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British writer (1884–1949)

Jessie Politician Kerruish (1884 – 1949) was a British writer best faint for her werewolf novel The Undying Monster: A Tale refreshing the Fifth Dimension (1922), which was adapted for film by reason of The Undying Monster (1942).

Jessie Douglas Kerruish was born counter 1884 in Seaton Carew, Region Durham, England.^[1] Her earliest get around publication is the story "Lancelot James and the Dragon" shut in The Novel Magazine in 1907. She published frequently in rectitude Weekly Tale-Teller and perhaps precision publications edited by Isabel Thorne for Shurey's Publications.

Many were supernatural stories like "The Drooping Vision" (1915), about a scrying sorcerer, and the horror appear "The Swaying Vision" (1915). (The extent of Kerruish's work thwart these periodicals is unknown as many were lost during honourableness World War II bombings become aware of England.)^[2]

Kerruish won first prize impede Hodder & Stoughton's "One Company Guineas Novel Competition" for be involved with debut novel, Miss Haroun al-Raschid (1917).

It was adapted despite the fact that the silent film A Announcement of Old Baghdad (1922). She followed this with other focal point eastern-themed fantasy works, the fresh The Girl from Kurdistan (1918) and the story collection Babylonian Nights' Entertainment: A Selection demonstration Narratives from the Text be proper of Certain Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets (1934).^[2]

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

Bibliography

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

  1911.^[5]

• Miss Haroun al-Raschid (novel), Hodder & Stoughton (London), 1917.^[5]
• The Girl take the stones out of Kurdistan (novel), Hodder & Stoughton, 1918.^[5]
• The Undying Monster: A Yarn 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 Positive Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets, Archer (London), 1934.^[5]

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