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Post by dem bones on Jun 26, 2012 18:59:33 GMT
There is a far more extensive bibliography on Don's official site, taking in everything from his screen-writing credits and extensive non-fiction to juvenile novels and magazine articles, but for the purposes of this post i've tried to list Mr. Glut's genre fiction to date. Andy Decker has posted samples of the Vampir Horror Roman & Druktenis editions ( Frankenstein Versus The Werewolf, Frankenstein And The Lost World) and you'll find the rest of Tony Masero's MEWS/ NEL cover artwork, reviews & Co. on Franklin's Terror Of Frankenstein thread. Corrections/ additions gratefully accepted. Bugged! (Manor, 1974) Brother Blood (Schorpioen [Brussels], 1974: Pulp 2.0 Press, 2010) Spawn (Laser, 1976) Frankenstein Lives Again (MEWS, 1977) Terror of Frankenstein (MEWS, 1977) Bones of Frankenstein (NEL, 1977) Frankenstein Meets Dracula (NEL, 1977) The Empire Strikes Back (Dell Rey, Sphere, 1980) Dinosaur Valley Girls - The Novel (Sense of Wonder, 2006) Published by Vampir Horror Roman: (Germany, 1976-77)Frankenstein Lives Again Terror of Frankenstein Bones of Frankenstein Frankenstein Meets Dracula Frankenstein vs. the Werewolf Frankenstein in the Lost World Frankenstein in the Mummy’s Tomb The Return of Frankenstein Frankenstein and the Curse of Dr. Jekyll Frankenstein and the Evil of Dracula CollectionTales of Frankenstein (Dennis Druktenis Publishing, 2004) The 11 New Adventures Of Frankenstein titles were reissued in magazine format under the banner Castle of Frankenstein presents The New Adventures of Frankenstein (Dennis Druktenis Publishing, 2000 -04) Short StoriesRanger to Eternity - Forrest J. Ackerman & Frederik Pohl(eds.) Perry Rhodan #17: The Venus Trap, (Ace, Sep 1972) F.R.A.N.K.E.N.S.T.E.I.N. - Forrest J. Ackerman (ed.) Perry Rhodan #36: Man and Monster, (Ace, Dec 1973): Tales of Frankenstein, Druktenis, 2004 My Creation, My Beloved - Tales of Frankenstein, (Druktenis, 2004) Dr. Karnstein’s Creation - Tales of Frankenstein, Druktenis, 2004: Michel Parry (ed.) - Rivals Of Frankenstein (Corgi, 1977). Origin of a Super-Hero - Michel Parry (ed.) Superheroes (Sphere, 1978): Tales of Frankenstein, Druktenis, 2004 To be Frank - Tales of Frankenstein, Druktenis, 2004 Vampire’s Gold - ?? Valley of the Shadow - ?? The Girl Who Taught David to Love - Rave (197?) Who Really Was that Masked Man? - Radio Western Adventures (Pulp 2.0. Press, 2010) |
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Post by cauldronbrewer on Jun 27, 2012 16:06:56 GMT
The Empire Strikes Back (Dell Rey, Sphere, 1980) So I'd read a Glut book and never even knew it! |
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Post by dem bones on Jun 27, 2012 16:56:08 GMT
From Max Cheney's interview with Mr. Glut on the splendid Frankensteinia, another of those 'what might have been' moments, featuring yet another cameo from a dear friend of this board, the seemingly omnipresent 'Linda Lovecraft'. Did any of these stories appear in the foreign editions?
No. Some of them appeared in Famous Monsters and in the short story anthology, Rivals Of Frankenstein, edited my Michel Parry. Then Michel did a follow up book called Superheroes. I wrote an original Frankenstein story for that, set in the future, about a Frankenstein android.
Michel Parry was very good friends of Milton Subotsky, who was going to make a Rivals of Frankenstein movie, and it was going to include my story, “Dr. Karnstein's Creation.” Pre-production dragged on for about a year. Michel was going to write the screenplay, and then Subotsky died, so it never happened. It would have been my first screen credit had that movie been made. And that would have been nice. Peter Cushing would likely have been in it somewhere, maybe Christopher Lee, and Michael Gough, too.******************** Elsewhere during the interrogation, Don expands on the origins of Vault legend Burt Winslow and New Adventures Of Frankenstein things in general. |
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Post by twilightridge on Feb 24, 2013 8:27:03 GMT
Who wants Glut? On my Twilight Ridge site, I have a copy of my interview with Don, which originally appeared as an installment of my "What The Hell Ever Happened To...?" column in issue #13 of The Scream Factory (can't recall the year, offhand.. maybe 1993 or 94?) -- twilightridge.net/blog/what-the-hell-ever-happened-to/scream-factory-columns/don-glut-tsf-13/ The column will also be reprinted, with some awesome cover graphics, in THE BEST OF THE SCREAM FACTORY, which will be published by Cemetery Dance Publications, most likely in 2014. Hope this info is of interest... |
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Post by mcannon on Feb 24, 2013 9:22:43 GMT
Who wants Glut? >>On my Twilight Ridge site, I have a copy of my interview with Don, which originally appeared as an installment of my "What The Hell Ever Happened To...?" column in issue #13 of The Scream Factory (can't recall the year, offhand.. maybe 1993 or 94?) -- twilightridge.net/blog/what-the-hell-ever-happened-to/scream-factory-columns/don-glut-tsf-13/ The column will also be reprinted, with some awesome cover graphics, in THE BEST OF THE SCREAM FACTORY, which will be published by Cemetery Dance Publications, most likely in 2014. >> Thanks for the link - and even more so for the news of the upcoming "Scream Factory" anthology. That was a great magazine. Among other things, I credit it for my interest in Old Time Radio horror, via its multi-part history of the field, and for alerting me to the existence of such oddities as "weird B-Westerns". Without "Scream Factory" encouraging new interests and obsessions in the horror field, I'd doubtless be a much saner, richer individual today. If anyone here isn't aware of it, the "Bare Bones" blog maintained by one of SF's editors, Peter Enfantino, is well worth checking out, at barebonesez.blogspot.com/MarkC |
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Post by dem bones on Feb 24, 2013 20:47:03 GMT
Hope this info is of interest... It is, thanks very much Robert. I had no idea Mr. Glut had a hand in the creation of Vampirella, but it all makes perfect sense to me now. It's a shame he and Ron Goulart didn't share the novelisation duties. Love his 'sixties reminiscences. I'll bet his band were worth seeing. And Freakout on Sunset Strip has suddenly become a very attractive proposition ..... All the best with your Cemetery Dance publications. Look forward to exploring more of your site over coming days. |
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Post by andydecker on Feb 25, 2013 9:09:43 GMT
Hope this info is of interest... It is, thanks very much Robert. I had no idea Mr. Glut had a hand in the creation of Vampirella, but it all makes perfect sense to me now. It's a shame he and Ron Goulart didn't share the novelisation duties. Love his 'sixties reminiscences. I'll bet his band were worth seeing. And Freakout on Sunset Strip has suddenly become a very attractive proposition ..... All the best with your Cemetery Dance publications. Look forward to exploring more of your site over coming days. Glut wrote a lot of the early horror stories for Warren. Had some decent artists too. But the stories are rather middle ground. Not very memorable. |
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Post by dem bones on Mar 12, 2013 11:16:51 GMT
Donald F. Glut - Bones Of Frankenstein (NEL, 1977)  Tony MaseroBlurb: A CURSE MORE DEADLY THAN THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER DESCENDS ON THE SMALL COUNTRY OF CROVAKIA.
The general commanding the invading Crovakian army is determined to build an indestructible army — and the only man who is capable of turning this ambition into terrifying reality is Victor Frankenstein himself.
Revived from the dead by black magic, the creator of the original monster meets his dreadful prodigy for the second time.
BONES OF FRANKENSTEIN is the third in this spine-chilling new series by Donald F. Glut, one of the true experts on the Frankenstein legend.Steve has already written the definitive Vault review of Bones .... (you'll find it on the New Adventures of Frankenstein thread: i'm not going to reread it at present for obvious reasons), but eventually exhumed a copy - lurking among a cardboard box full of sleaze titles at heart attack prices - on a vintage vinyl stall, and 104 pages who could possibly resist? A shunned castle on a mountain overlooking a tiny mid-European village. Rogaro, skull-faced mad scientist and master of necromancy, hard at work in his foul-smelling laboratory, perfecting the diabolical ritual. Morley, his mute imbecile of a servant, indicates a party of machine gun-toting soldiers climbing toward the castle. Rogero takes it in his stride. He knows their puny weapons are no match for black sorcery, so lets hear what they have to say. The general has a proposition, In return for his life, Rogaro will take a skeleton and regenerate it. Not just any old skeleton, but that of Victor Frankenstein The Party have plans for the Monster-maker .... Some brief business involving incantations and ectoplasm later, and: "Greetings, Comrade Frankenstein. And welcome to the Twentieth century." The terrified Victor plays it comatose to begin with but all it takes is for the General to feed him an edited highlights package of his previous life and it all comes flooding back. "The monster! The monster that I created with these two hands. Created from the dead ... as i became a ghoul who stole bodies from the graves, the gallows, the charnel houses, everywhere I could find the ghastly things. And now, i am alive! Is this to be my final punishment for trying to play at being God?" Yes, the General assures him, relishing the moment. Your original filthy creation still walks the earth (in fact, as far as anybody knows, the monster went up in flames at close of #1. Frankenstein Lives Again) and you will likewise be doomed to immortality unless you co-operate. You are going to manufacture an entire zombie army from parts of the dead! Frankenstein makes all the right "I'll never do such a thing!" noises, but in truth, the scientist in him is already intrigued. You mentioned something about a brand new laboratory? I'll need corpses of course, and lots of them. Fresh, mind, no rotting rubbish .... The General sends his men on a nocturnal grave-robbing spree ...
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Post by dem bones on Mar 13, 2013 23:03:52 GMT
The big question: can an instalment bereft of - fanfare - Burt 'superb brain' Winslow and luscious Lyn Powell still cut it? By New Adventure of Frankenstein standards, the first thirty or so pages are remarkably sensible, but that's all about to change. Wilhelm Warren has just been sprung from the village jail by three of his fellow anti-occupation agitators. As they make a break for it, Wilhelm's colleagues are machine-gunned in half, but he escapes into the woods. His chief concern is for the safety of his beautiful sister, Katherine, but how can he contact her now he's a fugitive? As he ponders his next move, an enormous sea serpent rises from the waves and makes for the rocky terrain of the shore. But wait? What's that mechanical humming noise all about? That's no sea serpent. It's a submarine!
The Tyrosaur deposits it's passengers. You'll guess who the second party is if I mention that Captain James Judson, late of O.G.R.E. his hideously burnt face swathed in bandages, is the looker of the two. The monster has been drawn to Crovakia by mysterious vibrations.
The unlikely friends put up in a cave. There's a dilemma over which of them should visit the village for supplies, until Judson decides, not unreasonably, "I think my bandaged face will cause less commotion than your eight foot height and yellow face and electrodes."
Meanwhile, news of last night's body-snatching has reached the locals, so not the ideal time for a short-arsed stranger who looks like something from a mummy film to enter the village store. Johann and Gustav silently pursue their suspected ghoul back to the cave ....
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Post by dem bones on Mar 15, 2013 9:58:34 GMT
 Don Glut boards the TyrosaurJohann, Gustav and a torch-bearing mob attack "the cave of living horrors", but Judson and the monster repel them with boulders and bullets. The combatants flee in opposite directions, the surviving villagers back to the general store, the Captain and the creature far inland until they reach a ruined farmhouse, Warren's farmhouse, of course. Desperate for shelter they take a chance and knock. Imagine their astonishment when a beautiful young woman bids them a sincere warm welcome.But then how is Katherine to know that she's in the presence of the abominable when she's been blind from birth? The unlikely trio enjoy several weeks of at the farmhouse (it's possible Don's time-line has gone to pieces here but who cares). The monster toils diligently in the fields. Judson tackles household repairs and domestic duties. Each fall in love with their charming hostess. Since meeting Miss Warren, the Captain has come to loathe his murderous, thoroughly beastly past and curses the day he fell in with O. G. R. E. For her part, Katherine regularly massages the creature throat, patiently encourages him until, finally, he regains the powers of speech. Everyone weeps buckets at his first words. Jim is so delighted for his friend that he allows the girl to remove his own bandages and feel up his face. She reciprocates his love. It can't last. Back at the lab, Dr. F complains that one of his brains is damaged. He refuses to work with shoddy material, so they will have to destroy one of the six prototype zombie troops. The General is worried - it will be the firing squad for him if he disappoints his Government. Rogero snickers a few words to Morley who goes lumbering off down the mountain. Moments later he returns with a head freshly ripped from the neck of a hapless passer-by. Frankenstein throws another tantrum, "I will not be a party to murder!", but he's no option other than to continue with the project if he wants the blessed relief of death. All is ready. Now they just have to wait for the threatened lightening storm to break. Wilhelm, Johann, and those villagers who weren't squashed flat under boulders in the previous skirmish, storm the farmhouse. Terrified by their flaming torches, the creature swings an axe, splitting two of the intruders in half. Katherine screams at Wilhelm to desist. There must be some mistake - these are good men, not graveyard ghouls! Wilhelm's answer is to repeatedly ram a firebrand in the creature's face. Judson draws his pistol but can't bring himself to fire on Katherine's brother! The farmhouse goes up in flames. The creature, eight foot of screaming agony, punches down a wall enabling their narrow escape, but he's done with Judson. Humans, they'll always betray you eventually. The vibrations are stronger now. The monster goes in search of his detested creator, setting us up for reunion and bloody reckoning at the castle ... That Burt and the Lyn are otherwise engaged for the duration - they're back for #4; Frankenstein Meets Dracula - initially strikes as a hammer blow: Kathering gamely lets go her dress in a grapple with the fat General, but it's too little too late, and none but the most incorrigible of the globeswatch contingent need fear a sudden escalation in dry cleaning bills. But make no mistake; Bones Of Frankenstein is another magnificent instalment and should you spot a copy on your travels, don't think twice, get it while you can, as it won't be there next time you pass that way. Read Steve's superior review here |
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