CURTIS, Wardon Allan

(1867-1940)

   US writer, a contributor to several pre-sf fiction magazines. His most important sf is a short story about a brain transplant, "The Monster of Lake LaMetrie" (1899 The Windsor Magazine), in which the brain is human and the recipient body that of a prehistoric survival from a bottomless lake that may lead into a HOLLOW EARTH. WAC also wrote an Arabian-Nights fantasy, "The Seal of Solomon the Great" (1901 Argosy) and The Strange Adventures of Mr Middleton (coll 1903), which contains a mixture of Oriental fantasy and bizarre mystery.

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