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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)

Windwalker (with Ron Fortier)
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)

Novels

Timber Pirates
Medicine Walk (1981)
Warlock's Gift (1982)
Khi to Freedom (1983)
Lords of the Triple Moons (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)
Feud at Sweetwater Creek (1987) (writing as Frank Cannon)
The Wall (1987)
A Place of Silver Silence (1988)
Bloody Texas Trail (1988) (writing as Frank Cannon)
The Absolutely Perfect Horse (1989) (with Marylois Dunn)
Monkey Station (1989) (with Ron Fortier)
Hunters of the Plains (1995)
High Mountain Winter (1996) (writing as Frances Hurst)
Crowheart (1997)
A Road of Stars (1998)
The Snowlost / Exile on Vlahil: Being a Tale of Man and Moohl, Who Found Themselves Compatible (2000)
Prescription for Danger (2007)
Witchfire (2007) (with Ron Fortier)
The Heirs of Three Oaks (2007)

Collections

Slewfoot Sally and the Flying Mule: And Other Tales from Cotton Country (1984)

Series contributed to

Fuzzies
Golden Dream: A Fuzzy Odyssey (1982)

BattleTech
The Sword and the Dagger (1986)

Non fiction

Through a Stone Wall (1996)

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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