(1947- ) US poet, story writer and author of a number of nonfiction studies of sf and fantasy writers, including several on various aspects of the work of Stephen King and Bibliographies of King, Orson Scott Card and Peter Straub. In Naked to the Sun: Dark Visions of Apocalypse (coll 1986 chap) and Dark Transformations: Deadly Visions of Change (coll 1990 chap), he published Poetry which tended to use sf and fantasy motifs as premises for metamorphic brooding. His nonfiction includes Piers Anthony (1984 chap), Brian W. Aldiss (1986), In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990), Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography (2000) and Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide (2001), plus the various books on King: Stephen King as Richard Bachman (1985), The Shorter Works of Stephen King (1985) with David Engebretson, The Many Facets of Stephen King (1986), The Annotated Guide to Stephen King (1986; much exp as The Work of Stephen King 1996), The Films of Stephen King (1986), The Stephen King Concordance (1986), with David Engebretson, The Stephen King Phenomenon (1987) and Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000 (2003). His criticism tends to be theme-oriented. He edited Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts (anth 1987). [JC/DRL]
Michael Robert Collings
born Rupert, Idaho: 29 October 1947
died
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series
Wordsmith
poetry
nonfiction
- Piers Anthony
(San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press, 1984) [nonfiction: chap: dated 1983 but published 1984: Piers Anthony: Stephen King: hb/] - Stephen King as Richard Bachman (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1985) [nonfiction: Stephen King: hb/]
- The Shorter Works of Stephen King (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1985) with David Engebretson [nonfiction: Stephen King: hb/]
- The Stephen King Concordance (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1986), with David Engebretson [nonfiction: Stephen King: hb/]
- Brian W. Aldiss (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1986) [nonfiction: Brian W Aldiss: hb/Stephen E Fabian]
- The Many Facets of Stephen King (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1986) [nonfiction: Stephen King: hb/]
- The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America's Premier Horror Writer (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1986) [nonfiction: Stephen King: hb/]
- The Films of Stephen King (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1986) [nonfiction: Stephen King: hb/]
- The Stephen King Phenomenon (Mercer Island, Washington: Starmont House, 1987) [nonfiction: Stephen King: hb/]
- In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (Westport, Connecticut: Greenwood Press, 1990) [nonfiction: Orson Scott Card: hb/]
- Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography (Woodstock, Georgia: Overlook Connection Press, 2000) [nonfiction: hb/photographic]
- Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Ancient Rockets: Treasures and Trainwrecks of the Silent Screen (Woodstock, Georgia: Overlook Connection Press, 2001) [nonfiction: Orson Scott Card: hb/photographic]
- Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000 (Woodstock, Georgia: Overlook Connection Press, 2003) [bibliography: Stephen King: hb/photographic]
- Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives on John Milton, C S Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, and Others (San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press/Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2010) [nonfiction: pod: pb/]
- In Endless Morn of Light: Moral Freedom in Milton's Universe (San Bernardino, California: The Borgo Press/Holicong, Pennsylvania: Wildside Press, 2010) [nonfiction: pod: pb/]
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