Fiction Spectacular by William L. Hamling (ed. Jerry eBooks 2020)
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Overview: William Lawrence Hamling, born on June 14, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois, was a Chicago-based author and publisher active from the late-1940s through to the mid-1970s.
Hamling began as an author. His Shadow of the Sphinx is a horror novel about an ancient Egyptian sorceress. First published during the 1940s in Fantastic Adventures, it was described by Lin Carter as “the best story of its kind I read in many a moon. The character of Zaleikka was done to perfection. This is the type of yarn we have all too few of nowadays.”
After work as an editor at Ziff-Davis, Hamling started his company, Greenleaf Publishing (which was at different times known as Greenleaf Classics, Reed Enterprises, Corinth Publications, Regency Publications, Blake Pharmaceuticals, Phenix Publishing and Freedom Publishing) in the early 1950s with Imagination. His wife, science fiction author Frances Deegan Yerxa Hamling, worked closely with him in the early years of his publishing company.
Hamling helped finance the defense of bookstore clerk Robert Redrup. His appeal of his conviction on obscenity charges for selling two Greenleaf Books (Lust Pool and Shame Agent) in 1965 went to the Supreme Court of the United States, where it was overturned in Redrup v. New York in 1967.
During the Nixon Administration, Hamling published an illustrated edition of the Presidential Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography. The book was “replete with the sort of photographs the commission examined.” Hamling and editor Kemp were hit with a one-year prison sentence for distributing the book (it has been suggested that this prosecution was in part retaliation for Hamling and Kemp’s part in Redrup v. New York), but served only the federal minimum of three months and one day. The story of their arrest and prison time was covered in Gay Talese’s Thy Neighbor’s Wife.
William L. Hamling died on June 29, 2017 in Palm Springs, California.
Genre: Fiction > Sci-Fi/Fantasy
Complete Fiction:
Yearning
War with Jupiter
The Rule of the Witch
The Secret of the Tomb
The Siege of Althor
Surcease
The Passing of Hastur
Overlord of Venus
The Man Who Spoke Too Late
Death Rides a Convoy
I’ll Dig Your Grave
Peril from the Outlands
Why Don’t You Die?
The Animated Tenpin
Bag and Baggage
A Problem in Lumbering
Planet of the Duplicates
Jimmy Takes a Trip
You’ll Die Laughing
The Mirror
Shadow of the Sphinx
Rejuvenation Asteroid
Orphan of Atlans
The Prop
The Man Who Laughed at Time
Patrol
Trigger Proud
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