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313:). He lived in a rural district of
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2015:Winter Solstice, Camelot Station
1672:The Ape's Wife and Other Stories
1528:Beluthahatchie and Other Stories
1009:Biography from Embiid Publishing
784:Everybody Has Somebody in Heaven
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2379:Ten Deals with the Indigo Snake
828:The Fourth Side of the Triangle
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3098:Writers from Yonkers, New York
2410:"(emet)" by Lauren Ring (2022)
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230:parents. He served as a Navy
222:Davidson was born in 1923 in
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1894:The Woman Who Loved the Moon
1101:What Strange Stars and Skies
1093:Or All the Seas with Oysters
853:"Award Winners and Nominees"
792:The Other Nineteenth Century
704:What Strange Stars and Skies
688:Or All the Seas with Oysters
624:Ace Science Fiction Specials
530:Ace Science Fiction Specials
263:This made his conversion to
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1326:Books of Blood, Vols. I-III
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768:The Avram Davidson Treasury
369:(1987). The latter follows
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2261:26 Monkeys, Also the Abyss
1382:Storeys from the Old Hotel
1133:The Best of Avram Davidson
1039:The Phoenix and the Mirror
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969:, with an introduction by
851:World Fantasy Convention.
736:The Best of Avram Davidson
619:The Island Under the Earth
521:The Phoenix and the Mirror
424:American Revolutionary War
371:The Phoenix and the Mirror
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1949:Elle Est Trois, (La Mort)
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1971:Still Life with Scorpion
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1279:Jessica Amanda Salmonson
1245:by Kirby McCauley (1977)
884:The Jewish Daily Forward
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319:Marin County, California
3128:American male novelists
1628:Lyudmila Petrushevskaya
1250:Murgunstrumm and Others
1109:Strange Seas and Shores
760:Adventures in Unhistory
712:Strange Seas and Shores
496:Vergil Magus series (a
447:Adventures in Unhistory
275:He was a member of the
165:, science fiction, and
2309:Gregory Norman Bossert
2250:Singing of Mount Abora
2217:Singing My Sister Down
2173:The Pottawatomie Giant
1632:The Best of Gene Wolfe
1437:Alone with the Horrors
935:Retrieved 24 May 2024.
2963:That Hell-Bound Train
2872:/ John Douglas (2023)
2636:Marion Zimmer Bradley
2394:Maria Dahvana Headley
1416:The Ends of the Earth
1074:Ursus of Ultima Thule
820:And on the Eighth Day
631:Ursus of Ultima Thule
611:The Enemy of My Enemy
402:And on the Eighth Day
150:Literature portal
70:Bremerton, Washington
2974:Flowers for Algernon
2784:Chelsea Quinn Yarbro
2754:Angélica Gorodischer
2720:Patricia A. McKillip
2716:Leo and Diane Dillon
2210:Bruce Holland Rogers
2140:The Specialist's Hat
1586:Bruce Holland Rogers
1511:Stephen R. Donaldson
1220:Worse Things Waiting
831:, Random House, 1965
823:, Random House, 1964
676:Tachyon Publications
440:The Boss in the Wall
348:Fiction and articles
175:World Fantasy Awards
3078:Edgar Award winners
2764:George R. R. Martin
2451:World Fantasy Award
2401:Glass Bottle Dancer
2364:Natalia Theodoridou
2294:The Paper Menagerie
2052:The Somewhere Doors
1809:World Fantasy Award
1662:Where Furnaces Burn
1499:Moonlight and Vines
1479:The Throne of Bones
1201:World Fantasy Award
1141:Collected Fantasies
1066:Masters of the Maze
859:on December 1, 2010
744:Collected Fantasies
603:Clash of Star-Kings
595:Masters of the Maze
566:Peregrine: Secundus
422:, a veteran of the
379:speculative fiction
108:World Fantasy Award
2934:Eric Frank Russell
2824:Elizabeth Wollheim
2660:George H. Scithers
2656:Forrest J Ackerman
2650:Philip José Farmer
2560:Everett F. Bleiler
2520:L. Sprague de Camp
2496:Manly Wade Wellman
2484:Frank Belknap Long
2405:Celeste Rita Baker
2390:Read After Burning
2320:CaitlĂn R. Kiernan
2118:Thirteen Phantasms
2107:The Grass Princess
1718:The Emerald Circus
1676:CaitlĂn R. Kiernan
1457:The Grass Princess
1225:Manly Wade Wellman
622:, original to the
606:, Ace Double, 1966
548:; Rose Press, 2005
540:, Doubleday, 1987
491:, Ace Double, 1966
488:The Kar-Chee Reign
391:Sherlock Holmesian
208:finalist in 1998.
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2800:David G. Hartwell
2710:Diana Wynne Jones
2614:Madeleine L'Engle
2602:Ursula K. Le Guin
2566:Evangeline Walton
2542:Theodore Sturgeon
2528:E. Hoffmann Price
2490:Jorge Luis Borges
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2287:Joyce Carol Oates
2188:Albert E. Cowdrey
2030:Steven Millhauser
2004:Friend's Best Man
1927:Do the Dead Sing?
1905:The Ugly Chickens
1898:Elizabeth A. Lynn
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1728:The Tangled Lands
1582:The Keyhole Opera
1360:The Jaguar Hunter
1353:James Tiptree Jr.
1303:Nightmare Seasons
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779:, Owlswick, 1999
739:, Doubleday, 1979
731:, Doubleday, 1978
715:, Doubleday, 1971
558:Peregrine: Primus
553:Peregrine series
512:exist during the
428:Whiskey Rebellion
410:Crimes and Chaos.
234:(medic) with the
232:hospital corpsman
224:Yonkers, New York
200:was completed by
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2840:Karen Joy Fowler
2706:Betty Ballantine
2690:Carol Emshwiller
2640:Michael Moorcock
2620:Edward L. Ferman
2524:Richard Matheson
2455:Life Achievement
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2008:Jonathan Carroll
1960:The Bones Wizard
1916:The Dark Country
1883:Mackintosh Willy
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1732:Paolo Bacigalupi
1646:Karen Joy Fowler
1612:The Drowned Life
1493:Karen Joy Fowler
1483:Brian McNaughton
1409:Carol Emshwiller
1399:Richard Matheson
1319:Robertson Davies
1307:Charles L. Grant
1293:The Dark Country
1267:Charles L. Grant
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755:, Owlswick, 1990
696:Crimes and Chaos
537:Vergil in Averno
475:Kar-Chee series
367:Virgil in Averno
331:Washington state
307:British Honduras
289:Flashing Swords!
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2670:Donald M. Grant
2666:Lloyd Alexander
2596:Jack Williamson
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2272:The Pelican Bar
2232:George Saunders
2184:Queen for a Day
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1920:Dennis Etchison
1887:Ramsey Campbell
1865:Ramsey Campbell
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1606:Robert Shearman
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1473:Jonathan Lethem
1441:Ramsey Campbell
1337:Imaginary Lands
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747:, Berkley, 1982
698:, Regency, 1962
691:, Berkley, 1962
650:, Pyramid, 1962
614:, Berkley, 1966
598:, Pyramid, 1965
590:, Berkley, 1965
582:, Pyramid, 1964
579:Mutiny in Space
569:, Berkley, 1981
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