author
John R. Carling
Best known for The Doomed City, this early-20th-century novelist wrote historical fiction with a strong taste for drama, intrigue, and far-flung settings.
5 Audiobooks
The Shadow of the Czar
by John R. Carling
The Weird Picture
by John R. Carling
The Viking's Skull
by John R. Carling
By Neva's waters : Being an episode in the secret history of Alexander the First, Czar of all the Russias
by John R. Carling
The doomed city
by John R. Carling
About the author
John R. Carling was an American writer of historical fiction active in the early 1900s. The surviving public record on him is quite slim, but reference sources consistently link his name with a small run of novels published between 1902 and 1910.
His known books include The Shadow of the Czar (1902), The Viking's Skull (1904), The Weird Picture (1905), By Neva's Waters (1907), and The Doomed City (1910). That last title is the work he is most often remembered for today.
Even with so little biographical detail available, his bibliography suggests a writer drawn to big historical backdrops, danger, and suspense. For listeners who enjoy rediscovered fiction from the public-domain era, Carling offers a glimpse of the adventurous historical novel as it was written more than a century ago.