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Chilling Monster Tales
Letter-size saddle-stapled Cinema Magazine printed on newsprint-quality paper. One issue only: August 1966. Published by MM Publishing Ltd from New York. No editor named. / Chilling Monster Tales consisted chiefly of uncredited summaries of classic Monster or Horror films including House of Frankenstein (1944) (see ...
Lalami, Laila
(1968- ) Moroccan author, mostly in UK and US from 1990, active from the mid-1980s; she has written in English since 1996. Her first four novels, beginning with Hope and Other Dangerous Pursuits (2005), have been nonfantastic; she is of sf interest for her fifth novel, The Dream Hotel (2025), set in a Near Future Dystopian California, where the ...
Reeve, James Knapp
(1856-1933) US author of The Three Richard Whalens: A Story of Adventure (1897), a Lost Race tale, in which the third Whalen searches for the Caribbean Island where the first Whalen had made a mysterious discovery, two centuries earlier. [JC]
Julius
Pseudonym of the unidentified author (? -? ), presumably UK, of the spoof lectures assembled as The Sorrows of Jupiter (coll 1904), in which fantasy – the old age of the Greek gods – is intermixed with light doses of sf: Mercury, according to George Locke, has electrified sandals; and at least one attendant civilization has descended from smart apes. [JC]
Friel, Arthur O
(1885-1959) US author and explorer, most of whose work appeared in Pulp magazines, including the McKay, Knowlton and Ryan sequence of Lost Race tales set in South America and featuring the exploits of Americans, who eventually establish a kingdom somewhere close to Peru, their central base being in ancient ruins left by a mysterious white race. Those published as books – The Pathless Trail (10 October-10 November 1921 ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...