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Harry Adam Knight is the acronymic pseudonym of Australian-born author John Brosnan (1947-2005) and British writer Leroy Kettle (b.1949). Their first collaboration, Slimer (1983), was basically a reworking of John W. Campbell, Jr.’s “Who Goes There?” (1938) set on a North Sea oil rig. It was followed by The Fungus (1985) and Bedlam (1992). Carnosaur (1984) was written by Brosnan alone. Brosnan and Kettle also collaborated under another acronymic pseudonym, Simon Ian Childer, on Tendrils (1986), about an invasion of London by acid-spewing alien jellyfish. The second SIC book, again written by Brosnan alone, was Worm (1987). Credited to James Blackstone, Torched (1986) dealt with scientifically-induced spontaneous combustion and was a collaboration between Brosnan and fellow Australian writer John Baxter (b.1938). Originally scripted by Brosnan but credited to director Adam Simon, Carnosaur was filmed by Roger Corman’s Concord Pictures in 1993 to cash-in on Steven Spielberg’s vastly more expensive adaptation of Michael Crichton’s Jurassic Park. Two unrelated sequels followed. Bedlam was filmed as Beyond Bedlam (aka Nightscare, 1994), and Brosnan also scripted Proteus (1995), based on Slimer. The author’s screenplay for Proteus 2: The Pursuit remains unfilmed. John Brosnan moved to Britain in 1970 and became a freelance writer two years later. He wrote a number of science fiction, techno-thriller and comedy fantasy novels, along with various TV novelizations and the non-fiction studies James Bond in the Cinema (1972; revised 1981), Movie Magic: The Story of Special Effects in the Cinema (1974), The Horror People (1976), Future Tense: The Cinema of Science Fiction (1978), The Primal Screen: A History of Science Fiction Film (1991) and Scream: The Unofficial Companion to the Scream Trilogy (2000). Another reference book written in 2001, In the Cinema with Hannibal Lecter, remains unpublished because of legal problems over copyright.