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Conway, Gerard F
(1952-2026) US author informally known as Gerry Conway who began his career in Comics, writing some non-fantastic scripts for Marvel Comics, and editing the short-lived 1973 weird fiction magazine The Haunt of Horror and writing for the 1973-1975 anthology Comic Worlds Unknown. He also worked extensively for ...
Leydenfrost, A
THe usual byline of US artist Alexander Leydenfrost (1888-1961), also credited simply as Leydenfrost, who was born in Hungary as Baron Sandor Leidenfrost; upon moving to America at the age of 34, he Americanized his first name to Alexander and changed the spelling of his last name. Trained as an artist in his native land, Leydenfrost emigrated to America in 1923 along with three friends, Peter Lorre, Bela Lugosi, and Paul Lucas, who went on to successful acting ...
McKinney, Chris
(1973- ) US teacher and author, active in both capacities from before 2000. His first novel, Tattoo (1999), is nonfantastic. He is of sf interest for some of the stories assembled in The Lunacy Machine: Twisted Tales of Unfortunate Times (coll 2007), and for the Water City sequence beginning with Midnight, Water City (2021), set in a distant Near-Future ...
Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy, The
US animated tv series (2003-2008). Cartoon Network Studios. Created by Adam Maxwell Burton (aka Maxwell Atoms). Directors include Robert Alvarez, Shaun Cashman and Juli Murphy. Writers include Maxwell Atoms, C.H. Greenblatt and Gord Zajac. Voice cast includes Grey DeLisle, Greg Eagles and Richard Steven Horvitz. 77 23-minute episodes (1-3 segments per episode), three specials and nineteen shorts, plus a crossover episode with Codename: Kids Next Door (see ...
Lethbridge, Olive
Working name of Irish-born author Olive Ada Lethbridge Banbury (1885-1971), in UK from an undetermined date; her Lost Race novel, As a Lioness That Sleeps: A Novel of Africa (1931), sets a romantic engagement with a handsome race in Africa. [JC]
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 ...