Andom, R
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK author Alfred Walter Barrett (1869-? ), who remains best known for We Three and Troddles: A Tale of London Life (1894), to which he wrote numerous sequels, one of which, In Fear of a Throne (1911), is a Ruritanian fantasy; and for other light fiction in the mode of popular figures like Jerome K Jerome. His sf and fantasy were similarly derivative; titles of interest include The Strange Adventure of Roger Wilkins and Other Stories (coll 1895), The Identity Exchange: A Story of Some Odd Transformations (1902; vt The Marvellous Adventures of Me 1904), The Enchanted Ship: A Story of Mystery with a Lot of Imagination (1908) and The Magic Bowl, and the Blue-Stone Ring: Oriental Tales with Occi(or Acci)dental Fittings (coll 1909), all exhibiting an uneasy fin de siècle flippancy characteristic of F Anstey but with less weight. [JC]
Alfred Walter Barrett
born Lambeth, London: 1869
died uncertain; alive in June 1921 when he was jailed for two years for conspiring to corrupt public morals [see links below]
works
- The Strange Adventure of Roger Wilkins and Other Stories (London: Tylston and Edwards, 1895) [coll: hb/F Carruthers Gould]
- The Identity Exchange: A Story of Some Odd Transformations (London: Jarrold, 1902) [hb/C Harrison]
- The Marvellous Adventures of Me (London: Jarrold, 1904) [vt of above: hb/]
- The Enchanted Ship: A Story of Mystery with a Lot of Imagination (London: Cassell, 1908) [illus/hb/Louis Gunnis]
- The Magic Bowl, and the Blue-Stone Ring: Oriental Tales with Occi(or Acci)dental Fittings (London: Jarrold, 1909) [coll: hb/Louis Gunnis]
- In Fear of a Throne (London: Stanley Paul, 1911) [Troddles: hb/G W Wakefield]
- Neighbours of Mine (London: Stanley Paul, 1912) [coll: hb/Louis Gunnis]
links
- Bear Alley: "Alfred Walter Barrett (R. Andom)"
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Picture Gallery
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