STACPOOLE, H(enry) de Vere

(1865-1951)

   UK author best known for his South Sea romances, including non-sf ROBINSONADES like, most famously, The Blue Lagoon (1908), filmed in 1948 and 1980. His LOST-WORLD novel is The City in the Sea (1926). Hewrote several weird novels: Death, the Knight, and the Lady (1897), The Man who Lost Himself (1918), The Ghost Girl (1918) and The Sunstone(1936). His sf proper was generally restricted to the magazines; it includes a world- DISASTER story, "The White Eye" (1918). The Story of My Village (1947), his only sf novel proper, depicts a plague of blindnesswhich stops progress short, saving the world from nuclear HOLOCAUST.

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   Other works: The Vengeance of Mynheer Van Lik (coll 1934).