Sherman, Harold M
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1898-1987) US psychic researcher, journalist from about 1921, screenwriter, playwright and author whose first work of sf interest was The Land of Monsters (1931), an adventure featuring Dinosaurs as Monsters. In the Tahara sequence – Tahara, Boy King of the Desert (1933), Tahara Among African Tribes (1933), Tahara, Boy Mystic of India (1933) and Tahara in the Land of Yucatan (1933) – a young white boy parachutes into the Sahara and becomes king of the blue-eyed Stone Age inhabitants of a Lost World; subsequent novels take him and his companions to various lands (Atlantis is mentioned but not visited), where they solve various mysteries, sometimes by ESP, about which Sherman published considerable nonfiction, including How to Make ESP Work for You (1964).
He later became known almost exclusively as an sf author for work published in Amazing Stories in the 1940s, most notably The Green Man: A Visitor from Space (October 1946 Amazing; 1946) whose eponymous Alien (see Little Green Men) visits Earth, and its sequel, "The Green Man Returns" (December 1947 Amazing), both assembled as The Green Man and His Return: An Amazing UFO Pre-Vision of the Coming of the Space People (coll 1979), in which the eponymous Alien tries to bring peace to a recalcitrant Earth. [JC]
Harold Morrow Sherman
born Traverse City, Michigan: 13 July 1898
died Mountain View, Arizona: 19 August 1987
works
series
Tahara
- Tahara, Boy King of the Desert (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Company, 1933) [Tahara: hb/J Clemens Gretta]
- Tahara Among African Tribes (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Company, 1933) [Tahara: hb/J Clemens Gretta]
- Tahara, Boy Mystic of India (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Company, 1933) [Tahara: hb/J Clemens Gretta]
- Tahara in the Land of Yucatan (Chicago, Illinois: The Goldsmith Company, 1933) [Tahara: hb/J Clemens Gretta]
The Green Man
- The Green Man: A Visitor from Space (Chicago, Illinois: Century Publications, 1946) [first/simultaneously appeared October 1946 Amazing: Green Man: pb/]
- The Green Man and His Return: An Amazing UFO Pre-Vision of the Coming of the Space People (Amherst, Wisconsin: Amherst Press, for N Creamer and H Sherman, 1979) [coll: assembles The Green Man above plus "The Green Man Returns": the latter first appeared December 1947 Amazing: Green Man: pb/]
- The Green Man Returns (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2014) [first separate publication in book form: first appeared December 1947 Amazing: Green Man: pb/R G Jones]
individual titles
- The Land of Monsters (New York: Grosset and Dunlap, 1931) [illus/hb/Harold N Anderson]
- All Aboard for the Moon (Medford, Oregon: Armchair Fiction, 2016) [dos: first appeared April 1947 Amazing: pb/Julian S Krupa]
nonfiction (highly selected)
- How to Make ESP Work for You (Los Angeles, California: DeVorss and Company, 1964) [nonfiction: ESP: hb/]
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