Naylor, Charles
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1941-2005) US editor and author, the partner of Thomas M Disch between 1969 and 2005. He wrote a gothic novel, Steps to the Grotto (1974) as by Cassandra Nye, echoing the Cassandra Knye pseudonym used earlier for gothics by Disch and John T Sladek. Under his own name, Neighboring Lives (1981) with Thomas M Disch is a non-sf historical analysis in fictional terms of mid-nineteenth-century English literary life, focusing on Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881) and his wife, Jane Baillie Welsh Carlyle (1801-1866). Naylor's two original-story Anthologies – New Constellations: An Anthology of Tomorrow's Mythologies (anth 1976) with Thomas M Disch and Strangeness: A Collection of Curious Tales (anth 1977) with Thomas M Disch – are of considerable genre interest. [JC]
Charles Dodd Naylor
born New York: 18 April 1941
died New York: 6 September 2005
works
- Steps to the Grotto (New York: Berkley Medallion, 1974) as by Cassandra Nye [pb/]
- Neighboring Lives (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1981) with Thomas M Disch [hb/Muriel Nasser]
works as editor
- New Constellations: An Anthology of Tomorrow's Mythologies (New York: Harper and Row, 1976) Thomas M Disch [anth: hb/Jerry Fargo]
- Strangeness: A Collection of Curious Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1977) with Thomas M Disch [anth: hb/Anita Siegel]
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