The Lonely Shadows: Tales of Horror and the Cthulhu Mythos (17 page)
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Authors: John Glasby
Tags: #Fiction, #H.P. Lovecraft, #haunted house, #Cthulhu, #Horror, #Mythos
During the early 1960s, Glasby wrote dozens of paperback westerns, all of which were reprinted in hardcover and paperback four decades later. Their success prompted the author to write new westerns, of which almost a dozen have appeared in recent years. Also revived were his 1960s “Johnny Merak” private eye novels, and Glasby continued to write new adventures of his Chandler-like hero.
Following his retirement from I.C.I., Glasby returned to writing more supernatural stories in the Lovecraftian vein, and a number of his stories have appeared in American small press magazines and in Mythos anthologies edited by Robert M. Price. In recent years new supernatural stories have appeared in original collections edited by leading horror anthologist Stephen Jones, and in Philip Harbottle’s
Fantasy Adventures
collections (published by Wildside Press).
His novelette, “Innsmouth Bane,” was featured in the second issue of
H. P. Lovecraft’s
Magazine of Horror
. Glasby’s most ambitious Lovecraftian work was
Dark Armageddon
, as yet unpublished, a trilogy of novels that unifies and brings to a climatic conclusion Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos cycle.
An all-new collection of ghost stories,
The Substance of a Shade
, was published in the UK in 2003, followed by
The Dark Destroyer
, a new supernatural novel, in 2005. In 2007 Glasby was adjudged the ideal choice to continue John Russell Fearn’s famous “Golden Amazon” series, and three authorized novels,
Seetee Sun
,
The Sun Movers
, and
The Crimson Peril
, have appeared to date. A fourth novel,
Primordial World
, is scheduled to appear in 2012.
Several of the best of Glasby’s SF, supernatural, and detective titles are being published by the Borgo Press.
John Glasby died on June 5, 2011, following a long and courageous battle with illness, during which time he continued to write with undimmed power.
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