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BibliographyI. PUBLISHING HISTORY A. FICTION -- NOVELS IN ENGLISH & TRANSLATION A LIVELY GAME OF DEATH: Saturday Review Press, NY 1972 Ibid., British edition: Arthur Barker Ltd., London 1974 Ibid., German edition: Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1974 Ibid., On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 THE GRAND OLE OPRY MURDERS: Sat. Review Press/Dutton, NY '74 Ibid., book club edition: The Mystery Guild, NY 1974 Ibid., mass paper edition: Ballantine Books, NY 1975 Ibid., German edition: Goldmann Verlag, Munich 1975 Ibid., retitled THE COUNTRY MUSIC MURDERS, On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 BULLETS FOR MACBETH: Sat. Review Press/Dutton, NY 1976 Ibid., book club edition: The Mystery Guild, NY 1976 Ibid., British edition: Robert Hale, London 1978 Ibid., On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 MY SON THE DRUGGIST: Doubleday, NY 1977 Ibid., book club edition: The Mystery Guild, NY 1977 Ibid., On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 THE LAUREL & HARDY MURDERS: Dutton, NY 1977 Ibid., large print ed.: John Curley, S. Yarmouth MA 1979 Ibid., On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 THE MASTERS OF SOLITUDE (with P. Godwin) Doubleday, NY 1978 Ibid., serialization, Galileo magazine, Boston 1977-78 Ibid., book club edition: SF Book Club, NY 1978 Ibid., mass paper edition: Avon Books, NY 1979 Ibid., British edition: Methuen, London 1979 Ibid., German edition: Moewig Verlag, Hamburg 1980 Ibid., Dutch edition: Prisma, Antwerp 1981 Ibid., mass paper edition: Bantam Books, NY 1985 Ibid., British edition: Futura Books, London 1986 Ibid., French edition: Opta Books, Paris 1986 MY BROTHER THE DRUGGIST: Doubleday, NY 1979 Ibid., book club edition: The Mystery Guild, NY 1979 Ibid., On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 THE INCREDIBLE UMBRELLA: Doubleday, NY 1979 Ibid., serialization: Fantastic Stories, NY 1976-77-79 Ibid., mass paper edition: Dell Books, NY 1980 Ibid., anthologized: Magical Wishes, Signet Books, NY 1986 THE AMOROUS UMBRELLA: Doubleday, NY 1981 Ibid., magazine excerpt: Fantastic Stories, NY 1980 WINTERMIND (with Parke Godwin): Doubleday, NY 1982 Ibid., magazine excerpt: Amazing Stories, NY 1981 Ibid., book club edition: SF Book Club, NY 1982 Ibid., mass paper edition: Bantam Books, NY 1984 Ibid., musical score, Greater Phanadelphia, Phila. 1984 Ibid., French edition: Opta, Paris 1986 Ibid., British edition: Futura Books, London 1987 THE SOAP OPERA SLAUGHTERS: Doubleday, NY 1982 Ibid., book club edition: The Mystery Guild, NY 1982 Ibid., On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 A COLD BLUE LIGHT (with P. Godwin): Berkley Books, NY 1983 Ibid., French edition: Editions J'ai Lu, Paris 1986 GHOSTS OF NIGHT AND MORNING: Berkley Books, NY 1987 Ibid., magazine excerpt: Night Cry, NY 1987 FANTASTIQUE: St. Martin's Press, NY 1992 THE LAST XMAS OF EBENEZER SCROOGE, Wildside Press, 2003 B. FICTION -- SHORT STORIES & NOVELLAS "Ms. Lipshutz & the Goblin": Fantastic Stories, NY 1978 Ibid.: Year's Best Fantasy Stories, DAW Books, NY 1980 Ibid.: Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves, Ace Books, NY 1991 "Damned Funny": Fantastic Stories, NY 1980 "Grumblefritz": Amazing Stories, NY 1981 Ibid., Seaserpents, Ace Books, NY 1989 "A Smell of Sulphur": Amazing Stories, NY 1981 "The Pasha's Peculiar Passion": Balticon 17, Baltimore 1983 "Lovedeath": Fantasy Macabre, Seattle 1988 "Sindbad & the Midday Demon": Arabesques, Avon Books, NY '89 "Happy Hour": Fantasy Tales, Birmingham UK 1991 "A Portrait of Faith": All Hallow's Eve, Walker, NY 1992 "Helping Hand": Fantasy Tales, Birmingham UK 1993 "Packaged Ogre": Fantasy Tales, Birmingham UK 1993 "Soulmate": The Ultimate Witch, Byron Preiss Pubs., NY 1993 "Our Late Visitor": 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, NY '93 "Too Many Stains": THE RESURRECTED HOLMES, NY 1996 THE POSSESSION OF IMMANUEL WOLF & OTHER IMPROBABLE TALES,collection, Doubleday, NY 1981 Ibid., On-demand paper edition: Wildside Press 2000 C. NONFICTION -- BOOKS THE HISTRIONIC HOLMES, Luther Norris, Burbank CA 1971 A TOY IS BORN, Stein & Day, NY 1973 THE HANDBOOK OF MAGIC, Stein & Day, NY 1973 THE HANDBOOK OF MENTAL MAGIC, Stein & Day, NY 1975 CATALOG OF MAGIC, Dolphin Books, NY 1977 DRACULA, The Definitive Edition, Barnes & Noble, NY 1996 D. NONFICTION -- ARTICLES & ESSAYS (arranged by publication) Amazing 11/81: Close Encounters with Self and Community Family Digest 2/74: Inside a Quiz Show Galileo 7/78 thru 1/80 (six issues): Games (review column) The Gazette (journal of The [Nero] Wolfe Pack): v. 1,3/1979: Structural Considerations in Fer de Lance 3,1/1984: In Name Only 4, 3/1986: Water in Excelsis 4, 4/1986: From Zeck to Moriarty to Jonathan Wild Ibid., in the Spring 1986 issue of The Rex Stout Journal Grit newspaper: over 100 articles between 1970 and 1975. HORROR: THE 100 BEST BOOKS, Xanadu, London 1989: Critical appreciation of Guy Endore's novel, The Werewolf of Paris Long Life Magazine, Chicago: V. 3,3/1979: On First Encountering Immortalism 3,4/1979: Epistle to the Hesseans 3,5/1979: The Dance Beyond Death 4,1/1980: Untimeliness and Pity 4,2/1980: The Gospel According to GBS 4,3/1980: Beyond the Comfort Principle 4,4/1980: Springs of Irrelevationism 4,5/1980: Community and Self in CE3K Science Fiction Chronicle, NY: Marvin Kaye's Nth Dimension V.5,11/1984: The Horror of Horror Films 6, 5/1985: Is Terror a Dying Art? 7, 1/1985: Over the Rainbow with Walt Disney 7,10/1986: You Are What You Read 8, 4/1987: Ave Atque Vale, Luke Skywalker 8, 8/1987: The Dialectic of the Devil 9, 4/1988: Entering the Maze by O. B. Hardison Jr. 22, 5/2001: Peter Pan and Other Dark Metaphors 22, 6/2001: The Yessence of Nonsen¢e 22, 7/2001: Memories of Brother Theodore 23, 2/2002: The Many Ghosts of Edinburgh Thrust Magazine: Immortalism, column, 1985-88 Horror: Marvin Kaye's Nth Dimension # 1, 1994: Special to Horror 3, 1994: The Horror Film I Hate Most 5, 1995: The Last Words of H. Beam Piper 6, 1996: Memory Jogs: Bela Lugosi Introduction, scholarly notes and appendices to The Definitive Dracula: Barnes & Noble, NY, October 1996 Aboriginal SF Magazine: Through the Lens, film column Spring 1999: Trekking Our Way to The Phantom Empire Autumn 1999: I Wanna Be in the Movies! Spring 2000: Disney Leads Off the 2000s Summer 2000: The Best SF Films … Sez Who? Autumn 2000: The World Fantasy NON-Awards Spring 2001: The Best Is Yet to Come? Plus many articles in NY trade magazines (Mass Marketing, Playthings, Selling Christmas Decorations, Toy & Hobby World, Toys, Toys & Novelties), 1966-75 E. ANTHOLOGIES EDITED FIENDS AND CREATURES, Popular Library, NY 1974 Ibid., Spanish edition, Caralt, Barcelona 1977 BROTHER THEODORE'S CHAMBER OF HORRORS, Pinnacle, NY 1974 GHOSTS, Nelson Doubleday Books, NY 1981 Ibid., British edition, Futura Books, London 1993 MASTERPIECES OF TERROR & THE SUPERNATURAL, Doubleday, NY '85 Ibid., British edition, Futura Books, London 1991 DEVILS AND DEMONS, Doubleday, NY 1987 Ibid., trade hardcover edition, Barnes & Noble Books, 1994 WEIRD TALES, THE MAGAZINE THAT NEVER DIES, Doubleday, NY '88 WITCHES AND WARLOCKS, GuildAmerica Books, NY 1989 Ibid., Penguin Book of Witches & Warlocks, Penguin, NY '91 Ibid., trade hardcover edition, Barnes & Noble Books, 1994 13 PLAYS OF GHOSTS AND THE SUPERNATURAL, with a preface by José Ferrer, Doubleday Book/Music Clubs (DBMCI), NY 1990 HAUNTED AMERICA, DBMCI, NY 1991 LOVERS AND OTHER MONSTERS, DBMCI, NY 1991 SWEET REVENGE, 10 PLAYS OF BLOODY MURDER, with a preface by Marilyn Stasio, The Fireside Theatre, NY 1992 MASTERPIECES OF TERROR AND THE UNKNOWN, DBMCI, NY 1993 Ibid., trade hardcover, St. Martin's Press, 1994 FRANTIC COMEDY, with a preface by Tony Tanner, The Fireside Theatre, NY 1993 THE GAME IS AFOOT, St. Martin's Press, NY 1994 ANGELS OF DARKNESS, DBMCI, NY 1994 READERS THEATRE: HOW TO STAGE IT, Fireside Theatre, NY 1995, with a preface by Mary Stuart THE RESURRECTED HOLMES, St. Martin's Press, NY 1996 PAGE TO STAGE: ADAPTING LITERATURE FOR READERS THEATRE, The Fireside Theatre, NY 1996 THE CONFIDENTIAL CASEBOOK OF SHERLOCK HOLMES, St. Martin's Press, NY, St. Martin's Press, NY 1998 DON'T OPEN THIS BOOK!, Doubleday Direct Inc., NY 1998 THE VAMPIRE SEXTETTE, Doubleday Direct Inc., NY, 2000 Ibid., NAL paperback edition INCISIONS, anthology of winning readers theatre plays, 2000, with a preface by John Jakes THE ULTIMATE HALLOWEEN, Byron Preiss, NY, 2001 THE DRAGON QUINTET, Doubleday Direct Inc., NY, 2003 Ibid., Tor Books paperback edition THE NERO WOLFE FILES, Wildside Press, PA, 2004 THE FAIR FOLK, Bookspan, NY, 2005 THE ARCHIE GOODWIN FILES, Wildside Press, MD, 2005 FORBIDDEN PLANETS, Science Fiction Book Club, NY, 2006 A BOOK OF WIZARDS, Science Fiction Book Club, NY, 2008 THE GHOST QUARTET, Tor Books, NY, 2008 F. AS PUBLISHER Co-partner in Bleak House: THE BEST OF WEIRD TALES 1923 (The First Year) 1997 THE EARTH IS MADE OF STARDUST by Morgan Llywelyn 2000 Marvin Kaye’s Nth Dimension Books: SWEENEY TODD by George Dibdin Pitt 2002 MR. JUSTICE RAFFLES by E. W. Hornung 2003 G. POETRY The Bridge to the Liver Pies: Amazing Stories May 1981 The Celery Stalk in the Cellar: Amazing Stories March 1981 November 22, 1963: Unnameable Press, Atlanta 1991 Thanatopsis: Weird Tales, Summer 1988 Thank You, Gorbachev: Wall to Wall Press, NY 1990 H. MISCELLANEOUS "A Speech by Marvin Kaye": New Variant, Philadelphia 1983 "(Auto)Biographical Sketch": Wolfe Pack Gazette, NY 1989 "Detective Fiction & Things Shakespearean" & "Shakespeare in Some Modern Mystery Novels,": Armchair Detective V. 14,2 "Interview with Marvin Kaye": Amazing Stories, NY March 1986 Preface, The Ghost Garden, Cowperthwaite & Dempsey, UK 1988 II. SCRIPT WRITING A. THEATRE A DELICATE SHADE OF BLUE, musical revue, Palsson's, NY 1987 AVON CALLING, commissioned by Beverly Penberthy, Lincoln Center, NY 1980; revived in 1988-89. BERTRAND RUSSELL'S GUIDED TOUR OF INTELLECTUAL RUBBISH, commissioned by Robert Rounseville, Deerfield Acad 1973, W Wash U 1974, Lincoln Ctr 1979, 1982 A CHAIR OF INDECENCY (with Syd Emberley & Manuel Zack), The Dramatists Guild, Lincoln Center 1984 A PLAY ABOUT A PLAY ABOUT A PAWNSHOP, unproduced, finalist, O'Neill Theater Center national playwrighting competition A COLD BLUE LIGHT, unproduced DON JUAN'S FINAL NIGHT, Producers Club '88 THE HOBOKEN CHICKEN EMERGENCY, The Amsterdam Room 1993; Jan Hus Playhouse, Off-Broadway minicontract, 1999 THE GAME IS AFOOT, The Amsterdam Room, NY 1994 KICKBACKS, The Amsterdam Room, NY 1994 MISTER JACK, to be produced in 2009, 78th Street Theatre Lab. B. FILM, TV & RELATED MEDIA BEFORE YOU MARRY,aka The Pill, film, George Weiss Productions, NY 1968 ACTOR WITH A SHIELD, film, Tony Soglio Productions, NY 1970 KING ECOLOGY, TV pilot, Cherry & Shackelford, NY 1975 HOYLE'S LAST RESORT, laserdisc, RCA, Princeton NJ 1984 SANTA'S DETECTIVES, TV pilot, Black Tie Network, NY 1985 THE LAST CHRISTMAS OF EBENEZER SCROOGE, 2008 III. EMPLOYMENT HISTORY * Editor, H. P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror * Editor, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine * Tutor/Tutor Coordinator, Mercy College, 2001-07 English literature/composition teacher, Mercy College, Winter and Spring semesters, 2001-6 * Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing, NYU, 28 years * Artistic Director and Cofounder, The Open Book, NY theatre company, 30 years * Guest lecturer, Smithsonian Institute Travel Seminar, UK * New York coordinator, Book PALS (SAG Foundation) * Reporter, Grit newspaper, 3 years * Asst. managing editor, Business Travel magazine, 6 months * Senior editor, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 5 years * Consulting editor, various trade periodicals * Theatre correspondent, Grit newspaper * Public relations writer, Questor Corporation * PR director, Light Opera of Manhattan, 1 year IV. EDUCATION M. A., theatre/English literature, Penn State 1962 B. A., liberal arts, Penn State 1960 Upper Darby Sr. High, UD PA 1956 TV writing: Columbia Pictures writers development program Theatre Directing: University of Denver CO Fundraising for the Arts: New York University Business management: Cultural Council Foundation Music theory: The New School for Social Research Comedy improvisation: Carole Buggé, Chicago City Limits Producing: Commercial Theater Institute's 14-week seminar Singing technique: Robert Rounseville Scene Study: HB Studio Shakespeare: Duncan Ross; Tony Tanner; Patrick Tucker TV acting: Steve Wyman, Greg Lehane, Weist-Barron; Suzanne Ringrose, Beth Wicke, McKee Soundstage Healing modalities: Reiki Master, Dr. Kathleen Kelly; craniosacral therapist, visceral manupulation, lymph drainage, The Upledger Institute Mandolin technique: Leenya Rideout, City Music Schools, NY V. AFFILIATIONS Actors Equity Association Authors Guild/League of America The Dramatists Guild League of American Theatres and Producers Mystery Writers of America: former judge, Edgar awards Wolfe Pack: ex-chairman, Nero Award for Best Detective Novel World Fantasy Convention awards 2000, judge VI. BIOGRAPHICAL LISTINGS Contemporary Authors Dictionary of International Biography International Book of Honor International Who's Who of Writers Men of Achievement Personalities of America Poets and Writers Directory Something About the Author Who's Who in America Who's Who in the East Who's Who in Entertainment, 1st, 2nd, 3rd editions Who's Who in Finance & Industry Who's Who in the Media and Communications Who's Who in the World |
