Frank Howard Atkins (1882–1921) was a British writer. He wrote more than 180 short stories in

pulp magazines Pulp magazines (also referred to as "the pulps") were inexpensive fiction magazines that were published from 1896 to the late 1950s. The term "pulp" derives from the cheap wood pulp paper on which the magazines were printed. In contrast, magazine ...

, most of which were published between 1908 and 1935 Bleiler, Richard. "A History of Adventure Magazine", in ''The Index to Adventure Magazine'' ,Borgo Press, 1990. (p. 1-38). Most were published under the pen name F. St. Mars. Atkins' stories under the Mars pseudonym usually revolved around animals. The "F. St. Mars" stories appeared in ''

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The Grand Magazine ''The Grand Magazine'' was the first British pulp magazine. It was published monthly between February 1905 and April 1940. Published by George Newnes Ltd, it initially emulated Newnes's highly successful ''Strand Magazine'', featuring a mix of f ...

'', ''The Novel Magazine'', ''The Red Magazine'', and ''

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'' in the United States.F. St. Mars, "Introduction", ''On Nature's Trail: A Wonder-Book of the Wild''. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912 (p. vii). His father was the British writer Francis Henry Atkins.

Bibliography

*''Caught by a Comet'' (1910) (as Fenton Ash) *''The Way of the Wild'' (1919)

References

1882 births 1921 deaths Pulp fiction writers {{UK-writer-stub