Employing the pseudonym G. G. Pendarves, Gladys Gordon Trenery (ca. 1885–1938), who also wrote under the pseudonym Marjory E. Lambe, became one of the few British writers to enjoy success in American pulp magazines. As a native of Cornwall, she used her native dark, forbidding, and lonely coastal region as the setting for many of her stories. Although she wrote a few stories for British periodicals, it is the nineteen stories she produced for Weird Tales that have kept her reputation alive. She was a popular second-tier contributor to the greatest of all horror and fantasy pulps. Occasionally she wrote for other pulps, such as Oriental Stories and Magic Carpet. These, as well as the Weird Tales stories, have been collected in The Devil’s Graveyard (1988), Thing of Darkness (2005), and Thirty Pieces of Silver (2009) in small editions aimed at collectors and serious pulp aficionados. As a student deeply involved with and knowledgeable about occultism, most of her stories reflect her belief in the existence and power of goodness. Her villainous characters, therefore, tend to be less fully fleshed out than her heroic figures, and it soon becomes fairly obvious that they are doomed because of their …
G. G. Pendarves
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- Died:
- Jan. 1, 1938
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Employing the pseudonym G. G. Pendarves, Gladys Gordon Trenery (ca. 1885–1938), who also wrote under the pseudonym Marjory E. Lambe, became one of the few British writers to enjoy success in American pulp magazines. As a native of Cornwall, she used her native dark, forbidding, and lonely coastal region as the setting for many of her stories. Although she wrote a few stories for British periodicals, it is the nineteen stories she produced for Weird Tales that have kept her reputation alive. She was a popular second-tier contributor to the greatest of all horror and fantasy pulps. Occasionally she wrote for other pulps, such as Oriental Stories and Magic Carpet. These, as well as the Weird Tales stories, have been collected in The Devil’s Graveyard (1988), Thing of Darkness (2005), and Thirty Pieces of Silver (2009) in small editions aimed at collectors and serious pulp aficionados. As a student deeply involved with and knowledgeable about occultism, most of her stories reflect her belief in the existence and power of goodness. Her villainous characters, therefore, tend to be less fully fleshed out than her heroic figures, and it soon becomes fairly obvious that they are doomed because of their innate evil. There is a great sense of authenticity to her fiction, though there is little sense of wonder at even the most extraordinary supernatural occurrences.
[Otto Penzler, The Big Book of Ghost Stories, 2012]
