Dr. Michael R. Collings
Professor of English
Director of Creative Writing
Communication Division 
Cultural Arts Center, Suite 305
(310) 506-4440 Office
(310) 506-7307 Fax
mcolling@pepperdine.edu


PUBLICATIONS:

Over a thousand publications--books, articles, reviews, poems, emblems, and stories--on three continents; translations into Japanese, German, and Dutch; publications in Japan, Germany, Holland, England, and Ireland.

Scholarly and Theoretical Books:

He's Scaring Us To Death. San Bernardino CA: Borgo Press, 1997

The Art and Craft of Poetry: 20 Exercises Toward Mastery. Thousand Oaks CA: BuckThorne/White Crow Press, 1996

The Work of Stephen King: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide. San Bernardino CA: Borgo Press, January 1996

"Part 3. A Chronological Look at the Books," by Michael R. Collings, in The Stephen King Companion, Revised Edition, edited by George Beahm. Kansas City MO: Andrews & McMeel, November 1995

In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1990

Card Catalogue. Eugene OR: Hypatia, 1987

The Stephen King Phenomenon. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1987

Reflections on the Fantastic, edited by Michael R. Collings. Westport CT: Greenwood, 1986 [collection of critical essays]

The Annotated Guide to Stephen King. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1986

The Films of Stephen King. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1986

Brian W. Aldiss. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1986

The Many Facets of Stephen King. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1985

The Shorter Works of Stephen King, with David A. Engebretson. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1985

Stephen King as Richard Bachman. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1985

Piers Anthony. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, 1983

Novels:

The House Beyond the Hill. Thousand Oaks CA: BuckThorne/White Crow Press, 1996

Volumes of poetry:

Nestlings of a Dark God: Poems 1974-1996, Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Myth. Thousand Oaks CA: Zarahemla Motets/White Crow Press, 1996

Tales Through Time. Thousand Oaks CA: Zarahemla Motets/White Crow Press, 1996

Still Secrecies of Love: Poems L. D. S. and Other. Thousand Oaks CA: Zarahemla Motets/White Crow Press, 1996

Poetry, Especially for Children. Thousand Oaks CA: Zarahemla Motets/White Crow Press, 1996

The Nephiad: An Epic Poem in Twelve Books..... Thousand Oaks CA: Zarahemla Motets/White Crow Press, 1996

Epyllion in Anamnesis: Remembery/Taliesin--Two Cycles of Poems. Thousand Oaks CA: Zarahemla Motets/White Crow Press, 1996

All Calm, All Bright: Christmas Offerings. Malibu CA: Zarahemla Motets/White Crow Press, 3 November 1995

Retooling for the Renaissance in the 3rd Millennium, co-edited by Dr. Michael R. Collings and Satya Elizabeth Gratner Orcutt CA: White Crow Press, 1 November 1995

Haiku, Malibu CA: Zarahemla Motets, 1 September 1995

Matrix. Edited by Satya Elizabeth Gratner. Orcutt CA: White Crow Press, 1 August 1995

Nestlings of a Dark God: Poems 1974-1994ŃScience Fiction, Fantasy, Horror, Myth. Thousand Oaks CA: Buckthorn, January 1995

Dark Transformations. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, January 1990

Naked to the Sun: Dark Visions of Apocalypse. Mercer Island WA: Starmont, December 1985

A Season of Calm Weather. Salt Lake City UT: Hawkes, 1974

Poetry/Fiction Chapbooks [a number of these have been incorporated into the books listed above]:

Apprenticeship in Love, and Other Christmas Meditations

Beyond is All Abyss, Eternity

Canticles for Christmas Eve

The Boneyard of Old Ezra Snow, and Other Poems

Double Helix, and Other Poems: 1981

A Dozen Long-Stemmed Roses

Fields of Starflowers, and Other Poems: Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror

The Gift of Christmas-Time: A Verse-Cantata

In Memoriam: A Father...and a Friend

Intaglio: Poems

The Joys of Quiet Wanderings: Selected Poems, 1984-1988

My Witness and My Truth: The Testimony of Alma

A Nephite Christmas

The Organist

Pinnacles of Stone: Reflections of an Aztec World

Poetic Peculations: Parodies, Pastiches, Appreciations, and Perpetrations

Primavera

Remembering the Flight of Wingless Birds

Secretlands: Poetry, by Jerome Kugan (edited by Michael R. Collings)

Tidings of Great Joy: A Christmas Verse-Cantata

To Weave the Melodies of Zion: A Gathering of L.D.S. Readings

Transformations

A Vapor of Vampires: Poems of the UnDead

Variations on a Flame, and Other Christmas Meditations

The Warren Poems

Additional publications include over 75 scholarly or popular articles on language and literature, grammar, and the fantastic published or accepted for publication in anthologies and major journals in the field; more than 300 reviews of novels, collections of fiction or poetry, and scholarly/critical studies published or accepted for publication; over 600 poems published or accepted for publication; and six novel manuscripts. Articles, reviews, and poems have appeared in the following journals, anthologies, books, and periodicals:

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