Compiled & Copyright By:
Richard Bleiler, Peter Ruber and Victor A. Berch
Last Updated Nov. 5, 2002
Known Pseudonyms: Anson Piper, Ray McGillivray (?)
ANTHONY M. RUD
January 11, 1893 -- November 30, 1942
MAGAZINES
ACTION STORIES
Yellow (ss) - Jan 1922
The Dogs of Kathawachgga - May 1922
The Hammer of Jael (ss) - Jun 1922
In Escrow (ss) - Dec 1922
The Eye of Buddha (nt) - Jan 1923
The Ten-Foot Specter (nt) - May 1923
The Wine of Life (ss) - Feb 1924
Where the Red God Leads (ss) - Jul 1924
Paper Shell Pecans (ss) - Oct 1924
Three Ruby Crosses (nt) - Jan 1925
Boiling Springs (ss) - Oct 1925
The Wire-Cutter's War - Nov 1932
ADVENTURE
The Flusher (nt) - Jun 10, 1923
Crosspatch, Cobra Killer - Jan 1936
Teeth of Terror - Mar 1939
ALL STAR ADVENTURE MAGAZINE
Smoky Treasure - May 1936
ALL WESTERN
One Heller of a Speller (ss) - May 1933
THE ARGOSY
Paper Dust and Pomade - Dec 14, 1918
ARGOSY
Strong Man (s-4) - May 31, 1930
- Jun 7, 1930
- Jun 14, 1930
- Jun 21, 1930
Smoke Segrue (ss) - Sep 20, 1930
Cactus Cache (nt) - Nov 1, 1930
Cajan Code (nt) - Jan 9, 1932
Cloudburst (ss) - Sep 17, 1932
Baby Bushmaster (ss) - Jan 14, 1933
Jungle Mystery (ss) - Apr 22, 1933
Golden Millstones (nt) - Jun 10, 1933
Green For Danger (ss) - Oct 7, 1933
White Fires (nt) - Apr 14, 1934
The Marked Deuce (nt) - May 26, 1934
Live Bait (ss) - Sep 29, 1934
The Stained Tabu - Nov 3, 1934
The Lonely Killer (ss) - Apr 6, 1935
First Loyalty (ss) - May 11, 1935
Sorcerer's Treasure (nt) - May 25, 1935
Lord of the Sunderbunds (ss) - Jun 8, 1935
A Streak of Lean (ss) - Jun 22, 1935
Monster of Mud-Line (ss) - Jun 13, 1935
Grit In His Gizzard (ss) - Aug 17, 1935
The Red Scorpion (nt) - Oct 26, 1935
Leader of the Kloomp (ss) - Nov 2, 1935
Byng of Ballarat (nt) - Nov 20, 1935
Stripes, The Villain (ss) - Dec 7, 1935
The Spotted Ethiopian (ss) - Jan 4, 1936
The Hairless Menace (ss) - Feb 29, 1936
Cat of the Clouds (ss) - Apr 18, 1936
Sparkling Waters of Death (ss) - May 23, 1936
The Strangest Beast (ss) - Jun 13, 1936
The Exiled Monster (ss) - Jul 18, 1936
The Black Warrior (ss) - Aug 29, 1936
The Ghost Mascot (ss) - Sep 5, 1936
Ice Water Warrior - Oct 3, 1936
The Spearhead Streak - Oct 31, 1936
The Red-Banded Pearl (ss) - Apr 27, 1940
ARGOSY ALL-STORY WEEKLY
The Albino Ogre (nt) - Nov 3, 1928
The Big Casino (nt) - May 18, 1929
BEST DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
On the Dead Line at Thirty - Sep 1930
(reprint from Detective Story Mag / Nov 23, 1920)
Bluff - July 1931
(reprint from Detective Story Mag / Nov 26, 1921)
BLACK MASK
The Silver Screw - Oct 1920
The Farson Enigma - May 1921
BLUE BOOK
A Shotput in Circle (ss) - Oct 1919
The Dictogram (N/nv) - Mar 1922
Desert Gesture (ss) - Aug 1930
Some Call It Courage (sn) - Feb 1936
Sinister Hollow (nt) - Apr 1937
Visitors From Venus (ss) - Oct 1937
BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE MAGAZINE
Quota Kid (ss) - 11-16-1952
Empty Saddles (s-2) - 11-1-1953
- 11-8-1953
(These are reprints, possibly from a Columbia Pulps group
circa late 1930s to early 1940s)
BRIEF STORIES
The King of the Klondike (n) - Sep 1928
BULLS-EYE DETECTIVE
The Case of the Two Murdering Mummies - Spring 1939
The Murder Madhouse - Fall 1939
COMPLETE STORIES MAGAZINE (Street & Smith)
The Bitter Road (ss) - Jul 1, 1925
-- Became COMPLETE STORIES
The Town Tamer (ss) - May 1927
The Man from Mandalay (nt) - Nov 1936
Black Pearls (ss) - May 1937
CLUES DETECTIVE STORIES
Crime on Skis - Dec 1937
DETECTIVE ACTION STORIES
Hide-Out in Cicero - Dec 1936
Venom Castle - Feb-Mar 1937
The Heart-Slasher Riddle - Oct-Nov 1937
The Elephant Who Spoke German - Dec-Jan 1938
DETECTIVE CLASSICS
It Prowls at Midnight - Sep 1931
DETECTIVE FICTION WEEKLY
The Rose Bath Riddle (s-5) - Sep 9, 1933
- Sep 16, 1933
- Sep 23, 1933
- Sep 30, 1933
- Oct 7, 1933
The Stuffed Men (s-3) - Jan 20, 1934
- Jan 27, 1934
- Feb 3, 1934
The Golden Bullet - Feb 10, 1934
A Giant in the Swimming Pool - Apr 21, 1934
The Strange Scent of Murder (s-5) - Jun 2, 1934
- Jun 9, 1934
- Jun 16, 1934
- Jun 23, 1934
- Jun 30, 1934
The Feast of Skeletons - Aug 25, 1934
Dangerous Dollars - Sep 15, 1934
Dungeon of the Sun - Sep 22, 1934
The Golden Magnet Murders (s-4) - Dec 8, 1934
- Dec 15, 1934
- Dec 22, 1934
- Dec 29, 1934
Riddle of the Severed Finger - Jan 19,1935
Terror Cave (s-4) - May 25, 1935
- Jun 1, 1935
- Jun 8, 1935
- Jun 15, 1935
The Red Ember - Jul 27, 1935
Dovetailed Death - Oct 5, 1935
The Shape - Nov 9, 1935
The Two-Foot Feet - Dec 28, 1935
The Zebra Hill Mystery - Feb 1, 1936
The Devil's Alternate - Apr 11, 1936
The Death Melody - Jul 11, 1936
Sinister Stooge - Aug 29, 1936
The Encyclopedia Murders - May 15, 1937
DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE
When the Winner Lost - Jul 27, 1919
On the Dead Line at Thirty - Nov 23, 1920
The Invisible Blinker - Oct 22, 1921
Bluff Mov 26, 1932
(Title changed to:)
Street & Smith's DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE
The Case of the Chinchilla Jacket - Nov 1939
Jewels of Jeopardy - Apr 1940
The Yellow Alphabet - Jun 1940
Disks of Doom - Oct 1940
The White Eye - Feb 1941
DETECTIVE TALES
The Scarred Men (s-2) - May/Jun 1923
- Jul/Aug 1923
DOUBLE-ACTION DETECTIVE
Fortunes of the Damned - Oct 1940
EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE
Devil-Tails - May 1927
Pudding Stone - Aug 1927
Gypsy Gyp - Jun 1928
Smoke Settles - Oct 1928
Will O' The Wasp - Dec 1928
Larrimer of Lonesome - Feb 1929
FANTASTIC STORY QUARTERLY
The Molten Bullet - Spring 1950
(reprinted from Thrilling Wonder Stories / Jun 1937
THE FRONTIER
Red Sticks (ss) - Nov 1924
Gila Joe (ss) - Feb 1924
Smoke (ss) - May 1925
The Calvert Code (ss) - Jul 1925
Lobstick and Lode (ss) - Oct 1925
Mark of the Gar (ss) - Dec 1925
Nick of the Woods (ss) - Apr 1926
Chaparejos (ss) - May 1926
Red Butte (ss) - Jun 1926
Walkin' John of Demijohn (nt) - Nov 1926
FRONTIER STORIES
The Horseshoe Stake (nt) - Jan 1927
The Lost Star (ss) - Feb 1927
The Cross-Draw Decoy (ss) - Jun 1927
The Silver Queen Embargo (nt) - Sept 1927
Trailing South (nt) - Oct 1927
Crocodile Eye (nt) - Aug 1928
GANGLAND DETECTIVE STORIES
Blight at Partridge Lodge - Apr 1940
GOLDEN FLEECE
Rosebud Joe - Oct 1938
Bunyips in the Mulga - Nov 1938
The White Rogue - Dec 1938
Blizzard Snack - May 1939
THE GREEN BOOK MAGAZINE
The October Blight - Mar 1918
The Fiery Meteor - Apr 1918
The Vengeance Of the Wah Fu Tong - May 1918
The Red Billiard-Ball Mystery - Jun 1918
The Miltonvale Mystery - Jul 1918
The Giant Footprint - Aug 1918
The Specter at Macy's - Sep 1918
The Affair at Steffen Shoals - Oct 1918
HARDBOILED
Claws of the Catspaw - Nov 1936
THE LARIAT STORY MAGAZINE
Gladys - Sep 1925
Smokin' Rope (N) - Feb 1927
MASKED RIDER WESTERN MAGAZINE
Both Sides of Paradise - May 1940
NICKEL DETECTIVE
Duty Paid - Apr 1933
PEOPLE'S STORY MAGAZINE (Street & Smith)
Just Dog (ss) - Mar 25, 1922
Shotgun Title (N) - Jul 10, 1922
Haunted Harbor (N) - Aug 25, 1922
The Ill Will of Codicil Craley (ss) - Oct 15, 1923
Plug-Ugly (ss) - Jun 1, 1924
Hostages of Hate (N) - May 1, 1924
The Torchbearer (nt) - Jun 1, 1924
Muted Strings (N) - Jul 1, 1924
THE PHANTOM DETECTIVE
Choctaw Rose - Sep 1935
Underworld Reward - May 1937
POCKET DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
The Jonah Day Murders - Mar 1937
Triple Peril - May 1937
The House of Twisted Men - Jun 1937
The Marque and Reprisal Murders - Aug 1937
POPULAR MAGAZINE (Street & Smith)
The Turn That Turned Too Far (ss) - Mar 1920
Jaylee's Buttonhole shop (ss) - Oct 7, 1920
White Treasure (ss) - Jan 20, 1921
POPULAR FICTION MAGAZINE
(formerly Man Stories / Metropolitan Pub., Inc.)
No Greater Need (nt) - Apr 1932
The Ta Ching Diamond - Aug 1932
POPULAR WESTERN
The Cain Brand (nt) - Jul 1937
The Ghost of Blue Peak (nt) - Aug 1937
The Quest of El Trigeno (nt) - Sep 1937
Top-Hand Trouble (nt) - Oct 1937
Guileful Gold (nt) - Nov 1937
Man-Trap on Mesa Vulcan (nt) - Feb 1938
RED SEAL WESTERN
Gun Storm At Thunder Butte (N) - Apr-May 1939
SATURDAY EVENING POST
Cross-Eye's Double Cross - Aug 23, 1919
SEA STORIES (Street & Smith)
Poulpe of the Mud-Line (ss) - Sep 5, 1922
SHORT STORIES (Doubleday)
The Tapu Grove - Dec 1920
The Brotherhood of Hate - Aug 10, 1921
The Frigate Bird - Dec 25, 1921
The Shadow of Honor - Apr 25, 1922
Kernan of the Cataracts - Jun 25, 1922
The Devil's Heirloom (N) - Sep 10, 1922
The Last Grubstake (N) - Dec 25, 1922
Nevada Diamonds - Jan 25, 1924
Empty Bottles - Feb 10, 1924
Brass Checks - Apr 10, 1924
Fresh Meat - Sep 10, 1924
The Jumping Bean - Aug 10, 1923
The Quota Kayo - Feb 25, 1925
An Enigma in Black - Apr 25, 1925
Smoky Treasure - Jun 25, 1925
A Broad Jump on Jackwade (ss) - May 25, 1926
Texas Straight (nt) - Jul 25, 1926
The Two of Us (ss) - Sep 25, 1926
The Lass-Rope Legacy (N) - Jan 1, 1927 (cover story)
The Mojave Mule - Jul 10, 1927
The Trap Spider - Oct 10, 1927
Loyalty (nt) - May 10, 1929
The Green Gas - Oct 25, 1929
Waters Under the Earth - Nov 1951
- (U.K. issue of SHORT STORIES. Don't know if it appeared first in U.S. edition, or was reprinted from other magazine.)
SMITH'S MAGAZINE
The Great Conspiracy of Silence - Mar 1920
A Show for Eric - Jul 1920
Unfinished Business - Aug 1920
SPRINGFIELD (Mass.) UNION
The Sticky Part - Oct 11, 1936
SURE-FIRE DETECTIVE STORIES
Tainted Alibi - Dec [1943-44]
SWAN AMERICAN MAGS
Ghoul's Masquerade (ss) - # 2 / nd
SWIFT STORY MAGAZINE
Stripes - Nov 1930
THRILLING ADVENTURES
Frozen Face (s-3) - Oct 1932
- Nov 1932
- Dec 1932
Dry River Ranch (s-3) - Jul 1933
- Aug 1933
- Sep 1933
THRILLING WONDER STORIES
The Molten Bullet - Jun 1937
(NOTE: editorial note under author's byline says "by the author of 'The Cain Brand, The Griffin, etc.'" These two titles do not show up in the index for this magazine or any others in this group.)
TOP-NOTCH MAGAZINE (Street & Smith)
When Chicago Was Put to Sleep (N) - Sep 15, 1918
The Forbidden Forest (nt) - Feb 1937
TWO-BOOKS DETECTIVE MAGAZINE
The Death Messenger (N) - Feb-Mar 1934
TRUE GANGSTER STORIES
The Blight from Baghdad - Aug 1940
Twas the Voice of the Lobster - Feb 1941
Yellow Red Sunrise - Apr 1942
The Fatal Furs - Feb 1942
Ghost Hotel - Jun 1942
WEIRD TALES
Ooze - Mar 1923
(reprinted) - Jan 1952
(reprinted) - Summer 1983
A Square of Canvas - Apr 1923
(reprinted) - Sep 1951
The Place of Hairy Death - Feb 1934
Bellowing Bamboo - May 1934
* * *
NON-FICTION
(from Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature):
Activated Sludge - a Modern Miracle. Illustrated World, 25: 91-92.
March 1916.
Case for Patriotism. Illustrated World, 25: 169-174.
April 1916.
Chinese Music. Illustrated World, 25: 393-394.
May 1916.
Doom of the Morse Code Telegraph Operator. Illustrated World, 28: 497-498.
December 1917.
Failure. Bookman, 66: 349.
December 1927.
Flying Wheel of Death. Illustrated World, 28: 348-352.
November 1917.
Half-Dollar Ducks. Illustrated World, 26: 83-86.
September 1916.
How Can Your Wife Earn a Living? Illustrated World, 24:617-619.
January 1916.
How to Buy a Car of Moderate Price. Illustrated World, 26:923-926.
February 1917.
How to Start Married Life. Illustrated World, 26:391-395.
November 1916.
Keeping the Photographer Sane. Illustrated World, 28:726-727.
January 1918.
Knights of Mexico. Technology World, 23:808-810.
August 1915.
Love at First Sight Analyzed. Illustrated World, 26:510-514.
December 1916.
New Splashes in Summer Sports. Illustrated World, 25:734-738.
August 1916.
New Weapons against the Spotted Death. Illustrated World, 24:106-107.
September 1915.
On with the Dance. Illustrated World, 24: 472-477.
December 1915.
Profitable Side Line for Farmers. Illustrated World, 26: 253-254.
October 1916.
Railroad to Hudson Bay! Scientific American, 123: 568.
December 4 1920.
Submarine Killer. Illustrated World, 25: 455-456.
June 1916.
Submarine Killer. Literary Digest, 52: 1842.
June 24
1916.
Take the High-Speed Sidewalk. Illustrated World, 27:713-715.
July 1917.
Trapping the Pirate U-Boat. Illustrated World, 27:828-931.
August 1917.
Unusual Vacation Stunts. Illustrated World, 25:609-614.
July 1916.
Why Your Eyes Have No Expression. Illustrated World, 24: 194-195.
October 1915.
BOOKS
What We Learned About Wood.
Philadelphia: Curtis, 1919.
The Last Grubstake.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1922.
[Short Stories: Dec 25, 1922]
The Second Generation.
Garden City, NY: Doubleday, Page & Co., 1923.
London: Heinemann, 1923.
The Devil's Heirloom.
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1924.
[Short Stories: Sep 10, 1922]
The Sentence of the Six Gun.
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Co., 1926.
[Short Stories: ....?]
House of the Damned.
New York: The Macaulay Co., 1934.
[originally: The Death Messenger / Two-Books Detective Magazine, Feb-Mar 1934 issue.]
The Rose Bath Riddle.
New York: The Macaulay Co., 1934.
[S-5 in Detective Fiction Weekly, Sep 9 to Oct 7, 1933.]
The Stuffed Men.
New York: The Macaulay Co., 1935.
London: Newnes, 1936; cheap edition 1937.
[S-3 in Detective Fiction Weekly, Jan 20 to Feb 3, 1934.]
Black Creek Buckaroo (as by Anson Piper).
New York: William Morrow Co., 1941.
New York: Belmont Books, 1964. Abridged paperback ed.
London: Gerald S. Swan, nd (1942). [Includes add'l story, "Double Cross Tangles," by Archie Joscelyn.]
Blue Bonnet Range (as by Anson Piper).
London: Swan, 1946 (Feb. 1948) 124pp, 3/6 h/c
---- (Jun 1949), 124pp, 2/6 h/c
Painted Ghost (as by Anson Piper).
London: Swan, 1946 (Jun 1947), 175pp. 5/-. h/c
(Note: All 3 Anson Piper titles originally appeared in Western pulp mags published by Columbia Publications.)
MISC.
Claviluctae. The Wave, 1:6, 15-20. June 1923.
A Penny A Word (as by Anonymous). American Mercury, April 1936
ANTHOLOGY APPEARANCES
(Note: Only 1 Rud story was ever anthologized.)
Oooze.
-- The Moon Terror and Other Stories, Popular Fiction
Publishing Co., 1927.
-- Weird Tales, ed by Peter Haining. Neville Spearman,
1976.
-- More Weird Tales, ed by Peter Haining. Sphere, 1978.
-- Weird Tales, ed by Lin Carter. DAW, 1983.
FILMS
Scars of Jealousy
(Thomas H. Ince Production, for First National, 1923)
-- Starring Frank Keenan, Edward Burns, Marguerite de la
Motte, James Neil, Walter Lynch, James Mason, Mattie
Peters and George Read. Directed by Lambert Hillyer.
Scripted by Lambert Hillyer. Story by Anthony M. Rud. 7
Reels. (Note: no information available if this was
published title of AMR's story or whether he sold this
direct to producer.)
ABOUT ANTHONY M. RUD
The Men Who Make the Argosy. Sep 20, 1930
Obituary. New York Times. Dec 1, 1942
Obituary. Berkshire (Mass.) Courier. Jan 12, 1943
Anthony M. Rud's Weird Tales, by Bernard A. Drew. Attic
Revivals #6. 1983
Copyright Richard Bleiler, Peter Ruber and Victor A. Berch
Links:
A thorough biographical essay about Anthony Rud, by Peter Ruber, is also available elsewhere on The Pulp Rack. Click here to check it out.
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