The Supernatural Index: A Listing of Fantasy, Supernatural, Occult, Weird, and Horror Anthologies [Hardcover]

Michael Ashley (Author), William G. Contento (Author), Mike Ashley (Author)

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Hardcover: 952 pages
Publisher: Greenwood (May 1995)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0313240302
ISBN-13: 978-0313240300
Product Dimensions: 28.2 x 22.1 x 4.8 cm
Shipping Weight: 2.4 Kg

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" The goal of this reference is to list all English language anthologies of supernatural and fantastic stories." If the editors do not succeed, they make a gallant try. The work indexes more than 2,100 anthologies containing more than 21,300 stories by 7,700 writers. Editors range from Alfred Hitchcock and Isaac Asimov to Bennett Cerf. The indefatigable anthologists Martin Greenberg and Peter Haining have pages of their own, as do prolific or much-anthologized writers like Ray Bradbury and H. P. Lovecraft.

The book is in five main sections: editor list, book-title list, author index, story-title index, and book contents, which lists every story in each anthology. The author and story indexes are very thorough, indicating first publication in a periodical, when appropriate. Two appendixes give a list of associational works that were not included in the main indexes, mainly modern anthologies of the supernatural for children, and a list of anthologies that arrived too late for complete indexing. The preface explains how to use the volume, and front matter includes a list of abbreviations used in the entries.

Recommended for large public libraries with active supernatural-literature collections--and a large number of the indexed anthologies--and for academic libraries with popular-literature programs. The only minor caveat is that in the book-contents section white space for penciling in the call numbers of the anthologies is limited.

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.,."master bibliographers Mike Ashley and William Contento have brought the horror anthology into its rightful prominence with The Supernatural Index, one of the most useful and obsessively fascinating bibliographies I've ever encountered. Do you need this book? Librarians whose patrons need to trace and elusive story or locate original venues should immediately order a copy for their reference collection and put it on the shelf with other classic bibliographic resources on the fantastic by Contento, E.F. Bleiler, Neil Barron, and Donald H. Tuck. If your interest and/or research gravitate towards supernatural fiction I think you will find this book worth every penny. The care Ashley and Contento have lavished on it together with its comprehensive coverage make The Supernatural Index an invaluable resource and a bibliophile's delight."-SFRA

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