Frankenstein Lives Again!

by Donald F. Glut, Mark D. Maddox (Illustrator)

Overview

After learning that the legendary story of Frankenstein was based on fact, Medical genius Dr. Burt Winslow recovers and resurrects the legendary undead Frankenstein's monster only to unleash a torrent of terror on the unsuspecting world as the monster escapes. Making its way across the European countryside, the monster encounters the psychic circus-master Dartani who wishes to use the creature for his own evil revenge, and brainwashes the creature as a deadly pawn rampaging against innocent villagers. This is the first volume in the New Adventures of Frankenstein horror-adventure series by Donald F. Glut (Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back)

Product Details

BN ID:	2940012321961
Publisher:	Pulp 2.0 Press
Publication date:	03/31/2011
Series:	The New Adventures of Frankenstein , #1
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	3 MB

About the Author

DONALD F. GLUT has been professionally active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966.

Born in Pecos, Texas, Don grew up in Chicago, IL. At age nine, already bitten by the film-making “bug,” he made Diplodocus at Large, the first of 41 amateur movies featuring dinosaurs, human monsters (Frankenstein’s Monster, Teenage Werewolf, etc.) and superheroes (Spider-Man, Captain Marvel, etc.) Some of these films made during the late 1960s (e.g., Spy Smasher vs. the Purple Monster) were eventually shown in theatres and on TV.

Moving to Los Angeles to attend the University of Southern California, Don professionally entered show business as an “extra” (a POW) in the movie Von Ryan’s Express (1965), the first of several such “roles.” He began his professional writing career in 1966, writing articles for and finally editing the magazine Modern Monsters. In 1967, after graduating from the University of Southern California with a BA degree (for Cinema) in Letters, Arts and Sciences, Don worked as a musician, singer and songwriter in The Penny Arkade, a rock band produced by “Monkee” Michael Nesmith. Shortly after that he briefly furthered his acting career, having a speaking role in a national television commercial starring Dick Clark.

However, most of Don’s professional life has been as a freelance writer. To date he has authored numerous motion picture and television scripts (Shazam!, Land of the Lost, and animation, e.g., Spider-Man & His Amazing Friends, Transformers, G.I.Joe, Duck Tales, Jonny Quest, X-Men, others), comic-book scripts (Captain America, Tarzan, etc., including creating for Gold Key Dagar the Invincible, The Occult Files of Dr. Spektor and Tragg and the Sky Gods), more than 35 novels and nonfiction books, also numerous short stories, articles, songs, album-liner notes, etc. The Dinosaur Dictionary (1972) and Dinosaurs: The Encyclopedia (1997), two of Don’s many non-fiction books about dinosaurs, both were listed by the American Library Association among the best reference books of their years of publication. With The Dinosaur Dictionary Don created the much-imitated book format based upon an alphabetical listing of dinosaur names. Perhaps Don is best known for his novelization of the movie The Empire Strikes Back (1980), the nation’s No. 1 bestseller for almost two months, which to date

Editorial Reviews

"Pulp is best when it is exploitative, rough, plot and action heavy. In this regard Donald Gluts work sings. This is no Gothic horror, it is fantasy adventure and I found myself reading this edition with increasing speed. The pace of the action builds and builds throughout the story. Great fun, and captures that pulp B movie feeling as well with regular cliff hangers at the end of chapters."

Christopher M. Bell

"This book was a really fun read, never skimped on the action or the crazy... It’s obviously meant to be very two fisted and two gunned, much more pulp than Gothic horror, but since I had a really hard time making my way through Shelly’s original work back in the day, that’s more than fine with me."

Joshua Unruh

"The New Adventures of Frankenstein has been given a whole new lease on life from Pulp 2.0. Mark Maddox’s gorgeous cover artwork for the first book... recalls both the Universal Monster classics of the 1930s and 1940s and the Aurora model kits of the 1960s. Glut’s prose is fast-paced, thrill-a-minute fun..."

William P. Maynard