Michael R. Collings

Michael Robert Collings (born October 29, 1947)^[1][2] is an American writer, poet, literary critic, and bibliographer, and a former professor of creative writing and literature at Pepperdine University.^[2][3] He was Poet in Residence at Pepperdine's Seaver College from 1997 to 2000.^[4]

Collings has had multiple collections of his poetry published on subjects such as

Collings was introduced to Stephen King's work by a student, David A. Engebretson, in 1983, and published his first book on him, The Many Facets of Stephen King, in 1985; reading King led to his also studying and publishing on Koontz and Robert McCammon.^[8]

The World Horror Convention awarded him their Grand Master Award in 2016.^[9]

Selected bibliography

Articles and papers

• "C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation" (July–August 1979), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "The Mechanisms of Fantasy" (January 1980), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "To Be Still a Man: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis" (January 1982), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis's Ransom Novels", (December 1986), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss's Psychological Landscape" (1988), Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts,
  Greenwood Press
• "Brian W. Aldiss" (1989), Reader's Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, American Library Association
• "To See the World the Poet's Way" In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. New York: Greenwood Press, (1990), Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed.Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 279. Detroit: Gale, 2010

Sources:^[4]

Non-fiction books

• The Many Facets of Stephen King (1985), Starmont House,
  ISBN 0-930261-14-3
• The Shorter Works of Stephen King (1985), with
  ISBN 0-930261-02-X
• Stephen King as Richard Bachman (1985), Starmont House,
  ISBN 0-930261-00-3
• The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America's Premier Horror Writer (1986), Starmont House,
  ISBN 0-930261-80-1
• The Films of Stephen King (1986), Starmont House,
  ISBN 0-930261-10-0
• Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card (1987), Hypatia Press,
  ISBN 0-940841-01-0
• The Stephen King Phenomenon (1987), Starmont House,
  ISBN 0-930261-12-7
• In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990), Greenwood Press,
  ISBN 0-313-26404-X
• Scaring Us to Death: The Impact of Stephen King on Popular Culture (1997), Borgo Press,
  ISBN 0-930261-37-2
• The Work of Orson Scott Card: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (1997), with Boden Clarke
• Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography (2000), Overlook Connection Press,
  ISBN 1-892950-15-4
• Storyteller: The Official Guide to the Works of Orson Scott Card (2001), Overlook Connection Press,
  ISBN 1-892950-26-X
• Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000 (2003), Overlook Connection Press,
  ISBN 1-892950-45-6
• Stephen King Is Richard Bachman, (March 2008), Overlook Connection Press,
  ISBN 1-892950-74-X

Sources:[2]^[4][5]

Novels

• The House Beyond the Hill (2007,
  ISBN 1-4344-0066-2
  )
• Singer of Lies (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
  ISBN 978-1-4344-5710-3
  )
• The Slab (2011, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
  ISBN 978-1-4344-1207-2
  )
• Static! (2011, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
  ISBN 978-1-4344-3530-9
  )
• Shadow Valley (2011, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
  ISBN 978-1-4344-3521-7
  )
• Writing Darkness (2012, CreateSpace,
  ISBN 978-1-4793-8404-4
  )

1. The Veil of Heaven (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
   ISBN 978-1-4344-0280-6
   )
2. The Thousand Eyes of Flame (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
   ISBN 978-1-4344-0281-3
   )
3. Three Tales of Omne (2010, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
   ISBN 978-1-4344-1177-8
   , published in an omnibus with The Elder of Days by Robert Reginald)

• The Nephiad: An Epic Poem in XII Books (1996, Zarahemla Motets,
  ISBN 1-886405-52-2
  )

Poetry and fiction collections

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• Naked to the Sun (1986, Starmont House,
  ISBN 0-930261-76-3
  )
• Dark Transformations: Deadly Visions of Change (1990, Starmont House,
  ISBN 1-55742-196-X
  )
• All Calm, All Bright: Christmas Offerings (2007, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
  ISBN 978-1-4344-0172-4
  )
• In the Void: Poems of Science Fiction, Myth and Fantasy, & Horror (2009, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
  ISBN 978-1-4344-5761-5
  )
• Wer Means Man and Other Tales of Wonder and Terror (2010, Borgo Press/Wildside Press,
  ISBN 978-1-4344-1187-7
  )
• Dear Emily and Other Poems (2016, CreateSpace,
  ISBN 978-1541095892
  )
• In the Haunting Darkness (2022, Hemelein Publications,
  ISBN 978-1-64278-060-4
  )

Sources:[4]^[6][10]

See also

• Fire in the Pasture

References