Ron Weighell

Article summary

Ronald Weighell (1950 in Leeds – 2020) was a British writer of fiction in the supernatural, fantasy and horror genre. His stories appeared in over fifty anthologies and published in six volumes containing his own work exclusively. Weighell is listed as an author in the online Bibliothèque Nationale de France, with a selected bibliography. A short biography and limited bibliography are available in the goodreads.com website. A more extensive bibliography of his published work is available in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database. Weighell died on 24 December 2020, some weeks after suffering a stroke. Obituaries have been published by the Fortean Times magazine, the newsletter of The Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and Locus Magazine. Two of Weighell’s stories, "Carven of Onyx" and "China Rose", were chosen to appear in the 1992 and 1993 volumes, respectively, of the annual U.S. publication The Year's Best Horror Stories. Three further stories, "The Four Strengths of Shadow", "The Chapel of Infernal Devotion", and "Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth Moon" appeared in the annual British publication Best New Horror, volumes 26 (2015), 27 (2016), and 31 (2021) respectively. Weighell's fiction is characterized by his knowledge of incunabula, architecture, art and art symbolism, mysticism, and the occult, and pays homage to his two primary influences, M. R.…

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1. date of death: 2020-12-24 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
2. publication date: 1986 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
3. publication date: 2000 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
4. publication date: 1997 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
5. publication date: 2011 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
6. publication date: 2024 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
7. publication date: 2021 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
8. publication date: 2022 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
9. publication date: 2022 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
10. publication date: 2000 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95
11. publication date: 2013 — source: Wikipedia · confidence 0.95

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