INDEX

Abnormal psychology. See also Insanity, Schizophrenia, Schizotypal personality disorder, Sociopathy 239, 242243, 251, 390

Acapulco 306307

Ace Books 109, 126, 153, 170, 174

Ackerman, Forrest J. 131

Adult Children of Alcoholics xii, 328, 360

Advanced species 126, 171, 174, 192

After the Last Race 26, 55, 105, 192195, 206, 214, 478

Again, Dangerous Visions 134, 143, 175

Alcoholism 1213, 2021, 327

Aliens 35, 36, 46, 98, 147, 172, 173, 174, 176, 190, 201, 291, 294, 295, 296, 316, 323, 377, 380, 407, 453, 459

Allison, Susan 274, 298, 395

All Other Men 148

“Altarboy” 175, 474

“Always an Open Door for the Paperback Category Novel” 169, 469

Ambush at Ruby Ridge (Bock, Alan) 415, 424, 471

Anderson, Paul Dale 300

Anjikuni 268

Anasazi 46

Animal Farm 107

Anti-Man 149,477

Aphrodisiac Girl 141,478

Appalachian Poverty Program 95

Applebaum, Irwyn 442, 443

Aquinas, St. Thomas 77

Ashmead, Larry 148

Asimov, Isaac 9899, 124, 143, 190

Asset-forfeiture laws 414, 415, 419, 421, 424

Atheneum 192, 213, 215

Atlantic Monthly xix, 8586

Augustine, St. 77

Awards xix, 38, 8587, 224, 301304

Bram Stoker 302

Hugo 152

World Fantasy 297

Aware Press xiii, 138

Axton, David 215, 251, 425

Bad Place, The 367372, 452, 481

Bad Place, The (script) 373

Ballantine Books ix, 190, 202, 217, 407, 425, 441, 452

Bantam Books 171, 190, 218, 442443, 451, 457

Barkman, Marcella 2

Barty, Billy 233

Beahm, George 144

“Beastchild” 147, 474

Beastchild 146, 147, 151152, 167, 400, 477, 481

Beatles 83, 137

Beautiful Death 547, 440, 471

Bedford, Pennsylvania 23, 6, 11, 32, 40, 46, 70, 88, 117, 154155, 156, 362, 380, 383, 426427, 440

Bedford High School 54, 61

Bedford Memorial Park 118

Benford, Gregory 275, 332, 386

Berkley Books 199, 224, 237, 238, 244, 245, 246, 268, 269, 272, 274, 298, 311, 321322, 338, 344, 357, 365, 395, 409, 425, 439, 441, 451

Berkowitz, David 221

Bessie, Michael 193, 214

Betrayal 214, 229, 233, 242

Biblical allegory 173, 174, 367

Big Money 137

Bitting, Fay 78, 90, 365

Bizarre disappearances 4546, 267

Blackburn, Vera (Houck) 33

“Black Pumpkin, The” 306, 475

Blake, William 221, 222

Blaylock, James 274275, 281

Blood Risk 182, 478

Blue Devils 7

Bobbs-Merrill 183, 221

Bode, Vaughn 126, 139, 143145

Bodnar, John 8182, 190, 259

Book of Counted Sorrows, The 262, 269, 308, 378, 396, 401, 407, 410, 454

Borden, Roy 15, 36, 41, 253254

Bounce Girl 141142, 477

Bradbury, Ray 39, 59, 108, 121, 279

Bradley, David 54, 65, 215, 251

Brainwashing 109, 228, 229, 293, 294, 295

Bram Stoker Awards 302

Brando, Marlon 217

Brautigam, Don 298, 401

“Bruno” 159, 176, 474

Bullies 4142, 127

Burr, Raymond 234235

Burton, Tim 341

Cain, James M. 135, 402

Calley, Lieutenant 118, 158

Cameo Press 176

Canine Companions for Independence 303, 355356

Carberry, Helen (Morgart) 38

Carmel, California 240

Carnivals 4445, 124, 164, 211, 237238, 279280, 281, 284, 285, 287, 288

Carpenter, Joe 28, 30, 444450

Catcher in the Rye, The 81, 108

Catch-22 54, 184

Catholicism 5455, 66, 7677, 93, 104, 111, 324, 428

Ceddia, Anthony 361362, 363364

Centralia, Pennsylvania 427428

Cerra, Angie 68, 259

Cerra, Donna 68, 93

Cerra, Dorothy 68

Cerra, Gerda Ann 6670, 71, 7273, 79, 163

Cerra, Ross 16, 66, 68, 259

Cerra, Ross Jr. 68

Cerra, Vito 68

Chandler, Raymond 135

Chaos 13, 22, 46, 127, 161, 190, 254, 267, 284, 309, 310, 324, 328, 368, 369, 371, 378, 383, 444, 449, 454, 458, 459, 460

Chardin, Teilhard de 313

Charnel House 152, 400

Chase 139, 178, 426, 477

Chase, Benjamin 178180

Chichak, Ted 121, 178

Children of the Storm 164, 478

CHiPs 232, 233

Chizmar, Richard 457

Christ 173, 370, 429, 448

Christie, Julie 191, 217

Christman, Barbara 430, 446, 448, 450

Clegg, Doug 304

“Cloistered Walls” 473

Codependence 20, 21, 56, 328, 361, 387

Coffey, Brian 183, 215, 221, 232, 252

Cold Fire 19, 59, 147, 282, 351, 371, 374, 376, 577, 378381, 481

Cold Fire (screenplay) 282, 381382

Cold Terror 200, 204

Cold Terror (Munster) 345

Cold War 32, 34, 54, 232, 265, 331, 439

Collings, Michael 202, 345, 346, 372, 429

Colonial Park, Pennsylvania 108, 186

Comics 11, 33, 37

“Coming Blaylockian Age, The” 470

Communism 32, 34, 112, 278

Cooper, Roger 245

Corman, Roger 316, 342343, 411

“Cosmic Sin” 176, 474

Costello, Matthew 304

“Counterfeit” 232

Creamer, Stacy 335, 339, 352

Creative Artists Agency 357

Creativity 33, 38, 43, 317, 318, 327, 458459

“Crimson Witch, The” 147, 158, 474

Crimson Witch, The 158, 477

Cross-genre style 204, 215, 240, 297, 334, 412

Cuppett, Norma (Ickes) 66

Curtis Books 158

Czikszentmihalyi, Mihaly 318, 319

Dahmer, Jeffrey 389

Dance with the Devil 162163, 478

Dangerous Times 255256

Darker Heritage, A 163164

Darkfall 157, 268270, 480

Darkfall (screenplay) 358

Dark Harvest Press 272, 322, 323, 338, 343344

“Darkness in My Soul, A” 113, 473

Darkness in My Soul, A 170171, 478

Dark of Summer, The 165166, 478

Dark of the Woods 153154, 477

Dark Rivers of the Heart 211, 255, 324, 363, 389, 400, 414424, 430, 438, 452, 471, 481

Dark Rivers of the Heart (screenplay) 424425

Dark Symphony, The 150, 477

Dawber, Pam 374, 375

Daw Books 170

Dean Koontz Companion, The 345, 365, 409, 471

Degenerative alcohol syndrome 220, 329, 350

DeGrange, Dorothy 9

Demolished Man, The (Bester, Alfred) 229

Demon Child 160161, 477

Demon Seed 190, 217, 357, 443, 451, 455457, 478, 482

Demon Seed (film) 191, 217, 218, 220

Deny the Devil 204

Destiny 223, 231, 286, 313, 333, 334335, 380, 416, 420, 454, 460

Dial Press 195196, 197198

Dick, Philip K. 274

Dickens, Charles 72, 187, 240, 264, 266, 283, 321, 332

Dickinson, Emily 76

“Diligently Corrupting Young Minds” 144, 469

DNA testing 329, 382

Dogs 11, 2526, 4950, 315, 316, 355, 396, 397, 408, 416, 432, 448, 452

Door to December, The 276278, 480, 482

Door to Nowhere, The 204

Doubleday 148, 252

“Down on the Darkness” 305, 475

Down’s Syndrome 368369

Doyle, Tom 40, 6465, 68

Dracula 36, 60

Dragonfly 33, 198, 478

“Dragon in the Land, A” 123, 176, 474

Dragon Tears 147, 383, 392, 395397, 452, 481

Dreaming Jewels, The (Sturgeon) 40

Dreams 15, 199, 369, 384385, 412, 427

“Dreambird” 113, 473

“Dreamlet of the Hawk, The” 124

Drew, Lisa 252

Ducker, Dr. Steven 359361

Duncan, Dot 3233

Dunn, Dawn 394

Dwyer, Deanna 160

Dwyer, K. R. 178, 198

Eckard, Nancy (Mock) 5, 27, 28, 49, 154, 327, 440

Eclipse Graphic Comics 382

Edgeway Crisis, The 215

Edwards, Frank 46

Einstein 314315, 316, 317, 318

Elliott, T. S. 76

Ellison, Harlan 106, 121, 133134, 175176, 301

Elwood, Roger 175, 176177, 191

Emphyrio 171

Entropy 130, 147, 271, 284, 396397, 407, 458, 459

ESP 39, 113

Everett, Pennsylvania 2

Evil xi, 149, 164, 177, 213, 222, 230, 240, 241, 243, 251, 262, 266, 269270, 271, 286287, 296, 305, 309, 315, 322, 339, 340, 341, 354, 368, 369, 370, 372, 386, 387, 388, 403, 420, 421, 429, 433, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438, 439, 449

Exorcist, The 338

Eyes of Darkness, The 211, 231, 259, 260261, 321, 357, 439, 471, 479, 482

Eyed of Darkness, The (screenplay) 358

“Face in His Belly, The” 122, 473

Face of Fear, The 165, 202, 221222, 256, 479

Face of Fear, The (film) 358, 373, 375, 381

Faith 26, 104, 291, 297, 414415, 430, 444, 448, 450

Fall of the Dream Machine, The 125, 175, 477

Family 32, 59, 6162, 70, 7677, 91, 106, 110, 122, 147, 178, 242, 250, 290, 291, 295, 304, 309, 315, 325, 403, 405, 407, 408, 412, 420, 439, 453454, 457, 458, 459, 460

Famous Monsters of Filmland 38, 131

Fascism. See also Totalitarian mind 213, 276, 278, 403

Fate. See Destiny.

Father Blood 204

Faust, Jack 7

Fear Nothing 457, 482

Fear That Man 126, 127, 149, 477

Feminist movement 161

Ferman, Ed 98, 113, 146, 153

Ferraro, Claire 425

Fertility experiments 326

“Flesh” 473

Flesh in the Furnace, The 133, 171172, 443, 478

Florida 49, 50, 51, 118, 281, 443

Flow 318320

“For a Breath I Tarry” 473

Forsythe, O. Richard 8081, 86, 190, 363, 365, 367368

“Fox in the Chicken Suit, The” 472

Fox network 438

Francis, Dick 136

Frankenstein 36, 309

Frankenstein 36

Freaks 45, 124, 238, 279280, 285, 287, 288

Frear, Ned 353, 362

Freudian theory x, xi, 82, 110, 153, 158, 170, 172, 214, 223, 241, 243, 245, 263264, 310, 414, 434435, 436

Freud, Sigmund x, 82, 435

Friedman, Jane 413, 424, 441

Funhouse, The 37, 45, 238239, 261, 279, 408, 471, 482

Funhouse, The (film) 237

Garbrick, Winona 6364, 65, 216, 323

Genetic disorders 2224, 162, 223, 231, 251, 254, 285, 369370, 388, 403, 436

Genetic engineering 170, 213, 286, 309, 366, 403, 446447, 450

Genre fiction xix, 159160, 161, 166167, 182, 204, 223, 290, 338339

“Genre in Crisis, A” 438, 470

“Ghost Stories” 470

Gleason, Harold 363

Global village 125, 176

Glueckman, Alan 358

Goblins 281282, 284, 285, 286, 287, 288, 322323

God 19, 77, 81, 85, 104, 111, 122, 125, 126, 127128, 147, 149, 171, 172, 173, 174, 177, 179180, 200, 221, 291, 296, 297, 316, 324, 325326, 334, 355, 377, 379, 415, 444, 445, 447, 448, 449, 460

Godzilla 36

“Godzilla vs. Megadeth” 411412, 471

Goldblum, Jeff 391

Goodness 128, 149, 177, 230, 240, 251, 288, 297, 332, 340, 341, 354, 370, 387, 420, 421, 426, 429, 433, 435, 438, 439, 444, 460

“Good Ship Lookoutworld, The” 147, 474

Gorman, Ed 334, 345, 365, 366, 382, 395, 409410

Gothic romance 159160, 161, 164, 165166

Gottlieb, Robert 393394, 423, 441

Government 12, 26, 101, 109, 145, 179180, 241, 259260, 277278, 287, 290, 294, 309, 315, 400, 414, 418, 421, 422, 423, 424, 427428

Goya, Francisco de 396

G. P. Putnam’s Sons 224, 235, 237, 246, 251, 266, 311, 316, 331, 334, 335, 336, 337, 352, 371, 372, 374, 381, 392, 393394, 395, 400, 401, 426, 442

Grann, Phyllis 224, 243, 244, 245, 263, 266, 268, 279, 291293, 312, 314, 321, 333, 337’, 339, 352, 353, 372, 374, 390, 392, 394

Grant, Spencer 416423

“Graveyard Highway” 337338, 475

“Grayworld” 175, 474

“Great Art and Muppet Hatred” 457, 472

Great Expectations 264

Greenberg, Martin 345, 366, 409110

Greene, Graham 187

Griffith, Melanie 373

Grimes, Ely 5556

Guardians 152, 323, 332, 404, 430, 450, 459, 460

Guardian 311

Haggard, David 215

Hall, Melissa Mia 300

Hanging On 184, 478

“Hardshell” 324, 475

Harmon, Steve 2930, 285

Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 2, 154, 156, 193, 204, 205, 263

Harris, Thomas 221, 263

Hartzell, Susan 394

Haunted Earth, The 189190, 478

Hazing 73, 265

Headline Book Publishing 320321, 358, 410, 450

Heinlein, Robert 39, 54, 109, 112, 175

Hell 190, 287, 305

Hell’s Gate 150, 477

Heroism 37, 159, 216217, 323, 432, 434, 435, 437

“Hey, Good Christian” 87, 473

Hideaway 30, 371, 383, 386391, 392, 481

Hideaway (film) 391392

Hill, John xiii, 175, 199

Hillegass, Virginia 4, 11, 13, 15, 28, 48, 52, 154, 259, 362

Hillside Stranglers 221

“Holes” 473

Holtry, Linda Farner 74

Hooper, Tobe 237

Horror 36, 59, 266, 269, 288, 296, 299, 333, 336, 338, 406, 439

Horror Show, The 175, 305, 323

Horror Writer’s of America 298, 300304

Hoskins, Robert 120, 138, 147, 150, 159, 161, 175, 181, 189, 193194

Hour of Courage, The 251

House of Thunder, The 265266, 344, 357, 479, 481

H. O. W. L. 299

How To Write Best-selling Fiction 80, 228, 258259, 479

How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction 321

Hudson, Corey 356

Huggins, Roy 234235

Hugo award 152

Hung 142, 176, 477

Hunter, Evan 136, 365, 393

Hutchinson, Tim Hely 320321, 450451

Iambic pentameter 283

Icebound 65, 425, 454, 471, 482

Ickes, Gary xv

“Illusion, Truth, and the Whole Damn Thing” 471

Insanity 148, 162, 164, 170171, 172, 174, 179, 196, 197, 241, 267, 403, 432, 449, 458459, 460

Intensity 29, 243, 430434, 435, 437, 438, 451, 452, 471, 482

Intensity (miniseries) 43839 454

International suspense 33, 182, 183184, 198

“Interrogation” 323, 475

“In the Shield” 126, 473

Intruders, The (film) 181

Invaders from Mars 35

Invasion 137, 200202, 407, 478

Invasion of the Body Snatchers 35

Ironheart, Jim 19, 59, 351, 379380

Island of Dr. Moreau 353354

Island of Shadows 204

“It” 87, 473

“I’ve Met One” 473

Jacobs, Colin 25, 36, 37, 38, 41, 69, 252255

Japan, See also Kyoto 227228

Jerome, Pennsylvania 2, 29

Jesse S. Heiges Distinguished Alumnus Award 265

Johnson, Don 373

Johnson, Larry 61, 62, 92, 362

Johnson, Lyndon 83, 95, 199

Jove Books 237

Jung, Carl G. x, 312, 377, 435

Juvenile science fiction series 3839

Kale, Fletcher 22

Karamardian, Zov 412, 416

Karlan, Pat 357, 378, 391

“Keeping the Reader on the Edge of His Seat” 321, 470

Kellerman, Jonathan xv, 470

Kemper, Edmund, III 433

Kennedy, John F. 54, 75, 83, 198, 282

Kennedy, Robert 107

Kennedy, Ted 118

Kent State 123, 138

Key to Midnight, The 212, 224, 227, 232, 308, 357, 425, 471, 479, 482

Kierkegaard, Soren 187188

“Killerbot” 122, 474

King, Martin Luther, Jr. 74, 94, 107

King, Stephen 201, 279, 292, 336, 344, 345, 381, 423

Kinzey, Louise 8, 911

Kirk, Stephen 301

“Kittens” xix, 8586, 87, 426, 473

Knight, Damon 131

Knopf, Alfred A. 192

Knopf, Pat 192, 214

Knopf Publishing Group 394, 413, 426, 437438, 441, 442, 451

Koontz, Dean ix-x, xiii, 34, 7, 8, 10, 12, 1314, 17, 28, 3435, 3637, 4042, 65, 9194, 173, 178, 180, 184185, 193195, 196, 216217, 223, 228, 231, 232233, 234, 237, 243244, 247249, 251252, 255256, 258259, 263265, 266, 268269, 282, 283284, 285, 288, 290291, 300, 302, 303304, 312314, 319320, 325326, 335336, 337, 339340, 342, 343, 347, 362, 364365, 368369, 373374, 377378, 379, 381382, 386, 388, 391, 395, 407, 411412, 413, 414415, 416417, 420, 421, 422, 423, 427430, 434436, 437, 439, 442, 443, 445, 452, 454, 461 and father ix, 15, 1718, 21, 24, 4344, 50, 5153, 5657, 5859, 77, 84, 110, 124, 150151, 156158, 189, 219220, 224227, 231, 254255, 267, 285, 287288, 323, 324, 325, 328330, 347352, 360361, 366, 382384, 387, 389390, 403, 405, 416, 421422, 430, 436, 440, 456, 458, 460, 461
and Gerda 6670, 71, 7273, 76, 79, 90, 103104, 108, 113, 156, 186, 187, 193, 195, 205212, 219, 250, 274, 275, 306307, 310, 323, 326, 327, 328, 332, 337, 347, 353, 355356, 362, 366, 368, 376, 383384, 393, 398400, 405, 408409, 412
and mother 1718, 19, 2829, 56, 57, 76, 9192, 115118, 225, 323, 347, 351352, 363, 366, 421, 430, 440, 458, 459
art 64, 7576
awards 3738, 85136, 152
birth 1
college 70, 71, 7282, 90
dogs 11, 2526, 4950, 355356
employment 56, 60, 70, 71, 72, 8889, 90, 9596, 100103, 105, 107, 108209, 111113
first stories xix, 78, 85, 119120
honorary doctorate 79, 361
humor 6263, 64, 82, 102, 302, 452
illness 79, 359361
marriage 89, 90, 91, 9294, 306, 460
music 6061, 75, 84, 150
poetry 76, 87, 90, 262, 283, 401, 407, 430, 454
repurchasing rights 143, 214, 256, 321322
teaching 84, 9497, 100103, 105, 107, 108109, 111113, 11411
vision 189, 246, 334, 391, 394, 451, 459, 460
writing style 80, 168, 175176, 182, 222223, 248249, 263265, 282284, 317, 405, 410, 414, 431, 438, 447

Koontz, Florence 1, 2, 47, 89, 1112, 13, 14, 1516, 1720, 21, 25, 2830, 42, 4751, 55, 56, 57, 71, 72, 76, 79, 9192, 100, 108, 115118, 326327

Koontz, Gerda xiii, 6670, 71, 7273, 79, 96, 99100, 113115, 131, 134, 135, 138139, 151, 158, 163164, 170, 178, 185, 205, 211, 213, 218, 220, 246, 247, 259, 275, 276, 293, 300, 306, 310, 312, 315, 337, 347, 382, 398400, 402, 412, 452, 459
employment 67, 91, 97, 105106, 113
marriage 90, 9294, 306
partnership 115, 119121, 188, 205

Koontz Komfy Kot 189

Koontz, Ray 1, 2, 5, 7, 9, 10, 11, 1619, 2325, 4244, 5859, 68, 70, 79, 92, 100, 110, 117, 150151, 156158, 162, 189, 219220, 224227, 254255, 261, 277, 287, 310, 327, 328330, 347352, 380, 382385
alcoholism 8, 13, 1617, 59, 84, 156, 225, 226, 328, 350
antisocial personality 18, 23, 42, 267
death 383384
mental illness 2122, 24, 171, 219, 225226, 328

Kornbluth, Cyril 132

Kuzminczuk, Linda 394395

Kyoto, Japan 228229

Lake Tahoe, Nevada 205206, 271

Lakewood Hills 186187

Lahti, Christine 391

Lancer 121, 143, 150, 151, 152, 159, 163, 171, 189, 193, 256

Land of Enchantment 279, 305, 322, 339

Lansdale, Joe 299, 300, 304, 311, 344, 345

Lansdale, Karen 299, 300

Laser Books 200

Las Vegas, Nevada 206, 211, 217, 259, 309, 417

Laymon, Richard 239, 308, 345 Legacy of Terror 161162, 167, 477

Lemoyne, Pennsylvania 105, 108

Leonard, Elmore 136, 244, 402

Leopold and Loeb 221

Libertarian (civil) 213, 278, 414415

Lightning 275, 311, 312, 331337, 352, 358, 371, 410, 481

Lightning Road 311, 331

Lindner, Mabel xix, 85, 86

Lippincott 215, 237, 251

Little, Bentley 304

Logue, John 12, 13

Logue, Nancy 8

London, Jack 60

Loneliness 46, 171, 173, 174, 175, 191, 310, 412

Long Sleep, The 175, 199, 478

Los Angeles, California 217, 221, 374, 407

Love 153154, 159, 170, 187, 214, 230, 277, 293, 295, 310, 311, 313, 323, 324, 332, 355, 367, 369, 380, 405, 429, 430

Lovecraft, H. P. 59, 108

“Love 2005” 106, 473

LSD 84, 108

Lucky 26

MacDonald, John D. 136137, 183, 241, 244, 247, 275, 290, 297, 369

MacKenzie, Slim 281282, 284289, 322323

Maclay, John 300

MacLean, Alistair 215

Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction 98, 113, 123, 146, 176

Malzburg, Barry 122, 192, 193, 200

Mandalay Television Entertainment 438, 454

Mandarin 125

Manhattan 166, 196, 221, 269, 270, 374

Mann, Farhad 373375, 381

Manson, Charles 119, 181, 221

“Man Who Knows All About Hippodurkees, The” 470

Mary Celeste 46

Mask, The 261263, 357, 481

Masters of Fantasy 412

Matheson, Richard 60, 300

McCammon, Robert R. 299, 300, 302, 304, 344

McConnel, Father Edward 93

McGee, Travis 136, 183

McLuhan, Marshall 123, 125, 142, 143, 176

McQuinn, Don 228229, 262

Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania 105, 107, 364

Mechanicsburg School System 105, 107, 111112, 114115

Medium is the Message, The 123

Megadeth 411

Mehta, Sonny 394, 413, 414, 424, 441

Men on the Moon 121

Meredith, Scott (literary agency) 85, 125, 178, 181182

M. Evans & Company 184, 185186, 192

Midnight 152, 353356, 358, 373, 481

Midnight Music 352

Mikol, Paul 343344

Miller, Jane 4, 9, 11, 12, 42

Miramax 268, 455

“Miracle is Anything, A” 473

“Miss Attila the Hun” 323, 475

Mock, Jim 26, 28, 47, 91

Mock, Kate 4, 15, 2627, 28, 47, 4849, 91, 93, 117, 154155, 327

Mock, Ray 26, 27, 28, 30, 4647, 48, 91, 93, 154155, 327, 440

“Mold in the Jungle” 473

Molson, Gordon 233, 234, 357

Monitors of Providence 300

Moon landing 121

Morrison, Henry 181182, 184, 192, 195, 198, 202203, 222, 357

“Mouse in the Walls of the Global Village, A” 142, 176, 474

“Mr. Bizarro” 470

Mr. Murder 28, 298, 348, 376, 401406, 439, 481

Mr. Murder (film) 406

Munster, Bill 344, 345, 409

“Muse” 123, 474

Muties 110, 111, 122

My-lai 119, 158, 179, 201

“Mystery of His Flesh, The” 146, 147, 148149, 474

NAL/Signet 276

Nanotechnology 353, 354, 356

Nazis. See also Totalitarian mind 139, 143, 150, 175, 332

Newport Beach, California 376, 398, 409, 430

New Wave (science fiction) 130, 134, 146

Nichols, Leigh 227, 231232, 259, 261, 265, 270, 276, 308, 321, 323, 343, 365

Nietzsche, Friedrich 172, 221, 222, 433

Night Chills 202, 212, 213214, 240, 469, 478

Night Chills (screenplay) 358

“Night of the Storm” 191, 475

“Nightmare Gang” 147148, 474

Nightmare Journey 199, 478

Nixon, Richard 107, 138, 139, 170, 199

Nonfiction 137140, 166, 213, 258, 272, 278, 444

North, Anthony 143, 195, 237

Norville, Barbara 183, 221

Obsessive-compulsive syndrome 232, 328

O’Callaghan, Maxine 302

Oddkins 340, 341, 357, 426, 481

“Of Childhood” 87, 473

“Oh, To Be in Cedar Rapids When the Hog Blood Flows” 365, 470

“Ollie’s Hands” 175, 323, 474

“Once” 473

Optimism 120, 162, 217, 247, 262, 296, 297, 317, 333, 336, 369, 402, 407, 420421, 423, 429

Orange, California 204, 217, 250, 273, 314, 368, 376, 398, 409

Orwell, George 107, 423

O’Toole, Peter 268, 455

Paige, Richard 276

Parks, Phil 272, 280281, 288, 298, 339, 340, 344, 371, 381, 401, 439440

Pelican Hill 409

Pennsylvania. See Bedford, Colonial Park, Everett, Harrisburg, Jerome, Lemoyne, Mechanicsburg, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Saxton, Schellsburg, Shippensburg.

Perez, Jose 398

Perfection Custom Wood Designs 398399

Petaja, Emil 109

Phantoms 22 46, 266268, 279, 345, 395, 480

Phantoms (film) 268, 455

Philadelphia 98, 131, 145

Philcon 131, 145

Physics 130, 275, 290, 296, 312, 387, 444

Pig Society, The 138, 145, 477

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 3, 4, 9, 29, 103, 116, 131, 133, 154155

Plagiarism xiii, 166, 394395, 410, 411

Pocket Books 212, 224, 227, 231, 237, 261, 265, 270, 308, 321

Poe, Edgar Allan 60, 167, 262

Poetry 60, 76, 87, 90, 401, 407, 430, 439, 454

Politics 85, 107108, 109110, 114, 138, 146, 170, 187, 239, 259, 275, 292, 414, 418, 419, 433

Popular Library 199

Pornography 106107, 140142, 176

Power. See also Totalitarian mind 230231, 278, 355, 415, 428, 431, 432

Powers, Tim 273275, 281, 345

Price, Barry 430

Prison of Ice 65, 140, 212, 216, 425, 479

Psionic powers 39, 159, 173

“Psychedelic Children, The” 113, 473

Purpose 404, 434, 444, 461

Raines, Rya 100, 101, 285287, 289, 322323

Random House 178, 180, 198, 222, 223, 224, 407, 413, 441, 454

“Rats Run, The” 473

Readers and Writers 86

Reader’s Chair, The 371

Reagan, Ronald 237, 273

Recard, Harold 7374, 75, 93, 171

Recombinant DNA 314, 366

Red Dragon 221, 263

Redemption 197, 216, 287288, 324, 326, 333, 380, 391, 429, 451, 460

Reflector, The 8688, 90

Reincarnation 263

Religion 19, 22, 26, 85, 90, 104, 118, 110, 126, 131, 145, 150, 172, 278, 324, 386, 429

Reprint rights 185, 214, 223, 244, 245246, 311

Resuscitation medicine 386, 387

“Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe” 470

Rich, Lee 373

Rocky 416, 420, 423

Rocky (film) 213

Rosemary’s Baby 94

Rosenberg, Grant 373, 375, 376

Sacrifice 293, 295, 340, 448

“Sam: the Adventurous, Exciting, Well-traveled Man” 87, 473

Sane, Lenart 188

San Francisco, California 180, 186

Santa’s Twin 401, 404405, 439, 482

Saxton, Pennsylvania 94, 100, 103, 285, 364

Savoy 406

Schellsburg, Pennsylvania 8

Schizophrenia xii, 2122, 164165, 173, 216, 217, 226

Schizotypal Personality 22, 127, 421

Science Fiction xix, 38, 54, 59, 62, 81, 90, 98, 106, 108109, 119, 121, 125, 127, 130135, 146, 151, 166, 182, 189, 204, 220, 229, 230, 267, 294, 296, 332, 333, 336, 353, 455

Screamplays 467, 472

“Season for Freedom, A” 122, 474

Serial killers 181, 221, 263

Servants of Twilight, The 272, 282, 322, 344, 357, 365, 481

Servants of Twilight, The (film) 272

Shadowfires 4142, 211, 231, 308, 309311, 345, 480, 481

Shadow Run 352

Shakespeare 72, 386

“Shambolain” 116, 124, 474

Shannon, Joey 1415, 426

Shattered 139, 178, 180, 478, 480

Shawnee State Park 88

Shepherd, Chyna 29, 431432, 434, 435, 436, 437, 438439

Shining, The 201

Shippensburg, Pennsylvania 70, 71, 91, 263, 362, 363, 364, 367

Shippensburg State College (Shippensburg University) 70, 72, 79, 86, 265, 361, 427

Silas Marner 107, 112

Silbersack, John 439

Silva, David B. 305, 323, 345

Silverberg, Robert 121, 131132, 300

“Sinless Child, The” 177, 474

“Situation Critical” 278, 469

Smiling Jack 5859

Smith, Claire 203, 215, 222, 223224, 251, 252, 279, 336, 340, 353, 357, 392393

“Snatcher” 306, 475

Sociopathy 22, 40, 124, 128, 152, 214, 227, 286, 369, 387, 389, 416, 434, 435, 436, 455, 456

“Soft Come the Dragons” 98, 409, 473

Soft Come the Dragons (anthology) 99, 113, 153, 477

Sole Survivor 11, 28, 30, 155, 326, 430, 441, 443, 444452, 454, 455, 482

“Some Disputed Barricade” 473

Some of Your Blood (Sturgeon) 40

“Something About This City” 87, 473

Something Wicked This Way Comes (Bradbury) 39, 279

Space opera 158

Speck, Richard 181

Stadalsky, Scott 344

“Standard Unusual, The” 473

Starblood 146, 172173, 478

Star Quest 106, 109, 477

Star Wars 220

Steele, Jeff 76, 103

Stefko, Joe 152, 400

Stevens, Shane xiii, 142

Stevenson, Jeff 297

Stevenson, Robert Louis 167, 296

Stewart, Arch 61, 63

Stillwater, Marty 28, 348, 401, 402405, 439

St. John’s Reformed United Church of Christ 26

Stone, I. F. 121

Storytelling 135, 147, 338, 405, 407

Stout, Rex 135

St. Thomas Catholic Church 92

Strange Highways 14, 175, 196, 255, 426430

Strange Highways (collection) 180, 306, 324, 341, 426, 482

Strange Highways (television series) 375

Stranger in a Strange Land (Heinlein) 54, 112

Strangers 137, 250, 269, 290, 292, 293298, 308, 312, 317, 323, 331, 353, 480

Strike Deep 195, 196197, 478

Sturgeon, Theodore 39, 108109

Subconscious x, 153, 173, 177, 214, 241, 261, 313314

Subliminal manipulation 197, 213, 283, 431

Sudden Fear 345

Surrounded 183, 478

Suspense xix, 106, 133, 135, 137, 159, 160, 166, 178, 181, 203, 204, 215, 220, 223, 237, 268, 274, 288, 331, 332, 333, 401, 407, 438, 444, 457

Synchronicity 377

Tale of Two Cities, A 187, 283

Tanner, Bob 239, 250, 292

“Tater Baron” 344, 469

Taylor, Rip 210, 217

Tear Down the Night 280

“Temple of Sorrow” 122, 473

“Terra Phobia” 176177, 474

“Terrible Weapon, The” 176, 474

Theseus 125

“Third Hand, A” 146, 172, 474

“This Fence” 87, 473

Thorne, Holly 19, 59, 379380

Thunder Hill 291, 292

Ticktock 452454, 471, 482

Time Thieves 174, 478

Time travel 38, 275, 332, 333

Tiny 25

“To Behold the Sun” 98, 473

Tolkin, Stephen 406, 438

Totalitarian mind 213, 415

Toxic intimacy x, 149, 222, 223, 242, 309, 386, 389, 439

Transubstantiation 428429, 460

“Trapped” 365, 382, 475

Tri-Star 391, 438

“Truth About Christmas, The” 470

Tuck, Joel 30, 45

Tucker, Michael 182, 183184, 256

Tussey Mountain School District 94

Turtle, Lisa 145146, 151

Twain, Mark 60, 167

“Twelfth Bed, The” 113, 473

Twilight 270272, 480

Twilight Eyes 30, 45, 100, 127, 211, 279, 281283, 284289, 322, 323, 339, 345, 480

“Twilight of the Dawn” 128, 324325, 443, 475

2001 130

UFOs 35

Uncanny, The 263, 325, 326, 347, 377, 437, 443

“Undercity, The” 177, 475

Underground Lifestyles Handbook, The 138, 477

Universal 234, 237

Unprotected child 113, 151152, 260, 450

“Unseen Warriors” 147, 474

Vassago 387389

Vaughn, Robert 217

“Veritable Cornucopia, A” 145146, 469

Vess, Edgier Foreman 430431, 432433, 434, 435, 436, 438439

Victims 21, 23, 414, 418, 424, 434, 435, 459, 461

Vietnam 54, 8284, 94, 98, 123, 138, 151, 158, 170, 177178, 196, 197, 199, 200, 201, 407, 452

Viewpoint 148, 258259, 391, 432433

Violence 22, 126, 151, 154, 171, 180, 207, 225226, 243, 269, 284, 309, 311, 329, 347, 360, 378, 379, 388, 402, 415, 438, 456, 457

Vision, The 222, 235, 243, 479, 480

Voice of the Night, The 15, 25, 36, 38, 41, 69, 251, 252255, 357, 479, 481

Voodoo 269, 270

“Wake Up to Thunder” 177, 475

Wall of Masks, The 183184, 478

Warlock 171, 478

Warner Books 337, 340, 341, 357, 426, 430

Warner Brothers 181, 341, 358, 372373, 374

Warren Commission Reports 198

Watchers 311, 312, 314317, 318, 319, 320, 327, 336, 345, 352, 366, 403, 410, 411, 436

Watchers (film) 342343

Watchers II 343

Watchers III 343, 411

Watergate 170, 197

Weinberg, Robert 202, 288

“Weird World” 305, 475

Wells, H. G. 324, 353

Werewolf Among Us, A 190, 478

Westlake, Donald 136, 184

West, Owen 237, 239, 261, 268, 269, 357

“We Three” 192, 475

W H. Allen 250, 320

“What Do Editors Mean When They Say, ‘Sorry, the motivation is missing’?” 125, 469

“What it Means to Be an American” 38

“When Should You Put Yourself in an Agent’s Hands?” 272, 469

“Where No One Fell” 90, 473

“Where the Beast Runs” 126, 474

Whispers 137, 235, 239, 240246, 247, 250, 251, 263, 266, 279, 315, 345, 367, 435436, 479

Whispers (film) 246

Whitman, Charles 181

“Why Novels of Fear Must do More Than Frighten” 321, 470

“Why We Love Horror” 406407, 470

Wickstrom, Andy 93, 126

Williams, Alan 292, 314

Williams, David 184185, 192

Williamsburg, Virginia 94

Williamson, J. N. 300, 321

Willis, Bruce 406

Wilt, Mary Jeanne (Heit) 66, 68, 93

Wilson, F. Paul 304

Wind in the Willows, The (Grahame, Kenneth) 33, 199, 340

Winters, Doug 344

Winter Moon 202, 407408, 481

Wolfe, Aaron 200, 201202, 407

Wolfe, Nero 135

Wollheim, Don 109, 113, 121, 127, 153, 170

Woodstock 119

World Fantasy Convention 202, 299, 300

Worlds of If 124, 126

Wright, Lee 178, 180, 198, 203, 222

Writer’s Digest 125, 166, 167, 169, 258

Writing Popular Fiction 141, 166169, 204, 258, 478

Yeats, W B. 76

“Youthanasia” 411, 471

Zavisa, Chris 279, 280281, 288, 322, 339

Zov’s Bistro 389, 398, 416
Karamardian, Zov 412