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Wirt Gerrare

1862–1935

Best known as Wirt Gerrare, this prolific journalist and novelist wrote brisk adventure, travel, and early speculative fiction that reflected the anxieties and curiosities of the late Victorian and Edwardian world. His books range from occult tales to future-war fiction, with a strong feel for international intrigue.

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The Story of Moscow

The Story of Moscow

by Wirt Gerrare

About the author

Writing under the name Wirt Gerrare, William Oliver Greener was a British journalist, weapons expert, and author born in 1862 and later identified with Aston, Warwickshire. He died on August 10, 1935, in Kingsbridge, Devon.

He wrote across an unusually wide range of subjects. Alongside nonfiction and reporting, he produced fiction that included Rufin's Legacy: A Theosophical Romance (1892), the story collection Phantasms (1895), and The Warstock: A Tale of To-Morrow (1898), an early scientific romance built around invention, espionage, and global conflict.

His work also reached readers through historical and political adventure writing, including A Secret Agent in Port Arthur (1905). Today, he is especially remembered by genre historians as an early writer of speculative and occult fiction whose stories captured the era's fascination with technology, empire, and hidden forces.