(1924-1999) US writer active since the early 1950s under a number of names in various genres. Although he began publishing genre fiction with "The Man Who Walked on Air" (September 1953 Weird Tales), and though some stories of mild interest appear in Tales of the Frightened (coll 1963; vt Boris Karloff Presents Tales of the Frightened 1973) as by Sidney Stuart, his sf is comparatively limited in amount and extremely borderline in nature, usually being restricted to such film or television link-ups as his novelization of Robert Bloch's script for the horror film of the same name, The Night Walker * (1965) as by Sidney Stuart; the first Man from U.N.C.L.E. novel, The Thousand Coffins Affair * (1965); his two Girl from U.N.C.L.E. Ties, The Birds of a Feather Affair * (1966) and The Blazing Affair * (1966); and the film novelization Beneath the Planet of the Apes * (1970), based of course on Beneath the Planet of the Apes (1970). Only the latter is wholehearted sf.

Avallone's best known pseudonym has probably been Ed Noon, as whom he wrote thrillers; he has also written as Nick Carter, Troy Conway, Priscilla Dalton, Mark Dane, Steve Michaels, Dorothea Nile, Edwina Noone and probably several other names. Of the Coxeman soft-porn thrillers as by Troy Conway, only a few are sf: The Big Broad Jump (1968), Had Any Lately? (1969), The Blow-your-Mind Job (1970), The Cunning Linguist (1970) and A Stiff Proposition (1971). The Craghold Legacy (1971), The Craghold Curse (1972), The Craghold Creatures (1972) and The Craghold Crypt (1973), all as by Edwina Noone, are marginal horror novels; as Noone he also edited Edwina Noone's Gothic Sampler (anth 1967). Further Avallone works containing some traces of genre interest include The Man from Avon (1967); The Vampire Cameo (1968) as by Dorothea Nile; Missing! (1969); One More Time * (1970), a film tie; The Beast with the Red Hands (1973) as by Sidney Stuart; Where Monsters Walk: Terror Tales for People Afraid of the Dark and the Unknown (coll 1978); Friday the 13th, Part 3, 3-D * (1982), a film tie. [JC/DRL]

Michael Angelo Avallone Jr

born New York: 27 October 1924

died Los Angeles, California: 26 February 1999

works (highly selected)

series

Coxeman

• The Big Broad Jump (New York: Paperback Library, 1968) [#8 in series: Coxeman: pb/]
• Had Any Lately? (New York: Paperback Library, 1969) [#12 in series: Coxeman: pb/]
• The Blow-your-Mind Job (New York: Paperback Library, 1970) [#19 in series: Coxeman: pb/photographic]
• The Cunning Linguist (New York: Paperback Library, 1970) [#20 in series: Coxeman: pb/]
• A Stiff Proposition (New York: Paperback Library, 1971) [#21 in series: Coxeman: pb/]

individual titles

• The Night Walker (New York: Award Books, 1965) as by Sidney Stuart [tie: to film of same title: pb/]
• The Thousand Coffins Affair (New York: Ace Books, 1965) [tie: Man from U.N.C.L.E.: pb/photographic]
• The Birds of a Feather Affair (New York: Signet, 1966) [tie: Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: pb/photographic]
• The Blazing Affair (New York: Signet, 1966) [tie: Girl from U.N.C.L.E.: pb/photographic]
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes (New York: Bantam, 1970) [tie: Beneath the Planet of the Apes: pb/]

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