De Las Cuevas, Ramon
Entry updated 16 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym of US anthropologist, archaeologist, museum curator and author Mark Raymond Harrington (1882-1971) whose only known work of fiction, the novella "Teoquitla the Golden" (November 1924 Weird Tales), is a Lost Race tale embedding within some typical Clichés of the form an early, interesting and nonjudgmental Transgender SF plot. The protagonist finds a hidden valley containing a lost Aztec civilization, and there uncaringly drives an Aztec woman who loves him to Suicide; as punishment he is first required to cross-dress and cater to men, and then – after a transformative Drug has been given him – awakens as a woman. Taking this in her stride, she falls in love with Montezuma, the clearly non-white king of the hidden world, and marries him. After Montezuma's sudden death, she returns sadly to the United States. [JC]
Mark Raymond Harrington
born Ann Arbor, Michigan: 6 July 1882
died Mission Hills, California: 30 June 1971
works
- "Teoquitla the Golden" (November 1924 Weird Tales) [novella: mag/]
about the author
- Marie Harrington. On the Trail of Forgotten People: A Personal Account of the Life and Career of Mark Raymond Harrington (Reno, Nevada: Great Basin Press, 1985) [nonfiction: Marie Harrington (1907-1986) was Mark Harrington's wife: hb/]
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