by Schwartz and Weisinger
_Pen Names_
Ronal Kayser, who has been writing for _Weird Tales_ under the pen-name
of Dale Clark, has now dropped his pseudonym and will hereafter use
his own name.... Greye La Spina had five stories in the first issue
of that old fantasy magazine, _The Thrill Book_.... Four of these
tales appeared under various pseudonyms, but the cover design story
was published under her own name.... G. G. Pendarves, famous weird
author, is the pen-name of an English_woman_.... Her real name is Miss
G. Gordon Trenery; she is now selling stories to some of the English
magazines under the name of Gordon Trenery.... And remember Hugh
Davidson, author of "The Vampire Master," "Snake Man," and other WT
thrillers? Well, Davidson is the pseudonym for none other than Edmond
Hamilton!
_Weird News_
Winford Publications' new weird magazine, out in about two months,
will sell for fifteen cents a copy, and is tentatively titled _Mystery
Novels Monthly_. It will feature a book-length mystery novel each
issue, but all the shorter stories will be of a strictly weird nature.
J. Silberkeit is the editor.... Miss C. L. Moore has returned to
'Northwest' Smith as a character in a new story titled "Julhi," which
will probably appear in the February WT.... Nat Schachner, besides
writing science fiction and weird-mystery yarns for _Astounding_,
_Dime Mystery_, and _Terror Tales_, likewise writes quite regularly
for _Super Detective_.... E. Hoffmann Price sells consistently to the
new mag, _Spicy Detective Stories_.... _Tales of the Uncanny_, a new
English magazine, features weird yarns by such well known authors as
Algernon Blackwood, H. G. Wells, John Buchan, Hugh Walpole, Michael
Arlen, H. R. Wakefield, and Somerset Maughan.
_The Edmond Hamilton Lowdown_
Here's the story behind the discovery and making of Edmond Hamilton as
related by Farnsworth Wright:
"Hamilton's first story, entitled 'Beyond the Unseen Wall' was rejected
by me ten years ago, but I liked its possibilities so well that I sent
Hamilton a three-page typewritten letter with the rejection, telling
him how I thought the story might be fixed up; because it sagged in the
middle and was rather unconvincingly set forth. I did not know Hamilton
from Adam's off ox, but a year later he sent the story back again,
rewritten and so much changed that I hardly recognized it. I accepted
it immediately, and I suggested "The Desert God" as an acceptable
title. Hamilton wrote back suggesting a new one, "The Monster-God
of Mamurth," which is the title under which we printed it in _Weird
Tales_. Hamilton has not had a reject from us since then. Up to the
present, he has had 43 stories printed in _Weird Tales_, and several
more are in our hands and will appear soon."
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