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Murray, Will
Working name of US author William Patrick Murray (1953-2026), who showed an interest throughout his career in Superheroes of the Pulp tradition (on which he was a known authority) such as Doc Savage, about which figure he wrote the nonfiction Secrets of Doc Savage (1981 chap). In this context he had been literary agent for Lester Dent's estate since 1979. ...
Ghoul
UK Cinema magazine. Publisher: New English Library. No editor named. One undated issue, 1976. / This one-issue title was an unabashedly juvenile effort whose contents included an "interview" with Count Dracula and a contest to give away one hundred "vampire kites". Some more serious material did however appear, including a brief history of Monster Movies by film scholar Denis Gifford (1927-2000) and an article on performer ...
Lindsay, Jeffry P
Pseudonym of US author Jeffry P Freundlich (1952- ) for fiction written in collaboration with his wife, Hilary Hemingway. These books include an sf thriller series comprising Dreamland (1995) and Dreamchild (1998), both with Hilary Hemingway, told in a UFO mode, featuring an Alien kept secret by the government, and a ...
Paranoia [game]
Role Playing Game (1984). West End Games (WEG). Designed by Greg Costikyan, Daniel Gelber, Ken Rolston, Eric Goldberg. / Playing Paranoia is an exercise in perversity and frustration, where the watchwords are "fear, ignorance and suspicion". The setting is a Post-Holocaust Underground City ruled by a ...
Legend Horror Classics
UK oversize poster magazine printed on slick paper. Publisher: Legend Publishing, then Harpdown Publishing. Editors: John Barraclough, Kevin O'Neill and Jim Shier. 12 issues 1974 to 1975. Publication schedule was bimonthly. / Poster-format publications were quite popular in the UK during the 1970s appearing from various publishers (see Science Fiction Monthly). This title was somewhat different from Monster Mag in ...
Langford, David
(1953- ) UK author, critic, editor, publisher and sf fan, in the latter capacity recipient of 21 Hugo awards for fan writing – some of the best of his several hundred pieces are assembled as Let's Hear It for the Deaf Man (coll 1992 chap US; much exp vt The Silence of the Langford 1996; exp 2015 ebook) as Dave Langford, edited by Ben Yalow – plus five Best Fanzine Hugos ...