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Day of the Dead
Film (1985). Laurel. Directed by George Romero. Written by Romero. Cast includes Terry Alexander, Lori Cardille, Richard Liberty, Joseph Pilato and Howard Sherman. 101 minutes, cut to 100 minutes. Colour. / Romero's plan, after showing the initial Zombie attacks in Night of the Living Dead (1968) and the total breakdown of society in ...
Buchan, John
(1875-1940) Scottish barrister, politician, journalist, publisher and author; ill-health and his age prevented his active service in World War One, a disqualification which deeply distressed him, though he joined the War Office in 1916 and became Director of the Department of Information in 1917. He served as Governor-General of Canada from 1935 until his death, in conjunction with which appointment he was created the first Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield. Buchan ...
Griffith, Mary
(1772-1846) French-born author, in US from 1776; she changed her name from Mary Corré to Mary Griffith on marrying John Griffith (1768-1815), and published as Griffith after his death. Her nonfiction studies in horticulture and general scientific topics were respected. She is of sf interest for a Utopia, Three Hundred Years Hence (1950), which originally appeared as one of the stories in ...
Gamma People, The
Film (1956). Warwick Film Productions/Columbia Pictures (US)/Columbia Pictures Corporation (UK). Produced by John Gossage. Directed by John Gilling. Written by Gilling and Gossage from a story by Robert Aldrich and Louis Pollock. Cast includes Eva Bartok, Michael Cirida, Paul Douglas, Pauline Drewett, Leslie Phillips and Walter Rilla. 79 minutes, cut to 76 minutes in some prints. Black and white. / American reporter Mike Wilson (Douglas) and his English photographer Howard (Phillips) ...
Klein, T E D
(1947- ) US magazine editor and author, principally of horror and weird fiction, who began to publish work of genre interest with The Events at Poroth Farm (December 1972 Beyond the Dark Gateway; 1990 chap), which despite its initial Fanzine appearance was selected for The Year's Best Horror Stories No. 3 (anth 1973) edited by Richard Davis. Klein's well-received horror novel ...
Clute, John
(1940- ) Canadian critic, editor and author, in the UK from 1969; married to Judith Clute from 1964, partner of Elizabeth Hand since 1996. He began to publish work of genre interest with an sf-tinged poem "Carcajou Lament" in Triquarterly for Winter 1960 [ie Autumn 1959]; he began consistently publishing sf reviews in his "New Fiction" column for the Toronto Star (1966-1967), and later in ...