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Francis Stevens


Born
in Minneapolis, Minnesota, The United States
September 18, 1883

Died
February 02, 1948

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Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1883–1948) was the first major female writer of fantasy and science fiction in the United States, publishing her stories under the pseudonym Francis Stevens. Bennett wrote a number of highly acclaimed fantasies between 1917 and 1923 and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy." Among her most famous books are Claimed (which H. P. Lovecraft called "One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read")[4] and the lost world novel The Citadel of Fear. Bennett also wrote an early dystopian novel, The Heads of Cerberus (1919).

Gertrude Mabel Barrows was born in Minneapolis in 1883. She completed school through the eighth grade, then attended night school in hopes of becoming an
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The Heads of Cerberus

3.35 avg rating — 410 ratings — published 1919 — 157 editions
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The Citadel of Fear

3.35 avg rating — 178 ratings — published 1913 — 61 editions
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Unseen Unfeared

3.36 avg rating — 44 ratings — published 1919 — 9 editions
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Friend Island

3.43 avg rating — 42 ratings — published 1917 — 13 editions
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Serapion

3.77 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1920 — 16 editions
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The Nightmare and Other Tal...

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Unseen - Unfeared, and Behi...

3.47 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2008
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Island of Nightmares

3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 2009
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Nightmare! A Tale of Waking...

3.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2003 — 26 editions
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Collected Works of Francis ...

3.82 avg rating — 11 ratings — published 2014
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“When our poor, faultily sensitive vision can perceive a thing, we say that it is visible. When the nerves of touch can feel it, we say that it is tangible. Yet I tell you there are beings intangible to our physical sense, yet whose presence is felt by the spirit, and invisible to our eyes merely because those organs are not attuned to the light as reflected from their bodies. But light passed through the screen, which we are about to use has a wavelength novel to the scientific world, and by it you shall see with the eyes of the flesh that which has been invisible since life began. Have no fear! ("Unseen - Unfeared")”
Francis Stevens, American Fantastic Tales: Terror and the Uncanny from Poe to the Pulps

“They curtailed the education of the people as needless and too expensive. When the people complained, they placated them by abolishing all grades above the primary and turning the schools into dance halls and free moving-picture theaters.”
Francis Stevens, The Heads of Cerberus

“I seen things I dassn’t tell of; and I’ve walked the streets of Tremont when the walls of the ten red cities seemed crashin’ all about me. I’ve stood on the docks by the river and seen the river spread and stretch out wide—wide and purple-blue, like the seas is way south. And I’ve seen his white horses come in, with the blood streamin’ free from their throats. And I’ve seen—him—stalkin’ across the waters.”
Francis Stevens, Claimed

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