Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes

Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes
Born	(1919-05-30)30 May 1919 Isleworth, Middlesex, England, United Kingdom
Died	20 March 2001(2001-03-20) (aged 81) Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
Pen name	Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes, R. Chetwynd-Hayes
Occupation	Novelist, short-story writer
Genre	Horror, mystery
Notable awards	Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement British Fantasy Society Special Award

Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (30 May 1919 – 20 March 2001) (a.k.a. Ronald Henry Glynn Chetwynd-Hayes or R. Chetwynd-Hayes) was a British author, best known for his ghost and horror stories.

Biography

Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Chetwynd-Hayes worked in the furnishing trade. His first published work was the science fiction novel The Man from the Bomb in 1959. He went on to publish many collections and ten other novels including The Grange, The Haunted Grange, And Love Survived and The Curse of the Snake God. Several of his short works were adapted into anthology-style movies in the United Kingdom, including The Monster Club and From Beyond the Grave. Chetwynd-Hayes' book The Monster Club contains references to a film-maker called Vinke Rocnnor, an anagram of Kevin Connor, the director of From Beyond the Grave. John Carradine played Chetwynd-Hayes in The Monster Club.

He also edited over 20 anthologies. Chetwynd-Hayes took over the editorship of the Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories after the departure of the previous editor, Robert Aickman. Chetwynd-Hayes also edited several other anthologies, including the Armada Monster Book series for children. Chetwynd-Hayes was nicknamed "Britain's Prince of Chill" by British horror fandom.

Reception

Mike Ashley described Chetwynd-Hayes' story "The Gatecrasher", about the ghost of Jack the Ripper, as a "powerful tale". Chris Morgan stated about Chetwynd-Hayes: "at his best he is a fine writer, capable of producing gripping and wonderfully atmospheric stories at all lengths".

Awards

He won the Bram Stoker Award for Lifetime Achievement for 1988, and the British Fantasy Society Special Award in 1989.

Death

Chetwynd-Hayes died from bronchial pneumonia on 20 March 2001.

Bibliography

• The Man from the Bomb (1959)

• The Dark Man (1964) [AKA And Love Survived]

• Cornish Tales of Terror (1970) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Bodmin Terror

• The Unbidden (1971) Contents: No One Lived There, Why Don't You Wash? Said the Girl with a Hundred Thousand Pounds and No Relatives, Don't Go Up Them Stairs, The Gatecrasher, A Family Welcome, Crowning Glory, The Devilet, Come To Me My Flower, The Playmate, Pussy Cat - Pussy Cat, A Penny For a Pound, The Head of the Firm, The Treasure Hunt, The Death of Me, Tomorrow is Judgement Day, The House

• Scottish Tales of Terror (1972) (ed.) [pseudonym: Angus Campbell] Story Contribution: Shona and the Water Horse

• Cold Terror (1973) Contents: The Door, Neighbours, Never Take Drinks From a Strange Woman, Great-Grandad Walks Again, Who is Mr. Smith?, Birds of a Feather, The Ninth Removal, The Shadow, The Day Father Brought Something Home, In Media Res, The Fourth Side of the Triangle, Coming Home, An Act of Kindness, A Matter of Life and Death

• Welsh Tales of Terror (1973) (ed.) Story Contribution: Lord Dunwilliam and the Cwn Annwn

• The 9th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1973) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Liberated Tiger

• The Elemental (1974) Contents: The Elemental, A Time To Plant - A Time To Reap, Birth, The Labyrinth, Someone is Dead, The Jumpity-Jim, The Wanderer

• Terror by Night (1974) Contents: The Throwback, The Ghostly Earl, Where Yesterday? A Modern Fairy Tale, Lileas and the Waterhorse, Under the Skin, Lord Dunwilliam and the Cwn Annwn, The Echo, Bits and Pieces, The Monster, Housebound

• The 10th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1974) (ed.) Story Contribution: Non-Paying Passengers

• The Night Ghouls and Other Grisly Tales (1975) Contents: The Ghouls, The Ghost Who Limped, Danger in Numbers, Something Comes in From the Garden, The Man Who Stayed Behind, Christmas Eve, Building Site Manuscript, No Need For Words, The Wailing Waif of Battersea, The Holstien Horror

• The 1st Armada Monster Book (1975) (ed.) Story Contributions: The Sad Vampire [as Angus Campbell], Big Feet

• Tales of Terror From Outer Space (1975) (ed.) Story Contribution: Shipwreck

• The 11th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1975) (ed.) Story Contribution: Matthew and Luke

• The Monster Club (1976) Contents: The Basic Rules of Monsterdom, Prolouge, The Werewolf and the Vampire, Monster Club Interlude: 1, The Mock, Monster Club Interlude: 2, The Humgoo, Monster Club Interlude: 3, The Shadmock, Monster Club Interude: 4, The Fly-by-Night, Epilouge

• The 2nd Armada Monster Book (1976) (ed.) Story Contribution: Homemade Monster

• Gaslight Tales of Terror (1976) (ed.) Story Contribution: Keep the Gaslight Burning

• The 12th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1976) (ed.) Story Contribution: Cold Fingers

• Tales of Fear and Fantasy (1977) Contents: Manderville, The Day of the Underdog , The Headless Footman of Hadleigh, The Cost of Dying, The Resurrectionist, The Sale of the Century, The Changeling

• The 3rd Armada Monster Book (1977) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Harpy

• The 13th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1977) (ed.) Story Contribution: My Dear Wife

• The Cradle Demon: And Other Stories of Fantasy and Terror (1978) Contents: Introduction, The Pimpkins, A Walk In The Country, The Brats, Why?, The Chair, My Very Best Friend, The Cradle Demon, Reflections, My Mother Married A Vampire, Mildred And Edwina, Tomorrow At Nine, The Creator, The Sloathes

• Doomed to the Night (1978) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Day Father Brought Something Home

• Dominique (1978) [Film novelisation]

• The 4th Armada Monster Book (1978) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Werewolf [as Angus Campbell], The Hoppity-Jump

• The 14th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1978) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Sad Ghost

• The Brats: A Novel of the Future (1979)

• The 5th Armada Monster Book (1979) (ed.) Story Contributions: The Wind-Billie [as Angus Campbell], The Tele-Mon

• The 15th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1979) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Hanging Tree

• The Partaker: A Novel of Fantasy (1980)

• The Awakening (1980) [Film novelisation]

• The Fantastic World of Kamtellar: A Book of Vampires and Ghouls (1980) Contents: Kamtellar, Birth, Looking For Something To Suck, The Gibbering Ghoul Of Gomershal, Amelia

• The 16th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1980) (ed.) Story Contribution: She Walks On Dry Land

• Tales of Darkness (1981) Contents: A Living Legend, Markland the Hunter, Shadow On The Wall, One Extra, The Painted Door, The Swing

• The 6th Armada Monster Book (1981) (ed.) Story Contributions: The Mudadora [as Angus Campbell], The Slippity-Slop [as Henry Glynn], The Gale-Wuggle

• The 17th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1981) (ed.) Story Contribution: Which One?

• Tales from Beyond (1982) Contents: A Living Legend, Markland the Hunter, Shadow On The Wall, One Extra, The Painted Door, The Swing

• The 18th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1982) (ed.) Story Contribution: The Chair

• Tales from the Other Side (1983) [AKA The Other Side] Contents: Introduction, Woodwork - 1850, Bricks And Mortar - 1969, Loft Conversion - 1980, Labour-Saving Devices - 2000

• The 19th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1983) (ed.) Story Contribution: Tomorrow's Ghost

• A Quiver of Ghosts (1984) Contents: A Vindictive Woman, The House, Body And Soul, The Coloured Transmission, The Hanging Tree, The Ghost Who Limped, In Media Res, Dead Ghost, The Playmate, Calvunder, The Wanderer, Danger In Numbers, The Liberated Tiger, The Death Of Me

• Tales from the Dark Lands (1984) Contents: Mayfield, Something Comes In From The Garden, The Night Watch, The Astral Invasion, Someone In Mind, The Man Who Stayed Behind, Don't Know, Travelling Companion, The Switch-Back

• The 20th Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories (1984) (ed.) Story Contribution: My Very Best Friend

• The King's Ghost (1985) [AKA The Grange]

• Ghosts from the Mists of Time (1985) Contents: Time Check, The Wanderer, Prometheus Chained, Doppelgänger, Cold Fingers, The Echo, Shona And The Water Horse

• Tales from the Shadows (1986) Contents: Run for the Tunnel, Night Sister, Acquiring a Family, Shades of Yesterday, The Passing of an Ordinary Man, The Carrier, Long, Long Ago, The Rational Explanation, Clavering Retreat, The Man on the Frame

• Tales from the Haunted House (1986) Contents: Eight for Dinner, Alice in Bellington Lane, Great-Grandad is in the Attic, Next Door, The Phantom Axeman of Carleton Grange, The House on the Hill, A Clavering Chronicle

• Dracula's Children (1987) Contents: Dracula's Genealogical Table, Prologue, Dracula's Wives from Dracula by Bram Stoker, Introduction, Irma, Rudolph, Zena, Cuthbert, Marcus, Benjamin

• The House of Dracula (1987) Contents: Draculain Genealogical Table, Introduction, Caroline, Marikova, Karl, Gilbert, Louis

• The Haunted Grange (1988)

• Tales From the Hidden World (1988) Contents: Foreword, Acknowledgements, Those That Serve, Life Everlasting, The Cringing Couple of Clavering, Home and Beauty

• The Curse of the Snake God (1991)

• Kepple (1992)

• The Psychic Detective (1993)

• Hell is What You Make it (1994)

• Shudders and Shivers (1995) Contents: Prologue, The Intruders, The Man in Black, Interlude #1, The Bed-Sitting Room, Interlude #2, The Cumberloo, Interlude #3, Twilight Song, Night On the Road, Interlude #4, Old Acquaintance, Epilogue

• Shocks (1997) Contents: Introduction by David J. Howe, Christmas Eve, The Fly-by-Night, Head of the Firm, The Day of the Underdog

• The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes (1997) (ed. Stephen Jones) [AKA Looking For Something to Suck and Other Vampire Stories] Contents: Foreword: Never Had an Idea in His Life! - Brian Lumley My Mother Married A Vampire, A Family Welcome, Rudolph, The Labyrinth, The Sad Vampire, Amelia, Acquiring a Family, The Buck, Keep the Gaslight Burning, Birth, Louis, Looking for Something to Suck, Great-Grandad Walks Again, The Fundemental Elemental, The Werewolf and the Vampire, Afterword: Never Beastly to Vampires - Stephen Jones

• World of the Impossible (1998)

• Phantoms and Fiends (2000) (ed. Stephen Jones) Contents: Moving Day, She Walks On Dry Land, The Bodmin Terror, A Chill To The Sunlight, The Catomado, Regression, Matthew and Luke, Growth, Born This Night, The Sad Ghost, The Thing, The Underground, Shipwreck, Strange People, Fog Ghost, The Frankenstein Syndrome, My Dear Wife, A Sin of Omission, Feet of Clay, Non-Paying Passengers, It Came to Dinner

• Frights and Fancies (2002) (ed. Stephen Jones) Contents: Foreword: The Final Curtain - Stephen Jones, The Cat Room, The Mudadora, Ghoul At Large, The Third Eye, The Floaters, The Hoppity-Jump, Bongla, The Tele-Mon, Big-Feet, Package Holiday, Brownie, The Harpy, Walk In Darkness (aka One-Way Trip), The Wind-Billie, The Slippity-Slop, High World, Homemade Monster, Great Indestructible (aka I Meet the Great Indestructible), The Werewolf, The Gale-Wuggle, Afterword: Time Travel and Me

• Great Ghost Stories (2004) (co-ed. with Stephen Jones) Story Contribution: She Walks On Dry Land

• Tales to Freeze the Blood: More Great Ghost Stories (2006) (co-ed. with Stephen Jones) Story Contribution: The Day Father Brought Something Home

• Gaslight, Ghosts & Ghouls: A Centenary Celebration (2019) (ed. Stephen Jones) Contents: Introduction - Stephen Jones, A Writer in the Dark Lands: An Interview with R. Chetwynd-Hayes - Stephen Jones & Jo Fletcher, Housebound, The Gatecrasher, The Day Father Brought Something Home, The Door, The Elemental, The Jumpity-Jim, The Coloured Transmission, Bits and Pieces, Something Comes in from the Garden, The Humgoo, The Cradle Demon, The Gibbering Ghoul of Gomershal, Doppelganger, Acquiring a Family, A Walk on the Dark Side, Day School, R. Chetwynd-Hayes: A Working Bibliography by Stephen Jones and Marc Damian Lawler

See also

• List of horror fiction authors

External links

• SciFiPedia Entry
• Bibliography
• Chetwynd-Hayes: An Appreciation at the Wayback Machine (archived March 19, 2003).
• Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes at IMDb
• R. Chetwynd-Hayes at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• R. Chetwynd-Hayes at Library of Congress, with 7 library catalogue records
• Angus Campbell at LC Authorities, with 1 record