author

Charles Beadle

b. 1881

Adventure, Paris bohemia, and pulp-magazine energy run through the work of this early 20th-century novelist and short-story writer. He is best remembered for tales set in Africa and for fiction shaped by his time in Paris.

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Witch-Doctors

Witch-Doctors

by Charles Beadle

About the author

Charles Beadle was an English novelist and pulp fiction writer, born on October 27, 1881. Sources describe him as being born at sea, the son of a ship captain, and later becoming known for fast-moving adventure stories as well as novels about bohemian life in Paris.

He wrote for American pulp magazines and built a reputation on stories of Africa and other far-flung settings. His career also included longer fiction, with Witch-Doctors among the titles associated with his name.

Some details of his later life and death appear uncertain in the sources, which commonly give his death as sometime in the 1940s. Even so, he remains a recognizable figure from the pulp era, remembered for vivid settings and a taste for romance and adventure.