È noto per la sua serie di antologie di storie brevi, chiamata Mammoth Book, e vive a Chatham, nel Kent, in Inghilterra.
Opere
Serie Mammooth Book
The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (1993) The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995) The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997) The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997) The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998) The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends (1998) The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (1998) (titolo statunitense per British Monarchs) The Mammoth Book of Men o' War (1999) The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honor (2000) The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2000) The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy (2001) The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak (2001), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles (2001) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (Volume 2) (2001), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits The Mammoth Book of Fantasy (2001) The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (2002) The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction (2002) The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits (2002) The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits (2003) The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits (2004) The Mammoth Book of Sorcerer's Tales (2004) The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (2005) The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (2005) (in collaborazione con Eric Brown) The Mammoth Book of King Arthur (2005) The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection (2005), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of New Historical Whodunnits (2005) The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy: Fourth All-New Collection (2005), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006) The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits (2006) The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006) The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits (2007) The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy (2008) The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009), criticato per aver contenuto solo opere di uomini bianchi. The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013)
Serie Smarties
All the Incredible Facts You Ever Need to Know (1999), in seguito diviso in due libri, Wacky World (2001) e Hairy Humans (2001) Incredible Monsters (2000), in seguito diviso in due libri, Beautiful Beasties (2001) e Deadly Dinosaurs (2001)
Serie Story of the Science Fiction Magazines
The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part One: 1926–1935 (1974) The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part Two: 1936–1945 (1975) The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part Three: 1946–1955 (1976) The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part Four: 1956–1965 (1978) The Time Machines. The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (2000) Transformations. The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970 (2005) Gateways to Forever. The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980 (2007) Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 (2016)
Altri libri
Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction (1977) Fantasy Readers' Guide No. 1: The John Spencer Fantasy Publications (1979) The Seven Wonders of the World (1979) Fantasy Readers' Guide No. 2: The File on Ramsey Campbell (1980) The Complete Index to Astounding/Analog (1981) The Writings of Barrington J. Bayley (1981) The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists (1982) Monthly Terrors (1985) (in collaborazione con Frank H. Parnell) Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines (1985) (in collaborazione con Marshall B. Tymn) Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography (1987)* The Work of William F. Temple (1994) The Supernatural Index (1995) (in collaborazione con William G. Contento) The Life and Times of King Arthur (1996) British Monarchs (1998), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens, e poi edito e rinominato come A Brief History of British Kings and Queens (2002) Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood (2001), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life The Gernsback Days: The Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911–1936 (2004) (in collaborazione con Robert A. W. Lowndes) The Age of the Story Tellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950 (2006) Taking Liberties (2008) Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It (2011)
Antologie di Artù
The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur (1990) The Camelot Chronicles: Heroic Adventures from the Time of King Arthur (1992) The Merlin Chronicles (1995) Chronicles of the Holy Grail (1996). Also published as Quest for the Holy Grail (1997) The Chronicles of the Round Table (1997). Also published as Tales of the Round Table (1997)
Altre antologie o raccolte ad autore singolo
Souls in Metal: an Anthology of Robot Futures (1977) Weird Legacies (1977) SF Choice '77 (1977) The Best of British SF in 2 volumes (1977) Mrs. Gaskell's Tales of Mystery and Horror (1978) Jewels of Wonder (1981) Algernon Blackwood's Tales of the Supernatural (1983) Crypt of Cthulhu #62 (1989), numero speciale d'ospite dedicato a Robert A. W. Lowndes. Robert E. Howard's World of Heroes (1989) The Magic Mirror: Lost Supernatural and Mystery Stories by Algernon Blackwood (1989) When Spirits Talk (1990) The Giant Book of Myths and Legends (1995) Classical Stories (1996). Revised and expanded as The Giant Book of Heroic Adventure Stories (1997) Classical Whodunnits: Murder And Mystery from Ancient Greece And Rome (1996) Space Stories (1996), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories (1997) Fantasy Stories (1996), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997) Shakespearean Whodunnits (1997) Shakespearean Detectives (1998) Royal Whodunnits: Tales of Right, Royal Murder And Mystery (1999) Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of Ghost Stories Magazine (2000) A Haunting Beauty (2000), una raccolta di storie di Charles Birkin. The Merriest Knight: The Collected Arthurian Tales of Theodore Goodridge Roberts (2001) The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections (2002), una raccolta di storie di Arthur Porges. Thing of Darkness (2006), una raccolta di storie di G. G. Pendarves, raccolte in collaborazione con John Pelan. Great American Ghost Stories (2008) Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers (2008) Dreams and Wonders: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy (agosto 2010) The Duel of Shadows: The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth (2011) di Vincent Cornier Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet (2016)
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Collegamenti esterni
Mike Ashley su Fantastic Fiction