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Author:	Denis Hughes as Van Reed
Title:	House Of Many Changes
Publisher:	Curtis Warren
Country:	UK
Date:	Aug 1952
Format:	Paperback
Genre:	Fiction, Science Fiction, Thriller
Rating:	Rate
Collection:	I Own It I Want It
Community:	1 Owns
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Cover art by Gordon C. Davies.

Denis Hughes - (1917-2008) UK author who published some sf under his own name, but who wrote most of his paperback originals – principally for Curtis Warren – under a variety of pseudonyms. These included Marvin Ashton, Ray Barry, George Sheldon Brown, Dee Carter, Irving Heine, John Lane, Grant Malcolm, G R Melde, Russell Rey and William Rogersohn, and the House Names Berl Cameron, Neil Charles. Lee Elliot, Marco Garron and its variant spelling Marco Garon, Gill Hunt, Von Kellar, Brad Kent, Rand Le Page, Van Reed and Arn Romilus. About fifty of his novels were published between 1949 and 1954; a further (very short) title appeared in 1955. He was among the most prolific of those British writers similarly engaged; like John S Glasby and the even more prolific R L Fanthorpe, Hughes made use of a wide range of sf themes with considerable invention, especially on some of his later fantasy stories, which often feature allegorical and/or dream sequences; but the books themselves were slackly written, albeit with some improvement over the years. The Rex Brandon sequence as by Marco Garon (see Macro Garron) comes precariously close to Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan. The general carelessness of Hughes's writing was entirely understandable given the conditions under which he worked: Curtis Warren allowed him only three to four weeks per novel, with no time for second drafts.
Hughes was reticent about revealing personal information; relatively little is known of his life. During his period of sweat-shop employment for Curtis Warren he was also writing Westerns [not listed below] under the name Ken Kester for the London publisher Herbert Jenkins, where he was allowed time for longer, better-crafted work that appeared in hardback form. After the collapse of Curtis Warren, Hughes switched to scripting Comics stories for D C Thomson.

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