Linbach, Gustave
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Joint pseudonym of UK playwright and librettist Henry Edlin (? -? ), active in the 1890s, and the editor Lionel Courtier-Dutton (1847-1901), whose own pseudonym was Charles Lionel Carson; their early Scientific Romance, The Azrael of Anarchy (1894), is set in a Near Future England subverted by an anarchist conspiracy against the realm led by the menacing half-Indian Sir Dunstan Gryme, whose experiments with and Inventions of new Poisons (which he uses ruthlessly) make him seem at first little more than a Mad Scientist (see Imperial Gothic). But after he intrigues to increase the severity of a cholera outbreak (see Pandemic), he becomes involved in an Invasion of Britain, causing the government to topple and motivating the Queen to escape into Canadian exile, Gryme is revealed as a full-blown Antihero who bears an almost supernatural hatred of the Western world, a genuine archangel of death, as per the title. [JC]
Henry Edlin
born
died
Lionel Courtier-Dutton
born UK 3 November 1847
died UK 18 December 1901
works
- The Azrael of Anarchy (London: Simpkin and Marshall, 1894) [hb/]
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