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Post by bluetomb on Sept 17, 2015 10:19:13 GMT
This may be too obscure but I thought this is probably a place where people with more experience than I of the world of genre fiction and writers might either have leads or be able to point me in a possible direction. I had a query on the above at work, Lister Champneys wrote a volume of weird detective stories called The Incredible Adventures of Rowland Hern under the Olde pseudonym (published by Heinemann in 1928) and an academic was after author files, of which we seem to have none. I work in the Random House Archive and Library, which would be the place where any such files would live, but none are forthcoming (historically our organisation has... not been great, and I've not been there long enough to have a total grasp on our holdings). I had a nose around on the web and found only that Champneys wrote a work on public library design in 1907, then directed the academic to Champneys' descendants or Ramble House, who did a paperback edition a few years back, but they don't know anything either. So I now have a bit of a personal interest in the matter (it's the sort of thing that could be the start of its own horror story), and I thought here might be a good place to start. Cheers for any tips!
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Post by ramseycampbell on Sept 17, 2015 11:19:16 GMT
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Post by bluetomb on Sept 21, 2015 9:55:38 GMT
Alas they apparently were behind me and didn't know Olde's real identity. But thanks anyway!
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Post by humgoo on Jun 4, 2021 6:08:55 GMT
So I now have a bit of a personal interest in the matter (it's the sort of thing that could be the start of its own horror story), and I thought here might be a good place to start. Did you follow it up? There's an entry written by Douglas A. Anderson complete with a photo on his Lesser-Known Writers blog (but you're probably aware of it if you did follow it up!). |
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