Educated at Denstone College, Manchester Grammar School and Oxford University, Gull left school without receiving a degree. He worked for the Saturday Review from 1897 to 1898. In 1899, he became editor of London Life. He later worked for the Daily Mail and the Daily Express. In 1898, he published his first novel, The Hypocrite: A Novel of London and Oxford Life.. His work was primarily fiction after 1900. The most famous was, When It Was Dark (1904), an antisemitic work which received a great deal of criticism. He was a prolific author who produced well over 100 novels. His genre included horror and mystery novels. His works include A Lost Cause (1905), The Soul Stealer (1906), The Angel (1908), The Socialist (1909), The Drunkard (1912), Rescuing Rupert(1917), The Air Pirate (1919), Lapse of the Bishop (1920) and The City in the Clouds (1922). |
