Clara H. Holmes

Clara H. Holmes (1838 – July 14, 1927) was an American writer, author of short stories and poems that appeared in magazines and newspapers, and of an early science fiction and horror collection by an American woman, Floating Fancies Among the Weird and Occult.

Career Holmes contributed to magazines including Midland Monthly, Overland Monthly, and Travel; her poems and stories were also published in newspapers, including Street & Smith's New York Weekly. She published a collection of science fiction and horror short stories, Floating Fancies Among the Weird and Occult (1898), and a collection of poetry, Scattered Autumn Leaves (1926). She ran a florist business in Cripple Creek, Colorado.

Publications "Out on the Prairie" (1865, story) "The Foundling, or Why I Endured It" (1865, story) "The Shores of Dreamland" (1867, essay) "September" (1867, poem) "Rowena Clare" (1869, story) "A Teacher's Story: Incidents of Western Life" (1892, story) "Little Mittie's Christmas" (1896, story) "Ferd's Luck: A Character Sketch" (1898, story) "A Lilt" (1898, poem) Floating Fancies Among the Weird and the Occult (1898, eleven short stories) "Fragmentary" (1899, poem) "A Hero and His Wife" (1899, story) "In Pensive Strain" (1900, poem) "How Bess Won Her Wager" (1908, story) "Uncle Eben's Mistake" (1908, story) "Gordon's Proposal" (1909, story) "Mattie's Lucky Find" (1910, story) "Trifling Telephone Tangles" (1910, story) "How Joe Went Home for Good" (1910, story) Scattered Autumn Leaves (1926, poetry)