Among the promotional gimmicks that studios would use to coincide with the opening of a film was to publish a movie tie-in novel. Likely inspired by the Photoplay novels that had been published since the 20's, some were the original stories, such as Bran Stoker's "Dracula", H. Rider Haggard's "She" and Gaston Leroux's "The Phantom of the Opera", but others were work-for-hire by any author willing to spend a week or two banging one out, most likely for cheap. They were published by both U.S. and U.K. imprints.
Some writers cranked more than one out: one example is Dean Owen, (Dudley Dean McGaughy, b. 1909, d. 1996) who penned "The Brides of Dracula", "End of the World" (aka "Panic in the Year Zero"), "Konga" and "Reptilicus". He also wrote a truckload of western novels and pulp fiction during his career.
Some of the images shown here are from my private collection and some have been harvested from the web.
NOTE: As a point of clarification, some of the books shown here, such as "Psycho" and "Burn, Witch, Burn" were original novels that were adapted into movies.
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