John Stephen Glasby (23 September 1928 – 5 June 2011) was a prolific British author whose work spanned a range of popular genres. During the 1950s and 1960s, he produced over 300 novels and short stories, most of which were published pseudonymously under the Badger Books imprint.
His contributions to the Cthulhu Mythos are numerous, including several short stories. Collections of Glasby's Lovecraftian horror fiction include The Lonely Shadows: Tales of Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos (Borgo Press, 2012), The Brooding City and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Dancing Tuatara Press, 2015) and Beyond the Rim and Other Tales of Cosmic Horror (Dancing Tuatara Press, 2015). His works have also been included in multi-author Cthulhu Mythos anthologies such as The New Lovecraft Circle, Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth and The Antarktos Cycle.
Glasby's other work can be summarised briefly as follows:
- Approximately 25 speculative fiction novels, using pseudonyms such as "A. J Merak" and the Badger house names "John E. Muller", "Karl Zeigfreid" and "Victor LaSalle".
- More than 30 western novels using the house name "Chuck Adams", and ten as "Tex Bradley".
- 34 hospital romance novels written as "D.K. Jennings".
- Two crime novels and six desert adventure novels, all using the "A.J. Merak" pseudonym.
- Six James Bond-style spy novels written as "Manning K. Robertson".
- An unknown number (possibly as many as a hundred) War stories set during World War II and published under a huge range of pseudonyms.
In addition to his fiction writing, Glasby was a chemist and mathematician.
Selected Bibliography[]
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Short Fiction[]
- "Beyond the Peaks of Nightmare"
- "The Brooding City"
- "The Disturber of Everness"
- "The Cedwald Heritage"
- "The Dweller in the Gulf"
- "The House on the Rim"
- "The Kh'yrog Tablets"
- "The Shadow over Redforde"
- "The Ring of the Hyades"
- "A Shadow from the Aeons"
- "The Stone of Mogroth"
- "The Undying Ones"
- "A Whisper from the Aeons"
- "The Black Mirror"
- "The Horror From the Deep"
- "The Nameless Tower"
- "The Old One"
- "Drawn from Life"
- "The Dark Boatman"
- "Innsmouth Bane"