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Patrick Casey
1893–1941
Best remembered for co-writing a vivid early fantasy serial, this California-born pulp-era storyteller moved between adventure fiction and the uncanny. His work with his brother helped place him on the edges of early speculative fiction history.
1 Audiobook
The wolf-cub : a novel of Spain
by Patrick Casey, Terence Casey
About the author
Born in San Francisco in either 1892 or 1893, Patrick Casey was an American writer whose career was tied closely to the magazine world of the early twentieth century. Reliable reference sources agree that he died in Sausalito, California, on April 25, 1941.
He is chiefly remembered for The Strange Story of William Hyde, a fantasy novel written with his brother Terence Casey and first published as a serial in Adventure Magazine in 1915–1916 before appearing in book form in 1916. The brothers also wrote some nonfantastic adventure stories together under the shared pseudonym Lee Tempest.
Though not a household name today, Casey holds a small but interesting place in pulp and speculative fiction history. His surviving reputation rests on that blend of adventure storytelling and strange, imaginative material that early genre readers found so appealing.