In observance of the 90th anniversary of the first issue of Weird Tales, I will be presenting a talk on Thursday, April 18, 2013, at the Athens County Public Library in Athens, Ohio. The talk is scheduled for 7 p.m. and will last an hour. Here is a link to the library's website:
I will talk about pulp magazines, genre fiction, Weird Tales, and some of the writers and artists from Ohio, especially southeastern Ohio. Ohio authors and artists in Weird Tales include:
- H.A. Noureddin Addis (Harold Kenneth Peebles Addis) (1884-1958)—Chesterhill, Ohio State University, Marion
- Nathaniel P. Babcock (1851-1928)—Zanesville
- W. Elwyn Backus (1892-1979)—Cincinnati
- Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?)—Meigs County
- (Anice) Page Cooper (1891-1958)—Ohio Wesleyan University, Delaware
- Harold S. De Lay (1876-1950)—South Charleston
- Muriel Campbell Dyar (1875-1963)—Marietta, Beverly
- J.U. Giesy (John Ulrich Giesy) (1877-1947)—Chillicothe, Columbus
- Strickland Gillilan (1869-1954)—Jackson, Athens
- Edmond Hamilton (1904-1977)—Youngstown (Hamilton's wife was Leigh Brackett [1915-1978] of Kinsman, Ohio)
- Allison V. Harding (Jean Milligan) (1919-2005)—Cleveland
- O. Henry (1862-1910)—A prisoner in Columbus
- (Margaret) Vennette Herron (1885-1973)—Zanesville
- Vincent Napoli (1907-1981)—Cleveland
- Perley Poore Sheehan (1875-1943)—Cincinnati, Hamilton
- Arthur B. Waltermire (1888-1938)—Findlay, Ada, Columbus
- Hal K. Wells (1899-1979)—Little Hocking, Belpre, Athens
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Copyright 2013 Terence E. Hanley
