The main character’s nickname, Flin Flon, was adopted for a town in Manitoba, Canada when a vein of copper was discovered by a lake there. (It would be interesting to know which sold better?) His novel The Sunless City (1905) tells of voyagers to a world under a lake. His horror stories appeared in two books: Stories, Weird and Wonderful(tales taken from folklore) and Tales of Terror (a collection of his own inventions), both published in 1899, one under his real name and the other Dick Donovan. His horror fiction is less remembered than his 300 mysteries, some appearing in The Strand between Sherlock Holmes stories. Later he used the name as a pseudonym, beating Ellery Queen by over thirty years. Muddock was an English journalist who turned to the writing of mystery stories featuring a detective called Dick Donovan. I got to thinking there are some pretty good horror stories you may have missed too. I did a series of Sword & Sorcery tales that people might not have encountered.
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