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Author: Francis Stevens

Gertrude Barrows Bennett (1884 – 1948), known by the pseudonym Francis Stevens, was a pioneering author of fantasy and (proto-)science fiction. Bennett wrote a number of stories between 1917 and 1923, and has been called "the woman who invented dark fantasy." (Note that Clare Winger Harris, the first woman to contribute under her own name to the first sf magazine, Amazing Stories, would not begin writing until 1926.) Stevens was an important influence on later sf writers, including A. Merritt.

UNSEEN — UNFEARED (10)

By: Francis Stevens

“You confuse your memories.”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (9)

By: Francis Stevens

“Thank God you’re alive to hear the explanation.”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (8)

By: Francis Stevens

“I could abolish my monster-creating self.”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (7)

By: Francis Stevens

“I perceived a great Thing coming toward me…”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (6)

By: Francis Stevens

“Dull white with a faint hint of opalescence…”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (5)

By: Francis Stevens

“Have no fear at all—of anything!”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (4)

By: Francis Stevens

“And I’m to be sole audience?”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (3)

By: Francis Stevens

“A face so expressive of pure, malicious cruelty…”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (2)

By: Francis Stevens

“SEE THE GREAT UNSEEN!”

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UNSEEN — UNFEARED (1)

By: Francis Stevens

“I suspect he’s been guilty of ‘showing off.’”

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN (4)

By: Francis Stevens

“Ta-Nezem must rest secure in her gilded house of death.”

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN (3)

By: Francis Stevens

“Are even you quite strong enough to close that door?”

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN (2)

By: Francis Stevens

“You should have seen her face, my dear Quentin…”

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BEHIND THE CURTAIN (1)

By: Francis Stevens

‘The Songstress of the House’ she was called…

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THOMAS DUNBAR (8)

By: Francis Stevens

“Your strength is really almost limitless!”

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