Biography

Gary Brandner was born on May 31, 1930 in Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan, USA. He was a writer and actor, known for The Howling (1981), Howling II: ... Your Sister Is a Werewolf (1985) and The Howling. He was married to Barbara Nutting, Martine Wood Brandner and Paula Moon. He died on September 22, 2013 in Reno, Nevada, USA.

While employed as a technical writer in the aerospace industry, he sold his first story to Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine in 1969. With the success of his 1980 book "The Howling," he switched from mysteries to horror and became a full-time writer.

He was a 1955 journalism graduate of the University of Washington in Seattle.

On writers he would like to see back in print: Frank Gruber, Richard Sale. Darn near anybody who wrote for the old pulps. I have great admiration for these guys who churned out some pretty good stuff for a penny a word, or less.

On his current project: My current in-work novel is a hardboiled detective yarn set in 1940. It is a labor of love, since I know damn well it will never be published...there are maybe 12 million hardboiled dick stories out there looking for a publisher, and the only thing different about mine is that I wrote it.

On his body of work: The first one that really counted was The Howling. My agent read my outline and told me it would never sell. A month later Fawcett bought it. It was made into a pretty good horror flick, spawned a couple of sequels, gave me a recognizable credit, and provides a virtual annuity. No wonder I love wolves.