Owen, Dean
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Pseudonym – and eventually perhaps the legal name – of US author Dudley Dean McGaughy (1909-1986), whose routine novelizations of horror and sf films are The Brides of Dracula (1960); Konga (1960), based on Konga (1961); Reptilicus (1961), based on Reptilicus (1962); and End of the World (1962), based on Panic in Year Zero! (1962), a film which was in turn based without acknowledgement on two short stories by Ward Moore. Monarch Books's habit of publishing soft-porn adaptations of chaste movies led to at least one court case (see Reptilicus). [JC/PN]
Dudley Dean McGaughy
born Covington, Tennessee: 2 April 1909
died 3 October 1986
works
- The Brides of Dracula (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1960) [tie to the film: The Brides of Dracula (1960): pb/Kelly Freas]
- Konga (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1960) [tie to the film: Konga (1961): pb/]
- Reptilicus (Derby, Connecticut: Monarch Books, 1961) [tie to the film: Reptilicus (1961): pb/]
- End of the World (New York: Ace Books, 1962) [tie to the film: Panic in Year Zero!: pb/]
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