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American writer
E. F. Bleiler
Born Everett Franklin Bleiler April 30, 1920
Massachusetts , U.S. Died June 13, 2010(2010-06-13) (aged 90)
Interlaken, New York , U.S. Language English Genre Bibliography, fiction Subject Science fiction, detective fiction, fantasy literature Notable awards
Pilgrim Award ,
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement ,
International Horror Guild Living Legend Children
Richard Bleiler ,
John Bleiler ,
Constance Bleiler ,
Dorothy Guskind [
citation needed ]
Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of
science fiction ,
detective fiction , and
fantasy literature . In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he co-edited the first "year's best" series of science fiction anthologies, and his
Checklist of Fantastic Literature has been called "the foundation of modern SF bibliography".
[1] Among his other scholarly works are two
Hugo Award –nominated volumes concerning early science fiction—
Science-Fiction: The Early Years and
Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years
[2] —and the massive Guide to Supernatural Fiction .
Bleiler worked at
Dover Publications from 1955, becoming executive vice-president of the company from 1967 until he left in 1977; he then worked for
Charles Scribner's Sons until 1987.
[1] He edited a number of
ghost story collections for Dover, containing what the genre historian
Mike Ashley has described as "detailed and exemplary introductions".
[3]
Bleiler received the
Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship in 1984, the
World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1988,
[4] the
First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1994, and the
International Horror Guild Living Legend award in 2004.
[1]
In the 1970s Bleiler wrote two works of fiction, which were not published until 2006: the fantasy novel Firegang: A Mythic Fantasy , set in the tree of
Yggdrasil as well as moving across time and space, and Magistrate Mai and the Invisible Murderer , a
detective story set in ancient China, similar to the work of
Robert van Gulik .
Bleiler's son,
Richard , is also a science fiction historian and assisted his father on several of his works.
[2]
Selected bibliography
As editor
The Best Science Fiction
Other anthologies
Imagination Unlimited (with T. E. Dikty, 1952)
Frontiers in Space (with T. E. Dikty, 1955)
Three Gothic Novels (1966)
Five Victorian Ghost Novels (1971)
Eight Dime Novels (1974)
Three Supernatural Novels of the Victorian Period (1975)
Three Victorian Detective Novels (1978)
A Treasury of Victorian Detective Stories (1979)
A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories (1981)
Single-author collections
Three Prophetic Science Fiction Novels of
H. G. Wells (1960)
Best Ghost Stories of
J. S. Le Fanu (1964)
Ghost and Horror Stories of
Ambrose Bierce (1964)
The Best Tales of Hoffmann , by
E. T. A. Hoffmann (1967)
The King in Yellow and Other Stories , by
Robert W. Chambers (1970)
Best Max Carrados Detective Stories , by
Ernest Bramah (1972)
Gods, Men and Ghosts , by
Lord Dunsany (1972)
The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories , by
R. Austin Freeman (1973)
Best Ghost Stories of
Algernon Blackwood (1973)
Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories , by
Jacques Futrelle (1973)
Ghost Stories and Mysteries , by J. S. Le Fanu (1975)
Best Martin Hewitt Detective Stories , by
Arthur Morrison (1976)
Great Cases of the "Thinking Machine" , by Jacques Futrelle (1976)
The Collected Ghost Stories of
Mrs J. H. Riddell (1977)
The Department of Dead Ends: 14 Detective Stories , by
Roy Vickers (1978)
The Best Supernatural Tales of
Arthur Conan Doyle (1979)
The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries , by
Baroness Orczy (1980)
Nonfiction
As editor and contributor
Science Fiction Writers (1982)
Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror (1985)
Fiction
References
^
a
b
c
"Everett F. Bleiler, 1920–2010" . Locus Online .
Locus Publications . 17 June 2010. Retrieved 17 June 2010 .
^
a
b
John Clute , "Bleiler, E(verett) F(ranklin)" in
The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction by Clute and
Peter Nicholls (Orbit, 1993), pp. 134–35.
^ Ashley, Mike, "
Bleiler, E F ", in
The Encyclopedia of Fantasy (Orbit, 1997), p. 121.
^ World Fantasy Convention.
"Award Winners and Nominees" . Archived from
the original on 2010-12-01. Retrieved 4 Feb 2011 .
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