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James Allan Mackereth
b. 1871
A little-known English writer whose books moved between poetry, drama, and fiction, he published steadily in the early 20th century. His surviving work includes the novel A Son of Cain, the fantasy-tinged Ioläus: The Man That Was a Ghost, and several poetry collections.
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Ioläus The man that was a ghost
by James Allan Mackereth
About the author
James Allan Mackereth was an English author born in 1871 and died in 1948. Public library and catalog records show a body of work that spans novels, poems, and dramatic verse, suggesting a writer who was comfortable moving across forms rather than staying in just one lane.
Among the titles linked to him are A Son of Cain (1910), In the Wake of the Phoenix (1912), On the Face of a Star (1913), Ioläus: The Man That Was a Ghost (1913), The Red, Red Dawn (1917), The Death of Cleopatra (1920), and Earth, Dear Earth (1928). His books point to a taste for mythic, romantic, and literary themes, with both imaginative fiction and verse playing a central role in his career.
Biographical details about his life are limited in the sources readily available online, and a clear verified portrait was not found. Even so, the publication record that remains gives a useful picture of a prolific early-20th-century writer whose work still survives through library archives and public-domain editions.