BARR, Robert

BARR, Robert
(1850-1912)
   Scottish editor and a popular and prolific writer. His early catastrophe story in The IDLER (which he edited), "The Doom of London" (1892), deals with fog and POLLUTION. It was reprinted in The Face \& the Mask (coll 1894), which contains several other sf and fantasy stories, as does In a Steamer Chair and Other Shipboard Stories (coll 1892). Other works: From whose Bourne (1893); Revenge! (coll 1896); Tekla: A Romance of Love and War (1898 Canada; vt The Countess Tekla 1899 UK).See also: CANADA.

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