Terror of Frankenstein
by Donald Glut
New Adventures of Frankenstein 2
Following the first installment, scientist Burt Winslow and his fiancee Lynn Powell go to England, where Burt works on a cybernetically controlled robot to hunt down the Monster. The Monster is rescued by agents of OGRE, a terrorist organization of men in faceless masks who perform public massacres in their war against beauty.
This here's the stuff. It's very movie serial and comic book inspired, doesn't take itself too seriously, but doesn't try to get cute. Right in the sweet spot.
Brother Blood
by Donald Glut
2010 Pulp 2.0 (originally 1969)
Brother Blood is an old-school vampire story set in swinging Sunset Strip of 1969. The style and some of the plot mirrors the original Dracula. The text is written in semi-epistolary style in the form of three separate first-person accounts: a real estate agent who refuses to sell a mansion to a black vampire, a journalist with a strangely behaving new girlfriend, and a stoned hippie who comes home to find his girlfriend dead.
The three men who have lost their women to Blacula work with a psychiatrist Van Helsing type to uncover a connection to a series of murders of white shopkeepers by the mysterious Night Marauders. The whole thing culminates in a showdown in a burning decrepit mansion at sundown.
Despite the setting Brother Blood is pretty old-fashioned, only with more dope smoking and sex. The vampires barely make an appearance and the horror elements are very restrained. More charm than scares.
This was originally written in 1969 for publication in Germany - if it was published, I wasn't able to find a reference to it online - before being re-released in 2010. I have to wonder if it was revised as there were constant references to the time period within the text. Weirdly, it never comes out and says it's 1969. It's the late sixties, or two years after 1967. People don't talk like that, or at least they don't as I'm writing this in the mid teens of the early 21st century. There's also a passing reference to Crips and Bloods, terms that don't seem to have been used until the early seventies.
I wonder if this affected the treatment of race relations as well, as the text seems to constantly apologize for its own premise while actually making it worse. One gets into a dicey area having white protagonists face off against a cracker-hating black vampire, and Glut is aware of this. Probably too aware, and constant statements like "I'm not prejudiced, but..." don't make things better. There's also the whole buck fear-mongering of black men hypnotizing our white women into having sex with them, but no apologies there.
Donald Glut is a old school monster kid and horror geek, so there are a lot of pop culture references abounding, from Universal to Hammer films.
The hippie writes for a porn publisher that reprints classic pulps, likely a reference to Corinth Publications, an outfit Glut never worked for as far as I could tell.
The Night Marauder was a reference to a radio episode of the Shadow.
Frankenstein Lives Again
The New Adventures of Frankenstein 1
by Donald Glut
Mews 1977
Dr. Burt Winslow believes that Mary Shelley's Frankenstein was a factual account, buys the original castle Frankenstein, and heads to the arctic to recover the creature's remains. The monster is frozen in a block of ice and worshipped by Eskimos like Captain America. A chase and shootout later and Dr. Winslow is back to the castle.
The mayor and villagers are protesting, fearing that the doctor seeks to reanimate the creature and start the nightmare all over again. The angry mob is the voice of reason here.
Meanwhile, Professor Dartani brings his Asylum of Horrors to town, a kind of traveling wax museum. The mayor insults Dartani, who vows revenge.
