![]() ![]() Highly selected most Nick Carter stories are non-fantastic. Frederick Van Rensselaer Deyīorn Watkins Glen, New York: 10 February 1861 After his career collapsed with the demise of the dime-novel market (see Dime-Novel SF), he committed suicide. ![]() It is highly unlikely that his bibliography will ever be fully established, so that his importance for the nineteenth-century American literature of the fantastic is more a matter of assertion than sure knowledge. He also wrote stories, of various kinds, as by Rose Beckman, Marmaduke Dey, Frederick Ormund, Dirck Van Doren, Varick Venardy, and under many other names, including the House Name Bertha M Clay. With all the global traumas of the last five years, and Carter’s 40th birthday in the picture, Nick finally decides to do some professional soul-searching. ![]() ![]() How could that be bad The really interesting aspect of this volume in the series is that Nick Williams finally looks inward. (1861-1922) US lawyer and author who began to write fiction as early as 1881 under various names, and as Chickering Carter – see under that name for further details – was a central contributor to, and almost certainly the best author to be involved in, the Nick Carter series (see Nick Carter), writing at least 400 stories of varying length for the sequence. Nick gets to be Nick and our boys get to grow beards. ![]()
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