Eleanor M. Ingram

Eleanor M. Ingram
Ingram around 1911
Died(1921-03-22)March 22, 1921
OccupationsNovelist and short story writer
Writing career
Period1902-1921

Eleanor Marie Ingram (d. March 22, 1921) was an early 20th century novelist and short-story writer from New York who published widely in popular fiction magazines.[1] She was particularly known in her own day for her automobile stories, including her novels The Flying Mercury, Stanton Wins, and From the Car Behind.[1] Her most famous novel is The Thing From the Lake, published posthumously, which is considered an early entry in the genre of eldritch horror.[1]

Personal life

Eleanor M. Ingram was born in New York, New York, the daughter of John W. Ingram (1861–1937), a lawyer, and Anna Augusta Shields Ingram.[1][2] The Ingram family had homes in Grand-View-on-Hudson, New York, and New York City.[3] Her birth year is uncertain as it was given inconsistently in different sources, and her age fluctuated in census records. Her death certificate states she died at age 38, implying she was born in 1882 or 1883.[4] She was listed as being born in 1887 in her 1914 Women's Who's who of America profile, then on November 26, 1886 in her 1920 profile.[5][6] Gina Collia, in her introduction to The Thing From the Lake, wrote that her mother was listed in a court filing as being married and pregnant in February 1881, and it is possible that Ingram was born that November.[1]

Ingram was an avid spectator of motor racing. Before the publication of her first novel about motor racing, The Flying Mercury, she was a close witness to a fatal crash, after which she said she was taken with the "pulsating nearness of life and death" in racing.[4]

Ingram never married and died in New York City on March 22, 1921 after a long illness, possibly uterine cancer.[1][3]

Career

Ingram published her first story, The Duke, the Slipper, and Dolores in 1902 in Short Stories.[7] During her lifetime, several of her stories were republished in Europe and translated into Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian.[5] Ingram said that she never wrote stories she did not believe she could sell and claimed that she had never been unable to publish a story, though she also said she could not write on subjects she was uninterested in.[4]

She could read several languages (French, Italian, Spanish, and Portuguese),[5] and a common theme of her writing were protagonists who spoke multiple languages or were interested in foreign literature.[3]

Bibliography

Novels

  • The Game and the Candle (1909), illustrated by P. D. Johnson[8][9]
  • The Flying Mercury (1910)[10][11]
  • Stanton Wins (1911)[9]
  • From the Car Behind (1912)[9]
  • The Unafraid (1913)[9]
Newspaper advertisement for Liberty Theatre showing of The Unafraid and other films
  • A Man's Hearth (1915)[12]
  • The Twice American (1917)[9]
  • The Thing from the Lake (1921), published posthumously and republished in 2025 with a biographical essay about her[13]

Stories

Painting by Modest Stein illustrating Lucifer's Wife
  • "The Duke, the Slipper and Dolores" (1902)[7]
  • "Eric's Invasion" (1906)[7]
  • "The Late Conspiracy" (1906)[7]
  • "Two Windows"[7]
  • "I Am the Emperor" (1906)[7][14]
  • "The Alien" (1906)[7]
  • "The Honor of a Plebeian" (1907)[7]
  • "A Balkan Tangle" (1907)[7]
  • "Ilaria" (1907)[7]
  • "Prince Scheherazade" (1907) [7]
  • "The Patricians" (1907)[7]
  • "Don Estevan's Honor" (1907)[7]
  • "The Subjugation of Rudolph" (1907)[7]
  • "The Service of the Temple" (1908)[7]
  • "The Harvest of Dreams" (1908)[7]
  • "A Galvez with the Gray Eyes" (1908)[7]
  • "Not a Sparrow Falleth" (1908)[7]
  • "The Unexpected" (1908)[7]
  • "Amethyst Windows" (1908)[7]
  • "An Aristocrat" (1908)[7]
  • "The Unexpected" (1908)[7]
  • "The Payment" (1908)[7]
  • "His Day" (1909)[7]
  • "The Gracious Game" (1909)[7]
  • "The Visionaries" (1909)[7]
  • "The Lesson" (1909)[7]
  • "An American" (1909)[7]
  • "The Jesters" (1909)[7]
  • "Around the Corner" (1909)[7]
  • "A Moroccan Vendetta" (1909)[7]
  • "The Last Throw" (1909)[7]
  • "Two Who Learned" (1909)[7]
  • "The Justice of Guido" (1910)[7]
  • "The Heart of Clelia" (1910)[7]
  • "The Honor of Valdi" (1910)[7]
  • "The Substitute: A Romance of the Automobile" (1910)[7]
  • "The Road to Paradise" (1910)[7]
  • "The Chauffeur" (1910)[7]
  • "Denis of the Course" (1910)[7]
  • "The Amazing Adventure" (1910)[7]
  • "The Duel" (1910)[7]
  • "The Rose Colored Scarf" (1911)[7]
  • "Conquered" (1911)[7]
  • "His Neighbor's Son" (1912)"[7]
  • "By Any Other Name" (1912)[7]
  • "The Stolen Woman" (1912)[7]
  • "His Play-Day" (1912)[7]
  • "Diet" (1912)[7]
  • "The Impersonator" (1912)[7]
  • "Lady Impossible" (1912)[7]
  • "Shifting Sands" (1913)[7]
  • "The Highway" (1913)[7]
  • "The Whirlpool" (1913)[7]
  • "Shifting Sands" (1913)[7]
  • "Lucifer's Wife" (1913)[7]
  • "The Egerton Standard" (1913)[7]
  • "The Spy" (1915)[7]
  • "The House of the Little Shoes" (1916)[7]
  • "Understanding Adora" (1916)[7]
  • "The King's Noon" (1918)[7]
  • "A Girl Named Rose"(1919)[7]

Film adaptations

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Collia, Gina R. (2025). "From the Realm of Romance to the Borderland of Dread". The Thing From the Lake. By Ingram, Eleanor M. Nezu Press. pp. i–xxvii.
  2. ↑ Anderson, Douglas A. (January 9, 2016). "A Shiver in the Archives: No, that's not Eleanor M. Ingram!".
  3. 1 2 3 "The Life of Eleanor M. Ingram". February 5, 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 Ingram, Eleanor M. (August 1912). "Letters From the Literati". The Editor. Vol. 36, no. 2. pp. 52–53. Retrieved July 11, 2026.
  5. 1 2 3 Leonard, John W. (1914). Woman's Who's who of America. American Commonwealth Company. p. 422.
  6. ↑ Leonard, John William; Marquis, Albert Nelson (1920). Who's who in America. A.N. Marquis. p. 1467.
  7. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 "A Complete Bibliography of the Works of Eleanor M. Ingram". February 5, 2026.
  8. ↑ Ingram, Eleanor M. (January 5, 1909). The game and the candle. Grosset & Dunlap – via HathiTrust.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 Smith, Geoffrey D. (August 13, 1997). American Fiction, 1901–1925: A Bibliography. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-43469-0 – via Google Books.
  10. ↑ "Books by Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie)". Project Gutenberg.
  11. ↑ Ingram, Eleanor M. (Eleanor Marie); Frederick, Edmund; Stuart, Bertha (June 19, 2009). "The Flying Mercury" – via Project Gutenberg.
  12. ↑ Ingram, Eleanor Marie (January 1, 1915). "A Man's Hearth". Library of Alexandria – via Google Books.
  13. ↑ Collia, Gina (January 7, 2025). "The Haunted Library: Book News ~ The Thing from the Lake by Eleanor M. Ingram".
  14. ↑ Ingram, Eleanor M. (July 1906). "I Am the Emperor". The Red Book. Vol. 7, no. 3. pp. 383–388. Retrieved July 11, 2026.
  15. ↑ Braff, Richard E. (2008). The Braff Silent Short Film Working Papers: Over 25,000 Films, 1903-1929, Alphabetized and Indexed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 480. ISBN 9780786410316 – via The Internet Archive.
  16. ↑ "The Unafraid – Cecil B. DeMille".
  17. ↑ "Silent Era : Progressive Silent Film List". www.silentera.com.
  18. ↑ "The Bioscope". Ganes. January 6, 1915 – via Google Books.
  19. ↑ Birchard, Robert S. (June 29, 2004). Cecil B. DeMille's Hollywood. University Press of Kentucky. ISBN 0-8131-2636-3 – via Google Books.
  20. ↑ The Library of Congress American Silent Feature Film Survival Catalog: The Unafraid
  21. ↑ Braff, Richard E. (2008). The Braff Silent Short Film Working Papers: Over 25,000 Films, 1903-1929, Alphabetized and Indexed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 426. ISBN 9780786410316 – via The Internet Archive.
  22. ↑ Braff, Richard E. (2008). The Braff Silent Short Film Working Papers: Over 25,000 Films, 1903-1929, Alphabetized and Indexed. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p. 520. ISBN 9780786410316 – via The Internet Archive.
  23. ↑ "Little Shoes". Silent Era: Progressive Silent Film List. Retrieved July 11, 2026.
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