{{Short description|British writer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Frank Howard Atkins''' (pen name '''F. St. Mars''') (1882–1921) was a British writer. He wrote more than 180 short stories in pulp magazines, most of which were published between 1908 and 1935<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/d/d4072.htm#A148379 |title=Archived copy |access-date=6 September 2016 |archive-date=21 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160921065615/http://www.philsp.com/homeville/FMI/d/d4072.htm#A148379 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="bleiler">Bleiler, Richard. "A History of Adventure Magazine", in ''The Index to Adventure Magazine'' ,Borgo Press, 1990. {{ISBN|1-55742-189-7}} (p. 1-38).</ref> under his pen name.
Atkins' stories under the Mars pseudonym usually revolved around animals.<ref name="bleiler" /> The "F. St. Mars" stories appeared in ''Pearson's Magazine'', ''The Grand Magazine'', ''The Novel Magazine'', ''The Red Magazine'', and ''Adventure'' in the United States.<ref name="bleiler" /><ref>F. St. Mars, "Introduction", ''On Nature's Trail: A Wonder-Book of the Wild''. London, Hodder & Stoughton, 1912 (p. vii).</ref> His works were illustrated by popular artists such as George Vernon Stokes and Harry Rountree.
His father was the British writer Francis Henry Atkins.
==Bibliography==
*''Caught by a Comet'' (1910) (as Fenton Ash) *''People of the Wild'' (1911) *''Snapshots of the Wild'' (1919) *''The Way of the Wild'' (1919) *''Pinion and Paw'' (1919) *''The Wild Unmasked'' - Published by W. & R. Chambers, London (1920)
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==External links== * {{Librivox author|id=19053}}
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