Richard James Bleiler (born 1959) is an American bibliographer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and adventure fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction in 2002 and for the Munsey Award in 2019. He is the son of
Everett F. Bleiler
Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 – June 13, 2010) was an American editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he co-edited the first "year's best" ...
.
Bleiler was appointed reference librarian and selector for the humanities at the
University of Connecticut
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university in Storrs, Connecticut, a village in the town of Mansfield. The primary 4,400-acre (17.8 km2) campus is in Storrs, approximately a half hour's drive from H ...
's Homer Babbidge Library in 1994. As of 2020 he is the Collections and Humanities Librarian.
Bibliography
*"Stephen King." Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror, 2: A. E. Coppard to Roger Zelazny, Everett Franklin (ed.) Bleiler, Scribner's, 1985, pp. 1037–1044.
*''Marcel Proust at UAB : a checklist of Proust holdings at the Mervyn H. Sterne Library'' (with Dieu Van Tong). 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.
*''The Index to
Adventure
An adventure is an exciting experience or undertaking that is typically bold, sometimes risky. Adventures may be activities with danger such as traveling, exploring, skydiving, mountain climbing, scuba diving, river rafting, or other extr ...
Magazine''. Two vols. Mercer Island, WA : Starmont House, 1990.
*'' Science-Fiction: The Early Years'' (with Everett F. Bleiler). Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, 1990.
*''The Annotated Index to The Thrill Book''. San Bernardino, Calif. : Borgo Press, 1991.
*"Robert S. Hichens." Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: First Series, George M. (ed. and introd.) Johnson, Gale, 1995, pp. 106–119. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 153.
*"Edwin L. Arnold." British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I, Darren (ed. and introd.) Harris-Fain, Gale, 1997, pp. 23–26. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 178.
*"John Davys Beresford." British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I, Darren (ed. and introd.) 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
Jon is a shortened form of the common given name Jonathan, derived from "YHWH has given", and an alternate spelling of John, derived from "YHWH has pardoned".Terry Plum). Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, Office of Leadership and Management Services, c1999.
*"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 58 Aug. 1999, pp. 127–136.
* "Thomas Burke." ''Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: Second Series'', George M. (ed. and introd.) Johnson, Thomson Gale, 1999, pp. 40–49. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 197.
*''Supernatural fiction writers : contemporary fantasy and horror.'' 2nd ed. New York : Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
*"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 81-82 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'', Cox, J. Randolph, et al. vol. 73, no. 6 90 Dec. 2004, pp. 179–250.
*''Reference and Research Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction''. Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
*"May Sinclair's Supernatural Fiction." in May Sinclair: Moving Towards the Modern, Andrew J. (ed. and introd.) Kunka and Michele K. (ed. and introd.) Troy, Ashgate, 2006, pp. 123–138.
*"Raised by the Dead: Maturational Gothic in Neil Gaiman's the Graveyard Book." in 21St Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000, Daniel (ed. and introd.) Olson and S. T. (foreword) Joshi, Scarecrow, 2011, pp. 269–278.
*''Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction.'' Bleiler, Richard (ed.) (with Kate MacDonald (general ed.) and Stephen Donovan (ed.)) London, England: Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
*"Visionary Star-Treader: The Speculative Writings of Clark Ashton Smith." in ''Pulp Fiction of the '20S and '30S,'' Gary (ed. and introd.) Hoppenstand, Salem, 2013, pp. 66–83.
*"The Fantastic Pulp Fiction of Frank Belknap Long." in ''Pulp Fiction of the '20S and '30S'', Gary (ed. and introd.) Hoppenstand, Salem, 2013, pp. 148–165.
*''The Strange Case of the Angels of Mons: Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His Refutations.'' Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2015.