Xenograffiti

by Robert Reginald

  Theodore Sturgeon, by Lahna Diskin. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 7. 72 p. LC 80-21423. ISBN 0-916732-09-6 cloth $9.95; ISBN 0-916732-18-5 paper $3.95.

  1982

  Alfred Bester, by Carolyn Wendell. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 6. 72 p. LC 80-19655. ISBN 0-916732-17-7 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-08-8 paper $4.95.

  Brede’s Tale, by Julian May. 1982. [23] p., 2 x 3”. LC 82-5516. ISBN 0-916732-31-2 deluxe leather-bound edition $85; ISBN 0-916732-32-0 special edition $45. This short tale, which was excerpted from May’s novel, The Many-Colored Land, was produced as a miniature book housed in a box, limited to 300 copies signed and numbered by the author and illustrators, of which 100 copies were bound in leather. Without a doubt the most collectible of the Starmont books.

  David Lindsay, by Gary K. Wolfe. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 9. [ii]+64 p. LC 82-5563. ISBN 0-916732-29-0 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-26-6 paper $4.95.

  Hal Clement, by Donald M. Hassler. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 11. [ii]+64 p. LC 82-5577. ISBN 0-916732-30-4 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-27-4 paper $4.95.

  H.P. Lovecraft, by S. T. Joshi. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 13. 83 p. LC 82-10236. ISBN 0-916732-36-3 cloth $12.95; ISBN 0-916732-35-5 paper $5.95.

  Philip K. Dick, by Hazel Pierce. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 12. 64 p. LC 82-6005. ISBN 0-916732-34-7 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-33-9 paper $4.95.

  Samuel R. Delany, by Jane Branham Weedman. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 10. [ii]+79 p. LC 82-5545. ISBN 0-916732-28-2 cloth $10.95; ISBN 0-916732-25-8 paper $4.95.

  Stephen King, by Douglas E. Winter. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 16. 128 p. LC 82-10699. ISBN 0-916732-44-4 cloth $11.95; ISBN 0-916732-43-6 paper $5.95.

  1983

  C.S. Lewis, by Brian Murphy. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 14. 95 p. LC 82-7346. ISBN 0-916732-38-X cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-37-1 paper $5.95.

  Patterns of the Fantastic: Academic Programming at Chicon IV, edited by Donald M. Hassler. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 2. [vi]+105 p. LC 83-587. ISBN 0-916732-63-0 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-62-2 paper $5.95. Contents: “Preface,” by Hassler; “Introduction: Science Fiction and Fantasy and the Academic Enterprise,” by Hassler; “Stephen King in Context,” by Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr.; “Science Fiction Women: Victims, Rebels, Heroes,” by Richard Law; “The Woman Science Fiction Writer and the Non-Heroic Male Protagonist,” by Jim Villani; “The Days of Future Past, or Utopians Lessing and Le Guin Fight Future Nostalgia,” by Kathe Davis Finney; “Narcissism and Romance in McCaffrey’s Restoree,” by Mary T. Brizzi; “Woman on the Edge of Narrative: Language in Marge Piercy’s Utopia,” by David L. Foster; “The Metalinguistic Racial Grammar of Bellona: Ethnicity, Language and Meaning in Samuel R. Delany’s Dhalgren,” by Marleen Barr; “Harlan Ellison’s Use of the Narrator’s Voice,” by Joseph F. Patrouch, Jr.; “The Social Science Fiction of Robin Cook,” by Thom Dunn; “Moon-Watcher, Man, and Star-Child: 2001 as Paradigm,” by Richard D. Erlich; “Science Fiction Theater the Moebius Way,” by Jane Bloomquist and William McMillan; “Freaking the Mundane: A Sociological Look at Science Fiction Conventions, and Vice Versa,” by Phyllis J. Day and Nora G. Day; Appendix: Academic Program at Chicon IV. The series title does not actually appear on the book.

  Piers Anthony, by Michael R. Collings. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 20. 96 p. LC 83-2466. ISBN 0-916732-53-3 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-52-5 $5.95.

  Robert Silverberg, by Thomas D. Clareson. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 18. 96 p. LC 83-542. ISBN 0-916732-48-7 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-47-9 $5.95.

  Shadowings: The Reader’s Guide to Horror Fiction, 1981-1982, edited by Douglas E. Winter. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 1. x+148 p. LC 83-21326. ISBN 0-916732-86-X cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-85-1 paper $6.95. Contents: “Foreword,” by Winter; “The Art of Darkness,” by Winter; “The Cannibal and the Cop,” by Stephen King; “Many Years Ago, When We All Lived in the Forest,” by Charles L. Grant; “The Man Dog and Maine,” by Burton Hatlen; “Different Writers on Different Seasons,” by Charles L. Grant, David Morrell, Alan Ryan, and Douglas E. Winter; “The Sandman Will Still Be There,” by Alan Ryan; “Forgotten Words, Spoken by Forgotten Ancestors,” by Winter; “The North and South of Horror,” by Alan Ryan; “Whispersoft and Shadowfast,” by Roger C. Schlobin; “The Cold Beyond Bearing,” by Ronald L. Weston; “The Presence of Things Unseen,” by Jack Sullivan; “Rustlings and Slitherings in the Shadows,” by Alan Ryan; “Casting a Long Shadow,” by Melissa Mia Hall and Douglas E. Winter; “Billy Bob Burnette Buys Books,” by Billy Bob Burnette; “Ramsey Campbell: No Light Ahead,” by Jack Sullivan; “Dennis Etchison: The Unknown Writer,” by Karl Edward Wagner; “David Morrell: Tasting First Blood,” by Winter; “David Morrell’s The Totem: The Link Is Control,” by Brooks Landon; “Things That Go Bump in the Movies,” by Craig Shaw Gardner; “Held Over by Popular Demand: David Cronenberg,” by Richard Meyers; “Horror and the Limits of Violence: A Forum of Interviews,” edited by Douglas E. Winter; “I Want My Cake! Thoughts on Creepshow and E.C. Comics,” by Winter; “The Year in Review”; Notes on the Contributors.

  Urania’s Daughters: A Checklist of Women Science-Fiction Writers, 1692-1982, by Roger C. Schlobin. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 1. xiv+79 p. LC 83-2467. ISBN 0-916732-57-6 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-56-8 paper $6.95.

  1984

  Jack London, by Gorman Beauchamp. Starmont Reader’s Guide, No. 15. 96 p. LC 82-7345. ISBN 0-916732-40-1 cloth $13.95; ISBN 0-916732-39-8 paper $5.95.

  1985

  America’s Secret Service Ace: The Operator 5 Story, by Nick Carr. Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies, No. 2. 63 p. LC 85-26269. ISBN 0-930261-70-4 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-73-9 paper $9.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1974 Robert Weinberg edition.

  The Annotated Guide to Fantastic Adventures, by Edward J. Gallagher. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 2. xxii+170 p. LC 84-16228. ISBN 0-916732-71-1 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-916732-70-3 paper $9.95.

  Discovering Modern Horror Fiction, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 4. [iv]+156 p. LC 84-2763. ISBN 0-916732-94-0 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-916732-93-2 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Schweitzer; “The Other Side of Magic: A Few Remarks About Shirley Jackson,” by Mary Kittredge; “Urban Gothic: The Fiction of Ramsey Campbell,” by Gary William Crawford; “Russell Kirk: Ghost Master of Mecosta,” by Don Herron; “The Dark Side of the American Dream: Dennis Etchison,” by Michael E. Stamm; “Stephen King As an Epic Writer,” by Ben P. Indick; “T. E. D. Klein,” by Robert M. Price; “Karl Edward Wagner and the Haunted Hills (and Kudzu),” by Schweitzer; “Saberhagen’s New Dracula: The Vampire As Hero,” by Neal Wilgus; “The Recent Fantasies of Manly Wade Wellman,” by Robert Coulson; “John Coyne: The Craftsman and the Monsters,” by A. J. Montesi; “Roald Dahl: Nasty, Nasty,” by Alan Warren; “Jonathan Carroll: Galen to Vienna to the World,” by Edna Stumpf; “Appendix: Critical Studies in Horror Literature: A Selected, Annotated Bibliography,” by Marshall B. Tymn; Contributors; Index.

  Discovering Stephen King, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 8. 219 p. LC 85-2821. ISBN 0-930261-07-0 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-06-2 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Schweitzer; “What Makes Him So Scary?” by Ben P. Indick; “Has Success Spoiled Stephen King?” by Alan Warren; “The Biggest Horror Fan of Them All,” by Don Herron; “Stephen King’s American Gothic,” by Gary William Crawford; “The Early Tales: Stephen King and Startling Mystery Stories,” by Chet Williamson; “Stephen King and Peter Straub: Fear and Friendship,” by Bernadette Bosky; “The Stand: Science Fiction into Fantasy,” by Michael R. Collings; “Stephen King with a Twist: The E.C. Influence,” by Debra Stump; “Cycle of the Werewolf and the Moral Tradition of Horror,” by Randall D. Larson; “Stephen King and the Lovecraft Mythos,” by Robert M. Price; “Three by Bachman,” by Don D’Ammassa; “A Matter of Choice: King’s Cujo and Malamud’s The Natural,” by Debra Stump; “The Ultimate Horror: The Dead Child in Stephen King’s Stories and Novels,” by Leonard G. Heldreth;
“Collecting Stephen King,” by Schweitzer; “Synopses of Stephen King’s Fiction,” by Sanford Z. Meschkow; “Stephen King: A Bibliography,” by Marshall B. Tymn; Contributors; Index. An expanded and reworked version of Essays Lovecraftian, originally published by T-K Graphics in 1976

  Gangland’s Doom: The Shadow of the Pulps, by Frank Eisgruber, Jr. Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies, No. 1. 64 p. LC 85-26069. ISBN 0-930261-71-2 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-74-7 paper $9.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1974 Robert Weinberg edition.

  James Tiptree, Jr., by Mark Siegel. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 22. 89 p. LC 85-17159. ISBN 0-916732-68-1 cloth $15.95; ISBN 0-916732-67-3 paper $7.95. Dated January 1986 on the copyright page.

  J.G. Ballard, by Peter Brigg. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 26. 138 p. LC 85-2724. ISBN 0-916732-84-3 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-83-5 paper $6.95.

  The Many Facets of Stephen King, by Michael R. Collings. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 11. [vi]+190 p. LC 85-12598. ISBN 0-930261-15-1 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-14-3 paper $9.95.

  Marion Zimmer Bradley, by Rosemarie Arbur. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 27. [ii]+138 p. LC 85-2721. ISBN 0-916732-96-7 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-95-9 paper $6.95.

  Naked to the Sun: Dark Visions of Apocalypse, by Michael R. Collings. [x]+75 p. LC 85-30248. ISBN 0-930261-77-1 cloth $16.95; ISBN 0-930261-76-3 paper $8.95. Poetry.

  Patterns of the Fantastic II: [Academic Programming at ConStellation], edited by Donald M. Hassler. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 3. [vi]+90 p. LC 84-2683. ISBN 0-916732-88-6 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-916732-87-8 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction: Dangerous Tastes: Science and Fiction,” by Hassler; “The Hubris of Science: Wells’ Time Traveller,” by Merritt Abrash; “Ars Scientia = Ars Poetica,” by Rosemarie Arbur; “Thornton Wilder as Fantasist and the Science-Fiction Antiparadigm: The Evidence of The Skin of Our Teeth,” by Jared Lobdell; “The Mathematics in Science Fiction: Of Measure Zero,” by Edward A. Boyno; “Two Views of the Sentient Computer: Gerrold’s When HARLIE Was One and Ryan’s The Adolescence of P-1,” by Constance M. Mellott; “Binary First Contact,” by Lawrence I. Charters; “Creation Unfinished: Astronomical Realities in the Hainish Fiction of Ursula K. Le Guin,” by Thomas P. Dunn; “Private Eye: A Semiotic Comparison of the Film Blade Runner and the Book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep,” by Judith B. Kerman; “From Pessimism to Sentimentality: Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep Becomes Blade Runner,” by Philip E. Kaveny; “Fantastic Fictions at the Edge and in the Abyss: Genre Definitions and the Contemporary Cross-Genre Novel,” by Janice M. Bogstad; Contributors.

  The Shorter Works of Stephen King, by Michael R. Collings and David Engebretson. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 9. [vi]+202 p. LC 85-2822. ISBN 0-930261-03-8 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-02-X paper $9.95.

  Stephen King as Richard Bachman, by Michael R. Collings. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 10. [vi]+168 p. LC 85-2832. ISBN 0-930261-01-1 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-00-3 paper $9.95.

  1986

  Anne McCaffrey, by Mary T. Brizzi. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 30. [viii]+95 p. LC 85-17160. ISBN 0-930261-30-5 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-930261-29-1 paper $6.95.

  The Annotated Guide to Startling Stories, by Leon Gammell. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 3. [iv]+90 p. LC 86-6012. ISBN 0-930261-51-8 cloth $20; ISBN 0-930261-50-X paper $10.

  The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America’s Premier Horror Writer, by Michael R. Collings. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 8. [vi]+176 p. LC 86-1854. ISBN 0-930261-81-X cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-80-1 paper $9.95.

  Brian Aldiss, by Michael R. Collings. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 28. [iv]+115 p. LC 85-17224. ISBN 0-916732-99-1 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-74-6 paper $6.95. Cover title reads: Brian W. Aldiss.

  Charles Williams, by Kathleen Spencer. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 25. 104 p. LC 86-5750. ISBN 0-916732-80-0 cloth $15.95; ISBN 0-916732-79-7 paper $7.95.

  E.E. “Doc” Smith, by Joe Sanders. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 24. [viii]+96 p. LC 85-30434. ISBN 0-916732-73-8 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-72-X paper $6.95.

  Far Below and Other Horrors, edited by Robert E. Weinberg. 151 p. LC 85-25072. ISBN 0-930261-57-7 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-56-9 paper $9.95. Contents: “Far Below,” by Robert Barbour Johnson; “The Execution of Lucarno,” by Julius Long; “Thing of Darkness,” by G. G. Pendarves; “The Accursed Isle,” by Mary Elizabeth Counselman; “Masquerade,” by Mearle Prout; “Naked Lady,” by Mindret Lord; “Out of the Deep,” by Robert E. Howard; “Doom of the House of Duryea,” by Earl Pierce Jr.; “The Chapel of Mystic Horror,” by Seabury Quinn; “Return to Death,” by J. Wesley Rosenquest; “Under the Tomb,” by Robert Nelson. A facsimile reprint of the 1974 FAX Collector’s Editions hardcover; a later printing of the Starmont version relabelled the book Starmont Popular Fiction “#0” [sic].

  The Films of Stephen King, by Michael R. Collings. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 12. [vi]+201 p. LC 85-17192. ISBN 0-930261-11-9 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-10-0 paper $9.95.

  Gene Wolfe, by Joan Gordon. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 29. iv+116 p. LC 85-17163. ISBN 0-930261-19-4 cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-930261-18-6 paper $6.95.

  H.G. Wells, by Robert Crossley. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 19. 79 p. LC 84-2691. ISBN 0-916732-51-7 cloth $15.95; ISBN 0-916732-50-9 paper $7.95.

  Olaf Stapledon, by John Kinnaird. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 21. 107 p. LC 84-2656. ISBN 0-916732-55-X cloth $14.95; ISBN 0-916732-54-1 paper $6.95.

  Robert Bloch, by Randall D. Larson. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 37. [iv]+148 p. LC 86-5751. ISBN 0-930261-59-3 cloth $16.95; ISBN 0-930261-58-5 paper $8.95.

  Suzy McKee Charnas, Octavia Butler, Joan D. Vinge, by Marleen S. Barr, Ruth Salvaggio, Richard Law. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 23. 52+44+72 p. LC 85-2715. ISBN 0-916732-92-4 $17.95; ISBN 0-916732-91-6 paper $9.95.

  1987

  Discovering H. P. Lovecraft, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 6. xiv+153 p. LC 87-9923. ISBN 0-916732-82-7 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-916732-81-9 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Schweitzer; “Notes on an Entity,” by Robert Bloch; “A Literary Copernicus,” by Fritz Leiber, Jr.; “The Four Faces of the Outsider,” by Dirk W. Mosig; “The First Lewis Theobald,” by R. Boerem; “Story-Writing,” by H. P. Lovecraft; “Character Gullibility in Weird Fiction, or, Isn’t Yuggoth Somewhere in Upstate New York?” by Schweitzer; “Some Thoughts on Lovecraft,” by Arthur Jean Cox; “The Derleth Mythos,” by Richard L. Tierney; “Genesis of the Cthulhu Mythos,” by George Wetzel; “Lovecraft’s Ladies,” by Ben P. Indick; “When the Stars Are Right,” by Richard L. Tierney; “Lovecraft and Lord Dunsany,” by Schweitzer; “H. P. Lovecraft and Pseudomathematics,” by Robert Weinberg; “Textual Problems in Lovecraft,” by S. T. Joshi; “H. P. Lovecraft: A Basic Reading List,” by Schweitzer; Contributors; Index.

  Don’t Bite the Sun, by Tanith Lee. Starmont Hardcover Collection, 1. 158 p. LC 87-16037. ISBN 1-55742-044-0 cloth $19.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1976 DAW Books edition. The book was printed in paperback, but rebound and sold only in cloth editions with the paperback covers laminated into the hardcover binding; some paperbound copies exist.

  Force Fields, by Andrew Joron. viii+55 p. LC 87-1959. ISBN 0-930261-87-9 cloth $16.95; ISBN 0-930261-86-0 paper $8.95. Poetry.

  Frederik Pohl, by Thomas D. Clareson. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 39. x+173 p. LC 86-14587. ISBN 0-930261-34-8 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-33-X paper $9.95.

  Future and Fantastic Worlds: A Bibliographical Retrospective of DAW Books (1972-1987), by Sheldon Jaffery. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 4. xiv+297 p. LC 87-9901. ISBN 1-55742-003-3 cloth $29.95; ISBN 1-55742-002-5 paper $19.95.

  Grand Army War Songs. [ii]+157 p., 7 x 10”. LC 87-750989. ISBN 1-55742-000-9 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-001-7 paper $9.95. One of two non-category books published by Starmont; a facsimile reprint of the 1886 edition; part of the last section of the book was accidentally omitted in the Starmont version.

  The Return of t
he Time Machine, by Egon Friedell. Starmont Hardcover Collection, 2. 127 p. LC 87-16039. ISBN 1-55742-045-9 cloth $19.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1972 DAW Books edition. The book was printed in paperback, but rebound and sold only in cloth editions with the paperback covers laminated into the hardcover binding; some paperbound copies exist.

  Robert E. Howard, by Marc A. Cerasini and Charles E. Hoffman. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 35. [vi]+156 p. LC 85-17161. ISBN 0-930261-28-3 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-27-5 paper $9.95.

  Shanghai Year: A Westerner’s Life in the New China, by Peter Brigg. [x]+115 p. LC 87-1949. ISBN 0-930261-88-7 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-89-5 paper $9.95. One of two non-category books published by Starmont.

  The Stephen King Phenomenon, by Michael R. Collings. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 14. 144 p. LC 85-17164. ISBN 0-930261-13-5 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-12-7 paper $9.95.

  The Weirds: A Facsimile Selection of Fiction from the Era of the Shudder Pulps, edited by Sheldon Jaffery. Starmont Popular Culture Series [sic], Vol. 1. [ii]+173 p. LC 87-1952. ISBN 0-930261-93-3 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-92-5 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Jaffery; “The Mole Men Want Your Eyes,” by Frederick C. Davis; “Mistress of the Blood-Drinkers,” by Ralston Shields; “White Mother of Shadows,” by George Vandegrift; “Dance of the Bloodless Ones,” by Francis James; “A Beast Is Born,” by W. Wayne Robbins; “Beauty for Sale,” by J. O. Quinliven; “The Horror at His Heals,” by Wyatt Blassingame; “Guest-Room in Hell,” by Leon Byrne; “Chamber of Horrors.”