The Locus Index to Science Fiction

Books, Listed by Author

COVILLE, BRUCE (Farrington) (stories) (continued)

• * _Aliens Ate My Homework (Hodder Children’sBooks 0-340-65115-6, Nov ’95, £2.99, 179pp, pb) [Rod Allbright] Reprint (Pocket Minstrel 1993) young-adult humorous SF novel of a boy whose excuse for not having his homework is not believed - though it’s true. The first Rod Allbright book. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Armageddon Summer (with Jane Yolen) See entry under Jane Yolen.
• * *Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors #1: Amulet of Doom (Pocket Archway 0-671-53637-0, Feb ’96 [Jan ’96], $3.99, 191pp, pb, cover by Ciruelo Cabral) Young-adult horror novel. An ancient amulet carries a curse. Revised and updated from the 1985 Dell/Twilight (as Amulet of Doom) edition.
• * *Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors #3: Eyes of the Tarot (Pocket Archway 0-671-53639-7, Jun ’96 [May ’96], $3.99, 179pp, pb, cover by Ciruelo Cabral) Young-adult horror novel. A deck of tarot cards summons the evil magician who made them. This is significantly revised and updated from the 1983 (Dell/Twilight) edition.
• * _Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors #4: Waiting Spirits (Pocket Archway 0-671-53640-0, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], $3.99, 149pp, pb, cover by Ciruelo Cabral) Young-adult horror novel. Ghosts invade summer island getaway. Revised and updated from the 1984 Bantam edition.
• * *Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors: Spirits and Spells (Pocket Archway 0-671-53638-9, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], $3.99, 162pp, pb, cover by Ciruelo Cabral) Young-adult horror novel. A game of magic turns real in a haunted house. Revised and updated from the 1983 Dell/Twilight (as Spirits and Spells) edition.
• * *The Dragonslayers (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-79832-4, Jul ’94 [Jun ’94], $3.50, 119pp, tp, cover by Tim Hildebrandt) Young-adult fantasy novella about a kingdom threatened by a dragon conjured up by a witch. Interior illustrations by Katherine Coville.
• * *The Ghost in the Big Brass Bed (Bantam Skylark 0-553-15827-9, Oct ’91, $2.99, 184pp, pb, cover by Daniel Henderson) Young-adult ghost story.
• * *The Ghost Wore Gray (Bantam Skylark 0-553-15610-1, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], $2.75, 153pp, pb) Young-adult ghost novel.
• * *I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-79833-2, Oct ’94 [Sep ’94], $3.99, 180pp, tp, cover by Stephen Peringer) [Rod Allbright] Young-adult humorous SF novel about a kid kidnapped by a monster from another dimension, the second featuring Rod Allbright. Illustrations by Katherine Coville.
• * _I Left My Sneakers in Dimension X (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-65116-4, Nov ’95, £2.99, 181pp, pb) [Rod Allbright] Reprint (Pocket Minstrel 1994) young-adult humorous SF novel of a boykidnapped by a monster from another dimension. The Second Rod Allbright novel, after Aliens Ate My Homework. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Into the Land of the Unicorns (Scholastic 0-590-45955-4, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], $12.95, 159pp, hc, cover by Neal McPheeters) [Unicorn Chronicles] Young-adult fantasy novel, first book of “The Unicorn Chronicles”. Clara enters the fantasy world of Luster and joins a young unicorn on a quest to find the elusive Unicorn Queen.
• * _Into the Land of the Unicorns (Scholastic 0-590-45956-2, Aug ’95, $3.50, 159pp, pb, cover by Neal McPheeters) [Unicorn Chronicles] Reprint (Scholastic 1994) young-adult fantasy novel, first book of “The Unicorn Chronicles”.
• * *Jennifer Murdley’s Toad (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-200745-8, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $16.95, 156pp, hc, cover by Gary A. Lippincott) [Magic Shop] Young-adult fantasy novel about a young girl who purchases a talking toad at a magic shop. Illustrations by Gary A. Lippincott.
• * _Jennifer Murdley’s Toad (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-79401-9, Jun ’93 [Jul ’93], $3.50, 159pp, tp, cover by Catherine Huerta) [Magic Shop] Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1992) young-adult fantasy novel about a young girl who purchases a talking toad at a magic shop. Illustrations by Gary A. Lippincott.
• * *Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-200748-2, Mar ’91, $15.95, 117pp, hc, cover by Gary A. Lippincott) [Magic Shop] Young-adult fantasy novel of a boy who brings home a dragon’s egg.
• * _Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-74782-7, Feb ’92, $2.99, 148pp, tp, cover by Catherine Huerta) [Magic Shop] Reprint (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1991) young-adult fantasy novel of a boy who brings home a dragon’s egg.
• * *Monster of the Year (Pocket 0-671-64749-0, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $2,75, 135pp, tp) Children’s fantasy about a contest that draws monsters from as far away as Transylvania, illustrated by Harvey Kurtzman.
• * *Murder in Orbit (Dragon 0-583-31096-6, Aug ’87, £2.25, 187pp, pb) [Omni Odysseys] Juvenile sf novel. Volume 2 in the “Omni Odysseys” series.
• * *My Teacher Flunked the Planet (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-75081-X, Jun ’92 [May ’92], $2.99, 162pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) [My Teacher Is an Alien] Humorous young-adult sf novel, fourth book of the “My Teacher Is an Alien” series, illustrated by John Pierard.
• * _My Teacher Fried My Brains (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-72710-9, May ’91, $2.95, 136pp, pb, cover by Steve Fastner) [My Teacher Is an Alien] Humorous young-adult sf novel.
• * *My Teacher Glows in the Dark (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-72709-5, Oct ’91 [Sep ’91], $2.99, 137pp, tp, cover by Jeffrey Lindberg) [My Teacher Is an Alien] Humorous young-adult sf novel, third book of the “My Teacher Is an Alien” series, illustrated by John Pierard.
• * *My Teacher is an Alien (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-64748-2, Jun ’89, $2.75, 124pp, tp) [My Teacher Is an Alien] Children’s sf novel about sixth graders who discover that their substitute teacher is an extraterrestrial. Illustrated by Mike Wimmer.
• * *My Teacher Is an Alien: 3 Books in One (HarperCollins UK 0-00-675157-1, Oct ’95 [Nov ’95], £4.99, ii+405pp, pb) [My Teacher Is an Alien] Young-adult SF omnibus, including My Teacher is an Alien (Pocket 1989), My Teacher Fried My Brains, (Pocket 1990) and My Teacher Glows in the Dark (Pocket 1991). The title page and spine simply list the books. (Contents)
• * *Oddly Enough (Harcourt Brace 0-15-200093-3, Oct ’94 [Sep ’94], $15.95, 122pp, hc, cover by Michael Hussar) Collection of nine young-adult fantasy stories, three original. With illustrations by Michael Hussar. (Contents)
• * _Oddly Enough (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-51693-0, Jan ’97, $3.99, 164pp, pb, cover by Genady Spirin) Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1994) collection of nine young-adult fantasy stories, three original. With illustrations by Michael Hussar.
• * *Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon, Volume 2: The Dark Abyss (Bantam Spectra 0-553-27640-9, Feb ’89 [Jan ’89], $3.95, 321pp, pb) [Dungeon] Fantasy novelization set in a world created by Philip José Farmer, who also did the introduction. The series is packaged by Byron Preiss Visual Publications. The author’s name does not appear on the cover or on the copyright page.
• * _Philip José Farmer’s The Dungeon, Volume 2: The Dark Abyss (Bantam UK 0-553-40202-1, May ’90, £3.50, 321pp, pb, cover by Robert Gould) [Dungeon] Reprint (Bantam 1989) fantasy novelization.
• * *The Skull of Truth (Harcourt Brace 0-15-275457-1, Sep ’97 [Aug ’97], $17.00, 195pp, hc, cover by Gary A. Lippincott) [Magic Shop] Young-adult humorous fantasy novel in the “Magic Shop” series. A skull makes a chronic liar always tell the truth — but no one believes him. Illustrated by Gary A. Lippincott.
• * *Space Brat (Pocket Minstrel 0-671-74567-0, Aug ’92 [Jul ’92], $2.99, 68pp, tp) Children’s short story about an alien boy, illustrated by Katherine Coville.
• * *Space Station I.C.E.-3 (Scholastic/Omni 0-590-40278-1, Nov ’87 [Jan ’88], $2.50, 188pp, pb) Young-adult murder mystery set on a space station. Dated 1987 — not seen until 1988.
• * _Space Station ICE-3 (Pocket Archway 0-671-53641-9, Oct ’96, $3.99, 182pp, pb, cover by Broeck Steadman) Reprint (Scholastic/Omni 1987) young-adult SF mystery about a body on a space station. This edition has been revised and updated.
• * _Spirit World: Creature of Fire (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-71461-1, Jul ’98, £3.99, 191pp, pb, cover by Sam Hadley) Reprint (Minstrel 1996 as Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors #1: Amulet of Doom) young-adult horror novel. This is significantly revised from the 1985 Dell/Twilight (as Amulet of Doom) edition. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Spirit World: Eyes of the Tarot (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-71460-3, Jul ’98, £3.99, 179pp, pb, cover by Sam Hadley) Reprint (Minstrel 1996 as Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors #3: Eyes of the Tarot) young-adult horror novel. This is significantly revised from the 1983 Dell/Twilight (as Eyes of the Tarot) edition. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Spirit World: Restless Spirits (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-71458-1, Jul ’98, £3.99, 149pp, pb, cover by Sam Hadley) Reprint (Minstrel 1996 as Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors #4: Waiting Spirits) young-adult horror novel. This is significantly revised from the 1984 Bantam (as Waiting Spirits) edition. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Spirit World: Spirits and Spells (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-71459-X, Jul ’98, £3.99, 162pp, pb, cover by Sam Hadley) Reprint (Minstrel 1996 as Bruce Coville’s Chamber of Horrors #2: Spirits and Spells) young-adult horror novel. This is significantly revised from the 1983 Dell/Twilight (as Spirits and Spells) edition. [First U.K. edition]

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• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens and Ghosts (Collins 0-00-675278-0, Oct ’96, £3.99, 368pp, pb) Omnibus of the two anthologies, Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind (Scholastic/Apple, 1994), and Bruce Coville’s Book of Ghosts (Scholastic, 1994). The books are separately paginated. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens II: More Tales to Warp Your Mind (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-85293-0, Nov ’96, $3.95, 183pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult original collection of 12 sf stories, three reprints. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-46162-1, Feb ’94, $2.95, 177pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult collection of 11 sf stories. Three are reprints, and the rest seem to be original. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * _Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens: Tales to Warp Your Mind (Lions 0-00-675073-7, Sep ’95, £2.99, 177pp, pb) Reprint (Scholastic/Apple 1994) young-adult collection of 11 SF stories. Three are reprints, and the rest seem to be original. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Bruce Coville’s Book of Ghosts (Collins 0-00-675075-3, 1995, £2.99, 180pp, pb) Reprint (Scholastic 1994) Young-adult anthology of original ghost stories. Published in 1995 but not seen until now. (Contents) [First U.K. edition]
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Ghosts II: More Tales to Haunt You (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-85294-9, Jan ’97, $3.99, 182pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult original collection of 11 ghost stories, three reprints. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Ghosts: Tales to Haunt You (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-46160-5, Sep ’94, $2.95, 180pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult original collection of 12 ghost stories, one a reprint. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Magic II (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-85297-3, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], $3.99, 179pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Original anthology of 12 (four reprint) fantasy young-adult stories by authors including Bruce Coville, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Patricia C. Wrede, and Margaret Bechard. Interior illustrations by John Pierard. Copyrighted by General Licensing Company. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Magic: Tales to Cast a Spell on You (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-25931-8, May ’96, $3.99, 178pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult original collection of 11 magic stories, two reprints. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters II: More Tales to Give You the Creeps (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-85292-2, Sep ’93 [Aug ’96], $3.95, 178pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult original collection of 11 monster stories, two reprints. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Monsters: Tales to Give You the Creeps (Scholastic 0-590-46159-1, Sep ’93, $2.95, 159pp, tp) Anthology of 13 young-adult horror stories, eight original, including work by Jane Yolen and Joe R. Lansdale. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Nightmares (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-46161-3, Feb ’95 [Jan ’95], $3.50, 173pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Original anthology of 13 (11 original and 2 reprint) scary young-adult stories by Jane Yolen, Mark Garland, Bruce Coville, etc. Interior illustrations by John Pierard. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Nightmares II (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-85295-7, Mar ’97 [Jun ’97], $3.99, 183pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Original anthology of 12 (4 reprint) scary young-adult stories (two exerpts from longer works) by authors including Michael Stearns, Al Sarrantonio, Bruce Coville, etc. Interior illustrations by John Pierard. Copyrighted by General Licensing Company. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Spine Tinglers II: More Tales to Make You Shiver (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-85296-5, May ’97, $3.99, 181pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult original collection of 10 chilling stories and a poem, four reprints. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * *Bruce Coville’s Book of Spine Tinglers: Tales to Make You Shiver (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-25930-X, Jan ’96, $3.99, 177pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner) Young-adult original collection of 13 chilling stories, three reprints. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names. (Contents)
• * *A Glory of Unicorns (Scholastic 0-590-95943-3, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $16.95, 198pp, hc, cover by Alix Berenzy) Young-adult original anthology of 12 unicorn stories, one a reprint. Authors include Sean Stewart, Jessica Amanda Salmonson, and Nancy Varian Berberick. (Contents)
• * *The Unicorn Treasury (Doubleday 0-385-24000-7, Sep ’88 [Jun ’88], $14.95, 166pp, hc) Young-adult illustrated anthology of stories, poems, and lore, with illustrations by Tim Hildebrandt. It includes new stories and poems by fantasy writers, plus novel excerpts. (Contents)
• * _The Unicorn Treasury: Stories, Poems, and Unicorn Lore (Doubleday 0-385-41930-9, Jun ’91 [May ’91], $9.00, 166pp, tp) Reprint (Doubleday 1988) anthology of reprinted stories and poems, illustrated by Tim Hildebrandt. This is identical to the hardcover except for being in trade paperback.

COWAN, DALE

• * *Deadly Sleep (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-91961-4, Oct ’92 [Sep ’92], $3.50, 167pp, pb) Reissue (Dell 1982) young-adult horror thriller; sixth printing.

COWLES, FREDERICK (Ignatius) (1900-1949) (stories)

• * *Fear Walks The Night: The Complete Ghost Stories of Frederick Cowles (Ghost Story Press 0-9520492-3-6, Dec ’93 [1994], £24.00, xvi+361pp, hc, cover by Andrew King) Omnibus of three collections: The Night Wind Howls (Muller, 1938), The Horror of Abbot’s Grange (Muller, 1936) and the previously announced but unpublished collection Fear Walks the Night. This is a limited edition of 250 copies. (Contents)

COWLEY, JOY (stories)

• * *The Hitchhikers (Scholastic/Point 0-590-73904-2, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $4.50, 196pp, pb) Young-adult collection of 12 horror stories, most originally broadcast by the “Ears” programme of Radio New Zealand.

COWLEY, MARJORIE

• * *Dar and the Spear-Thrower (Clarion Books 0-395-68132-4, May ’94, $13.95, 118pp, hc, cover by Colin Poole) Associational young-adult prehistoric novel about a Cro-Magnon boy’s quest for a spear-thrower.

COWLEY, STEWART

• * *Spacebase 2000 (Hamlyn 0-600-38546-9, 1984, £5.95, 192pp, hc) Omnibus of Spacecraft: 2000-2100 AD and Great Space Battles. [Not seen]
• * +Spacebase 2000 (St. Martin’s 0-312-74940-6, Apr ’85 [Mar ’85], $14.95, 192pp, pb) Reprint (Hamlyn 1984), first U.S. edition. “A full-color, large-format history of the 21st century,” featuring pictures of spaceships, space battles, etc. Part of it is co-authored by Charles Herridge. Artists include Jim Burns, Tony Roberts, Colin Hay, and Angus McKie.

COWPER, RICHARD; pseudonym of John Middleton Murry, (1926-2002) (stories) (assoc.)

• * _Clone (Gollancz 0-575-04694-5, Mar ’90, £3.50, 190pp, pb, cover by John Higgins) Reprint (Gollancz 1972) sf novel.
• * _A Dream of Kinship (Futura/Orbit 0-7088-8200-5, Jun ’86 [May ’86], £2.50, 239pp, pb) [White Bird of Kinship] Reprint (Gollancz 1981) sf novel.
• * _A Dream of Kinship (Pocket 0-671-62968-9, Sep ’86, $2.95, 240pp, pb) [White Bird of Kinship] Reissue (Gollancz 1981) sf novel, 2nd in the “Bird of Kinship” trilogy.
• * *The Magic Spectacles and Other Tales (Kerosina no ISBN, Nov ’86, included with limited edition novel, pb) Booklet containing three original ghost stories included with the signed, limited, numbered edition of Shades of Darkness. (Contents)
• * _The Road to Corlay (Pocket 0-671-61213-1, Mar ’86 [Nov ’86], $2.95, 239pp, pb) [White Bird of Kinship] Reissue (Gollancz 1978) sf novel, first in the “Bird of Kinship” trilogy. 2nd printing.
• * _The Road to Corlay (Futura/Orbit 0-7088-8195-5, Apr ’86 [Mar ’86], £2.25, 202pp, pb) [White Bird of Kinship] Reprint (Gollancz 1978) sf novel, Vol. 1 of “The White Bird of Kinship”. This edition adds the story “Piper at the Gates of Dawn”, not in the Gollancz or Pan editions. (Contents)
• * *Shades of Darkness (Kerosina 0-948893-04-4, Nov ’86, £10.95, 143pp, hc) Short novel, a ghost story.
• * *Shades of Darkness (Kerosina 0-948893-03-6, Nov ’86, £25.00, 143pp, hc) Signed, limited, numbered edition of the above, also including a separate booklet “The Magic Spectacles and Other Tales”.
• * _A Tapestry of Time (Futura/Orbit 0-7088-8199-8, Aug ’86, £2.50, 186pp, pb) [White Bird of Kinship] Reprint (Gollancz 1982) sf novel, volume 3 of “The White Bird of Kinship”.
• * _A Tapestry of Time (Pocket 0-671-62500-4, Oct ’86 [Sep ’86], $2.95, 222pp, pb) [White Bird of Kinship] Reprint (Gollancz 1982) sf novel, 3rd in the “Bird of Kinship” trilogy.
• * *The Tithonian Factor (Gollancz 0-575-03440-8, May ’84 [Apr ’84], £7.95, 150pp, hc) Collection of 6 novelettes. (Contents)
• * _The Twilight of Briareus (Gollancz 0-575-04693-7, Sep ’90, £3.99, 255pp, pb, cover by John Higgins) Reprint (Gollancz 1974) sf novel.

COWPERTHWAITE, DAVID, ed. (1959- ) (stories)

• * *Tanith Lee: Mistress of Delirium (The British Fantasy Society no ISBN, Oct ’93, £3.00, 58pp, ph, cover by Dallas Clive Goffin) Collection of four original articles on Tanith Lee, a bibliography by Mike Ashley and the short story “Il Bacio (Il Chiave)”, previously uncollected. (Contents)
• * *Transactions of the Doppelgänger Society (The Doppelganger Society No ISBN, Oct ’90 [Nov ’90], £2.50, 47pp, ph) Off-beat anthology of original fantasy/horror stories including an early story by Ramsey Campbell. Available from Mark Valentine, 35 Grafton Way, New Duston, NORTHAMPTON, NN5 6NG. (Contents)