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Smith, Mitchell
(1935- ) US author who has also written Westerns as by Roy LeBeau; in his early career he was best-known for crime novels, of which Reprisal (1999) is of some interest, hinting at Horror in SF. Of sf interest is his later Snowfall sequence comprising Snowfall (2002), Kingdom River (2003) and Moonrise (2004), set in a ...
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein
US film (1957). Santa Rosa Productions, American International Pictures. Executive producers Samuel Z Arkoff, James H Nicholson. Directed by Herbert L Strock. Written by Herman Cohen, Aben Kandel. Cast includes Whit Bissell, Robert Burton, Phyllis Coates and Gary Conway. 74 minutes, cut to 72 minutes. Black and white, with colour finale. / Professor Frankenstein (Bissell), seemingly an ordinary college professor in an unnamed US ...
Phantom Creeps, The
US Serial Film (1939). Universal Pictures. Directed by Ford Beebe and Saul A. Goodkind. Written by Basil Dickey and George Plympton, based on a story by Wyllis Cooper. Cast includes Dorothy Arnold, Robert Kent, Bela Lugosi, Jack C. Smith, Edwin Stanley Regis Toomey and Ed Wolff. Twelve circa 21-minute instalments. Black and white. / "Mad Scientist" Dr. Alex Zorka (Lugosi) ...
Moore, David A
(1814-? ) US author of The Age of Progress: Or, a Panorama of Time, in Four Visions (1856), a composite volume in which essays in Biblical typology are set against assays into Future History: for instance, Part One depicts the world of 3000 CE specifically as Eden reborn. [JC]
Taylor, John Edwin
(1883-1916) US author whose Cy Hains's Sermo-Phone and Other Stories (coll 1909 chap) contains some stories involving Inventions, which although spoofed do exist within an sf frame. [JC]
Nicholls, Peter
(1939-2018) Australian editor and author, primarily a critic and historian of sf through his creation and editing of The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction [see below]; resident in the UK 1970-1988, in Australia from 1988; worked as an academic in English literature (1962-1968, 1971-1977), scripted television documentaries, was a Harkness Fellow in Film-making (1968-1970) in the USA, worked as a publisher's editor (1982-1983), often broadcast film and book reviews on BBC Radio from 1974 and ...