Echoes from the castle walls

An integral key to the personality of John Hays Hammond, Jr., lies in his fiction writing. One of America's greatest inventors, Hammond built himself a castle; threw lavish parties; hobnobbed with movies stars, royalty, and world leaders; piloted his own yacht; and at the encouragement of Rudyard Kipling, dabbled in writing fiction. Those sci-fi, horror, and adventure stories were first gathered together in 1999 and two newly discovered stories have been added in this expanded second edition.