“Famous Fantastic Mysteries,” Vol. 3, No. 1 (April, 1941). Cover art by Virgil Finlay for Francis Stevens’ book-length novel, “Claimed.”
“What was the dread secret of the clouded emerald-like box with its blood-red, ‘sinking’ inscription? And what had it to do with the horror that threatened all connected with the eccentric millionaire who owned the box?”
The millionaire’s niece and doctor are “swept up into a nightmare chase across the Atlantic in a desperate battle with eldritch forces from a drowned kingdom.”
[Synopsis at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/4358436-claimed]
The novel first appeared in 1920 as a three-part serial in Argosy magazine. The author, Francis Stevens (pen name of Gertrude Barrows) has been called “the most gifted woman writer of science fiction and science fantasy between Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore.”
“Famous Fantastic Mysteries,” Vol. 3, No. 1 (April, 1941). Cover art by Virgil Finlay for Francis Stevens’ book-length novel, “Claimed.”
“What was the dread secret of the clouded emerald-like box with its blood-red, ‘sinking’ inscription? And what had it to do with the horror that threatened all connected with the eccentric millionaire who owned the box?”
The millionaire’s niece and doctor are “swept up into a nightmare chase across the Atlantic in a desperate battle with eldritch forces from a drowned kingdom.”
[Synopsis at Goodreads: www.goodreads.com/book/show/4358436-claimed]
The novel first appeared in 1920 as a three-part serial in Argosy magazine. The author, Francis Stevens (pen name of Gertrude Barrows) has been called “the most gifted woman writer of science fiction and science fantasy between Mary Shelley and C. L. Moore.”