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Lynch, David
(1946-2025) US actor, artist and musician and primarily filmmaker whose work extended Surrealism into mainstream Cinema and Television. Lynch's films tend to examine the uneasy truce between rationality and the unconscious mind by revealing how intimations of Sex, Identity and death make themselves felt in modern American communities. The term Lynchian was defined by David Foster ...
Forrest, Maryann
Pseudonym of UK painter, sculptor, designer, librettist and author Polly Hope (1933-2013), in whose Here (Away from it All) (1969; vt Here 1970), visitors and expats caught on a Greek Island after an apocalyptic Future War attempt to deal with the grim Post-Holocaust life in store for them; they do not do well. [JC]
Horn, Dara
(1977- ) US journalist and author whose first several novels comprise a set of nonfantastic explorations of the nature of Jewish life in Europe and America over the past century and a half; the explicit seriousness of this project is leavened in the event through pleasurable narrative ingenuities, and thriller-like plots. The intersecting stories making up her fourth novel, A Guide for the Perplexed (2014), are variously linked to the mediaeval Jewish ...
Sound of Horror, The
Film (1964; US release 1966; original title El sonidode de la Muerte). Zurbana Films/Vinals Distribucion Spain/Europix Consolidated Corporation US. Produced and Directed by José Antonio Nieves Conde. Written by Sam X Abarbanel, Conde, Gregorio Sacristán de Hoyos, and Gregg C Tallas from a story by Abarbanel. Cast includes José Bódalo, Antonio Casas, Arturo Fernández, Lola Gaos, Soledad Miranda, James Philbrook, Francisco Piquer and Ingrid ...
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
Film (1953; vt Dr Jekyll and Mrs Hyde). Universal-International Pictures. Directed by Charles Lamont. Screenplay by Howard Dimsdale (uncredited), John Grant and Leo Loeb based loosely on Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde (1886) by Robert Louis Stevenson. Cast includes Bud Abbott, Lou Costello, Boris Karloff, Eddie Parker (uncredited), Craig Stevens, Helen Westcott. 76 minutes. Black and ...
Robinson, Roger
(1943- ) UK computer programmer, bibliographer and publisher, active in UK Fandom for many years. The Writings of Henry Kenneth Bulmer (1983 chap; rev 1984 chap) is an exhaustive Bibliography of one of the most prolific sf writers, Kenneth Bulmer, and Who's Hugh?: An SF Reader's Guide to Pseudonyms (1987) is similarly exhaustive in its ...