Sun 5 Feb 2012
Doug Anderson has just started a new blog focused on “Lesser Known Writers” of weird fiction.
He says in part: “…many of the authors covered wrote supernatural fiction and are today fairly forgotten. Most of the entries are illustrated with photographs and dust-wrappers. Some of the authors wrote for Weird Tales (e.g., Bassett Morgan, and Lyllian Huntley Harris). Others wrote supernatural novels (Marion Fox, and C. Bryson Taylor). Interested in cricket fantasies? Check out the entry for Alan Miller.”
Authors covered so far:
Vivian Meik (with newly discovered information), author of Devil’s Drums (1933)
C. Bryson Taylor, author of the vampire novel In The Dwellings of the Wilderness (1904)
Marion Fox, author of Ape’s Face (1914) and The Mystery Keepers (1919)
Blanche Bloor Schleppey, author of The Soul of a Mummy (1908)
Alan Miller, author of Phantoms of a Physician (1934) and Close of Play (1949)
Lyllian Huntley Harris, author of one known short story in Weird Tales, the subject of a later-day fraud
Bassett Morgan, prolific Weird Tales author
And many others, with more to come.
February 5th, 2012 at 6:24 pm
I recently bought Vivian Meik’s short story collection DEVILS’ DRUMS which has been published in a nice edition. I also like the supernatural fiction collections being published by Tartarus Press in the UK. They put out an excellent magazine about weird fiction called Wormwood. Just about all 17 issues are still available, each one 92 pages. A high quality magazine edited by Mark Valentine.