Birth Date: | 22 July 1910 |
Birth Place: | Leuven, Belgium |
Death Place: | Brussels, Belgium |
Occupation: | Writer |
Language: | French |
Nationality: | Belgian |
Genre: | Weird Fantasy Fantastique |
Movement: | Belgium Weird |
Thomas Owen (real name Gérald Bertot) is often credited with Jean Ray and Franz Hellens as a pillar of Belgium weird fiction and as part of the golden age of Belgium fantastique fiction.[1] He wrote over 300 short stories in his lifetime, most being either fantasy or weird fiction.[2]
Thomas Owen started as an author of detective fiction but switched to the fantastique with 1942's l’Initiation à la Peur. Eventually he became close friends with one of the founders of the Belgian school of the strange, Jean Ray. They remained close friends until Ray's death in 1964.