Smythe, Alfred

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(?   -?   ) UK author of A New Faust (1896; vt Van Hoff; Or, the New Faust 1897), whose protagonist discovers the secret of Immortality, which is given to him in a dream – or, perhaps, a binding vision of a Faustian bargain – by the Devil (see Horror in SF). He does not long enjoy his growing youthfulness. [JC]

Alfred Smythe

born

works

• A New Faust (London: Digby, Long and Company, 1896) [hb/]
  • Van Hoff; Or, the New Faust (New York: American Publishers Corporation, 1897) [vt of the above: hb/]

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