Montague Summers wrote numerous books on witches, werewolves, vampires, black magic, and ghosts, and he edited and published numerous works and claimed to be a clergyman. But who was he, really? Research: <ul> <li>"(Alphonsus) (Joseph-Mary Augustus) Montague Summers." Merriam Webster's Biographical Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, 1995. Gale OneFile: Fine Arts, link.gale.com/apps/doc/K1680086368/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=03e855eb. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.</li> <li>Babcock, R.W. &ldquo;The Reverend Montague Summers as Editor of Otway.&rdquo; PMLA, Vol. 48, No. 3 (Sep., 1933). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/458356</li> <li>Batley, Rebecca. &ldquo;A Sacred Order for Sexual Outsiders.&rdquo; G&LR. March-April 2025. https://glreview.org/article/a-sacred-order-for-sexual-outsiders/</li> <li>Britannica Editors. "Oxford movement". Encyclopedia Britannica, 20 Aug. 2020, https://www.britannica.com/event/Oxford-movement. Accessed 8 October 20</li> <li>Davies, Robertson. "Summers, (Augustus) Montague [name in religion Alphonsus Joseph-Mary] (1880&ndash;1948), literary scholar, occultist, and eccentric." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. October 04, 2012. Oxford University Press. Date of access 7 Oct. 2026, https://www.oxforddnb.com/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-39387</li> <li>De Beer, E.S. &ldquo;Mr. Montague Summers and Dryden's Essay of Dramatic Poesy.&rdquo; The Review of English Studies , Oct., 1932, Vol. 8, No. 32 (Oct., 1932). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/508177</li> <li>Doherty, Bernard. &ldquo;From Decadent Diabolist to Roman Catholic Demonologist: Some Biographical Curiosities from Montague Summers&rsquo; Black Folio.&rdquo; Literature & Aesthetics 30 (2) 2020.</li> <li>Frank, Frederick S., editor. &ldquo;Montague Summers : a bibliographical portrait.&rdquo; Montague Summers : a bibliographical portrait. 1988.</li> <li>Hillard, David. &ldquo;UnEnglish and Unmanly: Anglo-Catholicism and Homosexuality.&rdquo; Victorian Studies, Winter, 1982, pp. 181-210. https://anglicanhistory.org/academic/hilliard_unenglish.pdf</li> <li>Hume, Robert D. &ldquo;The Uses of Montague Summers: A Pioneer Reconsidered.&rdquo; Restoration: Studies in English Literary Culture, 1660-1700, Fall 1979. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43291376</li> <li>Learning Services Team. &ldquo;The Mysterious Montague Summers.&rdquo; London Borough of Richmond and Thames Libraries. 10/31/2017. https://libraryblog.lbrut.org.uk/2017/10/montague-summers/</li> <li>Montague Summers Papers, GTM-110501. Georgetown University Manuscripts. https://findingaids.library.georgetown.edu/repositories/15/resources/12229 Accessed October 07, 2026.</li> <li>O'Sullivan, Gerard. &ldquo;The Manuscripts of Montague Summers, Revisited.&rdquo; Antigonish Review, Fall 2009, Issue 159.</li> <li>Sugg, Richard. &ldquo;Blood Libel: The Origins of a Conspiracy Theory.&rdquo; History Today. https://www.historytoday.com/archive/blood-libel-origins-conspiracy-theory</li> <li>Summers, Montague. &ldquo;The Vampire In Europe True Tales Of The Undead.&rdquo; With foreword by Father Brocard Sewell. University Books. 1968.</li> <li>Summers, Montague. &ldquo;The Vampire, His Kith and Kin.&rdquo; New Hyde Park, N.Y., University Books. 1960.</li> <li>"The mysterious Montague Summers." Bristol Post [Bristol, England], 14 Apr. 2020, p. 8. Gale OneFile: News, link.gale.com/apps/doc/A675410096/GPS?u=mlin_n_melpub&sid=bookmark-GPS&xid=28734f51. Accessed 7 Oct. 2026.</li> <li>Weeks, Jeffrey. &ldquo;Coming Out: Homosexual Politics in Britain from the Nineteenth Century to the Present.&rdquo; London. Quartet Books. 1977.</li> <li>Workman, Richard et al. &ldquo;British Sexological Society: An Inventory of Its Records at the Harry Ransom Center.&rdquo; Harry Ransom Center. https://research.hrc.utexas.edu/fasearch/findingAid.cfm?eadID=01214</li> </ul>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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