SAXON, Peter

   Initially the personal pseudonym of UK writer W. Howard BAKER, under which he wrote many titles for Amalgamated Press, mainly stories in the Sexton Blake series before its cancellation in 1963. He then took the nameto Mayflower Books, where the series continued, written by him and others under what was now a house name. The claims of Scottish writer Wilfred MCNEILLY to have written most of the PS titles are unjustified (seeentries on BAKER and MCNEILLY for their PS work). Other writers who used the name included Rex Dolpin, Stephen FRANCES, Ross Richards and Martin THOMAS. Titles of sf interest not by Baker or McNeilly include Slave Brain(1967), Black Honey (1968) and Corruption (1968), whose authors have not been identified, and some titles in the Guardians psychic-investigators sequence: Through the Dark Curtain (1968 US) by Richards, The Curse of Rathlaw (1968) by Martin and The Vampires of Finistere (1970) by Dolpin.The most memorable PS title (written by Baker with Frances) may be The Disoriented Man (1966; vt Scream and Scream Again 1967 US), filmed as SCREAM AND SCREAM AGAIN (1969), the latter being something of a cult classic.

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