Rud, Anthony
Entry updated 23 June 2025. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1893-1942) US author and Pulp-magazine editor whose first story seems to have been "The October Blight" in The Green Book Magazine for March 1918. He contributed sf to Weird Tales, The Blue Book Magazine, Thrilling Wonder Stories and others; typical of this work is his first Weird Tales story "Ooze" (March 1923 Weird Tales), the cover story for the magazine's first issue. He is best known for the Sax Rohmer-esque fantasy The Stuffed Men (1935), which describes the unpleasant effects of a fungus ("ciliated zoospores") that grows within the human body; this is part of a hideous Oriental revenge (see Yellow Peril) and directly echoes the killer spores featured to more melodramatic effect in Rohmer's The Mystery of Dr Fu-Manchu (fixup 1913; vt The Insidious Dr Fu-Manchu 1913). [JE/DRL]
Anthony Melville Rud
born Chicago, Illinois: 11 January 1893
died 30 November 1942
works
- The Stuffed Men (New York: Macaulay Company, 1935) [hb/uncredited]
collections and stories
- The Feast of Skeletons (Great Barrington, Massachusetts: Attic Revival Press, 1983) [story: chap: first appeared 25 August 1934 Detective Fiction Weekly: contains biographical piece by Bernard A Drew: pb/]
- The Place of Hairy Death and Other Stories (Vancleave, Mississippi: Dancing Tuatara Press/ Ramble House, 2015) [coll: hb/]
- Ooze and Others: Best Weird Stories of Anthony M. Rud (Seattle, Washington: Sarnath Press, 2023) [coll: pb/]
further reading
- Bill Pronzini. Son of Gun in Cheek (New York: The Mysterious Press, 1987) [nonfiction: hb/Pamela Noftsinger]
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