Duane W. Rimel

Duane W. Rimel
Pseudonym(s)	Rex Weldon
Birth Date	February 21, 1915
Birthplace	Asotin, Washington
Death Date	September 30, 1996
Deathplace	Clarkston, Asotin, Washington
Nationality	United States
Genre	Detective, fantasy, science fiction, erotica, poetry

𝓦𝐓 Duane W. Rimel was an American science fiction, fantasy and erotica writer most well known for his collaborations with American horror writer Howard Phillips Lovecraft.

Lovecraft was a close friend who mentored him in his early writings as early as 1934. The following year, Rimel collaborated with writer Emil Petaja to create The Fantaisiste's Mirror a fan magazine to continue the serialization of Lovecraft's essay "Supernatural Horror in Literature" where the magazine The Fantasy Fan left off. However, the magazine never made it to print.

Lovecraft and Rimel collaborated on several pieces, such as "Dreams of Yith", "The Tree on the Hill" and "The Disinterment", the latter published in Weird Tales. After Lovecraft's death, Rimel continued to write Mythos stories, such as "Music of the Stars".

He was also co-editor (with Francis T. Laney) of the early fanzine The Acolyte (1942-1946) which published several notable Lovecraft pieces including the first glossary of the Cthulhu Mythos.

He went on to write numerous other fantasy, science fiction and detective stories.

Bibliography

Novels

Science fiction and Fantasy Novels

• Time Swap (1969), under the pseudonym Rex Weldon

Detective Novels

• The Curse of Cain (1945)
• Motive for Murder (1945)
• The Jury Is Out (1947)
• The River Is Cold (1962)

Short Stories

Science fiction and Fantasy Short Story Collections

• Fanciful Tales of Time and Space (1936)
• The Forbidden Room (1936)
• To Yith and Beyond (1990)

Other Short stories

• The Sorcery of Aphlar (1934), in possible collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft
• The Disinterment (1935), in collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft
• The Jewels of Charlotte (1935)
• The Forbidden Room (1936)
• The Metal Chamber (1939)
• The City Under the Sea (1940)
• The Tree on the Hill (1940), in collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft
• The Last Scientist (1941)
• Norton and I (1942)
• Music of the Stars (1943)
• Jungle Princess (1944)
• The Small, Dark Thing (1944)
• Two in a Dungeon (1944)
• The Wrong Night (1944)
• Peculiarly Passionate Pair (1963), under the pseudonym Rex Weldon (Lesbian pulp fiction)
• Sex Week (1965), under the pseudonym Rex Weldon (Lesbian pulp fiction)
• The Innocent Lesbian (1965), under the pseudonym Rex Weldon (Lesbian pulp fiction)
• The Hampdon Horror (1984)
• Goodbye, Joe (1985)
• Chief White Cloud (1985)
• The Acolyte Years (1987)
• The Tale of Rondo and Ilana (1990)

Poetry

• The Ship (1934)
• Dreams of Yith (1934), in collaboration with H. P. Lovecraft
• Late Revenge (1935)
• Contradiction (1942)
• Mood (1942)
• Estranged (1943)
• The Whisperer (1945)
• The Key (1967)
• Shadow of the Wall (1969)
• Strange Flowers Bloom (1971)
• Wings of Dreams (1984)

Essays

• Robert E. Howard – An Impressionistic Linoleum Cut (1935)
• Weird Music (1936), in collaboration with Emil Petaja
• H. P. Lovecraft as I Knew Him (1983)
• The Lovecraft Years (1986)