Who Do You Think Are The Most Neglected and Forgotten Writers?

[BAYLOR]

Francis Stevens

 

[psikeyhackr]

Francis Stevens

Wait, do you actually have to know about someone to neglect them?

Is that a deep philosophical question?

 

[BAYLOR]

Wait, do you actually have to know about someone to neglect them?

Is that a deep philosophical question?

Have you seen here books in bookstore lately ?

 

[psikeyhackr]

Have you seen here books in bookstore lately ?

Damn! I'm supposed to remember the last time I was in a bookstore? No it hasn't been 10 years, maybe 5 or 6! Books are those paper things right, force you to move your eyes?

 

[BAYLOR]

Damn! I'm supposed to remember the last time I was in a bookstore? No it hasn't been 10 years, maybe 5 or 6! Books are those paper things right, force you to move your eyes?

Sorry, I didn't mean to be snarky .

 

[psikeyhackr]

Sorry, I didn't mean to be snarky .

Chill, I was being snarky. It is the sole purpose of my existence.

 

[austin_cambridge]

A real man of mystery - John W Jennison (AKA John Theydon - the writer of childrens' books for Gerry Anderson's puppet shows - Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet for Armada books) and many other books as well under various names.

Who was he? What was he like? I've never even seen a photo of him. Had anyone ever met him? There seems to be nothing written about the man beyond working out what he wrote under what name....and some info stating when he died. I'd love to know more about him.

 

[BAYLOR]

A real man of mystery - John W Jennison (AKA John Theydon - the writer of childrens' books for Gerry Anderson's puppet shows - Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet for Armada books) and many other books as well under various names.

Who was he? What was he like? I've never even seen a photo of him. Had anyone ever met him? There seems to be nothing written about the man beyond working out what he wrote under what name....and some info stating when he died. I'd love to know more about him.

Ive never even seen his books.

 

[hitmouse]

A real man of mystery - John W Jennison (AKA John Theydon - the writer of childrens' books for Gerry Anderson's puppet shows - Stingray, Thunderbirds and Captain Scarlet for Armada books) and many other books as well under various names.

Who was he? What was he like? I've never even seen a photo of him. Had anyone ever met him? There seems to be nothing written about the man beyond working out what he wrote under what name....and some info stating when he died. I'd love to know more about him.

I have this one. International Rescue deliver refrigerated Andrex to a man who had a really evil vindaloo the night before. Pretty good for what it is, but not exactly Tolstoy.

 

[BAYLOR]

I have this one. International Rescue deliver refrigerated Andrex to a man who had a really evil vindaloo the night before. Pretty good for what it is, but not exactly Tolstoy.

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Somehow , I just can't imagine Leo Tolstoy writing a Thunderbird novel . If he did, it bee at least 1200 pages long.

 

[BAYLOR]

Leigh Brackett

 

[psikeyhackr]

Someone forgot to tell me about them so I don't know.

 

[BAYLOR]

Someone forgot to tell me about them so I don't know.

I suspect that your knowledge and reading of Science Fiction , Fantasy and Horror far exceeds what ive read and know ,

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

Francis Stevens

I've read "The Elf Trap" but I don' t remember reading anything else, though I know I searched for more by the same author for quite some time.

 

[BAYLOR]

I've read "The Elf Trap" but I don' t remember reading anything else, though I know I searched for more by the same author for quite some time.

1. The Nightmare and other tales Dark Fantasy This one was out by Bison books some years ago
2. The Heads of Cerberus
3. Claimed

Her real name Gertrude Barrows Bennet, she died in 1948.

 

[Teresa Edgerton]

I knew who she was. Whatever anthology the story was in, they gave a brief bio.

Increasingly, public domain works are getting scanned in and made available as ebooks. For instance, many years ago, I was looking for stories by Vernon Lee (aka Violet Paget, another woman who wrote under a male pseudonym) and had quite a time hunting them all down, although ultimately was successful—though many of them were in yellowing old very small print paperbacks which I tracked down in used-book stores.. Recently I discovered that they are all readily available now in digital editions. Which was a pleasing discovery, as I have trouble reading printed books, and I was very eager to reread some of my favorites among her stories.

As for Stevens/Bennet, a glance at Google tells me that many—perhaps all—of her works are available now. It makes sense if she died in 1948 that someone, or several someones, would have noticed that everything of hers would have come into the public domain in the last few years. This would not have been the case a decade or so ago when I first went looking. Unfortunately, I don't remember what it was about the story I read that appealed to me, so—unlike with Vernon Lee, whose stories I found memorably haunting—am less likely to pounce on the chance to read more now.

 

[psikeyhackr]

I suspect that your knowledge and reading of Science Fiction , Fantasy and Horror far exceeds what ive read and know ,

You have been taking the alternate reality too seriously. I can't keep him from logging in, he figures out my passwords as fast as I think of them. But he doesn't do horror just like me.

 

[The Big Peat]

Citadel of Fear is the Stephens I read. Stands up well enough, although not something I'd recommend often.