Peter Saxon
Peter Saxon is a pen name used by various thriller authors from the 1950s to the 1970s.
History
[edit]The pseudonym "Peter Saxon" was originally used by Irish pulp fiction writer and journalist W. Howard Baker at Amalgamated Press, mostly for novels in the Sexton Blake series.[1][2] One of these Sexton Blake novels, Crime Is My Business, was made into the 1958 film, Murder at Site 3, by Hammer Film Productions.[3] In 1965, Baker moved to a different publisher, Mayflower Books, and continued writing Sexton Blake novels as "Peter Saxon", but Mayflower also began to use this pen-name as a house pseudonym for works by other authors.[2] The Disorientated Man was a Peter Saxon conspiracy thriller mainly written by Stephen Frances and edited by Baker; it was adapted as the 1970 film, Scream and Scream Again, starring Vincent Price, Christopher Lee, Alfred Marks, Michael Gothard, and Peter Cushing.[2] The occult detective fiction series The Guardians was another Peter Saxon title, with writers including Baker, Rex Dolphin, Wilfred McNeilly,[4] and Thomas Martin.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Carty, T.J. (2015). A Dictionary of Literary Pseudonyms in the English Language. Routledge. ISBN 978-1135955786.
- ^ a b c Kalat, David (2012). The Strange Case of Dr. Mabuse: A Study of the Twelve Films and Five Novels. McFarland. ISBN 978-1476601076.
- ^ "Murder at Site Three (1959)". bfi.org.uk. Archived from the original on January 27, 2018.
- ^ Hendrix, Grady (2017). Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction. Quirk Books. ISBN 978-1594749827.
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