Marshall, Edison
Entry updated 25 November 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1894-1967) US author and big-game hunter, in active service during World War One; best known for his work outside the sf field, especially his many historical novels, though he began publishing sf early in his career with "Who is Charles Avison?" (April 1916 Argosy), an early Counter-Earth tale; the From a Frontiersman's Diary series (August 1919-January 1920 Blue Book) featured stories involving the strange and/or the supernatural. Some of his early novels verge on Lost Race territory, such as The Splendid Quest (1934). The narrator of Ogden's Strange Story (24 March-14 April 1928 Popular Magazine as "Og, the Dawn Man"; 1934) suffers a head injury and Timeslips into the deep past, becoming a proto-man named Og and having various Prehistoric SF adventures in that role. Dian of the Lost Land (1935; vt The Lost Land 1972), the best regarded of his early work, is a romantically told tale of a Lost World in the Antarctica housing Neanderthals, Cro-Magnons and mammoths. Of his later fiction, some of the tales assembled in Love Stories of India (coll 1950) are supernatural, and The Pagan King (1959) is an Arthurian tale of fantasy interest [see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below], and Earth Giant (1960) is about Hercules. [JC/PN]
Edison Tesla Marshall
born Rensselaer, Indiana: 29 August 1894
died Augusta, Georgia: 29 October 1967
works
- The Death Bell (Garden City, New York: Garden City Publishing Co, 1924) [hb/]
- The Sleeper of the Moonlit Ranges (New York: Cosmopolitan Book Co, 1925) [hb/]
- The Light in the Jungle (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1933) [hb/]
- The Splendid Quest (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1934) [hb/]
- Ogden's Strange Story (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1934) [hb/]
- Sam Campbell, Gentleman (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1935) [hb/]
- Dian of the Lost Land (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1935) [hb/Ferdinand E Warren]
- The Lost Land (New York: Curtis Books, 1972) [vt of the above: pb/]
- The Stolen God (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1936) [hb/]
- Darzee, Girl of India (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1937) [hb/]
- The White Brigand (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1937) [hb/]
- The Jewel of Mahabar (New York: H C Kinsey and Co, 1938) [hb/]
- Castle in the Swamp: A Tale of Old Carolina (New York: Farrar, Straus and Co, 1948) [hb/]
- The Pagan King (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1959) [hb/]
- Earth Giant (Garden City, New York: Doubleday and Company, 1960) [hb/]
collections and stories
- Love Stories of India (New York: Farrar, Straus and Company, 1950) [coll: hb/]
links
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Project Gutenberg
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Arthur
- Picture Gallery
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