Opening of the Gate

My grandfather, Wayne Robbins, used to say: "A man can't do much when his brain is afire with agony, when his blind eyes are dangling down onto his cheeks, dripping blood and optic humor..."

He and his brother, Dane Gregory nee Ormond Robbins, wrote pulp horror and detective fiction in the 30s and 40s under a handful of noms de plume, before the wartime morality spike spiked a market for spicy stories that had carried the family rather well through lean times.

Lucite.org is in the process of rescuing the work of these two brothers from the ravages of acidic paper, cover art collectors, and even their perceived literary value. As time allows, I will offer some of these old, ignored pulp stories for your entertainment, plus several unpublished stories from the detective and shudder genres.

For now, Lucite.org presents "The Thing in Search of a Body," a charming tale of a rough-hewn hammer murderess. A list of the two brothers works are also available, as well as some of Wayne's correspondence in the Lucite.org archive.

If you are a pulp collector and think you might be able to help recover some of these stories or trade some doubles, please let me know.