Theodore "Eibon" Donald Klein (born July 15, 1947) is an American

United States

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 horror

Horror fiction

Horror fiction also Horror fantasy is a philosophy of literature, which is intended to, or has the capacity to frighten its readers, inducing feelings of horror and terror. It creates an eerie atmosphere. Horror can be either supernatural or non-supernatural...

 writer

Writer

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 and editor

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.

Klein has published very few works, but they have all achieved positive notice for their meticulous construction and subtle use of horror: critic S. T. Joshi

S. T. Joshi

Sunand Tryambak Joshi — known as S. T. Joshi — is an award-winning Indian American literary critic, novelist, and a leading figure in the study of Howard Phillips Lovecraft and other authors of weird and fantastic fiction...

 writes, "In close to 25 years of writing Klein has only two books and a handful of scattered tales to his credit, and yet his achievement towers gigantically over that of his more prolific contemporaries." (Joshi, 114)

Biography

Klein was born and lives in New York City

New York City

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 and attended Brown University

Brown University

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 where he wrote his honors thesis on H. P. Lovecraft

H. P. Lovecraft

Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....

, edited The Brown Daily Herald

The Brown Daily Herald

The Brown Daily Herald is the student newspaper of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It is financially and editorially independent of the University, and publishes Monday through Friday during the academic year with additional issues during commencement, summer and orientation...

and graduated Phi Beta Kappa in 1969. In the 1970s, he studied film history at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

, wrote short fiction and non-fiction and worked as a movie script reader for Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

.

He was the editor of Twilight Zone

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magazine from its inception in 1981 until 1985, and served as editor of the short-lived true crime

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 magazine CrimeBeat from 1991 to 1993. He has also taught English at New York's John Jay College and been a long time supporter of animal rights

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.

He added "Eibon" to his name – a reference to Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith

Clark Ashton Smith was a self-educated American poet, sculptor, painter and author of fantasy, horror and science fiction short stories. He achieved early local recognition, largely through the enthusiasm of George Sterling, for traditional verse in the vein of Swinburne...

's Hyperborean

Hyperborean cycle

The Hyperborean cycle is a series of short stories by Clark Ashton Smith that take place in the fictional prehistoric setting of Hyperborea . Various elements in Smith's cycle have been borrowed by H. P. Lovecraft, most notably the "toad-god" Tsathoggua...

 wizard – so that when he used his initials in his byline, ala H. P. Lovecraft or M. R. James

M. R. James

Montague Rhodes James, OM, MA, , who used the publication name M. R. James, was an English mediaeval scholar and provost of King's College, Cambridge and of Eton College . He is best remembered for his ghost stories, which are regarded as among the best in the genre...

, they would spell out his nickname "Ted".

Klein has blamed his limited output of fiction on writer's block

Writer's block

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. He revealed in the book Faces of Fear

Faces of Fear (interview book)

Faces of Fear is a World Fantasy award-winning book where writer, critic and lawyer Douglas E. Winter interviews seventeen contemporary British and American horror writers about their life and art. The writers are V. C. Andrews, Clive Barker, William Peter Blatty, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell,...

(1985) that he had struggled with The Ceremonies for more than five years before finally finishing it, adding: "I'm one of those people who will do anything to avoid writing. Anything!"

Writings

He first attracted notice with the novella

Novella

A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...

 "The Events at Poroth Farm" (1972), in which a college lecturer, isolated in the countryside and reading horror literature for teaching in the next semester, gradually realises that genuine supernatural horror is taking place around him. The story is notable for the insidious way in which the narrator's responses to the works he is reading (including those of Charles Robert Maturin, Ann Radcliffe

Ann Radcliffe

Anne Radcliffe was an English author, and considered the pioneer of the gothic novel . Her style is romantic in its vivid descriptions of landscapes, and long travel scenes, yet the Gothic element is obvious through her use of the supernatural...

, Monk Lewis, Le Fanu, Bram Stoker

Bram Stoker

Abraham "Bram" Stoker was an Irish novelist and short story writer, best known today for his 1897 Gothic novel Dracula...

, Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley

Aleister Crowley , born Edward Alexander Crowley, and also known as both Frater Perdurabo and The Great Beast, was an influential English occultist, astrologer, mystic and ceremonial magician, responsible for founding the religious philosophy of Thelema. He was also successful in various other...

, and Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson

Shirley Jackson was an American author. A popular writer in her time, her work has received increasing attention from literary critics in recent years...

) are conflated with his impressions of the supernatural threat.

In 1984 Klein published the novel

Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and in the tradition of the novella. The latter supplied the present generic term in the late 18th century....

 The Ceremonies, which uses the same basic plot as the novella to more expansive ends; the threat this time is not to one man or one community, but to the entire world. The Ceremonies takes up and elaborates upon some of the mysteries of Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen

Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...

's story "The White People

The White People

"The White People" is a fantasy-horror short story by the Welsh writer Arthur Machen. Written in the late 1890s, it was first published in Horlick's Magazine—of which Machen's friend A. E...

" and is called "a modern classic" in an essay by Thomas F. Monteleone

Thomas F. Monteleone

Thomas F. Monteleone is an American science fiction author and horror fiction author. His first novel, Seeds of Change was the lead-off title in the critically unsuccessful Laser Books line of science fiction titles , but he went on to become a popular writer of supernatural thrillers...

 in the book Horror: 100 Best Books. A second novel, Nighttown, was announced by Klein soon afterwards and described by him in Faces of Fear as "a paranoid horror novel set entirely in New York City", but has not appeared.

In 1985 Klein published the collection

Anthology

An anthology is a collection of literary works chosen by the compiler. It may be a collection of poems, short stories, plays, songs, or excerpts...

 Dark Gods, which includes four novellas:

• "Children of the Kingdom", set in part during the New York City blackout of 1977
  New York City blackout of 1977
  The New York City blackout of 1977 was an electricity blackout affected most of New York City from July 13, 1977 to July 14, 1977. The only neighborhoods in New York City that were not affected were in southern Queens, and neighborhoods of the Rockaways, which are part of the Long Island Lighting...
  
  , and which dealt with hollow earth
  Hollow Earth
  The Hollow Earth hypothesis proposes that the planet Earth is either entirely hollow or otherwise contains a substantial interior space. The hypothesis has been shown to be wrong by observational evidence, as well as by the modern understanding of planet formation; the scientific community has...
  
   lore and hostile creatures hiding in the shadows of New York; first published in the anthology Dark Forces
  Dark Forces (book)
  Dark Forces: New Stories of Suspense and Supernatural Horror is an anthology of 23 original horror stories, first published by The Viking Press in 1980 and as a paperback by Bantam Books in 1981. It was edited by New York City literary agent Kirby McCauley...
  
  ;
• "Petey", about a madman's monstrous "pet" which brings a well-to-do, middle-class housewarming to an unpleasant conclusion;
• "Black Man with a Horn
  Black Man with a Horn
  Black Man with a Horn, by T. E. D. Klein, is a Cthulhu Mythos novella originally published in New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos. Critic S. T...
  
  ", a tale in the vein of Lovecraft which treats of an elderly horror writer (modelled on Frank Belknap Long
  Frank Belknap Long
  Frank Belknap Long was a prolific American writer of horror fiction, fantasy, science fiction, poetry, gothic romance, comic books, and non-fiction. Though his writing career spanned seven decades, he is best known for his horror and science fiction short stories, including early contributions to...
  
  ) and his discoveries about the dreaded Tcho-Tcho
  Tcho-Tcho
  The Tcho-Tcho, or Tcho-Tcho people, are a fictional human-like race in the Cthulhu Mythos.-Appearances:The Tcho-Tcho are first mentioned in August Derleth's 1933 short story "The Thing That Walked on the Wind", in which a character refers in passing to "the forbidden and accursed designs of the...
  
   people;
• and "Nadelman's God", about a man who finds that an overwrought poem he wrote as an adolescent has been used as an incantation to bring a monstrous deity to life.

Klein also wrote the screenplay

Screenplay

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 for Dario Argento

Dario Argento

Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....

's 1993 film Trauma, which starred Asia Argento

Asia Argento

Aria Asia Anna Maria Vittoria Rossa Argento is an Italian actress, singer, model and director.-Family and early life:...

 and Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie

Piper Laurie is an American actress of stage and screen known for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the films The Hustler, Carrie, and Children of a Lesser God, all of which brought her Academy Award nominations...

.

Klein has written two critical essays on weird fiction: Dr Van Helsing

Abraham Van Helsing

Professor Abraham van Helsing is a protagonist from Bram Stoker's 1897 novel, Dracula.Van Helsing is a Dutch doctor with a wide range of interests and accomplishments, partly attested by the string of letters that follows his name: "M.D., D.Ph., D.Litt., etc." The character is best known as a...

's Handy Guide to Ghost Stories (1981), a series of articles for Twilight Zone magazine; and Raising Goosebumps for Fun and Profit (1988), originally written for Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest

Writer's Digest is an American magazine devoted to both beginning and established writers, offering interviews, market listings, calls for manuscripts, and how-to articles....

. A critical essay on Klein's own work can be found in S. T. Joshi's book.

Novels

• The Ceremonies (Viking 1984, Bantam 1985, Pan (UK) 1985)
  • Excerpt in A Fantasy Reader: The Seventh World Fantasy Convention Book, ed. Jeff Frane & Jack Rems, 1981
  • Excerpt in The Bantam Sampler: Summer '85, Bantam 1985
  • German-language reprint, MorgenGraun, Goldmann Verlag 1986
  • Outtake in Dagon #18/19, 1987

Collections

• Dark Gods (Viking 1985, Bantam 1986, Pan (UK) 1987)

Contents:

"Children of the Kingdom"

"Petey"

"Black Man with a Horn"

"Nadelman's God"

• German-language reprint, Verschwörung der Götter, Goldmann Verlag 1987
• Reassuring Tales Subterranean Press
  Subterranean Press
  Subterranean Press is a small press publisher in Michigan. Subterranean is best known for publishing genre fiction, primarily horror, suspense and dark mystery, fantasy, and science fiction...
  
  , 2006

Contents:

"Introduction"

"Camera Shy"

"Growing Things"

"Curtains for Nat Crumley"

"Magic Carpet"

"One Size Eat All"

"Ladder"

"Well-Connected"

"S.F."

"They Don't Write 'Em Like This Anymore"

"The Events at Poroth Farm"

Chapbooks

• Raising Goosebumps for Fun and Profit (Footsteps Press 1989)
  • Nonfiction expansion of "Horrors!: An Introduction to Writing Horror Fiction", which first appeared in The Secrets of Writing Popular Fiction, Writer's Digest 1986.
• The Events at Poroth Farm (Necronomicon Press 1990)
  • Revised version of 1972 novella with an introduction by the author.

Short fiction

• "The Events at Poroth Farm" (From Beyond the Dark Gateway #2, December 1972)
  • Reprinted (revised) in The Year's Best Horror Stories, No. 3, ed. Richard Davis, Sphere (UK) 1973
  • Reprinted (revised again) in The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series II, ed. Richard Davis, DAW 1974
  • Reprinted (revised yet again) in First World Fantasy Awards, ed. Gahan Wilson, Doubleday 1977
  • Reprinted (revised a final time) as a Necronomicon Press chapbook, 1990
  • Reprinted in A Century of Horror 1970-1979, ed. David Drake & Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books 1996
  • Reprinted in Return to Lovecraft Country, ed. Scott David Aniolowski, Triad Entertainments 1997
  • Reprinted in Eternal Lovecraft: The Persistence of H.P. Lovecraft in Popular Culture, ed. Jim Turner, Golden Gryphon Press 1998
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
  • Reprinted in American Supernatural Tales, ed. S. T. Joshi, Penguin Books 2007
• "Renaissance Man" (Space 2, ed. Richard Davis, Abelard-Schumann (UK) 1974)
  • Reprinted in Microcosmic Tales, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg and Joseph D. Olander, Taplinger 1980)
• "S.F." (The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series III, ed. Richard Davis, DAW 1975)
  • Reprinted in The First Orbit Book of Horror Stories, ed. Richard Davis, Futura (UK) 1976
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "Magic Carpet" (Myrddin #3, 1976)
  • Reprinted in Spectre 4, ed. Richard Davis, Abelard-Schumann (UK) 1977
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "Petey" (Shadows 2, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday 1979, Berkley 1984)
  • Reprinted in The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd Mead 1983
  • Reprinted in Dark Gods, Viking 1985
  • Reprinted in Meddling with Ghosts, ed. Ramsey Campbell, The British Library 2001
• "Black Man with a Horn" (New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos, ed. Ramsey Campbell, Arkham House 1980)
  • Reprinted in The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series IX, ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW 1981
  • Reprinted in Dark Gods, Viking 1985
  • Reprinted in Horrorstory Volume Three, ed. Karl Edward Wagner, Underwood-Miller 1992
  • Reprinted in Cthulhu 2000: A Lovecraftian Anthology, ed. Jim Turner, Arkham House 1995
• "Children of the Kingdom" (Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking 1980, Bantam 1981, Macdonald Futura (UK) 1980, Futura (UK) 1981)
  • Reprinted in Dark Gods, Viking 1985
  • Reprinted in 13 Short Horror Novels, ed. Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg, Crown/Bonanza 1987
• "Camera Shy" (sold to Close-Up Polaroid Corp., 1980, but was not published at that time)
  • First published in Crypt of Cthulhu #56, 1988
  • Reprinted in 100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1995
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "Nadelman's God" (Dark Gods, Viking 1985)
  • Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1988
• "Well-Connected" (as "Hagendorn's House") (Country Inns, Spring 1987)
  • Reprinted in Dagon #18/19, 1987
  • Reprinted in Weird Tales, Spring 1988
  • Reprinted in Best of Weird Tales, ed. John Betancourt, Barnes & Noble 1995
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "They Don't Write 'em Like This Anymore" (screen treatment) (Pulp Magazine, March 1989)
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "Ladder" (Borderlands, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Avon 1990)
  • Reprinted in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Fourth Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin's 1991
  • Reprinted in The Best of Borderlands, ed. Thomas F. Monteleone & Elizabeth E. Monteleone, Borderlands Press 2005
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "One Size Eats All" (Outside Kids, Summer 1993)
  • Reprinted in The Best New Horror: Volume Five, ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell, Raven 1994
  • Reprinted in The Year's Best Horror Stories: XXII, ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW 1994
  • Reprinted in 100 Tiny Tales of Terror, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "Curtains for Nat Crumley" (Gahan Wilson's The Ultimate Haunted House, ed. Gahan Wilson, HarperPrism 1996)
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006
• "Growing Things" (999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense, ed. Al Sarrantonio
  Al Sarrantonio
  Al Sarrantonio is an American horror and science fiction author who has published, over the past thirty-five years, more than forty-five books and eighty short stories...
  
  , Avon 1999)
  • Reprinted in The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror: Volume Eleven, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 2000
  • Reprinted in Reassuring Tales, Subterranean Press 2006

Poetry

• "Lament of an Aging English Instructor" (Bardic Echoes, Vol. XIII, No. 1, March 1972)
• "The Paintings of Hieronymous Bosch" (Nyctalops #8, April 1973)
• "The Father of the Witch" (Nyctalops #8, April 1973)
• "The Book of Hieronymous Bosch" (Twilight Zone, February 1988)

Nonfiction (incomplete)

• "Summer Reading" (Scrutinize, Vol. II, No. 2, Summer 1964)
• Material in The Brown Daily Herald
  The Brown Daily Herald
  The Brown Daily Herald is the student newspaper of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. It is financially and editorially independent of the University, and publishes Monday through Friday during the academic year with additional issues during commencement, summer and orientation...
  
  , Brown University, 1966-1969 (film reviewer, arts editor, editor in chief)
• Material in The Brown Jug, Brown Review, Taliesin and other college publications, 1966-1969
• "The Liberal Arts Syndrome" (New York Daily Column, May 8, 1968)
• Chapter on Brown University
  Brown University
  Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...
  
   in The Ivy League Guidebook by Andrew Tobias, Arnold Bortz, and Caspar Weinberger, Jr. (Collier 1969)
• Film reviews in Columbia Spectator, Columbia University, 1970-1971
• "Charles Manson, B.M.O.C." (New York Times, March 28, 1972)
• "They Kill Animals and They Call It Art" (New York Times, January 13, 1974)
• "The Festival" (The First World Fantasy Convention, bound with essays by Robert Bloch
  Robert Bloch
  Robert Albert Bloch was a prolific American writer, primarily of crime, horror and science fiction. He is best known as the writer of Psycho, the basis for the film of the same name by Alfred Hitchcock...
  
   and Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Leiber
  Fritz Reuter Leiber, Jr. was an American writer of fantasy, horror and science fiction. He was also a poet, actor in theatre and films, playwright, expert chess player and a champion fencer. Possibly his greatest chess accomplishment was winning clear first in the 1958 Santa Monica Open.. With...
  
   in a special hardcover edition of Science-Fantasy Correspondent: One, ed. Willis Conover, Carrollton-Clark 1975)
  • Reprinted in The First World Fantasy Convention: Three Authors Remember, Necronomicon Press 1976
• "Animals in Movies – The Abuse Gets Worse" (New York Times, June 8, 1975)
• "How I Flopped as a Paramount Scriptreader" (New York Times, October 26, 1975)
• Foreword to Writings in The United Amateur by H. P. Lovecraft
  H. P. Lovecraft
  Howard Phillips Lovecraft --often credited as H.P. Lovecraft — was an American author of horror, fantasy and science fiction, especially the subgenre known as weird fiction....
  
   (Necronomicon Press 1976)
• Story notes for Beyond Midnight, ed. Kirby McCauley (Berkley 1976)
• Foreword to The Old Gent by Willis Conover (Conover 1977)
• "Ramsey Campbell
  Ramsey Campbell
  John Ramsey Campbell is an English horror fiction author.Since he first came to prominence in the mid-1960s, critics have cited Campbell as one of the leading writers in his field: T. E. D. Klein has written that "Campbell reigns supreme in the field today", while S. T...
  
  : An Appreciation" (Nyctalops #13, May 1977)
  • Reprinted in Fantasy Reader's Guide to Ramsey Campbell, ed. Mike Ashley (Cosmos Literary Agency 1980)
• Review of Legion by William Peter Blatty
  William Peter Blatty
  William Peter Blatty is an American writer and filmmaker. The novel The Exorcist, written in 1971, is his magnum opus; he also penned the subsequent screenplay version of the film, for which he won an Academy Award....
  
   (Washington Post, July 4, 1983)
• Review of The Face That Must Die and Incarnate by Ramsey Campbell (Washington Post Book World, November 20, 1983)
• Contribution to "First Novelists" symposium in Library Journal
  Library Journal
  Library Journal is a trade publication for librarians. It was founded in 1876 by Melvil Dewey . It reports news about the library world, emphasizing public libraries, and offers feature articles about aspects of professional practice...
  
  , March 15, 1984
  • Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism
• Review of The Suburbs of Hell by Randolph Stow
  Randolph Stow
  Julian Randolph Stow was an Australian writer.-Life:Born in Geraldton, Western Australia, Randolph Stow attended Guildford Grammar School and the University of Western Australia. He lectured in English Literature at the University of Adelaide, the University of Western Australia and the...
  
   (Washington Post Book World, August 19, 1984)
• Biographical introduction to The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  Nathaniel Hawthorne was an American novelist and short story writer.Nathaniel Hawthorne was born in 1804 in the city of Salem, Massachusetts to Nathaniel Hathorne and the former Elizabeth Clarke Manning. His ancestors include John Hathorne, a judge during the Salem Witch Trials...
  
   (Readers Digest 1984)
• Afterword to A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
  
  by Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
  
   (Readers Digest 1984)
• "Star Wares" (sic) (New York Daily News
  New York Daily News
  The Daily News of New York City is the fourth most widely circulated daily newspaper in the United States with a daily circulation of 605,677, as of November 1, 2011....
  
  , December 2, 1984)
• "Master of a Lost Art" (New York Daily News, June 30, 1985)
• Review of The Glamour by Christopher Priest (Washington Post Book World, July 7, 1985)
• "Living Room Chills" (New York Daily News, September 22, 1985)
• Introduction to Slow by Ramsey Campbell (Footsteps Press 1986)
• Introduction to Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling
  Rod Serling
  Rodman Edward "Rod" Serling was an American screenwriter, novelist, television producer, and narrator best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his science fiction anthology TV series, The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen and helped form...
  
   (Bantam 1986)
• Introduction ("A Dreamer's Tales") to Dagon and Other Macabre Tales by H. P. Lovecraft (Arkham House 1986)
• "Horrors!: An Introduction to Writing Horror Fiction" (The Secrets of Writing Popular Fiction, Writer's Digest 1986)
• Essay "The House of Souls" by Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen
  Arthur Machen was a Welsh author and mystic of the 1890s and early 20th century. He is best known for his influential supernatural, fantasy, and horror fiction. His novella The Great God Pan has garnered a reputation as a classic of horror...
  
   Horror: 100 Best Books (Xanadu Publications 1988)
  • Expanded as Raising Goosebumps for Fun and Profit (Footsteps Press 1989)
• "Minor Details: H. P. Lovecraft" (New England Monthly
  New England Monthly
  New England Monthly was a magazine published in Haydenville, Massachusetts from 1984 to 1990. Founded by Robert Nylen and Daniel Okrent , it won the National Magazine Award for General Excellence in both 1986 and 1987, and was a finalist for many other National Magazine Awards in its brief...
  
  , August 1986)
• Twenty-five articles in The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
  The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural
  The Penguin Encyclopedia of Horror and the Supernatural is a reference work on horror fiction in the arts, edited by Jack Sullivan. The book was published in 1986 by Viking Press....
  
  , edited by Jack Sullivan
  Jack Sullivan (literary scholar)
  Jack Sullivan is an American literary scholar, essayist, author, editor, musicologist, and short story writer. He is one of the leading modern figures in the study of the horror genre, particularly the ghost story....
  
   (Viking 1986): "Arkham House
  Arkham House
  Arkham House is a publishing house specializing in weird fiction founded in Sauk City, Wisconsin in 1939 by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei to preserve in hardcover the best fiction of H.P. Lovecraft. The company's name is derived from Lovecraft's fictional New England city, Arkham. Arkham House...
  
  ", "Charles Birkin
  Charles Birkin
  Sir Charles Lloyd Birkin, 5th Baronet was an English author of horror short stories and the editor of the Creeps Library of anthologies...
  
  ", "William Peter Blatty", "Anthony Boucher
  Anthony Boucher
  Anthony Boucher was an American science fiction editor and author of mystery novels and short stories. He was particularly influential as an editor. Between 1942 and 1947 he acted as reviewer of mostly mystery fiction for the San Francisco Chronicle...
  
  ", "Fredric Brown
  Fredric Brown
  Fredric Brown was an American science fiction and mystery writer. He was born in Cincinnati.He had two sons: James Ross Brown and Linn Lewis Brown ....
  
  ", "Robert W. Chambers
  Robert W. Chambers
  Robert William Chambers was an American artist and writer.-Biography:He was born in Brooklyn, New York, to William P. Chambers , a famous lawyer, and Caroline Chambers , a direct descendant of Roger Williams, the founder of Providence, Rhode Island...
  
  ", "John Collier
  John Collier (writer)
  John Henry Noyes Collier was a British-born author and screenplay writer best known for his short stories, many of which appeared in The New Yorker from the 1930s to the 1950s. They were collected in a 1951 volume, Fancies and Goodnights, which won the International Fantasy Award and remains in...
  
  ", "Basil Copper
  Basil Copper
  Basil Copper is a prolific English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. He became a fulltime writer in 1970.In addition to horror and detective fiction, Copper is perhaps best known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuing the character created as a tribute to Sherlock Holmes...
  
  ", "W. F. Harvey
  W. F. Harvey
  William Fryer Harvey was an English writer of short stories, most notably in the mystery and horror genres. Among his better-known stories are "August Heat" and "The Beast with Five Fingers"....
  
  ", "Robert S. Hichens", "William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson
  William Hope Hodgson was an English author. He produced a large body of work, consisting of essays, short fiction, and novels, spanning several overlapping genres including horror, fantastic fiction and science fiction. Early in his writing career he dedicated effort to poetry, although few of his...
  
  ", "Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome K. Jerome
  Jerome Klapka Jerome was an English writer and humorist, best known for the humorous travelogue Three Men in a Boat.Jerome was born in Caldmore, Walsall, England, and was brought up in poverty in London...
  
  ", "Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner
  Henry Kuttner was an American author of science fiction, fantasy and horror.-Early life:Henry Kuttner was born in Los Angeles, California in 1915...
  
  ", "Jack London
  Jack London
  John Griffith "Jack" London was an American author, journalist, and social activist. He was a pioneer in the then-burgeoning world of commercial magazine fiction and was one of the first fiction writers to obtain worldwide celebrity and a large fortune from his fiction alone...
  
  ", "Kirby McCauley", "Arthur Machen", "John Metcalfe
  John Metcalfe (writer)
  William John Metcalfe was a teacher, short story writer and novelist.- Biography :John Metcalfe was born in Heacham, Norfolk, England, on October 6, 1891. He graduated from the University of London in 1913, after which he taught in Paris until 1914...
  
  ", "Saki
  Saki
  Hector Hugh Munro , better known by the pen name Saki, and also frequently as H. H. Munro, was a British writer whose witty, mischievous and sometimes macabre stories satirised Edwardian society and culture. He is considered a master of the short story and often compared to O. Henry and Dorothy...
  
   (H. H. Munro)", "Steven Spielberg
  Steven Spielberg
  Steven Allan Spielberg KBE is an American film director, screenwriter, producer, video game designer, and studio entrepreneur. In a career of more than four decades, Spielberg's films have covered many themes and genres. Spielberg's early science-fiction and adventure films were seen as an...
  
  ", "The Supernatural: Belief and the Writer", "The Twilight Zone
  The Twilight Zone
  The Twilight Zone is an American television anthology series created by Rod Serling. Each episode is a mixture of self-contained drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist...
  
  ", "Edward Lucas White
  Edward Lucas White
  Edward Lucas White was an American author and poet. Born in Bergen, New Jersey, he attended Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, in which city he did most of his work...
  
  ", "Henry S. Whitehead
  Henry S. Whitehead
  Rev. Henry St. Clair Whitehead was an American writer of horror fiction and fantasy.- Biography :Henry S. Whitehead was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey on March 5, 1882. He graduated from Harvard University in 1904. He led an active and worldly life, playing football at Harvard...
  
  ", "Colin Wilson
  Colin Wilson
  Colin Henry Wilson is a prolific English writer who first came to prominence as a philosopher and novelist. Wilson has since written widely on true crime, mysticism and other topics. He prefers calling his philosophy new existentialism or phenomenological existentialism.- Early biography:Born and...
  
  "
• Introduction to Reassuring Tales (Subterranean Press 2006)

Screenplays

• Trauma
  Trauma (1993 film)
  Trauma is a 1993 film directed by Dario Argento who also co-wrote the screenplay. The film can be described as a giallo, that is a film with influences from the horror, mystery, and thriller genres.-Plot synopsis:...
  
  (1993), with Dario Argento
  Dario Argento
  Dario Argento is an Italian film director, producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work in the horror film genre, particularly in the subgenre known as giallo, and for his influence on modern horror and slasher movies....
  
  , based on a story by Argento, Franco Ferrini
  Franco Ferrini
  Franco Ferrini is an Italian screenwriter born on the 5 January 1944 in La Spezia. His works often fall into the genres of horror or thriller. He was one of the interviewees represented in the book Spaghetti Nightmares. He has frequently collaborated with Dario Argento...
  
  , and Gianni Romoli

Awards and Recognition

The novella "Nadelman's God" won the 1986 World Fantasy Award

World Fantasy Award

The World Fantasy Awards are annual, international awards given to authors and artists who have demonstrated outstanding achievement in the field of fantasy...

for Best Novella.

External links

• Bibliography