The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Books, Listed by Author

CAMPBELL, (John) RAMSEY (stories) (chron.) (continued)

• * _Midnight Sun (Futura 0-7088-4857-5, Nov ’91 [Oct ’91], £4.50, 312pp, pb) Reprint (Macdonald 1990) horror novel.
• * _Midnight Sun (Tor 0-812-51803-9, Jan ’92 [Dec ’91], $4.99, 374pp, pb, cover by Tim O’Brien) Reprint (Macdonald 1990) horror novel of an evil that stalks a family living at the edge of a mysterious park.
• * _The Nameless (Pocket 0-671-44489-1, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], $3.50, 288pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1981) horror-fantasy novel.
• * _The Nameless (Panther, 1985, 272pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1981) horror-fantasy novel. The text has been revised for this edition.
• * _The Nameless (Tor 0-812-58125-3, Feb ’85 [Jan ’85], $3.50, 312pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1981) horror-fantasy novel.
• * _The Nameless (Little, Brown UK 0-356-20777-3, Jul ’92, £13.99, 278pp, hc, cover by Oliver Hunter) Reprint (Macmillan 1981) horror novel. This edition follows the revised text of the 1985 (Panther) edition and adds a new afterword discussing the revisions that were made. [Not seen]
• * _The Nameless (Warner UK 0-7088-5257-2, Jul ’92, £4.50, 278pp, pb, cover by Oliver Hunter) Reprint (Macmillan 1981) horror novel. This edition follows the revised text of the 1985 (Panther) edition and adds a new afterword discussing the revisions that were made.
• * +Nazareth Hill (Tor 0-312-86344-6, Jun ’97 [May ’97], $23.95, 383pp, hc) Horror novel. An asylum made over into apartments causes new tenants’ live to repeat old evils. First US edition (Headline 1996 as The House on Nazareth Hill).
• * _Nazareth Hill (Tor 0-812-53930-3, May ’98 [Apr ’98], $5.99, 383pp, pb) Reprint (Headline 1996 as The House on Nazareth Hill) horror novel.
• * *Needing Ghosts (Legend 0-7126-3685-4, Aug ’90, £25.00, 80pp, hc) Horror novella. This is a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, signed by the author.
• * *Needing Ghosts (Legend 0-7126-2159-8, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], £4.50, 80pp, tp, cover by Jamel Akib) Horror novella, illustrated throughout by Jamel Akib. This trade edition was preceded by a limited edition. Also available in hardcover (-3691-9, £8.99).
• * _Night of the Claw (Tor 0-812-51280-4, May ’92 [Apr ’92], $4.99, 367pp, pb, cover by Tim O’Brien) Reissue (St. Martin’s 1983) horror novel. A metal claw from Africa has a dangerous effect on anyone who possesses it. Second printing.
• * *Obsession (Macmillan 0-02-521130-7, Mar ’85 [Feb ’85], $16.95, 247pp, hc) Dark fantasy/horror novel.
• * _Obsession (Tor 0-812-51656-7, Feb ’86 [Jan ’86], $3.95, 309pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1985) horror novel.
• * _Obsession (Grafton 0-586-06521-0, Aug ’86, £2.50, 280pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1985) horror novel.
• * _Obsession (Futura 0-7088-4396-4, Sep ’90, £3.50, 283pp, pb, cover by Oliver Hunter) Reprint (Macmillan 1985) horror novel. This edition includes a new afterword by the author.
• * _Obsession (Little, Brown UK 0-316-90453-8, Nov ’92 [Dec ’92], £14.99, 283pp, hc) Reprint (Macmillan 1985) horror novel. This edition contains the afterword from the 1990 (Futura) edition.
• * *The One Safe Place (Headline 0-7472-0666-X, Mar ’95, £16.99, 373pp, hc, cover by Simon Dewey) Associational thriller.
• * _The One Safe Place (Headline 0-7472-3997-5, Sep ’95, £5.99, 501pp, pb, cover by Simon Dewey) Reprint (Headline 1995) associational thriller.
• * +The One Safe Place (Tor/Forge 0-312-86035-8, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], $23.95, 383pp, hc) Associational psychological horror novel. First US edition (Headline 1995).
• * _The One Safe Place (Tor 0-812-54555-9, Aug ’97 [Jul ’97], $6.99, 401pp, pb) Reprint (Headline 1995) associational psychological horror novel.
• * _The Parasite (Tor 0-812-51668-0, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $4.95, 337pp, pb) Reprint (Macmillan 1980) horror/occult novel.
• * _The Parasite (Headline 0-7472-4061-2, Feb ’93, £4.99, 369pp, pb, cover by Simon Dewey) Reprint (Millington 1980 as To Wake the Dead) horror novel. This edition contains both the original ending, and the revised version written for the American edition (Macmillan 1980 as The Parasite), and has a new afterword discussing the history of the book and the two endings.
• * _Scared Stiff (Warner 0-446-38783-5, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $8.95, 173pp, tp) Reprint (Scream/Press 1987) collection of erotic horror stories.
• * _Scared Stiff (Futura 0-7088-4476-6, Apr ’91, £3.50, 177pp, pb, cover by Oliver Hunter) Reprint (Scream/Press 1987) collection of seven erotic horror stories, with an introduction by Clive Barker and the afterword from the Macdonald (1989) edition.
• * *Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death (Scream/Press 0-910489-17-3, Jul ’87 [Jun ’87], $25.00, 173pp, hc) Collection of Campbell’s most outrageous “adult horror” stories (two original), illustrated by J.K. Potter. A boxed, signed edition of 250 copies was announced, but not seen. (Contents)
• * _Scared Stiff: Tales of Sex and Death (Macdonald 0-356-17945-1, Sep ’89, £11.95, 177pp, hc) Reprint (Scream/Press 1987) erotic horror collection, with an introduction by Clive Barker, illustrations by J.K. Potter, and a new afterword by Ramsey Campbell. [First U.K. edition]
• * *Strange Things and Stranger Places (Tor 0-312-85514-1, Jun ’93 [May ’93], $18.95, 256pp, hc, cover by Eric Peterson) Collection of 10 horror stories, including the novella “Needing Ghosts”, originally published separately, plus an introduction by the author. (Contents)
• * _Strange Things and Stranger Places (Tor 0-812-52479-9, Oct ’94 [Sep ’94], $4.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Eric Peterson) Reprint (Tor 1993) collection of 10 horror stories, including the novella “Needing Ghosts”, originally published separately, plus an introduction by the author.
• * *Two Obscure Tales (Necronomicon Press 0-940884-53-4, Jan ’93 [Feb ’93], $4.50, 27pp, ph, cover by Allen Koszowski) Collection of two original horror stories, with an afterword by the author and illustrations by Allen Koszowski. Order from Necronomicon Press, 101 Lockwood St., West Warwick RI 02893. (Contents)
• * *Waking Nightmares (Tor 0-312-85250-9, Nov ’91 [Oct ’91], $18.95, 273pp, hc, cover by Tim O’Brien) Collection of 11 horror stories with an introduction by the author. (Contents)
• * _Waking Nightmares (Little, Brown UK 0-356-20341-7, Jul ’92, £13.99, 273pp, hc) Reprint (Tor 1991) collection of 11 horror stories with an introduction by the author. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Waking Nightmares (Warner UK 0-7515-0165-4, Jul ’93, £4.99, 273pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1991) collection of 19 horror stories.
• * _Waking Nightmares (Tor 0-812-50110-1, Oct ’93 [Sep ’93], $4.99, 273pp, pb) Reprint (Tor 1991) collection of 18 horror stories.

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• * _Best New Horror (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * _Best New Horror 2 (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * _Best New Horror 3 (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * _Best New Horror 4 (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * _Best New Horror 5 (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * _The Best New Horror: Volume Five (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * *Deathport (Pocket 0-671-69575-4, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], $4.99, 356pp, pb, cover by Ben Perini) Original shared-world anthology of 28 airport horror stories, with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. A Horror Writers of America anthology. (Contents)
• * *Fine Frights: Stories that Scared Me (Tor 0-812-51670-2, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], $3.95, 309pp, pb) Anthology of 12 horror stories. (Contents)
• * _The Giant Book of Best New Horror (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * _The Giant Book of Terror (with Stephen Jones) See entry under Stephen Jones.
• * _New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (Grafton 0-586-20093-2, Sep ’88, £3.50, 335pp, pb) Reprint (Arkham House 1980) original horror anthology.
• * _New Terrors I (Pocket 0-671-53196-4, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $3.50, 262pp, pb) Reissue (Pocket 1982 as New Terrors) horror anthology of 15 stories selected from the Pan 1980 original anthologies New Terrors 1 and New Terrors 2. Horror and dark fantasy.
• * *New Terrors II (Pocket 0-671-45117-0, Sep ’84 [Aug ’84], $3.50, 256pp, pb) Horror anthology of 15 stories selected from the Pan 1980 original anthologies New Terrors 1 and New Terrors 2. (Contents)
• * *Omnibus of New Terrors (Pan 0-330-28854-7, 1985 [Aug ’96], £7.99, xii+649pp, pb) Anthology of 37 horror stories originally published in New Terrors (Pan 1980) and New Terrors 2 (Pan 1980). The book is called New Terrors Omnibus on the cover and spine. (Contents)
• * *Uncanny Banquet (Little, Brown UK 0-316-90311-6, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], £14.99, 338pp, hc) Anthology of ten supernatural horror stories, including an original novelette by Ramsey Campbell and Adrian Ross’ rare 1914 novel The Hole of the Pit. (Contents)
• * _Uncanny Banquet (Warner UK 0-7515-0704-0, Nov ’93, £4.99, 338pp, pb, cover by David Kearney) Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1992) anthology of ten supernatural horror stories, including an original novelette by Ramsey Campbell and Adrian Ross’s rare 1914 short novel The Hole of the Pit.

CAMPBELL-BUTLER, RONALD

• * *Fadar (Janus 1-85756-173-2, Apr ’95, £14.95, 198pp, hc) SF novel. In the year 3052, real humans can only survive in a few domed cities on the dying Earth. A last desperate search for salvation uncovers an entity still waiting to complete its great task after three hundred million years. A first novel.

CAMPTON, DAVID (1924-2006) (stories)

• * *Frankenstein (with Mary W. Shelley) (Beaver 0-09-949770-0, Oct ’87, £1.75, 143pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Juvenile horror novel. Volume 5 in the Fleshcreepers series.
• * *Frankenstein (with Mary W. Shelley) (Hutchinson 0-09-173483-5, Oct ’87, £5.95, 144pp, hc) [Frankenstein] Hardcover edition of the above. [Not seen]
• * *Vampyre (Hutchinson 0-09-167890-0, Oct ’86, £5.95, 143pp, hc) Juvenile horror novel, retelling of John Polidori’s The Vampyre. Volume 2 in the Fleshcreepers series.
• * *Vampyre (Beaver 0-09-949720-4, Oct ’86, £1.75, 144pp, pb) Paperback edition of the above.

CAN XUE; pseudonym (1953- ) (stories)

• * *The Embroidered Shoes (Holt 0-8050-5413-8, Sep ’97 [Feb ’98], $20.00, 221pp, hc) Collection of 11 magical/hallucinatory stories, seven previously published, at least in part, in the US. Translated from the Chinese by Ronald R. Janssen & Jian Zhang. (Contents)

CANALS, CUCA

• * *Berta La Larga (Anchor UK 1-86230-021-6, Oct ’98 [Sep ’98], £6.99, 172pp, tp) Literary fantasy novel. Translated from the Spanish original (Plaza & Janes 1996) by Sonia Soto. A young woman’s moods affect the weather.

CANE, NANCY

• * *Circle of Light (Leisure Love Spell 0-505-51949-6, May ’94, $4.99, 391pp, pb) SF romance about a female attorney kidnapped by an interstellar warrior.

CANFIELD, SANDRA (Kay Patterson) (1944-2003)

• * *The Loving (Harper Paperbacks 0-06-104176-9, Jun ’92 [May ’92], $4.99, 370pp, pb, cover by Renato Aime) Time-travel romance novel. Surgeon Roan Jacob is fascinated by the ghost in an old New Orleans mansion and lets her take him back to another time. Canfield also writes as Karen Keast.

CANNING, J., ed. (stories)

• * *Ladies of Winter (Fans and Associated of Nocturnal Ghoul’s Society; San Jose, CA, Aug ’94, $10.00, tp) (Contents)

CANNING, JOHN, ed. (1920- )

• * _50 Great Ghost Stories (Souvenir Press 0-285-62034-7, Mar ’88, £9.95, 495pp, hc) Reissue (Souvenir 1971) original ghost anthology.

CANNON, P(eter) H(ughes) (1951- ) (stories) (chron.)

• * _The Chronology Out of Time: Dates in the Fiction of H.P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press no ISBN, Jan ’97 [Feb ’97], $5.95, 36pp, ph, cover by Jason Eckhardt) Reprint (Necronomicon 1986) chapbook edition of an essay exploring Lovecraft’s use of dates, with a chronology of fictional events. This is the revised second edition; we apparently missed the first. Available from Necronomicon Press, PO Box 1304, West Warwick RI 02893. [Lovecraft]
• * *H.P. Lovecraft (G.K. Hall/Twayne 0-8057-7539-0, Jun ’89, $18.95, 153pp, hc) Non-fiction; criticism. Part of Twayne’s United States Authors Series. [Lovecraft]
• * *The Lovecraft Papers (SFBC #13554, Sep ’96 [Aug ’96], $7.98, 150pp, hc, cover by J. C. Eckhardt) Omnibus of the Wodehouse-Lovecraftian parody collection Scream for Jeeves (Wodecraft Press 1994) and Holmes-Lovecraft novel Pulptime (Weirdbook 1984). Illustrated by J.C. Eckhardt. (Contents)
• * *Pulptime (Weirdbook no ISBN, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $15.00, 94pp, hc) “An apocryphal tale of H.P. Lovecraft and his friends, as if narrated by Frank Belknap Long, Jr.” Illustrations by Stephen Fabian. Also available in a trade paperback edition for $5.00.
• * *Scream for Jeeves: A Parody (Wodecraft Press 0-940-88460-7, Jun ’94, $7.50, 86pp, tp, cover by J. C. Eckhardt) Collection of three parodies that place P.G. Wodehouse’s Jeeves and Bertie Wooster squarely in the middle of Lovecraft stories, such as “The Rats in the Walls.” There is also a long essay on Wodehouse, Lovecraft, and Arthur Conan Doyle, with illustrations by J.C. Eckhardt. A hardcover edition (-88461-5, $20.00) was announced but not seen. Order from Necronomicon Press, PO Box 1304, West Warwick RI 02893. (Contents)
• * *Sunset Terrace Imagery in Lovecraft and Other Essays (Necronomicon Press 0-940884-32-1, Jul ’90 [Aug ’90], $5.50, 42pp, ph, cover by Jason C. Eckhardt) Collection of 12 Lovecraftian essays with an introduction by Steven J. Mariconda. [Lovecraft]

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• * *Lovecraft Remembered (Arkham House 0-87054-173-0, Jan ’99 [Nov ’98], $29.95, 486pp, hc, cover by Jason C. Eckhardt) Non-fiction gathering of 65 reminiscences and other pieces about Lovecraft, by neighbors, amateur writers, professionals, fans, critics, etc., including Robert Bloch, Clark Ashton Smith, August Derleth, and Robert E. Howard. Available from Arkham House, PO Box 546, Sauk City WI 53583. [Lovecraft]

CANTER, MARK (stories)

• * *Down to Heaven (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-66041-4, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], £16.99, 326pp, hc, cover by Larry Rostant) Fantasy novel. Two American biologists crash on a remote Venezuelan plateau where an ancient Chinese city is dying due to its falling male birthrate.
• * _Down to Heaven (NEL 0-340-66042-2, Oct ’97 [Sep ’97], £5.99, 534pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1997) fantasy novel.
• * _Ember from the Sun (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-64004-9, Oct ’95, £16.99, 330pp, hc) Reprint (Delacorte 1995) SF/fantasy novel. A Neanderthal embryo is brought to term; the resultant girl has amazing powers. A first novel. [First U.K. edition]
• * _Ember from the Sun (NEL 0-340-64002-2, Apr ’96 [Mar ’96], £5.99, 424pp, pb) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1995) SF/fantasy novel. A neanderthal embryo is brought to term; the resultant girl-child has special powers.
• * +Ember from the Sun (Delacorte 0-385-31457-4, Oct ’96 [Sep ’96], $22.95, 418pp, hc) Cloned Neanderthal child with psychic powers grows up thinking she’s human. First US edition (NEL 1996).
• * _Ember from the Sun (Dell 0-440-22430-6, Jul ’97 [Jun ’97], $6.99, 516pp, pb) Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 1995) story of a cloned Neanderthal.

CANTO, CHRISTOPHER

• * *The History of the Future (with Odile Faliu) (Flammarion 2-08013-544-9, Sep ’93 [Feb ’94], $45.00, 159pp, hc, cover by Frank R. Paul) Art book. Illustrations from the 1850s-1950s, all representing images of the 21st century and beyond, plus commentary. Text translated from the French by Francis Cowper (although there is no mention of an earlier French edition). Available in the US through Abbeville Press.

CANTOR, ELI (1913- ); see pseudonym Gregory A. Douglas

CANTOR, JAY (1948- ) (stories)

• * _Krazy Kat (Macmillan Collier 0-02-042081-1, Nov ’88 [Mar ’89], $7.95, 245pp, tp) Reprint (Knopf 1987) comic literary x-rated fantasy novel featuring George Herriman’s comic strip characters.
• * *Krazy Kat: A Novel in Five Panels (Knopf 0-394-55025-0, Jan ’88, $16.95, 250pp, hc) Bizarre literary fantasy novel — Krazy and company encounter Oppenheimer and the bomb.
• * _Krazy Kat: A Novel in Five Panels (SFBC #12444, Oct ’88, $4.98, 250pp, hc) Reprint (Knopf 1988) literary fantasy novel.

CANTRELL, LISA W(right) (1945- ) (stories)

• * *Boneman (Tor 0-312-85307-6, Nov ’92 [Oct ’92], $18.95, 256pp, hc, cover by Tim O’Brien) Horror novel of a series of drug murders in a North Carolina city that lead to the resurrection of zombies.
• * _Boneman (Tor 0-812-51970-1, May ’95 [Apr ’95], $4.99, 256pp, pb, cover by Thomas Canty) Reprint (Tor 1992) horror novel of drug murders and zombies in North Carolina.
• * *The Manse (Tor 0-812-51674-5, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $3.95, 341pp, pb) Horror novel of evil on Halloween.
• * *The Ridge (Tor 0-812-50011-3, Oct ’89 [Sep ’89], $4.95, 338pp, pb) Horror novel about a little girl who is the catalyst for the murderous force that killed her family.
• * *Torments (Tor 0-812-50668-5, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $4.95, 308pp, pb, cover by Bob Eggleton) Horror novel, sequel to the Stoker Award-winning The Manse.

CANTY, THOMAS (1952- ) (stories)

• * *A Monster At Christmas (Donald M. Grant 0-937986-67-4, Oct ’85, $30.00, 44pp, hc) Fantasy/horror poem with text by Canty, color illustrations by Phil Hale, a jauntily gruesome production a la Gremlins, guaranteed to give nightmares to sensitive tots. (FCM) Oversized volume in limited edition signed by author and artist.

CAPEK, JOSEF (1887-1945) (stories)

• * _R. U. R. and The Insect Play (with Karel Capek) (Oxford University Press 0-19-281010-3, Oct ’96 [Dec ’96], £7.99, 177pp, tp) Reprint (??? ???) collection of 2 classic satirical SF/fantasy plays. Originally published separately by Oxford University Press in 1923. (Contents)

CAPEK, KAREL (1890-1938) (stories) (chron.)

• * *Apocryphal Tales (Catbird Press 0-945774-34-6, Jun ’97 [Jul ’97], $13.95, 190pp, tp) Associational collection of Capek’s “Fables”, “Apocryphal Tales”, and “Would-Be Tales” — short takes on history, myth, and literature, not really SF or fantasy. Translated and introduced by Norma Comrada. (Contents)
• * *Nine Fairy Tales by Karel Capek (and One More Thrown in for Good Measure) (Northwestern University Press 0-8101-0865-8, May ’90 [Feb ’91], $10.95, 253pp, tp, cover by Josef Capek) Collection of 10 satiric fairy tales first published as Devatero pohadek a jeste jedna od Josefa Capka jako privazek (Borovy, Prague 1931). New translation by Dagmar Herrman. The previous English translation (Allen & Unwin 1933) appeared as Fairy Tales, with one extra as makeweight by Joseph Capek. Illustrations by Joseph Capek, who also wrote the tenth story, though he is not officially listed as co-author here. A hardcover (-0864-X, $24.95) was announced, but not seen.