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Basil Copper

(1924 - 2013)

Basil Copper was an English writer and former journalist and newspaper editor. In addition to fantasy and horror, Copper is known for his series of Solar Pons stories continuting the character created by August Derleth. He also wrote the long-running hard-boiled detective stories of "Mike Faraday" (58 novels from 1966 to 1988).

Genres: Mystery, Historical Mystery

Series

Mike Faraday
   1. The Dark Mirror (1966)
   2. Night Frost (1966)
   3. No Flowers for the General (1967)
   4. Scratch on the Dark (1967)
   5. Die Now, Live Later (1968)
   6. Don't Bleed on Me (1968)
   7. The Marble Orchard (1969)
   8. Dead File (1970)
   9. No Letters from the Grave (1971)
   10. The Big Chill (1972)
   11. Strong-Arm (1972)
   12. A Great Year for Dying (1973)
   13. Shock-Wave (1973)
   14. The Breaking Point (1973)
   15. A Voice from the Dead (1974)
   16. Feedback (1974)
   17. Ricochet (1974)
   18. The High Wall (1975)
   19. Impact (1975)
   20. A Good Place to Die (1975)
   21. The Lonely Place (1976)
   22. Crack in the Sidewalk (1976)
   23. Tight Corner (1976)
   24. The Year of the Dragon (1977)
   25. Death Squad (1977)
   26. Murder One (1978)
   27. A Quiet Room in Hell (1979)
   28. Big Rip-off (1979)
   29. The Caligari Complex (1980)
   30. Flip-side (1980)
   31. The Long Rest (1981)
   32. The Empty Silence (1981)
   33. Dark Entry (1981)
   34. Hang Loose (1982)
   35. Shoot-out (1982)
   36. The Far Horizon (1982)
   37. Trigger-Man (1983)
   38. Pressure Point (1983)
   39. Hard Contract (1984)
   40. The Hook (1984)
   41. You Only Die Once (1984)
   42. Tuxedo Park (1985)
   43. The Far Side of Fear (1985)
   44. Snow-Job (1986)
   45. Jet-Lag (1986)
   46. Blood on the Moon (1986)
   47. Heavy Iron (1987)
   48. Turn Down an Empty Glass (1987)
   49. Bad Scene (1987)
   50. House-Dick (1988)
   51. Print Out (1988)

Solar Pons
continued from the original series by August Derleth
   1. The Dossier of Solar Pons (1979)
   2. The Further Adventures of Solar Pons (1980)
   3. The Secret Files of Solar Pons (1979)
   4. Some Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons (1976)
   5. The Exploits of Solar Pons (1993)
   6. The Recollections of Solar Pons (1995)
   7. The Solar Pons Companion (2017) (with Stephen Jones)

Collected Macabre Tales of Basil Copper
   1. Darkness Mist & Shadow: Volume One (2010)
   2. Darkness Mist & Shadow: Volume Two (2010)
   3. Darkness Mist & Shadow: Volume Three (2018)

Novels

   The Great White Space (1975)
   The Curse of the Fleers (1976)
   Necropolis (1980)
   Into the Silence (1983)
   The House of the Wolf (1983)
   The Narrow Corner (1983)
   The Black Death (1991)

Collections

   Not after Nightfall (1967)
   From Evil's Pillow (1973)
   When Footsteps Echo (1975)
   And Afterward, the Dark (1978)
   Here Be Daemons (1978)
   Voices of Doom (1980)
   Whispers in the Night (1999)

Anthologies edited

Cold Hand On My Shoulder (2002)

Novellas and Short Stories

The Adventure of the Persecuted Painter (2012)

Non fiction

   The Vampire In Legend and Fact (1971)
   The Vampire in Legend, Fact and Art (1973)
   The Werewolf...in Legend, Fact and Art (1977)

Anthologies containing stories by Basil Copper

The 5th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1964)
The 6th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1965)
The 8th Pan Book of Horror Stories (1967)
The Evil People (1968)
Legends for the Dark (1968)
The Midnight People (1968)
Alfred Hitchcock Presents : A Month of Mystery Book 2 (1970)
The Year's Best Horror Stories II (1972)
The Year's Best Horror Stories III (1973)
Summoned from the Tomb (1973)
Space 2 (1974)
Armada Sci1Fi (1975)
Christopher Lee's 'X' Certificate (1975)
New Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos (1980)
Dark Voices (1990)
Dark Voices 3 (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Terror (1991)
The Mammoth Book of Vampires (1992)
The Mammoth Book of Frankenstein (1994)
Shadows over Innsmouth (1994)
Dark Destiny (1994)
The Vampire Omnibus (1995)
Dark Love (1995)
Cthulhu 2000 (1995)
The Mammoth Book of Dracula (1997)
Dancing with the Dark (1997)
The Unexplained (1998)
The Mammoth Book of Haunted House Stories (2000)

Short stories

	Archives of the Dead
	Dr Porthos
	The Janissaries of Emilion
	Reader, I Buried Him
	The Spider
	Camera Obscura (1965)
	The Great Vore (1967)
	The Grey House (1967)
	Old Mrs Cartwright (1967)
	The Academy of Pain (1968)
	Doctor Porthos (1968)
	Amber Print (1969)
	Out of the Fog (1970)
	The Knocker at the Portico (1971)
	The Recompensing Of Albano Pizar (1972)
	The Second Passenger (1973)
	Message from the Stars (1974)
	The Trodes (1975)
	Justice at the Crossroads (1978)
	Mrs Van Donk (1978)
	The Treasure of Our Lady (1978)
	The Way the World Died (1978)
	The Adventure of Buffington Old Grange (1979)
	The Adventure of the Anguished Actor (1979)
	The Adventure of the Crawling Horror (1979)
	The Adventure of the Defeated Doctor (1979)
	The Adventure of the Hammer of Hate (1979)
	The Adventure of the Horrified Heiress (1979)
	The Adventure of the Ignored Idols (1979)
	The Adventure of the Ipi Idol (1979)
	The Adventure of the Missing Student (1979)
	The Adventure of the Perplexed Photographer (1979)
	The Adventure of the Shaft of Death (1979)
	The Adventure of the Six Gold Doubloons (1979)
	The Adveture of the Surrey Sadist (1979)
	The Sealed Spire Mystery (1979)
	The Adventure of the Frightened Governess (1980)
	The Adventure of the Haunted Rectory (1980)
	The Adventure of the Singular Sandwich (1980)
	Murder at the Zoo (1980)
	Shaft Number 247 (1980)
	Better Dead (1994)
	Beyond the Reef (1994)
	The Adventure of the Cursed Curator (1995)
	The Adventure of the Hound of Hell (1995)
	The Adventure of the Mad Millionaire (1995)
	Bright Blades Gleaming (1995)
	Death of a Demi-God (1995)
	The Haunted Hotel (1997)
	When Greek Meets Greek (1997)