Mary Vigliante Szydlowski

My first book THE ARK is published in the fall of 1978. Unfortunately, the publisher will not let me use my real name because..... #1. men are the primary readers of science fiction and they won't read SF written by a woman and #2. my last name is too ethnic. They want something spacey sounding. We settle on Jarl Szydlow. This was the first and only time I ever used this pseudonym.

Picture from a newspaper article about my first book The Ark

THE ARK

Published by Manor Books in 1978 under the pseudonym Jarl Szydlow


  Whirling out in space, the spacecraft ALPHA-ARK is doomed. The ship's complex life-support systems have malfunctioned and no one knows how to repair them. Without the machines there can be no food. The crew will starve, their ship condemned to travel the infinite universe for eternity. The discovery of a secret computer reveals the truth of their past and the fate that awaits them if the ship should land. They are not alone on the Ark. The masters who would enslave them lie sleeping, frozen, ready to rise again.




  "They discovered the location of the cocoons. The bodies were frozen intact. Sebrum eyed them and an idea passed his brain. Meat was meat, anything was better than starvation. They allowed the corpse to thaw and then began to devour it."

CHILDREN'S BOOKS
KIA'S MANATEE
There was something big in the dirty green water. Was it a whale? Was it a walrus? No, it was a manatee. Kia saw that it was injured and had to help.
THE DUCK IN THE HOLE
When six year-old Keesha discovers a duck trapped in a hole, she uses her grit, resourcefulness, and determination to find just the right way to free it.
I CAN'T TALK, I'VE GOT FARBLES IN MY MOUTH!
A family of Farbles takes up residence in James Beechum's mouth after workmen repairing paths in a nearby park destroy their home. They intend to stay with James until their problem is resolved.
HORROR
WORSHIP THE NIGHT
Enslaved by Demonic Passion! The remote forests of the Adirondack Mts. are the setting for this tale of murder, madness, and horror.
FICTION
SILENT SONG
Philomena Rienzi cannot speak. Raised by immigrant parents who believe her to be retarded, she grows up in a world that extends no further than her backyard. After her father's desertion and her mother's suicide, Philomena becomes a ward of the state and is placed in an institution. Kept sedated and in restraints, Philomena is stripped of her dignity and humanity. She is rescued by two unlikely heroes, an elderly lady named Signora Mancuso and a lonely middle-aged bachelor named Tony, her former neighbors. Can they help her win her freedom and a chance at happiness?
SCIENCE FICTION/FANTASY
SOURCE OF EVIL
Adrianne Del-2, captain of the spacecraft Logo, has been ordered on a mission, an aggressive invasion of other worlds. But something goes wrong. An inexplicable series of malfunctions cripples her ship. They have no idea why until a mysterious voice explains why they must be punished and the means of their atonement.
THE LAND
Her sisters were shocked when their princess loved a beast!
THE COLONY
The nuclear war was over in an afternoon. Both sides lost. Sunny managed to stay alive, but now she must face the brutal society created by the survivors.
THE ARK
They discovered the location of the cocoons. The bodies were frozen intact. Sebrum eyed them and an idea passed his brain. Meat was meat, anything was better than starvation. They allowed the corpse to thaw and then began to devour it.