Michael R. Collings

Originally ephemeral pamphlets sold by traveling peddlers, or 'chap-men', chapbooks have enjoyed a long and illustrious history, surviving in print form from the sixteenth century until today--in fact, much contemporary poetry has first appeared in small-press chapbooks, most frequently folded sheets stapled in the...

C.S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy: Essays in Genre is not an encyclopedic scholarly treatise. Nor is it a dissertation-style researched tome, with as many pages of endnotes as there are pages of discussion. It is instead an example of "reader-response criticism"-almost everything in this book...

Chain of Evil: The JournalStone Guide to Writing Darkness, by Michael R. Collings, approaches the question of writing from multiple directions. The essays in this volume range from the abstract and philosophical to the concrete and specific; from reminiscences as they relate to the...

This collection of dark transformations of horror and the supernatural includes both stories and poems, including the classic werewolf tale, "Wer Means Man," and a story of misbegotten creatures in the woods, "A Pound of Chocolates on St. Valentine's Day," plus verses both fantastical...

This A-Z guide to precious and semi-precious stones includes historical and cultural information, names and meanings, birthstones, historical and contemporary traditions, folklore, purported healing and mind-enhancing powers, and bibliography.Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 1434457028ISBN-13: 9781434457028Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/11/2009Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.59lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

Covering every aspect of Peter Straub's writing career, the new edition of this bibliography also includes an exclusive interview with Straub conducted by Stanley Wiater.Author: Michael R. Collings, Peter StraubISBN-10: 1892950154ISBN-13: 9781892950154Publisher: Overlook Connection PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/20/2000Pages: 196Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.04lbsSize: 9.34h x 6.39w x...

Covering every aspect of Peter Straub's writing career, the new edition of this bibliography also includes an exclusive interview with Straub conducted by Stanley Wiater.Author: Michael R. Collings, Peter StraubISBN-10: 1892950162ISBN-13: 9781892950161Publisher: Overlook Connection PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/01/2000Pages: 196Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.04h x 6.05w x...

This is the only collection of every book, story, and ephemera published on and about Stephen King in the US and Internationally. Includes complete chapters on: Books, Novels, Short-Fiction Collections, Non-Fiction, Etc. Including Reprints and multimedia adaptations of book titles. Short Fiction, Screenplays, Anthologies,...

I, TALIESIN, is a brief epic in some sixty sonnets, using Arthurian motifs to present vignettes of moments from the life of Joseph Smith and the founding of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 8614331703ISBN-13: 9798614331702Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

John Milton (1608-1674) is best known today for his two epic poems, Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained, but he wrote a great many other works, both poetry and nonfiction, all infused with his particular philosophy and theology of the Christian religion. Well-known scholar Michael...

The darkness is always there, lurking in the corners, skulking behind the shelves, waiting under the stairs, sleeping between the stars. But there is always hope, a light to show the way!Michael R. Collings delves into modern and historical horror in his essays; explores...

In his new collection of verse, Michael R. Collings touches upon themes of science fiction, myth and fantasy, and horror. The well-known SF writer Orson Scott Card says: "Collings's poetry is a path, a road, sometimes even a highway, taking you to destinations you...

More than 100 delightful autobiographical poems of Growing Up West, with indexes of First Lines and Titles. As W. Gregory Stewart says in his Introduction: "This volume will find its own special place upon your shelf. You will take it down again and again,...

No artist creates his works in a vacuum. Beyond the conscious influence of books read, artwork seen, minds probed (through conversation or exchange of letters), writers are in no small part products of everything that surrounds them--people, places, things, events. MILTON'S CENTURY is designed...

Science fiction and fantasy verse, including more than 50 poems, broken into four sections: "The World and Time"; "In the Shadow of the Gods"; "Nightmares in Daytime"; and "Apocalypse and Beyond."Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 0930261763ISBN-13: 9780930261764Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2007Pages: 84Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 9.00h...

Professor Collings' absorbing study, IN THE IMAGE OF GOD (1990), the first full-length treatment of Orson Scott Card, did not circulate widely following its initial publication. Now it has been republished-along with several key essays exploring directions in Card's fiction-in trade paperback. Taken as...

Michael R. Collings examines the life and work of American science fiction author Piers Anthony. Starmont Reader's Guide 20.Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 0893700584ISBN-13: 9780893700584Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2007Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.24d

Michael R. Collings examines the life and work of American science fiction author Piers Anthony. Starmont Reader's Guide 20.Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 0916732525ISBN-13: 9780916732523Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2007Pages: 108Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.38d

In this revised and expanded edition of "The Stephen King Phenomenon," Dr. Michael R. Collings re-examines the impact of Stephen King on popular culture.Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 0930261372ISBN-13: 9780930261375Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/30/2007Pages: 172Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.94lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.56d

In this sequel to DEVIL'S PLAGUE, Victoria Sears and her new down-mountain friend, Lynn Hanson, investigate the unusual death of a young man new to the Fox Creek community. The first person to see the body is Carver Ellis, and the first policeman on...

For centuries, the specter of the Seven Deadly Sins has endured as a warning against vice. In more than seventy poems, Collings links the medieval conceptions with modern--and occasionally fantastic--applications. And in a pleasant twist, he also provides antidotes for each of the seven.Author:...

Shadow Valley is an isolated farming community known to few, but in one of its ramshackle farmhouses dwells a power that threatens death and destruction to any who walk within its walls. Now, Lila Ellis arrives to make the final arrangements for a project...

Sonnets are among the most widely recognized of poetic forms, dating back almost a thousand years. In this book, Michael R. Collings blends past tradition with contemporary experimentation, public commentary with private meditation, lyric compression with epic breadth, rigid structure with "nuclear-fused sonnets, free...

Science fiction goes occult in SPACE ELDRITCH, a volume of seven original novelettes and novellas of Lovecraftian pulp space opera. Featuring work by Brad R. Torgersen (Hugo/ Nebula/Campbell nominee), Howard Tayler (multiple Hugo nominee), and Michael R. Collings (author of over 100 books), plus...

Stephen King is Richard Bachman by Michael R. Collings. This is the whole story of how Stephen King s Richard Bachman came to life, and when King finally had to give up the ghost and come forth with the truth that he was writing...

Stephen King is Richard Bachman by Michael R. Collings. This is the whole story of how Stephen King s Richard Bachman came to life, and when King finally had to give up the ghost and come forth with the truth that he was writing...

The first volume documenting and collecting Orson Scott Card's work for the last thirty years. Every novel, story, poem - every word that has been published - and then some in the Orson Scott Card Bibliography by Michael R. Collings. This is a must...

Here are verses ranging from one-page lyrics, to longer meditations on belief and faith, to self-contained narratives. Drawn from religious backgrounds, particularly Latter-Day Saint faith, the five parts move through space and time from the ancient tales of the Middle East to contemporary visions...

This collection of poems considers the physical, spiritual, and emotional connections between the Temple and the universe that surrounds us.Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 1986540340ISBN-13: 9781986540346Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/24/2018Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.42lbsSize: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.29d

Based on 20 years of use at the university level, this book combines lucid instruction with practical exercises to introduce beginners to poetry, and to encourage more practiced poets to expand their horizonsAuthor: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 1434403610ISBN-13: 9781434403612Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2009Pages: 188Format: PaperbackWeight:...

THE EVIL THAT FEEDS ON FEAR The quiet suburb seems peaceful enough, until loner Donny Mann succumbs to the irresistible urge to Drive the web of the Southern California freeways, armed with a stolen .38-and the unspeakable need to fire it. He finds his...

Constructed around a key episode in the Book of Mormon, The Nephiad blends the rigidly-defined structures and grand style of the Renaissance epic poem with modern-day scripture to re-create a genre that is at once uplifting and compelling. Gideon Burton calls it "a unique...

1066 Oleander Place seems a typical tract house in the Southern California town of Tamarind Valley. What no one grasps is that this house is deadly: dark, dangerous, EVIL to the core. It consumes all who enter it, one by one--spiritually, psychologically, physically. Even...

In the tradition of the old "Ace Doubles" two-in-one books (flip one over to read the second title)--here is the eighth Wildside Double. THREE TALES OF OMNE: A COMPANION TO WORDSMITH, by Michael R. Collings This is Omne, a world enveloped by perpetual clouds,...

This collection of 25 essays of literary criticism includes pieces on British poet John Milton, British fantasy writer C. S. Lewis, American horror writer Stephen King, American SF and fantasy writer Orson Scott Card, British horror writer Clive Barker, and several others. Complete with...

In these 16 scintillating tales of fantasy, terror, and wonder-- A murderer is forced to confess by pressure from his own confederates; A monstrous creature slaughters ruthlessly by day, and by night just...dreams; A psychic vampire possesses a curiously refined taste for fine chocolate;...

During these uncertain economic times, many families have turned to food storage as a hedge against unemployment, inflation, chronic shortages, and other social and economic turmoil. Chief among family food-storage programs are dehydrated foods of all kinds--and cases of unground whole wheat. Prized for...

This is Omne, a world of perpetual clouds without metals, machines, or technology, whose people harbor the secrets of an unimaginable power that can be used for destruction--or redemption!Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 1434402800ISBN-13: 9781434402806Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2009Pages: 316Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.02lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w...

This is Omne, a world enveloped by perpetual clouds without metals, machines, or technology, whose people harbor the secrets of an unimaginable power for destruction--or redemption! Hard science fiction at its best.Author: Michael R. CollingsISBN-10: 1434402819ISBN-13: 9781434402813Publisher: Borgo PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/06/2024Pages: 216Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize:...