Basil Frederick Albert Copper was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor.
12 Facts About Basil Copper
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Basil Copper's interests included swimming, gardening, travel, sailing and historic film material.
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Basil Copper founded the Tunbridge Wells Vintage Film Society and often gave talks at various film organisations in London.
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Basil Copper was a member of the British Film Society and the Vintage Film Circle of London.
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Basil Copper was a longtime resident of Sevenoaks in Kent, and was survived by his French-born wife Annie to whom he had been married since 1960.
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Basil Copper had his very first short story, "The Curse", published when he was 14 years old; however his first professionally published short story was "The Spider" in the Fifth Pan Book of Horror Stories.
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Basil Copper went on to have a long-lived relationship with Derleth's Arkham House, which published his collections From Evil's Pillow and And Afterward, the Dark and his novels Necropolis and The House of the Wolf.
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Basil Copper is noted for his Cthulhu Mythos short story "Shaft Number 247" in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos.
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Basil Copper had not visited Los Angeles when he wrote the earliest Faraday novels.
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Basil Copper's work has been translated into many languages, reprinted in leading anthologies and filmed for television by Universal Pictures.
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Basil Copper edited a 1982 two-volume omnibus collection of Derleth's stories of the 'Pontine' canon, published by Arkham House; in that edition, Basil Copper "edited" most of the tales in ways that many Solar Pons aficionados found objectionable.
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In March 2010, Darkness, Mist and Shadow: The Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper was launched at the Brighton World Horror Convention as a two-volume set by PS Publishing.