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John Pelan

John Pelan

Pelan, John C.

July 19, 1957 – April 12, 2021 (aged 63)

Birth place: Seattle, Washington, USA

96 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
April 1986 22 Review Tain Fantasy Review, April 1986
June 1986 17 Review The Leopard of Poitain Fantasy Review, June 1986
February 1993 69 Essay Letter (Locus #385) Locus, #385 February 1993
February 1993 16|16.1 Essay Letter (Science Fiction Chronicle, February 1993) Science Fiction Chronicle, #159 February 1993
1996 72 Review Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium Bones of the Children, Fall 1996
October 1996 28 Review Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium Locus, #429 October 1996
October 1996 60 Review Goon Locus, #429 October 1996
1998 9 Short Fiction Transcendence Bloodsongs, #11
June 1998 82 Review The Vampire Stories of R. Chetwynd-Hayes All Hallows, June 1998
July 1998 58 Review The Case of the Police Officer's Cock Ring and the Piano Player Who Had No Fingers Locus, #450 July 1998
October 1998 91 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #29) Cemetery Dance, #29
October 1998 5 Short Fiction Twins The Urbanite, Halloween 1998
December 1998 31 Short Fiction TV Eye Nasty Piece of Work, December 1998
February 1999 86 Review The Black Reaper All Hallows, February 1999
March 1999 61 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #31) Cemetery Dance, #31
June 1999 97 Review Moths All Hallows, June 1999
June 1999 97 Review The Dark Satanic All Hallows, June 1999
November 1999 32 Review The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique Vector 208
November 1999 61 Review The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique Interzone, November 1999
January 2000 31 Review The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique Locus, #468 January 2000
May 2000 48 Review An Antique Vintage Locus, #472 May 2000
June 2000 109 Review An Antique Vintage All Hallows, June 2000
June 2000 92 Review The Smell of Telescopes All Hallows, June 2000
June 2000 89 Review Whispers in the Dark All Hallows, June 2000
July 2000 158 Short Fiction Lord of the Jungle Enigmatic Tales, Summer 2000
October 2000 109 Review Arkham's Masters of Horror: A 60th Anniversary Anthology Retrospective of the First 30 Years of Arkham House All Hallows, October 2000
October 2000 152 Essay Introduction to 'The Pool' by Clive Pemberton Enigmatic Tales, Autumn 2000
October 2000 5 Short Fiction Old Songs Waken Enigmatic Tales, Autumn 2000
March 2001 27 Short Fiction The Sailor Home from the Sea The Urbanite, Spring 2001
May 2001 98 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #34) Cemetery Dance, #34
June 2001 109 Review After Shocks All Hallows, June 2001
July 2001 1 Review The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique The New York Review of Science Fiction, July 2001
October 2001 126 Review Acolytes of Cthulhu All Hallows, October 2001
November 2001 88 Essay Collecting Modern Horror Fiction (Cemetery Dance, #36) Cemetery Dance, #36
2002 14 Review The Children of Cthulhu Weird Tales, Summer 2002
February 2002 78 Review The Children of Cthulhu Locus, #493 February 2002
May 2002 84 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #38) Cemetery Dance, #38
June 2002 106 Review Couching at the Door: Strange and Macabre Tales All Hallows, June 2002
June 2002 120 Review Dromenon: The Best Weird Stories of Gerald Heard All Hallows, June 2002
June 2002 108 Review The Five Quarters All Hallows, June 2002
September 2002 25 Review The Darker Side Locus, #500 September 2002
October 2002 114 Review Cold Hand on My Shoulder All Hallows, October 2002
October 2002 88 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #40) Cemetery Dance, #40
December 2002 91 Review The Darker Side Talebones #25, Fall 2002
February 2003 100 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #42) Cemetery Dance, #42
June 2003 92 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #44) Cemetery Dance, #44
June 2003 22 Essay Letter (All Hallows, June 2003) All Hallows, June 2003
June 2003 136 Review The Darker Side: Generations of Horror All Hallows, June 2003
July 2003 18 Review The Children of Cthulhu Weird Tales, July-August 2003
August 2003 37 Review Shadows Over Baker Street Locus, #511 August 2003
December 2003 70 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #47) Cemetery Dance, #47
December 2003 60 Review Shadows Over Baker Street Locus, #515 December 2003
January 2004 18 Review Shadows Over Baker Street Weird Tales, January-February 2004
February 2004 140 Review Queer Fear II: Gay Horror Fiction All Hallows, February 2004
February 2004 139 Review Shadows Over Baker Street Asimov's Science Fiction, February 2004
June 2004 74 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #49) Cemetery Dance, #49
June 2004 75 Review Mirror of the Night Cemetery Dance, #49
June 2004 75 Review Strange Stars and Alien Shadows Cemetery Dance, #49
June 2004 74 Review Tales of the Uneasy Cemetery Dance, #49
September 2004 72 Review For Us the Living: A Comedy of Customs Amazing Stories, September 2004
September 2004 68 Essay Reviews: Books (Amazing Stories, September 2004) Amazing Stories, September 2004
September 2004 82 Essay Time Machine: The Future Is History Amazing Stories, September 2004
October 2004 80 Essay Time Machine: Wars of the Worlds Amazing Stories, October 2004
March 2005 70 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance #51) Cemetery Dance, #51, 2005
April 2005 157 Review Shadows Over Baker Street Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #49, April 2005
August 2005 102 Review A Walk on the Dark Side: Visions of Horror Cemetery Dance, #52, 2005
November 2005 90 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #53) Cemetery Dance, #53
June 2006 66 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #55) Cemetery Dance, #55
September 2006 84 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #56) Cemetery Dance, #56
February 2007 12 Review The Colour Out of Darkness Weird Tales, February-March 2007
March 2007 62 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance, #57) Cemetery Dance, #57
June 2007 43 Interior Art Photograph of Dan Simmons, with Barbara, Tim and Christopher Roden, University Bookstore,Seattle, February 2007 All Hallows, Summer 2007
September 2007 27 Short Fiction City of Night Subterranean, Issue #7
February 2008 96 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance #58) Cemetery Dance, #58, 2008
August 2008 71 Review Shadows Over Baker Street: New Tales of Terror! Theaker's Quarterly Fiction, #24
2009 156 Interview John Pelan's Things from the Vault: Discussing Dark Sanctuary Allen K's Inhuman Magazine, #4 Summer 2009
May 2009 106 Essay Collecting Modern Horror (Cemetery Dance #60) Cemetery Dance, #60, 2009
2010 11 Review Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle Weird Tales, Spring 2010
2011 160 Short Fiction An Outsider Allen K's Inhuman Magazine, #5 Fall 2011
2011 193 Essay The First Ladies of Fear Fiction (Mary Dale Buckner & Greye La Spina) The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2011
July 2011 26 Review The Century's Best Horror Fiction, Volume One: 1901-1950 Locus, #606 July 2011
July 2011 26 Review The Century's Best Horror Fiction, Volume Two: 1951-2000 Locus, #606 July 2011
2012 219 Essay Southern Discomfort: The Weird Tales of Wyatt Blassingame The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2012
2013 264 Essay Edmund Snell The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2013
2014 292 Essay Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: Arthur Leo Zagat The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2014
November 2014 38 Interview An Interview with John Pelan Feast of Laughter, Issue 1
2015 370 Essay Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: Nictzin Dyalhis The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2015
2016 355 Essay Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: Walter Owen Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2016
October 2016 63 Review Darkness, My Old Friend Locus, #669 October 2016
November 2016 |9.4 Review Darkness, My Old Friend Black Static, November-December 2016
2017 386 Essay Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: The Curious Case of C. Hall Thompson The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2017
2018 405 Essay Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: Paul Ernst The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2018
2019 362 Essay Mary Dale Buckner: First Lady of Fear Fiction The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2019
2019 Editor The Weird Fiction Review - 2019 The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2019
2020 381 Essay Forgotten Masters of the Weird Tale: Sax Rohmer The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2020
2020 Editor The Weird Fiction Review - 2020 The Weird Fiction Review, Fall 2020

25 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1996 Anthology Darkside: Horror for the Next Millennium John Pelan
1996 Novel Goon Edward Lee & John Pelan
1998 Novel Shifters John Pelan & Edward Lee
1998 Omnibus Sideshow Double #1: Sub-Human/The Colour out of Darkness Lucy Taylor & John Pelan
1998 Collection Splatterspunk: The Micah Hayes Stories Edward Lee & John Pelan
1998 Chapbook The Case of the Police Officer's Cock Ring and the Piano Player Who Had No Fingers John Pelan & Edward Lee
1999 Anthology Of Pigs and Spiders Edward Lee & John Pelan & David Niall Wilson & Brett Savory
1999 Anthology The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique John Pelan
2000 Chapbook An Antique Vintage John Pelan
2002 Novel Family Tradition Edward Lee & John Pelan
2002 Anthology The Children of Cthulhu: Chilling New Tales Inspired by H.P. Lovecraft John Pelan & Benjamin Adams
2002 Anthology The Darker Side: Generations of Horror John Pelan
2003 Anthology Shadows Over Baker Street Michael Reaves & John Pelan
2004 Anthology A Walk on the Darkside: Visions of Horror John Pelan
2005 Anthology Lost on the Darkside: Voices from the Edge of Horror John Pelan
2006 Anthology Alone on the Darkside: Echoes from the Shadows of Horror John Pelan
2006 Anthology Dark Arts John Pelan
2006 Novel The Colour out of Darkness John Pelan
2009 Nonfiction Conversations with the Weird Tales Circle John Pelan & Jerad Walters
2012 Anthology The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1901-1950 John Pelan
2012 Anthology The Century's Best Horror Fiction 1951-2000 John Pelan
2013 Anthology Tales of Terror and Torment: Stories from the Pulps, Volume 1 John Pelan
2016 Collection Darkness, My Old Friend John Pelan
2016 Chapbook The Scarlet Succubus John Pelan & Edward Lee
8888 Anthology Triptych Edward Lee & Lucy Taylor & John Pelan

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