
assistant professor, Eastern New Mexico U., Portales, 1987-1990;
associate Professor of English, Eastern New Mexico U., 1990-1994;
Professor of English, Eastern New Mexico U., since 1994. General editor, public The Scopcraeft Press, Portales, since 1966. Traveling writer Great Plains Book Bus, Fargo, 1980-1981.
Visiting assistant Professor of English Mankato (Minnesota) State University, 1982-1983. Poetry reader Cottonwood Magazine, Lawrence, Kansas, 1985-1987. Chair department language and literature Eastern New Mexico State University, since 1991.
('The shouting had stopped. They all stood rigid, their fa...)
Married Meriel Dorothy Batchelor Steines, August 18, 1962 (divorced April 1969).
