Cockcroft, T G L
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Critic.
(1926-2013) New Zealand fan and bibliographer, in employment with IBM from the pre-electronic punched-card era. In spite of his relative isolation in New Zealand, he was a regular Fanzine contributor and corresponded with Fandom worldwide from an early age. He had letters published in Amazing Stories in the mid-1940s, but his main contributions to the genre were detailed bibliographies, in particular Index to the Weird Fiction Magazines: Index by Title (1962 chap) and Index to the Weird Fiction Magazines: Index by Author (1964). This two-part index covered not only Weird Tales but also the weird fiction magazines Strange Stories, The Thrill Book, Oriental Stories, The Magic Carpet Magazine, Golden Fleece and both the US and British magazines titled Strange Tales. [RR]
Thomas George Lawrence Cockcroft
born New Zealand: 26 July 1926
died New Zealand: 12 April 2013
works
nonfiction
- The Tales of Clark Ashton Smith (Lower Hutt, New Zealand: T G L Cockcroft, 1951) [bibliography: chap: Clark Ashton Smith: pb/nonpictorial]
- Index to the Verse in Weird Tales (Lower Hutt, New Zealand: T G L Cockcroft, 1960) [bibliography: chap: Weird Tales: pb/nonpictorial]
- Index to the Weird Fiction Magazines: Index by Title (Lower Hutt, New Zealand: T G L Cockcroft, 1960) [bibliography: chap: pb/Virgil Finlay]
- Index to the Weird Fiction Magazines: Index by Author (Lower Hutt, New Zealand: T G L Cockcroft, 1964) [bibliography: pb/]
- Index to the Weird Fiction Magazines: Volumes I and II (New York: Arno Press, 1974) [bibliography: omni of the above two: hb/]
- Index to the Fiction in Radio News and Other Magazines (Lower Hutt, New Zealand: T G L Cockcroft, 1970) [bibliography: pb/nonpictorial]
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