Brandner, Gary
Entry updated 3 March 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1930-2013) US author, almost all of whose works are either horror tales or thrillers, including several film Ties; he worked under his own name, which has sometimes been given as Gary Barander, and as Nick Carter, Phil Garrison, Clayton Moore and Lee Davis Willoughby. Of his large output, the best known title is The Howling (1977), a Werewolf story which was loosely adapted for the Cinema as The Howling (1981); there were two novel sequels and three further films, of which Howling IV: The Original Nightmare (1988) is a closer adaptation of the 1977 novel than the first movie. The Big Brain sequence, beginning with The Aardvark Affair (1975; vt The Big Brain 1991), is sf in which the "Big Brain" protagonist – gifted with super-Intelligence – investigates offbeat cases on behalf of a secret US government agency. This series is entertaining but undemanding. [JC/DRL]
Gary Phil Brandner
born Sault Ste Marie, Michigan: 31 May 1930
died Reno, Nevada: 23 September 2013
works (highly selected)
series
The Big Brain
- The Aardvark Affair (New York: Zebra Books, 1975) [The Big Brain: pb/]
- The Big Brain (London: Severn House, 1991) [vt of the above: The Big Brain: hb/Martin Buchan]
- The Beelzebub Business (New York: Zebra Books, 1975) [The Big Brain: pb/]
- Energy Zero (New York: Zebra Books, 1976) [The Big Brain: pb/D A Daily]
The Howling
- The Howling (New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1977) [The Howling: pb/]
- The Howling II (New York: Fawcett Gold Medal, 1979) [The Howling: pb/]
- Return of the Howling (London: Hamlyn, 1979) [vt of the above: The Howling: pb/]
- The Howling III: Echoes (London: Hamlyn, 1985) [The Howling: pb/Peter Elson]
- The Howling III (New York: Fawcett Gold Medal/Ballantine, 1985) [vt of the above: The Howling: pb/]
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