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Date Type Language Title Authors Parent Title Parent Authors Tags
1990-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Snickerdoodles Nancy Springer     mother (1), son (1), contemporary (1), witchcraft (1), cookies (1), bullying (1)
1990-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Soft Darrell Schweitzer     horror (1), bed (1), married couple (1), contemporary (1), visceral horror (1)
1990-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Langoliers Stephen King     into-tv (1), nature of time (1), love (1), psychotic (1), second sight (1), blindness (1), pilot (1), airliner (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), Suspense (1)
1990-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Library Policeman Stephen King     library (1), alcoholism (1), psychic vampire (1), soul-sucker (1), horror (1), child abuse (1), only Earth (1), contemporary (1), Suspense (1), psychic vampires (1)
1990-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Pronounced Effect John Brunner     contemporary (1), academia (1), Miskatonic University (1), academic dispute (1), insecure protagonist (1), curse (1), romantic hero (1)
1990-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Sun Dog Stephen King     juvenile protagonist (1), Maine (1), contemporary (1), only human (1), Polaroid camera (1), Suspense (1), paranormal artifact (1), con game (1), monster from beyond (1), antiques (1), castle rock (1)
1989-00-00 SHORTFICTION English At First Just Ghostly Karl Edward Wagner     contemporary (1), london (1), SF authors (1), publishing business (1), magic (1), Harmonic Convergence (1), serendipity (1), drinking (1), fighting evil (1)
1989-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Courting Disasters Nina Kiriki Hoffman     contemporary (1), car wreck (1), dysfunctional relationship (1), internal dialogue (1), spirits of inanimate objects (1)
1989-03-00 SHORTFICTION English In Another Country Robert Silverberg     contemporary (1), meteor strike (1), disaster tourism (1), time travel (1), romance (1), only humans (1), USA (1)
1989-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Keeping House Michael Blumlein     first person (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), realism (1)
1989-00-00 NOVEL English Midnight Dean R. Koontz     SF (1), contemporary (1), nanotechnology (1), shapeshifting (1), only humans (1), service dogs (1), horror (1)
1989-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Person to Person Richard Matheson     psychology (1), telepathy (1), contacting the dead (1), twist ending (1), contemporary (1)
1989-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Shed His Grace Michael Blumlein     realism (1), contemporary (1), horror (1), Olympics (1)
1989-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Slasher F. Paul Wilson     first person point of view (1), vengeance (1), contemporary (1), child murder (1), twist ending (1), Suspense (1)
1989-10-00 COLLECTION English The Brains of Rats Michael Blumlein     horror (1), SF (1), contemporary (1), near future (1), medical (1)
1989-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Wet Suit Michael Blumlein     contemporary (1), fetish (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Dead Things Don't Move Lawrence Watt-Evans     home invasion (1), murder (1), irony (1), justice (1), contemporary (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Emma's Daughter Alan Rodgers     horror (1), zombies (1), witches (1), visceral horror (1), contemporary (1), voodoo (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Fruiting Bodies Brian Lumley     Northeast English coast (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), rot (1), deserted town (1), coastal subsidence (1), horror (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Knox's 'Nga Avram Davidson     contemporary (1), family (1), child (1), eerie (1), transitional object (1)
1988-01-00 NOVEL English Lightning Dean R. Koontz     time travel (1), female protagonist (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), humans only (1)
1988-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Little Once Nina Kiriki Hoffman     single mother (1), contemporary (1), unwanted child (1)
1988-00-00 NOVEL English Silver Tower Dale Brown     naval battle (1), daughter (1), father (1), Iran (1), USSR (1), US Space Station (1), US Navy (1), space battle (1), contemporary (1), space plane (1), space laser weapon (1), strong female character (1), romance (1)
1988-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Domino Master Michael Blumlein     fantasy (1), magic (1), contemporary (1), first person (1)
1988-00-00 NOVEL English The Hex Witch of Seldom Nancy Springer     fantasy (1), contemporary (1), witches (1)
1988-08-00 SHORTFICTION English The Promise of Warmth Michael Blumlein     fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Latin America (1), horror (1)
1988-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Yellow Hands T. H. White     horror (1), contemporary (1), children protagonists (1)
1988-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Vacuum States Geoffrey A. Landis     twist ending (1), dilemma (1), second person point of view (1), risk (1), zero point energy (1), hard science (1), contemporary (1)
1987-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Buried Talents Richard Matheson     luck (1), game (1), midway (1), carnie (1), contemporary (1)
1987-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Hare's House Ruth Rendell     cursed house (1), murder (1), Suspense (1), contemporary (1)
1987-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Well-Connected T. E. D. Klein     contemporary (1), married couple (1), vacation (1), woods (1)
1986-00-00 NOVEL English Bride of Satan William Schoell     slasher movie (1), demonic possession (1), serial killings (1), murder mystery (1), nuns (1), hollywood (1), contemporary (1), demons (1), ghosts (1), female protagonist (1), horror (1)
1986-10-00 INTERIORART English Cartoon: "Hi There! I'd like to grant you three wishes with the exception of any in the areas of politics, ecology and state and local lotteries." Henry Martin     fairy (1), city (1), contemporary (1), humor (1), typical businessman type (1)
1986-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Fill It with Regular Michael Shea     humor (1), apocalypse (1), spores (1), contemporary (1), automobiles (1)
1986-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Saucery Frederik Pohl     humor (1), Ufology (1), contemporary (1), Martians (1), satire (1), Manhattan (1), public sentiment (1)
1986-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Brains of Rats Michael Blumlein     horror (1), biology (1), contemporary (1), first person (1)
1986-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Lost Art of Twilight Thomas Ligotti     America (1), family (1), vampires (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), Aix en Provence (1)
1985-05-00 NOVEL English Footfall Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle     generation ship (2), military (1), kinetic weapons (1), nuclear war (1), suspended animation (1), Kansas (1), Alpha Centauri (1), lasers (1), Kremlin (1), alien psychology (1), contemporary (1), war in space (1), White House (1), first contact (1), Project Orion (1), Bussard ramjet (1), alien point of view (1), survivalists (1), SF fandom (1), SF authors (1), United States (1), africa (1), killer asteroid (1), alien invasion (1), science fiction (1)
1985-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Not at Home Jean Richardson     contemporary (1), bicycle (1), girl protagonist (1), ghost (1)
1985-05-00 POEM English The Dragon Over Hackensack Richard L. Wexelblat     destruction (1), battle (1), jet fighters (1), Hackensack (1), dragon (1), contemporary (1)
1985-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Forbidden Clive Barker     into-movie (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), housing projects (1), england (1), urban horror myths (1)
1985-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The New Girlfriend Ruth Rendell     transvestitism (1), repressed sexuality (1), forbidden sexuality (1), female point of view (1), murder (1), contemporary (1)
1984-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Cube Root Jack C. Haldeman, II     first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), fads (1), fantasy (1), tongue in cheek (1)
1984-10-00 NOVEL English Moonheart Charles de Lint     Canada (1), Celtic Folklore (1), contemporary (1), fairy (1), fantasy (1), magical realism (1), myth (1), Ottawa (1), Tamson House (1), urban fantasy (1)
1984-00-00 NOVEL English Steam Bird Hilbert Schenck     model trains (1), steam power (1), contemporary (1), international relations (1), nuclear power (1), Maine (1), US politics (1), satire (1), airplane (1)
1984-05-00 SHORTFICTION English The Grass of Remembrance John DeChancie     United States (1), contemporary (1), pollution (1), lawn (1), veteran (1), nazis (1), mental disintegration (1)
1984-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Lilies Alison Prince     first person point of view (1), flowers (1), burial (1), female point of view (1), child point of view (1), contemporary (1), fantasy (1)
1983-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Amanda and the Alien Robert Silverberg     into-movie (1), adolescent girls (1), horror (1), humor (1), contemporary (1), first contact (1), shapeshifting alien (1)
1983-06-00 NOVEL English Legion William Peter Blatty     devil (1), horror (1), possession (1), theological problem of evil (1), Lucifer (1), murder mystery (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), Jewish protagonist (1), police detective (1), medical psychology (1), serial killer (1), Catholicism (1), senile dementia (1), hospital (1)
1983-02-00 SHORTFICTION English Loopy Ruth Rendell     horror (1), competition between fiance and mother (1), contemporary (1), oedipus complex (1), murder (1), Furries (1), first person point of view (1)
1983-06-00 NOVEL English Millennium John Varley     california (1), extinction (1), time viewer (1), tobacco (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), disease (1), far future (1), New York City (1), airplanes (1), time travel (1), pollution (1), androids (1), sex (1), suicide (1), physicist (1), prosthetics (1), paradox (1), into-movie (1)
1983-10-00 NOVEL English On a Pale Horse Piers Anthony     parallel earth (1), fantasy (1), magic (1), contemporary (1), fate (1), love (1), Satan (1), death (1), Purgatory (1), social satire (1), magical gems (1)
1983-11-00 SHORTFICTION English Second Coming Frederik Pohl     first person point of view (1), aliens (1), jesus (1), first contact (1), contemporary (1), humor (1)
1983-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Width of the World Ian Watson     consciousness creating reality (1), distances (1), england (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1)
1982-08-00 NOVEL English Apt Pupil Stephen King     into-movie (1), contemporary (1), high school student (1), Nazi war criminal (1), serial murder (1), psychopathology (1), blackmail (1)
1982-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Leechcraft Susan C. Petrey     contemporary (1), Caucasian War (1), time travel (1), fantasy (1), vampires (1)
1982-08-00 NOVEL English Nursery Tale T. M. Wright     horror (1), suburbs (1), housing development (1), contemporary (1), ghosts (1), earth spirits (1)
1982-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Playing for Keeps Jack C. Haldeman, II     first contact (1), eight year old (1), Play (1), alien invasion (1), contemporary (1)
1982-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption Stephen King     into-movie (1), contemporary (1), prison (1), Maine (1), first person point of view (1)
1982-08-00 NOVEL English The Body Stephen King     young-adult horror (1), into-movie (1), contemporary (1), boys (1), Maine (1), first person point of view (1), family (1), quest (1), reminiscence (1)
1982-08-00 SHORTFICTION English The Breathing Method Stephen King     horror (1), Christmas (1), contemporary (1), only humans (1), only Earth (1), story within a story (1), first person point of view (1), unwed pregnancy (1), strong female character (1), social club (1), uncanny setting (1)
1982-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Dim Rumble Isaac Asimov     first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), spelunking (1), seismology (1), story within a story (1), memory erasure (1), alien as demon (1)
1982-01-18 SHORTFICTION English The Invisible Foe Garry Kilworth     first person point of view (1), Thailand (1), contemporary (1), supernatural beings (1), only Earth (1), conflict (1), Singapore (1)
1981-01-19 POEM English Headlines by the Dozens (Right in My Own Kitchen) David R. Bunch     contemporary (1), only Earth (1), insects (1), kitchen (1)
1981-10-00 SHORTFICTION English Kaeti's Nights Keith Roberts     humans only (1), contemporary (1), family (1), vampire (1), first person point of view (1), fantasy (1)
1981-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Anatomy Lesson Scott Russell Sanders     horror (1), evolution (1), first person point of view (1), skeletons (1), contemporary (1), college (1), only Earth (1), weird (1)
1981-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Green Road to Quephanda Ruth Rendell     england (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), mythology (1), suicide (1)
1981-11-23 SHORTFICTION English With Thimbles, with Forks, and Hope Kate Wilhelm     only Earth (1), malevolent humanoid (1), private eyes (1), contemporary (1), married couple (1), boat (1), Suspense (1), murder (1)
1980-09-00 SHORTFICTION English A Spaceship Built of Stone Lisa Tuttle     first person point of view (1), aliens on Earth (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), dreams (1), Anasazi (1)
1980-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Alien Lover Ted Reynolds and William F. Wu     only Earth (1), college (1), interspecies romance (1), humanoid alien (1), roommates (1), contemporary (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), intergalactic travel (1), first contact (1)
1980-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Grotto of the Dancing Deer Clifford D. Simak     immortality (1), Basque (1), cave paintings (1), paleontology (1), bone flute (1), loneliness (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1)
1980-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Secrets of the Heart Charles L. Grant     horror (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), child protagonist (1), female protagonist (1), only Earth (1), only humans (1), psychic powers (1)
1980-06-00 SHORTFICTION English The Day of the Trifles Jon L. Breen     first person point of view (1), england (1), english trifle (1), parody (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), war with aliens (1)
1980-09-00 SHORTFICTION English The Ugly Chickens Howard Waldrop     only humans (1), only Earth (1), appalachia (1), dodos (1), contemporary (1), first person point of view (1), graduate student (1), ornithologist (1), Texas (1), birds (1), Mississippi (1), extinction (1)
1980-07-00 SHORTFICTION English Unicorn Tapestry Suzy McKee Charnas     strong female character (1), female protagonist (1), vampire (1), psychoanalyst (1), predator (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1)
1979-04-00 SHORTFICTION English Fleas Dean Ing     contemporary (1), vampire (1), fantasy (1)
1979-00-00 NOVEL English Ghost Story Peter Straub     shapechangers (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), Christmas (1), horror (1), evil spirits (1), guilt (1), succubus (1), contemporary (1), families (1), senior citizens (1), small town (1), Upstate New York (1), stories within story (1), snowstorm (1)
1979-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The Rape Patrol Michele Belling     female protagonists (1), contemporary (1), voodoo (1), rape (1), vengeance (1), vigilantes (1)
1979-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Specimen Tim Stout     kidnapping (1), alien zoo (1), alien contact (1), contemporary (1), teenage protagonist (1)
1978-06-00 SHORTFICTION English A House Divided Lee Killough     contemporary (1), multiple personality (1), psychology (1), multiple personalities (1)
1978-05-00 SHORTFICTION English Born Again Sharon N. Farber     microbiology (1), female protagonist (1), first person point of view (1), humans only (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), vampire (1)
1978-03-00 SHORTFICTION English Mister Magister Thomas F. Monteleone     child protagonist (1), contemporary (1), moral lesson (1), killing (1), alien (1), carnival game (1), aliens among us (1), female protagonist (1)
1977-12-00 NOVEL English Close Encounters of the Third Kind Steven Spielberg and Leslie Waller     novelization (1), technology tycoon (1), infectious dementia (1), White Sands (1), Nevada heritage (1), contemporary (1), desert (1), horses (1), genetic modification (1), biological warfare (1), influenza (1)
1977-10-00 NOVEL English In the Ocean of Night Gregory Benford     lupus erythematosus (1), Earth (1), Fermi paradox (1), alien artifacts (1), disease (1), nuclear weapons (1), genetic engineering (1), SETI (1), lunar exploration (1), war with machines (1), asteroid impact (1), bigfoot (1), alien probe (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1), ship AI (1), first contact (1), science fiction (1)
1977-12-00 SHORTFICTION English Smoke Gets in Your Eyes James Quinn     contemporary (1), championship (1), humor (1), smoke rings (1), Insecurity (1), gamesmanship (1), first person point of view (1)
1977-04-00 SHORTFICTION English The Detweiler Boy Tom Reamy     SF (1), contemporary (1), detective (1), vampire (1), Los Angeles (1)
1977-12-00 SHORTFICTION English The House Sitters Raylyn Moore     horror (1), contemporary (1), house sitters (1), plant breeding (1)
1977-05-02 SHORTFICTION English The Kugelmass Episode Woody Allen     fantasy (1), contemporary (1), New York City (1), Emma Bovary (1), magic (1), extramarital affairs (1), humor (1), be careful what you wish for (1)
1977-01-00 SHORTFICTION English Tunnel Roger Aday     only Earth (1), only humans (1), horror (1), contemporary (1), tunnel (1), twist ending (1)
1977-12-00 SHORTFICTION English United Imp L. Sprague de Camp     first person point of view (1), business loan (1), ironmongery (1), fantasy (1), contemporary (1), unionization (1), Atlanta, Georgia (1), The Faerie Queene (1), gnomes (1)
1977-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Zorphwar! Stan Dryer     contemporary (1), humor (1), corporate memos (1), computer games (1)
1976-00-00 SHORTFICTION English A Day in the Life of Able Charlie Frederik Pohl     artificial intelligence (1), marketing (1), contemporary (1), only Earth (1)
1976-06-00 SHORTFICTION English Starburst Robert Lulyk     alien point of view (1), contemporary (1), deep space life form (1), pure energy life form (1), social commentary (1)
1976-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Little Yellow Dog Mary Williams     ghosts (1), dogs (1), first person point of view (1), contemporary (1), shore (1), child point of view (1)
1975-09-00 NOVEL English 'Salem's Lot Stephen King     vampires (4), horror (3), into-tv (1), contemporary (1), Maine (1), small town (1), evil house (1), Horror: 100 Best Books (1), Modern Fantasy: The Hundred Best Novels 1946-1987 (1), fantasy (1)
1975-02-00 NOVEL English Sign of the Unicorn Roger Zelazny     unreliable narrator (1), palace intrigue (1), sibling rivalry (1), swordplay (1), parallel worlds (1), first person point of view (1), medieval society (1), contemporary (1), science fiction (1), fantasy (1), classical mythology (1)
1975-00-00 SHORTFICTION English The Hospice Robert Aickman     eerie (1), contemporary (1), Britain (1), travel (1), hotel (1)
1975-10-00 SHORTFICTION English The Mother Trip Frederik Pohl     alien point of view (1), multiple variations (1), aliens observe earth (1), contemporary (1)
1974-08-00 SHORTFICTION English Alien Catastrophe Henry Melton     contemporary (1), alien physiology (1), alien on earth (1), pun (1), no humans (1), alien point of view (1)
1974-00-00 SHORTFICTION English Hardshell Dean R. Koontz     horror (1), contemporary (1), shapeshifters (1), United States (1), urban (1), police chase (1), twist ending (1), murder (1), detective (1)
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