author
Edwin Baird
1886–1957
Best known as the founding editor of Weird Tales, he helped shape one of the most influential pulp magazines in horror and fantasy. He also wrote popular fiction himself, moving between magazine work and novels during the early 20th century.
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Anton's last dream
by Edwin Baird
About the author
Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, on June 28, 1886, Edwin Baird was an American writer and editor remembered most for launching Weird Tales in 1923. As the magazine’s first editor, he was there at the start of a publication that would become central to weird fiction, horror, and fantasy.
Before and alongside his editorial work, he wrote fiction for the popular magazines of his day. His novel The Heart of Virginia Keep appeared in The Argosy in 1915, and bibliographic records also list books including The City of Purple Dreams and Fay.
Baird later worked on Detective Tales, which was eventually retitled Real Detective Tales. Sources differ on the exact year of his death, but the records found for this overview consistently place it in the 1950s.