Norwood, Victor
Entry updated 9 January 2023. Tagged: Author.
(1920-1983) UK traveller and author who concentrated on Westerns and nonfiction works about exploration. Of some genre interest is the Jacaré the Untamed series of South American jungle adventure tales, loosely derived from Edgar Rice Burroughs's Tarzan and mostly sf or fantasy: The Untamed (1951), The Caves of Death (1951), The Temple of the Dead (1951), The Skull of Kanaima (1951), The Island of Creeping Death (1952), and Cry of the Beast (1953); Drums along the Amazon (1953) is associational and not part of this series. Night of the Black Horror (1962) is a singleton sf adventure for Badger Books. Among Norwood's other titles is the to some extent pornographic Island of the Voodoo Dolls (1969) as by Paul Dangerfield. [JC/SH]
Victor George Charles Norwood
born Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire: 21 March 1920
died Los Angeles, California: 27 July 1983
works (selected)
series
Jacaré the Untamed
- The Untamed (London: Scion, 1951) [Jacaré the Untamed: pb/Ron Turner]
- The Caves of Death (A Jungle Story Featuring Jacaré the Untamed) (London: Scion, 1951) [Jacaré the Untamed: pb/Ron Turner]
- The Temple of the Dead (London: Scion, 1951) [Jacaré the Untamed: pb/Ron Turner]
- The Skull of Kanaima (London: Scion, 1951) [Jacaré the Untamed: pb/Ron Turner]
- The Island of Creeping Death (London: Scion, 1952) [Jacaré the Untamed: pb/G P Micklewright]
- Drums Along the Amazon (London: Scion, 1953) [Jacaré the Untamed: pb/]
- Cry of the Beast (London: Scion, 1953) [Jacaré the Untamed: pb/John Richards]
individual titles
- Night of the Black Horror (London: John Spencer and Co/Badger Books, 1962) [Badger SF 64: pb/Henry Fox]
- Island of the Voodoo Dolls (San Diego, California: Publishers Export Co/Pompeii Press, 1969) as by Paul Dangerfield [specialist bondage/torture imprint: pb/]
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