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Charles Schafhauser
A mid-century pulp writer and editor, Charles Schafhauser is remembered for eerie, offbeat tales and for helping bring together classic horror and science fiction for magazine readers. His name turns up both on original stories and on anthologies that introduced strange fiction to a wider audience.
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A Gleeb for Earth
by Charles Schafhauser
About the author
Charles Schafhauser was an American genre writer whose work appeared in the 1950s magazine world, including the science-fiction story A Gleeb for Earth in Galaxy and the story I'm Yours in Playboy. Records from Project Gutenberg and science-fiction reference listings also connect him with reprints and later anthologies, showing how his shorter fiction continued to circulate beyond its first publication.
He is also associated with The Playboy Book of Horror and the Supernatural, a well-known 1967 anthology that helped package unsettling and supernatural fiction for a broad popular audience. That mix of magazine fiction, anthology work, and reprint history gives him the feel of a writer from the rich paperback-and-pulp era, when strange stories often found long lives in new collections.
Little widely available biographical information appears to survive online, so the personal details of his life are harder to confirm than his publication record. Even so, the works linked to his name suggest a writer comfortable with the weird, the uncanny, and the imaginative energy of classic mid-century popular fiction.