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Darrell Schweitzer

Author of Tales from the Spaceport Bar

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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

Tales from the Spaceport Bar (1987) — Editor — 177 copies
Cthulhu’s Reign (2010) — Editor; Introduction; Contributor — 152 copies
Another Round at the Spaceport Bar (1989) — Editor; Contributor — 148 copies
The Neil Gaiman Reader {essays} (2007) — Editor; Contributor — 111 copies
The Mask of the Sorcerer (1995) 102 copies
The Thomas Ligotti Reader (2003) — Editor; Contributor — 96 copies
Full Moon City (2010) — Editor; Introduction; Contributor — 76 copies
The Secret History of Vampires (2007) — Editor, Contributor — 74 copies
The Shattered Goddess (1982) 63 copies
We Are All Legends (1981) 30 copies
The White Isle (1989) 29 copies
Weird Tales Volume 50 Number 1, Spring 1988 (1988) — Editor — 29 copies
Weird Tales Volume 50 Number 2, Summer 1988 (1988) — Editor — 27 copies
Living with the Dead (2008) 24 copies
Weird Tales Volume 52 Number 2, Winter 1990/91 (1990) — Editor — 24 copies
The Tales from the Miskatonic University Library (2017) — Editor; Contributor — 23 copies
Weird Tales Volume 52 Number 1, Fall 1990 (1990) — Editor — 22 copies
Weird Tales Volume 51 Number 1, Fall 1989 (1989) — Editor — 21 copies
Weird Tales Volume 51 Number 4, Summer 1990 (1990) — Editor — 19 copies
Weird Tales Volume 51 Number 2, Winter 1989/90 (1989) — Editor — 16 copies
Weird Tales Volume 50 Number 4, Winter 1988/89 (1988) — Editor — 15 copies
Weird Tales Volume 51 Number 3, Spring 1990 (1990) — Editor — 15 copies
SF Voices (1976) 12 copies
The Robert E. Howard Reader (2010) — Editor — 11 copies
Weird Tales Volume 52 Number 3, Spring 1991 (1991) — Editor — 11 copies
Dark Fusions: Where Monsters Lurk! (2013) — Contributor — 11 copies
Discovering Stephen King (1985) 10 copies
Essays Lovecraftian (1976) 9 copies
The Meaning of Life (1988) 8 copies
Non Compost Mentis (1995) 8 copies
Lovecraft in the Cinema (1975) 8 copies
Weird Tales Volume 54 Number 1, Spring 1993 (1993) — Editor — 7 copies
The Dragon House (2018) 7 copies
The Fire Eggs (2000) 5 copies
Weird Tales Volume 56 Number 2, Winter 1999/2000 (2000) — Editor — 5 copies
Weird Tales Volume 55 Number 4, Summer 1999 (1999) — Editor — 4 copies
Weird Tales Volume 55 Number 1, Summer 1998 (2013) — Editor — 3 copies
Weird Tales Volume 60 Number 3, March-April 2004 (2004) — Editor — 3 copies
Poetica Dementia (1997) 3 copies
The Dead Kid 3 copies
Runaway 2 copies
Ghost 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 54 Number 3, Spring 1994 (1994) — Editor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 53 Number 4, Winter 1992/93 (1992) — Editor — 2 copies
Kvetchula 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 56 Number 1, Fall 1999 (1999) — Editor — 2 copies
Savages 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 58 Number 1, Fall 2001 (2001) — Editor — 2 copies
Cemetery Dance Issue 24 (1996) 2 copies
Cemetery Dance Issue 39 (2002) 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 55 Number 3, Spring 1999 (1999) — Editor — 2 copies
Devil's Ways — Contributor — 1 copy
InterGalactic Medicine Show, Issue 26 — Editor; Contributor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 56 Number 4, Summer 2000 (2000) — Editor — 1 copy
Philcon 93 1 copy
The Hag 1 copy
Divers Hands 1 copy
How It Ended 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 56 Number 3, Spring 2000 (2000) — Editor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 55 Number 2, Fall 1998 (1998) — Editor — 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 61 Number 1, July 2005 (2005) — Editor — 1 copy
Clocks 1 copy
Weird Tales Volume 60 Number 4, December 2004 (2004) — Editor — 1 copy

Associated Works

The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794) — Introduction, some editions — 2,902 copies
The Living Dead (2008) — Contributor — 918 copies
The Improbable Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (2009) — Contributor — 772 copies
100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories (1993) — Contributor — 339 copies
Witches & Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic, Old & New (1991) — Contributor — 284 copies
Year's Best SF 6 (2001) — Contributor — 279 copies
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories (1995) — Contributor — 276 copies
Weird Tales (1988) — Contributor — 272 copies
Black Wings of Cthulhu: Tales of Lovecraftian Horror (2010) — Contributor — 264 copies
Devils & Demons: A Treasury of Fiendish Tales Old & New (1991) — Contributor — 258 copies
Borderlands 1 (1990) — Contributor — 234 copies
100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories (1995) — Contributor — 217 copies
Don't Open This Book! (1998) — Contributor — 203 copies
Classical Whodunits (1996) — Contributor — 187 copies
100 Creepy Little Creature Stories (1994) — Contributor — 183 copies
The Mammoth Book of Sorcerers' Tales (2004) — Contributor — 161 copies
Cthulhu's Heirs (1994) — Contributor — 154 copies
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy (2001) — Contributor — 144 copies
Shakespearean Whodunnits (1997) — Contributor — 143 copies
Crafty Cat Crimes: 100 Tiny Cat Tale Mysteries (2000) — Contributor — 142 copies
Black Wings of Cthulhu 2 (1601) — Contributor — 139 copies
Year's Best Fantasy 3 (2003) — Contributor — 133 copies
The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits (2003) — Contributor — 127 copies
Excalibur (1995) — Contributor — 124 copies
Horrors! 365 Scary Stories (Anthology) (1998) — Contributor — 124 copies
Camelot Chronicles (1992) — Contributor — 121 copies
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contributor — 111 copies
Dark Destiny (1995) — Author — 100 copies
The Best of Cemetery Dance, Volume 2 (2001) — Contributor — 99 copies
The Mammoth Book of Merlin (2009) — Contributor — 98 copies
Heroic Fantasy (1979) — Contributor — 88 copies
Black Wings of Cthulhu 3 (2014) — Contributor — 87 copies
Black Wings of Cthulhu 4 (2016) — Contributor — 86 copies
Darker Masques (2002) — Contributor — 84 copies
The Madness of Cthulhu (vol 1) (2014) — Contributor — 79 copies
The Ultimate Witch (1993) — Contributor — 75 copies
The Enchanter Completed (2005) — Contributor — 75 copies
Five Plays (1914) — Introduction, some editions — 74 copies
Dante's Disciples (1996) — Contributor — 74 copies
The Merlin Chronicles (1995) — Contributor — 67 copies
Swords Against Darkness V (1979) — Contributor — 67 copies
The Giant Book of Fantasy and the Supernatural (1994) — Contributor — 65 copies
Tales of War (1918) — Introduction, some editions — 64 copies
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment (1998) — Contributor — 63 copies
Frontier Cthulhu (2007) — Contributor — 61 copies
The Grimscribe's Puppets (2013) — Contributor — 61 copies
The Chronicles of the Round Table (1997) — Contributor — 60 copies
Black Wings of Cthulhu 5 (2016) — Contributor — 60 copies
Swords Against Darkness III (1978) — Contributor — 59 copies
Black Wings of Cthulhu 6 (2017) — Contributor — 59 copies
100 Hilarious Little Howlers (1999) — Contributor — 54 copies
The Second Science Fiction Megapack (2011) — Author — 53 copies
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 14 (1988) — Contributor — 50 copies
The Ultimate Halloween (2001) — Contributor — 47 copies
Dead but Dreaming (Anthology) (2002) — Contributor — 46 copies
100 Fiendish Little Frightmares (1997) — Contributor — 46 copies
Narrow Houses: Tales of Superstition, Suspense, and Fear (1992) — Contributor — 45 copies
Tomorrow's Cthulhu: Stories at the Dawn of Posthumanity (2016) — Contributor — 39 copies
Andromeda 3 (1978) — Contributor — 38 copies
The Book of More Flesh (2005) — Contributor — 38 copies
Curse of the Full Moon: A Werewolf Anthology (2010) — Contributor — 37 copies
The Ghosts of the Heaviside Layer and Other Fantasms (1980) — Foreword, some editions — 37 copies
Zodiac Fantastic (1997) — Contributor — 34 copies
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Contributor — 33 copies
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Contributor — 30 copies
The Doom of Camelot (2000) — Contributor — 29 copies
Angels of Darkness: Tales of Troubled and Troubling Women (1995) — Contributor — 27 copies
Weird Fiction Review #5 (2015) — Contributor — 25 copies
The Weird Fiction Megapack: 25 Stories from Weird Tales (2014) — Contributor — 24 copies
Shock Totem 5: Curious Tales of the Macabre and Twisted (2012) — Contributor — 20 copies
Worlds of Cthulhu (2012) — Contributor — 20 copies
Masques IV (1991) — Contributor — 17 copies
The Horror Megapack: 25 Modern and Classic Horror Stories (2011) — Contributor — 17 copies
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 26 (2011) — Contributor — 17 copies
Nightmare's Realm: New Tales of the Weird and Fantastic (2016) — Contributor — 17 copies
I, Vampire (1995) — Contributor — 16 copies
The Wildside Book of Fantasy: 20 Great Tales of Fantasy (2012) — Contributor — 16 copies
Speculative Japan 3: Silver Bullet and Other Tales (2012) — Introduction — 15 copies
Weirdbook Annual #2: The Third Cthulhu Mythos MEGAPACK (2019) — Contributor — 12 copies
Funny Horror (2017) — Contributor, some editions — 12 copies
Under Twin Suns: Alternate Histories of the Yellow Sign (2021) — Contributor — 12 copies
21st-Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels Since 2000 (2010) — Contributor — 11 copies
Legends of the Pendragon (Pendragon Fiction, 6211) (2002) — Contributor — 11 copies
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales (1996) — Contributor — 11 copies
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 22/23: The Company He Keeps (2010) — Contributor — 11 copies
Isaac Asimov's Near Futures and Far (1981) — Contributor — 10 copies
Science Fiction Almanach 1981. (1980) — Author, some editions — 10 copies
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 32/33: Far Voyager (2014) — Contributor — 10 copies
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 30/31: Memoryville Blues (2013) — Contributor — 8 copies
Weirdbook #35 (2017) — Contributor — 4 copies
Postscripts Magazine, Issue 26/27: Unfit For Eden (2012) — Contributor — 4 copies
Beyond the Fields We Know (1978) — Contributor — 4 copies
New Altars (1996) — Contributor — 3 copies
The Witch and Warlock Megapack: 25 Tales of Magic-Users (2015) — Contributor — 2 copies
Weird Tales Volume 64 Number 2, Fall 2009 (2009) — Contributor — 2 copies
Studies in Weird Fiction 15, Summer 1994 — Contributor, some editions — 2 copies
Weirdbook #25 (1990) — Contributor — 2 copies
Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet No. 9 (1901) — Contributor — 1 copy
Imps & Minions (Odds & Ends #2) — Contributor — 1 copy
Weirdbook #18 (1983) — Contributor — 1 copy

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As one reviewer noted basic of all Lovecraft's stories was about horros beyond the dark, lurking madness from dimensions that can never be understood by humans, so incomprehensible that it drives people utterly mad. It is always a spooky story, shadows moving in the night, crazy cultists walking in the pitch black while attending their ceremonies. Or dreams and nightmares. It is not hack and slash horror, but again what can humankind expect from these dark invaders if they materialized all of a sudden?

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.

Recommended.
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Zare | 5 other reviews | Jan 23, 2024 |
It started off so well and then it just kind of lost momentum.
 
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natcontrary | 3 other reviews | Aug 16, 2022 |
Apparently one of those books that Arkham House was supposed to release before they joined the choir eternal...

Pretty good creep anthology with a lot of names I didn't know. Ugly cover and dj. There were a handful of really good disturbing stories and no real stinkers, which I hate in an anthology (Why include one really bad story, harkening back to the rotten apple analogy?). Too many damn typos!

I liked it, anyway.
 
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Gumbywan | Jun 24, 2022 |
Like most collections this is a mixed bag. Two excellent interviews with Gaiman, one from 1995 and another from 2000, five essays on the Sandman project, some on American Gods and other projects. An admittedly incomplete bibliography that provides links to online updates and other sources of information. Recommended for fans.
 
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ritaer | 1 other review | Apr 30, 2020 |

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