Author:Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

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Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer (1874–1950)

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Canadian novelist, screenwriter, and poet who later moved to the United States: popular in his day for his crime fiction and his wilderness adventures, but he wrote in many genres, from social realism to psychological fiction, and even early science fiction novels. Pen name: Arthur Stringer

Arthur John Arbuthnott Stringer

Works

(partial list)

Fiction

• The Silver Poppy, 1903 (transcription project)
• Lonely O'Malley: A Story of Boy Life, 1905. illus. Frank T. Merrill
• The Wire Tappers, 1906 (transcription project)
• Phantom Wires: A Novel, 1907 Project Gutenberg (transcription project)
• The Under Groove: A Novel, 1908 (transcription project)
• The Gun-Runner: A Novel, 1909 (expanded from the novella, below)
  • "The Gun-Runner," novella, in the Popular Magazine January 1909
• The Shadow, 1913. aka Never-Fail Blake
• The Hand of Peril, 1915
• The Door of Dread: A Secret Service Romance, 1916. illus M. Leone Bracker (sequel to The Hand of Peril)
• The House of Intrigue, 1918 (transcription project)
• The Man Who Couldn't Sleep, 1919. illus Frank Snapp no scan
• Twin Tales, 1921, consisting of:
  • Are All Men Alike and The Lost Titian
• The Wine of Life, 1921 (transcription project)
• Prairie Stories (c. 1922?) IA
  • The Prairie Wife, 1915 Project Gutenberg
  • The Prairie Mother, 1920 Project Gutenberg
  • The Prairie Child, 1922 Project Gutenberg
• Unseeing Eyes (1923)
• Empty Hands (1924)

Non-fiction

• A Study of King Lear, 1897.
• Red Wine of Youth: A Life of Rupert Brooke, 1921. IA

Collections and poetry

• Watchers of Twilight, and Other Poems, 1894. IA
• Pauline and Other Poems, 1895. IA
• Epigrams (1896) IA
• The Loom of Destiny, 1899. illus Florence Scovel Shinn (Short stories prefaced with verses.)

Premonitions — The Undoing of Dinney Crockett — The Fly in the Ointment — The Iron Age — The King who Lost His Crown — Life's Loaded Die — The Crucible of Character — The Essentials of Aristocracy — The Honour of the House of Hummerley — Thicker than Water — Instruments of Eros — An Essay in Equality — The Heart's Desire — Not in Utter Nakedness

• The Woman in the Rain, and Other Poems, 1907. 1949. IA
• Irish Poems, 1911. IA
• Open Water, 1914 IA Project Gutenberg

Individual short works

• "The Adolescence of Number Eighty-Seven," short story in Metropolitan magazine, May 1906
• "The Bell," short story in the Popular Magazine, Dec. 20, 1916
• "The Benevolence of Montana Bill," short story in Munsey's Magazine, May 1902
• "The Button Thief" (1914), short story from the Sunday Magazine, May 28 & Jun 4, 1911.
• "The Juggler" (1921), short story from the The Sunday Star, Washington, April 3 1921
• "The Miracle of Michael Joulin" in Canada West, Nov 1910
• "Sun in the Valley" in The Smart Set Jan 1903
• "The Stranger", (Dominion Publicity Company, 1919) short story, illustrated by C. W. Jefferys
• "Through the Valley of Illusion" in Harper's Monthly Sep 1902
• "The Wire-Tappers," short story in The Smart Set magazine, 1903

• "The Breaker," serial in the The Saturday Evening Post, begun Jan 15, 1916
• "The Knight Errant" in The Smart Set Sep 1903
• "Larry Doogan: A Christmas Story" in The Bookman Feb 1904
• "Night Travel" in The Smart Set Sep 1903
• "The Outbound Ships" in The Smart Set Feb 1904

Non-fiction

• "The Canada Fakers" in Canada West, Oct 1908
• "A Recipe for Certain Society Fiction" in The Bookman Jan 1904

Poems

• "Easter in the City" in The Smart Set Jun 1900
• "Stories in Verse" in Harper's Monthly Mar 1899
• Undersongs in The Smart Set Jul 1903
• On a Child's Portrait

Plays

• Hephaestus, Persephone at Enna, and Sappho in Leucadia. 1903 Also published as Hephaestus and Other Poems (transcription project)
• The Firebrand (Dec 1910 onwards; serialized in Canada West magazine)