7-128, 2 inserted plates with illustrations by Sidney Paget, pictorial wrappers. Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures (Dublin, Ireland: Swan River Press, 2021).Silenced (London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1904) with Clifford Halifax.

The Sorceress of the Strand (London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1903).

A Race with the Sun (London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1901) with Clifford Halifax.

The Sanctuary Club (London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1899) with Clifford Halifax.

The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1903) with Robert Eustace.

The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1899) with Robert Eustace.

A Master of Mysteries (London: Ward, Lock and Co, 1898) with Robert Eustace.

The Desire of Man: An Impossibility (London: Digby, Long and Co, 1899).This Troublesome World (London: Edward Arnold, 1893) with Clifford Halifax, both anonymous.Stories from the Diary of a Doctor: Second Series (London: Bliss, Sands and Co, 1896) with Clifford Halifax.Stories from the Diary of a Doctor (First Series) (London: George Newnes, 1894) with Clifford Halifax.Elizabeth Thomasina Smithīorn Bandon, County Cork, Ireland: 5 June 1844ĭied Oxford, Oxfordshire: 26 October 1914 Of greater sf interest are This Troublesome World ( 1893 3vols) with Clifford Halifax, both anonymous, about a doctor who uses psychotropic drugs to gain his will The Desire of Man: An Impossibility ( 1899), a study in abnormal Psychology involving vampirism The Brotherhood of the Seven Kings (January-October 1898 Strand coll of linked stories 1899) with Robert Eustace, featuring Madame Koluchy, a She-like female Mad Scientist and master criminal who creates foul Inventions to destroy her enemies The Sanctuary Club (July-December 1899 The Strand as Stories of the Sanctuary Club coll 1899) with Clifford Halifax, a series of Club Stories including at least one Invention tale involving an evil doctor A Race with the Sun (coll: July 1896-February 1897 The Strand as The Adventures of a Man of Science 1901) with Clifford Halifax, mysteries narrated by a scientific detective and The Sorceress of the Strand (October 1902-March 1903 Strand as with Robert Eustace 1903), about a nihilist female with claims to Immortality and, because of her mixed blood, an early representative of the Yellow Peril. The volume is Checklisted below for convenience, as are the Stories from the Diary of a Doctor volumes with Clifford Halifax, some of which edge into sf territory. Working name of UK author Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith (1844-1914), now best remembered for her numerous and sometimes inventive books for girls, but some of whose romances of detection and sedition are of sf interest, though the sometimes-cited John Bell sequence – assembled as A Master of Mysteries (coll of linked stories June-November 1897 Cassell's Magazine 1898) with Robert Eustace – is not, as the mysteries are invariably rationalized in nonfantastic terms.

A Master of Mysteries by L.T. Meade