author
Frederick H. Costello
Adventure, sea travel, and a dash of the prehistoric run through the work of this Maine novelist. He wrote lively stories for younger readers and is still remembered for the dinosaur-era tale Sure-Dart.
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Sure-dart : A story of strange hunters and stranger game in the days of monsters
by Frederick H. Costello
About the author
Born in Bangor, Maine, in 1851, Frederick H. Costello was an American writer of adventure fiction. Sources consistently describe him as a novelist whose books were aimed largely at young readers, with a special fondness for nautical settings and fast-moving plots.
Alongside his sea stories, he is also noted for Sure-Dart (1909), a novel that later commentators have singled out as an early example of prehistoric adventure fiction. That mix of action, imagination, and accessible storytelling helped give his work a distinctive place in popular fiction of its time.
Costello died in Bangor in 1921. Although he is not widely known today, his work still attracts interest from readers curious about early American adventure writing and the roots of dinosaur fiction.