Jack London

The Red One Illustrated Jack London

The Red One is a short story by Jack London. It was first published in the October 1918 issue of The Cosmopolitan, two years after London's death. The story was reprinted in the same year by MacMillan, in a collection of London's stories of the same name. The story's theme was suggested to London by his friend George Sterling: a message is sent from an alien civilization but is lost in the wilderness