Darrell Schweitzer bibliography

Bibliography of dark fantasy, horror, science fiction and nonfiction writer Darrell Schweitzer:

Fiction

Sir Julian

• "The Hag" (from Swords Against Darkness III, Mar. 1978 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "The Lady of the Fountain" (from Void no. 5, Feb. 1977 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "Island of Faces" (1981 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "The Veiled Pool of Mistorak" (from Fantasy Crosswinds no. 2, Jan. 1977 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "The One Who Spoke with the Owls" (from Void no. 4, May 1976 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "The Castle of Kites and Crows" (from Swords Against Darkness V, Nov. 1979 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "The Riddle of the Horn" (from Heroic Fantasy, Apr. 1979 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "Divers Hands" (from The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VII, Jul. 1979 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "The Unknown God Cried Out" (1981 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "Into the Dark Land" (from Alien Worlds, 1979 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "A Fabulous, Formless Darkness" (from Ron Graham Presents Others Worlds, 1978 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "Midnight, Moonlight, and the Secret of the Sea" (1981 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• "L'envoi" (1981 - collected in We Are All Legends (1981))
• We Are All Legends (1981 short story collection)

Tom O'Bedlam

• "Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out" (from Fantastic v. 26, no. 3, September 1977 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "Raving Lunacy" (from Amazing Stories v. 55, no. 2, July 1981 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "Continued Lunacy" (from Amazing Science Fiction v. 56, no. 5, March 1983 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Last Dangerous Lunacy" (from Amazing Stories v. 63, no. 3, Sep. 1988 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "Time Enough for Lunacy" (from Weirdbook no. 25, Aut. 1990 - collected in Nightscapes (2000)
• "Tom O'Bedlam and the King of Dreams" (from Weird Tales v. 56, no. 1, Fall 1999 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "Tom O'Bedlam and the Mystery of Love" (from The Enchanter Completed: A Tribute Anthology for L. Sprague de Camp, May 2005 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))

Etelven Thios

• "The Murder of Etelven Thios" (from Weirdbook no. 14, Jun. 1979 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "The Other Murder of Etelven Thios" (from Weirdbook no. 15, 1981 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "The Final? Murder? of Etelven Thios?" (from Weirdbook no. 15, 1981 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))

The Goddess

• "The Stones Would Weep" (from Fantasy Tales v. 6, no. 12, Win. 1983 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess
• "The Story of a Dadar" (from Amazing Science Fiction Stories v. 56, no. 1, Jun. 1982 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985), Echoes of the Goddess (2013) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Diminishing Man" (from Fantasy Book, v. 3, no. 3-4, Sep.-Dec. 1984 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• "A Lantern Maker of Ai Hanlo" (from Amazing Stories v. 58, no. 2, Jul. 1984 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985), Echoes of the Goddess (2013) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "Holy Fire" (from Weirdbook 17, 1983 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• "The Stolen Heart" (from Weirdbook 26, Aut. 1991 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• "Immortal Bells" (from Weirdbook 18, 1983 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• "Between Night and Morning" (from Weirdbook 20, Spr. 1985 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• "The Shaper of Animals" (from Amazing Stories v. 62, no. 2, Jul. 1987 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• "Three Brothers" (from Weirdbook 23/24, 1988 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• "Coming of Age in the City of the Goddess" (from Fantasy Book v. 4, no. 2, Jun. 1985 - collected in Echoes of the Goddess (2013))
• The Shattered Goddess (1983 novel)
• Echoes of the Goddess (2013 short story collection)

Sherlock Holmes

• "The Adventure of the Hanoverian Vampires" (1990 - collected in Deadly Things (2011))
• "The Adventure of the Death-Fetch" (1994 - collected in - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001) and Deadly Things (2011))
• "Sherlock Holmes, Dragon-Slayer" (1996 - collected in Deadly Things (2011))

The Great River

• "To Become a Sorcerer" (1991 - expanded as The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995))
• The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995 novel)
• "On the Last Night of the Festival of the Dead" (from Interzone no. 90, Dec. 1994 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999), Sekenre (2004) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Sorcerer's Gift" (from Worlds of Fantasy & Horror, Win. 1996-7 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "King Father Stone" (from Interzone no. 103, Jan. 1996 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "The Giant Vorviades" (from Interzone no. 99, Sep. 1995 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "The Silence of Kings" (from Weirdbook no. 30, Spr. 1997 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "Vandibar Nasha in the College of Shadows" (from Adventures of Sword and Sorcery no. 7, Sep. 2000 - collected in Sekenre (2004) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "In the Street of the Witches" (from Weird Tales v. 56, no. 4, Sum. 2000 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "The Lantern of the Supreme Moment" (from Space and Time no. 93, Spr. 2001 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "From Out of the Crocodile's Mouth" (from Weird Tales v. 58, no. 1, Fall 2001 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "Dreams of the Stone King's Daughter" (from Weird Tales v. 59, no. 2, Win. 2002 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "Seeking the Gifts of the Queen of Vengeance" (from Odyssey, iss. 2, 1998 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• "Lord Abernaeven's Tale" (from Weird Tales v. 60, no. 2, Jan.-Feb. 2004 - collected in Sekenre (2004))
• Sekenre: The Book of the Sorcerer (2004 short story collection)
• "O King of Pain and Splendor!" (from Postscripts no. 20/21, Dec. 2009)
• "The Reprieve" (unpublished)

Corpsenburg

• "The Most Beautiful Dead Woman in the World" (from Interzone no. 189, May/Jun. 2003 - collected in Living With the Dead (2008) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "They Are Still Dancing" (from Interzone no. 192, Nov./Dec. 2003 - collected in Living With the Dead (2008))
• "The Order of Things Must Be Preserved" (from Interzone no. 193, Spr. 2004 - collected in Living With the Dead (2008))
• "The Boy Who Dreamed of Nothing At All" (2008 - collected in Living With the Dead (2008))
• "The Observatory Committee" (2008 - collected in Living With the Dead (2008))
• Living With the Dead (The Tale of Old Corpsenberg) (2008 short story collection)

Pliny the Younger

• "Some Unpublished Correspondence of the Younger Pliny" (from The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits, 2003 - collected in Deadly Things (2011))
• "The Stolen Venus" (from Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Oct. 2008 - collected in Deadly Things (2011))

Emperor of the Ancient Word

• "The Messenger" (from Weird Tales v. 62, no. 5, November/December 2007 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Emperor of the Ancient Word" (from Space and Time no. 99, Spring 2005 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))

Other novels

• The White Isle (1989)
• The Dragon House (2018)

Other short story collections

• Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out and Other Strange Excursions (1985)
• The Meaning of Life and Other Awesome Cosmic Revelations (1988)
• Transients and Other Disquieting Stories (1993)
• Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999)
• Necromancies and Netherworlds: Uncanny Stories (1999) with Jason Van Hollander
• Nightscapes: Tales of the Ominous and Magical (2000)
• The Great World and the Small: More Tales of the Ominous and Magical (2001)
• Deadly Things: A Collection of Mysterious Tales (2011)
• The Emperor of the Ancient Word and Other Fantastic Stories (2013)
• The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013)
• Awaiting Strange Gods: Weird and Lovecraftian Fictions (2015)
• The Mysteries of the Faceless King: The Best Short Fiction of Darrell Schweitzer Volume I (2020)
• The Last Heretic: The Best Short Fiction of Darrell Schweitzer Volume II (2020)
• The Children of Chorazin and Other Strange Denizens (2023)

Other short stories

• "Memories, Just Memories" (1970)
• "The Silent Screamers" (1971)
• "Come to Mother" (1971)
• "Wrecking Crew" (1972)
• "Legends" (1972)
• "In the Evening of Dreams" (1973 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "Encounter" (1973)
• "The Story of Obbok" (1973 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Kingdom of the Air" (1974)
• "A Special Purpose" (1974)
• "How Ranthes Yin Sailed a Boat on the Waters of the River Time" (1975)
• "The White Isle" (1975 - expanded as The White Isle (1989))
• "The Cabin" (1976)
• "The Lady of the Darkwood" (1977)
• "Something Like the Hobo Bird" (1977)
• "The Story of the Brown Man" (1977 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Last Horror Out of Arkham" (1977)
• "A Vision of Rembathene" (1977 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "How Four Brought Silence to the City of Storytellers" (1977)
• "The Soul of the Poet" (1977)
• "Wanderers and Travellers We Were" (1978 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "The Teddybear" (1978)
• "The Wings of the White Bird" (1978 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "Boy Meets Girl" (1978)
• "Caliban's Revenge" (1978 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "The Giant's Frosted Daughter" (1979)
• "The Secret" (with Henry L. Lazarus) (1979)
• "Never Argue With Antique Dealers" (1980)
• "Relatively Speaking" (with Lee Weinstein) (1980)
• "The Story of the Little Brown Man" (1980)
• "The Headless Horseman" (1980)
• "The Faces of Midnight" (1981)
• "The Doctor's Tale" (1981)
• "The Game of Sand and Fire" (1981 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "A Night in a Haunted Wood" (1981)
• "The Pretenses of Hinyar" (1981 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Forest Dream" (1982)
• "Flesh and Shadow" (1983)
• "Sunrise" (1983 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Fisherman" (1983)
• "The Phantom Knight" (1983)
• "That Dead Men Rise Up Never" (1984)
• "Jungle Eyes" (1985 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Last of the Shadow Titans" (1985 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Wrong Stop" (A Story for Children)" (1985)
• "The Last Child of Masferigon" (with John Gregory Betancourt) (1985 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Stranger from Baal-Ad-Theon" (1985 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Bermuda Triangle Explained" (1985 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "The Adventure in the House of Phaon" (1985 - collected in Tom O'Bedlam's Night Out (1985))
• "Leaving" (1986 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "Jason, Come Home" (1986 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "The Voice of Bel-Hemad" (1986 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "Pennies from Hell" (1987 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "The Children of Lommos" (with John Gregory Betancourt) (1987 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "Transients" (1987 - collected in Transients (1993) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Chivalry of Sir Aldingar" (1987)
• "The Mysteries of the Faceless King" (1988 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "We Are the Dead" (1988 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "The Young Man Who Did Not Know His Father" (1988)
• "The Meaning of Life" (1988 - collected in The Meaning of Life and Other Awesome Cosmic Revelations (1988))
• "A Public Nuisance" (1988 - collected in The Meaning of Life and Other Awesome Cosmic Revelations (1988))
• "The Man Who Was Galumphed Against His Will" (1988 - collected in The Meaning of Life and Other Awesome Cosmic Revelations (1988))
• "The Man Who Wasn't Nice to Pumpkin Head Dolls" (1988 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "Malevendra's Pool" (1989 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "Clocks" (1989 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "King Yvorian's Wager" (1989 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "Seeing Them" (1989 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "The Man Who Found the Heart of the Forest" (1989 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "Going to the Mountain" (1990 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "The Unmaker of Men" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1990 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "Soft" (1990 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "Peeling It Off" (1990 - collected in Transients (1993) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Strange Rider from the Far, Dark Land" (1990 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "The Throwing Suit" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1990 - collected in Transients (1993) and Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "Angry Man" (1990 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "The Paloverde Lodge" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1990 - collected in Transients (1993) and Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "Men Without Maps" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1991 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "The Cloth Gods of Zhamiir" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1991 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "Minotauress" (1991 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "Short and Nasty" (1991 - collected in Transients (1993))
• "Savages" (1991 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Spirit of the Back Stairs" (1991 - collected in Transients (1993) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Caravan of the Dead" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1992 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "Told by Moonlight" (1992 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "The Outside Man" (1992 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Great World and the Small" (1993 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "The Liar's Mouth" (1993 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "An Interview with Edgar Allan Poe" (1993 - collected in Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature (1998))
• "Three Brothers of the Air" (1993)
• "The Cup of Pain" (1993)
• "The Sorcerer Evoragdou" (1993 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Man in the White Mask" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1994 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "On the Holy Mountain" (1994 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "Those of the Air" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1994 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999) and Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "One of the Secret Masters" (1994 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Epilogue of the Sword" (1995 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "The Witch of the World's End" (1995 - collected in Nightscapes (2000) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Knight of Pale Countenance" (1995 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "Runaway" (1995 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "Climbing" (1995 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999))
• "The Magical Dilemma of Mondesir" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1995 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "Silkie Son" (1995 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "Believing in the Twentieth Century" (1996 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "The Unwanted Grail" (1996 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "Last Things" (1996 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and Deadly Things (2011))
• "The Silence in Kandretiphon" (1996 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "Adam" (1996 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "Smart Guy" (1996 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "The Crystal-Man" (with Jason Van Hollander) (1996 - collected in Necromancies and Netherworlds (1999))
• "The Dragon of Camlann" (1997 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "Kvetchula" (1997 - collected in Nightscapes (2000) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "I Told You So" (1997 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "Sir Artegall in The Dragon of Camlann" (1997)
• "The Death of Falstaff" (1997 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and Deadly Things (2011))
• "Refugees from an Imaginary Country" (1997 - collected in Refugees from an Imaginary Country (1999) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "Running to Camelot" (1998 - collected in Nightscapes (2000) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "Murdered by Love" (1998 - collected in Deadly Things (2011))
• "Return from Exile" (1998 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "A Servant of Satan" (1998 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "Just Suppose" (1998 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "Ye Olde Englishe Ghost Story" (1999)
• "Ghost" (1999 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "Bitter Chivalry" (1999 - collected in Nightscapes (2000))
• "Saxon Midnight" (2000 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "The Invisible Knight's Squire" (2000 - collected in The Great World and the Small (2001))
• "The Fire Eggs" (2000 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "Appeasing the Darkness" (2000)
• "The Last of the Black Wine" (2001)
• "They Never Found His Head" (2001)
• "Our Father Down Below" (2001 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "The Last of the Giants of Albion" (2002 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "Whom Even Death Might Fear" (2002)
• "Secret Murders" (2002 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "The Girl Who Fell from the Moon: A Legend of Atlantis" (2002)
• "A Dark Miracle" (2002)
• "Why We Do It" (2002 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Envy, the Gardens of Ynath, and the Sin of Cain" (2002 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "How It Ended" (2002 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Dead Kid" (2002 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "The Third Way" (2002)
• "The Runners in the Maze" (2003)
• "The Scroll of the Worm" (with Jason Van Hollander) (2004 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "The Rider of the Dark" (2004)
• "At the Top of the Black Stairs" (2005 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "Fighting the Zeppelin Gang" (2006 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013) and The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "The Hero Spoke" (2006 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "Sometimes You Have to Shout About It" (2007 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "A Lost City of the Jungle" (2007 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "Honored Be Her Name" (with John Gregory Betancourt) (2007)
• "In a Byzantine Garden" (2007 - collected in Deadly Things (2011))
• "Sweep Me to My Revenge!" (2007 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "The Idol in His Hand" (2007)
• "Thousand Year Warrior" (2008 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "The Eater of Hours" (2009 - collected in The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013) and Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "In the Dreaming House" (2010)
• "Kvetchula's Daughter" (2010 - collected in The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "Ghost Dancing" (2010 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Howling in the Dark" (2010 - collected in The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013) and Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "The Werewolf of Camelot" (2010)
• "Pages from an Invisible Book" (2010)
• "We Are the Monsters Now" (2011 - collected in The Emperor of the Ancient Word (2013))
• "Into the Gathering Dark" (2011)
• "The Last Heretic" (2011 - collected in The Darrell Schweitzer Megapack (2013))
• "Class Reunion" (2011 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Innsmouth Idyll" (2011 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "The Runners Beyond the Wall" (2012 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "True Blue" (2012)
• "The Clockwork King, the Queen of Glass, and the Man with the Hundred Knives" (2012 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Jimmy Bunny" (2012 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Dreaming Kandresphar" (2013)
• "No Signal" (2013)
• "In Old Commoriom" (2013 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Going to Ground" (2014)
• "Odd Man Out" (2014)
• "Stragglers from Carrhae" (2014 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "The Warm" (2014 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Hanged Man and Ghost" (2014 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "An American Story" (2014)
• "On the Eastbound Train" (2014 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Come, Follow Me" (2015)
• "Spiderwebs in the Dark" (2015 - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "The House of the Witches" (2015)
• "Boxes of Dead Children" (2015)
• "The Head Shop in Arkham" (? - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "The Corpse Detective" (? - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "The Last of the Black Wind" (? - collected in Awaiting Strange Gods (2015))
• "Old One's Fall" (2015)
• "Madness on the Black Planet" (2016)
• "The Red Witch of Chorazin" (2016)
• "The Dragons of the Night" (2016)
• "The Hutchison Boy" (2016)
• "The Tale and the Teller" (2017)
• "Not in the Card Catalog" (2017)
• "A Predicament" (2017)
• "The Tale and the Teller" (2017)
• "The Girl in the Attic" (2017)
• "The Philosopher Thief" (2018)
• "Uncle's in the Treetops" (2018)
• "The Song of Black Mountain" (2019)
• "Down to a Sunless Sea" (2019)
• "All Kings and Princes Bow Down Unto Me" (2021)
• "The Reprieve" (2021)

Poetry

• Non Compost Mentis: An Affrontery of Limericks and Other Eldritch Metrical Terrors (1995)
• Poetica Dementia: Being a Further Accumulation of Metrical Offenses (1997)
• "Stop Me Before I Do It Again!" (1999)
• They Never Found the Head: Poems of Sentiment & Reflection (2001)
• The Innsmouth Tabernacle Choir Hymnal (2004)
• Groping Towards the Light (2005)
• The Arkham Alphabet Book for Children (2006)
• Ghosts of Past and Future (2008)
• The Second Innsmouth Tabernacle choir Hymnal (2019)
• The Pratfall of Cthulhu and Other Literary Mishaps (2019)

Nonfiction

• Lovecraft in the Cinema (1975)
• The Dream Quest of H. P. Lovecraft (1978)
• Conan's World and Robert E. Howard (1978)
• On Writing Science Fiction: The Editors Strike Back! (1981) with John M. Ford and George H. Scithers
• Constructing Scientifiction & Fantasy (1982) with George H. Scithers and John Ashmead
• Pathways to Elfland: The Writings of Lord Dunsany (1989)
• Lord Dunsany: A Bibliography (1993) with S. T. Joshi
• Windows of the Imagination: Essays on Fantastic Literature (1998) [includes essays on H.P. Lovecraft, M.R. James, Richard Middleton, Lord Dunsany, Dracula, Edgar Allan Poe and many reviews.
• Philcon 2003 Program Book (2003)
• The Fantastic Horizon: Essays and Reviews (2009)
• The Threshold of Forever: Essays and Reviews (2017)

As editor

Collections

• The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer, and Other Fantasms, by Lord Dunsany (1980)
• The Ginger Cat and Other Lost Plays, by Lord Dunsany (2005)

Anthologies

• Tales from the Spaceport Bar (1987) with George H. Scithers
• Another Round at the Spaceport Bar (1989) with George H. Scithers
• The Secret History of Vampires (2007)
• Full Moon City (2010) with Martin H. Greenberg
• Cthulhu's Reign (2010)
• That is Not Dead: Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos Through the Centuries (2015)
• Tales from the Miskatonic University Library (2017)
• Mountains of Madness Revealed (2019)
• Shadows Out of Time (2023)

Nonfiction

• Essays Lovecraftian (1976)
• Exploring Fantasy Worlds: Essays on Fantastic Literature (1985)
• Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction (1997)
• Discovering H. P. Lovecraft (1987) (revised and expanded edition of Essays Lovecraftian)
• Discovering Classic Horror Fiction I (1992)
• Discovering Modern Horror Fiction I (1985)
• Discovering Modern Horror Fiction II (1988)
• Discovering Stephen King (1985)
• The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003)
• The Neil Gaiman Reader (2006)
• The Robert E. Howard Reader (2010)

Interview collections

• SF Voices (1976)
• Science Fiction Voices #1: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers (1979)
• Science Fiction Voices #5: Interviews with American Science Fiction Writers of the Golden Age (1981)
• Speaking of Horror: Interviews with Writers of the Supernatural (1994)
• Speaking of Horror II: Interviews with 18 Masters of Horror! (2015)
• Speaking of the Fantastic: Interviews with Writers of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2002)
• Speaking of the Fantastic II: Interviews with Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2004)
• Speaking of the Fantastic III: Interviews with Science Fiction Writers (2011)
• Speaking of the Fantastic IV (2018)