Donald Sidney-Fryer (1934–2026)
Speculative poet and critic Donald Sidney-Fryer, 91, died May 2, 2026 in Chatham MA. He was in palliative care for bone cancer.
Sidney-Fryer was born September 8, 1934. He published well over 100 works of speculative poetry, starting as early as 1968 with “Connaissance Fatale” and publishing in periodicals including Macabre, Spectral Realms, Weird Tales, and Witchcraft & Sorcery; anthologies including Off the Coastal Path (2010); and collections including The Atlantis Fragments (2008), Not Quite Atlantis (2010), and his three Songs and Sonnets Atlantean books in 1971, 2003, and 2010. His collection A King Called Arthor and Other Morceaux (2020) includes novel A King Called Arthor, an Arthurian legend retelling. He also wrote the short story “The Minor Chronicles of Atlantis” (1976) and many essays and multiple associational works of nonfiction, including Emperor of Dreams: A Clark Ashton Smith Bibliography (1978).
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