Anthony Pelcher

Anthony Pelcher (1897–1981) is a fairly obscure figure today, but surviving records show that he wrote pulp fiction in the 1930s. LibriVox identifies him as an author of pulp fiction from that period, and Wikisource lists him among contributors connected with Astounding Stories.

The work most often associated with him now is Vampires of Venus, a science-fiction story first published in the April 1930 issue of Astounding Stories of Super-Science. That tale follows an Earth entomologist facing deadly winged creatures on Venus, which gives a good sense of Pelcher’s style: brisk, imaginative, and rooted in the adventurous spirit of early magazine SF.

Online bibliographic traces also connect him with other Astounding Stories pieces from 1930, including Mad Music and Invisible Death. Beyond those magazine appearances, reliable biographical details seem scarce, which adds to the sense that he belongs to the half-hidden world of pulp-era writers whose stories survived more clearly than their personal histories.