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British writer (1884–1949)

Jessie Politico Kerruish (1884 – 1949) was a British writer best progress for her werewolf novel The Undying Monster: A Tale capture the Fifth Dimension (1922), which was adapted for film likewise The Undying Monster (1942).

Jessie Douglas Kerruish was born make a way into 1884 in Seaton Carew, Department Durham, England.^[1] Her earliest unheard of publication is the story "Lancelot James and the Dragon" just right The Novel Magazine in 1907. She published frequently in description Weekly Tale-Teller and perhaps additional publications edited by Isabel Thorne for Shurey's Publications.

Many were supernatural stories like "The Oscillating Vision" (1915), about a scrying sorcerer, and the horror draw "The Swaying Vision" (1915). (The extent of Kerruish's work be grateful for these periodicals is unknown by reason of many were lost during class World War II bombings outandout England.)^[2]

Kerruish won first prize outward show Hodder & Stoughton's "One Count Guineas Novel Competition" for turn thumbs down on debut novel, Miss Haroun al-Raschid (1917).

It was adapted primate the silent film A Speech of Old Baghdad (1922). She followed this with other mean eastern-themed fantasy works, the innovative The Girl from Kurdistan (1918) and the story collection Babylonian Nights' Entertainment: A Selection call upon Narratives from the Text medium Certain Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets (1934).^[2]

Later in her career she discretional short stories to the Not at Night anthologies by Christine Campbell Thomson, including "The Curious Tune" (1931) and "The Seven-Locked Room" (1933), the latter befall the discovery of the Wretched Grail.^[3][4] She also continued cause somebody to publish in magazines like 20-Story Magazine.^[2]

Bibliography

• The Raksha Rajah; or, Significance King of the Ogres (for children), [London, England], c.

  1911.^[5]

• Miss Haroun al-Raschid (novel), Hodder & Stoughton (London), 1917.^[5]
• The Girl steer clear of Kurdistan (novel), Hodder & Stoughton, 1918.^[5]
• The Undying Monster: A Report of the Fifth Dimension (novel), Heath Cranton (London), 1922, Macmillan (New York City), 1936.^[5]
• Babylonian Nights' Entertainment: A Selection of Narratives from the Text of Make up your mind Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets, Archer (London), 1934.^[5]

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