Bruce Elliott (writer)

Bruce Walter Gardner Lively Stacy Elliott (May 30, 1914 – March 21, 1973) was an American writer of mystery fiction, science fiction, and television scripts.[1] He was also a magician who wrote several books on magic. Eliott co-founded the magicians' magazine Phoenix with Walter B. Gibson, as assistant editor, later editor.[2]

Elliott's 15 stories in The Shadow magazine between 1946 and 1948 (issues #306-320[3]) include three stories in which the Shadow does not appear in his costumed identity.

Elliott contributed material to The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, including the acclaimed reverse-werewolf story "Wolves Don't Cry" (1954)[4][5] and a comic fantasy about Satan, "The Devil Was Sick".[6]

In November 1972, Elliott was hit by a taxi cab driver, lapsed into a coma, and died four months later on March 21, 1973. He was 58 years old.

Biblio

Novels

• The Planet of Shame (1961)
• Asylum Earth (1968)
• The Rivet in Grandfather's Neck (1970)

Short Fiction

• "Jungle Jazz" (1944)
• "They're Hustling You" (1948)
• "Fearsome Fable" (1951)
• "The Devil Was Sick" (1951)
• The Battle of the S...s (1952)
• "Asylum Earth" (1952)
• The Last Magician (1953)
• "So Sweet As Magic ..." (1953)
• The Man Next Door (1953)
• "Wolves Don't Cry" (1954)

Notes

1. "Bruce Elliott - The Los Angeles Review of Books". The Los Angeles Review of Books. Archived from the original on 2016-01-27.
2. "Bruce Elliott - MagicPedia". www.geniimagazine.com. Retrieved 2015-10-19.
3. "The Shadow Pulps #301-325".
4. Chantal Bourgault du Coudray, The Curse of the Werewolf: Fantasy,Horror and the Beast Within. I. B. Tauris, 2006. (p. 172) ISBN 978-1845111588
5. "Wolves Don't Cry" was described by Brian J. Frost as "one of the best short stories from this period". See Brian J. Frost, The Essential Guide to Werewolf Literature, Popular Press, 2003 (p.173) ISBN 0879728604
6. Darrell Schweitzer, "The Devil" in S. T. Joshi, ed., Icons of Horror and the Supernatural: an Encyclopedia of our Worst Nightmares (Greenwood, 2007), (p. 178) ISBN 0313337810

External links

• Bruce Elliott at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database