Robert Weinberg

Robert Weinberg
Full Name	Robert Edward Weinberg
Connection to the Mythos	Author and Editor
Birth Date	August 29, 1946
Birthplace	Newark, New Jersey
Death Date	September 25, 2016
Deathplace	Oak Forest, Illinois, USA
Nationality	American
Genres	Horror, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Superheroes, Nonfiction
Spouse	Phyllis Weinberg
Years Active	1967-2016
Website	http://www.robertweinberg.net/

Robert Edward Weinberg (1946-2016) was an American author and editor who wrote horror, science fiction, fantasy, and superhero comic books, as well as numerous nonfiction works related to genre fiction. He wrote the Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos (1969), a comprehensive bibliography of Mythos-related writing, and several of his early short stories were set in the Mythos universe. He edited or co-edited dozens of anthologies, including Lovecraft's Legacy (1990) and Miskatonic University (1996), both with Martin H. Greenberg. From 2009 until his death in 2016, he was co-editor of Arkham House.

Selected Bibliography

Mythos fiction

• "A Statue of Unknown Origin" (Ocymot, 1968)
• "The Flying Horned One" (Return to Wonder, November/December 1969)
• "A Thing of Bones" (Morgan Smith, February 1970)
• "The Ring of the Demon God" (Maybe, July/August 1970)
• "It Sleeps Beneath the Sand" (Omnifan, Fall 1970)
• "The Dead Land" (Maybe, December 1970/January 1971)
• "The Dark Stairway" (with E. P. Berglund) (Morgan Smith, 1971)
• "The Thing from the Sea" (Space and Time, 1971)
• "Ghouls" (Corr, 1973)
• "Passing Through" (Esoteric Order of Dagon, December 1973)
• "Chant" (Song of Cthulhu, 2001)

Nonfiction

• Reader's Guide to the Cthulhu Mythos (1969) (expanded edition, 1973, with Edward P. Berglund)
• The Robert E. Howard Fantasy Biblio (1969)
• The Annotated Guide to Robert E. Howard's Sword & Sorcery (1976)
• The Weird Tales Story (1977)
• A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (1988)
• Horror of the 20th Century: An Illustrated History (1999)
• The Art of the Pulps: An Illustrated History (2017) with Doug Ellis and Ed Hulse

Anthologies

• WT50: A Tribute to Weird Tales (1974)
• Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors (1988) with Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg
• Rivals of Weird Tales (1990) with Stefan Dziemianowicz and Martin H. Greenberg
• Lovecraft's Legacy (1990) with Martin H. Greenberg
• Miskatonic University (1996) with Martin H. Greenberg
• Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror (1997) with John Gregory Betancourt
• H.P. Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythos: A Weird Tales Retrospective (2007) with John Gregory Betancourt

External Links

• Robert Weinberg memorial website
• Robert Weinberg (author) at Wikipedia
• Summary Bibliography: Robert Weinberg at Internet Speculative Fiction Database