Don D'Ammassa
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Born | Providence, Rhode Island, U.S. | April 24, 1946
Occupation | Critic, author |
Genre | Fantasy, science fiction, horror |
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Donald Eugene D'Ammassa (born April 24, 1946) is an American fantasy, science fiction and horror critic and author.[1][2] He is chiefly known for his numerous reviews, written over a period of more than thirty years.[2] He writes as Don D'Ammassa.[1][2]
Writing career
D'Ammassa first made a name for himself as a fan writer in the 1970s; he was nominated for the
As a short story writer D'Ammassa has produced a substantial body of horror stories and relatively fewer science fiction and fantasy tales. His longer works are more evenly divided between these genres. His more recent novels "convey a sense that he is systematically traversing the worlds of twentieth century sf in order to pay tribute from a more recent perspective to the worlds and modes typical of the form."[2]
Bibliography
Series
Sandor Dyle
- Scarab (2004)
- Narcissus (2007)
Wanda Coyne
- The Maltese Gargoyle (2015)
- The Hippogriff of the Baskervilles (2016)
- Ten Little Homunculi (2017)
- The 39 Adepts (2019)
- Murder on the Oracle Express (2023)
Other novels
- Blood Beast (1988; rewritten as The Gargoyle (2011))
- Servants of Chaos (2002)
- Haven (2004)
- Dead of Winter (2007)
- The Kaleidoscope (2015)
- The Sinking Island (2015)
- Caverns of Chaos (2015)
- Living Things (2015)
- Perilous Pursuits (2015)
- Wormdance (2015)
- Carbon Copies (2015)
- Multiplicity (2015)
Collections
- Translation Station (2011)
- That Way Madness Lies (2015)
- Little Evils (2015)
- Passing Death (2015)
- Elaborate Lies: Tales of Fantasy (2015)
- Date with the Dark (2015)
- Sandcastles (2015)
- The Devil Is in the Details (2015)
- Alien & Otherwise (2015)
- Shadows Over R'lyeh (2015)
- Phantom of the Space Opera (2015)
- More Shadows Over R'lyeh (2017)
- The Retro Collection (2017)
- Still More Shadows Over R'Lyeh (2019)
Short stories
- "Automatic Success" (1982)
- "Love Charm" (1985)
- "The Hatchetman" (1989)
- "Literally Speaking" (1990)
- "Little Evils" (1991)
- "Strange Developments" (1991)
- "The Guard Tower" (1991)
- "The Splicer" (1991)
- "Wake Up Call" (1991)
- "Shadow Over R'lyeh" (1991)
- "Context" (1992)
- "The Dead Beat Society" (1992)
- "Homework" (1992)
- "Cleansing Agent" (1993)
- "Friday Nights at Home" (1993)
- "Puppets" (1993)
- "Subterrine - Or 20,000 Leagues under the Soil" (1993)
- "The Daylight Vampire" (1993)
- "The Spirit of Mars" (1993)
- "Forever in My Thoughts" (1993)
- "Moloch's Furnace" (1993)
- "Payment in Arrears" (1993)
- "Passing Death" (1993)
- "Corruption in Office" (1993)
- "The Library of Lost Art" (1993)
- "Shadow and Substance" (1993)
- "Frontier Spirit" (1994)
- "Inspiration" (1994)
- "Jack the Martian" (1994)
- "Misadventures in the Skin Trade" (1994)
- "The Kaleidoscope" (1994)
- "A Tight Situation" (1994)
- "A Noteworthy Affair" (1994)
- "All Flesh is Clay" (1995)
- "Coming Attractions" (1995)
- "Escape" (1995)
- "Hair Apparent" (1995)
- "Misapprehensions" (1995)
- "Next-Door Neighbor" (1995)
- "Present in Spirit" (1995)
- "The Dunwich Gate" (1995)
- "The Houseguest" (1995)
- "The Knight of Greenwich Village" (1995)
- "The Phantom of the Space Opera" (1995)
- "Twisted Images" (1995)
- "The Best of Company" (1995)
- "Actual Mode" (1995)
- "Empirical Facts" (1996)
- "Translation Station" (1996)
- "Sneak Thief" (1996)
- "Orwell's Other Nightmare" (1996)
- "The Potpourri Plot" (1996)
- "Thoracic Park" (1996)
- "Milk-Curdling Horror" (1996)
- "Kites" (1996)
- "Dark Providence" (1997)
- "Expectations" (1997)
- "Getting with the Program" (1997)
- "Restoring Order" (1997)
- "Remnants" (1997)
- "Bad Soil" (1997)
- "The Managansett Horror" (1997)
- "Adding It Up" (1998)
- "Scylla and Charybdis" (1998)
- "Leave Me Alone" (1998)
- "Bad Feelings" (1998)
- "Candid Camera" (1998)
- "Immortal Muse" (1998)
- "Stakeout" (1998)
- "The Chindi" (1998)
- "The Piggy Bank" (1998)
- "The Predator" (1998)
- "Cat Eye's" (1998)
- "Prey for the Dead" (1998)
- "Dominion" (1999)
- "Dumb Genius" (1999)
- "The Intrusion" (1999)
- "The Karma Sutra" (1999)
- "Realizations" (1999)
- "Wormdance" (1999)
- "Dark Paris" (2000)
- "The Devil Is in the Details" (2000)
- "Something in Common" (2001)
- "Departure Delayed" (2001)
- "The Black Rose" (2002)
- "A Good Offense" (2003)
- "Curing Agent" (2003)
- "Dealing with Stress" (2003)
- "The Word Mill" (2003)
- "Parting Shot" (2004)
- "The Man who Walked to Procyon" (2004)
- "Growing Old Together" (2004)
- "Fore-Thought" (2004)
- "Diplomatic Relations" (2006)
- "The Natural World" (2008)
- "No Problem" (2008)
- "Funeral Party" (2009)
- "Hearts of Stone" (2009)
- "Complexity" (2009)
- "Duck and Cover" (2009)
- "Slipstream Fiction" (2010)
- "Piecemaker" (2010)
- "No Distance Too Great" (2010)
- "Chronic Pain" (2011)
- "Dead Reckoning" (2011)
- "Farm on the Down" (2011)
- "Remotely Possible" (2011)
- "Scrimshaw" (2011)
- "The Incorruptible" (2011)
- "Misprints" (2011)
- "Martyrs" (2011)
- "Housebound" (2011)
- "The Buddy System" (2011)
- "The Last Demon" (2012)
- "Echoes" (2013)
- "Pre-Pirates" (2013)
- "City Girl" (2015)
- "The Guest House" (2015)
- "Night Duty" (2015)
- "The New Guy" (2015)
- "The Thing in the Library" (2015)
- "Border Town" (2017)
- "Lost Canyon" (2017)
- "Shell Games" (2017)
- "The Bad Neighbor" (2017)
- "The Key" (2017)
- "The Old Place" (2017)
- "The Warden of the Wall" (2017)
- "The Well Being" (2017)
- "Wendy" (2017)
- "Creepy Hollow" (2017)
- "Invaders from the Unknown" (2017)
- "It Came from Out There" (2017)
- "Mission to the Red Planet" (2017)
- "The Altered Astronaut" (2017)
- "The Anomaly" (2017)
- "The Day the World Dissolved" (2017)
- "The Red Hornet" (2017)
- "Isn't Life Great?" (2017)
- "The Chaos Business" (2019)
- "The Custodian" (2019)
- "The Effigy" (2019)
- "The Thin Spot" (2019)
- "The Three Pale Men" (2019)
- "Twisted" (2019)
Nonfiction
- Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2005)
- Encyclopedia of Fantasy and Horror Fiction (2006)
- Encyclopedia of Adventure Fiction (2009)
- Architects of Tomorrow: Volume I (2015)
- Masters of Detection: Volume I (2015)
- Masters of Detection: Volume II (2015)
- Masters of Detection: Volume III (2015)
- Architects of Tomorrow: Volume II (2016)
- Masters of Adventure: Volume I (2016)
- Masters of Horror: Volume I (2016)
- Architects of Tomorrow: Volume III (2017)
- Masters of Detection: Volume IV (2017)
- Masters of Horror: Volume II (2017)
- Not Exactly a Memoir (2017)
- Masters of Detection: Volume V (2018)
- Masters of Fantasy (2018)
- Architects of Tomorrow: Volume IV (2019)
- Architects of Tomorrow: Volume V (2019)
- Masters of Detection: Volume VI (2019)
- Masters of Horror: Volume III (2019)
- Masters of Adventure: Volume II (2020)
- Masters of Fantasy #2 (2020)
Notes
- ^ a b Don D'Ammassa at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
- ^ a b c d e Clute, John. "Don D'Ammassaa." Article in SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.