The Donald Glut 1970s Frankenstein Novels Availability

[Truegho]

I would like to collect all the Donald F Glut Frankenstein novels of the 1970s, which were such a great staple of my teen reading years. However, I have two questions, and they are:

1. Do any of you guys know where I could obtain new/or reprinted paperbacks of these books?

2. After Frankenstein vs Dracula (1977), there does not seem to be any more single paperback releases of the subsequent titles in the series, apart from them being included in those two mammoth volumes of all the Frankenstein stories (which I was not too keen on, as I prefer owning the individual paperbacks). Didn't Glut produce any more of these books in paperback?

Alan Toner

www.alantoner.com

[andydecker]

1: Only the usual suspects come to my mind. Online platforms from Abebooks to Ebay. But the books seem to have become scarce. A quick look at British Zardoz says that he has not one Frankenstein novel on sale.

2: For whatever reasons, it appears that Glut could find no publisher for the rest of the series except in Germany, where they were published as slightly edited Heftromane, and some other European countries. It has a strange publication history. I think it is the only American horror pulp which was published first 1970 in Spain of all places, 7 years before the British MEWS edition. (Which in publishing is an eternity). The Spanish one has a nice Maroto cover. In the US there seem to be no  edition which is baffling. I found only Book 1 done by an outfit called Donning. I guess nobody wanted it, and after Glut's success with his Star Wars novelization in 81 nobody wanted it either, maybe because of slimness of the novels.

In the 2000s the whole series was published in magazine form by Druktenis Publishing in the US in the usual newsstand size. Unfortunatly Glut felt the need to "modernize" the texts here and there, which I found less than successful. But this is of course my personal taste.

[Truegho]

I just can't understand why NEL did not publish the remaining Glut Frankenstein novels after the first four. The covers were awesome! And every time I see images of these first four NEL paperbacks, the sweet memories of the mid-70s come flooding back, when I avidly bought these Frankenstein novels one after the other. And the big highlight of 1977 was when Frankenstein Meets Dracula came out in December. Made my Christmas!

I wish all these Frankenstein novels would be re-released in their individual paperback forms, rather than just bunched together in those two big oversized volumes.

I may search for the first four on ebay, Amazon et. I will have to make sure all the copies are in reasonable condition, though.

Alan Toner
Horror Author
www.alantoner.com

[helrunar]

Hi Truegho,

A good site for those 70s paperbacks we love is abebooks. There are vendors from the US, UK, Australia and elsewhere on there and the prices seem often to be better than the A m a z o n vendor prices.

cheers, Hel.

[jamesdoig]

I tend to go with vialibri: www.vialibri.net/ It includes pretty much all of the online secondhand catalogues, and it's made by book people.