Robert Spencer Carr

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Robert Spencer Carr (born March 26, 1909 in Washington, DC ; died April 28, 1994 in Dunedin , Florida ) was an American writer .

Life

Robert Spencer Carr published The Composite Brain in Weird Tales magazine in March 1925 when he was fifteen. The next issues of the magazine followed the stories The Flying Halfback in September, Spider-Bite in June 1926 and the poem The Caves of Kooli-Kan in November 1926. Carr moved to Chicago near the weird editor Farnsworth Wright , who wrote him assisted in writing his first novel. In 1927 preprints appeared in the literary magazine The Smart Set , and Carr received a film contract for the novel The Rampant Age , which was then printed in 1928 . The novel was published in Germany in 1929 under the title Wildblühende Jugend , and in 1933 it was a victim of the book burning .

As a result, Carr lived temporarily in Los Angeles and worked for the film studios. Carr stayed in the Soviet Union between 1932 and 1937. His novel The Bells of St. Ivan’s was based on the experiences he had there. Liberty magazine printed his story Lie Detector , and in August 1943, The Saturday Evening Post published the story Border Incident .

Carr moved to New Mexico , he later lived in Fort Myers , Florida, and began writing science fiction literature in the late 1940s as the successor to Charles Fort , little is known about the scope. He took part in the UFO debate. He posed as a witness to the Roswell incident and reiterated allegations that US authorities tried to autopsize and resuscitate aliens in secret laboratories who died in a crash in the Aztec , New Mexico area in 1948 . His son Timothy Spencer Carr (1940-) distanced himself from these fantasies in a 1997 article in the magazine Skeptical Inquirer .

The University of Florida archives hold the manuscripts of the three novels and a portrait photo from 1929.

bibliography

Novels
  • The Rampant Age (1928)
    • Wild flowering youth . Translation and preface by Wilhelm Emanuel Süskind . German publishing company, Stuttgart 1929.
  • The Bells of St. Ivan’s (1944)
  • The Room Beyond (1948)
  • The Invaders (1954)
Collections
  • Beyond Infinity (1951)
Short stories

1925:

  • The Composite Brain (in: Weird Tales, March 1925 )
  • The Flying Halfback (in: Weird Tales, September 1925 )

1926:

  • Spider-Bite (in: Weird Tales, June 1926 )

1927:

  • Soul-Catcher (in: Weird Tales, March 1927 )
  • Phantom Fingers (in: Weird Tales, May 1927 )

1928:

  • Whispers (in: Weird Tales, April 1928 )

1949:

  • Easter Eggs (in: The Saturday Evening Post, September 24, 1949 ; also: Those Men From Mars , 1951; also: The Invaders , 1953)

1950:

  • The Laughter of the Stars (in: The Blue Book Magazine, August 1950 )

1951:

  • Beyond Infinity (1951, in: Robert Spencer Carr: Beyond Infinity )
  • Morning Star (1951, in: Robert Spencer Carr: Beyond Infinity )
  • Mutation (1951, in: Robert Spencer Carr: Beyond Infinity )

1964:

  • The Coming of the Little People (in: Fantastic Stories of Imagination, March 1964 )

Filmography

  • Why Leave Home? . 1929
  • Hot stuff . 1929. Screenplay based on Carr's story, Bluffers
  • The Rampant Age . 1930 directed by Philip Rosen

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Robert Spencer Carr as a Fortean, Revisited , Blog, May 9, 2015
  2. ↑ a b Volker Weidermann : The book of burned books . Kiepenheuer & Witsch, Cologne 2008, ISBN 978-3-462-03962-7 , p. 216
  3. ↑ Literature by and about Timothy Spencer Carr in the bibliographic database WorldCat
  4. ↑ Carr, Timothy Spencer. Son of Originator of 'Alien Autopsy' Story Casts Doubt on Father's Credibility , in: Skeptical Inquirer, July / August 1997, p. 31f.
  5. ↑ A Guide to the Robert Spencer Carr Papers , at University of Florida
personal data
SURNAME Carr, Robert Spencer
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Washington, DC
DATE OF DEATH April 28, 1994
Place of death Dunedin (Florida)