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Marvin Kaye


(Marvin Nathan Kaye)
USA flag (1938 - 2021)

Author of 15 novels, 6 nonfiction books, several plays & play adaptations, and editor of 30 fantasy, mystery and theatre anthologies, for which he won the 2005 World Fantasy Award as best anthologist, Marvin Kaye was the editor of H. P. Lovecraft's Magazine of Horror, Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine, and contributed his column, "Marvin Kaye's Nth Dimension" to the SF-fantasy trade magazine, Science Fiction Chronicle. He published books through his imprint, Marvin Kaye's Nth Dimension Books, a division of Wildside Press. A native of Philadelphia, he lived in New York, where he was Adjunct Professor of Creative Writing at NYU, served as Artistic Director for The Open Book, New York's oldest readers theatre company, and did improvisational comedy at the Jekyll & Hyde Club and with "Please Don't Feed the Actors," directed by Carole Bugge'.
 

Genres: Mystery, Science Fiction, Children's Fiction, Fantasy
 
Series
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   1. A Lively Game of Death (1972)
   2. The Grand Ole Opry Murders (1974)
     aka The Country Music Murders
   3. Bullets for Macbeth (1976)
   4. The Laurel and Hardy Murders (1977)
   5. The Soap Opera Slaughters (1982)
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Anthology series
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Novels
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Collections
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Anthologies edited
   Haunted America (1971) (with Saralee Kaye)
   Brother Theodore's Chamber of Horrors (1975) (with Brother Theodore)
   Fiends and Creatures (1975)
   Ghosts (1981) (with Saralee Kaye)
   Lovers and Other Monsters (1984)
   Masterpieces of Terror and the Supernatural (1985) (with Saralee Kaye)
   Devils and Demons (1987) (with Saralee Kaye)
   Weird Tales (1988) (with Saralee Kaye)
   Witches and Warlocks (1989)
   13 Plays of Ghosts and the Supernatural (1990)
   Frantic Comedy (1991)
   Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown (1992)
   Sweet Revenge (1992)
   Angels of Darkness (1995)
   The Best of Weird Tales (1995) (with John Gregory Betancourt)
   From Page to Stage (1996)
   Don't Open This Book! (1998)
   The Vampire Sextette (2000)
   The Ultimate Halloween (2001)
   The Dragon Quintet (2004)
   The Nero Wolfe Files (2005)
   The Archie Goodwin Files (2005)
   The Fair Folk (2005)
   Forbidden Planets (2006)
   The Ghost Quartet (2008)
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Non fiction
   The Histrionic Holmes (1971)
   The Handbook of Magic (1973)
     aka The Complete Magician / The Creative Magician's Handbook
   A Toy Is Born (1973)
     aka Story of Monopoly, Silly Putty, Bingo Twister, Frisbee, Scrabble, Etcetera
   The Handbook of Mental Magic (1975)
   Catalog of Magic (1977)
   Readers Theatre (1995)
   The Complete Handbook of Magic (2007)
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Series contributed to
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Anthologies containing stories by Marvin Kaye
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Short stories
Ms. Lipshutz and the Goblin (1978)
Professor Lubermayer's Final Lecture (1981)
Lovedeath (1988)
Soulmate (1993)
Too Many Stains (the Adventure of the Second Stain) (1996)




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