Index prepared by author
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F | G | H | I | J
K | L | M | N | O
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V | W | Z
Abelard, Peter, 2
Acker, Kathy, 9
Adams, Neal; 90, 129
Aickman, Robert, 13
Alexander, Lloyd, 20
The Book of Three. New York: Henry Holt, 2006.
Andersen, Hans Christian, 112
Asimov, Isaac, 9
Austen, Jane, 10
Auster, Paul, 9
Babel, Isaac, 153
Baker, Kyle, 90
Ballard, J.G., 87, 97, 136
Balzac, Honoré de, 7, 109
Baring-Gould, William, 43, 44
Sherlock Holmes of Baker Street. New York: Random House, 1995.
Bartel, Dennis, 134
Barthelme, Donald, 136, 177
Bender, Aimee, 13
Benford, Gregory, 177
Across the Sea of Suns. New York: Warner, 2004.
Timescape. New York: Bantam, 1992. Benjamin, Walter, 11
“The Storyteller.” Selected Writings, Vol. 3, 1935–1938. Trans. Edmund Jephcott, Howard Eiland, et al. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2006
Bester, Alfred, 86–88
The Demolished Man. New York: Vintage, 1996
The Stars of My Destination. New York: Vintage, 1996
Blackwood, Algernon, 110
Blake, William, 71
Blume, Judy, 192
Borges, Jorge Luis, 13, 117, 124, 136
Bradbury, Ray, 141, 176
Brookner, Anita, 13
Brooks, Peter, 34
Reading for the Plot. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992.
Brunner, John, 87
Buchan, John, 65
Buckler, Rich, 87
Buckler, Rich and Doug Moench.
Astonishing Tales Featuring Deathlok the Demolisher! #25 (Aug. 1974), Marvel Comics.
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 38
Burroughs, William S., 87
Byatt, A.S., 13
Byrne, John, 83
Calvino, Italo, 13, 136, 142
Invisible Cities. Trans. William Weaver. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.
Caniff, Milton, 89
Capp, Al, 90
Carlyle, Thomas, 29
Carter, Angela, 11
Cervantes, Miguel de, 27, 40
Don Quixote. Trans. Edith Grossman. New York: Ecco, 2003.
Chabon, Michael, 130, 139, 146, 149, 150, 154, 178, 193, 209
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. New York: Picador, 2000.
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh. New York: HarperCollins, 2005.
Wonder Boys. New York: Random House, 2008.
The Yiddish Policemen’s Union. New York: HarperCollins, 2007.
Chandler, Raymond, 7, 9, 33, 38, 56, 92, 176, 177
“The King in Yellow.” Collected Stories. New York: Knopf, 2002.
The Long Goodbye. New York: Vintage, 1988.
Chaykin, Howard, 85–93
American Flagg! Berkeley: Image Comics, 2008.
Ironwolf #l (1986), DC Comics.
The Scorpion #1 (Feb. 1975), Atlas Comics.
Cheever, John, 7
Chekhov, Anton, 120
Cheuse, Alan, 98
Christopher, John, 97
No Blade of Grass. New York: Avon, 1986.
Claremont, Chris, 83
Clarke, Arthur C., 91
Clute, John, 56
Colby, C. B. (Joseph Adler, Victor Fischer), 192–199, 202–205, 207, 209
Strangely Enough! New York: Scholastic, 1963.
Collier, John, 97
Tom’s A-Cold. London: Macmillan, 1933.
Conrad, Joseph, 7, 18, 37
The Heart of Darkness. new York: Norton, 2005.
Cooper, James Fenimore, 56
Cooper, Susan, 67
The Dark Is Rising. New York: Simon Pulse, 2007.
Coover, Robert, 153
The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop. New York: New American Library, 1971.
Coppard, Alfred Edgar, 7
Crowley, John, 13
d’Aulaire, Edgar Parin and Ingri, 47–51, 53
D’Aulaires’ Book of Norse Myths. New York: New York Review Books, 2005.
Defoe, Daniel, 104, 105
Robinson Crusoe. New York: Penguin, 2003.
Dent, Lester, 189
Doc Savage Magazine #1 (Mar. 1933), Street and Smith.
Dick, Philip K., 87, 88
Dickens, Charles, 29, 119
Bleak House. New York: Penguin, 2003.
The Old Curiosity Shop. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Ditko, Steve, 126, 129
Doyle, Arthur Conan, 23, 24, 26–44, 65, 158, 176, 190, 191
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Scholastic, 2004.
The Lost World. New York: Penguin, 2008.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes. New York: Penguin, 1982.
The Sign of Four. Stilwell, KS: Digireads.com Publishing, 2005.
A Study in Scarlet. Stilwell, KS: Digireads.com Publishing, 2005.
Eisner, Will, 76, 126, 129–132
Blackhawk Archives, Vol. 1. New York: DC Comics, 2001.
Doll Man #1 (1941–1953), Quality Comics, 47
Eliot, T.S., 41
Ellison, Harlan, 87
Farmer, Philip José, 176, 188–190
Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Faulkner, William, 7, 21, 56, 106, 137, 176
Absalom, Absalom! New York: Vintage, 1990.
Feiffer, Jules, 129
The Great Comic Book Heroes. New York: Dial Press, 1965.
Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 9, 21, 139–141, 177
“Crazy Sunday.” The Short Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald. New York: Scribner, 1998.
The Great Gatsby. New York: Scribner, 1999.
Flaubert, Gustave, 2, 31, 129
Madame Bovary. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Fowles, John, 13
Franzen, Jonathan, 56
Freud, Sigmund, 26, 29, 44
Frost, Robert, 21
Gaiman, Neil, 3
The Sandman. New York: DC Comics, 1991.
Gale, Dorothy, 57
Gerber, Steve, 87, 129
Gibbons, Dave, 77, 91
Moore, Alan and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. New York: DC Comics, 2005.
Gibson, Walter Brown, 92
Dent, Lester and Walter Brown Gibson. The Shadow. Encinitas, CA: Nostalgia Ventures, 2006.
Graves, Robert, 7
Greene, Graham, 4
Hall, Oakley, 134
Hamilton, Edmond, 81, 83
Hammett, Dashiell, 7, 38, 92, 189
Lost Stories. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2005.
The Maltese Falcon. London: Orion, 2005.
Hand, Elizabeth, 13
Hardy, Thomas, 113
Harris, MacDonald, 134
Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 6, 21, 56
Hemingway, Ernest, 21, 106
Herbert, Frank, 70
Dune: Chronicles, Book 1. New York: Ace, 2005.
Herriman, George, 125, 126
Homer, 40, 106
The Iliad. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 1998.
The Odyssey. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 2006.
Housman, A. E., 113
Howard, Robert E., 38
Hyde, Lewis, 11–13
Trickster Makes This World. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999.
Iger, Jerry, 131
Jacobs, W.W., 111
“The Monkey’s Paw.” Great Stories of Horror and Suspense. Clayton, DE: Prestwick House, 2008.
James, Henry, 7, 109–111
“The Real Thing,” “The Turn of the Screw.” Complete Stories, 1892–1898. New York: Library of America, 1996
James, Montague Rhodes, 109–119
“Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad.” Fear and Trembling. New York: Dell, 1963.
Jeffers, Robinson, 19
Johns, Geoff, 77
Infinite Crisis. New York: DC Comics, 2008.
Jones, Harold Emery, 30
The Original of Sherlock Holmes. Windsor, England: G. Goldscheider, 1980.
Joyce, James, 120
Kafka, Franz, 2
Katchor, Ben, 77, 121, 123–127
Cheap Novelties. New York: Penguin, 1991.
Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer. Boston: Little, Brown, 1996
Kinder, Chuck, 134
King, Stephen, 7, 107
The Stand. New York: Gramercy, 2001.
Kipling, Rudyard, 109
Kirby, Jack, 83, 126
Knox, Ronald A., 42, 43.
“Studies in the Literature of Sherlock Holmes.” The Sherlock Holmes Compendium. Ed. Peter Haining. London: Time Warner, 1994.
Koestler, Arthur, 2
Krigstein, Bernard, 76
Kundera, Milan, 161
Kurtzman, Harvey, 90
Lee, Stan, 83
Leiber, Fritz, 93
Lethem, Jonathan, 13
Levinson, Barry, 86
Lewis, C. S., 57, 70, 72, 73
The Chronicles of Narnia. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.
Link, Kelly, 13
Lovecraft, Howard Phillips, 7, 106, 113–115
Lutz, Gary, 11
Machen, Arthur, 110
Marcus, Ben, 11
Matheson, Richard, 107
I Am Legend. New York: Tor, 2007. Maugham, William Somerset, 7
Maupassant, Guy de, 109
McCarthy, Cormac, 3, 13, 95, 97–108
Blood Meridian. New York: Knopf, 2001.
The Border Trilogy: All the Pretty Horses, The Crossing, Cities of the Plain. New York: Knopf, 1999.
Child of God. New York: Vintage, 1993.
No Country for Old Men. New York: Vintage, 2007.
The Orchard Keeper. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Outer Dark. New York: Vintage, 1993.
The Road. New York: Vintage, 2007.
Suttree. New York: Vintage, 1992.
McMurtry, Larry, 64
Lonesome Dove. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2000.
Melville, Herman, 3, 10, 106
Moby-Dick. New York: Penguin, 2002.
Meyer, Nicholas, 44
Miéville, China, 10
Millar, Mark, 77
Civil War. New York: Marvel Comics, 2007.
Miller, Frank, 76, 77, 91
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns. New York: DC Comics, 2002.
Miller, Jr., Walter M., 105
A Canticle for Leibowitz. New York: Eos, 2006.
Miller, Jr., Walter M., and Martin H. Greenberg, eds. Beyond Armageddon. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006.
Millhauser, Steven, 11, 13, 56
Milton, John, 56, 57, 62, 69–71
Paradise Lost. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.
Moorcock, Michael, 60, 87
Moore, Alan, 60, 77, 91
League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. La Jolla, CA: America’s Best Comics, 2002.
Moore, Alan, and Dave Gibbons. Watchmen. New York: DC Comics, 2005.
Mundy, Talbot, 38
Nabokov, Vladimir, 3, 8, 60
Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle. New York: Vintage, 1990.
O’Connor, Flannery, 106
Onions, Oliver, 111
The Beckoning Fair One. Rockville, MD: Wildside Press, 2007.
Orczy, Emma, 189
The Scarlet Pimpernel. Atlanta: Dalmatian Press, 2005.
Ozick, Cynthia, 6
Percy, Walker, 96
Love in the Ruins. New York: Picador, 1999.
Plunket, Edward (Lord Dunsany), 192
Poe, Edgar Allan, 6, 34, 106, 107, 109, 112, 113, 115, 116
“The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar.” The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe. new York: Modern Library, 1992.
Proust, Marcel, 3, 135
Remembrance of Things Past. Trans. C. K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin. New York: Vintage, 1982.
Pullman, Philip, 55, 57–73
His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Amber Spyglass, The Golden Compass, The Subtle Knife. New York: Knopf, 2007.
Pynchon, Thomas, 6, 13
Rabelais, François, 32
Raboy, Mac, 90
Raymond, Alex, 90
Rosenbaum, Benjamin, 13
Roth, Philip, 3, 139–141
Goodbye, Columbus and Five Short Stories. New York: Vintage, 1993.
Rowling, J. K., 55
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. New York: A. A. Levine, 1998.
Rushdie, Salman, 11
Sabatini, Rafael, 92, 93
Sagan, Carl, 102
Scholem, Gershom, 152–155
“The Idea of the Golem.” On the Kabbalah and Its Symbolism. Trans. Ralph Manheim. New York: Schocken, 1996
Scott, Walter, 25
Sebald, W.G., 160
The Emigrants. Trans. Michael Hulse. New York: New Directions, 1997.
Segar, Elzie, 90
Shelnutt, Eve, 134
Shiel, M. P., 97
The Purple Cloud. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2000.
Spiegelman, Art, 77
Starlin, Jim, 87
Warlock #1–8 (Aug. 1972 to Oct. 1973), Marvel Comics.
Stashowser, Daniel, 28
Teller of Tales: The Life of Arthur Conan Doyle. New York: Holt, 2001.
Steranko, Jim, 90, 129
Stevenson, Robert Louis, 29
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. New York: Norton, 2002.
Stewart, George R., 105
Earth Abides. New York: Ballantine, 2006.
Stoker, Bram, 118
Tolkien, J. R. R., 20, 44, 56, 57
The Hobbit. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2002.
The Lord of the Rings. New York: Houghton Mifflin, 2005.
Trevor, William, 9
Trilling, Lionel, 153
Twain, Mark, 7, 40
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. New York: Sterling, 2006.
Vance, Jack, 57, 176
Tales of the Dying Earth. New York: Tor, 2000.
Verne, Jules, 44, 189
Around the World in Eighty Days. New York: Penguin, 2004.
Virgil, 44, 70.
The Aeneid. Trans. Robert Fagles. New York: Penguin, 2008.
Vonnegut, Kurt, 13, 176
Ware, Chris, 76
Weschler, Lawrence, 121
Weinreich, Beatrice and Uriel, 163–166, 168–170, 172, 173
Say It in Yiddish. Mineola, NY: Dover, 1958.
Weisinger, Mort, 81
Superboy #89 (1961), DC Comics.
Wells, H. G., 38
The Island of Dr. Moreau. New York: Penguin, 2008.
Welty, Eudora, 137
Wertham, Frederic, 76
Wharton, Edith, 7, 109
Wilde, Oscar, 26, 33
The Picture of Dorian Gray. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Wilson, Angus, 38
Windsor-Smith, Barry, 90
Woolf, Virginia, 10
Mrs. Dalloway. New York: Harcourt, 2005.
Wordsworth, William, 175
“Ode: Intimations of Immortality.” Wordsworth: Poems. New York: Knopf, 1995.
Wyndham, John, 97
Zelazny, Roger, 9, 103
Damnation Alley. New York: ibooks, 2004.
Zweig, Stefan, 9