INDEX
A
abduction, 5.1, 8.1
Abracadabra
The Abyss, 4.1
Abyss Books, 8.1, 8.2, app.1
Ace Books, prl.1, 6.1, app.1, app.2
African Americans, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
AIDS, itr.1, 1.1, 6.1
aliens, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
Allison’s Baby
Altman, Thomas
The Amityville Horror, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
The Amulet
Anderson, Paul Dale, 8.1, 8.2
Andrews, V. C., 5.1, 143, 6.1, 6.2
animals, 2.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 4.1, 7.1
animal testing, 129
Anne, David, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3
Anson, Jay, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3
anthologies, 7.1, 7.2, app.1, app.2, aft.1
Aranza, Jacob
Armstrong, F. W.
The Auctioneer
Avallone, Michael, 1.1, 1.2
Avon Books, prl.1, 6.1, 8.1, app.1
awards, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, app.1, app.2
B
babies
Bad Brains
Bainbridge, Beryl, 1.1, 2.1
Baker, W. Howard
Ballantine, Ian and Betty
Ballantine Books, prl.1, 5.1, app.1, app.2
Bantam Books, prl.1, 8.1, app.1
Barker, Clive, 7.1, 8.1, app.1, app.2
Bauman, Jill, 2.1, 3.1, app.1
Beauty Is
Below the Line
Benchley, Peter, 1.1, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 6.1, 6.2
Berserker, 7.1, 7.2
Bigfoot
Bixby, Jerome
Black, William D.
Black Ambrosia
Black Christmas
The Black Exorcist
Blackwater series
Blatty, William Peter, 1.1, 1.2
blaxploitation, 1.1, 1.2
Bloch, Robert, 8.1, app.1
Blood on the Ice
Blood Worm, 3.1, 3.2
Blumlein, Michael, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2
Boatman, Garrett
Bogner, Norman
Book Creations, 5.1, app.1
The Books of Blood, 8.1, app.1, app.2
Boorstin, Paul
Bradbury, Ray, 2.1, 4.1, 6.1, app.1
Brain Watch
Brand, Larry
Brautigam, Don
Brennan, Alice
Brite, Poppy Z., 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Brotherkind, 5.1, app.1
Bugliosi, Vincent
Burnt Offerings
C
Calder, Robert
Campbell, Ramsey, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 4.2 , 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, app.1
Canary, Brenda Brown, itr.1, 2.1
cannibals, 1.1, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1, 8.2
Cantrell, Lisa W.
Carney, William M.
Castle, Mort
Castle, William, prl.1, app.1
Cavelos, Jeanne, 8.1, 8.2
Chaingang series
Chappell, Fred
Charles, Milton, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
Charnas, Suzy McKee
Chick, Jack
child abuse, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1
childbirth, 2.1, 2.2
Childgrave
children, horror fiction for
The Children’s Ward, 5.1, app.1
Christopher, John
Chumash, 7.1, 7.2
The Cipher
Citro, Joseph
Cline, C. Terry, Jr.
Coffey, Frank
Coffy, Nancy
Cohn, Mike
Coma, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Combes, Sharon
The Companion
Connor, Jeff, 7.1, app.1
Cook, Robin, 5.1, 5.2
cover art, trends in, 1.1, 2.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 8.1
Coyne, John, 2.1, 4.1, app.1
Cramer, Kathryn
Creighton, Marcia
Crib, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1
Crichton, Michael, 3.1, 3.2
Crooked Tree
Crye, Stephen
cults, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Cunningham, Jere, 4.1
curses, 4.1, 4.2, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
Cusick, Richie Tankersley
D
Daniels, Les, 6.1, 7.1, app.1
Dark Angel
Dark Dungeons
Day, Chet, 2.1, 5.1
Dead White, 2.1, app.1
Death Chain
Dell Books, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, app.1, app.2, app.3
Delving, Michael
Dempsey, Al
Desecration of Sarah Browning
The Devil and Lisa Black
The Devil’s Breath
Devil series
DeWeese, Jean
Diamant, Anita
Diamond, G. R.
Dobson, William
Dolphin, Rex
Douglas, Gregory A.
Dracula
Dracula in Love
The Drive-In
du Maurier, Daphne, prl.1, 1.1, 3.1, 6.1
Duncan, Lois
Dungeons and Dragons
E
Eat Them Alive
Edwards, Les
Egbert, James Dallas, III, 2.1, 8.1
Ehly, Ehren M., 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
The Elementals
Eliot, Marc
Elizabeth
Ellison, Harlan, 2.1, 7.1
Embryo
Engle, Lyle Kenyon, 5.1, app.1
Engstrom, Elizabeth, itr.1, 2.1, 6.1
Erikson, Rolf
Errickson, Will, itr.1, aft.1
Erwin, Alan
Essex, William, 3.1, 3.2
Etchison, Dennis, 7.1, 8.1, app.1
Eulo, Ken, 4.1, 5.1, app.1
Evans, Robin
The Exorcist, 1.1, 5.1, app.1, app.2
extrasensory perception (ESP), 5.1, 5.2, 7.1, app.1
F
Falkenstern, Lisa, 6.1, 7.1
Farris, John, 1.1, 5.1, 5.2, app.1
Fast, Jonathan, 1.1, 1.2
Fatal Beauty, 5.1, 5.2
Fear Street series
Ferm, Betty
Fevre Dream
Field, Ruth Baker
Fielding, Joy, 1.1, 1.2
Fisher, David
The Flame and the Flower, prl.1, app.1
Fletcher, Adrian
Flowers in the Attic, 6.1, 6.2, 6.3
The Fog
Forstal, Sean
Fort Privilege
Francis, Freddie
Frazetta, Frank
Fremlin, Celia
Friedkin, William
Friedman, Harold Lee
The Fury, 5.1, app.1
G
Garrido, Hector
Garton, Ray
Gaskell, Jane
Gelb, Jeff
Gentry, Christine
Ghidalia, Vic
Ghost Child
Gibson, Jo
Gila!, 3.1, app.1
The Gilgul, 1.1, 1.2
Golding, William
Goodman, Linda
Goosebumps series
gothic, Southern
gothic horror
gothic romances, prl.1, 5.1
Gould, Maggie
Grant, Charles L., 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, app.1, app.2
Gray, Linda Crockett
Greenberg, Martin H.
Greenhall, Ken, itr.1, 2.1, 3.1, 7.1
Gresham, Stephen, 2.1, 5.1
Gronmark, Scott
Gross, Jerry
The Guardians
H
Haigh, Richard
Halkin, John, 3.1, 3.2, 3.3, 3.4
Hall, Adam
Hall, H. Tom
Hallahan, William H.
Hallman, Tom, 3.1, 8.1
Halloween, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1
Halo
Hamilton, Jessica
Hanley, Clifford
Hanner, Mary L.
Hansen, Joseph
Harris, Richard
Harris, Thomas, 8.1, 8.2
Harvest Home, 4.1, 4.2
hauntings, 4.1, 4.2
Hautala, Rick, 3.1, 7.1
Hell Hound, 2.1, 3.1
Helter Skelter
Herbert, James, itr.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1
Herring, Michael
Herzog, Arthur
Higgs, Eric C.
Higman, Dennis J.
Hitchcock, Alfred, 3.1, 6.1, app.1, app.2
HIV/AIDS, itr.1, 1.1, 6.1
Hjortsberg, William
Hobgoblin, 2.1, app.1
Hocherman, Henry W., 1.1, 1.2
Hodge, Brian, 1.1, 8.1, 8.2
Hoffe, Arthur
Holder, Nancy, 8.1, 8.2
Holman, David
Holmes, Lawrence
Hoobler, Thomas
Horrorscope series
Howard, Joseph,
Hoyle, Trevor
Hurwood, Bernhardt J.
Hutson, Shawn, 2.1, 3.1
hypnosis, 4.1, 5.1, 5.2, 7.1
I
I Am Legend, 1.1, app.1
Incubus
incubuses, 1.1, 1.2
inhumanoids, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1
insects
Instruments of Death series
Interview with the Vampire, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2
In the Name of the Father
The Intruders
J
Jackson, Shirley, prl.1, prl.2, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 6.1
Jaffe, Rona
Jarvis, Edward, 3.1, 3.2
Jaws, 3.1, 3.2, 6.1, 6.2, app.1
Jensen, Ruby Jean, 7.1, 7.2, app.1
Jewish horror
Johnson, Kenneth Rayner
Johnson, Mendal W., 1.1, 2.1
Johnstone, William W., itr.1, 4.1, 7.1
Jones, D. F.
Jones, John G.
K
Kahn, Steve
Kane, Alex
Kastel, Roger
Keane, Christopher
The Keep
Keeper of the Children, 2.1, 2.2
Ketchum, Jack, 7.1, 8.1
kids, creepy
Killer, 3.1, 3.2
The Kill Riff, 8.1, 8.2
Kimberly, Gail
King, Martin Luther, Jr.
King, Stephen, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 3.1, 4.1, 5.1, 6.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, app.1
Klein, Daniel M.
Klein, T. E. D., 4.1, app.1
Koenig, Laird
Koja, Kathe, itr.1, 8.1
Konvitz, Jeffrey
Koontz, Dean R., 4.1, 5.1
L
Lansdale, Joe R., 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Laws, Stephen
Laymon, Richard
Lee, Reverend Roger
Leiber, Fritz, 4.1, 4.2
Leisure Books, 7.1, app.1, app.2, app.3
leprechauns
Let’s Go Play at the Adams’
Levin, Ira, 1.1, 4.1
Lewis, Richard
Lewis, Tom
Linaker, Michael R., 3.1, 3.2
Little, Bentley, 7.1, 7.2
Little Brother
The Little People
Lory, Robert, 5.1, 5.2, app.1
Lost Souls, 8.1, 8.2
Lovecraft, H. P., 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 7.1, 7.2, app.1
Lutz, George, 4.1, 4.2
M
magazines, itr.1, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, app.1
Mama’s Little Girl, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, app.1
Manhattan Ghost Story, 4.1, app.1
The Manitou, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3
Manor Books, app.1, app.2
Manson, Charles, 1.1, 1.2
Marasco, Robert
Martin, George R. R., 6.1, app.1, app.2
Martin, Russell
Martindale, T. Chris
Masson, Richard
Masterton, Graham, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, 8.1
Matheson, Richard, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, 8.1, app.1, app.2
Maynard’s House
Mazes and Monsters
McCammon, Robert, 6.1, 7.1
McDowell, Michael, itr.1, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
McGill, Gordon, 2.1, 2.2
McKenney, Kenneth, 2.1, 3.1
McNab, Oliver
McNally, Claire
McNaughton, Brian, itr.1, 1.1
McNeil, John
McNeill, George
McNeilly, Wilfred
medical thrillers, , 126–29
Michael, David J.
Michelle Remembers, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1
Millar, Margaret
Miller, Judi, 8.1, 8.2
Miller, Rex
Mind War
Monigle, Martha
Montandon, Pat
Monteleone, Thomas, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 7.1, app.1, app.2
Morrell, David, 7.1, app.1
Morrill, Rowena
movies and movie industry, prl.1, 1.1, 2.1, 3.1, 127, 5.1, 6.1, 8.1, app.1
mummies, 7.1, 7.2
Mundis, Jerrold
murder, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 8.1, 8.2
Murray, E. Patrick
music, 8.1, app.1
N
Nace, Pierce
Natas, Eth
Native Americans
Nazel, Joseph
Nazis, fm4.1, 1.1, 7.1
Neiderman, Andrew, 142–43, 6.1
Nest of Nightmares
New American Library, 6.1, 8.1, app.1, app.2
New English Library
New York Times, 2.1, 6.1, 7.1, app.1
The Night Church, 1.1, 1.2
Nightlife
The Nightrunners
Night Train, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, app.1
Nolan, William
nuns
The Nursery
O
Obelisk
occult, prl.1, prl.2, 1.1, 8.1, app.1, app.2, app.3
Olson, Donald
Omarr, Sydney
O’Meara, Joe
The Omen
Orca
Osborn, David
The Other, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1
Our Lady of Darkness, 4.1, 4.2
P
Panther!, 3.1, app.1
Parkhurst, Jane, 1.1, 1.2
Parrish, Barney
Patty, Ann
Pazder, Lawrence
Penguin, 5.1, app.1, app.2, app.3
Picano, Felice, 2.1, 5.1
Pike, Christopher, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
PIN, 6.1, 6.2
Pinnacle Books, 5.1, 8.1, app.1, app.2, app.3
Piper
plant attacks
Plante, Edmund, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1
Playboy Press, 1.1, 5.1, app.1, app.2
Plumeri, James, 6.1, 8.1
Pocket Books, 6.1, 6.2, app.1, app.2, app.3
pornography
possession, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 2.2, 4.1, 7.1
The Possession of Jessica Young
Powell, Gareth
Powers, Richard
The Premonition
priests
Pryce, Larry
pseudoscience
psychics, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 4.1, 5.1, 8.1
Psycho, 8.1, app.1
Ptacek, Kathryn, 7.1, 7.2, app.1. See also Les Simons
publishing, prl.1, 6.1, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, epl.1. See also cover art, trends in
R
Randall, Bob
rape, 1.1, 4.1, 8.1
Rapture
The Rats
Raucher, Herman, 1.1, 4.1
Rebecca, prl.1, 1.1
recovered-memory syndrome
Red Devil
Red Dragon
Reed, Kit
reincarnation, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2
Rhodes, Russell
Rice, Anne, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, app.1
Robertson, Charles
Robertson, John
Rosemary’s Baby, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1, 5.1
Roszak, Theodore
RPG (role-playing game) panic
Runyon, Charles W.
Russell, Ray, prl.1, 1.1, app.1
Rutherford, Brett
Ryan, Alan, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3, 3.1, 6.1, 7.1, app.1
S
Saberhagen, Fred, 6.1, 6.2
Sallot, Lynne
Sammon, Paul M.
Samson, Joan, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 4.1
Saperstein, David
Satan, spawns of, 2.1, 2.2, 2.3
Satanic Panic, 1.1, 1.2, 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Satanic themes, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 1.4, 1.5, 1.6
The Satan Sleuth series, 1.1, 1.2
Satan’s Love Child
Satan’s Mistress
Satan’s Seductress
Sauber, Ron
Saul, John, 1.1, 5.1, app.1
Savage, Adrian
Save the Last Dance for Me
Saxon, Peter
Scannell, Daniel
Schoell, William, 129, app.1
Schow, David J., 8.1, 8.2, 8.3
Schreiber, Flora Rheta
science, 126–43
Scott, A. G.
Scott, Justin
The Scourge
The Scream
The Search for Joseph Tully
The Searing, 4.1, 4.2, app.1
The Secret Life of Plants
Selby, Hubert, Jr.
Selzer, David, 2.1, 2.2
The Sentinel
serial killers, 2.1, 8.1, 8.2
Shadoweyes, 7.1, app.1
The Shadow Man
Shadows series
Sharman, Nick, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 5.2, app.1
Sheets
Shelley, Mary
Sherman, Jory
Sherrell, Carl
Sherwood, Deborah
The Shinglo, 7.1, 7.2
The Shining
Shirley, John, 4.1, 4.2, 6.1, 6.2, 8.1
Shockwave
short stories, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1, app.1
The Shrine
The Sibling
Siddons, Anne Rivers, 1.1, 4.1, 4.2
Siegel, Scott
The Silence of the Lambs, itr.1, 8.1, 8.2
Silva, David B.
Simmons, Dan
Simons, Les, 3.1, app.1
Singer, Isaac Bashevis
Skeleton Dancer
skeletons, 2.1, 5.1, 7.1, 7.2, 8.1
Skipp, John
Slade, Michael
Slay Bells
Slime, 129
Smith, Guy N.
Smith, Michelle
Snowman
Snyder, Gene
Somebody Come and Play
Somtow, S. P.
Sonders, Mark
Sparger, Rex
Spector, Craig, 8.1, 8.2
Spiering, Frank, 7.1, 7.2
splatterpunk, 8.1, 8.2
Squelch
Stage Fright, 8.1, 8.2
Stanwood, Brooks
Steiger, Brad,
Stein, Duffy
The Stepford Wives
Stewart, Fred Mustard
Stewart, Ramona
Stine, R. L., 8.1, 8.2
Stone, Mike
Straub, Peter, 5.1, app.1
Strieber, Whitley, 1.1, 1.2, 5.1, 5.2
succubuses, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3
Such Nice People
Suffer the Children
suicide, 1.1, 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 5.1, 8.1
Summers, Jaron
The Surrogate
Sutton, Henry
Syvertsen, Ryder
T
Talbot, Michael
Taylor, Bernard, 2.1, 2.2, 6.1
Teason, William, 7.1, app.1
technology, 5.1, 8.1
Tem, Melanie, 8.1, app.1
Tessier, Thomas
Thatcher, Julia
Thiesen, Jim
Thompson, Gary
Tonkin, Peter, 3.1, 3.2
Tor Books, 1.1, 8.1, app.1, app.2, app.3
torture, 1.1, 2.1, 7.1, 8.1
The Totem
Totem
To the Devil a Daughter, 1.1, app.1
Toy Cemetery
toys
Trainor, Joseph
The Transformation, 1.1, 1.2
Tremayne, Peter
The Tribe
true-crime, prl.1, 1.1, 8.1, app.1
Tryon, Thomas, 1.1, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
Tuttle, Lisa, 8.1, app.1
24 Drawings from the Concentration Camps in Germany
V
vampires, 5.1, 6.1, 6.2, 7.1, app.1
The Voice of the Clown, itr.1, 2.1
voodoo, prl.1, 1.1, 1.2, 2.1
W
Wagner, Karl Edward, 7.1, crd.1
Walker, Robert W., 3.1, 5.1, 8.1
Wallace, Patricia, 5.1, 5.2, app.1
Walls of Fear
Walton, Evangeline
Warner Books, 1.1, app.1, app.2
Warren, Jim
Washburn, Mark
Watership Down
Watkins, Ivor
Waugh, Harriet
Webb, Robert
Wells, George
Wells, William K.
werewolves, 1.1, 4.1, 7.1, 7.2
Werlin, Mark
Werlin, Marvin
Wetanson, Burt
Wheatley, Dennis, 1.1, app.1
When Darkness Loves Us
Whitten, Leslie H., 6.1, 6.2
Williamson, Jack
Williamson, J. N., 5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 6.1, 7.1, app.1
Wilson, F. Paul, 1.1, 7.1
Wilson, Robert C.
Winter, Douglas, 7.1, 8.1
witchcraft, itr.1, 1.1, 1.2, 1.3, 2.1, 4.1, 4.2
Witch House
Wolfitt, Michael
The Wolf’s Hour
The Woman Next Door
Wood, Bari, itr.1, 1.1, 5.1
Woodiwiss, Kathleen, prl.1, app.1
Woolfolk, William
Wright, T. M., 2.1, 4.1, 4.2, 4.3, app.1
Wylie, Laura
Wyndham, John, 2.1, 3.1
X
X, Y, 8.1, 8.2
Y
Yarbro, Chelsea Quinn, 1.1, 6.1, 7.1, app.1
Younger, Jack
Z
Zachary, Hugh
Zebra Books, 2.1, 4.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2, app.1, app.2
Ziel, George
Zielezinski, Jerzy
zodiac
Zodrow, John
zombies, 1.1, 3.1, 4.1, 117, 5.1, 7.1