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Al Sarrantonio

Sarrantonio, Al

May 25, 1952 – January 27, 2025 (aged 72)

Birth place: New York City, New York, USA

94 works in English-language magazines

Date Page Type Title Magazine
March 1979 80 Short Fiction Ahead of the Joneses Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, March 1979
May 1979 67 Short Fiction Roger in the Womb Heavy Metal, May 1979
September 1981 114 Short Fiction A Desert Stone Amazing Stories, September 1981
September 1981 121 Essay Al Sarrantonio Amazing Stories, September 1981
December 1981 112 Short Fiction There is a Home Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, December 7, 1981
October 1982 36 Short Fiction The Silly Stuff Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, October 1982
November 1982 47 Short Fiction The Spook Man Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, November 1982
1983 53 Short Fiction The Quiet Ones Weirdbook 18
May 1983 95 Short Fiction The Ticking Clock Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, May 1983
July 1984 19 Essay Other Dimensions: The Spider-Zone Crossword Puzzle Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, July-August 1984
December 1984 157 Short Fiction The Corn Dolly Whispers, December 1984
April 1985 26 Review The Worms Fantasy Review, April 1985
May 1985 12 Review The Worms Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine, May-June 1985
1986 10 Review Totentanz American Fantasy, Fall 1986
March 1986 24 Review Campbell Wood Fantasy Review, March 1986
April 1986 28 Review Totentanz Fantasy Review, April 1986
July 1986 38|38.1 Review Campbell Wood Science Fiction Chronicle, #82 July 1986
1987 185 Essay Books (Night Cry, Fall 1987) Night Cry, Fall 1987
1987 184 Essay Books (Night Cry, Spring 1987) Night Cry, Spring 1987
1987 186 Essay Books (Night Cry, Summer 1987) Night Cry, Summer 1987
1987 187 Review Cutting Edge Night Cry, Fall 1987
1987 185 Review Dark Gods Night Cry, Spring 1987
1987 186 Review Dead in the West Night Cry, Fall 1987
1987 189 Review Halloween Horrors Night Cry, Fall 1987
1987 184 Review It Night Cry, Spring 1987
1987 187 Review Nukes Night Cry, Summer 1987
1987 189 Essay Review of the nongenre novel "Hiroshima" by John Hersey Night Cry, Summer 1987
1987 186 Review Shadows 9 Night Cry, Spring 1987
1987 185 Review Watchers Night Cry, Fall 1987
February 1987 50 Review Totentanz Science Fiction Chronicle, #89 February 1987
May 1987 48 Review The Boy With Penny Eyes Fantasy Review, May 1987
June 1987 24 Essay Fragments of Horror (The Horror Show, Summer 1987) The Horror Show, Summer 1987
October 1987 41|41.01 Review The Boy With Penny Eyes Science Fiction Chronicle, #97 October 1987
November 1987 34 Interview Dark Voices (Horrorstruck, November-December 1987) Horrorstruck, November-December 1987
1988 81 Short Fiction The Red Wind Weirdbook 23/24
March 1988 21 Short Fiction The Dancing Foot The Horror Show, Fall 1988
March 1988 39 Short Fiction Two The Horror Show, Fall 1988
May 1988 20 Interview Dark Voices (Horrorstruck, May-June 1988) Horrorstruck, May-June 1988
December 1989 27 Review Moonbane Locus, #347 December 1989
March 1990 77 Review Moonbane Midnight Graffiti, Spring 1990
April 1990 61 Interview Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance, Spring 1990
April 1990 62 Short Fiction The Meek Cemetery Dance, Spring 1990
October 1990 31 Review October Cemetery Dance, Fall 1990
October 1990 55 Review October Locus, #357 October 1990
November 1990 58 Review October Fangoria, November 1990
August 1993 11 Short Fiction The Beat Thunder's Shadow Collector's Magazine, August 1993
May 1994 38 Short Fiction Where Two Souls Dwell Science Fiction Age, May 1994
January 1995 65 Short Fiction Garden of Eden Cemetery Dance, Winter 1995
August 1995 12 Essay Grave Matters (Thunder's Shadow #6) -- book recommendations Thunder's Shadow Collector's Magazine, August 1995
April 1996 32 Short Fiction Snow Realms of Fantasy, April 1996
October 1996 79|79.12 Review Exile Science Fiction Chronicle, #190 October 1996
September 1997 Review Babylon 5 #8: Personal Agendas Vector 195
May 1998 45 Review Personal Agendas Science Fiction Chronicle, #197 May-June 1998
July 1998 30 Review Return Locus, #450 July 1998
July 1999 68 Essay Letter (Locus #462) Locus, #462 July 1999
October 1999 22 Review 999 Locus, #465 October 1999
October 1999 25 Review 999 Locus, #465 October 1999
October 1999 68 Review 999: New Tales of Horror and Suspense Fangoria, October 1999
2000 44|44.2 Review 999: New Tales of Horror and Suspense The Third Alternative, #25
February 2000 114 Review 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense All Hallows, February 2000
February 2000 71 Review 999: New Tales of Horror and Suspense Talebones #18, Winter 2000
March 2000 53 Review 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense Interzone, March 2000
March 2000 46 Review 999: New Tales of Horror and Suspense Aboriginal Science Fiction, Spring 2000
August 2001 13 Short Fiction Violets Cemetery Dance, #35
December 2001 15 Review Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction Locus, #491 December 2001
January 2002 31 Review Redshift Locus, #492 January 2002
February 2002 58 Interview Visiting in the Dark: A Conversation with Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance, #37
March 2002 34|34.0 Review Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction Science Fiction Chronicle, #222 March 2002
May 2002 21 Review Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction The New York Review of Science Fiction, May 2002
August 2002 56 Review Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction Interzone, August 2002
January 2003 27 Review Orangefield Locus, #504 January 2003
October 2003 89 Short Fiction Eels Cemetery Dance, #46
June 2004 17 Review Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy Locus, #521 June 2004
July 2004 56 Review Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy Locus, #522 July 2004
January 2005 26 Review Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy SFRA Review #271
March 2006 Short Fiction Zoo Orson Scott Card's Intergalactic Medicine Show, #2, March 2006
October 2006 81 Essay Charlie Grant Locus, #549 October 2006
February 2008 119 Review Horrorween Cemetery Dance, #58, 2008
February 2008 6 Essay Tribute to Charles L. Grant Cemetery Dance, #58, 2008
August 2008 66 Essay Tom Disch Locus, #571 August 2008
September 2008 74 Essay Letter (Locus #572) Locus, #572 September 2008
April 2010 11 Interview A Conversation with Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance, #63
April 2010 6 Short Fiction March of the Marionettes Cemetery Dance, #63
April 2010 9 Poem Vines Cemetery Dance, #63
July 2010 17 Review Stories: All New Tales Locus,#594 July 2010
September 2010 Review Stories: All-New Tales Strange Horizons, 6 September 2010
October 2010 52 Review Stories: All-New Tales Locus, #597 October 2010
November 2010 5 Short Fiction Fossils Subterranean Online, Fall 2010
December 2010 61 Review Stories: All-New Tales Bull Spec, December 2010-January-February 2011
January 2011 58 Review Stories: All-New Tales Locus, #600 January 2011
August 2011 113 Review Portents Shadows & Tall Trees, Autumn 2011
July 2012 77 Essay Drunk on Bradbury, and No Support Group Requested Locus, #618 July 2012
September 2012 23 Interview An Interview with Al Sarrantonio Cemetery Dance, #67, 2012
February 2014 73 Essay God Bless Neal Barrett, Jr. Locus, #637 February 2014

48 English-language books

Year Type Title Author(s)
1985 Novel The Worms Al Sarrantonio
1985 Novel Totentanz Al Sarrantonio
1986 Novel Campbell Wood Al Sarrantonio
1987 Novel The Boy with Penny Eyes Al Sarrantonio
1987 Anthology The Fireside Treasury of Great Humor Al Sarrantonio
1989 Novel Cold Night Al Sarrantonio
1989 Novel Moonbane Al Sarrantonio
1989 Anthology The Fireside Treasury of New Humor Al Sarrantonio
1990 Novel October Al Sarrantonio
1991 Novel House Haunted Al Sarrantonio
1991 Anthology The National Lampoon Treasury of Humor Al Sarrantonio
1991 Novel West Texas Al Sarrantonio
1992 Novel Skeletons Al Sarrantonio
1993 Anthology 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories Al Sarrantonio & Martin H. Greenberg
1993 Novel Kitt Peak Al Sarrantonio
1993 Novel Summer Cool Al Sarrantonio
1996 Novel Exile Al Sarrantonio
1997 Novel Journey Al Sarrantonio
1997 Novel Personal Agendas Al Sarrantonio
1998 Novel Return Al Sarrantonio
1999 Anthology 999: New Stories of Horror and Suspense Al Sarrantonio
1999 Anthology 999: New Tales of Horror and Suspense Al Sarrantonio
1999 Collection Toybox Al Sarrantonio
2001 Anthology 999: Twenty-nine Original Tales of Horror and Suspense Al Sarrantonio
2001 Anthology Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction Al Sarrantonio
2002 Novel Orangefield Al Sarrantonio
2004 Anthology Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy Al Sarrantonio
2004 Novel Hallows Eve Al Sarrantonio
2004 Collection Hornets and Others Al Sarrantonio
2005 Novel Haydn of Mars Al Sarrantonio
2005 Novel Sebastian of Mars Al Sarrantonio
2006 Anthology Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Volume I Al Sarrantonio
2006 Anthology Flights: Extreme Visions of Fantasy, Volume II Al Sarrantonio
2006 Novel Horrorween Al Sarrantonio
2006 Chapbook Looking Glass Ray Garton & Tom Piccirilli & Brian Keene & Gary A. Braunbeck & Tim Lebbon & Al Sarrantonio & Bev Vincent & Thomas F. Monteleone & Joe Hill & John Skipp & Dominick Cancilla & Kealan Patrick Burke & Robert Morrish
2006 Omnibus Masters of Mars Al Sarrantonio
2006 Novel Queen of Mars Al Sarrantonio
2006 Chapbook The Baby Al Sarrantonio
2007 Collection A Little Yellow Book of Fevered Stories Al Sarrantonio
2007 Novel Halloweenland Al Sarrantonio
2008 Collection Halloween and Other Seasons Al Sarrantonio
2009 Anthology Bad Candy Al Sarrantonio & Paul Melniczek
2010 Anthology Halloween: New Poems Al Sarrantonio
2010 Anthology Stories: All-New Tales Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio
2011 Collection Hornets & Others Al Sarrantonio
2011 Anthology Portents Al Sarrantonio
2012 Chapbook The Crane House: A Halloween Story Brian Keene & Kealan Patrick Burke & Al Sarrantonio & Rick Hautala & Bev Vincent & Brian Freeman & James A. Moore & James Newman & Ronald Kelly & Norman Prentiss & Ray Garton
2015 Novel Underground Al Sarrantonio

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