(1910-    ) UK-born author and civil servant long resident in Canada whose horror/sf novel, Spawn of the Vortex (1957), plays on the nuclear-testing Paranoia of the 1950s. Underwater tests activate a horde of Monsters who advance upon the USA. [JC]

Henry K Gayle

born Leeds, West Yorkshire: 1910

died

works

• Spawn of the Vortex (New York: Comet Press, 1957) [hb/Leon Berger]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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