JAFFERY, Sheldon (R.)

JAFFERY, Sheldon (R.)
(1934-)
   US attorney, editor and bibliographer. In the latter capacity he has concentrated on fantasy and horror, beginning with Horror and Unpleasantries (1982), an ARKHAM HOUSE bibliography, later incorporatedinto his The Arkham House Companion (1989). His guides to WEIRD TALES-The Collector's Index to Weird Tales (1985) with Fred Cook - and to DAW BOOKS- Future and Fantastic Worlds (dated 1987 but 1988) - are also useful tools, as is Double Trouble: A Bibliographic Chronicle of Ace Mystery Doubles (1992). He has edited Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird andSpicy Pulps (anth 1982), Selected Tales of Grim and Grue from the Horror Pulps (anth 1987) and The Weirds: A Facsimile Selection of Fiction from the Era of the Shudder Pulps (anth 1987).
   JC

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