Morrison Colladay

Charles Morrison Colladay, born on February 9, 1877, in Sea Grove, New Jersey, was an American publisher, salesman, and writer who used Morrison Colladay as the working name for most of his fiction. Reference sources on speculative fiction describe him as a pulp-era author, though many details of his life — including his death date — remain unclear.

He is best remembered for science-fiction stories that appeared in magazines such as Ghost Stories, Wonder Stories, and Amazing Stories. His novel When the Moon Fell from 1929 is one of the works most closely associated with his name, and later anthologies also helped keep stories like The Planetoid of Doom in circulation.

Colladay seems to belong to that intriguing group of early genre writers who left vivid fictional worlds but only a faint personal record behind. That scarcity gives his work an added curiosity today: readers meet him first through his ideas on the page, not through a well-documented public life.