Basil Copper

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Basil Copper

April 12, 2013, 11:22 pm

http://www.thisiskent.co.uk/Master-horror-Basil-Copper-dies/story-18675693-detail/story.html#axzz2QFoLUIty

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Re: Basil Copper

April 13, 2013, 1:18 am

His story, "Camera Obscura," is a creepy classic and was done faithfully on Night Gallery.

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Re: Basil Copper

April 13, 2013, 6:41 pm

Monsterpal wrote:His story, "Camera Obscura," is a creepy classic and was done faithfully on Night Gallery.Very well directed by the young John Badham and well acted by Rene Auberjonois and Ross...

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Re: Basil Copper

April 13, 2013, 8:34 pm

My favorite, of course, was Amber Print, which deals with The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari.

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Re: Basil Copper

April 13, 2013, 9:23 pm

Right with ya on that one, MyDarkSide. That's a great story, particularly if you're a film fan. Apparently Copper possessed an impressive film library - celluloid, not tapes or discs.

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Re: Basil Copper

April 13, 2013, 11:41 pm

I first met Copper through his two entertaining novelizations of Lee Falk's classic PHANTOM strips, for Avon in the early '70s.

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Re: Basil Copper

April 14, 2013, 1:56 am

I am familiar with him from the Night Gallery episode, and his book The Vampire: In Legend, Fact and Art. I still have the copy I bought in the 1970s. Although I seem to remember the title was...

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Re: Basil Copper

April 14, 2013, 8:06 am

A short obituary from Locus: http://www.locusmag.com/News/2013/04/basil-copper-1924-2013/

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