RONALD CHETWYND-HAYES
Author biography:
Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes was born in Isleworth, west London, in 1919. He grew up a film fan, and in between working odd jobs appeared as an extra in several pictures, including A Yank at Oxford (1938), which starred Lionel Barrymore, Vivien Leigh, and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). He served during the Second World War, and after demobilization returned to London and worked in furniture sales. He sold his first short story in 1953 and his first novel, a science fiction tale, The Man from the Bomb, was published in 1959. He went on to write some 200 short stories and a dozen novels and also edited anthologies, including twelve volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. Known as ‘Britain’s Prince of Chill’, Chetwynd-Hayes developed a reputation and a large fan base for his old-fashioned ghost stories and his tongue-in-cheek monster tales. Though Chetwynd-Hayes’s works were not always huge sellers, his books were always in high demand with library patrons, and he was consistently among Britain’s top earners of public lending rights. In 1989, he received the Horror Writers of America’s lifetime achievement award and also won an award from the British Fantasy Society for contributions to the genre. He died in 2001.
Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes was born in Isleworth, west London, in 1919. He grew up a film fan, and in between working odd jobs appeared as an extra in several pictures, including A Yank at Oxford (1938), which starred Lionel Barrymore, Vivien Leigh, and Maureen O’Sullivan, and Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939). He served during the Second World War, and after demobilization returned to London and worked in furniture sales. He sold his first short story in 1953 and his first novel, a science fiction tale, The Man from the Bomb, was published in 1959. He went on to write some 200 short stories and a dozen novels and also edited anthologies, including twelve volumes of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories. Known as ‘Britain’s Prince of Chill’, Chetwynd-Hayes developed a reputation and a large fan base for his old-fashioned ghost stories and his tongue-in-cheek monster tales. Though Chetwynd-Hayes’s works were not always huge sellers, his books were always in high demand with library patrons, and he was consistently among Britain’s top earners of public lending rights. In 1989, he received the Horror Writers of America’s lifetime achievement award and also won an award from the British Fantasy Society for contributions to the genre. He died in 2001.
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