Nicholson, John
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of UK cleric and author Norman Howe Parcell (1885-1955), whose sf novel, Space Ship to Venus (1948), carries by Spaceship a crew of adventurers to Venus [see subtitle in Checklist]. Costello, Psychic Investigator (coll 1954), assembles occult fictions [for Occult Detectives see The Encyclopedia of Fantasy under links below]. [JC]
Norman Howe Parcell
born Manorbier, Pembrokeshire, Wales in June 1885
died Bath, Somerset: 19 October 1955
works
- Space Ship to Venus: Being an Account of an Amazing Journey Undertaken by Doctor Laviers, Scientist, Jeremy Cousins, Jack Carruthers, Donald Trew, and Job Winch, with a Record of some of their Strange Adventures on the Silver Planet (Bath, Somerset: Venturebooks, 1948) [hb/Serge Drigin]
- Costello, Psychic Investigator (Ilfracombe, Devon: Arthur H Stockwell, 1954) [coll: hb/]
links
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- The Encyclopedia of Fantasy: Occult Detectives
- Picture Gallery
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