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Ardath Mayhar

(Ardath Frances Hurst Mayhar)

(1930 - )
aka
Frank Cannon, Frances Hurst, John Killdeer (with David Robbins)

About Ardath Mayhar

Author of sixty novels, Ardath Mayhar began her career in the early eighties with science fiction novels, fantasy, and westerns. Doubleday, Atheneum, Zebra, and TSR published many of these. She has used several pseudonyms, westerns written as Frank Cannon, mountain man novels written as John Killdeer, and a historical novel as Frances Hurst. Four prehistoric Indian books under her own name came out from Berkley, one of which has been reprinted by The Fiction Works.

Series

Kyrannon
1. How the Gods Wove in Kyrannon (1979)
2. The Seekers of Shar-Nuhn (1980)

Tyrnos
1. Soul-Singer of Tyrnos (1981)
2. The Runes of the Lyre (1982)

Burr Henderson
1. Medicine Walk (1981)
2. Medicine Dream (2009)

Tales of the Triple Moons
Warlock's Gift (1982)
Lords of the Triple Moons (1983)

Macaque Cycle (with Ron Fortier)
1. Monkey Station (1989)
2. Trail of the Seahawks (1987)

Mesa
1. People of the Mesa (1992)
2. Island in the Lake (1993)
3. Towers of the Earth (1994)

Exiles of Damaria
1. Riddles and Dreams (2003)
2. Ships And Seekers (2005)
The Exiles of Damaria (2009)

Washington Shipp Mystery
The Body in the Swamp (2009)
Death in the Square (2009)

Novels

Khi to Freedom (1983)
Exile on Vlahil (1984)
The Saga of Grittel Sundotha (1985)
The World Ends in Hickory Hollow (1985)
Carrots and Miggle (1986)
Makra Choria (1987)
The Wall (1987)
Feud at Sweetwater Creek (1987) (writing as Frank Cannon)
A Place of Silver Silence (1988)
Bloody Texas Trail (1988) (writing as Frank Cannon)
Two Moons and the Black Tower (1988)
The Absolutely Perfect Horse (1989) (with Marylois Dunn)
Hunters of the Plains (1995)
High Mountain Winter (1996) (writing as Frances Hurst)
Timber Pirates (1997)
Crowheart (1997)
A Road of Stars (1998)
The Snowlost / Exile on Vlahil: Being a Tale of Man and Moohl, Who Found Themselves Compatible (2000)
Closely Knit in Scarlatt (2004)
The Black Tower (2004)
World of the Greist (2004)
The Tulpa (2005)
The Conjure: A Novel of Supernatural Revenge (2005)
Forbidden Geometries: An Epic Fantasy of a Desert World (2005)
Prescription for Danger (2007)
Witchfire (2007) (with Ron Fortier)
The Heirs of Three Oaks (2007)
The Door in the Hill: A Tale of the Turnipins (2009)
The Dropouts (2009)
The Fugitives: A Tale of Prehistoric Times (2009)
Lone Runner: A Novel of the Old West (2009)
Messengers in White (2009)
A Planet Called Heaven (2009)
Deadly Memoir: (2009)
The Lintons of Skillet Bend: A Novel of East Texas (2009)
The Clarrington Heritage (2009)
Shock Treatment (2009)
Vendetta (2009)

Omnibus

Born Rebel / Guns of Livingston Frost (2010)
Slaughterhouse World / Knack' Attack (2010) (with Robert Reginald)

Collections

Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule: And Other Tales from Cotton Country (1984)
The Crystal Skull (2004)
The Twilight Dancer: And Other Tales Of Magic, Fantasy And The Supernatural (2004)
Crazy Quilt: The Best Short Stories of Ardath Mayhar (2009)
Strange Doin's in the Pine Hills (2009)
A World of Weirdities (2009)
Reflections and Journey to an Ending (poems) (2009)
The Loquat Eyes: More Tall Tales from Cotton County, Texas (2010)
The Methodist Bobcat: 27 Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy Stories (2010)

Series contributed to

Fuzzies
Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey (1982)

BattleTech
The Sword and the Dagger (1986)

Non fiction

Through a Stone Wall: Lessons from Thirty Years of Writing (1996)
Strange View from a Skewed Orbit (2009)

Anthologies containing stories by Ardath Mayhar

Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984)
A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985)
After Midnight (1986)
Best of the Horror Show: An Adventure in Terror (1987)
Masques 2 (1987)
Catfantastic II (1990)
Excalibur (1995)
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998)
Catfantastic V (1999)

Short stories

	The Eagle-Claw Rattle (1980)
	Samhain: Full Moon and I Have Made My Bones Secure (1984)
	The Well That Whispered Darkness (1984)
	A Night in Possum Holler (1986)
	In the Tank (1987)
	Hermione at Moon House (1990)
	The Little Finger on the Left Hand (1990)
	The Weapon (1995)
	The Very Early Hermione (1999)

Ardath Mayhar recommends

Shadow Dancers (1987)
(Sabazel, book 3)
Lillian Stewart Carl
"...fantasy that is woven intricately upon a weft of solid classical knowledge, yet is also colored by a creative imagination of great scope and power..."

Wings of Power (1989)
(Sabazel, book 4)
Lillian Stewart Carl
"an intense tale...a complex and fascinating plot..."

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