(1927-1997) US anthologist who worked with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh on more than twenty Anthologies, chiefly of ghostly and supernatural fiction. Of sf interest is the baseball-themed Baseball 3000 (anth 1981) edited with Greenberg and Waugh. The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle (coll 1989), edited with Greenberg and Waugh, is a useful selection of Arthur Conan Doyle's horror fiction; The Fantastic World War II (anth 1990), edited with Greenberg and Waugh, assembles both sf and supernatural fiction with a World War Two setting. [DRL]

Frank David McSherry Jr

born 1927

died 7 December 1997

works as editor

series

American Ghosts

• Dixie Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1988) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: American Ghosts: pb/Harriette Bateman]
  • Haunted Dixie: Great Ghost Stories from the American South (New York: Fall River Press, 1994) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: vt of the above: American Ghosts: hb/]
• Eastern Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, and the District of Columbia (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1990) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: American Ghosts: pb/Harriette Bateman]
• New England Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the New England States (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1990) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: American Ghosts: pb/Harriette Bateman]
• Western Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American West (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1990) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: American Ghosts: pb/Harriette Bateman]
• Ghosts of the Heartland: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American Mid-West (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1990) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: American Ghosts: pb/Harriette Bateman]
• Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: Cinema: Los Angeles: American Ghosts: pb/Harriette Bateman]
• Great American Ghost Stories (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1991) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: assembled from previous volumes in the series: American Ghosts: hb/Timothy Holland]
  • Great American Ghost Stories: Volume One (New York: Berkley Books, 1992) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: reissue of the above in two volumes: American Ghosts: pb/]
  • Great American Ghost Stories: Volume Two (New York: Berkley Books, 1993) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: reissue of the above in two volumes: American Ghosts: pb/]
• More Dixie Ghosts: More Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American South (Nashville, Tennessee: Rutledge Hill Press, 1994) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: American Ghosts: pb/Harriette Bateman]

individual titles as editor

• Baseball 3000 (New York: Elsevier/Nelson Books, 1981) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: Baseball: 3000: hb/Bradley Clark]
• A Treasury of American Horror Stories (New York: Bonanza Books, 1985) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: hb/Hector Garrido]
• Strange Maine (Augusta, Maine: Lance Tapley, Publisher, 1986) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/Peter Farrow]
• Cinemonsters (Lake Geneva, Wisconsin: TSR, 1987) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/]
• Nightmares in Dixie: Thirteen Horror Tales from the American South (Little Rock, Arkansas: August House, 1987) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: hb/]
• Haunted New England: Classic Tales of the Strange and Supernatural (Dublin, New Hampshire: Yankee Books, 1988) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: hb/Margo Letourneau]
• Pirate Ghosts of the American Coast (Little Rock, Arkansas: August House, 1988) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/]
• Red Jack (New York: DAW Books, 1988) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/]
• Yankee Witches (Augusta, Maine: Lance Tapley, Publisher 1988) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/]
• The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle (Chicago, Illinois: Academy: Chicago Publishers, 1989) [coll: edited with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh: Arthur Conan Doyle: hb/Wang-Fai Wong]
• The Fantastic World War II (New York: Baen Books, 1990) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh (anonymous) [anth: World War Two: pb/]
• Civil War Ghosts (Little Rock, Arkansas: August House Publishers, 1991) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/]
• The Fantastic Civil War (New York: Baen Books, 1991) with Martin H Greenberg and Charles G Waugh (both anonymous) [anth: pb/Ken Kelly]
• Spooky Sea Stories (Camden, Maine: Yankee Books, 1991) with Charles G Waugh [anth: pb/]

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