Kelley, Francis Clement
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1870-1948) Canadian-born priest and author, in the USA after about 1890, whose The City and the World and Other Stories (coll 1913) includes an Afterlife fantasy, "The Flaming Cross" [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below] and a Tale of Circulation, "The Autobiography of a Dollar". His sf novel, Problem Island (1937), is set on a tropical Island where a Lost Race is found, and perhaps saved. In Pack Rat: A Metaphoric Phantasy (1942), pale Rats Parody humans, but lack souls. [JC]
Bishop Francis Clement Kelley
born Vernon River, Prince Edward Island: 23 October 1870
died Oklahoma City, Oklahoma: 1 February 1948
works
- Problem Island (Patterson, New Jersey: St Anthony Guild Press, 1937) [hb/]
- Pack Rat: A Metaphoric Phantasy (Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Bruce Publishing Co, 1942) [hb/]
collections
- The City and the World and Other Stories (Chicago, Illinois: Extension Press, 1913) [coll: hb/]
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