HOME-GALL, William Benjamin
- HOME-GALL, William Benjamin
(1861-1936)
UK writer, much of whose work was boys' fiction, including Beyond the Northern Lights (1903) as by Reginald Wray, a LOST-WORLD tale set near the North Pole. The Dweller in the Half-Light (1923), also as by Wray, is fantasy for adults. WBH-G's son, Edward Reginald Home-Gall(1899-1975), was the most prolific of all authors of boys' stories next to Frank Richards (usual pseudonym of Charles Hamilton (1876-1961), and was responsible for two Human Bat tales: "Caught in the Spider's Web" (1950) and The Human Bat v. the Robot Gangster (1950).
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Science Fiction and Fantasy Encyclopedia.
Academic.
2011.
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