In July 1901, two pieces of fiction appeared within the same month: London's "Moon-Face", in the "San Francisco Argonaut," and Frank Norris' "The Passing of Cock-eye Blacklock", in "Century Magazine". Newspapers showed the similarities between the stories, which London said were "quite different in manner of treatment, patently the same in foundation and motive." London explained both writers based their stories on the same newspaper account. A year later, it was discovered that Charles Forrest McLean had published a fictional story also based on the same incident.