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Richard James Bleiler (born 1959) is an American bibliographer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and adventure fiction.^[1] He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction in 2002 and for the Munsey Award in 2019–2022. He won the 2023 Munsey Award, given to “an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community.”^[2] He is the son of bibliographer and publisher Everett F. Bleiler.

Bleiler was appointed reference librarian and selector for the humanities at the University of Connecticut's Homer Babbidge Library in 1994.^[3] As of 2024 he serves as the Collections and Humanities Librarian.^[4]

Bibliography

Books

• The Index to Adventure Magazine. 2 vols. Starmont House, 1990.
• Science-Fiction: The Early Years (with Everett F. Bleiler). Kent State University Press, 1990.
• The Annotated Index to The Thrill Book. Borgo Press, 1991.
• Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (with Everett F. Bleiler). Kent State University Press, 1998.
• Science Fiction Writers : Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the President Day (2nd ed.). Scribner's, 1999.
• Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction. Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
• Supernatural Fiction Writers : Contemporary Fantasy and Horror. 2nd ed. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
• Reference and Research Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction. Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
• Ed., Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction - Empire of the Future. Vol. 1. Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
• The Strange Case of the Angels of Mons: Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His Refutations. McFarland, 2015.

Articles and chapters

• "Stephen King." Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror 2: A. E. Coppard to Roger Zelazny, pp. 1037–1044. Ed. E. F. Bleiler. Scribner's, 1985.
• With Dieu Van Tong, Marcel Proust at UAB: A Checklist of Proust Holdings at the Mervyn H. Sterne Library. University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1988.
• "Forgotten Giant: A Brief History of Adventure Magazine." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 30, no. 4, 1989, pp. 309–323.
• "Robert S. Hichens." In Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: First Series, pp. 106–119. Ed. George M. Johnson. Gale, 1995. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 153.
• "Edwin L. Arnold." In British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I, Darren Harris-Fain. Gale, 1997, pp. 23–26. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 178.
• "John Davys Beresford." In British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I. Ed. Darren Harris-Fain. Gale, 1997, pp. 27–34. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 178.
• Internet Training in ARL Libraries : A SPEC Kit. (with Jon E. Cawthorne). Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, 1997.
• "Edgar Wallace." In Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, pp. 943–955. Vol. 2. Eds. Robin W. Winks and Maureen Corrigan. Scribner's, 1998.
• Networked Information Resources : A SPEC Kit (with Terry Plum). Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, 1999.
• "George Vaux Bacon: Forgotten Writer, Intriguing Person." Dime Novel Roundup: A Magazine Devoted to the Collecting, Preservation and Study of Old-Time Dime and Nickel Novels, Popular Story Papers, Series Books, and Pulp Magazines, vol. 68, no. 4 [658], Aug. 1999, pp. 127–136.
• "Thomas Burke." Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: Second Series. Ed. George M. Johnson. Thomson Gale, 1999, pp. 40–49. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 197.
• "Imagination Takes Flight: A Thematic History of the Pulp Magazine." Dime Novel Roundup: A Magazine Devoted to the Collecting, Preservation and Study of Old-Time Dime and Nickel Novels, Popular Story Papers, Series Books, and Pulp Magazines, vol. 72, no. 3-4 [681–82], 2003, pp. 79–111.
• "Street & Smith's Literary Album: A Bibliographic Listing." Dime Novel Roundup: A Magazine Devoted to the Collecting, Preservation and Study of Old-Time Dime and Nickel Novels, Popular Story Papers, Series Books, and Pulp Magazines, vol. 73, no. 6 [690], Dec. 2004, pp. 179–250.
• "May Sinclair's Supernatural Fiction." In May Sinclair: Moving Towards the Modern, pp. 123–138. Eds. Andrew J. Kunka and Michele K. Troy. Ashgate, 2006.
• "Raised by the Dead: Maturational Gothic in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book." In 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000, pp. 269–278. Eds. Daniel Olson and S. T. Joshi (foreword). Scarecrow, 2011.
• "Visionary Star-Treader: The Speculative Writings of Clark Ashton Smith." In Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s, pp. 66–83. Ed. Gary Hoppenstand. Salem, 2013.
• "The Fantastic Pulp Fiction of Frank Belknap Long." In Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s, pp. 148–165. Ed. Gary Hoppenstand. Salem: 2013.
• "Teaching Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers." In Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers, pp. 198–203. Ed. Laurie Lamson. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2014.

References

External links

• Richard Bleiler at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Modern Horror Fiction: A Select Who's Who by Richard Bleiler at the Dark Echo Website
• Richard Bleiler at Library of Congress, with 12 library catalog records