Stanley Manly is a pseudonym for British author

Author

An author is broadly defined as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created. Narrowly defined, an author is the originator of any written work.-Legal significance:...

 Neil Nixon. His first novel - Raiders of the Low Forehead - was issued in 1999, by Attack! Books

Attack! Books

ATTACK! Books was an avant-pulp imprint of Creation Books founded in 1999. Partly a homage to the raw pulp writing of Richard Allen and the world of British action comics, part surrealism and part ultraviolence, the titles were overseen by former NME journalist Steven Wells, with the following...

 a division of Creation Books dedicated to a style characterised as 'avant pulp.' Other authors published by the same imprint included Steven Wells

Steven Wells

Steven Wells was a British journalist, author, comedian and notable punk poet born in Swindon, Wiltshire. He is best remembered for ranting poetry and his provocative, unapologetic music journalism. In June 2006, he wrote in the Philadelphia Weekly about his treatment for Hodgkin's lymphoma...

 and Tony White

Tony White

Anthony Wilbur White is a former West Indian cricketer who played in two Tests in 1965....

. Raiders of the Low Forehead is made of up of 45 chapters, the titles of the chapters rotate - Sex, Food, Violence - allowing every third chapter to include a graphic description of one of the three. In 2008 Manly published a second novel - Workington Dynamo - a coming of age tale set in West Cumbria

Cumbria

Cumbria , is a non-metropolitan county in North West England. The county and Cumbria County Council, its local authority, came into existence in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972. Cumbria's largest settlement and county town is Carlisle. It consists of six districts, and in...

in the mid 70s.

External links

• Attack! Books site: http://www.gleeson0.demon.co.uk/attack.htm
• Neil Nixon bibliography: http://www.neilnixon.com/books.htm
• Stanley Manly interview July 2009: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/tokyo-bloodbath-stanley-manly-interviewed/
• Review article on Workington Dynamo: http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/the-peoples-republic-of-workington/
• Stanley Manly author page at Amazon.co.uk: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Stanley-Manly/e/B003OJBU44/ref=ntt_athr_dp_pel_pop_1