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First Edition 2004 Tails of the Cowardly Lion and Friends Belen, New Mexico Publisher code: 27 Trade paperback Cover illustration by Marcus Mebes 150 pages Price: $12.00 Notes
Linwood Vrooman Carter was born June 9, 1930 in St. Petersburg, Florida. He had two wives, Judith Ellen Hershkowitz (1958 to 1959) and Noel Vreeland (1964-1975). Neither one gave him a child. He attended Columbia University, but didn't graduate. He was against all religion. He served with the U.S. Army in Korea from 1951 to 1953. Aside from that, he seems to have been a writer of one sort or another (advertising, editing, fiction) all his life. His first book The Wizard of Lemuria from Ace came out in 1965. His last book Mandricardo: New Adventures in Terra Maeica was published by Daw in 1987. Doubleday also published Horror Wears Blue by him that year. It is a Prince Zarkon adventure. Zarkon and his men live in the same universe as Doc Savage and his men – the two groups seem quite similar in composition and behavior. To tell the truth, Zarkon's henchmen come across as better characters than he does, and the story is one of Lin's weakest – his health was probably very poor by the time he wrote it.Between 1965 and 1987 he published over 50 books, most of them fantasy novels of one sort or another. He wrote the kind of things that he liked to read, and his literary heroes were Robert E. Howard (Conan), Edgar Rice Burroughs (Tarzan), Howard Phillips Lovecraft (Chthulu), and James Branch Cabell. In 1978 Hollywood almost made a Thongor movie, based on his popular writings. If Lin is remembered at all, it will be as a collaborator with L. Sprague De Camp on a series of new Conan novels and collec-tions for Lancer and Bantam between 1967 and 1982. But he did much more important work as the editor of Ballantine's Adult Fantasy Series, which reprinted forgotten fantasy classics from the 19th and early 20th century. Lin was chiefly responsible for Ballantine reprinting the best of Lord Dunsany, James Branch Cabell, William Morris, Evangeline Walton and several others. He also collected the best short fantasy he could find in numerous collections for Ballantine, and if he slipped a few of his own stories in here and there, who can blame him? Lin Carter died of cardiac arrest brought on by chronic emphysema in Montclair, New Jersey on February 7, 1988. |
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