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Elmer Brown Mason (1877–1955) was an American writer. He studied at Yale for a period, but then transferred to Princeton, from which he graduated in 1903. 〔("Class of 1903, Yale College" ) 〕 〔http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/59360565&referer=brief_results〕 Mason became an entomologist for the now-defunct Bureau of Entomology (USDA) in 1910. In addition, he was a seasoned world traveler. In 1915, his fantastic stories of scientists hunting rare species in the remote corners of the world started appearing. Of note were the five stories featuring swamp-guide, Wandering Smith, in ''The Popular Magazine'', especially "The Golden Anaconda";〔"Street & Smith's Forgotten Pulp: ''The Popular Magazine''," by Ed Hulse, ''Blood 'n' Thunder'' #24 (Summer 2009).〕 and the variety of tales in ''All-Story Weekly'', highlighted by the horror-filled lost-race novelette "Black Butterflies," set in Borneo, and its sequel, "Red Tree-Frogs." Mason was gassed in France during World War I, suffering permanent disabilities, which sidetracked his writing career.〔Letter to The Camp-Fire, ''Adventure'' magazine, November 30, 1925.〕 His globe-trotting ceased and his stories exchanged the fantastic for the domestic. His fiction writing career petered out around 1926.〔The most complete biography is to be found in the introduction to ''The Golden Anaconda: and Other Strange Tales of Adventure'', by Elmer Brown Mason (Off-Trail Publications, 2008).〕 He had a brief revival in 1949-50 in the pulp magazines, ''Famous Fantastic Mysteries'' and ''Fantastic Novels'', which reprinted four of his stories from ''All-Story Weekly''. "Black Butterflies," was included in the anthology ''Rainbow Fantasia: 35 Spectrumatic Tales of Wonder'' ed. by Forrest J. Ackerman; Anne Hardin.〔http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/49733655&referer=brief_results〕 ==References== 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Elmer Brown Mason」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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