Minor creases, rear cover lightly rubbed. Mild edgewear with minute chipping to upper right corner. With an afterword - a self-styled 'Dissertation' - on the history and habits of the Vampire, whose worst problem of today is 'a loss of self-esteem, an identity crisis if you will.' Very reasonable: the twentieth century was hard on us all. The wayward Dracutwig evades a finishing school for young ladies and pursues her birthright as a Twiggy-esque fashion model in DRACUTWIG, an unabashedly trashy paperback original pseudonymously co-authored by the lyricist of 'Snoopy!!! The Musical.' Caught between an overprotective Dracula and a stake-wielding mother-in-law, Dracutwig's modeling career inspires a subculture craze of early mod-goth sophisticates: in cavernous but elegant clubs, women with 'chalk-white faces, heavily made-up dark eyes, long black hair, and diaphanous white shroudlike gowns' and men in 'a mad mod profusion of Edwardian, Victorian, and Carnaby Street fashions dance 'trancelike' to 'appropriate' baroque music.

The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T.Dracula's half-mortal, proto-goth daughter dazzles Swinging London in this vampire-exploitation pulp.

#8: The Peking Pornographer (New York: Award Books, 1969) as Mallory T Knight #7: The Ominous Orgy (New York: Award Books, 1969) as Mallory T Knight

#6: The Malignant Metaphysical Menace (New York: Award Books, 1968) as Mallory T Knight #5: Tsimmis in Tangier (New York: Award Books, 1968) as Mallory T Knight #4: The Dirty Rotten Depriving Ray (New York: Award Books, 1967) as Mallory T Knight #3: The Terrible Ten (New York: Award Books, 1967) as Mallory T Knight #2: The Million Missing Maidens (New York: Award Books, 1967) as Mallory T Knight #1: The Dozen Deadly Dragons of Joy (New York: Award Books, 1967) as Mallory T Knight Knight which is a pseudonym of Bernhardt J. Kingdom of the Spiders ( 1977) was a film tie (see Kingdom of the Spiders). #9: The Bra-Burner's Brigade ( 1971) and The Invisibles sequence, comprising The Invisibles ( 1971) and The Mind Master ( 1973), were sf stories about a Mad Scientist who conducts experiments on human subjects.

#1: The Dozen Deadly Dragons of Joy ( 1967) and ending with The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T. soft-porn quasithriller sequence as by Mallory T Knight, beginning with The Man from T.O.M.C.A.T.

He wrote and edited occult and horror titles for the Young Adult market, like Strange Curses (coll 1975) and By Blood Alone ( 1979) the Man from T.O.M.C.A.T. (1926-1987) US author of various sorts including detections and a very early manual on adjusting to the Computer age: Writing Becomes Electronic: Successful Authors Tell How They Write in the Age of the Computer ( 1986).

Dracutwig by Mallory T. Knight