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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein
Film (1948). Universal-International Pictures. Directed by Charles T Barton. Produced by Robert Arthur. Screenplay by John Grant, Robert Lees and Frederic I Rinaldo, using characters created by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley and Bram Stoker. Cast includes Bud Abbott, Lenore Aubert, Charles Bradstreet, Lon Chaney Jr, Lou Costello, Bela Lugosi, Jane Randolph, Glenn Strange and ...
North Korea
(For sf activity before 1945, see the entry for pre-partition Korea.) / In North Korea, sf initially thrived as a genre aligned with socialist and communist modernity. Early stories – at first translations of Soviet Union sf – appeared in magazines like Kwahak ui Segye ["World of Science"]. Domestic production soon followed, with authors such as Sok Yun-gi and Pae Pung producing Soviet-inspired didactic ...
Cristofari, Cécile
(? - ) French teacher and author, active from 2010 or before, who began to publish work of genre interest in English with "Memories Like Bread, Words Like Little White Stones" in Daily Science Fiction for July 2013. Much of her short fiction, some of it set in Near Future France, has been assembled as Elephants in Bloom (coll 2024); the ...
Brom
Working name of American artist Gerald Brom (1965- ). Growing up in the family of a United States Army pilot, the young Brom lived in a number of locations and concluded his formal education by graduating from high school in Frankfurt, Germany. The self-trained Brom first worked in commercial art before joining TSR in 1989, contributing art to the Dungeons and Dragons game and painting book covers, with particular attention to developing imagery for the Dungeons and ...
Carcosa
1. Carcosa House was a fan-run US specialist publishing house formed to produce the first book edition of Edison's Conquest of Mars (1947) by Garrett P Serviss. No further books appeared. / 2. The name Carcosa (not Carcosa House) was used for a different Small Press founded in 1973 under the direction of David Drake and Karl Edward ...
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 ...