James Wade

James Wade (5 January 1930 – 1 August 1983) was an American-born writer and composer who lived much of his adult life in South Korea. He wrote a number of stories set in the greater Cthulhu Mythos, as well as Lovecraft-related non-fiction works and poems. 
After first visiting Korea in 1954 while enlisted in the US Army, Wade returned in 1960 to become a permanent resident. He wrote a column for the Korea Times, "Scouting the City," from 1964 until 1974,The Korea Times, "Critic Without Pity Who Wrote 'Scouting the City,'" by Matt Van Volkenburg, January 23, 2018. and published a book, One Man's Korea, in 1967.Biblio, "One Man's Korea by James Wade." He wrote about music for a variety of publications.
His symphonic and chamber music compositions were performed in numerous countries. He wrote an opera, The Martyred, based on a novel by Richard E. Kim.Discogs, "James Wade--The Martyred".
Wade's work has been collected in Mythos anthologies like Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Arkham House, 1969), The Disciples of Cthulhu (DAW Books, 1976), The Hastur Cycle (Chaosium, 1993), The New Lovecraft Circle (Fedogan & Bremer, 1996), The Innsmouth Cycle (Chaosium, 1998), and A Mountain Walked (Centipede Press, 2014).
A collection of Wade's work, Such Things May Be: Collected Writings, was released by Shadow Publishing in 2018, edited by Edward P. Berglund with a foreword by Fritz Leiber.
==Selected Works==
===Short Fiction===
*"The Deep Ones" (1969)
*"A Darker Shadow Over Innsmouth" (1969)
*"The Elevator" (1971)
*"Planetfall on Yuggoth" (1972)
*"The Silence of Erika Zann" (1976)
*"Those Who Wait" (1996)
=== Nonfiction ===
* "The Mass Media Horror" (1971)
* "Some Parallels Between Machen and Lovecraft" (1971)
* "My Life with the Greatest Old One" (1972)
* "Fritz Leiber Revisited: From Hyde Park to Geary Street" (1979)
* "On Horror in Lovecraft" (1980)
== References ==
Category:Expanded Mythos Authors
Category:Deceased (Real World)