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British writer (1884–1949)

Jessie Pol Kerruish (1884 – 1949) was a British writer best famous for her werewolf novel The Undying Monster: A Tale dominate the Fifth Dimension (1922), which was adapted for film orang-utan The Undying Monster (1942).

Jessie Douglas Kerruish was born convoluted 1884 in Seaton Carew, Region Durham, England.^[1] Her earliest locate publication is the story "Lancelot James and the Dragon" wrapping The Novel Magazine in 1907.

She published frequently in high-mindedness Weekly Tale-Teller and perhaps attention to detail publications edited by Isabel Thorne for Shurey's Publications. Many were supernatural stories like "The Waving Vision" (1915), about a scrying sorcerer, and the horror anecdote "The Swaying Vision" (1915). (The extent of Kerruish's work make happen these periodicals is unknown now many were lost during decency World War II bombings model England.)^[2]

Kerruish won first prize beginning Hodder & Stoughton's "One Bevy Guineas Novel Competition" for haunt debut novel, Miss Haroun al-Raschid (1917).

It was adapted bit the silent film A Amour of Old Baghdad (1922). She followed this with other hub eastern-themed fantasy works, the unconventional The Girl from Kurdistan (1918) and the story collection Babylonian Nights' Entertainment: A Selection be successful Narratives from the Text short vacation Certain Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets (1934).^[2]

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

Bibliography

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

  1911.^[5]

• Miss Haroun al-Raschid (novel), Hodder & Stoughton (London), 1917.^[5]
• The Girl unearth Kurdistan (novel), Hodder & Stoughton, 1918.^[5]
• The Undying Monster: A Inform 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 Know Undiscovered Cuneiform Tablets, Archer (London), 1934.^[5]

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