| Show Author of Horror Tales i Unearths Monster By RUPERT HOLLYWOOD Victim HOLLYWOOD Victim of ot his hla own movies Edward T. T Lowe one of ot the screens screen's top writers of ot chiller drama is going around with his hla fingernails chewed to the quick Its It's a cinch hell he'll get little sympathy sympathy sym sym- pathy from fans who have suffered suffered suf sut nervous upset and insomnia from viewing vie the gruesome products products products prod prod- of ot his unholy Imagination but his distress is 18 for a different reason eason A victim of his own diabolical cunning Lowe wrote himself into a spot from which it has taken six Ix months of ot hard work to extricate ex ex- himself Lowe is a past master in the business of ot scaring the daylights out ut of people He has been at the business s for 25 years or more oneat one of at f his earlier earlier and and barbarically successful screen efforts being belm The Hunchback of ot Notre Dame which lifted the spinal hackles of flicker fans back in 1920 Getting ot off to such sucu a notorious beginnIng Lowe has continued his ghoulish business ever since With Villi each jach each his macabre m glee has increased until eventually It all aU caught up with him in House of f Dracula now filming at Uni Uni- versal Lowe was trapped by his has own heartlessness and a false the Mon lon the tools of his own most revolting characters I He assumed that the studio I would continue its policy of at passing pass pass- ing ng horror stories from one writer to o another and when he wrote House e of Frankenstein a successful successful suc suc- spine apine he figured on its ts being the last of that series he would have to write With a mental smirk Lowe killed all of his characters so sa dead In The House of ot Frankenstein that nobody least nobody least least of ot all aU himself thought they could be ber revived Then came retribution Lowe was assigned to write a 11 sequel sequel The The House of Dracula Right up my alley said Lowe Cowe when the front office told him about his next Job Then it dawned on him He began began be be- gan to gnaw his hia fingernails He lIo Heran Horan ran his fingers through his his' hair He lay awake nights How to get Frankenstein's mon monster ster out of a a. cave in which Lowe had imprisoned him beneath tons and tons of ot earth and rocks While thousands of ot goers movie rested in the calm assurance the fiend was banished irrevocably from tram this earth Lowe figured and schemed Eventually his devious imagination contrived with coincidence coin coln- cadence and a natural phenomenon non to unearth the monster |
