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Michael R. Collings

Collings, Michael Robert

October 29, 1947 (age 78)

Birth place: Rupert, Idaho, USA

167 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
February 1981 30 Poem Alien Vistas Owlflight, #2, 1981
July 1981 Poem Mythmaker: The Science Fiction Writer Space and Time, July 1981
January 1982 25 Review Collected Poems Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #1, January-February 1982
January 1982 15 Review Fantastic Lives Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #1, January-February 1982
January 1982 9 Poem Return to Avalon Owlflight, #3, 1982
March 1982 5 Review Tolkien: New Critical Perspectives Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #2, March 1982
June 1982 28 Review Catastrophe Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #5, June 1982
June 1982 33 Review Murdercon Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #5, June 1982
June 1982 32 Review Soldier Boy Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #5, June 1982
June 1982 26 Review The Wizard in Waiting Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #5, June 1982
July 1982 17 Review Viscous Circle Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #6, July-August 1982
September 1982 8 Poem The Dark Is Deep Star*Line, September-October 1982
October 1982 6 Review Fantasy: Theorie und Geschichte einer Literischen Gattung Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #8, October 1982
November 1982 7 Review England and Always: Tolkien's World of the Rings Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #9, November 1982
November 1982 23 Poem Fifth Movement and Final Star*Line, November-December 1982
January 1983 38 Review Tales of Fear & Frightening Phenomena Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #11, January-February 1983
January 1983 35 Review The Umbral Anthology of Science Fiction Poetry Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Review, #11, January-February 1983
June 1983 Essay Three Songs from Dracula Space and Time, Summer 1983
September 1983 13 Poem Eternity Has Finally Died Star*Line, September-October 1983
November 1983 6 Essay Lewis after Milton: A Sense of Direction in Science Fiction Poetry Star*Line, November-December 1983
November 1983 5 Poem One with Him Star*Line, November-December 1983
1984 138 Essay James P. Hogan's Inherit the Stars: A Paradigm for Communication Extrapolation, Summer 1984
April 1984 35 Review Apertures: A Study of the Writings of Brian W. Aldiss SF & Fantasy Review, April 1984
May 1984 36 Review Bronwyn's Bane Fantasy Review, May 1984
May 1984 24 Review Life in the West Fantasy Review, May 1984
June 1984 68 Poem A Lesson in Manners Space and Time, Summer 1984
July 1984 213 Review Piers Anthony Science-Fiction Studies, July 1984
July 1984 34 Review The Land of Laughs Fantasy Review, July 1984
August 1984 52 Review Joel in Tananar Fantasy Review, August 1984
August 1984 41 Review Piers Anthony Fantasy Review, August 1984
August 1984 51 Review Portal to E'ewere Fantasy Review, August 1984
September 1984 37 Review Splintered Light: Logos and Language in Tolkien's World Fantasy Review, September 1984
November 1984 40 Review Philosophy and Science Fiction Fantasy Review, November 1984
December 1984 27 Review Sun's End Fantasy Review, December 1984
January 1985 45 Review Archer's Goon Fantasy Review, January 1985
January 1985 19 Review Snail Fantasy Review, January 1985
February 1985 25 Review Machines That Kill Fantasy Review, February 1985
March 1985 12 Review Hound Dog: A Romance for Our Time Fantasy Review, March 1985
April 1985 14 Review Helliconia Winter Fantasy Review, April 1985
April 1985 14 Review Politician Fantasy Review, April 1985
April 1985 29 Short Fiction The Elevator Footsteps, #5
May 1985 15 Review The Power and the Prophet Fantasy Review, May 1985
June 1985 27 Review Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! Fantasy Review, June 1985
June 1985 22 Review Skeleton Crew Fantasy Review, June 1985
June 1985 2 Poem The Sorceress of the Silvered Wood Fantasy Book, June 1985
July 1985 17 Review The Beasts of Valhalla Fantasy Review, July 1985
August 1985 20 Review Atlan Fantasy Review, August 1985
August 1985 26 Review Liavek Fantasy Review, August 1985
September 1985 20 Review Isaac Asimov's Fantasy! Fantasy Review, September 1985
October 1985 16 Review Amazing Stories: Sixty Years of the Best Science Fiction Fantasy Review, October 1985
October 1985 25 Review Inside Outer Space: Science Fiction Professionals Look at Their Craft Fantasy Review, October 1985
October 1985 18 Review The Bachman Books Fantasy Review, October 1985
November 1985 27 Review Tomb Seven Fantasy Review, November 1985
December 1985 25 Review Faces of Fear: Encounters with the Creators of Modern Horror Fantasy Review, December 1985
1986 362 Review Brian W. Aldiss Extrapolation, Winter 1986
1986 74 Review Brian W. Aldiss Foundation, #37 Autumn 1986
January 1986 44 Poem Alien Owlflight, #5, 1986
January 1986 21 Review Boxen: The Imaginary World of the Young C. S. Lewis Fantasy Review, January 1986
January 1986 16 Review Executive Fantasy Review, January 1986
January 1986 23 Review My Science Project Fantasy Review, January 1986
January 1986 27 Review Things Invisible to See Fantasy Review, January 1986
February 1986 36|36.02 Review Stephen King as Richard Bachman Science Fiction Chronicle, #77 February 1986
April 1986 29 Review A Measure of Calm Fantasy Review, April 1986
April 1986 29 Review Alchemical Texts Fantasy Review, April 1986
April 1986 20 Review Speaker for the Dead Fantasy Review, April 1986
May 1986 23 Review Quadriphobia Fantasy Review, May 1986
May 1986 26 Review The Book of the Stars Fantasy Review, May 1986
May 1986 28 Review The Many Facets of Stephen King Fantasy Review, May 1986
May 1986 29 Review The Shorter Works of Stephen King Fantasy Review, May 1986
May 1986 37|37.11 Review The Shorter Works of Stephen King Science Fiction Chronicle, #80 May 1986
June 1986 17 Review Out of My Head Fantasy Review, June 1986
June 1986 25 Review The Revenge of the Senior Citizens ** Plus Fantasy Review, June 1986
June 1986 24 Review Time Out of Mind Fantasy Review, June 1986
July 1986 17 Poem The SoulOrgan Star*Line, July-August 1986
October 1986 18 Review Ghost Fantasy Review, October 1986
October 1986 31 Review The Films of Stephen King Fantasy Review, October 1986
October 1986 18 Review The Ring Fantasy Review, October 1986
November 1986 32 Essay King versus Koontz: Style and Invasion Footsteps, #7 November 1986
November 1986 30 Review Night Show Fantasy Review, November 1986
November 1986 46 Poem Wiros Footsteps, #7 November 1986
December 1986 30 Review Catmagic Fantasy Review, December 1986
December 1986 44 Review The Annotated Guide to Stephen King Fantasy Review, December 1986
December 1986 34 Review The Orchard Fantasy Review, December 1986
1987 174 Review The Films of Stephen King Extrapolation, Summer 1987
January 1987 4 Poem The Star-Scout Handbook Star*Line, January-February 1987
April 1987 46 Review Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts Fantasy Review, April 1987
April 1987 40 Review Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts Science Fiction Chronicle, #91 April 1987
April 1987 48 Review Robert Bloch Fantasy Review, April 1987
May 1987 49 Review Far Below and Other Horrors Fantasy Review, May 1987
July 1987 52 Review Intervention Fantasy Review, July-August 1987
July 1987 37 Review Out of Phaze Fantasy Review, July-August 1987
July 1987 42 Review Seventh Son Fantasy Review, July-August 1987
July 1987 62 Review The Religion of Science Fiction Fantasy Review, July-August 1987
August 1987 15 Essay Imago Christi: Christ-Figures in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #14, Summer 1987
November 1987 74 Poem Succubi Footsteps, #8
December 1987 17 Poem When the Wordmonger Came The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #15, Fall 1987
1988 22 Review Bio of an Ogre IAFA Newsletter, Summer 1988
April 1988 57 Essay Literary Heroism in the Works of Orson Scott Card The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #16, Winter 1988
April 1988 76 Review Red Prophet The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #16, Winter 1988
April 1988 76 Review Seventh Son The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #16, Winter 1988
July 1988 79 Poem Gargoyles The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #17, Summer 1988
July 1988 37 Poem On the First Outdoor Testing of a Man-Made Bacterium in a Strawberry Patch in California The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #17, Summer 1988
July 1988 57 Review The Doomsday Factor The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #17, Summer 1988
July 1988 57 Review The Millennium File The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #17, Summer 1988
October 1988 15|15.2 Poem Colony The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, October-December 1988
January 1989 95 Short Fiction Bars The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #18, January 1989
January 1989 74 Essay Dialogues by Starlight: Three Approaches to Writing SF Poetry The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #18, January 1989
October 1989 Poem Crucifax The Blood Review, Issue 1
October 1989 Poem Faces of Fear The Blood Review, Issue 1
October 1989 Poem Our Gods Have Died The Blood Review, Issue 1
October 1989 Poem Vampire The Blood Review, Issue 1
1990 32 Review The World of Colin Wilson IAFA Newsletter, Fall 1990
January 1990 Short Fiction A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine's Day The Blood Review, Issue 2
January 1990 15 Review Contemporary Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Poetry Star*Line, January-February 1990
January 1990 14 Essay New Words for New Worlds: Notes Toward an Anti-Definition of Science Fiction Poetry The New York Review of Science Fiction, January 1990
April 1990 Poem Incubus The Blood Review, Issue 3
April 1990 Short Fiction The Song of the Worm The Blood Review, Issue 3
May 1990 7 Poem Solar Marathon Star*Line, May-June 1990
August 1990 39 Short Fiction A Midnight Shooting on the Golden State Freeway 2 AM, August 1990
October 1990 15 Poem Trick or Treat The Blood Review, Issue 4
1991 43 Review C. S. Lewis: A Biography IAFA Newsletter, Winter 1991
1991 27 Review H. P. Lovecraft: The Decline of the West IAFA Newsletter, Fall 1991
September 1991 20 Poem The Program Dreams & Nightmares, September 1991
December 1992 28 Poem Because I Would Not Stop for Death The Magazine of Speculative Poetry, Summer-Winter 1992
December 1992 14 Poem Such Things as Worlds Gaslight: Tales of the Unsane, December 1992
1993 Poem Exiles on a Left-Hand World Midnight Zoo, v3n4 1993
1993 Poem Sonnet: To Fourteen Who Died on an Unnamed Winter World Midnight Zoo, v3n4 1993
January 1993 12 Poem Elegy for an Asteroid Miner Dying on December 25 Star*Line, January-February 1993
March 1993 28 Poem Spatio-Temporal Spectacles Space & Time, Spring 1993
November 1993 11 Poem Hesperios Star*Line, November-December 1993
January 1995 18 Poem Dreamer of Worlds Star*Line, January-February 1995
August 1995 50 Poem The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow The Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #31, August 1995
1996 43 Poem Confutatis Next Phase, Vol. 5, Number 1, Issue 15, 1996
April 1996 13 Review Far Futures The New York Review of Science Fiction, April 1996
May 1996 6 Review Commencement The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 1996
June 1996 23 Review Foragers The New York Review of Science Fiction, June 1996
October 1997 154 Review The Work of Stephen King: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide Analog Science Fiction and Fact, October 1997
October 1997 48 Review The Work of Stephen King: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide Science Fiction Chronicle, #193 October 1997
2001 78 Poem *Blothisojan Irreantum, Winter 2000-2001
2001 77 Poem Celebration Irreantum, Winter 2000-2001
December 2002 33 Review Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide Leading Edge Magazine of Science Fiction and Fantasy, #44, December 2002
October 2012 35 Essay Three Functions in Horror-Fiction Dark Discoveries #21, Fall 2012
January 2013 66 Review Fresh Blood & Old Bones Dark Discoveries #22, Winter 2013
January 2013 64 Review Inheritance Dark Discoveries #22, Winter 2013
January 2013 35 Essay King's Rock Dark Discoveries #22, Winter 2013
April 2013 100 Essay Into the Multiverse ... and Beyond Dark Discoveries #23 , Spring 2013
April 2013 105 Essay Review of non-genre thriller: "Murder as a Fine Art" by David Morrell Dark Discoveries #23 , Spring 2013
July 2013 84 Essay On Ghost Stories Dark Discoveries #24, Summer 2013
July 2013 94 Review The Lords of Salem Dark Discoveries #24, Summer 2013
October 2013 126 Essay On Zombies and Robots Dark Discoveries #25, Fall 2013
October 2013 133 Review Up from Soil Fresh Dark Discoveries #25, Fall 2013
January 2014 38 Essay Literature, Genre, Horror ... and Mormons—What? Dark Discoveries #26, Winter 2014
January 2014 103 Review Pearry Teo's Bedlam Stories: The Battle for Oz and Wonderland Begins Dark Discoveries #26, Winter 2014
January 2014 106 Review The Guns of Santa Sangre Dark Discoveries #26, Winter 2014
January 2014 107 Review The Universal and Other Terrors Dark Discoveries #26, Winter 2014
April 2014 105 Review Evil Never Dies Dark Discoveries #27, Spring 2014
April 2014 33 Essay To Name the Genre Dark Discoveries #27, Spring 2014
July 2014 34 Essay Monsters: Through a Perspective Glass Dark Discoveries #28, Summer 2014
July 2014 104 Review The Revenant of Rebecca Pascal Dark Discoveries #28, Summer 2014
November 2014 109 Essay Secret Societies and Horror Dark Discoveries #29, Fall 2014
November 2014 142 Review SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horror Dark Discoveries #29, Fall 2014
February 2015 132 Review A Darke Phantastique: Encounters with the Uncanny and Other Magical Things Dark Discoveries #30, Winter 2015
February 2015 128 Review Exponential Dark Discoveries #30, Winter 2015
February 2015 130 Review SNAFU: An Anthology of Military Horrors Dark Discoveries #30, Winter 2015
February 2015 61 Essay Why "Sinister Appetites" Are Sinister ... And Why They Aren't Dark Discoveries #30, Winter 2015
November 2016 |5 Review Corona Obscura: Sonets Dark and Elemental SQ Mag, Edition 29
October 2019 6|6.1 Poem Lunatic Star*Line, Fall 2019

49 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1983 Nonfiction Piers Anthony Michael R. Collings
1985 Nonfiction Stephen King As Richard Bachman Michael R. Collings
1985 Nonfiction The Many Facets of Stephen King Michael R. Collings
1985 Nonfiction The Shorter Works of Stephen King Michael R. Collings & David Engebretson
1986 Nonfiction Brian W. Aldiss Michael R. Collings
1986 Collection Naked to the Sun Michael R. Collings
1986 Nonfiction Reflections on the Fantastic: Selected Essays from the Fourth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts Michael R. Collings
1986 Nonfiction The Annotated Guide to Stephen King Michael R. Collings
1986 Nonfiction The Films of Stephen King Michael R. Collings
1987 Nonfiction Card Catalog: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card Michael R. Collings
1987 Nonfiction The Stephen King Phenomenon Michael R. Collings
1990 Collection Dark Transformations: Deadly Visions of Change Michael R. Collings
1990 Nonfiction In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card Michael R. Collings
1996 Nonfiction The Art and Craft of Poetry: Twenty Exercises Toward Mastery Michael R. Collings
1996 Collection The Nephiad: An Epic Poem in XII Books Michael R. Collings
1996 Nonfiction The Work of Stephen King: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide Michael R. Collings
2000 Nonfiction Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography Michael R. Collings
2001 Nonfiction Storyteller: The Official Orson Scott Card Bibliography and Guide Michael R. Collings
2003 Nonfiction Horror Plum'D: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide, 1960-2000 Michael R. Collings
2006 Nonfiction Stephen King is Richard Bachman Michael R. Collings
2007 Collection All Calm, All Bright: Christmas Offerings Michael R. Collings
2007 Novel The House Beyond the Hill Michael R. Collings
2009 Novel Singer of Lies Michael R. Collings
2009 Novel The Thousand Eyes of Flame Michael R. Collings
2009 Novel The Veil of Heaven Michael R. Collings
2010 Nonfiction In Endless Morn of Light: Moral Freedom in Milton's Universe Michael R. Collings
2010 Collection In the Void: Poems of Science Fiction, Myth and Fantasy, & Horror Michael R. Collings
2010 Omnibus Three Tales of Omne: A Companion to Wordsmith / The Elder of Days: Tales of the Elders Michael R. Collings & Robert Reginald
2010 Nonfiction Toward Other Worlds: Perspectives on John Milton, C. S. Lewis, Stephen King, Orson Scott Card, and Others Michael R. Collings
2010 Collection Wer Means Man and Other Tales of Wonder and Terror Michael R. Collings
2011 Novel Serpent's Tooth Michael R. Collings
2011 Novel Shadow Valley Michael R. Collings
2011 Novel Static! Michael R. Collings
2011 Novel The Slab Michael R. Collings
2011 Omnibus Wordsmith: The Complete Novel Michael R. Collings
2012 Collection A Verse to Horrors: An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous Michael R. Collings
2012 Novel Devil's Plague Michael R. Collings
2012 Nonfiction Writing Darkness Michael R. Collings
2015 Chapbook Space Operae! A Tale of Three Planets Michael R. Collings
2016 Novel An Annotated Space Operae! A Tale of Three Planets Michael R. Collings
2016 Collection Corona Obscura: Sonets Dark and Elemental Michael R. Collings
2016 Collection Dark Designs: Forms and Fantasies Michael R. Collings
2017 Novel DeathBloom Michael R. Collings
2017 Novel Fast Foods Michael R. Collings
2017 Collection Many Waters: Poems of the Ordinary and the Outré Michael R. Collings
2017 Novel Toccata and Fugue in Death Michael R. Collings
2018 Collection Temple and Cosmos Michael R. Collings
2022 Collection In the Haunting Darkness Michael R. Collings
8888 Nonfiction The Work of Orson Scott Card: An Annotated Bibliography & Guide Michael R. Collings & Boden Clarke

YearAwardCategoryTitleStatus
2012 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection A Verse to Horrors: An Abecedary of Monsters and the Monstrous Nominee
2012 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction Writing Darkness Nominee
2016 Bram Stoker Award Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection Corona Obscura: Sonets Dark and Elemental Nominee
2017 Elgin Award Book Corona Obscura: Sonets Dark and Elemental Nominee
2020 Association for Mormon Letters Award Poetry I, Taliesin: The Joseph Smith/King Arthur Sonets—A Brief Epic Nominee

Michael R. Collings is the father of Michaelbrent Collings.
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