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Clara H. Holmes
Best known for a strange and imaginative 1898 collection of supernatural tales, this American writer helped carve out an early place for women in science fiction and horror. Her work also appeared in magazines and newspapers, mixing eerie ideas with a late-19th-century sense of wonder.
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Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult
by Clara H. Holmes
About the author
Born in Ohio in 1838, Clara H. Holmes was an American writer whose poems and short fiction appeared in magazines and newspapers. She later lived in Colorado, and her writing reached readers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
She is best remembered for Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult (1898), a collection of uncanny and speculative stories. The book is often noted as an early science fiction and horror collection by an American woman, which gives her a small but notable place in the history of fantastic literature.
Holmes died in Colorado Springs on July 14, 1927. Though she is not widely known today, readers interested in early weird fiction, supernatural stories, and overlooked women writers may find her work especially rewarding.