- GAWSWORTH, John
- Pseudonym of UK editor and writer (Terence Ian) Fytton Armstrong (1912-1970) for most of his work of genre interest, though he signed some work with his real name. He was a close colleague of M.P. SHIEL, creating a Shiel checklist in the bibliographical Ten Contemporaries (1932) and editing The Best Short Stories of M.P. Shiel (coll 1948; a John COLLIER checklist appears in Ten Contemporaries (Second Series) (1933). His poetry was traditional, and his occasional stories are of relatively little interest; his importance to sf and fantasy lies primarily in the large anthologies he assembled in the 1930s, including Strange Assembly (anth 1932), Full Score (anth 1933) as Fytton Armstrong, New Tales of Horror byEminent Authors (anth 1934), Thrills, Crimes and Mysteries (anth 1935), Thrills (anth 1936), Crimes, Creeps and Thrills (anth 1936) and Masterpiece of Thrills (anth 1936).JC
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