Myrtle Levy Gaylord (1895-1960)
Poet, Author, Reporter, Columnist, Feature WriterBorn 1895, San Francisco, CaliforniaDied February 14, 1960, Spokane, WashingtonMyrtle Levy was born in San Francisco in 1895 to Morris Harry Levy...
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Charles Gordon Booth (1896-1949)
Author, ScreenwriterBorn February 12, 1896, Manchester, Lancashire, EnglandDied May 22, 1949, Beverly Hills, CaliforniaCharles Gordon Booth may have been unique among contributors to "The Unique...
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George Norsworthy (1889-1957)
Military Officer, AuthorBorn 1889, Cookham, Berkshire, EnglandDied 1957, Suffolk, EnglandAccording to The FictionMags Index, George Norsworthy was George (Lenny) Norsworthy, who was born in 1889 in...
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Poet, Editor, ReporterBorn July 10, 1880, Cascade, IowaDied May 13, 1953, Dubuque, IowaIn the centennial week of Dubuque, Iowa, in August 1933, Anthony Klinkner was awarded as the first poet laureate...
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Ralph Allen Lang (1906-1987)
Poet, Author, Editor, Boy ScoutBorn August 11, 1906Died September 1987Ralph Allen Lang was born on August 11, 1906, and though he lived past eighty, he seems to have spent a good part of his life being...
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William Ernest Henley (1849-1903)
I began writing this blog five years ago. Today is the anniversary. I started out and have been writing more or less randomly. Not long ago, though, I looked through the remaining authors and gave them...
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More Weird Tales from the Renaissance
On October 23, 2011, I wrote about William Shakespeare (1564-1616) in an entry called "Weird Tales from the Renaissance." I had thought that Shakespeare--who died four hundred years ago today--was the...
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Two Australian Authors
If you look to the right, you will see a label for Authors of Australia and New Zealand. Right now, there are only three entries with that label. The first (chronologically) is for Wilma Dorothy...
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Two Belgian Authors
John FlandersNé Raymundus Joannes de Kremer or Raymond Jean Marie De KremerAka Jean Ray, King Ray, Alix R. Bantam, John Sailor, and other namesAuthor, Editor, Journalist, Comic Book ScriptwriterBorn...
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Two Irish Authors
Henry De Vere StacpooleAka Tyler De SaixMedical Doctor, Author, Poet, Biographer, TranslatorBorn April 9, 1863, Kingstown (now Dún Laoghaire), County Dublin, IrelandDied April 12, 1951, Shanklin, Isle...
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Two Victorian British Authors
T.W. SpeightThomas Wilkinson SpeightRailroad Man, AuthorBorn 1830, Liverpool, EnglandDied 1915Thomas Wilkinson Speight, better known as T.W. Speight, was born in Liverpool in 1830. The Stanford...
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Six Women from Britain-Introduction
As I wrote the other day, I have given some organization to the remaining tellers of weird tales. In so doing, I have come up with six British women writers. These are in addition to four about whom I...
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Alicia Ramsey (1864-1933)
Née Alice Joanna RoystonAka Alice RamseyAuthor, Playwright, ScreenwriterBorn August 31, 1864, Chelsea, London, EnglandDied May 7, 1933, London, EnglandAlice Joanna Royston was born on August 31, 1864,...
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Violet M. Methley (1882-1953)
Author, PlaywrightBorn January 1882, Seal, Sevenoaks, Kent, EnglandDied 1953, London, EnglandViolet Mary Methley was a prolific author of short stories and novels for children and adults. She...
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G.G. Pendarves (1885-1938)
Née Gladys Gordon TreneryAka Marjory E. LambeAuthor, PianistBorn January 1885, Cornwall, England, or West Derby, Lancashire, England, or Stonycroft, Liverpool, Merseyside, EnglandDied August 1, 1938,...
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Flavia Richardson (1897-1985)
Pseudonym of Christine Campbell ThomsonAka Christine HartleyAuthor, Editor, Anthologist, Literary Agent, OccultistBorn May 31, 1897, London, EnglandDied September 29, 1985Christine Campbell Thomson was...
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Oscar Cook (1888-1952)
Richard Martin Oscar CookCivil Servant, Author, Editor, Publisher, Actor, Playwright, BusinessmanBorn March 17, 1888, Tollington Park, Islington, Middlesex, EnglandDied February 23, 1952, Kensington,...
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Dorothea Gibbons (1902-1989)
Dorothea GibbonsStella Dorothea GibbonsAuthor, Journalist, PoetBorn January 5, 1902, London, EnglandDied December 19, 1989, London, EnglandI assume that Dorothea Gibbons was the well-known British...
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Lady Eleanor Smith (1902-1945)
Lady Eleanor SmithEleanor Furneaux SmithAuthor, Reporter, Reviewer, Publicist, Circus FanBorn 1902, Birkenhead, Merseyside, EnglandDied October 20, 1945, Westminster, EnglandIn the classic screwball...
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Charles Henry Mackintosh (1885-?)
Author, Poet, Editor, Advertising Man, Public SpeakerBorn March 4, 1885, EnglandDied ?A man named Charles Henry Mackintosh wrote for Weird Tales and another man named Charles Henry Mackintosh was an...
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