Gary Brandner
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Gary Brandner (born 1933) is an American horror writer who is best known for his Howling trilogy of novels. The first book was adapted as a motion picture in 1981 (see The Howling). The film is considerably different from the novel, though it did spawn a total of six sequels up until 1995. Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 1978 and 1985 respectively, have no connection to the film series, though he was involved in writing the screenplay for the second Howling film.
The fourth film in the Howling series, "The Howling IV: The Original Nightmare" from 1988, is the closest adaptation of Brandner's original Howling novel, though even this differs in parts.
His novel "Walkers" was also adapted and filmed for television as "From The Dead Of Night". He also wrote the screenplay for the 1989 horror film "Cameron's Closet".
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[edit] Selected bibliography
- Walkers
- Hellborn
- The Brain Eaters
- Mind Grabber
- Living Off the Land
- The Boiling Pool
- Cameron's Closet (AKA Cameron's Terror)
- Cat People: A Novelization of the Film based on the story by DeWitt Bodeen
- Experiment
- Floater
- The Sterling Standard
- Offshore
- ROT
- Vitamin E: Key to Sexual Satisfaction
- Death Walkers
- Billy Lives
- Dressed Up for Murder
- Quintana Roo (AKA Tribe of the Dead)
- The Wet Good-Bye
- The Players
- A Rage in Paradise
- Carrion
- Saturday Night In Milwaukee
- Off the beaten track in London (A Nash travel guide)
- Doomstalker
[edit] The Howling series
[edit] The Big Brain series
- The Aardvark Affair
- The Beelzebub Business
- Energy Zero
[edit] See also
Gary Brandner, born in the Midwest and much traveled during his formative years, has 30-odd published novels, more than 100 short stories, and a handful of screenplays on his resume. After surviving the University of Washington, he followed such diverse career paths as amateur boxer, bartender, surveyor, loan company investigator, advertising copywriter, and technical writer before turning to fiction. Since his breakthrough novel, The Howling, he has settled into a relatively respectable life with wife and cats in California’s San Fernando Valley.
