Gladys Gordon

Gladys Gordon (aka G.G. Pendarves, Gladys Gordon Trenery and Marjory E. Lambe, lived 1885–1938) was an English novelist and screenwriter active during Hollywood's silent era.^[1][2]

Gladys Gordon
Other names	G.G. Pendarves Gladys Gordon Trenery
Occupation(s)	Screenwriter, author

Biography

Weird Tales, December 1938 issue featuring "The Sin-Eater."

Gordon was born in England in 1885.^[2] On all of her screenplays, she collaborated with fellow writer Ada McQuillan.^[3][4][2] Under her "G.G. Pendarves" name, Gordon was known for her short stories on the occult and ghosts, which were published in the pulp magazine Weird Tales.^[1][2][5] Gordon also wrote adventure fiction about the exploits of Westerners in North Africa; these were published in the pulp magazines Oriental Stories and The Magic Carpet Magazine.^[5]

Gordon died in late 1938, in The Wirral, Cheshire.^[5] In the December 1938 issue of Weird Tales, editor Farnsworth Wright published an obituary for her, revealing that "G. G. Pendarves" had been Gordon's pseudonym.^[5]

Selected filmography

The Girl He Didn't Buy, (1928).

• The Girl He Didn't Buy (1928)
• Golden Shackles (1928)
• Wilful Youth (1927)
• Web of Fate (1927)

Selected bibliography

Short fiction

Weird Tales, August 1937 issue featuring "Thing of Darkness." Cover art by Margaret Brundage.

• The Return (1924)
• The Devil's Graveyard (1924)
• The Power of the Dog (1927)
• The Lord of the Tarn (1927)
• The Eighth Green Man (1928)
• The Ruler of Zem-Zem (1928)
• The Doomed Treveans (1928)
• The Laughing Thing (1929)
• The Grave at Goonhilly (1930)
• The Footprint (1930)
• The Black Camel (1930)
• The Veiled Leopard (1930)
• Thirty Pieces of Silver (1931)
• The Secret Trail (1931)
• El Hamel, the Lost One (1932)
• The Djinnee of El Sheyb (1932)
• From the Dark Halls of Hell (1932)
• The Altar of Melek Taos (1932)
• Abd Dhulma, Lord of Fire (1933)
• Passport to the Desert (1934)
• Werewolf of the Sahara (1936)
• The Dark Star (1937)
• The Whistling Corpse (1937)
• Thing of Darkness (1937)
• The Black Monk (1938)
• The Sin-Eater (1938)
• The Withered Heart (1939)

Collections

• Pendarves, G. G. Thing of Darkness. Midnight House, Seattle, Wash., 2005. ISBN 978-0-9740589-9-3
• Pendarves, G. G. Thirty Pieces of Silver. Black Dog Books, Normal, Il., 2009. ISBN 1-928619-85-1