The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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Space Movies: Classic Science Fiction Films ed. Peter Haining (Severn House 0-7278-4790-2, Jun 95 [Jul 95], £15.99, 266pp, hc, cover by Derek Colligan) Anthology of ten stories and novel excerpts which lie behind many well-known movies: Heinlein, Bradbury, Von Braun, Moore, Clarke, Dick, King, Barker (not SF), Nolan (a piece taken from the sequel to the filmed book) and a Blish adaptation which has no connection to any of the films. Each piece has a background introduction by Haining.
- 1 · Prologue: The Cinema of Possibilities · Peter Haining · in *
- 5 · Destination Moon [from Rocket Ship Galileo] · Robert A. Heinlein · ex New York: Scribners, 1947
- 15 · It Came from Outer Space · Ray Bradbury · sa Super Cinema Annual 1955, (UK), 1954; an adapation of Bradburys screen treatment, The Meteor.
- 50 · The Conquest of Space [Life on Mars] · Werner Von Braun · nv This Week Apr 24 60 (+2)
- 87 · Panic in Year Zero [Lot; David Jimmon] · Ward Moore · nv F&SF May 53
- 120 · 2001: A Space Odyssey [Sentinel of Eternity] · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Ten Story Fantasy Spr 51
- 133 · Logans Run [from Logans World] · William F. Nolan · ex New York: Bantam, 1977
- 158 · Star Trek: The Motion Picture [The Unreal McCoy] · James Blish · sa Star Trek #1, Bantam, 1967; from the teleplay, The Man Trap by George Clayton Johnson.
- 174 · Total Recall [We Can Remember It for You Wholesale] · Philip K. Dick · nv F&SF Apr 66
- 201 · The Lawnmower Man · Stephen King · ss Cavalier May 75
- 214 · Candyman [The Forbidden] · Clive Barker · nv Clive Barkers Books of Blood v5, Sphere, 1985
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The Vampire Omnibus ed. Peter Haining (Orion 1-85797-684-3, Jul 95 [Jun 95], £8.99, 497pp, tp, cover by Button Design Co.) Anthology of more than 30 pieces stories, excerpts and dramatisations published between 1828 and the present day, including several originals. Peter Haining prefaces each piece with its publishing history and a biography of each author. A hardcover edition (-694-0, £15.99) is also available.
- 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in *
- 5 · Preface: The Destruction of Castle Dracula! · Bram Stoker · ex, 1897; extract from the original manuscript of Dracula.
- 7 · I: The Prototypes
- 9 · The Skeleton Count or, The Vampire Mistress · Elizabeth Grey · ex The Casket Fll, 1828
- 28 · The Vampyres Story [from Varney the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood as by Anon.] · James Malcolm Rymer · ex, 1847
- 45 · The Pale Lady · Alexandre Dumas & Paul Bocage · nv Thousand and One Phantoms, 1848
- 80 · The Grave of Ethelind Fionguala · Julian Hawthorne · ss Lippincotts May, 1887
- 101 · Let Loose · Mary Cholmondeley · ss The Living Age May 17, 1890
- 117 · A True Story of a Vampire · Count Eric Stenbock · ss Studies of Death: Romantic Tales, London, 1894
- 126 · Grettir at Thorhall-Stead · Frank Norris · ss Everybodys Magazine Apr 03
- 139 · The Blood Fetish · Morley Roberts · ss The Strand Oct 08
- 151 · The Land of the Time-Leeches · Gustav Meyrink · ss The Quest Jul 20
- 160 · The Elder Brother · Charles Caldwell Dobie · ss Harpers Feb 25
- 176 · I, the Vampire · Henry Kuttner · ss Weird Tales Feb 37
- 197 · II: The Films
- 199 · The Bride of the Isles [by James Robinson Planché] · Lord Byron · nv, 1820; prose version of stage play based on The Vampyre by; Lord Byron (The New Monthly Magazine, 1 April 1819).
- 222 · Les Vampires [from The Mysteries of Paris] · Eugène Sue · ex, 1842
- 230 · Nosferatu · Paul Monette · ss; prose version from part of film; provenance unknown.
- 243 · The Bat · Bela Lugosi · ss, 1955; transcription of 1955 NBC Broadcast.
- 248 · Son of Dracula · Peter Tremayne · ss *; based on 1943 screenplay.
- 266 · The Cat People [The Bagheeta] · Val Lewton · ss Weird Tales Jul 30
- 283 · Dracula - Prince of Darkness · Jimmy Sangster · ex, 1966; prose version of part of screenplay; provenance unknown.
- 299 · Incense for the Damned [from Doctors Wear Scarlet] · Simon Raven · ex Anthony Blond, 1960
- 313 · Dark Shadows [from The Secret of Collinwood] · Marilyn Ross · ex; provenance unsure. Said to be a pseudonym of Michael Avallone.
- 324 · Return to Salems Lot [One for the Road] · Stephen King · ss Maine Mar 77
- 340 · Interview with the Vampire [Vampire Chronicles] · Anne Rice · ex New York: Knopf, 1976
- 349 · III: The Archetypes
- 351 · Uncle Vlad · Clive Sinclair · ss Transatlantic Review, 1973
- 364 · Sanguinarius · Ray Russell · nv Unholy Trinity, Bantam, 1967
- 397 · Count Dracula · Woody Allen · ss Getting Even, Random, 1971
- 402 · West of October · Ray Bradbury · ss The Toynbee Convector, Knopf, 1988
- 416 · First Anniversary · Richard Matheson · ss Playboy Jul 60
- 424 · So Near the Darkness · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Fantastic Universe Nov 55
- 454 · Dayblood · Roger Zelazny · ss Twilight Zone May/Jun 85
- 460 · Vampirella · Ron Goulart · ex; extract from a Vampirella book; provenance unknown.
- 466 · Getting Dead · William F. Nolan · ss Iniquities Spr 91
- 471 · Reader, I Buried Him · Basil Copper · ss *
- 481 · The Bleeder · Richard Laymon · ss New Blood Win 89
- 494 · Dracula: The Real Story · Jack Sharkey · ss Playboy; one of a spoof series; provenance unknown.
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The Fear Man Ann Halam (Orion 1-85881-158-9, Oct 95, £9.99, 135pp, hc, cover by Ian Butterworth) Young-adult horror novel. Halam is a pen name for Gwyneth Jones.
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The Haunting of Jessica Raven Ann Halam (Dolphin 1-85881-069-8, May 95 [Jun 95], £3.99, 124pp, pb, cover by Paul Young) Reprint (Orion 1994) young-adult fantasy novel. The search for a cure to a fatal illness leads a teenage girl down dark and haunted paths. Halam is a pen-name for Gwyneth Jones.
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1968 Joe Haldeman (NEL 0-340-63984-9, Mar 95 [May 95], £5.99, 382pp, pb, cover by Bill Gregory) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1994) associational novel. A wrenchingly melancholic story of a youth drafted to Vietnam, and the girl he leaves behind in an increasingly fragmented U.S.A.
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World Without End Joe Haldeman (Titan 1-85286-538-5, Jul 95, £4.50, 150pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Star Trek] Reprint (Bantam 1979) Star Trek novelisation. [First U.K. edition]
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These Fallen Angels Wendy Haley (Headline 0-7472-4571-1, May 95, £4.99, 343pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Alex Danilov] Reprint (Diamond 1994) horror novel about a vampire dynasty in the American South. Second in the Alex Danilov series after This Dark Paradise.
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Bride of the Rat God Barbara Hambly (Raven 1-85487-418-7, Jul 95, £4.99, 336pp, pb, cover by Luis Rey) Reprint (Del Rey 1994) satirical fantasy novel about a 1923 movie star cursed by a magic jewel. [First U.K. edition]
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Star Wars: Children of the Jedi Barbara Hambly (Bantam UK 0-593-03764-2, May 95, £10.99, 345pp, hc, cover by Drew Struzan) [Star Wars] Star Wars novelisation. Simultaneous with the U. S. (Bantam Spectra) edition.
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Travelling with the Dead Barbara Hambly (Voyager 0-00-648029-2, Sep 95 [Aug 95], £4.99, 377pp, pb) [Those Who Hunt the Night] Dark fantasy novel of vampires and spies. Sequel to Immortal Blood, aka Those Who Hunt the Night. Simultaneous with the US (Del Rey) edition.
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Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 Andy Hamilton & Alistair Beaton (Warner UK 0-7515-1366-0, Aug 95 [Sep 95], £4.99, 329pp, pb) Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1994) humorous novel based on the TV series, and set in an apocalyptic 1999.
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The Nano Flower Peter Hamilton (Pan 0-330-33044-6, Mar 95 [Feb 95], £4.99, 566pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Greg Mandel] Hard SF novel: third (and longest) of the Greg Mandel series.
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Spirit of the Place Dennis Hamley (Scholastic/adlib 0-590-54195-1, Sep 95 [Oct 95], £7.99, 300pp, tp, cover by Gary Thompson) Young-adult SF novel of time-slip between the 17th and 20th centuries.
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J. R. R. Tolkien, Artist and Illustrator Wayne G. Hammond & Christina Scull (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10322-9, Oct 95 [Dec 95], £35.00, 208pp, hc, cover by J. R. R. Tolkien) Profusely illustrated study of Tolkiens paintings and drawings, seen in the context of his writing. Simultaneous with the US (Houghton Mifflin) edition. [J. R. R. Tolkien]
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Genesis W. A. Harbinson (NEL 0-450-61752-1, May 95, £5.99, 615pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) [Projekt Saucer] Reprint (Corgi 1980) SF novel. Projekt Saucer: Book 3. Further copyrighted 1982, this singleton novel has since become the centre of a quartet. Previously issued in the USA as Projekt Saucer 2: Genesis, it has become Book 3 in a quartet consisting of Inception (1991); Phoenix (1995); Genesis (1980) and Millennium (projected for 1995).
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Millennium W. A. Harbinson (NEL 0-450-61753-X, Aug 95 [Jul 95], £5.99, 617pp, pb) [Projekt Saucer] SF novel. Projekt Saucer: Book Four.
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Phoenix W. A. Harbinson (NEL 0-450-61751-3, Feb 95 [Jan 95], £5.99, 568pp, pb) [Projekt Saucer] SF novel: Projekt Saucer: Book Two. This quartet is expanded from the single novel Genesis (Corgi 1980).
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Changeling Hearts Simon Harding (Pan 0-330-33211-2, Jul 95 [Jun 95], £4.99, 410pp, pb, cover by Fred Gambino) [Streamskelter] Fantasy novel. The skin of reality has ruptured near the town of Clove in the west country, and the denizens of another realm fearful of its destruction are fleeing into our world. The sequel to Streamskelter.
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The Aurum Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction ed. Phil Hardy (Aurum Press 1-85410-382-2, Nov 95, £25.00, 512pp, tp) Reprint (Aurum Press 1984) non-fiction, reference work. Third edition; first published as The Overlook Film Encyclopedia: Science Fiction (Overlook 1994).
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101 Damnations Andrew Harman (Legend 0-09-949881-2, Jan 95 [Dec 94], £4.99, 293pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Firkin] Humorous fantasy: a new set of characters let loose in the twin kingdoms of his previous books.
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Fahrenheit 666 Andrew Harman (Legend 0-09-949891-X, Aug 95, £4.99, 307pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Mortropolis] Humorous fantasy novel. Temperatures, and tempers, rise in Hell.
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Vampire Twins 2: Bloodlust Janice Harrell (Lions 0-00-675093-1, Jan 95, £2.99, 232pp, pb) [Vampire Twins] Reprint (HarperPaperbacks 1994) young-adult vampire novel about twin teenage vampires. Packaged by Daniel Weiss & Associates; copyrighted by them and the author. [First U.K. edition]
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Vampire Twins 3: Bloodchoice Janice Harrell (Lions 0-00-675094-X, Mar 95, £2.99, 235pp, pb) [Vampire Twins] Reprint (HarperPaperbacks 1994) Young-adult vampire novel about twin teenage vampires. Packaged by Daniel Weiss & Associates; copyrighted by them and the author. [First U.K. edition]
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Vampire Twins 4: Blood Reunion Janice Harrell (HarperCollins UK 0-00-675138-5, Sep 95, £3.50, 235pp, pb) [Vampire Twins] Reprint (HarperPaperbacks 1995) young-adult horror novel about twin teenage vampires; sequel to the Vampire Twins trilogy. Copyrighted by the author and Daniel Weiss Associates. [First U.K. edition]
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Vampire Twins: A Trilogy Janice Harrell (Lions 0-00-675111-3, Jul 95, £5.99, 905pp, pb) [Vampire Twins] Young-adult horror omnibus of the first three books about teenage vampire twins: Bloodline, Bloodlust, and Bloodchoice (all HarperPaperbacks, 1994). The novels are separately paginated.
- 1 · Vampire Twins 1: Bloodline · n. New York: HarperCollins, 1994
- 233 · Vampire Twins 2: Bloodlust · n. New York: HarperCollins, 1994
- 669 · Vampire Twins 3: Bloodchoice · n. New York: HarperCollins, 1994
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The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues Harry Harrison (Bantam UK 0-553-40501-2, Feb 95 [Jan 95], £4.99, 229pp, pb, cover by Jean Pierre Targete) [Slippery Jim (James Bolivar) diGriz] Reprint (Bantam UK 1994) humorous SF novel in the Stainless Steel Rat series.
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One Kings Way Harry Harrison & John Holm (Legend 0-09-930306-X, Feb 95, £15.99, 426pp, hc, cover by Mick Posen) [Hammer and the Cross] Historical fantasy novel set in a 9th century England jointly ruled by the English and the Vikings, under the Viking religion, the Way. Sequel to The Hammer and the Cross. The name John Holm [pseudonym of Tom Shippey] is not used on the cover.
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Carrion Gary Haynes (Warner UK 0-7515-0898-5, Jan 95 [Dec 94], £4.99, 406pp, pb, cover by Jeff K. Potter) Horror novel: a horrific childhood incident leaves a man cursed with psychic powers abilities that are his only protection when an undead monster begins to stalk the land.
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Quantum Leap: Double or Nothing C. J. Henderson & Laura Anne Gilman (Boxtree 0-7522-0682-6, Aug 95, £4.99, 204pp, pb, cover by Colin Howard) [Quantum Leap] Book 11 in the series of novelisations of the TV series, all copyrighted by MCA. Gilman is not listed on the cover.
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The Ghosts of Sleath James Herbert (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647597-3, Jun 95, £4.99, 409pp, pb) [David Ash] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1994) horror novel. In this sequel to Haunted, psychic investigator David Ash explores the quiet village of Sleath, a place of increasingly bizarre incidents.
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Haunted James Herbert (NEL 0-450-49355-5, Nov 95, £5.99, 224pp, pb) [David Ash] Reissue (Hodder & Stoughton 1988) horror novel. A film tie-in edition. First in the Ash series.
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Malcolm and the Cloud-Stealer Douglas Hill (Hippo 0-590-55917-6, Jun 95 [Aug 95], £2.99, 141pp, pb, cover by Paul Young) Young-adult fantasy novel.
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Nevermore William Hjortsberg (Orion 1-85797-651-7, Mar 95, £9.99, 289pp, tp) Reprint (Atlantic Monthly 1994) dark fantasy thriller, in which Houdini and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, haunted by the ghost of Poe, get involved in a series of murders based on Poes stories. A hardcover edition (-650-9, £15.99) is also available. [First U.K. edition]
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Assassins Apprentice Robin Hobb (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224606-6, Aug 95, £9.99, 375pp, hc, cover by John Howe) [Farseer] Reprint (Bantam Spectra 1995) fantasy novel. Book 1 in the Farseer trilogy. [First U.K. edition]
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The Lost Domain Martin Hocke (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21688-X, Sep 94, £4.99, 468pp, pb, cover by Terry Riley) [Ancient Solitary Reign] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) animal fantasy novel about owls. Sequel to The Ancient Solitary Reign.
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The Thread That Binds the Bones Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Raven 1-85487-346-6, Apr 95 [Mar 95], £4.99, 311pp, pb, cover by Una Fricker) Reprint (AvoNova 1993) fantasy novel. A family with supernatural powers gain a son-in-law with strange powers of his own. [First U.K. edition]
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Nightmare Hall: Deadly Attraction Diane Hoh (Scholastic UK 0-590-55612-6, Jan 95, £2.99, 214pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) Young-adult horror novel, third book in a series. The big-man-on-campus flirts with a pretty new girl only to realize that she isnt quite human and never lets go of what she wants. [First U.K. edition]
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Nightmare Hall: The Scream Team Diane Hoh (Scholastic UK 0-590-13103-6, Oct 95, £3.50, 164pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel, sixth book in a series. Delle is desperate to become a cheerleader until she learns that you have to die to make the team. (This seems to have appeared as Book 5 in the US). [First U.K. edition]
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Nightmare Hall: The Wish Diane Hoh (Scholastic UK 0-590-55906-0, Apr 95, £3.50, 195pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel, fourth book in a series. A mechanical wishing booth in the campus pizzeria seems to be responsible for horrible incidents. [First U.K. edition]
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Dead in the Water Nancy Holder (Raven 1-85487-419-5, Nov 95, £4.99, 413pp, pb, cover by J. K. Potter) Reprint (Dell Abyss 1994) horror novel about a sea voyage from Long Beach to Hawaii that turns into a nightmare when the ship sinks and survivors are picked up by a vessel that masks a deadly evil. Winner of the 1995 Bram Stoker Award for Novel. [First U.K. edition]
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Making Love Nancy Holder & Melanie Tem (Raven 1-85487-345-8, Jan 95, £4.99, 368pp, pb) Reprint (Dell Abyss 1993) horror novel of repressed woman who dreams her ideal lover into existence, and is happy until she realises she can no longer control him. [First U.K. edition]
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The Emerald Forest [by ?] Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648014-4, Aug 95, £4.99, 253pp, pb, cover by Jim Burns) Reprint (Penguin 1985) novelisation of the film.
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Merlins Wood Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648001-2, Mar 95, £4.99, 286pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Mythago] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1994) fantasy novel, fourth in the Mythago Wood cycle, plus two reprinted short stories.
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The Vampyre: Being the True Pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron Tom Holland (Little, Brown UK 0-316-91227-1, Mar 95, £9.99, 341pp, hc, cover by Thomas Phillips) [Vampyre] Fantasy/horror novel. Rebecca Carville learns that when Lord Byrons personal physician Polidori wrote of vampires, it was little less than the truth.
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The Kingmaking Helen Hollick (Mandarin 0-7493-1759-0, Jan 95 [Feb 95], £5.99, 647pp, pb, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Pendragons Banner] Reprint (Heinemann 1994) fantasy novel based on the Arthurian Legends. Book One of the Pendragons Banner trilogy.
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Pendragons Banner Helen Hollick (Heinemann 0-434-00222-4, Sep 95 [Nov 95], £8.99, 547pp, tp, cover by Stephen Bradbury) [Pendragons Banner] Fantasy novel. Book Two of the trilogy Pendragons Banner.
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Nightrider Sheila Holligon (Signet Creed 0-451-18330-4, May 95 [Apr 95], £4.99, 320pp, pb) Dark fantasy novel. When a photographer takes possession of her fathers country cottage, a spirit takes sexual possession of her body - erotic at first, but with increasing brutality. A first novel.
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Djinn Rummy Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-329-8, Aug 95, £15.99, 277pp, hc, cover by Steve Lee) Humorous fantasy novel. After fourteen years, an aggravated djinn is released from his bottle...his asprin bottle.
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Faust Among Equals Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-265-8, Jan 95 [Dec 94], £4.99, 292pp, pb, cover by Steve Lee) Reprint (Orbit 1994) comic fantasy: after a management buy-out in Hell, the Most Wanted Man in History escapes.
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Odds and Gods Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-266-6, Jan 95 [Dec 94], £14.99, 282pp, hc, cover by Steve Lee) Comic fantasy: all the gods of humanity are enjoying (eternal) life in their retirement home until three of the idiots restart a traction engine.
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Odds and Gods Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-299-2, Aug 95, £4.99, 282pp, pb, cover by Steve Lee) Reprint (Orbit 1995) humorous fantasy novel.
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Toad Triumphant William Horwood (HarperCollins UK 0-00-225309-7, Dec 95, £12.99, 260pp, hc, cover by Patrick Benson) [Wind in the Willows] Animal fantasy novel - a second sequel to The Wind in the Willows after Horwoods Willows in Winter. Illustrated by Patrick Benson.
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The Willows in Winter William Horwood (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647873-5, Dec 95, £4.99, 295pp, pb, cover by Patrick Benson) [Wind in the Willows] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) animal fantasy novel - a sequel to The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame. Illustrated by Patrick Benson.
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The Wolves of Time I: Journeys to the Heartland William Horwood (HarperCollins UK 0-00-223677-X, Feb 95, £14.99, 490pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Wolves of Time] Fantasy novel. A mystical summons draws wolves from all over Europe to band together against the evil Mennem and the Magyar wolf-pack to re-take their Heartland and restore the natural order of the world.
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MapHead Lesley Howarth (Walker 0-7445-3647-2, Mar 95 [Apr 95], £3.99, 159pp, pb, cover by Fletcher Sibthorp) [MapHead] Reprint (Walker 1994) young-adult SF novel. MapHead and his father find Earth a strange and confusing place and MapHeads ability to mentally project pictures onto his own skin causes further problems. MapHead won the 1995 Guardian Childrens Fiction Award.
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