Bertram Gayton

Writing as Bertram Gayton, Bertram Edgar Guyton was a British author born in 1893 who served in World War I. He is remembered chiefly for The Gland Stealers (1922), an early science-fiction novel that plays with the era's fascination with gland transplants and rejuvenation.

The book follows an elderly millionaire determined to grow young again through ape-gland grafting, then spins that premise into a comic and increasingly wild adventure. Later reference works describe it as a light, farcical treatment of a bizarre scientific craze, which helps explain why it still attracts curious readers today.

Guyton appears to have published very little under this name beyond that novel, which gives his work an unusual one-book mystique. He died in 1969, but The Gland Stealers has remained available through major public-domain archives, keeping his odd and memorable contribution to early speculative fiction alive.