Eddy C. Bertin

Eddy has published over twenty-five books, novels, story collections and three poetry collections for adults. Under various pseudonyms his work has included over sixty pulp novels and serials, westerns, novels with plenty of sex and horror, thrillers, murder mysteries, comic erotic novels, and so on. He remarked that, "It paid more than my literary work did". During the sixties and seventies he was very active in fan writing, working for some fifty fanzines, and finally publishing his own SF-Gids (SF Guide), which ran for 140 issues over eighteen years. When the boom in horror disappeared in the Netherlands in 1984, rather than switching to writing mystery or historical romances, he continued in the horror field, but now writing for children. However, he grumbles that, "All of my novels have to be cut because they are mostly too gruesome for younger readers!"