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Authors: F. Paul Wilson
Aftershock & Others
SHORT FICTION
Soft and Others
The Barrens and Others
REPAIRMAN JACK
The Tomb
Legacies
Conspiracies
All the Rage
Hosts
The Haunted Air
Gateways
Crisscross
Infernal
Harbingers
Bloodline
By the Sword
YOUNG ADULT
Jack: Secret Histories
THE ADVERSARY CYCLE
The Keep
The Tomb
The Touch
Reborn
Reprisal
Nightworld
OTHER NOVELS
Healer
Wheels Within Wheels
An Enemy of the State
Black Wind
Dydeetown World
The Tery
Sibs
The Select
Implant
Deep as the Marrow
Mirage
(with Matthew J. Costello)
Nightkill
(with Steven Spruill)
Masque
(with Matthew J. Costello)
The Christmas Thingy
Sims
The Fifth Harmonic
Midnight Mass
EDITOR
Freak Show
Diagnosis: Terminal
19 Oddities
“Dreams” © 1991 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
The Ultimate Frankenstein
(Dell/BPVP).
“The November Game” © 1991 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
The Bradbury Chronicles
(Penguin/ROC).
“Please Don’t Hurt Me” © 1991 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Masques IV
(Maclay).
“Foet” © 1991 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Borderlands 2
(Borderlands Press).
“When He Was Fab” © 1992 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Weird Tales
(#305—Winter 1992/93).
“Itsy Bitsy Spider” © 1995 by F. Paul Wilson and Meggan C. Wilson. First appeared in
Great Writers and Kids Write Spooky Stories
(Random House). Reprinted with permission.
“COPPE” © 1995 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
David Copperfield’s Tales of the Impossible
(HarperCollins).
“Offshore” © 1996 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Diagnosis: Terminal
(Forge).
“Aryans and Absinthe” © 1997 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Revelations
(HarperCollins).
“Lysing Toward Bethlehem” © 1998 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Imagination Fully Dilated
(Cemetery Dance Press).
“Aftershock” © 1999 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Realms of Fantasy
(Vol. 6, #2—December 1999).
“Anna” © 2000 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Imagination Fully Dilated 2
(IFD Publishing).
“Sole Custody” © 2004 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Quietly Now
(Borderlands Press).
“Part of the Game” © 2005 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Dark Delicacies
(Carroll & Graf).
“Incident at Duane’s” © 2006 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Thriller
(Mira).
“Sex Slaves of the Dragon Tong” © 2006 by F. Paul Wilson. First appeared in
Retro Pulp Tales
(Subterranean Press).
To all my editors across the ages
As with my previous collections, the stories here are presented in the order they were written rather than published. I’ve culled stories from 1990 through 2005.
And as before, I’ve provided year-by-year background on what was going on in my career at the time. Some of you may not be interested. If so, the solution is simple: Turn the page. But if the mail I receive is any indication, an awful lot of you like the interstitial material—a few have dared suggest that it’s more interesting than some of the fiction. (The author bristles.) Certainly it provides a bonus for those of you who’ve already read some of the stories.
I look at it this way: I will never write an autobiography (my personal life is probably not much different from that of any other married guy with kids and grandkids, so I can’t imagine why anyone would want to read about it), but the introductions in my collections add up to a sort of writing memoir. For those of you curious about writing and the writing process, I trust you’ll find something of interest.
