GLUT, DONALD F(rank)

(1944-)

   US writer whose first publications of interest were nonfiction studies like The Frankenstein Legend (1973) and The Dracula Book (1975), and who also wrote filmscripts. His first novel, Bugged (1974), is fantasy; his second, Spawn (1976 Canada), is an sf tale featuring intelligent dinosaurs. What seems to have been an extensive interest in the subject led to the New Adventures of Frankenstein sequence - Frankenstein Lives Again (1977; exp 1981), Terror of Frankenstein (1977),Bones of Frankenstein (1977 UK) and Frankenstein Meets Dracula (1978 UK) - as well as to a further nonfiction title, The Frankenstein Catalog (1984), a useful bibliographical companion to the subject. DFG has also written a tie, The Empire Strikes Back * (1980), novelizing The EMPIRE STRIKES BACK ; this text was also published as The Empire Strikes Back: The IllustratedEdition * (1980) and assembled in The Star Wars Trilogy * (omni 1987) along with the two other relevant novelizations, by Alan Dean FOSTER (writing as George LUCAS) and James KAHN.

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