Fred Chappell

Fred Davis Chappell (May 28, 1936 – January 4, 2024) was an author and poet. He was an English professor for 40 years (1964–2004) at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997 to 2002. He attended Duke University.

His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Académie française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic.

His literary awards include the Aiken Taylor Award for Modern American Poetry, the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Award.

Fred Chappell died in Greensboro, North Carolina on January 4, 2024, at the age of 87.

Poetry

 * Backsass, LSU Press, 2004.
 * Bloodfire: A Poem, LSU Press, 1978.
 * C, LSU Press, 1993.
 * Castle Tzingal, LSU Press, 1984.
 * Driftlake: A Lieder Cycle, Iron Mountain Press, 1981.
 * Earthsleep: A Poem, LSU Press, 1980.
 * Familiars, LSU Press, 2014.
 * Family Gathering, LSU Press, 2000.
 * First and Last Words, LSU Press, 1989.
 * The Man Twice Married by Fire, Unicorn Press, 1975.
 * Midquest: A Poem (contains "River: A Poem", "Bloodfire: A Poem", "Windmountain: A Poem", and "Earthsleep: A Poem"), LSU Press, 1981.
 * River: A Poem, LSU Press, 1975.
 * Shadow Box: Poems, :Louisiana State University Press, 2009
 * Source, LSU Press, 1986.
 * Spring Garden: New and Selected Poems, LSU Press, 1995.
 * Wind Mountain: A Poem, LSU Press, 1979.
 * The World Between the Eyes, LSU Press, 1971.
 * The World Between the Eyes, LSU Press, 1971.

Fiction

 * A Shadow All of Light, Tor Books, 2016
 * Dagon, Harcourt, 1968, reprinted, St. Martin's, 1986. Reissued, Boson Books, 2002
 * The Gaudy Place
 * The Inkling Reprinted LSU Press 1998.
 * It Is Time, Lord Reprint LSU Press 1996.
 * Moments of Light
 * More Shapes Than One, 1991
 * More Shapes Than One, 1991

The Kirkman Tetralogy:
 * I Am One of You Forever, LSU Press, 1985
 * Brighten the Corner Where You Are, St. Martin's, 1989
 * Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You
 * Look Back All the Green Valley

Other

 * The Fred Chappell Reader, St. Martin's, 1987.
 * Plow Naked: Selected Writings on Poetry, University of Michigan Press, 1993.
 * A Way of Happening: Observations of Contemporary Poetry, Picador, 1998.

Short stories

 * "The Adder" Deathrealm (Summer 1989)
 * "Free Hand" Deathrealm (Spring 1990)
 * "The Lodger" (1994 World Fantasy Award winner)
 * "The Somewhere Doors" (1992 World Fantasy Award winner)
 * Stories about Falco the Shadow Master's Apprentice.
 * 1) "Creeper Shadows" Cat Tales: Fantastic Feline Fiction (Wildside Press, Compilation  2008 by George H. Scithers(former editor of Weird Tales.): 135–175
 * 2) "Dance of Shadows" Fantasy and Science Fiction 112/3 (March 2007): 6–37 & Year's Best Fantasy 8, (Jun 2008, ed. David G. Hartwell, Kathryn Cramer, publ. Tachyon Publications, 1-892391-76-7, 375pp, tp, anth)
 * 3) "The Diamond Shadow" Fantasy and Science Fiction 113/4&5 (October/November 2007): 42–74
 * 4) "Shadow of the Valley" Fantasy and Science Fiction 116/2 (February 2009): 5–40 &
 * 5) "Thief of Shadows" Fantasy and Science Fiction 118/5&6 (May/June 2010): 50–75
 * 6) "Maze of Shadows" Fantasy and Science Fiction 122/5&6 (May/June 2012): 69–135