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Basil Copper

(1924 - )

About Basil Copper

Basil Copper is an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He has written over fifty books and scripts. In addition to fantasy and horror, Copper is known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuting the character created by August Derleth, although tensions between Copper and the Estate of August Derleth make any further Solar Pons stories unlikely. He also wrote the long-running hard-boiled detective stories of "Mike Faraday" (58 novels from 1966 to 1988).

In early 2008, a bio-bibilography was published on him: Basil Copper: A Life in Books, compiled and edited by Stephen Jones.

Series

Mike Faraday
The Dark Mirror (1966)
Night Frost (1966)
No Flowers for the General (1967)
Scratch on the Dark (1967)
Die Now, Live Later (1968)
Don't Bleed on Me (1968)
The Marble Orchard (1969)
Dead File (1970)
No Letters from the Grave (1971)
The Big Chill (1972)
Strong-Arm (1972)
The Breaking Point (1973)
A Great Year for Dying (1973)
Shock-Wave (1973)
Feedback (1974)
Ricochet (1974)
A Voice from the Dead (1974)
A Good Place to Die (1975)
The High Wall (1975)
Impact (1975)
Crack in the Sidewalk (1976)
The Lonely Place (1976)
Tight Corner (1976)
Death Squad (1977)
The Year of the Dragon (1977)
Murder One (1978)
Big Rip-off (1979)
A Quiet Room in Hell (1979)
The Caligari Complex (1980)
Flip-side (1980)
Dark Entry (1981)
The Empty Silence (1981)
The Long Rest (1981)
The Far Horizon (1982)
Hang Loose (1982)
Shoot-out (1982)
Hard Contract (1983)
Pressure Point (1983)
Trigger-Man (1983)
The Hook (1984)
You Only Die Once (1984)
The Far Side of Fear (1985)
Tuxedo Park (1985)
Blood on the Moon (1986)
Jet-Lag (1986)
Snow-Job (1986)
Bad Scene (1987)
Heavy Iron (1987)
Turn Down an Empty Glass (1987)
House-Dick (1988)
Print Out (1988)

Solar Pons
The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons (1976)
The Dossier of Solar Pons (1979)
The Further Adventures of Solar Pons (1979)
The Secret Files of Solar Pons (1979)
Solar Pons Omnibus (omnibus) (1981)
The Exploits of Solar Pons (1992)
The Recollections of Solar Pons (1995)

Anthologies edited

Cold Hand On My Shoulder: Tales of Terror And Suspense (2002)

Non fiction

The Vampire In Legend and Fact (1971)
The Vampire in Legend, Fact and Art (1975)
The Werewolf...in Legend, Fact and Art (1977)

Anthologies containing stories by Basil Copper

The 5th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1964)
The 6th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1965)
The 8th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1967)
The Evil People (1968)
Legends for the Dark (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents : A Month of Mystery Book 2 (1970)
The Year's Best Horror Stories II (1972)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
The Year's Best Horror Stories III (1973)
Space 2 (1974)
Armada Sci1Fi (1975)
Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories (1990)
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1990)
Dark Voices 3: The Pan Book of Horror (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
Dark Destiny (1994)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology (1995)
Dark Love (1995)
The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula: Vampire Tales for the New Millennium (1997)
The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)

Short stories

	Camera Obscura (1965)
	The Great Vore (1967)
	The Grey House (1967)
	Old Mrs Cartwright (1967)
	The Academy of Pain (1968)
	Doctor Porthos (1968)
	Amber Print (1969)
	Out of the Fog (1970)
	The Knocker at the Portico (1971)
	The Recompensing Of Albano Pizar (1972)
	The Second Passenger (1973)
	Message from the Stars (1974)
	The Trodes (1975)
	Justice at the Crossroads (1978)
	Mrs Van Donk (1978)
	The Treasure of Our Lady (1978)
	The Way the World Died (1978)
	The Adventure of Buffington Old Grange (1979)
	The Adventure of the Anguished Actor (1979)
	The Adventure of the Crawling Horror (1979)
	The Adventure of the Defeated Doctor (1979)
	The Adventure of the Hammer of Hate (1979)
	The Adventure of the Horrified Heiress (1979)
	The Adventure of the Ignored Idols (1979)
	The Adventure of the Ipi Idol (1979)
	The Adventure of the Missing Student (1979)
	The Adventure of the Perplexed Photographer (1979)
	The Adventure of the Shaft of Death (1979)
	The Adventure of the Six Gold Doubloons (1979)
	The Adveture of the Surrey Sadist (1979)
	The Sealed Spire Mystery (1979)
	The Adventure of the Frightened Governess (1980)
	The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory (1980)
	The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich (1980)
	Murder at the Zoo (1980)
	Shaft Number 247 (1980)
	Better Dead (1994)
	Beyond the Reef (1994)
	The Adventure of the Cursed Curator (1995)
	The Adventure of the Hound of Hell (1995)
	The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire (1995)
	Bright Blades Gleaming (1995)
	Death of a Demi-God (1995)
	The Haunted Hotel (1997)
	When Greek Meets Greek (1997)
	Archives of the Dead
	Dr Porthos
	The Janissaries of Emilion
	Reader, I Buried Him
	The Spider

Awards

World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1975) : From Evil's Pillow

Books about Basil Copper

Basil Copper (2006) by Stephen Jones

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