John Farris

JOHN FARRIS: A Basic Biblio

(Surveillance photo, courtesy Multiphasic Operations Research Group, 1989.)

Corpse Next Door, The (as John Farris) (Graphic Books, 1956)
As STEVE BRACKEEN:
Body on the Beach, The (Bouregy & Curl, 1957, hc)
Baby Moll (Crest, 1958, pb)
Danger in My Blood (Crest, 1958, pb)
Delfina (Gold Medal, 1962, pb)
Guardians, The (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964, hc)
As JOHN FARRIS:
Harrison High (Rinehart & Co.,, 1959)
- First paperback: Dell, 1959
Girl from Harrison High, The (Pocket Books, 1968, pb)
Trouble at Harrison High, The (Pocket Books, 1970, pb)
Shadow on Harrison High (Pocket Books, 1972, pb)
Happy Anniversary, Harrison High (Pocket Books, 1973, pb)
Crisis at Harrison High (Pocket Books, 1974, pb)
Long Light of Dawn, The (Putnam, 1962)
- First paperback: Bantam, 1963
King Windom (Trident, 1967)
- First paperback: Pocket Books, 1968
When Michael Calls (Trident, 1967)
- First paperback: Pocket Books, 1969
- Limited edition Severn House hardcover, 1994
Captors, The (Trident, 1969)
- First paperback: Pocket Books, 1970
Sharp Practice (Simon & Schuster, 1974)
- First paperback: Pocket Books, 1975
Fury, The (Playboy Press, 1976)
- First paperback: Popular Library, 1977
- Limited edition Severn House hardcover, 1994
- Forge hardcover reissue, 2000
All Heads Turn When the Hunt Goes By (Playboy Press, 1977)
- First paperback: Popular Library, 1977
- Reprinted in the UK as Bad Blood (Gollancz, 1989, pb)
Catacombs (Delacorte, 1981)
- First paperback: Dell, 1982
Shatter (W. H. Allen [UK] 1980)
- The Popular Library 1981 paperback "original" is often listed as the first American edition; however, this rare UK hardcover is the true first
Uninvited, The (Delacorte, 1982)
- First paperback: Dell, 1983
Son of the Endless Night (1984)
- First paperback: Tor, 1986
Minotaur (Tor, 1985, pb)
- Limited edition Severn House hardcover, 1994
Wildwood (Tor, 1986, pb)
- Published as a paperback original, but there was a hardcover Book Club edition
Nightfall (Tor, 1987, pb)
- Published as a paperback original, but there was a hardcover Book Club edition, and a different (simultaneous) hardcover UK edition by Severn House. An excerpt was included in a free Tor sampler.
Axeman Cometh, The (Tor, 1989, pb)
- Published as a paperback original, but a hardcover edition was simultaneously published in the UK by Hodder & Stoughton
Fiends (Dark Harvest,1990 [limited edition])
- First paperback: Tor, 1990
Sacrifice (Tor, 1994)
- First paperback: Tor, 1995
Dragonfly (Tor/Forge, 1995)
- First paperback: Tor, 1996
Soon She Will Be Gone (Tor/Forge, 1997)
- First paperback: Tor, 1998
Solar Eclipse (Forge, 1999)
- First paperback: Tor, 2001
Fury and the Terror, The (2001)
- First Paperback: February 2002
Fury and the Power, The (February 2003)
- Paperback: September 2003
Phantom Nights (October 2004)
Avenging Fury (Forthcoming 2005)
COLLECTIONS
Scare Tactics (Tor Books, 1988)
- Contains: "The Odor of Violets," "horrorshow," and a reprint of the novel, The Guardians.
Scare Tactics (Tor Books, 1989)
- Paperback edition of the above collection adds: "I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream" and "Scare Tactics."
Night Visions 8 (Dark Harvest, 1990)
- as one of three writers each contributing new material: "Hairshirt," "Good Morning, Daddy" and "More Than Mischief."
Elvisland (Babbage Press, 2004) Cunningly stealth-edited by David J. Schow
- An up-to-date collection of John Farris' short fiction, featuring:
  
  "Waiting for Mr. Gilliray" (new)
  
  "The Odor of Violets"
  
  "horrorshow"
  
  "Scare Tactics"
  
  "Talking Heads" (new)
  
  "I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream"
  
  "Hairshirt"
  
  "Good Morning, Daddy"
  
  "More Than Mischief"
  
  "Storytime with the Bluefield Strangler" (new)
  
  "Here's Looking at You"
  
  "Hunting Meth Zombies in the Great Nebraskan Wasteland" (new)
  
  "Elvisland"
SHORT STORIES

"Elvisland," in Grails: Visitations of the Night (ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, NAL/ROC, 1994)
"Folk-Naif, 1942" (poem), in NV8
"The Girl Next Door," (poem) in NV8
"Good Morning, Daddy," in NV8

"Hairshirt," in NV8

John Farris signs at NeCon, 1990.

"Here's Looking at You" in Necon Stories (Three Bobs Press, 1990 - convention program book)

"Horrorshow," (novelette) in Scare Tactics
"I Scream. You Scream. We All Scream for Ice Cream," in Scare Tactics paperback, (Tor Books, 1989)
"Little Jimmy," (poem) in Night Visions 8 (ed. Robert R. McCammon, Dark Harvest, 1990)
"More Than Mischief," in NV8
"The Odor of Violets," in Scare Tactics (Tor Books, 1988)
"The Ransome Women" new novella in TRANSGRESSIONS, edited by Ed McBain (2005).
"Revenge" (poem) in NV8
- (the poems appear as bridging "interludes" between the short stories)
"Scare Tactics," in the embellished paperback of Scare Tactics, per above.

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