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Klein, T E D

(1947-    ) US magazine editor and author, principally of horror and weird fiction, who began to publish work of genre interest with The Events at Poroth Farm (December 1972 Beyond the Dark Gateway; 1990 chap), which despite its initial Fanzine appearance was selected for The Year's Best Horror Stories No. 3 (anth 1973) edited by Richard Davis. Klein's well-received horror novel is The Ceremonies (1984), which won a British Fantasy Award as best novel. Short fiction is collected in Dark Gods (coll 1985) – where his World Fantasy Award-winning novella "Nadelman's God" first appeared – and Reassuring Tales (coll 2006; exp vt Reassuring Tales: Expanded Version 2021).

Klein was the editor of Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine for its first 37 issues, from April 1981 to July/August 1985; many stories from 1981-1982 are assembled as Great Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (anth 1982) edited by Klein. In 1984-1985 he also edited the first three issues – #1 being a Twilight Zone Special – of the related magazine Night Cry from TZ Publications Inc of New York. [DRL]

Theodore Eibon Donald Klein

born New York: 15 July 1947

works

• The Ceremonies (New York: The Viking Press, 1984) [hb/David Palladini]

collections and stories

• Dark Gods (New York: Viking, 1985) [coll: hb/]
• The Events at Poroth Farm (West Warwick, Rhode Island: Necronomicon Press, 1990) [story: chap: first appeared December 1972 Beyond the Dark Gateway: pb/Jason C Eckhardt]
• Reassuring Tales (Burton, Michigan: Subterranean Press, 2006) [coll: hb/Jason Eckhardt]
  • Reassuring Tales: Expanded Version (Champaign, Illinois, 2021) [coll: exp vt of Reassuring Tales (coll 2006): pb/Ashley Cser]

nonfiction

• The First World Fantasy Convention: Three Authors Remember (West Warwick, Massachusetts: Necronomicon Press, 1982) with Robert Bloch and Fritz Leiber [nonfiction: chap: pb/Duncan Eagleson]
• Raising Goosebumps for Fun and Profit: a Brief Guide, for Beginners, to the How's and Why's of Horror (Round Top, New York: Footsteps Press, 1988) [nonfiction: chap: pb/]

works as editor

• Great Stories from Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine (New York: TZ Publications, 1982) [anth: pb/Terrance Lindall]

about the author

• Thomas Phillips. T.E.D. Klein and the Rupture of Civilisation: A Study in Critical Horror (Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018) [nonfiction: pb/]

links

• Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• Picture Gallery

Entry from The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction (2011-current) edited by John Clute and David Langford.
Accessed 02:14 am on 27 July 2024.
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