![]() The editor launched NEL young writer of the year award, which was a big hit. Haining went on to become the Editorial Director of the publishing house, but left NEL to pursue the career of a full-time writer and editor. Perhaps, Fleming inspired him to come up with crime driven anthologies that he published for NEL. At NEL he worked with Ian Fleming on a biography of James Bond. Haining began his career as a journalist in Essex and subsequently joined New English Library. His feverish imagination threw him into an intriguing maze of fantasy and horror, which affected him profoundly. Haining would simply whitewash his pals.Īs a kid, our favorite editor was deeply influenced by pulp magazines of his day, magazines that were replete with illustrations of brutal action and mesmerizing dames. If someone ever conducted a poll on the best editor of fantasy and occult books, Mr. This versatile dude (writer, journalist, and anthologist) delivered one after another knockout stuff - The Necromancers, The Black Magic Omnibus, Weird Tales anthologies, The Fantastic Pulps and lots more. For those of us who are rooted in and sustained by an unforgivable passion for horror, terror, and black magic, the name Peter Alexander Haining carries a lot of weight. ![]()
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