Hubert Strassl

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Hubert Franz Straßl (born February 4, 1941 in Linz ) is an Austrian writer . Since the early 1960s, he has been publishing short stories, magazine novels, novels and fan magazines under six pseudonyms, primarily Hugh Walker and Ray Cardwell .

Life

He published his first fan magazine while studying to become a teacher. He later became editor of the SF magazine “Pioneer” and belonged to the Vienna SF circle around Ernst Vlcek , Gerd Maximovic , Helmuth W. Mommers and Viktor Farkas . Hubert Straßl writes science fiction , fantasy , horror , especially vampire novels and short crime novels . He also works as a translator. In 1985, Straßl received the German Fantasy Prize from the First German Fantasy Club, which he co-founded

Hubert Straßl was married to translator Lore Straßl , lives in Bavaria and is an avowed Bob Dylan fan.

Notebook novels

At the beginning of the 1970s he began to publish magazine novels in the fields of SF and horror, especially in the magazine series Vampir-Horror-Roman and Demonenkiller at Pabel. From 1973 to 1975 he worked on Dragon (booklet) with.

From 1980 Pabel started the second attempt with Mythor to establish a fantasy magazine series in Germany, Hubert Straßl wrote seventeen novels for it by 1984.

He also took over the summary and revision of Dragon in 19 bound books and the first cycle of 50 Mythor novels of the first cycle in 17 bound books for Weltbild-Verlag.

The five-volume “Schattenland” cycle, which will be published in paperback by FanPro Verlag in 2009/2010, also contains Hugh Walker novels from Mythor's world.

Terra Fantasy

At the beginning of the 1970s he took over the supervision of the Terra Fantasy paperback series at Pabel, in which classic fantasy books were published for the first time in Germany. Within this series he brought out three Magira novels under the name Hugh Walker, which he revised several times for other editions in later years. Another fantasy series, "The World of Towers", he published under the pseudonym Ray Cardwell together with Hans Feller .

Others

Hubert Straßl is also active in the fan scene. In 1966 he and others founded FOLLOW, the “Fellowship of the Lords of the Lands of Wonder” (roughly “Allegiance of the rulers of the wonderful lands”). This started with an enthusiastic group of mainly Viennese fans who discussed fantasy, over the years this has grown into an association of several hundred fantasy fans who are still active today. Together with Edi Lukschandl, he developed the fantasy world Magira and the first version of the strategy game Armageddon in the late 1960s . The story of Magira is simulated within the framework of FOLLOW in the "Eternal Game", which is played according to the Armageddon rules, which are constantly updated.

bibliography

Unless otherwise noted, all titles are published under the pseudonym Hugh Walker.

Vampire horror novel (1972-1978)
  • 1 vampires among us
  • 14 The house of the evil dolls
  • 16 Mistress of the Wolves
  • 20 The Blood Countess
  • 22 Me, the vampire
  • 24 Buried alive
  • 40 The witch's daughter
  • 45 The Blut GmbH
  • 46 Dracula is alive!
  • 81 Dracula's revenge
  • 100 The yellow villa of the suicides
  • 123 The blood patrol
  • 184 witches in the body
  • 190 The Robot Murderers
  • 261 In the forest of the damned
  • 262 creatures of darkness

Pocketbooks:

  • 12 masks of death
  • 17 Blood Festival of Demons
Dragon - Sons of Atlantis (1973-1975)
  • 10 city ​​of lost souls
  • 19 The serpent god
  • 20 The power of the gods
  • 21 The Brotherhood of the Great Sea
  • 33 Ubali, the panther
  • 34 In the realm of the beastmen
  • 41 damned of the jungle
  • 42 The fire killer
  • 43 Ubali, the paladin
  • 49 Shadows over Myra
  • 50 masters of demons
  • 55 Return to Atlantis
Magira series (since 1975)

1st series in Terra Fantasy Paperback , 1975–1979:

  • 1 rider of darkness. TF # 8.
  • 2 The army of darkness. TF # 14.
  • 3 messengers of darkness. TF # 20.
  • 4 prisoners of darkness. TF # 27.
  • 5 city ​​of gods. TF # 33.
  • 6 demons of darkness. TF # 46.
  • 7 servants of darkness. TF # 56.
  • 8 The eye and the sword. TF # 62.

2nd row in Terra Fantasy (new episode), 1985–1986:

  • 1 The player's world. TF NF # 5.
  • 2 The Eternal Battle. TF NF # 7.
  • 3 On the shores of darkness. TF NF # 10.

in the Bastei-Lübbe-Taschenbuch:

Also:

Mythor (1980 to 1984)
  • 1 the son of the comet
  • 14 The magic tower
  • 69 The barbarians
  • 78 Departure of the Barbarians
  • 81 Lord of the Storms
  • 90 Triumph of the Great Horde
  • 91 The end of a demon
  • 105 In the shadow of the snake
  • 106 The cradle of evil
  • 111 Tauren's grave
  • 118 The Elven Bridge
  • 125 The weather maker
  • 130 The warrior's eye
  • 137 General of Darkness
  • 141 Curse of Hestande
  • 147 Spirit of the Aegyr

Also:

  • with Hanns Kneifel : On the morning of a new time. Shadowland 1st FanPro, 2009.
  • Magic in Tainnia: a novel from Mythor's world. Emmerich Books & Media, Konstanz 2015, ISBN 978-1-5173-4914-1 .
The World of Towers (with Hans Feller as Ray Cardwell)
  • When the witchers died. Terra Fantasy # 87, 1981.
  • Mistress of the world. Terra Fantasy # 94, 1982.
More novels
Collections
as editor
  • Swords, schemes and shamans. Terra Fantasy # 32, 1977.
  • The Enchanted Crusade. Terra Fantasy # 91, 1981.

literature

Interviews

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.hughwalker.de/htm/11_de.html
  2. ↑ http://www.hughwalker.de/htm/6_de.html
personal data
SURNAME Straßl, Hubert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Walker, Hugh (pen name); Curry, Madman (pseudonym); Cardwell, Ray (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 4, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Linz , Austria