The follow-up entries are less mesmerizing because the world is already so richly established. Undeterred by the novella format, Edwina Noone (aka Michael Avallone) manages to incorporate every Gothic item imaginable in a single narrative. Further Avallone works containing some traces of genre interest include The Man from Avon ( 1967) The Vampire Cameo ( 1968) as by Dorothea Nile Missing! ( 1969) One More Time ( 1970), a film tie The Beast with the Red Hands ( 1973) as by Sidney Stuart Where Monsters Walk: Terror Tales for People Afraid of the Dark and the Unknown (coll 1978) Friday the 13th, Part 3, 3-D ( 1982), a film tie.The Craghold quartet is highlighted primarily by its first volume, The Craghold Legacy, which delivers an unwavering deluge of bizarre. The Craghold Legacy ( 1971), The Craghold Curse ( 1972), The Craghold Creatures ( 1972) and The Craghold Crypt ( 1973), all as by Edwina Noone, are marginal horror novels as Noone he also edited Edwina Noone's Gothic Sampler (anth 1966).

Of the Coxeman soft-porn thrillers as by Troy Conway (a House Name), only a few are sf: Had Any Lately? ( 1969), The Big Broad Jump ( 1968), The Blow-your-Mind Job ( 1970), The Cunning Linguist ( 1970) and A Stiff Proposition ( 1971). Only the latter is wholehearted sf.Īvallone's best known pseudonym was probably Ed Noon, under which name he wrote thrillers he also wrote as by Nick Carter, Troy Conway, Priscilla Dalton, Mark Dane, Steve Michaels, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone, Vance Stanton, Sidney Stuart and probably several other names. Ties, The Birds of a Feather Affair ( 1966) and The Blazing Affair ( 1966) and the film novelization Beneath the Planet of the Apes ( 1970), based of course on Beneath the Planet of the Apes ( 1970).

novel, The Thousand Coffins Affair ( 1965) his two Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Although he began publishing genre fiction with 'The Man Who Walked on Air' (September 1953 Weird Tales), and though some stories of mild interest appear in Tales of the Frightened (coll 1963 vt Boris Karloff Presents Tales of the Frightened 1973) (see also Lyle Kenyon Engel), his sf is comparatively limited in amount and extremely borderline in nature, usually being restricted to such film or television Ties as his novelization of Robert Bloch's script for the horror film of the same name, The Night Walker ( 1965) as by Sidney Stuart the first Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1924-1999) US author active since the early 1950s under a number of names in various genres, most active in the 1960s.

The Craghold Crypt by Edwina Noone