Guy Endore

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Samuel Guy Endore (4 July 1900 - 12 February 1970), also known as Harry Relis, was a novelist and screenwriter. He wrote many novels and screenplays for action films and thrillers. He is best known for his novel The Werewolf of Paris which occupies a significant position in werewolf literature, in much the same way as Dracula does for vampires.

He was nominated for a screenwriting Oscar for The Story of G.I. Joe (1945). Endore's novel Methinks the Lady . . . (1946) was the basis for Ben Hecht's screenplay for Whirlpool (1949).

Endore was a committed leftist and was investigated by the House Un-American Activities Committee during its search for Communist infiltration of the film industry. Some studios thus blacklisted him and he had to sell his screenplays under the pseudonym Harry Relis (Relis was actually the husband of Endore's wife's eldest sister). He remained defiant, however, claiming that he was a failure as a human being if he was not subversive to everything HUAC stood for.

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Casanova: His Known and Unknown Life, John Day (New York City), 1929.
The Man from Limbo, Farrar & Rinehart (New York, NY), 1930.
(Translator) Julien Viand, An Iceland Fisherman, P. A. Norstedt, 1931.
The Werewolf of Paris, Farrar & Rinehart, 1933, reprinted, Pocket Books (New York, NY), 1976.
The Sword of God: Joan of Arc, Garden City Publishing Co. (New York City), 1933.
Babouk, Vanguard (New York, NY), 1934.
The Crime at Scottsboro, Hollywood Scottsboro Committee, 1938.
The Sleepy Lagoon Mystery, Sleepy Lagoon Defense Committee, 1944, reprinted, R & E Research Associates, 1972.
Methinks the Lady, Duell (New York, NY), 1946, published as Nightmare, Dell (New York, NY), 1956.
King of Paris (Book-of-the-Month Club selection), Simon & Schuster (New York, NY), 1956.
Detour at Night, Simon & Schuster, 1958, published as Detour Through Devon, Gollancz (London), 1959.
Voltaire! Voltaire!, Simon & Schuster, 1961 (published in England as The Heart and the Mind, W. H. Allen, 1962).
Satan's Saint, Crown (New York, NY), 1965.
Call Me Shakespeare: A Play in Two Acts, Dramatists Play Service, 1966.
Synanon, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1968.
(Translator) Hanns H. Ewers, Alraune, edited by R. Reginald and Douglas Menville, Arno, 1976.