Dent, John Charles

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1841-1888) UK-born author in Canada from early childhood, of whose The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales (coll 1888) the title story – "The Gerrard Street Mystery" (May 1877 Belford's Monthly) – is a tale of Precognition. Of the other three long tales, "The Haunted House on Duchess Street" is a ghost story. [JC]

John Charles Dent

born Kendal, Westmorland: 8 November 1841

died Canada: 27 September 1888

works

• The Gerrard Street Mystery and Other Weird Tales (Toronto, Ontario: Rose Publishing Company, 1888) [coll: hb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive