Gayle, Henry K

Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.

(1910-?   ) UK-born author (possibly pseudonymous) and civil servant long resident in Canada whose horror/sf novel, Spawn of the Vortex (1957), plays on the nuclear-testing Paranoia of the 1950s. Underwater tests activate a horde of Monsters who advance upon the USA. [JC]

Henry K Gayle

born Leeds, West Yorkshire: 1910

works

• Spawn of the Vortex (New York: Comet Press, 1957) [hb/Leon Berger]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database

previous versions of this entry

• Internet Archive