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Donald Wandrei
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Donald Wandrei (April 20, 1908–1987) was an American science fiction, fantasy and weird fiction writer, poet and editor. He was the older brother of science fiction writer and artist Howard Wandrei.
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Wandrei was born in St. Paul, Minnesota. He graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1928, with a BA in English. Wandrei started writing in 1926 and his writing career took off around 1932. He was active in pulp magazines until the late 1930s. He was a member of the "Lovecraft Circle," corresponding with H. P. Lovecraft and other members of the circle (Frank Belknap Long, Clark Ashton Smith, etc). He contributed two stories to the Cthulhu Mythos: "The Fire Vampires" (1933) and "The Tree-Men of M'Bwa" (1933). Wandrei and August Derleth later co-founded the publishing house Arkham House to keep Lovecraft's legacy alive. After World War II he continued writing speculative fiction stories, although at a greatly reduced rate.
He died in St. Paul in 1987.
- The Web of Easter Island (1948)
- The Eye and the Finger (1944)
- Poems for Midnight (1964) - poems
- Strange Harvest (1965)
- Colossus (1989)
- Don't Dream: The Collected Fantasy and Horror of Donald Wandrei (1997)