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C. Edgar Bolen

Best remembered today for a strange, atmospheric poem in Weird Tales, this American writer also worked as a meteorologist. His surviving bibliography is slim, which gives his work a rare, pulp-era curiosity.

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Lycanthropus

Lycanthropus

by C. Edgar Bolen

About the author

Charles Edgar Bolen was an American meteorologist and writer, born in 1909 and died in 1988. The clearest readily confirmed record for him is his Wikisource author page, which identifies him as an American meteorologist and notes his contribution to the pulp magazine Weird Tales.

The work most directly linked to him is "Lycanthropus," published in Weird Tales in 1936. That piece suggests a taste for eerie, imaginative material in the classic pulp tradition, and it is the main reason readers are still likely to encounter his name today.

Because only a small amount of biographical information was easy to confirm, much of Bolen's life remains obscure in standard online references. Even so, his connection to Weird Tales places him among the many lesser-known authors who helped shape the mood and variety of early American fantasy and horror magazines.