ENDORE, S(amuel) Guy

(1901-1970)

   US writer and translator, some of whose realistic FANTASY novels can in a marginal sense be considered as sf (PSYCHOLOGY). The best known is The Werewolf of Paris (1933), set in the shambles of 1871 Paris, where a French soldier is succumbing to lycanthropy; this represents on a human scale the civic trauma of the body politic as the Commune falls. Methinks the Lady (1945), a courtroom drama, explains its central female Jekyll-and-Hyde character in Freudian terms. Though having relatively little influence on the sf field, SGE was a highly effective purveyor of sexual fantasies; he did not mince words. He collaborated on the scripts of the films The DEVIL-DOLL and Mad Love (a version of ORLACS HANDE).

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   Other works: The Man from Limbo (1930).

   See also: GOTHIC SF; SUPERNATURAL CREATURES.