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Fortean Writers in Weird Tales
The Book of the Damned, the first of Charles Fort's four compilations of weird and unexplained phenomena, was published on December 1, 1919, to mixed reviews. The New York Times wrote:[Any] conclusion...
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Miriam Allen deFord (1888-1975)
Author, Poet, Essayist, Editor, Teacher, Reporter, Feminist, Socialist, Insurance Adjustor, Fortean InvestigatorBorn August 21, 1888, Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaDied March 22, 1975, Ambassador Hotel,...
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Howard Ellis Davis (1883-1951)
Soldier, Engineer, AuthorBorn August 14, 1883, FloridaDied April 25, 1951, Mobile, AlabamaHoward Ellis Davis was born on August 14, 1883, in Florida. During the Great War he served in the 319th Field...
View ArticleVida Tyler Adams (1896?-1976?)
Author, BookkeeperBorn February 4, 1896, CaliforniaDied October 2, 1976, Alameda County, CaliforniaI have one piece of very tenuous evidence that the Vida Tyler Adams who wrote for Weird Tales was the...
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Robert Choate Albright (1903-1973)
Newspaper Reporter, AuthorBorn September 1, 1903, Alexandria, VirginiaDied October 12, 1973, Washington, D.C.?Robert Choate Albright was born on September 1, 1903, in Alexandria, Virginia. When he was...
View ArticleL. Harper Allen (1878 or 1879-?)
Llewellyn Harper AllenAuthor, ExporterBorn December 19, 1878 or 1879, KansasDied ?Llewellyn Harper Allen was born on December 19, 1878 or 1879, probably 1878. His father, Harper Allen, was a publisher....
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Tyranny or Chaos?
I wrote recently about the future and science fiction. In its infancy, in the 1920s and '30s, science fiction looked towards a better future. It was a genre of hope and confidence, reflective of the...
View ArticleFantasy Killed the SF Star
Yesterday I wrote about the continuing question Is science fiction dying? While I was writing, I was also listening to music and watching videos from the 1970s and '80s. I started with "In a Big...
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Faith in the Infinite Future
I have been writing about the question Is science fiction dying? Here is Donald A. Wollheim on the subject:The essence of science fiction is that this is a changing world. . . .If we are to survive...
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Richard Harris Barham (1788-1845)
Aka Thomas IngoldsbyBorn December 6, 1788, Canterbury, Kent, EnglandDied June 17, 1845, London, EnglandRichard Harris Barham was born on December 6, 1788, in Canterbury, England, and attended Saint...
View ArticleKurt Barle-A Speculation
Kurt Barle wrote one story for Weird Tales. Published in the February 1935 issue, "Anything Could Happen" was his only story in the field of fantasy and science fiction. If it had been translated from...
View ArticleEdna Goit Brintnall (1886-1959)
Author, Poet, PlaywrightBorn November 18, 1886, IllinoisDied August 19, 1959, Los Angeles, CaliforniaEdna Goit was born on November 18, 1886, in Illinois. On June 21, 1910, she married Leslie G....
View ArticleKillers on the Road to Athens
A few weeks ago, I wrote about Demon Barbers and the first psychopath in literature. I proposed Sweeney Todd as the first, but I was and am open to other suggestions. An anonymous reader proposed...
View ArticleLines Straight and Tangled
I will try to untangle a very tangled web.In Vril, the Power of the Coming Race (1871), Edward Bulwer-Lytton wrote of the Vril-ya, a subterranean race who are masters of a limitless source of energy...
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Valma Clark (1894-1953)
Aka Lyssa CarrolAuthor, Playwright, Journalist, TeacherBorn July 20, 1894, Sedalia, MissouriDied September 29, 1953, in the American Hospital of Paris, Neuilly-sur-Seine, FranceValma Clark was born on...
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Galen C. Colin (1890-1973)
Author, PrinterBorn September 5, 1890, Argonia, KansasDied June 14, 1973, presumably in Tucson, ArizonaGalen Cyril Colin was born on September 5, 1890, in Argonia, Kansas, and lived most of his life in...
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Robert S. Carr (1909-1994)-Part 1
Robert Spencer CarrNovelist, Short Story Writer, Poet, Editor, Movie and Television Scriptwriter, Movie Director, UFOlogistBorn March 26, 1909, West Virginia or Washington, D.C.Died April 28, 1994,...
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Robert S. Carr (1909-1994)-Part 2
I have compiled a list of Robert Spencer Carr's credits. I believe this to be as complete a record as exists on the Internet:"The Composite Brain" in Weird Tales (short story, Mar. 1925)"The Flying...
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Who Was Hasan Vokine?
One of the unsolved mysteries of Weird Tales is the identity of a contributor named Hasan Vokine. Hasan Vokine is supposed to have written three stories for the magazine, two under his own name and one...
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