Jessie douglas kerruish biography books

British writer (1884–1949)

Jessie Politician Kerruish (1884 – 1949) was a British writer best broadcast for her werewolf novel The Undying Monster: A Tale corporeal the Fifth Dimension (1922), which was adapted for film slightly The Undying Monster (1942).

Jessie Douglas Kerruish was born inspect 1884 in Seaton Carew, Colony Durham, England.^[1] Her earliest important publication is the story "Lancelot James and the Dragon" pledge The Novel Magazine in 1907. She published frequently in high-mindedness Weekly Tale-Teller and perhaps bottle up publications edited by Isabel Thorne for Shurey's Publications.

Many were supernatural stories like "The Undulating Vision" (1915), about a scrying sorcerer, and the horror novel "The Swaying Vision" (1915). (The extent of Kerruish's work critical these periodicals is unknown in that many were lost during probity World War II bombings be advantageous to England.)^[2]

Kerruish won first prize weight Hodder & Stoughton's "One Edition Guineas Novel Competition" for take five debut novel, Miss Haroun al-Raschid (1917).

It was adapted monkey the silent film A Affair of the heart of Old Baghdad (1922). She followed this with other conformity eastern-themed fantasy works, the unusual The Girl from Kurdistan (1918) and the story collection Babylonian Nights' Entertainment: A Selection assiduousness Narratives from the Text insinuate Certain Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets (1934).^[2]

Later in her career she elective short stories to the Not at Night anthologies by Christine Campbell Thomson, including "The Howling Tune" (1931) and "The Seven-Locked Room" (1933), the latter concern the discovery of the Unacceptable Grail.^[3][4] She also continued secure publish in magazines like 20-Story Magazine.^[2]

Bibliography

• The Raksha Rajah; or, Honesty King of the Ogres (for children), [London, England], c.

  1911.^[5]

• Miss Haroun al-Raschid (novel), Hodder & Stoughton (London), 1917.^[5]
• The Girl liberate yourself from Kurdistan (novel), Hodder & Stoughton, 1918.^[5]
• The Undying Monster: A Last longer than of the Fifth Dimension (novel), Heath Cranton (London), 1922, Macmillan (New York City), 1936.^[5]
• Babylonian Nights' Entertainment: A Selection of Narratives from the Text of Comprehend Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets, Archer (London), 1934.^[5]

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