STRINGER, Arthur (John Arbuthnott)

(1874-1956)

   Canadian writer prolific in several genres from 1894, though he concentrated on the Canadian genre of survival tales set in the northern wilds. The Man who Couldn't Sleep (coll 1919 US) and The Wolf Woman (1928 US) are fantasy. Of sf interest are a film tie, The Storywithout a Name * (1924) with Russell Holman, in which a DEATH RAY appears, and The Woman who Couldn't Die (1929 US), whose Viking heroine, after spending 900 years in an ice-floe in a LOST WORLD (inhabited by blond Eskimos whose culture is based upon worshipping her) in northern Canada,is resurrected through blood transfusions injected by a mad scientist, only to fall fatally in love with one of his fellow intruders into the lost world.

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