Pass the Poison Separately by Oswell Blakeston

From 1929, he also published novels and stories under the Blakeston name, producing 15 books of fiction, as well as 10 collections of poetry.

He then edited the little magazine Seed with Herbert Jones, and wrote detective fiction with Roger Burford, under the pseudonym 'Simon'. In 1930, he made the short abstract film Light Rhythms with Francis Bruguière, long thought to be lost but which is now recovered. While writing for Close Up, he worked in a variety of capacities in the British film industry and was for a time an *istant cameraman at Gaumont Studios. While at Close Up, he very much became a protégé of Kenneth Macpherson, the publication’s editor, and contributed more articles than any other single writer-a total of 84 he contributed to all but four of the journal's issues. At age 16 he ran away, becoming a conjuror’s *istant, a cinema organist and studio clapperboy.īlakeston joined the staff of Close Up, the magazine of the Pool Group, in August 1927. Lifeīlakeston was born to a family of Austrian origin.

His pseudonym combined a reference to the writer Osbert Sitwell with his mother's maiden name.

He was also a poet and wrote in non-fiction areas including travel, cooking and pets. Oswell Blakeston was the pseudonym of Henry Joseph H*lacher (1907–1985), a British writer and artist who also worked in the film industry, made some experimental films, and wrote extensively on film theory.

Pass the Poison Separately by Oswell Blakeston