Richardson, Michael
Entry updated 16 March 2026. Tagged: Author, Critic, Editor.
(1946-2017) UK librarian, author, editor and bibliographer, in Canada from 1976, who began to publish work of genre interest with the bibliography CDN SF&F: A Bibliography of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (1979) with Alexandre L Amprimoz, John Bell and John Robert Colombo. With Colombo he edited Not to Be Taken at Night: Thirteen Classic Canadian Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural (anth 1981; vt Not to Be Taken at Night: Thirteen Classic Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural 1988). Other works as editor include Double / Double (anth 1987), a reprint anthology of tales about twins, doubles and Doppelgangers. [DRL]
Michael Allen Richardson
born Sunninghill, Berkshire: 1946
died Toronto, Ontario: 1 June 2017
works
nonfiction
- CDN SF&F: A Bibliography of Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy (Toronto, Ontario: Hounslow Press, 1979) with Alexandre L Amprimoz, John Bell and John Robert Colombo [nonfiction: chap: pb/uncredited]
works as editor
- Not to Be Taken at Night: Thirteen Classic Canadian Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural (Toronto, Ontario: Lester and Orpen Dennys, 1981) with John Robert Colombo [anth: hb/]
- Not to Be Taken at Night: Thirteen Classic Tales of Mystery and the Supernatural (place not known: Ravette Publishing, 1988) with John Robert Colombo [anth: vt of the above: hb/]
- Double / Double (Markham, Ontario: Penguin Books, 1987) [anth: introduction and story introductions by Richardson: pb/]
- The Dedalus Book of Surrealism: The Identity of Things (Sawtry, Cambridgeshire: Dedalus, 1993) [anth: pb/Robert Pepperell]
- The Myth of the World: Surrealism 2 (Sawtry, Cambridgeshire: Dedalus, 1994) [anth: pb/]
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