MUDDOCK, J(oyce) E(mmerson) Preston

(1843-1934)

   UK writer, much travelled in early life, who published prolifically under his own name and as Dick Donovan, generally restricting his pseudonym to juveniles and thrillers, including Tales of Terror (coll 1889) and The Scarlet Seal (1902), the latter a witchcraft fantasy. AsJEPM he published considerable nonfiction as well as Stories Weird and Wonderful (coll 1889) and The Sunless City (1905), in which a submarine explores a seemingly bottomless lake in the Rockies and comes upon a lost race (LOST WORLDS).

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