author
Wilbur Finley Fauley
1872–1942
A journalist-novelist who moved easily between popular fiction and early speculative adventure, he wrote stories that reached both readers and silent-film audiences. His work includes the novel Jenny Be Good and the science-fiction tale Shuddering Castle.
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Shuddering castle
by Wilbur Finley Fauley
About the author
Born in Ohio in 1872, Wilbur Finley Fauley was an American writer and journalist. Reliable sources identify him as the working name behind the author Wilbur Fawley, a byline he used for a number of his novels and thrillers.
His fiction ranged across popular genres, but he is especially remembered for Shuddering Castle (1936), noted by the Encyclopedia of Science Fiction as one of his science-fiction works. Earlier, his 1919 novel Jenny Be Good was adapted into the 1920 silent film of the same name, and he is also associated with Queenie.
Fauley died in New York City in 1942. Although he is not a widely known figure today, his career offers a glimpse of the lively overlap between newspaper work, commercial fiction, and early screen storytelling in the first half of the twentieth century.