McLaren, Jack
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1884-1954) Australian author, in UK in later life, prolific in various genres, specializing in adventure tales, some of them exotic. Of direct sf interest is The Devil of the Depths: A Strange Story of the South Seas (1935), whose protagonist encounters a number of challenges Under the Sea and on a mysterious South Pacific Island, including Monsters, sentient flora, and the ruins of a Lost Race village. [JC]
John McLaren
born Fitzroy, Victoria: 13 October 1884
died Brighton, East Sussex: 16 May 1954
works (selected)
- Isle of Escape: A Story of the South Seas (London: T Fisher Unwin, 1926) [hb/]
- The Chain (New York: Curtiss Press, 1927) [vt of the above: hb/]
- The Devil of the Depths: A Strange Story of the South Seas (London: Philip Alan, 1935) [hb/uncredited]
- Stories of Fear (London: Pendulum, 1946) [coll: chap: pb/uncredited]
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