George McLeod Winsor (1856,

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) was a British writer of fantastic fiction and mysteries. Published under the name 'G. McLeod Winsor'. His novel ''Station X'' (1919) is a novel of the radio age and was noted by H.P. Lovecraft as a "semi-classic" in his 1934 essay “Some Notes on Interplanetary Fiction”. The novel narrates a psychic invasion of the Earth from Mars, told much in the manner of Jules Verne. It was later reprinted as a serial in ''Amazing'' magazine in 1926, to reader acclaim. Noted author van Vogt singled it out as a key work in the famous ''Arkham Sampler'' survey of 1948, but others on the panel did not share his opinion. His ''The Mysterious Disappearances'' (1926), re-titled ''Vanishing Men'' in 1927, is a series of locked-room type mystery stories, including that of a mad scientist who develops a levitation device with which to kidnap his victims. A final book was ''Once Bitten'' (1930), a lively murder mystery involving a military man who finds he has a doppelganger.

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20th-century English writers British science fiction writers 19th-century English novelists People of the Victorian era 1856 births 1939 deaths {{UK-writer-stub