Name: Claimed
Price: 44.46 RON
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Author: Francis Stevens
ISBN: 9781513281971

Claimed

Francis Stevens

Claimed opens with the recovery of a mysterious artifact, a strange box bearing an undecipherable inscription, from an uncharted island following an undersea volcanic explosion that nearly dooms the ship that discovers it. Brought back to civilization, the box is purchased by a crotchety old millionaire who quickly comes to regret it. Horrible apparitions of the sea appear at night and frightening dreams plague the old man, his niece and the young doctor who's serving him. While the doctor does what he can to learn of the box's origin and the meaning of the strange writing, the nonstop macabre visions, and occasional deaths, that have appeared in the box's wake eventually lead to the abduction of the old man and his niece by persons unknown. In pursuit of his employer across the high seas, the doctor learns of the box's evil origins from the mad sailor who originally found it. ""One of the strangest and most compelling science fantasy novels you will ever read""

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Pioneering author Francis Stevens was a groundbreaking innovator in the early twentieth century when the boundaries of science fiction and fantasy were still being defined and explored. She has been called the mother of dark fantasy, dubbed the most influential woman writing between the times of Mary Shelley, and C.L. Moore. She wrote contemporary to Burroughs, Merrit, and Lovecraft. Francis Stevens, so named by her publisher, was born Gertrude M. Barrows in 1883. The multi-talented Gertrude aspired to be an illustrator but ultimately worked as a stenographer. Her first published short story, "The Curious Experience of Thomas Dunbar," appeared in the pulp magazine Argosy in 1904, under G.M. Barrows, making her the first American woman to publish science fiction using her own name. Gertrude was married in 1909 then widowed a year later. Her work was largely published in pulp magazines between 1917 and 1923, in efforts to support her young daughter and ailing mother during the influenza epidemic. She published six novels and seven short stories, prominent among them, Claimed, The Citadel of Fear, and "Friend Island" (All-Story Weekly, 1918). For unknown reasons, Gertrude quit writing in 1923 and disappeared from the public eye until her death in 1948.