CUMMINS, Harle Owen

   US writer who has not been traced with any security, but if precocious was almost certainly the HOC whose dates are (1884-1973). Of those stories collected in Welsh Rarebit Tales (coll 1902) at least 4, including "The Man who Made a Man" and "The Space Annihilator", have considerable sf interest. In the latter story a MATTER TRANSMITTER is introduced. Other tales are generally FANTASY, some showing the influence of Ambrose BIERCE.

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