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Captain Gordon Bates is a pseudonym for American author Josephine Chase. Born about 1878 in Pennsylvania to Edward H. Chase and Mary Arrner Chase. Chase was the author of the popular Grace Harlowe series of 27 books for girls, written between 1910 and 1924. The books fall into four separate series, including a high school series, college series, Overseas series, and Overland Riders series. Chase died February 8, 1931 in Philadelphia. She never...

Willard F. Baker was an American author of children's books, particularly adventure stories for boys. He wrote two well known series' of books: The Boy Ranchers series and the Bob Dexter series. Amongst his works are: The Boy Ranchers (1921), The Boy Ranchers in Camp (1921), The Boy Ranchers on the Trail (1921), The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians (1921), The Boy Ranchers in the Desert (1924) and Western Stories for Boys (1934). The Boy Rancher...

Bernard Edward Joseph Capes (30 August 1854 - 2 November 1918) was an English author. Capes was born in London. Capes was a prolific Victorian author, publishing more than forty volumes - romances, mysteries, poetry, history - together with many articles for the magazines of the day. His early writing career was as a journalist, later becoming editor of the monthly magazine The Theatre, the most highly regarded British dramatic periodical of i...

John Carling was a writer of historical fiction novels. He is best known for his novel The Doomed City (1910). His other works include: The Shadow of the Czar (1902), The Viking's Skull (1904), The Weird Picture (1905) and By Neva's Waters (1907).

Edward Frederic Benson (24 July 1867 - 29 February 1940) was an English novelist, biographer, memoirist, archaeologist and short story writer. Benson's first book published was Sketches From Marlborough. He started his novel writing career with the (then) fashionably controversial Dodo (1893), which was an instant success, and followed it with a variety of satire and romantic and supernatural melodrama. He repeated the success of Dodo, which f...

Willard F. Baker was an American author of children's books, particularly adventure stories for boys. He wrote two well known series' of books: The Boy Ranchers series and the Bob Dexter series. Amongst his works are: The Boy Ranchers (1921), The Boy Ranchers in Camp (1921), The Boy Ranchers on the Trail (1921), The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians (1921), The Boy Ranchers in the Desert (1924) and Western Stories for Boys (1934). The Boy Rancher...

Willard F. Baker was an American author of children's books, particularly adventure stories for boys. He wrote two well known series' of books: The Boy Ranchers series and the Bob Dexter series. Amongst his works are: The Boy Ranchers (1921), The Boy Ranchers in Camp (1921), The Boy Ranchers on the Trail (1921), The Boy Ranchers Among the Indians (1921), The Boy Ranchers in the Desert (1924) and Western Stories for Boys (1934). The Boy Rancher...

Beautiful Joe was a dog from the town of Meaford, Ontario, whose story inspired the bestselling 1893 novel Beautiful Joe, which contributed to worldwide awareness of animal cruelty. The real Beautiful Joe was an Airedale-type dog. He was medium-sized, brown, and described as likely being part bull terrier and part fox terrier. He was also described as a mongrel, a cur, and a mutt. He was originally owned by a local Meaford man, who cruelly abu...

The night mail for the Continent stood ready to glide out of the London terminus, the leave-taking friends assembled in small groups upon the platform before the carriage doors were reiterating last messages and once more exchanging promises to 'write, ' when a hard-featured, thick-set gentleman who had been peering out of a second-class window drew back with a slight exclamation of annoyance or disappointment, and sank into a corner seat. Har...

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 - 13 August 1946) was an English writer. Prolific in many genres, he wrote dozens of novels, short stories, and works of social commentary, history, satire, biography and autobiography. His work also included two books on recreational war games. Wells is now best remembered for his science fiction novels and is often called the "father of science fiction", along with Jules Verne and the publisher Hugo Ge...

Lucy Fitch Perkins (1865-1937) was an American illustrator and writer of children's books. Fitch started to write children's fiction on a freelance basis for Young Folks. In 1906, she published her first work, The Goose Girl, a collection of children's rhymes. A year later, she followed with A Book of Joys: A Story of a New England Summer, but both works had limited popular appeal. In 1911, she published The Dutch Twins, her first major work. ...

A legend differs from an historical narrative only in this-that it is without documentary evidence of authenticity. It is the offspring solely of tradition. Its details may be true in part or in whole. There may be no internal evidence to the contrary, or there may be internal evidence that they are altogether false. But neither the possibility of truth in the one case, nor the certainty of falsehood in the other, can remove the traditional na...

Allen Chapman" began as a pseudonym for stories written by Edward Stratemeyer and evolved into a pen name for several Stratemeyer Syndicate series. It was used for: The Ralph of the Railroad series (1906-1928), The Boys of Business series (1906-1911), The Darewell Chums series (1908-1911), The Fred Fenton series (1913-1915), The Tom Fairfield series (1913-1915) and The Radio Boys series (1922-1930).

The Fall of the House of Usher" is a short story by American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1839 in Burton's Gentleman's Magazine, then included in the collection Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque in 1840. The short story, a work of Gothic fiction, includes themes of madness, family, isolation, and metaphysical identities. Poe's inspiration for the story may be based upon events of the Hezekiah Usher House, which was located on ...

Robert Ervin Howard (1906-1936) was an American pulp writer of fantasy, horror, historical adventure, boxing, western, and detective fiction. He is well known for having created the character Conan the Cimmerian, a literary icon whose pop-culture imprint can be compared to such icons as Tarzan of the Apes, Sherlock Holmes, and James Bond. Voracious reading, along with a natural talent for prose writing and the encouragement of teachers, conspi...

After the demise of Lemuria, new races emerged on Atlantis from the surviving ape-like creatures. This led to the Atlantean races, beginning with the black skinned "Rmoahal" and leading to the "copper coloured" Tlavatli, who were ancestor-worshippers, and then the "Toltecs", who had advanced technology including "airships". The Toltecs were succeeded by "First Turanians" and then "Original Semites". These later produced further sub-races, the ...