My goal here was to present cover images of the first editions of Bill's novels, and the first appearances of his shorter works. I know there are many later printings of the novels, and later appearances of the stories, and while it would be cool to include them all here, it would probably take you a week just to look at them.
I have omitted books edited by Bill, those containing non-fiction articles, and those for which he wrote introductions. Compiling that information would certainly be a worthy endeavor, but the fiction list alone is so long it almost made my brain explode.
My thanks to Bill's four amigos James Reasoner, Steve Mertz, Cap'n Bob Napier and Richard Robinson for their help in assembling this stuff.
This bibliography is a work in progress, and I'm asking your help, particularly with the SHORT STORIES section. The bibliography on Bill's website lists short story appearances into 2001, but then stops cold. So while I've identified an amazing number of stories published in the years since, I know I'm missing some. Probably a lot.
I'm no doubt missing some of the novels, too. Bill has publicly acknowledged his work on the Jack MacLane horror novels, the single Nick Carter adventure and the Rancho Diablo ebooks, but others written under house or other names lack his official stamp of approval. I'm pretty sure of those included here (in the WESTERNS and ACTION categories), either because I've found compelling evidence or been advised by those in the know (and in one case by Bill himself) of his involvement.
On top of all this, of course, I'm sure I've simply made some damn fool mistakes.
If you know of more works in any category, let me know and I'll revise this post.
Here we go!
DAN RHODES
1986
1987
1988
1989
1990
1992
1994
1996
1998
2000
2001
2003
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
TRUMAN SMITH
1991
1992
1994
1996
1996
CARL BURNS
1988
1989
1996
2004
SALLY GOOD
1999
2002
2004
STANLEY WATSON
1998
1999
HUMPHREY BOGART
2003
TED STEPHENS
2007
2010
SHORT STORY COLLECTIONS
2000
2012
2017
STAND-ALONE MYSTERIES
1991
1992
WESTERNS
1988
1989
1989
1989
1990
1993
with James Reasoner
1993
with James Reasoner
1994
with James Reasoner
1995
with James Reasoner
1999
1999
2000
2000
2002
2002
2003
2005
2007
with Ed Gorman
2010
with James Reasoner
2011
with James Reasoner
2011
2012
2013
ACTION
1981
with Jack Davis
1988
with Stephen Mertz
1989
with Stephen Mertz
1990
with Stephen Mertz
1990
with Stephen Mertz
HORROR
1988
1989
1989
1990
1990
KIDS' STUFF
1996
1996
1997
1997
2011
2011
SHORT STORIES
1981
A Right to be Dead
with Joe R. Lansdale
July 1988
There Was an Old Woman
1988
My Heart Cries for You
1988
Wolf Night
The Santa Claus Caper
Franklin and the Can of Whup-Ass
1992
Cat Burglar
1992
Death's Brother
1992
The New Black Cat
1992
An Evening Out with Carl
1993
Code Red: Terror on the Mall
1993
The Night Before Christmas
1993
Way Down
1994
A Matter of the Heart
1994
Blest Be the Ties
1994
But I See the Bright Eyes
1994
Cap'n Bob and Gus
1994
Gored
1994
King of the Night
1994
See What the Boys in the Back Room Will Have
1994
Who Killed Cock Rogers
1995
Assault on Treasure Island
1995
Dreamseeker
1995
How I Found a Cat, Lost True Love,
and Broke the Bank at Monte Carlo
1995
Jack of Thieves
1995
The Nighttime is the Right Time
1996
The Adventure of the Christmas Ghosts
1996
The Easter Cat
1996
The Ghost and Mr. Truman
1996
The Hanging of Chuck Dupree
1996
The Rose of Tralee
1997
The Captive Soul
1997
What a Croc!
1998
El Lobo Rides Again
1998
I Am a Roving Gambler
1998
It Happened at Grandmother's House
1998
The Case of the Headless Man
1998
Whenever I Meet with a Deck of Cards
1998
At the Hop
with Judy Crider
Spring 1988
Poo Poo
1999
The Adventure of the Christmas Bear
1999
The Adventure of the Venemous Lizard
1999
The Tinseltown Follies of 1948
2001
Belle Boyd, the Rebel Spy
2001
The Empty Manger
2001
Chocolate Moose
with Judy Crider
2001
One of Our Leprechauns is Missing
2001
Out Like a Lion
2001
The Case of the Vampire's Mark
2001
Raining Willie
2002
Jailbait
with Joe R. Lansdale
2002
The Adventure of the White City
2002
Top of the World
2002
Lay My Money Down
2003
The Adventure of the Young British Soldier
2003
The True Facts About the Death of Wes Hardin
2004
Mr. Pickwick vs. the Body Snatchers
2005
The Man on the Cross
2006
Cranked
2006
The Adventure of the St. Marylebone Ghost
2006
Zekiel Saw the Wheel
2006
The Stone of Namirha
with Charlotte Laughlin
2007
The Marching Madmen
2008
I Was a Teenage Vampire
2009
Pure Pulp
2009
The Case of the Vanished Vampire
2011
Piano Man
2012
Hell and Texas
2012
The Quick . . . and the Dead
2012
2014
Don't Be Cruel
Mar-Apr 2014
Gorilla of the Gasbags
2015
A Night on Madhouse Mountain
2015
It Doesn't Matter Anymore
2015
The Case of the Anarchist's Bomb
2016
Saving Butler
a new Dan Rhodes story
Dec. 2017
The NAMIRHA item in CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE is actually a novel excerpt, though perhaps the novel was never finished. I am reviewing three short stories you don't have represented, and feel free to fillch images or find better ones I can steal from you...
ReplyDeleteUtterly awesome visual representation of so much bounty - thanks for this.
ReplyDeleteLove those covers! You did a wonderful job showing the range of Bill Crider's writing!
ReplyDeleteThe novel from the excerpt in CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE was drawn was finished--I read the manuscript many years ago--but never published.
ReplyDeleteGreat post! I even saw a few of Bill's books that I didn't know.
ReplyDeleteWow, man. This is a heckuva lot of work. Impressive. I'll bookmark this for referencing Bill's work
ReplyDeleteSome years back I begged Bill for a copy of that CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE novel manuscript and he emailed it to me. Damn shame the Conan property owners gave him grief and he couldn't publish it. I reviewed it here:
ReplyDeletehttps://davycrockettsalmanack.blogspot.com/2011/01/fridays-forgotten-books-all-of-them.html#links
OUTSTANDING! You did a ton of work, well done and well worth the time to the rest of us. Many thanks. I'll be using this as a reference for future reading.
ReplyDeleteGood to know about the novel...they let Lin Carter spew all he can but....will look (again, I think) at that review.
ReplyDelete"My Heart Bleeds for You" originally in 14 VICIOUS VALENTINES ed by Greenberg, Greenberg and Waugh (1988), cover up in my post...why not 13? A breaker's baker's dozen?
"Wolf Night" in WESTERYEAR ed. Gorman (1988), cover in my post
"An Evening Out with Karl" in DARK AT HEART ed. by Lansdale and Lansdale (1992), cover in my post
Thanks for the additions, Todd!
ReplyDeleteI can see I have to expand my Crider want list. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteBill approached me in 1979 with the suggestion that we collaborate on a fanzine article about sleazy book publishers. I knew right off the bat this was my kind of a guy and we've been friends and off-&-on-again collaborators ever since...but y'know what? I never imagined how truly prolific and what range Bill had. Thanks for the hard work that went into this, Evan. A beautiful tribute to a great man and a fine writer.
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