The Author's and Writer's Who's Who (1934) mentions the following chap:
BRUCE, Rev. Archibald Reid Turing. b: London 1873. e: Burneys Naval Acad, Gosport, Tonbridge Sc & Salisbury Theo. Col. m: Dorothy Elisabeth Crick. Publ: Scourge of the Moors. c.t. Blue Mag. s.s.: Boys' books, ghost stories. Rec: Archae. a: Sixpenny Handley, Salisbury.
Anyone come across his ghost stories?
commonplace book : december 2024
1 day ago
James:
ReplyDeleteInteresting to note that the byline on his sole book publication (according to The British Library Catalogue), the historical novel The Scourge of the Moors (London: Sampson, Low & Co., 1923) is "H. Turing Bruce". [A book with the same byline called Winning His Knighthood: or, The Adventures of Raoulf de Gyssage came out in the U.S. in 1929, from L.C. Page in Boston. I suspect this is merely a retitling of the British edition.] No record of ghost stories under either name, alas.