Question: Glen David Gold wrote short stories about a mythical creature that originated in what century?
Context: Kapre is a Philippine mythical creature that could be characterized as a tree giant.  It is described as being a tall (7 to 9 ft), big, black, hairy, muscular creature.  Kapres are normally described as having a strong smell that would attract human attention.  The term kapre comes from the Arabic "kafir", meaning a non-believer in Islam.  The early Arabs and the Moors used it to refer to the non-Muslim people.  The term was later brought to the Philippines by the Spanish who had previous contact with the Moors.  Some historians speculate that the legend was propagated by the Spanish to prevent Filipinos from assisting any escaped African slaves they sometimes imported from Latin-America.  The Kapre itself holds a large Cigar, an item which originated from the ancient Mayans of Latin-America.  The similar dark skin color of escaped African slaves from Latin America have caused the former to be equated with the latter. Glen David Gold (born 1964) is an American author, known as the writer of "Carter Beats the Devil" and "Sunnyside".  "Carter Beats the Devil" is a fictionalized biography of Charles Joseph Carter (1874–1936), an American illusionist performing from c. 1900 to 1936.  He writes in a narrative style, and the book was hailed as a very respectable venture into historical fiction.  His second novel, "Sunnyside", was published in 2009.  Short stories of his—including "The Tears of Squonk"—have appeared in a number of issues of McSweeney's. C. V. Sreeraman (February 7, 1931 - October 11, 2007) was an Indian writer who wrote short stories and novels in Malayalam.  He was the Vice Chairman of Kerala Sahitya Akademi.  C. V. Sreeraman's stories stand foremost core to the theme, as exemplified by his "Anayasena Maranam" (Dying an Easy Death) and "Railway Palangal" (The Rails).  He has won the prestigious Kendra Sahitya Academy Award in 1999 for his collection of short stories "Sreeramante Kadhakal" and Kerala Sahitya Academy Award for the collection "Vasthuhara". Arthur Leo Zagat (1896–1949) was an American lawyer and writer of pulp fiction and science fiction.  Trained in the law, he gave it up to write professionally.  Zagat is noted for his collaborations with fellow lawyer Nat Schachner.  During the last two decades of his life, Zagat wrote short stories prolifically.  About 500 pieces appeared in a variety of pulp magazines, including "Thrilling Wonder Stories", "Argosy", "Dime Mystery Magazine", "Horror Stories", "Operator No. 5" and "Astounding".  Zagat also wrote the "Doc Turner" stories that regularly appeared in "The Spider" pulp magazine throughout the 1930s, and wrote for "Spicy Mystery Stories" as "Morgan LaFay".  A novel, "Seven Out of Time", was published by Fantasy Press in 1949, the year he died. The Squonk is a mythical creature reputed to live in the Hemlock forests of northern Pennsylvania.  Legends of squonks probably originated in the late nineteenth century, at the height of Pennsylvania's importance in the potential timber industry. Carl Richard Jacobi (July 10, 1908 – August 25, 1997) was an American journalist and author.  He wrote short stories in the horror and fantasy genres for the pulp magazine market, appearing in such pulps of the bizarre and uncanny as Thrilling, "Ghost Stories", Startling Stories, Thrilling Wonder Stories, Planet Stories and Strange Stories.  He also write stories crime and adventure which appeared in such pulps as Thrilling Adventures, "Complete Stories", Top-Notch, Short Stories, The Skipper, Doc Savage, and "Dime Adventures Magazine".  He also produced some science fiction, mainly space opera, published in such magazines as Planet Stories.  He was one of the last surviving pulp-fictioneers to have contributed to the legendary American horror magazine "Weird Tales" during its "glory days" (the 1920s and 1930s).  His stories have been translated into French, Swedish, Danish and Dutch. Vugar Aslanov (born 1964 in Goranboy, Azerbaijan) is a writer and journalist from Azerbaijan.  In college he studied literature.  By the 1990s he was working in Baku for various newspapers.  He and the information agency Səmt (Drift) founded the newspaper, Kompas, which he ran from 1995 to 1998.  During that time he edited a book of short stories and also wrote short stories.  Many of his stories were published by the writers union of Azerbaijan in its literary magazines.  He emigrated from Azerbaijanin in 1998 to Germany.  In Germany he was able to continue his journalistic and literary work.  He lectured and wrote about the various republics in the former Soviet Union.  In 2007 he wrote a book in German called "The Cotton Fields."  "The Cotton Fields" is a volume of seven of his short stories on aspects of life; for example, in one story his protagonist is a hospital's very tired accountant. Giles Alfred Lutz (March 1910–June 1982) was a prolific author of fiction in the Western genre.  Born in March 1910 in Missouri, United States, Lutz for many years wrote short stories about the American West that were published in pulp magazines.  His story "Get a Wild Horse Hunter", an example of his pulp fiction writing, appeared in the June 1952 edition of the magazine "Western Novels and Short Stories".  In the mid-1950s Lutz made the transition to full-length novels, and until his death in June 1982, published numerous stories about the American West.  In 1962, Lutz won the Western Writers of America Golden Spur Award for his novel, "The Honyocker". Carter Beats The Devil is a historical mystery thriller novel by Glen David Gold centred on the American stage magician Charles Joseph Carter (1874–1936). Sunnyside is a historical novel by Glen David Gold.
Answer: nineteenth century