This is a tribute page to horror and fantasy author Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (1919 - 2001).
Chetwynd-Hayes was 52 when his first collection, "The Unbidden" was published in 1971 and made no bones about why he turned to horror: In those days all things supernatural and ghastly sold, and once he got going he was extraordinarily prolific.
His first professional sale was "The Man From The Bomb" to one of Badger Books' offshoots from the lovable 'Supernatural Stories', 'Science Fiction'(Oct. 1959). He followed this with a novel, "The Dark Man" (Sidgwick & Jackson, 1964) and his first contribution to Herbert Van Thal's Pan Book Of Horror Stories ("The Thing", 1966). Van Thal became his agent and Chetwynd-Hayes went into overdrive. Prior to The Unbidden, he contributed the brilliant "Looking For Something To Suck" to "Fontana Horror" #4 (1969) and "Housebound" to Aiden & Nancy Chambers' "Ghosts" (Topliner, 1969. Another of those collections for the younger audience that do the job for adults). The following year it was "The Monster" (Fontana Horror #5) and "The Bodmin Terror", again for Fontana, in "Cornish Tales Of Terror" which he also edited.
And then it was time for his first collection: "The Unbidden" ...
