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HORROR LITERATURE: A CORE COLLECTION AND REFERENCE GUIDE.
New York & London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1981. Octavo, illustrated boards. First edition. Part one of the book is five annotated checklists of horror fiction: "The Gothic Romance 1762-1820" by Frederick S. Frank (422 entries); "The Residual Gothic Impulse 1824-1873" by Benjamin Franklin Fisher IV (101 entries); "Psychological, Antiquarian, and Cosmic Horror 1872-1919" by Jack Sullivan (260 entries); "The Modern Masters 1920-1980" by Gary William Crawford (311 entries); and "The Horror Pulps 1933-1940" by Robert Weinberg (15 entries). Part two of is "Supernatural Verse in English" by Steve Eng (64 entries). Part three, pages 455-520, comprise "reference sources,"largely complied by Mike Ashley. The reference section is dated; Crawford's contribution is poor, Weinberg's superseded, the remainder are excellent, especially Eng on supernatural verse. "...while Tymn's book undeniably has been supplanted as a reader's guide by Barron [Horror Literature... (1990)], ironically his material still retains enormous worth and validity as a synthesis of eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and early twentieth-century horror and Gothic literature, and should be retained by both libraries and scholars for that purpose. Many of the books covered in the earlier sections by Tymn are analyzed in no other source." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 78. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-52. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-33. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 102].
THE SCIENCE FICTION REFERENCE BOOK: A COMPREHENSIVE HANDBOOK AND GUIDE TO THE HISTORY, LITERATURE, SCHOLARSHIP, AND RELATED ACTIVITIES OF THE SCIENCE FICTION AND FANTASY FIELDS.
[Mercer Island, WA]: Starmont House, [1981]. Octavo, black leather with pictorial front wrapper from paperbound issue laid down on front panel. First edition. This work provides fourteen historical and critical overviews, bibliographical checklists, and resource lists grouped in three catagories: Backgrounds, fandom, and academe, plus four appendixes. Includes two annotated bibliographical surveys: "Masterpieces of Modern Fantasy: An Annotated Core List" by Roger C. Schlobin, pages 246-290, that provides an annotated checklist of approximately 280 novels, single author story collections, and anthologies, and "Outstanding Science Fiction Books: 1927-1979" by Joe de Bolt and John R. Pfeiffer, pages 291-377, that provides an annotated checklist of about 300 novels, single author story collections and anthologies arranged chronologically by year of publication. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-33. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 103].
FANTASY LITERATURE: A CORE COLLECTION AND REFERENCE GUIDE.
New York & London: R. R. Bowker Company, 1979. Octavo, pictorial boards. First edition. The core of this book is an annotated checklist of 208 novels and single author story collections and sixteen anthologies from MacDonald's Phantastes (1858) through the early 1970s. The core list is preceded by an introductory essay, pages 3-38, by Zahorski and Boyer, and is followed by "reseach aids," pages 199-239, compiled by Tymn. [Reference: Anatomy of Wonder (1987) 8-52. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-32. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror (2002) 101].