Adkins, Patrick H
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author, Editor, Fan.
(1948-2015) US author, editor, publisher and fan – once editor of the New Orleans SF Association Fanzine Nolazine – who began to publish fiction of genre interest with "Hunting the Dragonblood" in Chrysalis 9 (anth 1981) edited by Roy Torgeson. He is best known for his Titan fantasy trilogy, beginning with Lord of the Crooked Paths (1987) and retelling Greek Mythology. The Third Beast (2000) is a very Near Future work of Survivalist Fiction whose anthropologist hero sees Devolution at work in suburban America and soon requires much fire-power to cope with the prowling hordes of regressed degenerates.
Adkins's Small Press PDA Enterprises published his own Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography and Price Guide (1974 chap) as P H Adkins, plus work by David H Keller – including The Last Magician: Nine Stories from "Weird Tales" (coll 1978 chap), assembling previously uncollected stories – and Jack Williamson. With John H Guidry he edited Edgar Rice Burroughs's Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (coll 2001), again making previously uncollected work available. [DRL]
Patrick H Adkins
born New Orleans, Louisiana: 9 January 1948
died Gretna, Louisiana: 7 April 2015
works
series
Titan
- Lord of the Crooked Paths (New York: Ace Books, 1987) [Titan: pb/John Jude Palencar]
- Master of the Fearful Depths (New York: Ace Books, 1989) [Titan: pb/John Jude Palencar]
- Lord of the Crooked Paths (including Master of the Fearful Depths) (Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris Corporation, 2000) [omni of the above two: pb/nonpictorial]
- Sons of the Titans (New York: Ace Books, 1990) [Titan: pb/Michael Racz]
individual titles
- The Third Beast (Bloomington, Indiana: Xlibris Corporation, 2000) [first serialized 1995 in the E-Zine Strange Excursions: pb/]
nonfiction
- Edgar Rice Burroughs Bibliography and Price Guide (New Orleans, Louisiana: PDA Enterprises, 1974) as P H Adkins [bibliography: chap: Edgar Rice Burroughs: pb/]
works as editor
- David H Keller. The Human Termites: A 1929 Science Fiction Extravaganza (New Orleans, Louisiana: PDA Enterprises, 1978) [chap: introduction by Adkins: first appeared September-November 1929 Wonder Stories as "The Human Termites": pb/Dixie Adkins]
- David H Keller. The Last Magician: Nine Stories from "Weird Tales" (New Orleans, Louisiana: PDA Enterprises, 1978) [coll: chap: pb/Dixie Adkins]
- Jack Williamson. The Alien Intelligence (New Orleans, Louisiana: PDA Enterprises, 1980) [coll: chap [large pages]: the title story is close to novel-length: pb/Ken Hafer]
- Edgar Rice Burroughs. Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder (New Orleans, Louisiana: Guidry and Adkins, 2001) edited with John H Guidry [coll: illus/hb/Danny Frolich]
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