Stringer, Arthur
Entry updated 14 April 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1874-1950) Canadian poet and author, in the US from 1898; prolific in several genres from 1894, though he concentrated on survival tales set in the northern wilderness of his native land. The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (coll 1919) and The Wolf Woman (1928) are fantasy. Of sf interest are a film tie, The Story Without a Name (1924) with Russell Holman, in which a Death Ray appears, an Invention duly sought after by a sizeable passel of Villains; and The Woman Who Couldn't Die (1929), whose Viking heroine – after being abducted, committing a kind of suicide, and spending 900 years in Suspended Animation in crevice in a northern-Canadian Lost World inhabited by blond Eskimos whose culture is based upon worshipping her – is Rejuvenated through blood transfusions injected by a Mad Scientist, only to fall fatally in love with one of his fellow intruders into the lost world. [JC]
Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer
born Chatham, Ontario: 26 February 1874
died Mountain Lakes, New Jersey: 14 September 1950
works
- The Man Who Couldn't Sleep (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1919) [coll: hb/]
- The Story Without a Name (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1924) with Russell Holman [tie to the film: The Story Without a Name (1924): hb/]
- The Wolf Woman (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1928) [hb/]
- The Woman Who Couldn't Die (Indianapolis, Indiana: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, 1929) [hb/uncredited]
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