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John Burke (b. 1922) was born in Rye, Sussex, and now lives with his wife in Kirkcudbright, Scotland. Brought up in Liverpool, where his father was a Chief Inspector of Police, he became an early member of the Liverpool branch of the Science Fiction Association and founded the early fanzine, The Satellite, which for a brief period became the official journal of the SFA. Following World War II, he worked in publishing as Production Manager for Museum Press and Editorial Manager of Paul Hamlyn Books for Pleasure Group, while in the 1960s he was European Story Editor for Twentieth Century Fox Productions. Burke’s first novel, Swift Summer (1949), won an Atlantic Award in Literature from the Rockefeller Foundation. He has since published numerous books in all genres under a bewildering array of pseudonyms. He edited three volumes of Tales of Unease for Pan paperbacks and was story editor on the television series of that name and on The Frighteners. Author of the “Dr. Caspian” trilogy and “The Laird and the Law” series, his numerous film and TV novelizations include such titles as Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors, The Hammer Horror Omnibus, The Second Hammer Horror Omnibus, Moon Zero Two and the Beatles tie-in A Hard Day’s Night. A chapter on his original screenplay for the Michael Reeves’ film The Sorcerers appears in Benjamin Halligan’s study of the British filmmaker, published by Manchester University Press in 2003.