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Post by demonik on Apr 7, 2006 16:46:14 GMT -5
Editor of the series, she also penned a number of stories as 'Flavia Richardson'. Many of them were competent if formula young-women-in-peril-from-demented-surgeons shockers, although Black Magic and the 'supernatural' also featured in such stories as When Hell Laughed Out Of The Earth and The Red Turret. My favourite of her efforts is the nasty Behind The Yellow Door, although Christine had a fondness for her final attempt at fiction, Message For Margie, in Van Thal's Pan Horror #5).
After Not At Night, Campbell would later publish her autobiography I Am A Literary Agent (Sampson Low, 1951). She and Not At Night legend Oscar Cook were divorced in 1938, and Christine remarried in 1945, adopting her second husband's surname, Hartley, for her two non-fiction occult titles, The Western Mystery Tradition (1968) and A Case For Reincarnation (1972).
Christine passed away, aged 88, on September 29th 1985. Six weeks later, Charles Birkin, ten years her junior died on November 8th. Between then, they had been responsible for arguably the two most intriguing series' of horror fiction to be published in England between the wars.
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