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Underwood, Edna W

(1873-1961) US translator, poet and author, of sf interest primarily for some of the tales assembled as A Book of Dear Dead Women (coll 1911; exp vt Dear Dead Woman: The Weird Stories of Edna W Underwood 2010). In "The Painter of Dead Women" (January 1910 The Hot Set), a painter uses mesmerism (see Hypnosis) to put beautiful women who fit the needs of his Art into Suspended Animation, from which he declines to awaken them; and in "The Mirror of La Granja", similarly, an alchemist's device is used to trap human spirits, in a kind of proto-time stasis (see Stasis Field). [JC]

Edna Worthley Underwood

born Maine: January 1873

died 14 June 1961

works (highly selected)

• A Book of Dear Dead Women (Boston, Massachusetts: Little, Brown and Company, 1911) [coll: hb/]
  • Dear Dead Woman: The Weird Stories of Edna W Underwood (Leyburn, North Yorkshire: Tartarus Press, 2010) [coll: exp vt of the above: with one story added: edited by S T Joshi: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 05:00 am on 24 April 2024.
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