If I had received some complimentary copies of the book I might not have felt so indignant. Somebody must have made considerable money out of the work that I had done on a rather empty stomach ten years before -but they made it legally. Of course, there was nothing I could do, except smile -with my teeth in close contact. As only a few authors were represented, and I had two stories in the volume, I estimated that my share of the royalties should have been several thousand dollars, not including those from the American publication of the book. … It stated that the book had been published in England under a different title and that it had sold more than 100,000 copies there. Authors did not get paid for these reprints in Not at Night, which Paul S. I suppose it shouldn’t be surprising that exactly 100 stories (according to Mike Ashley, an anthologist we will look at later) came from the Unique Magazine for these anthologies. She wrote for pulps like Weird Tales under the name Flavia Richardson. Thomson was Dion Fortune’s literary agent as well as a member of her circle. But it would take Christine Hartley under the name Christine Campbell Thomson (1897-1985) and Selwyn & Blount’s Not at Night series to make regular or annual ghost story collections good business.
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