Various short-story readings by Alan Griff, which was the pseudonym of Donald Suddaby, who—
under his own name—wrote juvenile science-fiction in the 1950s and early 60s. (He died in 1964.)
An occasional broadcaster from the Manchester station 2ZY.
sixteenth anniversary celebration of the marriage of her friend to a dabbler in the occult. After
arriving at their desolate, oddly-built mansion, Lady Merle and the other guests have trouble
sorting the living from the dead.”
“A group of visitors arrive at Neath's isolated country house - a glacial hall with mazelike
corridors, surrounded by mist. Neath has always had an odd reputation, which he lives up to by
appearing then hiding in the depths of the house when his guests arrive. Even before the death of
his wife, he had been reclusive and strange. If only his wife had been able to bear him a child...”
[The Times, March 20, 1964] “A friend writes: ‘Strongly influenced by H. G. Wells, he was a
brilliantly inventive storyteller. He could picture the planet Venus ruled by a highly intelligent
vegetable life, or a twentieth-century world immobilized through the malicious disintegration of
metal; a man from the future travelling back in time to Edwardian Worcestershire [Village
Fanfare; Magazine version in 1934 was as by Alan Griff], or a group of friends accidentally
diminished in size and fighting out a primitive existence with insects on an English hillside.
“ ‘In everything he wrote…Suddaby showed a distringuished talent for imaginative fantasy.”
October 12, 1926“Scarlet Dragon”
December 3, 1927“The Castle”
August 9, 1928“The Masque of the Red Death”/“The Kingdom”
Death’ (Edgar Allen [sic] Poe); ‘The Kingdom (Alan Griff)…”]
December 31, 1931“The Masque of the Red Death”
sic] Poe…”]
December 31, 1931“The Tavern”
February 11, 1932“The Kingdom”
July 18, 1932“The Horn”
January 5, 1933“The House of Desolation”
GRIFF, ALAN. “The House of Desolation.” Book (ed. Dorothy L. Sayers).
The Times