Darrell Schweitzer
Author of Tales from the Spaceport Bar
About the Author
Author and editor Darrell Schweitzer was born on August 27, 1952. He primarily writes fantasty, horror, and science fiction works, but he also writes literary criticism and edits collections of essays on various writers within his preferred genres. He has published over three hundred short stories. show more His individual work has been nominated three times for the World Fantasy Award and he received it once as part of the editorial team of Weird Tales. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Series
Works by Darrell Schweitzer
Exploring Fantasy Worlds: Essays on Fantastic Literature (I.O. Evans Studies in the Philosophy & Criticism of… (1985) 22 copies
Conan's World and Robert E. Howard (Milford Series : Popular Writers of Today, Vol. 17) (1978) 19 copies
Discovering Classic Fantasy Fiction: Essays on the Antecedents of Fantastic Literature (1996) 16 copies
Speaking of the Fantastic: Interviews with Masters of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2002) — Editor — 13 copies
Speaking of Horror: Interviews With Writers of the Supernatural (Milford Series, Popular Writers of Today) (1994) 8 copies
Weird Tales Volume 61 Number 6, October-November 2006 — Editor — 6 copies
Science Fiction Voices, No. 5: Interviews With Science-Fiction Writers (Science Fiction Voices) (1981) 6 copies
Weird Tales Volume 61 Number 5, August-September 2006 — Editor — 3 copies
Deadly Things: A Collection of Mysterious Tales / The Judgment of the Gods and Other Verdicts of History (Wildside… (2010) 3 copies
Pennies From Hell 3 copies
To Become a Sorcerer 3 copies
The Dead Kid 3 copies
Runaway 2 copies
Ghost 2 copies
Sometimes You Have To Shout About It 2 copies
Kvetchula 2 copies
The Cloth Gods of Zhamiir 2 copies
Savages 2 copies
THEY NEVER FOUND HIS HEAD - POEMS OF SENTIMENT & REFLECTION - Lovecraft and Cthulhu Mythos Limericks 2 copies
The Adventure of the Death-Fetch 2 copies
Worlds of Fantasy & Horror Volume 1 Number 2, Spring 1995 (Weird Tales No. 310) (1995) — Editor — 2 copies
Into the Dark Land [Julian] 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 58 Number 3, Spring 2002 — Editor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 58 Number 4, Summer 2002 — Editor — 2 copies
Those Of The Air 1 copy
The Young Guy from Fuggoth 1 copy
Devil's Ways — Contributor — 1 copy
The Giant Vorviades 1 copy
InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 26 — Editor; Contributor — 1 copy
PseudoPod 368: Short & Nasty 1 copy
Weird Fiction Review no. 12 1 copy
WEIRD TALES WINTER 1992/93 1 copy
WEIRD TALES #331 1 copy
Told By Moonlight 1 copy
The Faces of Midnight 1 copy
Honored Be Her Name 1 copy
Philcon 93 1 copy
Flesh and Shadow 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 57 Number 4, Summer 2001 — Editor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 59 Number 3, Spring 2003 — Editor — 1 copy
Seeing Them [short fiction] 1 copy
The Riddle Of The Horn 1 copy
The Hag 1 copy
The Dinosaurs Of Eden 1 copy
A Dark Miracle 1 copy
Divers Hands 1 copy
How It Ended 1 copy
A Lost City Of the Jungle 1 copy
The Epilogue Of The Sword 1 copy
Worlds of Fantasy & Horror Volume 1 Number 4, Winter 1996/97 (Weird Tales No. 312) (1996) — Editor — 1 copy
Sweep Me to My Revenge! 1 copy
Spiderwebs in the Dark 1 copy
He Unwraps Himself {poem} 1 copy
Alla morte della dea 1 copy
The Eater Of Hours 1 copy
Kvetchula's Daughter 1 copy
Into The Gathering Dark 1 copy
Howling In The Dark 1 copy
Murdered By Love 1 copy
Clocks 1 copy
Ghost Dancing 1 copy
King father stone 1 copy
Associated Works
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur (1989) — Contributor — 301 copies
The Game Is Afoot: Parodies, Pastiches, and Ponderings of Sherlock Holmes (1994) — Contributor — 198 copies
Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown: A Treasury of Bizarre Tales Old and New (1993) — Contributor — 193 copies
Isaac Asimov's Magical Worlds of Fantasy, Volume 3: Cosmic Knights (1954) — Contributor — 122 copies
The Resurrected Holmes: New Cases from the Notes of John H. Watson, M.D. (1996) — Contributor — 90 copies
The Chronicles of the Holy Grail: The Ultimate Quest from the Age of Arthurian Literature (1996) — Contributor — 75 copies
Lovers & Other Monsters: A Collection of Amorous Tales of Fantasy, Old and New (1992) — Contributor — 57 copies
Madness on the Orient Express: 16 Lovecraftian Tales of an Unforgettable Journey (2014) — Contributor — 30 copies
The Collected Classical Stories and Classic Who Dunnits/boxed Set (2 volume set) (1996) — Contributor — 25 copies
Speculative Japan 2: The Man Who Watched the Sea and Other Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy (2011) — Introduction — 21 copies
No Longer Dreams: An Anthology of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction (2005) — Contributor — 14 copies
Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine: Vol. 6, No. 2 [February 1982] (1982) — Contributor — 9 copies
Faunus: The Journal of the Friends of Arthur Machen (Spring 2014, Number Twenty-Nine) — Contributor — 4 copies
Studies in Weird Fiction 15, Summer 1994 — Contributor, some editions — 2 copies
Aboriginal Science Fiction No. 59 & 60 Winter 1998 — Book Reviewer — 2 copies
Quantum : Science Fiction and Fantasy Review, No.41 (Winter/Spring [1991/]1992) — Contributor — 1 copy
Imps & Minions (Odds & Ends #2) — Contributor — 1 copy
Rod Serling's the Twilight Zone Magazine 1987 01 January-February — Contributor — 1 copy
Aboriginal Science Fiction No. 55 & 56 Spring 1998 — Contributor — 1 copy
Tagged
Common Knowledge
- Canonical name
- Schweitzer, Darrell
- Legal name
- Schweitzer, Darrell Charles
- Other names
- Allen, Zadok
Schweitzer, Darrell Charles (birth name) - Birthdate
- 1952-08-27
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Birthplace
- Woodbury, New Jersey, USA
- Places of residence
- Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Education
- Villanova University
- Occupations
- writer
editor
essayist
critic - Organizations
- Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America
Weird Tales (editor)
Members
Discussions
THE DEEP ONES: "The Dead Kid" by Darrell Schweitzer in The Weird Tradition (April 2021)
Darrell Schweitzer in The Weird Tradition (August 2011)
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Statistics
- Works
- 195
- Also by
- 132
- Members
- 2,008
- Popularity
- #12,816
- Rating
- 3.6
- Reviews
- 40
- ISBNs
- 168
- Languages
- 3
- Favorited
- 4
This is question book tries to answer - what if great horrors woke up and took over earth? What would happen with all these monstrosities moving around and mutating and/or mutilating and torturing humankind and all other Earthly species?
As expected majority of stories are rather depressing (in lack of better word) because no matter what humans do they get thwarted in the most hideous ways. Only at the end some light shines through that gives at least some hope. i mean who can read stories without any hope? Otherwise depression would set in and make stories a little bit unbearable (imagine reading whole anthology of depressive thoughts.... No thanks).
Quality varies but overall I think that stories are good. Some are outright weird (Japanese one with spherical geometry was.... very weird), some are very mythological (discussion about nature of dark invaders) and some read like space opera (fantastic story Remnants).
If you like dark fantasy, spooky stories or mix of SF and fantasy give it ago.
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