CORBETT, James

CORBETT, James
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   UK author of popular thrillers specifically written for the lending-library market. His The Devil Man from Mars (1935) is an interplanetary novel with a poor scientific background (or perhaps it was intended as a parody) in which a Martian, equipped with death rays and hypnotic powers, travels to Earth with, literally, the wind at his back all the way. More sophisticated in content is The Man who Saw the Devil (1934), a rewrite of Robert Louis STEVENSON's Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886), in which neither personality is aware of the other's existence. Many of his other works contain some elements of sf and the weird-Vampire of the Skies (1932), The Monster of Dagenham Hall (1935), The Death Pool (1936), The Man They Could not Kill (1936), The Man with Nine Lives (1938) The Moon Killer (1938) and The Ghost Plane (1939) - but none has any real importance.
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