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A. Hyatt Verrill

Lifespan
1871 – 1954
Nationality
American
Active
1926 – 1927
Works held
2

A. Hyatt Verrill (1871–1954) was a genuine explorer and naturalist, a prolific author of popular science and travel, who also wrote colourful scientifiction for Gernsback’s Amazing Stories in the late 1920s, drawing on his archaeological and natural-history knowledge for lost-race and future-science tales. His real-world expertise gave his adventure fiction unusual texture.

The works

  1. 1927
    Cover of A voice from the inner world A voice from the inner world
  2. 1926
    Cover of Through the crater's rim Through the crater's rim

Wrote across

1920s

Recurring themes

Lost WorldFirst ContactHorror

Kindred authors shared themes

H. P. LovecraftHenry HasseHenry KuttnerMargaret St. ClairNelson S. BondRobert Moore WilliamsStephen MarloweAbraham Merritt

Contemporaries writing in the same era

Edgar Rice BurroughsH. P. LovecraftRay CummingsRobert E. HowardRuth Plumly ThompsonEdmond HamiltonVariousVictor AppletonJames Branch CabellMurray Leinster

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