Kelly, Harold Ernest
Entry updated 17 January 2025. Tagged: Author.
(1899-1965) UK author and publisher, founder with his brother, Hector Kelly, of Everybody's Books in 1943, then in 1946 of Robin Hood Press, for which he wrote many crime novels – being best known for those as by Darcy Glinto – and Westerns, along with some sf and horror. In the 1960s, he wrote crime under the House Name Hank Janson. As Eugene Ascher he wrote the Lucian Carolus series of occult detective novels: There Were No Asper Ladies (1944; vt To Kill a Corpse 1959), Uncanny Adventures (coll 1944 chap), and The Grim Caretaker (1944 chap). As Preston Yorke he wrote The Gamma Ray Murders (1943), which was sf, Death on Priority 1 (1945), and other crime tales. Space-Time Task Force (1953), also as by Yorke, was set in the distant future, where the robot-like "syntho-selectives" who rule Earth turn to the Primitives, who are true humans, to defend against an alien Invasion. [SH]
Harold Ernest Kelly
born London: 18 December 1899
died Canary Islands: 20 June 1965
works
series
Lucian Carolus
- There Were No Asper Ladies (London: Mitre Press, 1944) as by Eugene Ascher [Lucian Carolus: pb/Jeff Cook]
- To Kill a Corpse (London: World Distributors (Manchester) Ltd, 1959) [vt of the above: Lucian Carolus: pb/]
- Uncanny Adventures: 5 Strange Thrillers (London: Everybody's Books, 1944) [coll: chap: Lucian Carolus: pb/Douglas]
- The Grim Caretaker (London: Strothers Bookshop, 1944) [chap: Lucian Carolus: pb/Doug]
individual titles
- The Gamma Ray Murders (London: Everybody's Books, 1943) as by Preston Yorke [pb/Jeff Cook]
- Death on Priority 1 (London: Mitre Press, 1945) as by Preston Yorke [pb/]
- Space-Time Task Force (London: Hector Kelly, 1953) as by Preston Yorke [pb/James McConnell]
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