author
Carlisle Schnitzer
1911–2003
Best remembered as the co-author of the 1937 weird-fiction tale The Carnal God, this little-known writer has a small but intriguing place in pulp horror history. His work survives mainly through that collaboration, which first appeared in Weird Tales and later entered the public domain through Project Gutenberg.
1 Audiobook
The carnal god
by John R. (John Rawson) Speer, Carlisle Schnitzer
About the author
Very little biographical information about this author is easy to confirm from reliable online sources, which adds to the mystery around him. Available records identify him as Carlisle Huebner Schnitzer, born in 1911 and deceased in 2003.
What can be confirmed is his connection to The Carnal God, a horror novelette written with John R. Speer and published in Weird Tales in 1937. The story remains the work most closely associated with his name, and its later availability through Project Gutenberg has helped keep it in circulation for modern readers.
Although he does not appear to have left behind a large published bibliography, his surviving work reflects the atmosphere of classic pulp fiction: occult themes, suspense, and a taste for the uncanny. For listeners interested in forgotten voices from the magazine era, his name offers a glimpse into the wide and often half-hidden world of early twentieth-century popular fiction.