First he wrote a number of books as Robin Cook:
1962--The Crust on Its Uppers
1963--Bombe Surprise
1966--The Legacy of the Stiff Upper Lip
1969--Private Parts in Public Places (US title, in
UK--1967--Public
Parts and Private Places)
1970--A State of Denmark
1971--Tenants of Dirt Street
Somewhere (Hidden Files, I think) I saw a passing reference
to a book
called The Inmates, but have seen no other mention. Anybody
know
anything about it?
Of the above, only The Crust on Its Uppers and A State of
Denmark are in
print (under the name Derek Raymond), both from Mask
Noir/Serpent's
Tail. Some of these books can be found in Bibliofind,
sometimes filed
under Cook (if searching under this name be sure to put a
title in or
you will be overwhelmed by books by that other Robin Cook),
sometimes
Raymond. They are usually pretty expensive.
When he started writing again after a long lay-off, he wrote
under the
name Derek Raymond:
Le Soleil Qui S'Eteint (I don't know the date, but this was
published
only in France. According to an intro in the first Fresh
Blood
anthology, "He regarded it as a pot-boiler that had simply
eased him
back into writing after his long layoff during the
seventies").
1984--He Died With His Eyes Open
1985--The Devil's Home on Leave
1986--How the Dead Live (his obituary mentioned that this was
his 9th
book, which raises the question about Inmates, possibly an
alternative
title?)
Cauchemar Dans La Rue (I think this goes here. In Hidden
Files, Raymond
mentions a book written between the first three factory
novels and Dora
Suarez. Published in France. The first chapter in English is
in the
1st Fresh Blood as Nightmare In The Street. Is the whole
thing going to
be published? he asked hopefully.)
1990--I Was Dora Suarez
1992--Hidden Files--not fiction and, subtitle
notwithstanding, not
really an autobiography, though it does contain many
revealing stories
from his life. Instead, it is a long rumination on what
Raymond calls
"the black novel," his own and those of others. Talks a lot
about Dora
Suarez, where it came from and how writing it affected him,
causing a
nervous breakdown.
1993--Dead Man Upright
1994--Not Till the Red Fog Rises
1994--Every Day is a Day in August--short story, published
posthumously
in the short-lived Purr magazine, which dates it to between
drafts of
Dora Suarez. I think it was also collected into the London
Noir
anthology.
Except for the French books, Hidden Files and Red Fog, all of
the novels
from this later period are in the Factory series.
Only the first four of the Factory series ever saw print in
the US, as
trade paperbacks, all but Suarez as mass paperbacks. All are
out of
print here, although I often run acros the mass market books
in used
book stores. In UK, however, all of the novels seem to be
available, at
least according to www.bookshop.co.uk (Amazon-UK, literally,
they just
bught it), although Suarez is just available in hardback. As
for Hidden
Files, it seems to be out of print, but here's the
info--Derek Raymond,
The Hidden Files: An Autobiography, Little, Brown and
Company-UK, 1992.
I am pretty sure there was also a paperback edition. I got
mine from
Murderone a few years ago, maybe they still have copies
(www.murderone.co.uk).
As far as the recordings go, Dora Suarez seems to be out of
print, at
least I couldn't find it in any of the record catalogs I
would expect to
have it, but here's the info--Dora Suarez/Derek Raymond
(Robin Cook),
James Johnston, Terry Edwards/Clawfist HUNKA CDL6. The cover
is a copy
of the grisly morgue photo that inspired the book. I don't
know if it
came out on tape or vinyl. There are probably a bunch of
these sitting
around somewhere in record stores, nobody seemed to know what
it was.
As for the Disobey reading, it originally came out on a
limited double
10" record with Purr magazine. These are probably long gone,
but it is
also on the 3 Finger and a Fumb double-CD (warning, most of
this
compilation is extreme, harsh music that many will think is
just noise)
from Blast First-UK. This is available from numerous on-line
catalogs,
here and in UK.
Hope this helps anyone interested in Raymond/Cook. Please let
me know
anything I am missing.
Mark
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