Donald Wandrei (1908 - 1987) was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Jump to: navigation, search Fantasy is a genre of art, literature, film, television, and music that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of either plot, theme, setting, or all three. ... Horror fiction is, broadly, fiction intended to scare, unsettle or horrify the reader. ...

Biography and Writing Career

Wandrei started writing in 1926 and his writing career took off around 1932. He was active in pulp magazines until the late 1930s. During this time he was a member of the H.P. Lovecraft circle, corresponded with Lovecraft and other members of the circle (Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, etc). He contributed two stories to the Cthulhu Mythos: "The Fire Vampires" (1933) and "The Tree-Men of M'Bwa" (1933). Wandrei and August Derleth later co-founded the publishing house Arkham House to keep Lovecraft's legacy alive. After World War II he continued writing speculative fiction stories, although at a greatly reduced rate. Jump to: navigation, search 1926 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search 1932 is a leap year starting on a Friday. ... Pulp magazines, often called simply the pulps, were inexpensive text fiction magazines widely published in the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Jump to: navigation, search H. P. Lovecraft Howard Phillips Lovecraft (August 20, 1890 – March 15, 1937) was an American author of fantasy and horror fiction, noted for giving horror stories a science fiction framework. ... Frank Belknap Long (April 27, 1903 - January 3, 1994) was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. ... Clark Ashton Smith (January 13, 1893-August 14, 1961) was a poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. ... Jump to: navigation, search Cthulhu in Rlyeh Cthulhu mythos is the term coined by the writer August Derleth to describe the shared themes, characters, and elements in the works of H.P. Lovecraft, his protegés, and writers influenced by him. ... August William Derleth (February 24, 1909 – July 4, 1971) was an American writer and anthologist. ... Arkham House is a weird fiction specialty publishing house founded by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei. ... Jump to: navigation, search World War II was a truly global conflict with many facets: immense human suffering, fierce indoctrinations, and the use of new, extremely devastating weapons such as the atom bomb World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a mid-20th-century conflict that... Jump to: navigation, search Speculative fiction is a term for a group of fiction defined by the concept of What if? As such, it includes science fiction, alternative history (fiction), horror and fantasy. ...

Awards

• World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement (1984)

This World Fantasy Award is presented to individuals for their outstanding service to the fantasy field, and decided by a panel of judges at the World Fantasy Convention. ...

Bibliography

Novels

• The Web of Easter Island (1948)

Collections

• The Eye and the Finger (1944)
• Strange Harvest (1965)
• Colossus (1989)
• Don't Dream: The Collected Fantasy and Horror of Donald Wandrei (1997)