Sun 10 Nov 2019
Death Noted: JEANNE HINES (1922-2014).
Posted by Steve under Authors , Obituaries / Deaths Noted[4] Comments
Gothic romance author Jeanne Hines was born 29 July 1922 and died 23 August 2014, but her death has not been known to Al Hubin, author of the Revised Crime Fiction IV, until now.
Under her own name, Hines wrote the following as paperback originals. All are presumed to be Gothic romances, which were extremely popular in the late 1960s through the 1970s.
The Slashed Portrait (n.) Dell 1973 [U.S. South]
Tidehawks (n.) Popular Library 1974
Talons of the Hawk (n.) Dell 1975 [Mexico]
Bride of Terror (n.) Popular Library 1976
The Keys to Queenscourt (n.) Popular Library 1976
The Legend of Witchwynd (n.) Popular Library 1976 [New Orleans, LA]
Scarecrow House (n.) Popular Library 1976
The Third Wife (n.) Popular Library 1977 [Mexico]
According to her Wikipedia page, she also wrote seventeen romance novels as Valerie Sherwood and one as by Rosamond Royal.
November 10th, 2019 at 2:55 pm
Gotta have that light in the Window or it’s not really a Gothic.
November 10th, 2019 at 4:22 pm
Yes. The whole country was filled with those sinister looking old mansions back then. They’ve all gone now, replaced by condos. Or parking lots.
November 10th, 2019 at 10:07 pm
BRIDE OF TERROR seemed familiar for some reason, and then I recalled where I read about it, in Bill Pronzini’s GUN IN CHEEK:
“Bride of Terror is an interesting specimen—an alternative giant of the Gothic genre that also, heretically, breaks many of the form’s cardinal rules.”
You can read the rest for yourself. I’ll only add intriguingly it is a Gothic with Mafia dons and two running gunfights, and that I have looked for a copy ever since reading Bill’s description.
Anyone that inventive with the form is sorely to be missed. Whether any of her other novels came up to that level I don’t know, but I have sought that one out for years.
November 10th, 2019 at 11:20 pm
Of course now that you got me looking, there’s not a single copy of BRIDE OF TERROR offered by anyone anywhere on line. As many copies of old Gothic romances were sold during their heyday, a lot of them don’t seem to exist anymore.