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Fred Davis Chappell (May 28, 1936 – January 4, 2024) was an author and poet. He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002. He attended Duke University. His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Académie française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic. His literary awards include the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Award. Fred Chappell died in Greensboro, North Carolina on January 4, 2024, at the age of 87. Bibliography Books Poetry Awakening to music. Briarpatch Press. 1979. Backsass, LSU Press, 2004. Bloodfire: A Poem, LSU Press, 1978. C, LSU Press, 1993. Castle Tzingal, LSU Press, 1984. Driftlake: A Lieder Cycle, Iron Mountain Press, 1981. Earthsleep: A Poem, LSU Press, 1980. Familiars, LSU Press, 2014. Family Gathering, LSU Press, 2000. First and Last Words, LSU Press, 1989. The Man Twice Married by Fire, Unicorn Press, 1975. Midquest: A Poem (contains "River: A Poem", "Bloodfire: A Poem", "Windmountain: A Poem", and "Earthsleep: A Poem"), LSU Press, 1981. River: A Poem, LSU Press, 1975. Shadow Box: Poems, :Louisiana State University Press, 2009 Source, LSU Press, 1986. Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, 1995. Wind Mountain: A Poem, LSU Press, 1979. The World Between the Eyes, LSU Press, 1971. Fiction A Shadow All of Light, Tor Books, 2016 Ancestors and others : new and selected stories. St Martin's. 2009. ISBN 9780312561673. Dagon, Harcourt, 1968, reprinted, St. Martin's, 1986. Reissued, Boson Books, 2002 The Gaudy Place The Inkling Reprinted LSU Press 1998. It Is Time, Lord Reprint LSU Press 1996. Moments of Light More Shapes Than One, 1991 The Kirkman Tetralogy: I Am One of You Forever, LSU Press, 1985 Brighten the Corner Where You Are, St. Martin's, 1989 Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You Look Back All the Green Valley Other The Fred Chappell Reader, St. Martin's, 1987. Plow Naked: Selected Writings on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1993. A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry, Picador, 1998. Short stories "The Adder" Deathrealm (Summer 1989) "Free Hand" Deathrealm (Spring 1990) "The Lodger" (1994 World Fantasy Award winner) "The Somewhere Doors" (1992 World Fantasy Award winner) Stories about Falco the Shadow Master's Apprentice. "Creeper Shadows" Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction (Wildside Press, Compilation 2008 by George H. Scithers(former editor of Weird Tales.): 135–175 "Dance of Shadows" Fantasy and Science Fiction 112/3 (March 2007): 6–37 & Year's Best Fantasy 8, (Jun 2008, ed. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, publ. Tachyon Publications, 1-892391-76-7, 375pp, tp, anth) "The Diamond Shadow" Fantasy and Science Fiction 113/4&5 (October/November 2007): 42–74 "Shadow of the Valley" Fantasy and Science Fiction 116/2 (February 2009): 5–40 & "Thief of Shadows" Fantasy and Science Fiction 118/5&6 (May/June 2010): 50–75 "Maze of Shadows" Fantasy and Science Fiction 122/5&6 (May/June 2012): 69–135 Book reviews See also List of horror fiction authors References External links Documentary Fred Chappell: I am One of You Forever/ Review of Fred Chappell's writings Online resources on Fred Chappell Interview with Fred Chappell Guide to the Fred Chappell Papers, Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Duke University Finding Aid for the Fred Chappell-Lee Kinard Interviews at The University of North Carolina at Greensboro Archived July 7, 2017, at the Wayback Machine UNCG Oral History with Fred Chappell Fred Chappell at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database Stuart Wright Collection: Fred Chappell Papers (#1169-017), East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J. Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University Fred Chappell (biographical note). Discover the Fred Chappell popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Fred Chappell books.

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    The Fred Chappell Reader

    Fred Chappell

    Fred Chappell is one of our most brilliant and versatile authors, with many novels, short stories, and volumes of poetry to his credit. This anthology bears witness to the scope of...

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    Cthulhu 2000

    Jim Turner, Harlan Ellison, Thomas Ligotti, Poppy Z. Brite & F. Paul Wilson

    A host of horror and fantasy’s top authors captures the spirit of supreme supernatural storyteller H. P. Lovecraft with eighteen chilling contemporary tales that would have made th...

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    Crossroads

    F. Brett Cox & Andy Duncan

    A stellar collection of stories of the fantastic with a distinctly American Southern Literary accent. Magical realism is the dominant mode here, and other styles of fantasy are rep...