Underwood, Tim
Entry updated 19 February 2024. Tagged: Author, Publisher, Critic, Editor.
(1948- ) US publisher (see Underwood-Miller Inc), bibliographer of Jack Vance in Fantasy and Science Fiction by Jack Vance (1977 chap) with Chuck Miller and Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance (1978 chap with Daniel J H Levack; rev vt Fantasms II: A Bibliography of the Works of Jack Vance 1979 with Levack and Kurt Cockrum), and anthologist – always in collaboration with his publishing partner Chuck Miller during the Underwood-Miller years. Their nonfiction Anthologies include Jack Vance (anth 1980) and four studies of Stephen King: Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King (anth 1982; vt Fear Itself: The Early Works of Stephen King 1993), Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King (anth 1986), Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (anth 1988), and Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King (anth 1992). Following the break-up of the Underwood-Miller publishing house in 1994, Underwood went on to found Underwood Books, specializing in fantasy art and science fiction, and published another collection of Interviews with Stephen King, Stephen Kings Spills the Beans (anth 2008). [JC/MY/DRL]
Tim Edward Underwood
born Sault Ste Marie, Michigan: 12 January 1948
works
- Fantasy and Science Fiction by Jack Vance (San Francisco, California, and Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1977) with Chuck Miller [bibliography: chap: pb/Edd Cartier]
- Fantasms: A Bibliography of the Literature of Jack Vance (San Francisco, California, and Columbia, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1978) with Daniel J H Levack [bibliography: chap: pb/photomontage of book covers]
- Fantasms II (Riverside, California: K Cockrum, 1979) with Daniel J H Levack and Kurt Cockrum [bibliography: chap: rev vt of the above: pb/]
- Savage Art: 20th Century Genre and the Artists that Defined It (Nevada City, California: Underwood Books, 2010) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Shameless Art: Paintings of Dames, Dolls, Pin-ups, and Bad Girls (Nevada City, California: Underwood Books, 2010) [nonfiction: hb/Enoch Golles]
works as editor
- Jack Vance (New York: Taplinger Publishing Co, 1980) with Chuck Miller [nonfiction: anth: Jack Vance: in the publisher's Writers of the 21st Century series: hb/nonpictorial]
- The Book of the Sixth World Fantasy Convention (Columbia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California: Underwood-Miller, 1980) anonymously with Chuck Miller [nonfiction: anth: hb/Lela Dowling]
- Fear Itself: The Horror Fiction of Stephen King (Columbia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California: Underwood-Miller, 1982) with Chuck Miller [nonfiction: anth: Stephen King: hb/Kent Bash]
- Fear Itself: The Early Works of Stephen King (Novato, California, and Lancaster, Pennsylvania: Underwood-Miller, 1993) with Chuck Miller [nonfiction: anth: vt of the above: Stephen King: pb/Don Arnoldy]
- Kingdom of Fear: The World of Stephen King (Columbia, Pennsylvania, and San Francisco, California: Underwood-Miller, 1986) with Chuck Miller [nonfiction: anth: essays on Stephen King by various persons: hb/]
- Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and San Rafael, California: Underwood-Miller, 1988) with Chuck Miller [nonfiction: anth: Interviews with Stephen King by various persons: hb/]
- Feast of Fear: Conversations with Stephen King (Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and San Rafael, California: Underwood-Miller, 1989) with Chuck Miller [nonfiction: anth: Interviews with Stephen King by various persons; companion volume to the above: hb/]
- Stephen King Spills the Beans: Career-Spanning Interviews with America's Bestselling Author (Nevada City, California: Underwood Books, 2008) [nonfiction: anth: Stephen King: pb/]
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