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THE SUPERNATURAL INDEX: A LISTING OF FANTASY, SUPERNATURAL, OCCULT, WEIRD AND HORROR ANTHOLOGIES.
Westport, CT, London: Greenwood Press, [1995]. Large octavo, cloth. First edition.
PHANTOM PERFUMES AND OTHER SHADES: MEMORIES OF GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE. Introduction by Mike Ashley.
Ashcroft, British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 2000. Octavo, cloth. First edition. Limited to 600 copies. Collection of seventeen supernatural stories from the pulp, GHOST STORIES MAGAZINE (1926-1931). Foreword by Hugh Cave, checklist and index to the magazine by Ashley.
WHO'S WHO IN HORROR AND FANTASY FICTION.
New York: Taplinger Publishing Company, [1978]. Octavo, pictorial wrappers. First edition, U.S. issue, trade paperback issue. Core is 400 bio-bibliographies of writers and editors whose work was principally in the genre or exercised influence upon it from the early eighteenth century to the early 1970s. Four appendixes, the first three with brief annotations: Checklist of novels and shorter fictions intended "as a basic suggested reading list;" checklist of selected weird fiction anthologies; checklist of weird and horror fiction magazines; and list of awards (August Derleth Fantasy Award and World Fantasy Award). "Ashley frequently includes biographical details and other tidbits not found in any other source and his inclusion of a large number of classic horror writers of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries makes his book valuable even more than a decade after its original publication... He also manages to mention and intelligently evaluate thousands of books and stories while commenting on the authors' lives and careers." - Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 43. Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 6-18. Barron (ed), Horror Literature 6-18. Tymn, (ed), Horror Literature 8-1.
MONTHLY TERRORS: AN INDEX TO THE WEIRD FANTASY MAGAZINES PUBLISHED IN THE UNITED STATES AND GREAT BRITAIN.
Westport, CT, London, England: Greenwood Press, [1985]. Octavo, cloth. First edition. A comprehensive analytical checklist of 168 English-language professional and important amateur fantasy and horror magazines, most published in the United States and Great Britain, from 1919 through 1983. Indexed alphabetically by magazine (with chronological issue by issue content listing), by author (with biographical information when available), by artist, and by editor. Four appendixes provide an index to series and connected stories, an annotated selected list of magazines that published a "fair percentage of weird fantasy" and "came closest to being included in the main index," a chronological listing of magazines, and a geographical listing of magazines. The major index to fantasy and weird fiction magazines. "...particularly important for its coverage of small press publications and rare titles not normally included in the standard indexes." - Barron (ed), Fantasy Literature 11-68 and Barron (ed), Horror Literature 11-68. Burgess, Reference Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror 130.
SCIENCE FICTION, FANTASY AND WEIRD FICTION MAGAZINES.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1985. Octavo, cloth. First edition. "The basic reference tool for all genre magazines as of 1984. Critical/historical essays for each magazine, including details of publication history..." - Anatomy of Wonder (1995) 12-46.