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Windom Wayne Robbins | |
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| Born | July 22, 1914 Stillwater, Oklahoma |
| Died | January 18, 1958 (aged 43) Spokane, Washington |
| Pen name | Wayne Robbins, W. Wayne Robbins, Wyndham Brooks |
| Occupation | Author, Artist, Propagandist |
| Language | American English |
| Nationality | American |
| Genre | Pulp fiction, Sci fi, Horror |
| Subject | Horror |
| Literary movement | Weird menace |
Windom Wayne Robbins (July 22, 1914 – January 18, 1958) was an American author of horror fiction and weird menace. Such stories often dealt with standard themes required by the publisher; those involving "Inescapable Doom" were supplied by Donald Dale (Mary Dale Buckner). Mindret Lord handled the "Woman Without Volition". Ray Cummings delivered stories about the "Girl Obsessed". Many of Robbins' stories portrayed the "Man Obsessed" and a subsequent descent into madness.[1] His work was primarily published in the Popular Publications catalog of pulp magazines, starting with Horror's Holiday Special in the July 1939 issue of Dime Mystery Magazine.
Robert Kenneth Jones reported that Robbins "excelled in explosive chaos" and called Test Tube Frankenstein from the May 1940 issue of Terror Tales, a tale of biological mimicry along the lines of Don A. Stuart's Who Goes There?, "credible".[2] 'This story is billed in Sheldon Jaffery's anthology Sensuous Science Fiction of the Weird and Spicy Pulps as "one of the best of its kind to be published".[3]
Robbins' published works are usually attributed to Wayne Robbins or W. Wayne Robbins, but he occasionally used the pen name Wyndham Brooks, a variation on his given name and his mother's maiden name. His brother, Ormond Robbins, also wrote horror, hardboiled, and western fiction for Popular Publications, as Dane Gregory or Breck Tarrant.
- ^ The Shudder Pulps (Chapter 13, Variations on a Theme), Robert Kenneth Jones, Fax Collector's Editions Inc., 1975, ISBN 0-913960-04-7.
- ^ The Shudder Pulps (Chapter 13, Variations on a Theme), Robert Kenneth Jones, Fax Collector's Editions Inc., 1975, ISBN 0-913960-04-7.
- ^ Sensuous Science Fiction of the Weird and Spicy Pulps, Sheldon Jaffery, Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1984, ISBN 0-87972-305-X, ISBN 0-87972-306-8.