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 2019–2022. He won the 2023 Munsey Award, given to “an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community.” 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
The University of Connecticut (UConn) is a public land-grant research university system with its main campus in Storrs, Connecticut, United States. It was founded in 1881 as the Storrs Agricultural School, named after two benefactors. In 1893, ...
's
Homer Babbidge Library in 1994. As of 2024 he serves as the Collections and Humanities Librarian.
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.
References
External links
*
Modern Horror Fiction: A Select Who's Whoby Richard Bleiler at the Dark Echo Website
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1959 births
Living people
Academic librarians
American bibliographers
Librarians from Connecticut
Pulp fiction researchers
Science fiction academics
University of Alabama at Birmingham people
University of Connecticut people