McKeag, Ernest L
Entry updated 28 October 2024. Tagged: Author.
(1896-1974) UK author, in active service during World War One, who began writing boys' fiction in 1921, some of it featuring the occasional sf McGuffin and several Lost Worlds. In his later career he published many non-sf novels under the House Name "Griff". The Lost City of the Sierras (1927 chap) is a Lost World tale set Underground; Invaded by Mars (1934) and Terror from the Stratosphere (1937), both as by Jack Maxwell, are juvenile sf. The Shuna sequence – Shuna, White Queen of the Jungle (1951) and Shuna and the Lost Tribe (1951), both as by John King – rounds up the usual suspects: Lost Races, Psi Powers and so forth. The first of these tales has an sf flavour: asteroid-dwelling space beetles invade, kidnap an Inca city and take off with it for the Moon. [JC]
Ernest Lionel McKeag
born Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: 19 September 1896
died London: June 1974
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Shuna
- Shuna, White Queen of the Jungle (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Harborough Publishing Co, 1951) as by John King [Shuna: pb/Reginald Heade]
- Shuna and the Lost Tribe (Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: Harborough Publishing Co, 1951) as by John King [Shuna: pb/Reginald Heade]
individual titles
- The Lost City of the Sierras (London: Aldine Publishing Co, 1927) [chap: pb/]
- Invaded by Mars (London: Amalgamated Press, 1934) as by Jack Maxwell [chap: first appeared 23 April-16 July 1932 Champion: in the publisher's Champion Library series: pb/]
- Terror from the Stratosphere (London: Amalgamated Press, 1937) as by Jack Maxwell [chap: first appeared February 1937 Champion: in the publisher's Champion Library series: pb/]
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