Yet, Carrion is a surprisingly good read and Mac a great character. The cover blurbs and digest really do not do this novel justice, making it seem like a cheese fest for sure.
When the time comes, Mac gives it a go and to his surprise (and everyone else's) it actually works! The dead now alive wife, however, has changed, and it looks like not for the better. He gives him 10 big ones just to make the attempt to bring his lovely wife back to life, and Mac figures, what the hell? Easy money! To make sure he has the right props, he visits a local voodoo man, who proceeds (based upon the hint of magical abilities he sees in Mac) and gets the props, and some instructions.
The rich guy has her frozen in nitrogen, hoping perhaps for some cure in the future, but finally decides to give Mac a call. To expand his 'business', he takes out an ad in the local pulp newspaper (e.g., like the Enquirer), billing himself as a master of the occult.Īfter establishing Mac as a character, Brandner shifts to a multimillionaire with a wife 40 years younger than him, who dies of an embolism. He's a smartass, in his 30s, and is getting by ok, and has an 'up and coming' actress for a girlfriend. making money by reading Tarot cards and such. Our main protagonist, Mac, is basically a hustler, quick with 'magic' tricks and lives in a run down part of L.A. Brandner lived with his wife, Martine Wood Brandner, and several cats in Reno, Nevada.īrandner, probably most famous for writing The Howling, delves into some voodoo and other supernatural here in Carrion, and created a fun, quirky zombie novel. After graduating in 1955, he worked as an amateur boxer, bartender, surveyor, loan company investigator, advertising copywriter, and technical writer before turning to fiction writing. He attended college at the University of Washington where he was a member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 horror film Cameron's Closet.īorn in the Midwest and much traveled during his formative years, Brandner published more than 30 novels, over 100 short stories, and also wrote a handful of screenplays. The fourth film in the Howling series, Howling IV: The Original Nightmare, is actually the closest adaptation of Brandner's original novel, though this too varies to some degree.īrandner's novel Walkers was adapted and filmed for television as From The Dead Of Night. Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 19 respectively, have no connection to the film series, though he was involved in writing the screenplay for the second Howling film, Howling II: Your Sister Is a Werewolf. The first book in the series was loosely adapted as a motion picture in 1981. Gary Phil Brandner (– September 22, 2013) was an American horror author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of novels, The Howling.
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