Alpheus Hyatt Verrill: Novellas and Stories

Alpheus Hyatt Verrill (July 23, 1871 – November 14, 1954) was an American zoologist, researcher, inventor, illustrator, and author. He was the son of Eddison Emery Verrill, the first professor of zoology at Yale University. He wrote many books on natural history and science fiction. He wrote on a wide variety of topics, including natural history, travel, radio, and whaling. He took part in a number of archaeological expeditions to the West Indies, South and Central America. He traveled extensively throughout the West Indies and across America—North, Central, and South America. Theodore Roosevelt said: “It was my friend Verrill who really put the West Indies on the map.” Among his works there are many science-fiction works, including twenty-six published in Amazing Stories magazines. After his death, P. Schuyler Miller noted that Verrill “was one of the most prolific and successful writers of our time.”