HARRIS-BURLAND, J(ohn) B(urland)

(1870-1926)

   UK writer whose first novels of sf interest, Dacobra, or The White Priests of Ahriman (1903) and The Princess of Thora (1904 US; vt Dr Silex 1905 UK as JBH-B), were signed Harris Burland. The first tale sets in an occult frame a wide range of supernatural subjects including IMMORTALITY; the second, a LOST-WORLD novel, features a race of lostNormans who have developed into SUPERMEN in an enclave at the North Pole. The Gold Worshipers (1906 US), as JBH-B, returns to one of the subjects of the first novel - the transubstantiation of metals - in a congested tale of greed, gold-making and amply reimbursed remorse.

   JC

   Other works:

   Workers in Darkness (1908), borderline.