C. Edgar (Charles Edgar) Bolen

Writing under the name C. Edgar Bolen, Charles Edgar Bolen (1909–1988) is chiefly remembered for Lycanthropus, a work that has survived through later reprints and public-domain archives. He is also listed among contributors to Weird Tales, linking him to the magazine’s long tradition of supernatural and fantastic fiction.

Reliable biographical details about his life appear to be scarce online, and the available sources focus much more on his surviving work than on his personal history. That gives him the air of one of those half-hidden pulp-era writers whose reputation rests on a single strange, enduring piece.

For listeners drawn to vintage horror and fantasy, Bolen’s appeal is in atmosphere: dark imagery, transformation, and the unsettling imagination that defined much of early weird fiction.