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John Howard is an English author, born in London in 1961. His fiction has appeared in anthologies, magazines, and the collections ''The Silver Voices'',〔("Real-time" review by Des Lewis )〕 ''Written by Daylight'', and ''Cities and Thrones and Powers''. The majority of Howard's stories have central and eastern European settings; many are set in the fictional Romanian town of Steaua de Munte. ''The Defeat of Grief''〔("Real-time" review by Des Lewis )〕 is a novella set in Steaua de Munte and the real Black Sea resort of Balcic; ''Numbered as Sand or the Stars'' attempts a 'secret history' of Hungary between the World Wars. ''Secret Europe'' is a collection jointly written with Mark Valentine comprising 25 short stories set in a variety of real and fictional European locations. Ten of the stories are by Howard and fifteen by Valentine. The expanded edition published in 2014 added an introduction and an extra story by Mark Valentine. Howard contributed a story to ''Dreams of Ourselves'', an anthology published in tribute to the Portuguese writer Fernando Pessoa. Contributors and editor used Pessoa heteronyms, with the authors' names only revealed in the sealed envelope supplied with each copy of the book. Since 2003 John Howard has occasionally collaborated on short stories with Mark Valentine. Six have featured Valentine's long-running series character The Connoisseur, an occult detective whose real name is never revealed. All 23 tales of The Connoisseur, including the collaborations, were reprinted in ''The Collected Connoisseur'' (Tartarus Press, 2010).〔(''The Collected Connoisseur'', Tartarus Press, 2010 )〕 John Howard has written essays for numerous magazines including ''Book and Magazine Collector'', ''Supernatural Tales'', ''Wormwood'', ''Studies in Australian Weird Fiction'', and ''All Hallows'' for the Ghost Story Society. He contributed essays to the Fritz Leiber special issue of ''Fantasy Commentator'' (No. 57/58, 2004) and to the books ''Black Prometheus: A Critical Study of Karl Edward Wagner'' (Gothic Press, 2007), ''Fritz Leiber: Critical Essays'' (McFarlane, 2008), and ''The Man Who Collected Psychos: Critical Essays on Robert Bloch'' (McFarlane, 2009), all edited by Benjamin Szumskyj. Most of these essays were included in ''Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic'' (2014), which was a British Fantasy Award nominee the following year. In 2013 Howard took over the review column Camera Obscura in Tartarus Press' journal ''Wormwood''. John Howard has also written introductions to new editions of the novels ''Cold Harbour'' (1924) by Francis Brett Young (Ash-Tree Press, 2007) and ''The Killer and the Slain'' (1942) by Hugh Walpole (Valancourt Books, 2014). ==Bibliography== Books: Story collections and novellas *''The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales'' (with Mark Valentine), Bucharest: Ex Occidente Press 2008 *''The Collected Connoisseur'' (with Mark Valentine), Leyburn: Tartarus Press 2010 *''The Silver Voices'', Bucharest: Ex Occidente Press 2010; Dublin: Swan River Press 2014 (new edition) *''The Defeat of Grief'', Bucharest: Passport Levant 2010 *''Secret Europe'', Bucharest: Exposition Internationale 2012 *''Numbered as Sand or the Stars'', Bucharest: Exposition Internationale 2012 *''Written by Daylight'', Dublin: Swan River Press 2013 *''Cities and Thrones and Powers'', Bucharest: Les Editions de l'Oubli 2013 *''Secret Europe'', Leyburn: Tartarus Press 2014 (expanded edition) *''The Lustre of Time'', Bucharest: L’Homme Récent 2015 Books: Nonfiction *''The Emperor's Pavement: Pages from a Berlin Daybook'', Bucharest: Les Editions de l'Oubli 2013 *''Touchstones: Essays on the Fantastic'', Cheadle: Alchemy Press 2014 Other formats *''The House of the Sun'', Kildwick: Mark Valentine 2005 (chapbook) *''Leaves of Ash'', Kildwick: Valentine & Valentine 2015 (miniature book: Coptic-stitched concertina book cased in boards and concealed in a ‘matchbox’) Stories in anthologies and magazines *''‘Where Once I Did My Love Beguile’'' in ''Beneath the Ground'' edited by Joel Lane, Alchemy Press 2003 *''Portrait in an Unfaded Photograph'' in ''Cinnabar's Gnosis: A Homage to Gustav Meyrink'' edited by D.T. Ghetu, Ex Occidente Press 2009 *''A Flowering Wound'' in ''Never Again'' edited by Allyson Bird & Joel Lane, Grey Friar Press 2010 *''Red Green Black White'' in ''The Master in Cafe Morphine: A Homage to Mikhail Bulgakov'' edited by D.T. Ghetu, Ex Occidente Press 2011 *''Out to Sea'' in ''The Touch of the Sea'' edited by Steve Berman, Lethe Press 2012 *''Silver on Green'' in ''This Hermetic Legislature: A Homage to Bruno Schulz'' edited by D.T. Ghetu & D.P. Watt, Ex Occidente Press 2012 *''Fac Man'' in ''Icarus: The Magazine of Gay Speculative Fiction'' Issue 13 (Summer 2012) *''Winter's Traces'' in ''The First Book of Classical Horror Stories'' edited by D.F. Lewis, Megazanthus Press 2012 *''Time and the City'' in ''The Alchemy Press Book of Ancient Wonders'' edited by Jan Edwards & Jenny Barber, Alchemy Press 2012 *''Into an Empire'' in ''Sacrum Regnum'' Issue II (2013) edited by Daniel Corrick & Mark Samuels, Hieroglyphic Press 2013 *''Embrace the Fall of Night'' in ''Horror Without Victims'' edited by D.F. Lewis, Megazanthus Press 2013 *''To the Anhalt Station'' in ''Rustblind and Silverbright'' edited by David Rix, Eibonvale Press 2013 *''The Shape and Colour of the Moon'' in ''Sorcery and Sanctity: A Homage to Arthur Machen'' edited by Daniel Corrick & Mark Samuels, Hieroglyphic Press 2013 *''Buried Shadows'' in ''Second City Scares: A Horror Express Anthology'' edited by Marc Shemmans, Horror Express Publications 2013 *''Ziegler Against the World'' in '' Transactions of the Flesh: A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans'' edited by D.P. Watt & Peter Holman, Zagava and Ex Occidente Press 2013 *''You Promised You Would Walk'' in ''Strange Tales Volume IV'' edited by Rosalie Parker, Tartarus Press 2014 *''The Defiant Sky'' in ''Glitterwolf Magazine'' Issue 6 (July 2014) *''The Unfolding Map'' in ''Infra Noir'' edited by D.T. Ghetu, Zagava and Ex Occidente Press 2014 *''King Kane'' in ''The Lovecraft eZine'' #32 (August 2014) *''Touched'' in ''The Ghosts & Scholars Book of Shadows Volume 2'' edited by Rosemary Pardoe, Sarob Press 2014 *''Falling into Stone'' in ''Horror Uncut: Tales of Social Insecurity and Economic Unease'' edited by Joel Lane & Tom Johnstone, Gray Friar Press 2014 *One of the stories in ''Dreams of Ourselves: An Appreciation of Pessoa'' edited by Adolph Moscow, Zagava and Ex Occidente Press 2014 *''More Than India'' in ''Strange Tales Volume V'' edited by Rosalie Parker, Tartarus Press 2015 *''The Floor of Heaven'' in ''Romances of the White Day'' (Stories in the Tradition of Arthur Machen) edited by Robert Morgan (uncredited), Sarob Press 2015 *''Least Light, Most Night'' in ''Aickman's Heirs'' edited by Simon Strantzas, Undertow Publications 2015 *''A Song Out of Reach'' in ''Soliloquy for Pan'' edited by Mark Beech, Egaeus Press 2015 Essays (uncollected) *''The Baroque of the Void: A Fantastic Fiction of the Austrian Idea'' in ''Wormwood'' No. 20, Spring 2013 (on ''The Man without Qualities'' by Robert Musil) *''The Way to the City: The Final Novels of Charles Williams'' in ''Wormwood'' No. 23, Autumn 2014 Stories in collaboration with Mark Valentine *''The White Solander'' in ''Masques and Citadels'' by Mark Valentine, Tartarus Press 2003 *''The Last Archipelago'' in ''Masques and Citadels'' by Mark Valentine, Tartarus Press 2003 *''The Descent of the Fire'' in ''Strange Tales'' edited by Rosalie Parker, Tartarus Press 2003 *''Jerusalem Keep'' in ''Sherlock Holmes: The Game’s Afoot'' edited by David Stuart Davies, Wordsworth Editions 2008 *''The Rite of Trebizond'' in ''The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales'', Ex Occidente Press 2008 *''Out of the Obelisk'' in ''The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales'', Ex Occidente Press 2008 *''The Temple of Time'' in ''The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales'', Ex Occidente Press 2008 *''The Serpent, Unfallen'' in ''The Rite of Trebizond and Other Tales'', Ex Occidente Press 2008 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Howard (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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