Gordon Black

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Gordon Black - horror thriller from the ghost world was a horror booklet novel series from Marken-Verlag, which ran from 10/1982 to 09/1983.

Plot / characters

Gordon Black is an American lawyer with Scottish ancestry. He works with his partner Hanako Kamara, a half-Japanese woman. His office is on Secound Avenue, facing the UN building. Black's father already had experience with the supernatural. From the very beginning, Gordon Black had magical aids such as the witch dagger Athame and a silver statue of the goddess Aradia . He and his partner also use magic, such as B. Curses to fight the demons.

The series lacked coordination, the novels also differed in nuances in their description and portrayal (which can ultimately always happen with several authors). The authors were not responsible for this fact. More like the editing department, who is responsible for not letting these deviations become too extreme or for smoothing them out. So had z. B. Black's most important weapon, the demon whip, a hollow style for one author and a braided style for another. Hübner's Black was a 'ghost hunter', Rahn called him 'demon slayer'. Even the timing within the series is inconsistent.

Horst W. Huebner explained in the Zauberspiegel: “There were a lot of conversations with authors, they were WA Hary, Otto Birner or someone else, some of them were led past the editor, in this case it was me. This showed that many novels were very individual and little consideration was given to what other authors had written in the previous booklets. There was no continuity, neither in the leadership of the hero figure, nor in the course of the stories. (…) This also explains contradictions between the authors, e. B. that Gordon Black was a lawyer in Volume 1 and a detective in Volume 2. "

notebooks

# author title year
01 Norman Thackery ( Horst Huebner ) The mirror of horror 1982
02 Bryan Danger ( Wolfgang Rahn ) The demon's eyes 1982
03 Norman Thackery Witches' cemetery 1982
04 Bryan Danger The monster maker 1982
05 Norman Thackery A bride for Dracula 1982
06 Norman Thackery In the devil's cabinet 1982
07 Bryan Danger The shadows with the strangler's hands 1982
08 Norman Thackery A dead person comes at midnight 1982
09 Norman Thackery The magical tiger 1982
10 Norman Thackery The demon from hell 1982
11 Bryan Danger The crypt of the monsters 1983
12 Norman Thackery The Tower of the Skull Hunters 1983
13 Bryan Danger Chase the phantoms 1983
14th Norman Thackery The blood lock 1983
15th Bryan Danger Scream in the witch trap 1983
16 Norman Thackery The killer mummy 1983
17th Bryan Danger The midnight strangler 1983
18th Norman Thackery The girl from the witch ship 1983
19th Bryan Danger Party with the bone man 1983
20th Norman Thackery The Blood Count from the Dead Field 1983

swell

  • Jochen Bärtle: Grusel, Grüfte, Groschenhefte , BoD, Norderstedt 2008, ISBN 978-3-8370-4043-2
  • Heinz J. Galle: Folk books and book novels. Forays into popular entertainment literature for over 100 years . DvR, Lüneburg 2005–2006
  • Thomas König Geisterwald catalog. Bibliography of the German booklet novels . König, Berlin 2000-2001
  • Jörg Weigand: pseudonyms. A lexicon , Nomos, Baden-Baden 2000, ISBN 3-7890-6906-X