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Abel, Jessica, 310

Academy Awards (Oscars), 463–69

Acker, Kathy, 188

Adams, Douglas, 11, 103, 114–16, 367–72;
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy,
114–15, 368, 370–72; “Remembering Douglas Adams,” 114–16;
So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish,
367–72

Adams, Neal, 264–65

Addams, Charles, 51

“Afterword Afterword: Evelyn Evelyn,” 415–18

Agnew, Spiro, 121, 122

Aladdin Sane
(album), 475

Aldiss, Brian, 169–76, 194, 195;
Billion Year Spree,
169, 191;
Hothouse,
169–76

Alex Award, 85

Alfred Hitchcock and the Three Investigators
(Arthur), 17

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
(Carroll), 68

“All Books Have Genders,” 67–72

Allen, Woody, 269

Allred, Michael, 279

Amazing Maurice and His Educated Rodents,
The (Pratchett and Briggs), 103–4

America, 64–66

American Gods
(Gaiman), 62, 64–65, 68–72, 77, 85, 193, 357–58

American Library Association, 297

Amis, Martin, 403, 405

Amos, Tori, 389–93

Anderson, Brent, 261

Anderson, Poul, 193

Andrews, Julie, 139

And to My Nephew Albert I Leave the Island What I Won off Fatty Hagan in a Poker Game
(Forrest), 27, 84

Angry Candy
(Ellison), 123

Anno Dracula
(Newman), 323

“Apt Pupil” (King), 133

Archer's Goon
(Jones), 97

Ardingly College (school), 26-27

“Argonauts of the Air, The” (Wells), 334–35

Aristocrats, The
(movie), 215, 216

Arkham House, 349

Art, 451–59

Art and Artifice: And Other Essays on Illusion
(Steinmeyer), Introduction to, 380–82

Asimov, Isaac, 27, 196

Askwith, Mark, 267, 268–69

Aston House (school), 78–79

Astounding Science Fiction,
340–41, 343

Astro City: Confession
(Busiek), Introduction to, 257–62

Austin, Alan, 282–84

Author photographs, 93–94

Bacchae, The
(Euripides), 254

Bacchus, 253–55

Bag of Bones
(King), 134

Baker, Tom, 219

Baker Street Irregulars, 325

Balcombe, Florence, 325

Baldwin, Alec, 466

Ballard, J. G., 121, 165, 171

Banks, John, 28–29, 30

Barker, Clive, 148

Barks, Carl, 271

Barry, Lynda, 312

Batman
(movie), 222

Batman: Cover to Cover,
263–66

Baynes, Pauline, 34, 35

Beagle, Peter S., xv–xvi, 35–36

Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World, The
(Ellison), Foreword to, 117–24

Bechdel, Alison, 73

“Bells, The” (song), 406, 408

Beloved Demons
(Martignetti), Introduction to, 483–90

Berger, Karen, 280

Berlin
(album), 398, 400

Best American Comics 2010,
Introduction to, 308–13

Bester, Alfred, 183–88

Best of the Spirit, The
(Eisner), Introduction to, 286–89

Betty and Veronica,
305

Between Thought and Expression: Selected Lyrics of Lou Reed,
403–4, 407, 410–12

Biard, Gérard, 76

Bigelow, Kathryn, 468

Big Time, The
(Leiber), 167

Billion Year Spree
(Aldiss), 169, 191

“Birdhouse in Your Soul” (song), 394

Birkin, Charles, 82

Black Orchid
(Gaiman and McKean), 107

Blair, Tony, 225

Blish, James, 170

Bloch, Robert, 348

Bloody Chamber, The
(Carter), 425

“Blue Cross, The” (Chesterton), 344–45

Blyberg, Will, 261

Blyton, Enid, 7

“Body, The” (King), 133

Bogart, Humphrey, 100

Bolland, Brian, 233

Bone
(Smith), 267–73, 305

“
Bone:
An Introduction, and Some Subsequent Thoughts,” 267–73

Bookshops, 26–32, 83–84

Borglum, Gutzon, 118, 122

Bowie, David, 398, 475

Boy Commandos,
279–80

Bradbury, Ray, 47, 49, 83, 177–82, 339;
Fahrenheit 451,
177–82, 318;
The Martian Chronicles,
27, 181;
The Silver Locusts,
27, 181; “Usher II,” 317–18

Brave and the Bold, The,
264

“Breathing Method, The” (King), 133

Brèque, Jean-Daniel, 284

Brewer, E. Cobham, 501

Bride of Frankenstein
(movie), 201–4

Bridges, Jeff, 468

Briggs, Katharine, 426

Brightfount Diaries, The
(Aldiss), 170

British Fantasy Convention: (1983), 350–51; (1985), 374

British Fantasy Society (BFS), 144

British Film Institute Journal,
145

Brontë sisters, 473–74

Brooker, Faith, 146

Broome, John, 260

Brother Power the Geek
(Simon), 279

Brunner, John, 171

Bug Jack Barron
(Spinrad), 121

Bullock, Sandra, 468

“Burning Chrome” (Gibson), 398–99

Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 29

Burroughs, William, 165, 193

Busiek, Kurt, 257–62

“Business as Usual, During Alterations” (Williams), 340

“But What Has That to Do with Bacchus? Eddie Campbell and
Deadface
,” 253–56

Byrne, Eugene, 147

Cabell, James Branch, 28, 30, 36, 121–22

Cale, John, 107

Cameron, James, 465

Cameron, Julia Margaret, 474

Campbell, Coco, 495

Campbell, Eddie, 106, 172, 253–56, 311

Campbell, Ramsey, 168, 350

Carell, Steve, 465

Carnegie Medal, 97, 103–4

Carpenter, John, 351

Carrie
(King), 8, 85, 131–32, 136, 137

Carroll, Jonathan, 107

Carroll, Lewis, 68, 174

Carson, Dave, 350, 351

Carter, Angela, 425–26, 447

“Cask of Amontillado, The” (Poe), 320

“Catastrophe, A” (Wells), 334

Central Electricity Generating Board, 101, 501

Cerebus,
305

Chadbourn, Mark, 448

Chambers, Robert W., 350

Chapman, Georgina, 495–96

Charlie Hebdo,
73–76

Chesterton, G. K., 34, 36–38, 60, 83;
Complete Father Brown Stories,
37–38, 344–46

Chevalier d'Eon, 473

Chicago Comics Convention (1996), “ashcan” tribute to Will Eisner, 282–85

Chicago Humanities Festival speech, 54–63

Children: love of reading, 7–10, 13; self-censorship of, 81–82, 85

Children's books, 77–90

China, 41, 87

Christie, Agatha, 134

Chronicles of Narnia
(Lewis), 33–35

Chu's Day
(Gaiman), 86–87

Cinema Macabre
(Morris, ed.), 204

Cities, 154–55

City Limits,
145

City People Notebook
(Eisner), 290–93

Claremont, Chris, 250

Clarke, Arthur C., 27, 171

Clarke, Harry, 321

Clarke, Susanna, 196, 438–42

Cleese, John, 115

Clifford, Lucy, 303, 429

Climbers
(Harrison), 365

Clive, Colin, 202–3

Clooney, George, 466

Clute, John,
Encyclopedia of Science Fiction,
102, 120, 172, 183

Cocteau, Jean, 424–25

“Coin-Operated Boy” (song), 481

Colbert Report, The
(TV series), 16

Cold War, 179

Cole, Jack, 296

Colour of Magic, The
(Pratchett), 100

Come Unto These Yellow Sands
(radio play), 447

Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, 342

Comic Book Retailers International (CBRI), 234–35

Comic Relief, 115

Comics, 57–58, 229–313; and films, 222–26, 241–42; illiteracy myth about, 7; vs. prose, 242–43

Comics and Sequential Art
(Eisner), 287

Company of Wolves, The
(movie), 425–26

Complete Father Brown Stories
(Chesterton), 37–38, 344–46

Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe,
317–21

Composting, 55, 173–74

“Concerning Dreams and Nightmares: The Dream Stories of H. P. Lovecraft,” 347–52

“Cone, The” (Wells), 334

“Confessions: On
Astro City
and Kurt Busiek,” 257–62

Conjure Wife
(Leiber), 166

Constable, John, 472–73

Contracts, 246–48

Contract with God, A
(Eisner), 286–87, 291

Cook, Peter, 487

Copyright laws, 341–42

Coraline
(Gaiman), 68, 77, 86, 109

Coraline
(movie), 18, 463–69

Coraline
(musical), 86

Coren, Alan, 151, 501

Cornelius, Jerry, 84

Costello, Elvis, 70–71

Count of Monte Cristo, The
(Dumas), 184

“Country of the Blind, The” (Wells), 337–38

Country of the Blind and Other Stories
(Wells), Introduction to, 329–39

Course of the Heart, The
(Harrison), 365

“Credo,” 3–4

Crompton, Richmal, 102

Crumb, Robert, 303, 310

“Crystal Egg, The” (Wells), 336

Cure for Cancer, A
(Moorcock), 121

“Curious Wine: Tori Amos II,” 391–93

Cushing, Peter, 219

Cyberpunk, 185–86; definition of, 120

Dadd, Richard,
The Fairy-Feller's Master-Stroke,
425, 443–48

Dallas Fantasy Fair (1990), 301

Dandelion Wine
(Bradbury), 182

Danse Macabre
(King), 129, 323

Dark Knight Returns, The
(movie), 222

Darwin, Charles, 42, 331

Davidson, Avram, 168, 193

Davies, Russell T., 217

Daydreaming, 14–15

Day I Swapped My Dad for Two Goldfish, The
(Gaiman), 68, 85, 87–88, 107

Day of the Triffids, The
(Wyndham), 27, 175

DC Comics, 107, 244–45, 247, 264, 279–81, 327, 400

Deadface
(Campbell), Introduction to, 253–56

Deathbird Stories
(Ellison), 122–23

Decimal currency, 27–28, 83–84

DeFiore, Morgan, 86

Delany, Chip, 165

Delany, Samuel R., 30, 187–91;
The Einstein Intersection,
187–91;
Wonder Woman,
166

Derleth, August, 348–49

Dhalgren
(Delany), 30, 190

Diamond Comic Distributors speech (1993), 229–37

Diamonds Are Forever
(Fleming), 27

Dick, Philip K., 193

Dickens, Charles, 138, 270, 290, 342–43

Dickson, Dave, 30, 282–83

DiCrocco, Christine, 74

Dictionary of Fairies
(Briggs), 426

Different Seasons
(King), 133

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency
(Adams), 368

Disch, Thomas M., 28, 84, 193

“Disco Mystic” (song), 406

Discworld
(Pratchett), 102, 500

Distributionism, 346

Dobson, Dennis, 30

Doctorow, Cory,
Information Doesn't Want to Be Free,
340–43

Doctor Sleep
(King), 134, 135, 137

Doctor Who
(TV series), 217–21, 368

Dogsbody
(Jones), 97; Introduction to, 373–76

Don't Panic: The Official Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Companion
(Gaiman), 115

“Door in the Wall, The” (Wells), 338

Doran, Colleen, 297

Dorman, Sonya, 165

Downey, Robert, Jr., 466

Doyle, Arthur Conan, 83, 183–84, 333

Dracula
(Stoker), 322–26

Dracula Tape, The
(Saberhagen), 323

“Dream of Armageddon, A” (Wells), 337

“Dream Quest of Unknown Kadath, The” (Lovecraft), 352

Dreams of Terror and Death: The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft,
Introduction to, 347–52

Dresden Dolls, 213, 477–82

Duffy, Brian, 475

Dumas, Alexandre, 184

Dunsany, Lord, Edward Plunkett, 350;
The King of Elfland's Daughter,
425, 426, 433–35

Duplicator machines, 341–42

Dutch Tulip Bubble, 230–32, 294

Echo Round His Bones
(Disch), 28

Eco, Umberto, 351

Edmondson, G. C., 193

“Eight Views of Mount Fuji: Beloved
Demons
and Anthony Martignetti,” 483–90

Einstein, Albert, 15

Einstein Intersection, The
(Delany), Foreword to, 187–91

Eisner, Ann, 285

Eisner, Will, 142, 222, 249, 284–85, 286–93, 296, 297–98; Chicago Comics Convention's “ashcan” tribute to, 282–85;
Will Eisner's New York: Life in the Big City,
290–93

Eisner Awards Keynote Speech (2003), 294–99

11/22/63
(King), 132

Eliot, T. S., 425, 476

Ellison, Harlan, xvi, 117–28, 165, 194; “Banging the Drum for Harlan Ellison,” 125–28;
The Beast That Shouted Love at the Heart of the World,
117–24

Empathy and fiction, 8

“Empire of the Ants” (Wells), 338

Emshwiller, Carol, 165

Encyclopedia of Science Fiction
(Clute and Nicholls), 102, 120, 172, 183

Eno, Brian, 398

Escape
(magazine)
,
106

Escapism (escapist literature), 8–9, 58–59, 81

Eshbach, Lloyd, 261

Euripides, 254

Evanier, Mark,
Kirby: King of Comics,
Introduction to, 274–77

Evelyn Evelyn, 415–18, 480