Richard Bleiler

Richard James Bleiler (born 1959) is an American bibliographer of science fiction, fantasy, horror, crime, and adventure fiction. He was nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Non-Fiction in 2002 and for the Munsey Award in 2019–2022. He won the 2023 Munsey Award, given to “an individual or organization that has bettered the pulp community.” He is the son of bibliographer and publisher Everett F. Bleiler.

Bleiler was appointed reference librarian and selector for the humanities at the University of Connecticut's Homer Babbidge Library in 1994. As of 2024 he serves as the Collections and Humanities Librarian.

Books

 * The Index to Adventure Magazine. 2 vols. Starmont House, 1990.
 * Science-Fiction: The Early Years (with Everett F. Bleiler). Kent State University Press, 1990.
 * The Annotated Index to The Thrill Book. Borgo Press, 1991.
 * Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (with Everett F. Bleiler). Kent State University Press, 1998.
 * Science Fiction Writers : Critical Studies of the Major Authors from the Early Nineteenth Century to the President Day (2nd ed.). Scribner's, 1999.
 * Reference Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction. Libraries Unlimited, 1999.
 * Supernatural Fiction Writers : Contemporary Fantasy and Horror. 2nd ed. Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003.
 * Reference and Research Guide to Mystery and Detective Fiction. Libraries Unlimited, 2004.
 * Ed., Political Future Fiction: Speculative and Counter-Factual Politics in Edwardian Fiction - Empire of the Future. Vol. 1. Pickering & Chatto, 2013.
 * The Strange Case of the Angels of Mons: Arthur Machen's World War I Story, the Insistent Believers, and His Refutations. McFarland, 2015.

Articles and chapters

 * "Stephen King." Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror 2: A. E. Coppard to Roger Zelazny, pp. 1037–1044. Ed. E. F. Bleiler. Scribner's, 1985.
 * With Dieu Van Tong, Marcel Proust at UAB: A Checklist of Proust Holdings at the Mervyn H. Sterne Library. University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1988.
 * "Forgotten Giant: A Brief History of Adventure Magazine." Extrapolation: A Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy, vol. 30, no. 4, 1989, pp. 309–323.
 * "Robert S. Hichens." In Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: First Series, pp. 106–119. Ed. George M. Johnson. Gale, 1995. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 153.
 * "Edwin L. Arnold." In British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I, Darren Harris-Fain. Gale, 1997, pp. 23–26. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 178.
 * "John Davys Beresford." In British Fantasy and Science-Fiction Writers Before World War I. Ed. Darren Harris-Fain. Gale, 1997, pp. 27–34. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 178.
 * Internet Training in ARL Libraries : A SPEC Kit. (with Jon E. Cawthorne). Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, 1997.
 * "Edgar Wallace." In Mystery and Suspense Writers: The Literature of Crime, Detection, and Espionage, pp. 943–955. Vol. 2. Eds. Robin W. Winks and Maureen Corrigan. Scribner's, 1998.
 * Networked Information Resources : A SPEC Kit (with Terry Plum). Washington, D.C. : Association of Research Libraries, 1999.
 * "George Vaux Bacon: Forgotten Writer, Intriguing Person." Dime Novel Roundup: A Magazine Devoted to the Collecting, Preservation and Study of Old-Time Dime and Nickel Novels, Popular Story Papers, Series Books, and Pulp Magazines, vol. 68, no. 4 [658], Aug. 1999, pp. 127–136.
 * "Thomas Burke." Late-Victorian and Edwardian British Novelists: Second Series. Ed. George M. Johnson. Thomson Gale, 1999, pp. 40–49. Dictionary of Literary Biography (DLB): 197.
 * "Imagination Takes Flight: A Thematic History of the Pulp Magazine." Dime Novel Roundup: A Magazine Devoted to the Collecting, Preservation and Study of Old-Time Dime and Nickel Novels, Popular Story Papers, Series Books, and Pulp Magazines, vol. 72, no. 3-4 [681–82], 2003, pp. 79–111.
 * "Street & Smith's Literary Album: A Bibliographic Listing." Dime Novel Roundup: A Magazine Devoted to the Collecting, Preservation and Study of Old-Time Dime and Nickel Novels, Popular Story Papers, Series Books, and Pulp Magazines, vol. 73, no. 6 [690], Dec. 2004, pp. 179–250.
 * "May Sinclair's Supernatural Fiction." In May Sinclair: Moving Towards the Modern, pp. 123–138. Eds. Andrew J. Kunka and Michele K. Troy. Ashgate, 2006.
 * "Raised by the Dead: Maturational Gothic in Neil Gaiman's The Graveyard Book." In 21st Century Gothic: Great Gothic Novels since 2000, pp. 269–278. Eds. Daniel Olson and S. T. Joshi (foreword). Scarecrow, 2011.
 * "Visionary Star-Treader: The Speculative Writings of Clark Ashton Smith." In Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s, pp. 66–83. Ed. Gary Hoppenstand. Salem, 2013.
 * "The Fantastic Pulp Fiction of Frank Belknap Long." In Pulp Fiction of the '20s and '30s, pp. 148–165. Ed. Gary Hoppenstand. Salem: 2013.
 * "Teaching Robert Heinlein's Starship Troopers." In Now Write! Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror: Speculative Genre Exercises from Today's Best Writers and Teachers, pp. 198–203. Ed. Laurie Lamson. New York: Jeremy P. Tarcher, 2014.