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Clara H. Holmes
An early American voice in weird fiction, she wrote eerie, imaginative tales that blend the supernatural with late-Victorian curiosity. Her best-known collection, Floating Fancies Among the Weird and the Occult, helped place a woman writer in the early history of science fiction and horror.
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Floating Fancies among the Weird and the Occult
by Clara H. Holmes
About the author
Clara H. Holmes was an American writer born in 1838 who published short stories and poems in magazines and newspapers. She is best remembered for Floating Fancies Among the Weird and the Occult (1898), a collection of strange and supernatural stories that stands out as an early contribution by a woman to science fiction and horror.
Holmes lived and wrote during a period when magazine fiction was a major part of literary life, and her work reflects that lively, imaginative world. Her stories often explore mystery, the uncanny, and the pull between everyday life and the unknown.
She died on July 14, 1927, in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Though not widely known today, her work continues to interest readers who enjoy forgotten speculative fiction and the early history of fantastic literature.