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William Le Queux

Lifespan
1864 – 1927
Nationality
British
Active
1897 – 1910
Works held
4

William Le Queux (1864–1927) was a hugely popular journalist and thriller writer who helped invent the modern spy and invasion-scare novel. The Invasion of 1910, serialised in the Daily Mail with routes plotted across the English countryside, sold over a million copies and stoked pre-war German-invasion panic; Spies of the Kaiser fed the same fever. A prolific, sensational shaper of the future-war and espionage genres.

The works

  1. 1910
    Cover of The Invasion The Invasion Cover of The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London The Invasion of 1910, with a full account of the siege of London
  2. 1899
    Cover of The Bond of Black The Bond of Black
  3. 1897
    Cover of The Great War in England in 1897 The Great War in England in 1897

Wrote across

1890s1910s

Recurring themes

DystopiaMilitary SFFantasyHorror

Kindred authors shared themes

Fritz LeiberH. G. WellsAlan Edward NourseBryce WaltonCarl JacobiEdmond HamiltonEvelyn E. SmithGeorge Chetwynd Griffith

Contemporaries writing in the same era

H. G. WellsEdgar Rice BurroughsL. Frank BaumLuis SenarensLord DunsanyVictor AppletonWilliam MorrisArthur Conan DoyleAlgernon BlackwoodBram Stoker

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