The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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- CHESTERTON, G(ilbert) K(eith) (stories) (continued)
- * _The Man Who Was Thursday (Dover 0-486-25121-7, Jun 86 [Jan 87], $4.95, 120pp, tp) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1908) fantasy novel. Published in 1986; missed.
- * _The Man Who Was Thursday (Carroll & Graf 0-88184-225-7, Jul 86 [Jun 86], $3.50, 192pp, pb) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1908) fantasy/mystery novel.
- * _The Man Who Was Thursday (Critics Choice 0-931773-95-4, Aug 86 [Jul 86], $3.50, 192pp, pb) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1908) metaphysical fantasy/mystery novel.
- * _The Man Who Was Thursday (Lythway Large Print 0-7451-0603-X, Oct 87 [Dec 87], £8.95, 286pp, hc) Reprint (Dodd, Mead 1908) fantasy novel.
- * _The Man Who Was Thursday (Penguin 0-14-018388-4, Aug 90 [Jul 90], $4.95, 186pp, tp) Reissue (Arrowsmith 1908) classic mystery/fantasy novel, with a 1986 introduction by Kingsley Amis; third printing.
- * _The Man Who Was Thursday (Wordsworth 1-85326-236-6, Feb 95 [Mar 95], £1.00, 145pp, pb, cover by Jean Beraud) Reprint (Arrowsmith 1908) literary fantasy: a thrift paperback edition.
- * *The Man Who Was Thursday and Related Pieces (Oxford University Press 0-19-282359-0, Oct 96 [Jan 97], £5.99, xlvi+194pp, tp) Collection of the classic fantasy novel (Arrowsmith, 1907) and some related works. Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Medcalf. (Contents)
- * _The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Dover 0-486-26551-X, Feb 91 [Mar 91], $4.95, 163pp, tp) Reprint (Bodley Head 1904) satirical sf novel set in 1984.
- * _The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Penguin 0-14-018389-2, Nov 93 [Oct 93], $8.95, 158pp, tp, cover by Mrs. Bach-Gladstone) Reissue (Bodley Head 1904) satirical sf novel set in 1984; fifth printing.
- * _The Napoleon of Notting Hill (Oxford University Press 0-19-283145-3, May 94, £4.99, 167pp, pb, cover by E. A. Gladstone) Reprint (The Bodley Head 1904) literary fantasy novel. Introduction by Bernard Bergonzi.
- CHETWIN, GRACE
- * *The Atheling (Tor 0-312-93059-3, Mar 88 [Jan 88], $18.95, 445pp, hc) [Last Legacy] Sf novel (with fantasy elements), Vol. 1 of The Last Legacy tetralogy. Near-future anti-war novel.
- * _The Atheling (Corgi 0-552-13420-1, Apr 90, £3.99, 416pp, pb, cover by Steve Youll & Paul Youll) [Last Legacy] Reprint (Tor 1988) sf novel. Volume One in The Last Legacy.
- * _The Atheling (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45110-4, Sep 91 [Aug 91], $5.50, 380pp, pb) [Last Legacy] Reprint (Tor 1988) near-future anti-war novel set on an Earth ravaged by limited nuclear war. This edition has been slightly revised.
- * *Child of the Air (Macmillan Bradbury 0-02-718317-3, Apr 91 [Jul 91], $14.95, 231pp, hc, cover by Jonathan Hunt) Young-adult fantasy novel of a brother and sister on the run in an alternate world.
- * *The Chimes of Alyafaleyn (Macmillan/Bradbury 0-02-718222-3, Sep 93 [Nov 93], $15.95, 234pp, hc, cover by Dennis Nolan) Young-adult fantasy novel set in a world where harmony is maintained with golden chiming spheres that float through the air.
- * *Collidescope (Macmillan Bradbury 0-02-718316-5, Mar 90, $14.95, 221pp, hc, cover by David Lui) Young-adult sf novel of three teenagers from different times on a quest through time.
- * *The Crystal Stair (Macmillan Bradbury 0-02-718311-4, May 88 [Aug 88], $13.95, 225pp, hc) [Gom] Young-adult fantasy novel, part of the Tales of Gom series.
- * *Friends in Time (Macmillan Bradbury 0-02-718318-1, May 92, $13.95, 127pp, hc, cover by Richard Lebenson) Young-adult time-travel fantasy novel of a young 19th-century girl who appears in our century and is befriended by a modern teenager who returns with her to 1856.
- * *Gom on Windy Mountain (Morrow/Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 0-688-05767-5, Apr 86 [Mar 86], $11.75, 206pp, hc) [Gom] Juvenile fantasy novel of a woodcutters son with a mysterious magical heritage, first of a series.
- * _Gom on Windy Mountain (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-20543-3, Feb 90, $3.50, 206pp, pb, cover by Ken Barr) [Gom] Reprint (Lothrop, Lee, & Shepard 1986) young-adult fantasy novel.
- * *On All Hallows Eve (Lothrop Lee & Shepard 0-688-03012-2, Nov 84 [Oct 84], $10.25, 160pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy novel.
- * _On All Hallows Eve (Macmillan Aladdin 0-689-71617-6, Sep 92 [Nov 92], $3.95, 160pp, tp, cover by Renee Grant) Reprint (Lothrop Lee & Shepard 1984) young-adult fantasy novel of a young girl who discovers the gateway to a world ruled by witches.
- * *Out of the Dark World (Morrow/Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 0-688-04272-4, Nov 85, $10.25, 154pp, hc) Young-adult fantasy involving enchantresses and computers.
- * _Out of the Dark World (NAL/Signet 0-451-15148-8, Jan 88 [Dec 87], $2.50, 154pp, pb) Reprint (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard 1985) juvenile fantasy novel.
- * *The Riddle and the Rune (Macmillan Bradbury 0-02-718312-2, Sep 87 [Oct 87], $13.95, 257pp, hc) [Gom] Young-adult fantasy quest novel, first in a new trilogy featuring Gom, a boy with a strange destiny and the hero of Gom on Windy Mountain, a prequel to the trilogy.
- * _The Riddle and the Rune (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-20581-6, Mar 90 [Feb 90], $3.50, 257pp, pb, cover by Ken Barr) [Gom] Reprint (Macmillan Bradbury 1987) young-adult fantasy novel, part of a series featuring the hero of Gom on Windy Mountain.
- * *The Starstone (Macmillan Bradbury 0-02-718315-7, Apr 89 [Mar 89], $14.95, 240pp, hc) [Gom] Young-adult fantasy novel with wizards, talking animals, and a quest. The music for three songs is included. Fourth title in the Gom series.
- * _The Starstone (Dell Laurel-Leaf 0-440-20634-0, May 90 [Apr 90], $3.25, 240pp, pb) [Gom] Reprint (Bradbury 1989) young-adult fantasy novel, fourth book of the Gom series.
- CHETWYND, TOM
- * ?Dictionary of Sacred Myth (Allen & Unwin/Mandala 0-04-290013-1, May 86, £3.95, 272pp, tp) Non-fiction, associational. This book looks at the elements and symbols in sacred myth and religion.
- CHETWYND-HAYES, R(onald Henry Glynn) (1919-2001) (stories) (chron.)
- * _And Love Survived (Zebra 0-8217-3051-7, Jun 90 [Sep 90], $3.95, 288pp, pb) Reprint (??? 1964) horror novel.
- * *The Curse of the Snake God (Inner Circle 1-85018-087-3, Jan 91 [May 91], £11.95, 191pp, hc, cover by Chrissie Marks) Ghost/horror novel.
- * *Draculas Children (Kimber 0-7183-0649-X, May 87, £8.95, 208pp, hc) Original collection of vampire stories. (Contents)
- * *Ghosts from the Mist of Time (London: William Kimber 0-7183-0562-0, 1985, £7.50, 205pp, hc, cover by Ionicus) Original collection of seven stories. (Contents)
- * +The Grange (Tor 0-812-51626-5, Apr 88 [Mar 88], $3.95, 249pp, pb) Classic British ghost novel set in 1590. Not a horror novel in spite of the packaging. First American edition (Wm. Kimber 1985).
- * *The Haunted Grange (Kimber 0-7183-0698-8, Nov 88, £9.95, 184pp, hc) [Clavering Grange] Horror novel. Volume 8 in the Clavering Grange series.
- * *The House of Dracula (Kimber 0-7183-0668-6, Oct 87, £9.50, 206pp, hc) Original horror collection. (Contents)
- * *Kepple (Robert Hale 0-7090-4788-6, May 92, £13.95, 191pp, hc, cover by Barbara Walton) Horror thriller about an unstoppable killer.
- * _The Monster Club (Severn House 0-7278-4349-4, Jun 92, £13.00, 186pp, hc) Reprint (NEL 1976) original collection of five humorous horror stories about hybrids of classic monsters. This is the first hardcover edition. (Contents)
- * +The Other Side (Tor 0-812-51628-1, Sep 88 [Aug 88], $3.95, 273pp, pb) Collection of 4 stories set in a haunted house. The stories are set in 1850, 1969, 1980, and 2000! More ghost story than horror, despite the packaging. First American edition (Kimber 1972). (Contents)
- * *The Psychic Detective (Robert Hale 0-7090-5135-2, Sep 93 [Oct 93], £14.99, 208pp, hc, cover by Barbara Walton) Occult thriller about a medium trying to rid a house of its evil spirits.
- * *A Quiver of Ghosts (William Kimber 0-7183-0503-5, 1984, £6.95, 207pp, hc, cover by Ionicus) (Contents)
- * *Shocks (The British Fantasy Society 0-952-41532-1, Dec 97, £6.00, 59pp, ph) Collection of four dark fantasy stories, with an introduction by David J. Howe. Issued free to BFS Members with the December 1997 mailing. (Contents)
- * *Shudders and Shivers (Robert Hale 0-7090-5607-9, Apr 95, £16.99, 192pp, hc, cover by Barbara Walton) Collection of original horror stories, each one connected to the others by a common theme or character. (Contents)
- * *Tales from the Haunted House (Kimber 0-7183-0622-8, Oct 86, £8.95, 192pp, hc) New collection of ghost stories. (Contents)
- * *Tales from the Shadows (William Kimber 0-7183-0598-1, Mar 86, £8.50, 192pp, hc) Collection of 10 supernatural stories. (Contents)
- * *Tales of the Hidden World (Kimber 0-7183-0673-2, Jul 88, £9.50, 206pp, hc) [Clavering Grange] Original ghost collection. Volume 6 in the Tales of Clavering Grange series. (Contents)
- * *The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes (Fedogan & Bremer 1-878252-33-X, 1997 [Apr 98], $27.00, 253pp, hc, cover by Les Edwards) Collection of 15 vampire stories, one original, with foreword by Brian Lumley and afterword by editor Stephen Jones. Interior illustrations by Jim Pitts. A limited edition of 100 copies signed by all contributors (-34-8, $95.00) is also available. This is dated 1997 but not seen until now. Order from Fedogan & Bremer, 3721 Minnehaha Ave S., Minneapolis MN 55406. (Contents)
- CHILD, LINCOLN (1957- ); see pseudonym Lincoln Preston (stories) (chron.)
- _____, ed.
- * *Dark Banquet: A Feast of 12 Great Ghost Stories (St. Martins 0-312-18233-3, Oct 85 [Nov 85], $15.95, 255pp, hc) Anthology of 12 tales of the supernatural. (Contents)
- * *Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories (St. Martins 0-312-18231-7, Jan 84 [Dec 83], $12.95, 334pp, hc) Anthology of well-known stories by Poe, Le Fanu, M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Blackwood, Oliver Onions, William Hope Hodgson, and Lovecraft. (Contents)
- * _Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories (St. Martins 0-312-18232-5, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $3.95, 334pp, pb) Reprint (St. Martins 1984) anthology of supernatural tales by Poe, Lovecraft, and others.
- * *Tales of the Dark (St. Martins 0-312-90339-1, Jul 87 [Jun 87], $3.50, 184pp, pb) Anthology of 10 horror stories. (Contents)
- * *Tales of the Dark #3 (St. Martins 0-312-90539-4, Feb 88, $3.50, 179pp, pb) Anthology of 9 horror stories. (Contents)
- * *Tales of the Dark 2 (St. Martins 0-312-90769-9, Sep 87 [Aug 87], $3.50, 181pp, pb) Anthology of 9 late-19th and early-20th-century supernatural stories. (Contents)
- CHILDER, SIMON IAN; pseudonym of John Brosnan & Leroy Kettle (stories)
- * *Tendrils (Grafton 0-586-06437-0, Jan 86, £1.95, 208pp, pb) Horror novel. Childer is a pseudonym for Leroy Kettle and John Brosnan, who also write as Harry Adam Knight.
- * *Worm (Grafton 0-586-06945-3, May 87, £2.50, 189pp, pb) Horror novel. This is a pseudonym for John Brosnan & Leroy Kettle.
- CHILDRESS, MARK (1957- )
- * *Gone for Good (Random House/Knopf 0-375-40021-4, Jun 98, $25.00, 370pp, hc, cover by Lou Beach) Fantasy novel. A rock star nicknamed Superman crashes on a mysterious island where the famous (e.g. Elvis, Amelia Earhart) come to disappear.
- CHILSON, ROB(ert Dean) (1945- ) (stories)
- * *Black as Blood (Baen 0-671-87883-2, Jul 98 [Jun 98], $5.99, 274pp, pb, cover by Charles Keegan) Humorous horror novel. Uncle Albert just wont stay dead.
- * *Isaac Asimovs Robot City, Book 5: Refuge (Ace 0-441-37385-2, Mar 88 [Feb 88], $2.95, 163pp, pb) [Robot City] Sf novelization in the series based on Asimovs work.
- * *Men Like Rats (Popular Library Questar 0-445-20763-9, Mar 89 [Feb 89], $3.95, 212pp, pb) Sf novel about men living in the corridors and pantries of giant aliens.
- * *Rounded with Sleep (Popular Library Questar 0-445-21026-5, Aug 90 [Jul 90], $3.95, 193pp, pb, cover by Tim Jacobus) Sf/fantasy novel of a professional hero on an Earth taken over by a computerized fantasy role-playing game.
- CHIN, M. LUCIE (1947- ) (stories)
- * *The Fairy of Ku-She (Ace 0-441-22563-2, Aug 88 [Jul 88], $3.50, 265pp, pb) Fantasy novel of ancient China; a first novel.
- * _The Fairy of Ku-She (Fontana 0-00-617823-5, Feb 90, £2.99, 265pp, pb) Reprint (Ace 1988) fantasy novel.
- CHINN, MIKE; [i.e., Michael James Chinn] (1954- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *The Paladin Mandates (The Alchemy Press 0-9532260-0-X, Jan 98 [Apr 98], £6.50, 95pp, ph, cover by Bob Covington) Horror/fantasy collection of 6 stories, 3 original, about an occult adventurer. The 3 reprint stories have all been significantly revised for this edition. Available from 46 Oxford Rd, Acocks Green, Birmingham B27 6DT. (Contents)
- _____, ed.
- * *Mystique: Tales of Wonder (The British Fantasy Society no ISBN, Jan 88 [Apr 88], £1.00, 34pp, ph) Original anthology of horror stories in the style of the old horror pulps. Volume 13 in the BFS Booklet series. (Contents)
- CHIPPINDALE, PETER
- * *Laptop of the Gods: A Millennium Fable (Simon & Schuster UK 0-684-81613-X, Nov 98, £9.99, 420pp, hc, cover by Stephen Player) Humorous millennial fantasy novel. The bored gods relinquish charge of humanity at the suggestion of the computer GOD.
- * *Mink! (Simon & Schuster UK 0-671-71916-5, Sep 95, £9.99, 565pp, hc) Animal fantasy novel. A first novel.
- CHITTENDEN, MARGARET (Rosalind) (1935- )
- * *The Scent of Magic (Harlequin 0-373-70444-5, Feb 91 [Mar 91], $3.25, 300pp, pb) Fantasy romance about a boutique owner who discovers a magic potion that brings her love. A Harlequin Superromance.
- * *This Time Forever (Harlequin 0-373-79001-5, Sep 90 [Aug 90], $3.25, 252pp, pb, cover by Jeff Wack) Time-travel romance in the Dreamscape line. A woman enters her 18th-century past life and is torn between past and present romances.
- CHIU, TONY (1945- )
- * *Realm Seven (Bantam 0-553-23847-7, Aug 84 [Jul 84], $3.50, 279pp, pb) Novel of gaming, omniscient computers, etc.
- CHIZMAR, RICHARD T(homas) (1965- ) (stories) (chron.)
- * *Blood Brothers (Subterranean Press no ISBN, Feb 97, $8.00, 16pp, ph, cover by Rodger Gerberding) Chapbook publication of a short horror story. This is a signed, limited edition of 250. Order from Subterranean Press, PO Box 190106, Burton MI 48519; postage free; email: wks@tir.com
- * *Midnight Promises (Gauntlet Publications 1-887368-03-5, 1996 [Apr 96], $35.00, 272pp, hc, cover by Alan M. Clark) Collection of 17 horror stories. There is an introduction by Ed Gorman and an afterword by Ray Garton. This edition is signed by all authors involved, and limited to 500 copies. Gauntlet Publications, 309 Powell Rd., Springfield PA 19064. Orders: 610-328-5476. Add $5.00 postage. (Contents)
- _____, ed.
- * *The Best of Cemetery Dance (Cemetery Dance 1881475247, Mar 98, 786pp, hc) Horror anthology of 29 stories, an interview with Dean Koontz, and an afterword by David B. Silva. (Contents)
- * *Cold Blood (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-57-0, Jun 91 [Jul 91], $25.00, 401pp, hc, cover by Nancy Niles) Original anthology of 24 horror stories (some supernatural, some not) plus a stage version of Joe R. Lansdales short story By Bizarre Hands, with a foreword by the editor and an introduction by Douglas E. Winter. Recommended (SW). (Contents)
- * *The Earth Strikes Back (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-40-6, Dec 94, $18.95, 311pp, tp, cover by Arnie Fenner) Original anthology of 20 stories of ecological horror. Authors include Dan Simmons, Poppy Z. Brite, Charles de Lint, Thomas F. Monteleone, and Hugh B. Cave. Order from Mark V. Ziesing, PO Box 76, Shingletown CA 96088. (Contents)
- * _The Earth Strikes Back (White Wolf 1-56504-919-5, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $5.99, 462pp, pb) Reprint (Ziesing 1994) original anthology of ecological horror.
- * *Screamplays (with Martin H. Greenberg) (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-39429-1, Sep 97, $14.50, 545pp, tp, cover by Dave McKean) Original anthology of seven horror screenplays, none previously published, by Stephen King, Harlan Ellison, Joe R. Lansdale, Ed Gorman, and Richard Laymon. Introduction by Dean Koontz. (Contents)
- * *Thrillers (CD Publications 1-881475-05-0, Jan 94, $25.00, 264pp, hc, cover by Charles Lang) Original anthology of fiction by Rex Miller (one novella), Nancy A. Collins (four stories), Chet Williamson (a novella and a short story), & Ardath Mayhar (one novella). Introduction by Joe R. Lansdale, and afterwords by the authors, plus interior illustrations by Keith Minnion. A 500-copy signed numbered slipcased edition ($60.00) was announced but not seen. Available from CD Publications, PO Box 18433, Baltimore MD 21237. (Contents)
- CHOLFIN, BRYAN, ed. (stories)
- * *The Best of Crank! (Tor 0-312-86740-9, Sep 98 [Aug 98], $23.95, 320pp, hc, cover by Pangorda) Anthology of 17 stories originally published in Crank!. Authors include Gwyneth Jones, Ursula K. Le Guin, Gene Wolfe, and Jonathan Lethem. (Contents)
- * *Monochrome: The Readercon Anthology (Broken Mirrors Press 0-9623824-3-4, Apr 90, $9.95, 158pp, tp) Mostly original anthology of seven stories and five poems, with an introduction by Samuel R. Delany and a foreword by Robert Colby. The poems and five of the stories are original, including work by Wolfe, Kushner, Friesner, etc. A hardcover limited edition (-2-6, $25.00) was announced but not seen. (Contents)
- CHOPRA, DEEPAK (K.) (1946- )
- * *The Return of Merlin (Crown/Harmony 0-517-59849-3, Jul 95 [Jun 95], $24.00, 422pp, hc, cover by Frank Holmes) Modern Arthurian novel. Simultaneous with the UK (Century) edition.
- * *The Return of Merlin (Century 0-71-267606-6, Jul 95, £15.99, 422pp, hc, cover by Frank Holmes) Fantasy novel; the Arthurian conflict moves forward to our own time. In an original twist, Chopra suggests that Camelot was never destroyed, only, like Arthur, it went away from our world until it was needed again. A first novel. Simultaneous with the US (Harmony) edition.
- * _The Return of Merlin (Ballantine/Fawcett Columbine 0-449-91074-1, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $12.95, 422pp, tp) Reprint (Crown/Harmony; Century 1995) modern Arthurian novel.
- * _The Return of Merlin (Arrow 0-09-963971-8, Mar 96, £5.99, 422pp, tp, cover by Method) Reprint (Crown/Harmony; Century 1995) fantasy novel. Merlin and Arthur in modern England.
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