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Gary Phil Brandner (May 31, 1930 – September 22, 2013) was an American horror fiction author best known for his werewolf themed trilogy of , The Howling. The first book of the series was adapted loosely as a motion picture in 1981. Brandner's second and third Howling novels, published in 1979 and 1985 respectively, have no association with the film series, though he was involved with writing the screenplay for the second Howling film, . The fourth film of the Howling series, , is actually the closest adaptation of Brandner's original novel, though this too varies to some degree.
Brandner's novel Walkers was adapted and filmed for television as From The Dead Of Night. He also wrote the screenplay for the 1988 horror film Cameron's Closet.
He died of esophageal cancer in 2013.
| a.k.a. The Big Brain |
| made into the 1981 film The Howling |
| a.k.a. Return of the Howling |
| a.k.a. The Howling III |
| made into the television film From the Dead of Night |
| based on the story by DeWitt Bodeen & screenplay by Alan Ormsby |
| a.k.a. Tribe of the Dead |
| a.k.a. Cameron's Terror; made into the film Cameron's Closet |
| optioned by Empire Pictures with director Tobe Hooper attached |
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