Stanley Manly (born 1959) is a pseudonym for British
author
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"''An author is "the person who originated or gave existence to anything" and whose authorship determines responsibility f ...
Neil Nixon. His first novel - ''Raiders of the Low Forehead'' - was issued in 1999, by
Attack! Books
ATTACK! Books was an avant-pulp imprint of Creation Books founded in 1999. Partly a homage to the raw pulp writing of Richard Allen and the world of British action comics, part surrealism and part ultraviolence, the titles were overseen by former ...
a division of Creation Books dedicated to a style characterised as 'avant pulp.' Other authors published by the same imprint included
Steven Wells and
Tony White. ''Raiders of the Low Forehead'' is made of up of 45 chapters, the titles of the chapters rotate - Sex, Food, Violence - allowing every third chapter to include a graphic description of one of the three. In 2008 Manly published a second novel - ''Workington Dynamo'' - a coming of age tale set in West
Cumbria
Cumbria ( ) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in North West England, bordering Scotland. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local government, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumb ...
in the mid 70s.
Bibliography
* ''Raiders of the Low Forehead'' 1999
* ''Workington Dynamo'' 2008
References
* 3am Essay - 'Judas Pulp' http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/sep2001_judas_pulp.html
External links
* Attack! Books site: http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/attack.htm
* Neil Nixon bibliography: http://www.neilnixon.com/books.htm
* Stanley Manly interview July 2009: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/tokyo-bloodbath-stanley-manly-interviewed/
* Review article on Workington Dynamo: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-peoples-republic-of-workington/
* Stanley Manly author page at Amazon.co.uk: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Manly/e/B003OJBU44/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1
1959 births
Living people
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