1988
The Corpse Maker, by Hugh B. Cave, compiled and edited by Sheldon Jaffery. Starmont Popular Culture Study #2. xii+156 p. LC 87-13199. ISBN 1-55742-017-3 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-016-5 paper $9.95. Contents: “Preface,” by Jaffery; “Introduction,” by Audrey Parente; “Comments,” by Hugh B. Cave; “The Corpse-Maker”; “The House of Evil”; “The Barricade”; “Disturb Not the Dead”; “The Thing from the Swamp”; “My Pupil—The Idiot!”; “The Black Gargoyle.”
Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II, edited by Darrell Schweitzer. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 16. [iv]+169 p. LC 84-2763. ISBN 0-930621-48-8 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-47-X paper $9.95 [ISBNs for the first volume appear on the back cover]. Contents: “Introduction,” by Schweitzer; “Peter Straub: From Academe to Shadowland,” by Bernadette Bosky; “Poetry of Darkness: The Horror Fiction of Fritz Leiber,” by Michael E. Stamm; “Tales of Childhood and the Grave: Ray Bradbury’s Horror Fiction,” by Schweitzer; “The Poetics of the Unconscious: The ‘Strange Stories’ of Robert Aickman,” by Gary William Crawford; “Michael McDowell and the Haunted South,” by Michael E. Stamm; “Yours Truly, Robert Bloch,” by Randall D. Larson; “Concerning David Case,” by Jeffrey K. Goddin; “The Subtle Terrors of Charles L. Grant,” by Don D’Ammassa; “Ramsey Campbell: An Appreciation,” by T. E. D. Klein; “James Herbert: Notes Toward a Reappraisal,” by Ramsey Campbell; “American Gothic: Joseph Payne Brennan,” by Alan Warren; “The Grim Imperative of Michael Shea,” by Arthur Jean Cox; “Sardonic Fantasistes: John Collier,” by Ben P. Indick; “History as Horror: Chelsea Quinn Yarbro,” by Gil Fitzgerald; “Quietly Soaring: Peter Tremayne,” by Christina Kiplinger; “Three Poets of Horror: Tierney, Breiding, and Brennan,” by Steve Eng; Contributors; Index.
Ira Levin, by Douglas Fowler. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 34. viii+87 p. LC 87-16033. ISBN 0-930261-26-7 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-25-9 paper $9.95.
Mary Shelley, by Allene Stuart Phy. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 36. 124 p. LC 86-6502. ISBN 0-930261-61-5 cloth $17.95; ISBN 0-930261-60-7 paper $9.95.
Peter Beagle, by Kenneth J. Zahorski. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 44. [iv]+124 p. LC 87-9924. ISBN 1-55742-009-2 cloth $17.95; ISBN 1-55742-008-4 paper $9.95.
Phoenix Renewed: The Survival and Mutation of Utopian Thought in North American Science Fiction, 1965-1982, by Hoda M. Zaki. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 22. 1988. [viii]+151 p. LC 87-9920. ISBN 1-55742-007-6 cloth $17.95; ISBN 1-55742-006-8 paper $9.95. Reset and reprinted by Borgo Press in 1993 as I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy and Criticism of Literature, No. 18.
The Pulp Magazine Index, First Series, by Leonard A. Robbins. 2,152 p. in 3 v., 8.5 x 11”. LC 88-20056. LC 91-658651 (series). ISBN 1-55742-111-0 cloth (3-vol. set) $175.
Pulp Man’s Odyssey: The Hugh B. Cave Story, by Audrey Parente. Starmont Popular Culture Study, No. 6. xiv+146 p. LC 87-26706. ISBN 1-55742-039-4 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-038-6 paper $9.95.
Ramsey Campbell, by Gary William Crawford. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 48. [vi]+74 p. LC 87-16030. ISBN 1-55742-037-8 cloth $17.95; ISBN 1-55742-036-X paper $8.95.
Roald Dahl, by Alan Warren. Starmont Contemporary Writers, No. 1. vi+105 p. LC 88-33743. ISBN 1-55742-013-0 cloth $16.95; ISBN 1-55742-012-2 paper $8.95.
Science Fiction: A Teacher’s Guide and Resource Book, edited by Marshall B. Tymn. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 5. x+140 p. LC 87-10143. ISBN 1-55742-021-1 cloth $25.95; ISBN 1-55742-020-3 paper $15.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Marshall B. Tymn; 1. “A Short History of Science Fiction,” by Tymn; 2. “Children’s Science Fiction,” by Francis J. Molson and Susan G. Miles; 3. “The Fan Movement,” by Joe Sanders; 4. “Science Fiction in the Movies,” by Brooks Landon; 5. “A Teacher’s Reference Shelf,” by Tymn; 6. “Science Fiction Periodicals,” by Joe Sanders and Marshall B. Tymn; 7. “Conferences and Conventions,” by Tymn; 8. “Reading Lists in Science Fiction,” by Tymn; 9. “In the Classroom: Teaching Tools,” by Tymn; 10. “Approaches to Course Structure: The SF Class,” by Tymn; 11. “Teaching Science Fiction As Current Events,” by Lloyd Biggle, Jr.; Contributors.
“Seven Men,” by Theodore Roscoe. Starmont Popular Fiction #1. viii+136 p. LC 88-20067. ISBN 1-55742-101-3 cloth $18.95; ISBN 1-55742-100-5 paper $8.95. A novel reprinted from the pulp magazines.
The Shattered Goddess, by Darrell Schweitzer. Starmont Popular Fiction #5. [iv]+183 p. LC 88-31950. ISBN 1-55742-113-7 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-112-9 paper $9.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1982 Starblaze Edition.
Sudden Fear: The Horror and Dark Suspense Fiction of Dean R. Koontz, edited by Bill Munster. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 24. x+182 p. LC 88-1077. ISBN 1-55742-025-4 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-024-6 $10.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Tim Powers; “Foreword,” by Bill Munster; 1. “Dean R. Koontz: A Chronology,” by Bill Munster; 2. “Interview with Dean R. Koontz,” by Bill Munster; 3. “Keeping Pace with the Master,” by David B. Silva; 4. “Dean R. Koontz and Stephen King: Style, Invasion, and an Aesthetics of Horror,” by Michael R. Collings; 5. “In the Midst of Life,” by Richard Laymon; 6. “A Mutation of a Science Fiction Writer,” by Stan Brooks; 7. “Mainstream Horror in Whispers and Phantoms,” by D. W. Taylor; 8. “Dark Genesis: Watchers & Shadowfires,” by Stan Brooks; 9. “The Three Faces of Evil: The Monsters of Whispers, Phantoms, and Darkfall,” by Michael A. Morrison; 10. “Dean R. Koontz’s Twilight Eyes: Art and Artifact,” by Michael R. Collings; 11. “Femmes Fatales? The Women Protagonists in Four Koontz Novels,” by Elizabeth Massie; “Afterword: A Brief and Informal Appreciation,” by Joe R. Lansdale; Contributors; Bibliography; Index.
The Super Feds: A Facsimile Selection of Dynamic G-Man Stories from the 1930s, edited by Don Hutchison. Starmont Popular Culture Study, No. 8. [viii+158] p. LC 88-1078. ISBN 1-55742-091-2 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-090-4 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction: The G-Man Years,” by Don Hutchison; “The Suicide Squad and the Murder Bund,” by Emile C. Tepperman; “Captain of the Corpse Crew,” by Harry Lee Fellinge; “Bomb-Proof Town Tamer,” by William R. Cox; “It’s Up to You,” by J. Edgar Hoover; “The Voice Says Die!” by Edward S. Williams; “The Ghost and the Skeleton,” by Wyatt Blassingame; “Herr Yama from Yokohama,” by Day Keene; “Ace G-Man Stories Bibliography,” by Phillip H. Nelson.
Toughest in the Legion, by Theodore Roscoe, edited by Sheldon Jaffery. Starmont Facsimile Fiction #3. 144 p. LC 87-18361. ISBN 1-55742-099-8 cloth $17.95; ISBN 1-55742-098-X paper $8.95. The first printing lacks pages 5-6 (the second and third pages of Roscoe’s original introduction); the later printing (blue and red cover) restores the full text. Contents: “Introduction”; “The Kid and the Cutthroats”; “Toughest in the Legion”; “Monkey See, Monkey Do”; “The Devil Who Played God”; “The Ears of Donkey Daudette”.
We Are All Legends, by Darrell Schweitzer. Starmont Popular Fiction #4. [iv]+189 p. LC 88-31949. ISBN 1-55742-115-3 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-114-5 paper $9.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1981 Starblaze Edition.
1989
A. Merritt, by Ronald Foust. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 43. vi+104 p. LC 87-9927. ISBN 0-930261-36-4 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-35-6 paper $9.95.
The Arkham House Companion: Fifty Years of Arkham House: A Bibliographical History and Collector’s Price Guide to Arkham House/Mycroft & Moran, Including the Revised and Expanded Horrors and Unpleasantries, by Sheldon Jaffery. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 9. xvi+184 p., 8.5. x 11”. LC 89-31701. ISBN 1-55742-005-X cloth $34.95; ISBN 1-55742-004-1 paper $22.95. An expanded and reworked version of Horrors and Unpleasantries, published in 1982 by Bowling Green State University Popular Press.
Children’s Fantasy, by Francis J. Molson. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 33. [vi]+97 p. LC 87-10145. ISBN 1-55742-015-7 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-014-9 paper $9.95.
Christopher Priest, by Nicholas Ruddick. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 50. x+104 p. LC 88-16046. ISBN 1-55742-110-2 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-109-9 paper $9.95.
The Eighth Green Man (and Other Strange Folk), edited by Robert E.
Weinberg. Starmont Popular Fiction #2. vi+171 p. LC 89-34754. ISBN 1-55742-067-X cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-066-1 paper $9.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Weinberg; “The Eighth Green Man,” by G. G. Pendarves; “The Night Wire,” by H. F. Arnold; “The House of the Worm,” by Mearle Prout; “The Gray Death,” by Loual B. Sugarman; “Norn,” by Lireve Monet; “His Brother’s Keeper,” by Major George Fielding Eliot; “The Dead Wagon,” by Greye La Spina; “The Floor Above,” by M. L. Humphreys; “The Cavern,” by Manly Wade Wellman; “The Wolf-Woman,” by Bassett Morgan; “Jorgas,” by Robert Nelson.
The Flying Spy: A History of G-8, by Nick Carr. Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies #3. 160 p. LC 85-26231. ISBN 0-930261-72-0 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-75-5 paper $9.95. A facsimile reprint of the 1978 Robert Weinberg edition.
A Grave Must Be Deep, by Theodore Roscoe. Starmont Facsimile Fiction #1. 120 p. LC 87-16029. ISBN 1-55742-041-6 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-040-8 paper $9.95. A novel reprinted from the pulp magazines.
The Lure of Adventure, by Robert Kenneth Jones. Starmont Pulp and Dime Novel Studies, No. 4. [iv]+80+[iv] p. LC 89-34753. ISBN 1-55742-143-9 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-142-0 paper $9.95.
Margaret Drabble, Symbolic Moralist, by Nora Foster Stovel. Starmont Contemporary Writers, No. 2. vii+224 p. LC 88-33732. ISBN 1-55742-035-1 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-034-3 paper $10.95.
The Moral Voyages of Stephen King, by Anthony Magistrale. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 25. [iv]+vi+157 p. LC 88-1076. ISBN 1-55742-071-8 cloth $21.95; ISBN 1-55742-070-X paper $11.95.
The Pulp Magazine Index, Second Series, by Leonard A. Robbins. 583 p., 8.5 x 11”. LC 89-34752. ISBN 1-55742-162-5 cloth $80.
Ray Bradbury, by William F. Touponce. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 31. iv+110 p. LC 87-16031. ISBN 0-930261-23-2 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-22-4 paper $9.95.
The Robert Bloch Companion: Collected Interviews, 1969-1989, edited by Randall D. Larson. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 32. [iv]+157 p. LC 89-26126. ISBN 1-55742-147-1 cloth $21.95; ISBN 1-55742-146-3 paper $11.95.
The Unseen King, by Tyson Blue. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 26. viii+200 p. LC 88-1074. ISBN 1-55742-073-4 cloth $21.95; ISBN 1-55742-072-6 paper $11.95.
The Waltzing Wizard: Cartoons, by Alexis A. Gilliland. [ii]+116 p. LC 89-34751. ISBN 1-55742-164-1 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-163-3 paper $9.95.
The Western Pulp Hero: An Investigation into the Psyche of an American Legend, by Nick Carr. Starmont Popular Culture Studies, No. 3. 138 p., 8.5 x 11”. LC 87-18370. ISBN 1-55742-033-5 cloth $21.95; ISBN 1-55742-032-7 paper $11.95.
Z Is for Zombie, by Theodore Roscoe. Starmont Facsimile Fiction #2. 140 p. LC 87-16028. ISBN 1-55742-043-2 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-042-4 paper $9.95. A novel reprinted from the pulp magazines.
1990
The Adventure Magazine Index, by Richard J. Bleiler. 1,085 p. in 2 v., 8.5 x 11”. LC 90-10407. ISBN 1-55742-189-7 cloth $150.
Clark Ashton Smith, by Steve Behrends. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 49. vi+112 p. LC 87-16034. ISBN 0-930261-99-2 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-98-4 paper $9.95.
Dark Transformations: Deadly Visions of Change, by Michael R. Collings. 95 p. LC 89-26101. ISBN 1-55742-197-8 cloth $16.95; ISBN 1-55742-196-X paper $8.95. Short stories and poetry.
The Devil’s Notebook: Collected Epigrams and Pensées of Clark Ashton Smith, compiled by Donald Sidney-Fryer, edited with an introduction by Don Herron. Starmont Popular Culture Studies, No. 16. xvi+82 p. LC 89-29636. ISBN 1-55742-161-7 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-160-9 paper $9.95.
Faces of the Beast, by Bruce Boston. 56 p. LC 89-26102. ISBN 1-55742-195-1 cloth $16.95; ISBN 1-55742-194-3 paper $8.95. Poetry.
H.P. Lovecraft and the Cthulhu Mythos, by Robert M. Price. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 33. [iv]+170 p. LC 89-34791. ISBN 1-55742-153-6 cloth $21.95; ISBN 1-55742-152-8 paper $11.95.
H.P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West, by S. T. Joshi. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 37. viii+155 p., 8.5 x 11”. ISBN 1-55742-208-7 cloth $27.95; ISBN 1-55742-207-9 paper $17.95.
The Horror of It All: Encrusted Gems from the “Crypt of Cthulhu”, edited by Robert M. Price. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 31. [iv]+199 p. LC 89-26171. ISBN 1-55742-123-4 cloth $21.95; ISBN 1-55742-122-6 paper $11.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Price; “Lovecraft’s Revisions: How Much of Them Did He Write?” by S. T. Joshi; “The Real World and the Dream World in Lovecraft,” by S. T. Joshi; “The Origin of Lovecraft’s ‘Black Magic’ Quote,” by David E. Schultz; “Lovecraft’s Ghouls,” by Will Murray; “Baring-Gould and the Ghouls: The Influence of Curious Myths of the Middle Ages on ‘The Rats in the Wall’,” by Steven J. Mariconda; “‘The Hound’—A Dead Dog!” by Steven J. Mariconda; “On ‘The Loved Dead’,” by David E. Schultz; “Digging Up Irem,” by Lin Carter; “CAS & Diverse Hands,” by Steve Behrends; “The Clark Ashton Smythos,” by Will Murray; “The Cthulhu Mythos Fiction of Robert Bloch,” by Randall D. Larson; “Reconstructing De Vermis Mysteriis,” by Price; “Solar Pons Meets Cthulhu,” by S. T. Joshi; “The True History of the Tcho-Tcho People,” by Robert M. Price and Tani Jantsang; “Obed and Obadiah Marsh,” by Robert M. Price and Tani Jantsang; “The Strange Case of Robert Ervin Howard,” by Charles Hoffman and Marc A. Cerasini; “Gol-Goroth, a Forgotten Old One,” by Price; “The Statement of Lin Carter,” by Price; “The Carter-Smith ‘Collaborations’,” by Steve Behrends; “Henry Kuttner’s Cthulhu Mythos Fiction: An Overview,” by Shawn Ramsey; “The Transition of Colin Wilson,” by Charles Hoffman and Marc A. Cerasini; “Brian Lumley—Reanimator,” by Price; “The Fantasy and Mystery Bookshop,” by Peter H. Cannon; “The Pool,” by Donald R. Burleson; “The Volume Out of Print,” by Jim Cort; “Strange Manuscript Found in the Vermont Woods,” by Lin Carter; “The Cthulhuers,” by John Strysik; “Lovecraft As I Seem to Remember Him,” by Robert M. Price as F. Gumby Kalem; “Lovecraft’s Letters to Santa Claus: An Introduction,” by Price.
Kioga of the Wilderness, by William L. Chester. Starmont Hardcover Collection, 3. 303 p. LC 87-16036. ISBN 1-55742-046-7 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.
Lewis Carroll, by Beverly Lyon Clark. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 47. viii+96 p. LC 87-16032. ISBN 1-55742-031-9 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-030-0 paper $9.95.
The Pulp Magazine Index, Third Series, by Leonard A. Robbins. 639 p., 8.5 x 11”. ISBN 1-55742-204-4 cloth $80.
The Shining Reader, edited by Anthony Magistrale. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 30. xii+220 p. LC 89-29631. ISBN 1-55742-107-2 cloth $21.95; ISBN 1-55742-106-4 paper $11.95. Contents: “Introduction,” by Magistrale; “Once, Out of Nature: The Topiary,” by Michael N. Stanton; “Wendy Torrance, One of King’s Women: A Typology of King’s Female Characters,” by Jackie Eller; “Jack’s Nightmare at the Overlook: The American Dream Inverted,” by Patricia Ferreira; “The ‘Masked Author Strikes Again’: Writing and Dying in Stephen King’s The Shining,” by Mary Jane Dickerson; “The Collapse of Family and Language in Stephen King’s The Shining,” by Alan Cohen; “The Redrum of Time: A Meditation on Francisco Goya’s ‘Saturn Devouring His Children’ and Stephen King’s The Shining,” by Greg Weller; “Good and Evil in Stephen King’s The Shining,” by Burton Hatlen; “The Red Death’s Sway: Setting and Character in Poe’s ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ and King’s The Shining,” by Leonard Mustazza; “Stephen King and the Tradition of American Naturalism in The Shining,” by Jeanne Campbell Reesman; “Canaries in a Gilded Cage: Mental and Marital Decline in McTeague and The Shining,” by Brian Kent; “Shakespeare in 58 Chapters: The Shining As Classical Tragedy,” by Magistrale; “The Dark Side of Childhood: The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins and The Shining,” by Vernon Hyles; “Kubrick’s or King’s—Whose Shining Is It?” by James Smith; “‘Orders from the House’: Kubrick’s The Shining and Kafka’s ‘The
Metamorphosis’,” by Mark Madigan; “Kubrick’s The Shining: The Specters and the Critics,” by James Hala; Index.
Stanislaw Lem, by J. Madison Davis. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 32. x+116 p. LC 87-17646. ISBN 1-55742-027-0 cloth $19.95; ISBN 1-55742-026-2 paper $9.95.
Under the Green Star, by Lin Carter. Starmont Hardcover Collection, 4. 144 p. LC 87-16036. ISBN 1-55742-047-5 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.
1991
The Annotated Guide to Unknown & Unknown Worlds, by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz. Starmont Studies in Literary Criticism, No. 13. 212 p. ISBN 1-55742-141-2 cloth $24.95; ISBN 1-55742-140-4 paper $14.95. The book was intended to be No. 13 in the Starmont Reference Guide series, but was mislabeled.
The Annotated Index to The Thrill Book: Complete Indexes to and Descriptions of Everything Published in Street & Smith’s The Thrill Book, by Richard J. Bleiler. Starmont Reference Guides, No. 18. viii+256 p. ISBN 1-55742-206-0 cloth $24.95; ISBN 1-55742-205-2 paper $14.95.
Isaac Asimov, by Donald M. Hassler. Starmont Reader’s Guide, 40. iv+129 p. LC 86-14585. ISBN 0-930261-32-1 cloth $19.95; ISBN 0-930261-31-3 paper $9.95. Winner of the 1993 J. Lloyd Eaton Award for Best Critical Work of 1991.
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