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J. Aubrey (John Aubrey) Tyson
1870–1930
A Philadelphia-born writer of brisk popular fiction, he moved easily between political thriller, adventure, and eerie supernatural tales. His best-known books imagine submarine intrigue and uncanny stories with the pace of magazine fiction.
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The barge of haunted lives
by J. Aubrey (John Aubrey) Tyson
About the author
John Aubrey Tyson was an American writer born in Philadelphia on March 6, 1870, and he published under the name J. Aubrey Tyson. Reference sources connect him especially with popular fiction that blends adventure with speculative and supernatural elements.
His best-known books include The Scarlet Tanager (1922), a near-future thriller involving submarine piracy and secret agents, and The Barge of Haunted Lives (1923), a linked collection of supernatural stories. Modern genre reference works remember him as a writer who could shift from suspenseful, technology-tinged plots to tales with a stranger, darker mood.
Tyson died in Pennsylvania on October 16, 1930. Although he is not widely known today, his fiction still appeals to readers who enjoy early twentieth-century thrillers, curious speculative ideas, and haunted storytelling from the pulp era.