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Darrell Schweitzer

(Darrell Charles Schweitzer)
USA  (1952 - )
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About Darrell Schweitzer
Darrell Schweitzer (born August 27, 1952) is an American writer, editor, and essayist in the field of speculative fiction. Much of his focus has been on dark fantasy and horror, although he does also work in science fiction and fantasy. Schweitzer is also a prolific writer of literary criticism and editor of collections of essays on various writers within his preferred genres.
 
Novels
The Shattered GoddessThe White IsleThe Mask of the SorcererSekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer
Living With the Dead
 
Collections
We Are All Legends (1981)
The Meaning of Life, and Other Awesome Cosmic Revelations (1989)
Transients: And Other Disquieting Stories (1993)
Non Compost Mentis (1995)
Poetica Dementia (1997)
Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999)
Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories (1999) (with Jason van Hollander)
Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical (2000)
Groping Toward the Light: Poems for Midnight and After (poems) (2000)
The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical (2000)
The Innsmouth Tabernacle Choir Hymnal (poems) (2004)
The Neil Gaiman Reader (2007) (with Neil Gaiman)
The Robert E. Howard Reader (2007) (with Robert E Howard)
Ghosts of Past and Future (poems) (2008)
Deadly Things / Judgment of the Gods (2010) (with Robert Reginald)
The Mystery Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Mystery Stories (2011) (with Nora Charles, Toni L P Kelner, C Ellett Logan, Johnston McCulley, Marcia Talley, Art Taylor and Elaine Viets)
The Vampire Megapack: 27 Modern and Classic Vampire Stories (2012) (with T A Bradley, Marilyn Brahen, John David Anderson, Jason Andrew, Zach Bartlett, E F Benson, John Gregory Betancourt, Luigi Capuana, Ray Cluley, Michael R Collings, Peter Darbyshire, Théophile Gautier, Franz Hartmann, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Henry Kuttner, Michael McCarty and Terrie Leigh Relf, Bram Stoker, Lawrence Watt-Evans and Chelsea Quinn Yarbro)
The Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian Stories (2012) (with Michael R Collings, John S Glasby, Robert E Howard, T E D Klein, Frank Belknap Long, H P Lovecraft, Brian McNaughton, Clark Ashton Smith, Brian Stableford and Lawrence Watt-Evans)
Echoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time (2013)
We Are All LegendsThe Meaning of Life, and Other Awesome Cosmic RevelationsTransients: And Other Disquieting StoriesNon Compost Mentis
Poetica DementiaRefugees from an Imaginary CountryNecromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny StoriesNightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical
Groping Toward the Light: Poems for Midnight and AfterThe Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and MagicalThe Innsmouth Tabernacle Choir HymnalThe Neil Gaiman Reader
The Robert E. Howard ReaderGhosts of Past and FutureDeadly Things / Judgment of the GodsThe Mystery Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Mystery Stories
The Vampire Megapack:  27 Modern and Classic Vampire StoriesThe Cthulhu Mythos Megapack: 40 Modern and Classic Lovecraftian StoriesEchoes of the Goddess: Tales of Terror and Wonder from the End of Time
 
Anthologies edited
Tales from the Spaceport BarTom O'Bedlam's Night Out: And Other Strange ExcursionsAnother Round at the Spaceport BarWeird Trails: The Magazine of Supernatural Cowboy Stories
Secret History of VampiresFull Moon CityCthulhu's Reign
 
Non fiction
Lovecraft in the CinemaDiscovering Classic Horror FictionEssays LovecraftianSF Voices
The Dream Quest of H.P. LovecraftInterviews with Science Fiction WritersScience Fiction Voices, No. 1On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back
Exploring Fantasy Worlds: Essays on Fantastic LiteratureDiscovering Modern Horror Fiction IDiscovering Stephen KingDiscovering H.P. Lovecraft: Essays on America's Master Writer of Horror
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction IIPathways to Elfland: The Writings of Lord DunsanyLord DunsanySpeaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural
Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction: Essays on the Antecedents of Fantastic LiteratureWindows of the ImaginationSpeaking of the Fantastic: Interviews with Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy AuthorsThe Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews
Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction WritersSpeaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers
 
Anthologies containing stories by Darrell Schweitzer
The Year's Best Horror Stories VIIA Century of Horror 1970-1979: The Greatest Stories of the DecadeGhor, Kin-Slayer: The Saga of Genseric's Fifth-Born SonScare Care
Horror Story Volume 3100 Ghastly Little Ghost StoriesMasterpieces of Terror and the UnknownAngels of Darkness
100 Wicked Little Witch StoriesExcaliburI, Vampire: Interviews with the UndeadThe Year's Best Fantasy and Horror Eighth Annual Collection
Dark DestinyThe Merlin Chronicles100 Vicious Little Vampire StoriesThe Best of Weird Tales
Dante's DisciplesThe Resurrected Holmes: New Cases from the Notes of John H. WatsonZodiac FantasticDon't Open This Book!
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment100 Hilarious Little Howlers
 
Short stories
The Story of Obbok (1973)
The Lady of the Fountain (1977)
Divers Hands (1979)
Into the Dark Land (1979)
Jungle Eyes (1985)
Jason, Come Home (1986)
Leaving (1986)
The Children of Lommos (1987) (with John Gregory Betancourt)
Pennies from Hell (1987)
Transients [short story] (1987)
The Man Who wasn't Nice to Pumpkin Head Dolls (1988)
A Vision of Rembathene (1988)
Clocks (1989)
Malevendra's Pool (1989)
The Man Who Found the Heart of the Forest (1989)
Seeing Them (1989)
The Sorcerer to His Long-Lost Love (1989)
Angry Man (1990)
The Paloverde Lodge (1990) (with Jason van Hollander)
Peeling It Off (1990)
Soft (1990)
The Throwing Suit (1990) (with Jason van Hollander)
Short and Nasty (1991)
The Spirit of the Back Stairs (1991)
To Become a Sorcerer (1991)World Fantasy (nominee)
The Outside Man (1992)
The Sorcerer Evoragdou (1993)
He Unwraps Himself (1994)
One of the Secret Masters (1994)
The Witch of the World's End (1994)
The Epilogue of the Sword (1995)
The Knight of Pale Countenance (1995)
Runaway (1995)
Believing in the Twentieth Century (1996)
Sherlock Holmes, Dragon-slayer (the Singular Adventures of the Grice Pattersons in the Island of Uffa) (1996)
Smart Guy (1996)
I Told You So (1997)


Awards
World Fantasy Best Novella nominee (1992) : To Become a Sorcerer
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (1994) : Transients: And Other Disquieting Stories
British Fantasy Society Best Novel nominee (1995) : The Mask of the Sorcerer
World Fantasy Best Collection nominee (2000) : Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories


Darrell Schweitzer recommends
The Devil's Own Dear Son
The Devil's Own Dear Son (1949)
James Branch Cabell
"One of the all-time greats of fantasy, whose cynical yet romantic view of the human comedy is simultaneously hilarious, beautiful, and melancholy. A writer you must read."
Satan's Daughter and Other Tales from the Pulps
Satan's Daughter and Other Tales from the Pulps (2004)
E Hoffmann Price
"Pulp stories at their pulpiest from a master of the form. Enjoy!"



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