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Okay, so Stephen King was Richard Bachman. And Dean Koontz was Owen West, Richard Paige, and a horde of others. I think we all know these ones. But how many people know that Joyce Carol Oates has published under the name, Rosamond Smith? I do have one, SNAKE EYES, but I've never gotten around to reading it. So who else knows of other horror novelists who have managed to slip a few novels under the radar? (OK, maybe JCO isn't technically a 'horror' novelist but she's pretty close.)
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2000 4:38 am Post subject: |
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Hey Layback, I knew that Oates wrote as Smith and I would consider her a horror novelist among other things. The Smith books are supposed to be pretty intense.
Other pseudonyms are
Kim Newman = Jack Yeovil
Joe R. Lansdale = Ray Slater, Jack Buchanan (but for only three M.I.A. books, fortet the titles), plus a few others I think.
Damn! I know there are more but I can't think right now.
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2000 4:39 am Post subject: |
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Ah!
Richard Laymon = Richard Kelly, Carla Laymon
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2000 12:40 pm Post subject: |
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Barbara Mertz = Barbara Michaels & Elizabeth Peters
Richard Laymon = Carl Laymon (YA pseudonym)
Chris Curry = Tamara Thorne
Ramsey Campbell = Jay Ramsey
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2000 3:38 pm Post subject: |
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Robert Bloch = Tarleton Fiske
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| Posted: Fri Sep 29, 2000 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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Forgot about Carl Laymon.
Dallas Mahyr = Jack Ketchum, Jerzy Livingston
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2000 2:33 am Post subject: |
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Ray Garton = Joseph Locke
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2000 2:49 am Post subject: |
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Forgot to add:
Doug Clegg = Andrew Harper
I'm reading Bad Karma right now (written under the psuedonym) and really enjoying it.
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| Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2000 3:28 am Post subject: |
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rachaela, looking forward to hearing what you have to say about BAD KARMA. I've got a copy but have yet to attempt sitting down with it.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2000 12:56 am Post subject: |
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Mr SA, I finished Bad Karma this weekend and have to admit it was MUCH better than I thought it would be. I had started reading it a couple of times but never got beyond the prologue. I wish I had gone ahead with it earlier. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed this book. I really didn't want to put it down.
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2000 1:46 am Post subject: |
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Wow! I must say that I'm surprised. I too had started it a few times but could never get past the first twenty pages. Now I might just have to go back and read it. I'm curious, what do you think of Clegg's other work? Did you by chance read YOU COME WHEN I CALL YOU?
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| Posted: Mon Oct 02, 2000 5:18 pm Post subject: |
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I like most of Clegg's other work. I think he's a master at the short story, and love most of the ones I've read by him. I did read YCWICY but didn't enjoy it as much as I wanted to. It just seemed to be lacking something. But I devoured Mischief when I got it and The Children's Hour. Neverland is great. I had the same trouble with Halloween Man as I did with Bad Karma--I had to start it quite a few times before I could push myself to go on, but I was glad that I did. What's your opinion on Clegg?
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| Posted: Tue Oct 03, 2000 1:15 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, I didn't like YCWICY. I just felt like Clegg was trying to much. Glad to hear MISCHIEF is good, that's one of my next reads. That or THE DECEASED. Well, then there's Tim Lebbon's MESMER and Kim Newman's SEVEN STARS. I've got a lot of books that are on my "Must Be Read Soon" list.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2000 5:45 pm Post subject: |
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Have any novels published under these pseudonyms been anywhere close to being as successful as those published under the author's real, or as least original, name? I'm not aware that any have. Why would this be? I mean, are popular novelists 'popular' because of what they write or who they are? You would assume that they became popular because people liked reading what they wrote but I wonder how much of their continuing popularity is based mostly on their reputation. Afterall, their talents don't change when they publish under another name. Oh well, I was just wondering what people think.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2000 8:45 pm Post subject: |
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Douglas Clegg writing under Andrew Harper's BAD KARMA was a bestseller. I don't know about the other ones.
"I wonder how much of their continuing popularity is based mostly on their reputation"
I think you hit the nail on the head here. It's very hard to break into the bestseller world and I think we all know that a lot of people really don't go looking for good stories as much as they go looking for the Bestseller Lists. Once the snowball starts rolling it's very hard to stop.
That's one reason why I hate Walden Books so much. Rarely do they have anything for sale that's not widely well known. Barnes and Nobel and Borders Books are bad too but nowhere near as bad as Walden.
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