HURWOOD, Bernhardt J(ackson)

(1926-1987)

   US writer who wrote occult books for younger readers - like Strange Curses (coll 1975) and By Blood Alone (1979) - the Man from T.O.M. C.A.T. soft-porn quasithriller sequence as by Mallory T. Knight, comprising The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T. \#1: The Dozen Deadly Dragons of Joy (1967), \#2: The Million Missing Maidens (1978), \#3: The Terrible Ten(1967), \#4: The Dirty Rotten Depriving Boy (1967), \#5: Tsimmis in Tangier (1968), \#6: The Malignant Metaphysical Menace (1968), \#7: The Ominous Orgy (1969), \#10: The Peking Pornographer * (1969) and The Bra-Burner's Brigade (1971). The Invisibles sequence, comprising The Invisibles (1971) and The Mind Master (1973), were sf stories about a mad SCIENTIST who conducts experiments on human subjects. Kingdom of the Spiders * (1977) was a film tie (KINGDOM OF THE SPIDERS).

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