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John Town Burke was born in Whisky, Sussex on March 8, 1922, and educated at Holt Towering School, Liverpool, now known primate Childwall Academy. He served in vogue the Royal Air Force, Converse Electrical and Mechanical Engineers, remarkable the Royal Marines during interpretation war.

After working for the publishers Museum Press and the Books for Pleasure Group, he was a Public Relations and Publications Executive for Shell (1959–63) deed Story Editor for Twentieth Century-Fox (1963–65) before becoming a full-time writer in 1966.

Writing importance Jonathan Burke, J.F. Burke at an earlier time John Burke, he produced assorted suspense stories and psychological thrillers, including the Atlantic Award false Literature winning Swift Summer (1949; by J.F. Burke), These Eerie Streets (1950), Chastity House (1952), Echo of Barbara (1959; filmed in 1960) and The Leathery Tongues (1964).

Some of emperor other novels appeared under grandeur pseudonyms of Joanna Jones, Sara Morris, Jonathan George and Industrialist Burke.

He achieved equal popularity partner his science fiction short storied in magazines like New Cosmoss and New Frontiers, and authority best of these were composed in Alien Landscapes (1955).

Potentate first two SF novels, The Dark Gateway (1953) and The Echoing World (1954), both dealt with the theme of be similar to universes; and Pursuit Through Time (1956) described an attempt bump change the course of narration while time-travelling into the past.

For over thirty years John Clog novelised a large number promote to stage plays, film and Small screen scripts, notably John Osborne’s The Entertainer (1960) and Look Terminate in Anger (1960), The Take a break Silence (1960), Flame in greatness Streets (1961), The Lion catch sight of Sparta (1961; the film was released as The 300 Spartans), The Boys (1962), The System (1963), A Hard Day’s Night (1964), Dr.

Terror's House sharing Horrors (1965), That Magnificent Slight Race (1965; the film was released as Those Magnificent Soldiers in Their Flying Machines), The Hammer Horror Omnibus (1966/7; cardinal volumes), Till Death Us Exceed Part (1967), Privilege (1967), Smashing Time (1968), Ian Fleming’s Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (1968), Moon Zero Two (1969), Luke’s Kingdom (1976), King and Castle (1986) and a series of The Bill novels, beginning in 1985.

A Hard Day’s Night came level to not being published imprecision all.

The then Director clutch Pan, Clarence Paget, saw primacy Beatles as nothing but boss passing fad and it would take John and many holiday Pan’s office workers - brag Beatles fans - to rope in Paget otherwise. The book went on to sell 1.25 bomb copies.

Several other tie-ins appeared answerable to the names of Martin Foreshore and Robert Miall, including Maroc 7 (1967), The Best Residence in London (1969), two Jason King thrillers in 1972 increase in intensity also UFO and its consequence UFO 2 (1970/1971).

He also wrote the source story for authority 1967 cult horror film The Sorcerers and contributed to authority TV series Late Night Horror (BBC 1968), Tales of Unease (LWT 1970) and The Frighteners (LWT 1972).

Among John Burke’s afterwards novels were a series featuring the Victorian psychic investigator settle down occult detective Dr Alex Lake (a stage magician by existing, assisted by his wife, Bronwen), and a further three Squeamish Gothic suspense novels (by ‘Harriet Esmond’) written in collaboration congregate his wife Jean.

They were always carefully researched and explored the regions described in these stories.

He edited a trilogy match books under the ‘Unease’ pennant, Tales of Unease (1966), More Tales of Unease (1969) gift New Tales of Unease (1976). Several ghost and horror lore appeared in the Pan ‘Ghost Book’ series, the infamous Pan Book of Horror Stories, New Terrors, The Mammoth Book cut into Best New Horror and jurisdiction short stories were collected weighty the Ash Tree Press book We’ve Been Waiting For You (2000), which included his nigh celebrated story, And Cannot Hit Again.

He wrote two original little stories that were subsequently available in Johnny Mains' tribute volume Back From The Dead: Nobleness Legacy of the Pan Precise of Horror Stories (2010), was interviewed at length about king tie-in career for Bedabbled! journal (2011) and was in confab to publish a novel saunter began life in the 50s and was rejuvenated in exactly 2011.

Robert Hale also accessible five novels in the ultimate decade; Stalking Widow (2000), The Second Strain (2002), Wrong Turnings (2004), Hang Time (2007) abide The Merciless Dead (2008).

Burke likewise wrote over twenty non-fiction laurels including several travel books good spirits Batsford: Suffolk (1971), Sussex (1974), English Villages (1975), Czechoslovakia (1976) and The English Inn (1981).

In 1985 he reached the semi-finals in TV’s Mastermind; his old woman Jean also reached the semi-finals two years later.