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R(ex) R. Ryan, a pseudonym of Evelyn Bradley (b. 1882, d. 1950), was the author of twelve published horror/thriller novels. ==Identity== There can be few authors in the horror–thriller genre as elusive as R. R. Ryan. Until recently no biographical details about this author were known. Interest in the work of R. R. Ryan was limited a few hard-core collectors until Karl Edward Wagner included three Ryan titles in his well-known lists of best horror novels for ''Twilight Zone'' magazine in 1983.〔( Karl Edward Wagner's Favourite Horror Novels )〕 Following Wagner's death Ramsey Campbell acquired his collection of Ryan books and subsequently published the first critical article on Ryan in ''Necrofile''.〔Ramsey Campbell, "R.R. Ryan", ''Necrofile'' Win. 1998, reprinted in ''Ramsey Campbell Probably'' (PS Publishing, 2002).〕 Campbell also wrote an entry on Ryan for the ''St James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers''.〔David Pringle (ed), ''St James Guide to Horror, Ghost and Gothic Writers'' (Detroit: St James Press, 1998).〕 In 2002 Midnight House reprinted ''Echo of a Curse'' with an introduction by D. H. Olsen with full descriptions and critical appraisal of all of the R. R. Ryan novels. Like earlier commentators, Olsen maintained that Ryan was a woman, in part "due to Ryan's inability to depict convincing male characters, while her female characters are much more fully drawn", as well as "significant examples of typically female outlooks and attitudes pervading even the most male-dominated of her novels".〔D. H. Olsen, "Honor, Sadism and Dysfunction: The Dark, Demented World of R. R. Ryan", in ''Echo of a Curse'' by R. R. Ryan (Seattle: Midnight House, 2002) ISBN 0-9707349-6-4.〕 An article in the Ghost Story Society journal ''All Hallows'' revealed the existence of R. R. Ryan’s publishing contracts in the archives of Random House.〔James Doig and Theo Paijmans, "Finding R. R. Ryan", ''All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'' 37 (2004).〕 The contracts indicate that one person appears to have been responsible for all of the Ryan novels, along with four others which appeared under two different names: three under the name Cameron Carr and one under the name John Galton. A children's book by Cameron Carr called ''The Thought Reader'' was published by W. Barton in the first half of the 1940s. Recent research has shown that Rex Ryan was a pseudonym used by Evelyn Bradley, a theatrical manager who was born in Waterloo, Lancashire, in December 1882, and who lived much of his adult life in Hove, Sussex. He is known to have written several plays in the same sensationalist vein as his novels. Ryan took his own life in October 1950. His daughter also wrote four thrillers in the 1940s under the name Kay Seaton.〔James Doig, "R. R. Ryan Found", ''All Hallows: The Journal of the Ghost Story Society'' 44 (2008).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「R. R. Ryan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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