Richard Wunderer

Richard Wunderer (* 1947 near Vienna ; † 2009 near Cologne ) was an Austrian writer who used the pseudonyms Larry Harper , Andrew Hathaway and Bob Collins , among others .

life and work

The son of the youth and non-fiction author Richard Wunderer (1926-2015) grew up in Vienna, the Matura took off and studied Jus to make without a degree. From 1972 he lived in Cologne and was briefly an editor at Bastei-Verlag .

From the early 1970s he wrote several hundred booklets of novels in the genres of romance, crime, homeland and doctor novels, princely and aristocratic novels, horror and fantasy, including contributions to series such as silver crime , Jerry Cotton , Checkpart , John Sinclair , Zeitkugel , Geister Crime thriller and ghost crime thriller .

The London private detective Rick Masters , who was invented by him, had his own sub-series at Kelter Verlag from 1974 to 1984 within the ghost crime thrillers and other booklet series of the publisher (a total of 89 booklets and paperbacks, reprints from 1995).

1974–1976 ran the Monstrula series . Of the 46 issues, Wunderer wrote 45, one of them with a co-author.

His novels have also appeared under the publishing pseudonyms Frederic Collins , Frank DeLorca , Brian Elliot and MR Richards . He also translated paperbacks from the American (including Kojak novels) and wrote paperbacks for TV series (including Das Traumschiff ).

He lived as a freelance writer and editor near Cologne.

Works (selection)

• Cursed to kill , 1974
• Inferno on the deadline , 1975
• The Claw Killer of New York , 1975

Monstrula

1. The curse of the spirit
2. Grotto of horror
3. The lock of the thousand eyes
4. The magician's death ball
5. Prisoners of the Hell Serpent
6. Killer dolls of the spirit world
7. Blood Cellar of Terror
8. Satan directs
9. The plague doesn't need a passport
10. The doll killer in a blood frenzy
11. The eerie panopticon
12. House of Hell's Torments
13. Two steps to the abyss
14. Execution time until midnight
15. The killer cat
16. The witcher with the red eyes
17. In the frenzy of madness
18. Pharaoh's blood
19. Lady Asher's Feast of the Dead
20. Idol of Eternal Terror
21. Death butterfly
22. A country house for Satan
23. In the clinch of death
24. White death in the black continent
25. The ghost trap
26. The demon man
27. The murderous inferno
28. Jack Callum - Prisoner of Terror
29. The blood goddess
30. Terror of the Demons
31. Murder under hypnosis
32. The war of the spirits
33. DC 82 - Flight into horror
34. The creepy page
35. Gloria Heller got it
36. Dance on the edge
37. Devilish threat
38. Who goes mad
39. The demon mask
40. Caricature of horror
41. The blood lock
42. Ten steps to death
43. The ghost ship
44. The person from the retort
45. Invisible fetters
46. The tomb of the pale bones

Web links

• Literature by and about Richard Wunderer in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christian Daber: Geister-Schocker radio play No. 16: A dead man returns. In: Gruselromane.de. Retrieved September 27, 2013 .