(1869-1911) US author, married to Ella Sterling Mighels, who began to publish work of some genre interest with "The Polar Magnet" for Black Cat in 1896, and in whose Lost Race novel, The Crystal Sphere: A Story of Adventure (1901; vt The King of the Missing Links 1904; cut under original title 1906), a young man travels by Balloon to an undiscovered Island in the Pacific, where he finds two warring tribes of subhumans (> Evolution), becomes king of one tribe, releases a white woman from grave straits, escapes with her. [JC]

Philip Verrill Mighels

born Carson City, Nevada: 19 April 1869

died 12 October 1911

works

• The Crystal Sceptre: A Story of Adventure (New York: R F Fenno, 1901) [hb/]
  • The King of the Missing Links (New York: R F Fenno, 1904) [vt of the above: hb/]
  • The Crystal Sceptre: A Story of Adventure (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1906) [rev of the above: much cut: hb/]

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