Donald F Glut Frankenstein vs The Werewolf #5

[andydecker]

Donald F. Glut Frankenstein vs The Werewolf (Pabel, Germany 1976; Druktenis Publ. 2001)

John Stewart is an Englishman rasied by Gypsies. When Trinka, the girl he loves, is discovered to be a werewolf he kills her and has to flee the tribe. Dying his stepmother counsels him to seek out Dr.Dorn who may help him remove the curse, as John has been bitten by Trinka. Dr. Dorn lives in a castle with his beautiful daughter Vanessa and hunchbacked servant Bosworth who has the hots for her. Before you can say mad scientist it is revelealed that Dorn has the Frankenstein Monster in the cellar and wants to revive it. At the end the vengeful Gypsies are in the castle, there is a big fight and the Monster and the Werewolf sink beneath the moor, while Vanessa weeps for her new love John.

This was published first in Germany as a Vampir Heftroman in 76. (Also in Spain.) Pabel did the whole series consisting of 10 novels, there was a three year gap between 8 and 9. Only the first 4 novels appeared in England, then NEL pulled the plug. Maybe it didn´t sell well enough, maybe they thought it not mature enough or too silly. Very tongue in cheek they became ever more ludicrous and played in a timeless Universal Monster land.

In 2000 the whole series was published again in the US by Dennis Druktenis. It was presented as Castle of Frankenstein presents: The New Adventures of Frankenstein. CoF was one of those long runing Monster Movie Mags.

Now the format was a 66 pages magazine. Each issue also had a reprint of a 1954 Frankenstein comic series done by Dick Briefer. The reprint was in b/w. The covers and the interior illustrations were a bit fan-art, as far as my taste is concerned.

Published were the 10 novels and a Tales of Frankenstein, a handful of short stories Glut wrote. The novels appear to be kind of modernized in parts if you compare them to the German edition from the mid-seventies. It is hard to put down as the German edition was a bit abridged.

This edition seems to be no longer avaiable. The website scarymonstermags is dead.

WARNING: I googled it and got a nice Live Security Platinum Trojaner for my efforts through this link. I guess. Maybe it was Photobucket. Who knows.

Pulp.Press did the first two as Ebooks. The rest is announced but there isn´t happening much at the moment.

Edited for Links.

[dem]

I'd wondered about the format of these reprints, so thank you kindly for the sample page, Andy. When last the subject came up, some of us were less than enthusiastic about the covers, but then we'd been spoiled rotten by Tony Masero's artwork for the NELS, and fair play to Mr. Druktenis for making them available again.

Michel Parry ran a couple of the Tales of Frankenstein, Dr. Karnstein's Creation, and Origins Of A Superhero in his Rivals Of Frankenstein and Superheroes respectively. No boring Bert Winslow and his "superb brain" or luscious Lynn Powell, but they're delightful, the fiirst in particular is a classic of camp horror.

Jun 23, 2012 16:14:59 GMT andydecker said:

Only the first 4 novels appeared in England, then NEL pulled the plug. Maybe it didn´t sell well enough, maybe they thought it not mature enough or too silly. Very tongue in cheek they became ever more ludicrous and played in a timeless Universal Monster land.

NEL did the same with Jory Sherman's has-its-moments Chill series, too, reprinting only four of seven. Come to think of it, Sphere only ran three of the six (?) Ron Goulart Vampirella paperbacks (another guilty pleasure - they're always the best ones), and you'd expect those to shift a few copies.