E. Hoffmann Price





E. Hoffmann Price

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born
December 13, 1901 in Fowler, California, The United States

died
June 18, 1988

gender
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Originally intending to be a career soldier, Price graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point; he served in the American Expeditionary Force in World War I, and with the American military in Mexico and the Philippines. He was a champion fencer and boxer, an amateur Orientalist, and a student of the Arabic language; science-fiction author Jack Williamson, in his 1984 autobiography Wonder's Child, called E. Hoffmann Price a "real live soldier of fortune."

In his literary career, Hoffmann Price produced fiction for a wide range of publications, from Argosy to Terror Tales, from Speed Detective to Spicy Mystery Stories. Yet he was most readily identified as a Weird Tales writer, one of the group who wrote regularly for edito...more


Average rating: 4.11 · 1,566 ratings · 71 reviews · 46 distinct works
The Devil Wives of Li Fong
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Operation Misfit (Operation...
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Operation Exile (Operation ...
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Operation Longlife (Operati...
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The Jade Enchantress
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Far Lands, Other Days
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Operation Isis (Operation S...
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Skeleton Creek Feud And Others
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MUMMIES TO ORDER
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“There are dread secrets that none may know and have peace. More, secrets that render whosoever knoweth them an alien unto the tribe he belongs to, that cause him to walk alone on earth, for he who takes, pays.”
E. Hoffmann Price

“The unknown characters of writing seem to be endowed with an evil of life of their own as though sentient, and fain would wrest themselves forth from the parchment and wreak mischief on whomsoever gazes upon them.”
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