Wiltshire, David
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
(1935- ) UK author of several novels for Robert Hale Limited including three Genre SF tales under his own name, beginning with The Homosaur (1978), and one as by John Bedford, The Titron Madness (1984). A BBC Television serial adaptation of his Horror in SF tale Child of Vodyanoi (1978; vt The Nightmare Man 1981) – featuring multiple killings on a Scottish Island by an apparent Alien from a UFO, actually its deranged Russian quasi-Cyborg pilot – was broadcast as The Nightmare Man (4 episodes 1981), starring James Warwick and Celia Imrie and borrowing both its writer Robert Holmes and director Douglas Camfield from Doctor Who. The title The Nightmare Man used by the BBC had also appeared on Wiltshire's original book manuscript. From circa 2006 the author resumed his non-sf novels for Hale, mostly World War Two adventure romances. [DR/JC/DRL]
David Wiltshire
born 1935
works (selected)
- The Homosaur (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1978) [hb/]
- Child of Vodyanoi (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1978) [hb/]
- The Nightmare Man (London: Hamlyn, 1981) [vt of the above to accompany BBC Television adaptation: copyright page gives only the original 1978 publication date: pb/]
- Genesis II (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1981) [hb/]
- The Titron Madness (London: Robert Hale Limited, 1984) as by John Bedford [hb/]
links
- Programme Preservation Society archive: The Nightmare Man
- Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- Picture Gallery
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