Anthony M. Rud (1893–1942) was the prototypical pulp writer. His stories appeared in a wide array of pulp magazines over a period of twenty years; but the work for which he is now best known is in the vein of horror and the supernatural. “Ooze,�� appearing in the first issue of Weird Tales (March 1923), is a mesmerizing tale of nebulous horror—it also influenced H. P. Lovecraft’s “The Dunwich Horror.” Rud wrote numerous “lost race” stories, including “The Place of Hairy Death,” set in the Yucatán; “Bellowing Bamboo,” set in British Guiana; and “Bunyips in the Mulga,” an evocative tale evoking the distinctive flora and fauna of Australia. “Waters under the Earth” involves a quest for hidden treasure in Mexico. In all these stories Rud brings a vibrancy of setting and originality in his creation of weird scenarios that lift them far above the common run of pulp fiction.
Genre: Science Fiction
Genre: Science Fiction
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