movement death_date death_place pseudonym birth_place subject imagesize nationality birth_date language genre image article_title name occupation
weird menace 18 january 1958 spokane , washington wayne robbins , w. wayne robbins , wyndham brooks stillwater , oklahoma horror 200px united states 22 july 1914 american english pulp fiction , sci fi , horror windom_wayne_robbins . jpg wayne robbins
 windom wayne robbins author , artist , propagandist
wayne robbins

windom wayne robbins -lrb- july 22 , 1914 -- january 18 , 1958 -rrb- was an american author of horror and weird fiction .
his work was primarily published in the popular publications catalog of weird menace pulp fiction .
his first published short story was `` horror 's holiday special '' in the july 1939 issue of `` dime mystery magazine '' .
robert kenneth jones reported that robbins `` excelled in explosive chaos , '' and remarked on his `` credible '' speculative fiction , namely `` 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 ? '' .
`` test tube frankenstein '' is featured in sheldon jaffery 's anthology `` sensuous science fiction of the weird and spicy pulps '' , where it is offered as his prime example : `` one of the best of its kind to be published . ''
weird menace stories often dealt with conventional themes required by the publisher , themes in which an author might specialize .
stories involving `` inescapable doom '' were supplied by donald dale -lrb- mary dale buckner -rrb- ; mindret lord handled the `` woman without volition '' ; ray cummings delivered stories about the `` girl obsessed '' ; and many of wayne robbins ' stories portrayed the `` man obsessed , '' and a subsequent descent into madness .
wayne 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 own given name and his mother 's maiden name .
wayne robbins ' brother , ormond robbins , also wrote horror , hardboiled , and western fiction for popular publications .
ormond robbins used the pen names `` dane gregory '' and `` breck tarrant '' .
