Ed Reardon

[Dr Terror]

Has Ed Reardon - 'author, pipesmoker, consummate fare-dodger and master of the abusive email' - ever written anything that would be of interest to the horror pulp reader?

[Calenture]

The central conceits of the radio comedy Ed Reardon's Week are that Ed lives in genteel poverty with his cat, Elgar, scraping a living as a hack by working through commissions for coffee table books such as The Brands Hatch Story and Pet Peeves, a book of celebrity pet anecdotes. Much of this work comes through his agent Felix (John Fortune) and Felix's assistant Ping (Sally Hawkins, played by Barunka O'Shaughnessy in the second series, and Laura Solon in the third), an archetypal Sloane Ranger who rejects his amorous advances.

Ed's Literary Background is described thus:

Ed considers himself a serious writer but the evidence is lacking. His one and only novel, Who Would Fardels Bear?, was published in the 1970s, and was "converted" into a film (Sister Mom) by Ed's friend, Jaz Milvane (played by Philip Jackson). Since the plot was relocated from Oldham to California and the lead role was taken by Sally Field, the movie's faithfulness to the novel is in some degree of doubt. Milvane is a successful British Hollywood film director in the mould of Tony Scott or Adrian Lyne. Ed's only other screen credit is a 1982 episode of the BBC wartime drama, Tenko (Escape from the Bamboo Noose) and, based on the evidence provided in the drama so far, this may well be his only other non-coffee-table-book project.

It appears he has not contributed to the body of horror pulp literature. But we can live in hope!

Quotes nicked from here: Ed Reardon's Week

[Dr Terror]

As he wrote an episode of Tenko, perhaps he'd have something along the lines of Bamboo Guerillas in him...