CARTER, Lin. My Uncle Who is a Mad Scientist.

CARTER, Lin. My Uncle Who is a Mad Scientist.[N.p.: c. 1948]. Original short story. 3 pp. typed on recto only with manuscript corrections (280 x 215 mm). To the verso of the final page is a drawing titled and dated "Construction 6/11/48." Condition: chipping to extremities, with the top right corner of the first page detached, browning, residue from staple. original unpublished science fiction story from the master of the genre. Best known for works such as the Conan the Barbarian series, also published non-fiction works on Tolkien. The present story involves charming Uncle Bolivar, whose attempts at being a mad scientist are constantly thwarted by his own inventions including, rusting robots, a "universal solvent" that dissolved itself, and a nice monster who wouldn't be mean.