Julian Osgood Field (1852–1925) was an American socialite and writer. He was born on 23 April 1852.
Field used the pseudonym X.L. (or Sigma) to write decadent horror fiction. He is also famous for involving Lady Ida Sitwell, mother of Osbert Sitwell, Sacheverell Sitwell and Edith Sitwell in a financial scandal in 1912 which led to her imprisonment for debt.
FICTION
1893 "A Kiss of Judas" published in The Pall Mall Magazine, July 1893
reprinted in Vampyres: Lord Byron to Count Dracula, ed. Christopher Frayling (London: Faber, 1991)
1893 "The Luck of the Devil" published in The Pall Mall Magazine, October 1893
1894 Aut Diabolus Aut Nihil and Other Tales (London: Methuen & Co.)
1898 With All the Powders of the Merchant published in The Pall Mall Magazine, September to December 1898
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