Their lurid covers were catnip to bloodthirsty, impressionable teenagers

In our age of the Saw torture-porn franchise, Peeping Tom still has the capacity to disturb

The dating system invented by Tiny Dennis

On the ladder of literature, film novelisation was once considered above only pornography

Te sell-outs who always sell out

An author of seriously funny plays

A leader of great personal qualities

Grim, funny glimpses of a Britain in decline

The director of Goodfellas has debased his talent

The playwright will not be remembered for his poetry