Amanda McKittrick Ros


 * Readers, did you ever hear
 * Of Mickey Monkeyface McBlear?
 * His snout is long with a flattish top
 * Lined inside with a slimy crop:
 * His mouth like a slit in a money box
 * Portrays his kindred to a fox.
 * &mdash;Amanda McKittrick Ros, from Poems of Puncture

Amanda McKittrick Ros was a turn of the (19th to 20th) century author, notorious for urple prose that is all but incomprehensible.

The Inklings, a group of writers including PPC favorites J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis, had a game in which they would read from her works aloud, and whoever kept a straight face the longest while reading won. In this respect, her works were treated much like The Eye of Argon is today.

Novels

 * Irene Iddesleigh
 * Delia Derbyshire
 * Helen Huddleston (posthumous)

Poetry anthologies

 * Poems of Puncture
 * Fumes of Formation