Sewell Peaslee Wright was an American author who contributed prolifically to the pulp science fiction and adventure magazines of the early twentieth century. Trial by Water is a short work characteristic of the pulp tradition — fast-paced fiction written for popular periodical audiences in the 1920s and 1930s.
As a public-domain text, the piece offers a snapshot of popular genre fiction that shaped American readers’ tastes in the interwar years. Download the free EPUB at Better Gutenberg and explore the roots of American pulp storytelling.