Darrell Schweitzer

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Darrell Schweitzer (born August 27, 1952) is an American writer, editor, and essayist in the field of speculative fiction. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy. Schweitzer is also a prolific writer of literary criticism and editor of collections of essays on various writers within his preferred genres. His most recent book is The Neil Gaiman Reader, a collection of essays about and interviews with Neil Gaiman published by Wildside Press in November, 2006.

Contents 1 Bibliography 1.1 Novels 1.2 Short Story Collections 1.3 Poetry Collections 1.4 Anthologies 1.5 Nonfiction 1.6 Awards 1.7 External links

[edit] Bibliography

[edit] Novels

• The Shattered Goddess (1982)
• The White Isle (1990)
• The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995)

[edit] Short Story Collections

• We Are All Legends (1981)
• Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out, and Other Strange Excursions (1985)
• Transients and Other Disquieting Stories (1993)
• Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999)
• Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999) with Jason Van Hollander
• Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical (2000)
• The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical (2001) with Jason Van Hollander

[edit] Poetry Collections

• Non Compost Mentis: An Affrontery of Limericks and Other Eldritch Metrical Terrors (1995)
• Poetica Dementia: Being a Further Accumulation of Metrical Offenses (1997)
• They Never Found His Head: Poems of Sentiment & Reflection (2001)
• The Innsmouth Tabernacle Choir Hymnal (2004)
• Groping Towards the Light (2005)

[edit] Anthologies

• Tales from the Spaceport Bar (1986) with George H. Scithers
• Another Round at the Spaceport Bar (1989) with George H. Scithers

[edit] Nonfiction

• Lovecraft in the Cinema (1975)
• Essays Lovecraftian (1976)
• SF Voices (1976)
• The Dream Quest of H. P. Lovecraft (1978)
• On Writing Science Fiction (The Editors Strike Back!) (1981) with John M. Ford and George H. Scithers
• Discovering Modern Horror Fiction I (1985)
• Discovering Stephen King (1985)
• Exploring Fantasy Worlds (edited by) (1985)
• Discovering H. P. Lovecraft (1987) (a revised edition of Essays Lovecraftian correcting various errors and adding the essay Textual Problems in Lovecraft by S.T. Joshi). The Wildside Press edition (2001) adds a new introduction plus an additional essay, H.P. Lovecraft: The Books by Lin Carter, as updated by S.T. Joshi and Robert M. Price.
• Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II (1988)
• Pathways to Elfland: The Writings of Lord Dunsany (1989)
• Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (1992)
• Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (1993) with S. T. Joshi
• Speaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural (1994)
• Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction (1997)
• Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature (1998) [includes essays on H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Richard Middleton, Lord Dunsany, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe and many reviews.
• Speaking of the Fantastic (2002)
• The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003)
• Speaking of the Fantastic II (2004)
• The Neil Gaiman Reader (2006, publication date November 15 2006, Wildside Press)

[edit] Awards

World Fantasy Award (1993) for co-editing Weird Tales

[edit] External links

• Dreamer on the wildside An Interview with Darrell Schweizter from Cold Print magazine 2004.
• Spotlight on Darrell Schweitzer An Interview with Darrell Schweizter from Portal Press Books 2007.
• Darrell Schweitzer at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database

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