Mike Ashley

Mike Ashley (Southall, 27 maggio 1948) è uno scrittore inglese.

È noto per la sua serie di antologie di storie brevi, chiamata Mammoth Book, e vive a Chatham, nel Kent, in Inghilterra.

Opere

Serie Mammooth Book

• The Mammoth Book of Short Horror Novels (1988)
• The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (1993)
• The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives (1995)
• The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales (1997)
• The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures (1997)
• The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (1998)
• The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends (1998)
• The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens (1998) (titolo statunitense per British Monarchs)
• The Mammoth Book of Men o' War (1999)
• The Mammoth Book of Seriously Comic Fantasy (1999), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy II
• The Mammoth Book of Sword and Honor (2000)
• The Mammoth Book of Locked Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2000)
• The Mammoth Book of Awesome Comic Fantasy (2001)
• The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak (2001), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of Sea Battles (2001)
• The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits (Volume 2) (2001), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of More Historical Whodunnits
• The Mammoth Book of Fantasy (2001)
• The Mammoth Book of Science Fiction (2002)
• The Mammoth Encyclopedia of Modern Crime Fiction (2002)
• The Mammoth Book of Egyptian Whodunnits (2002)
• The Mammoth Book of Roman Whodunnits (2003)
• The Mammoth Book of Roaring Twenties Whodunnits (2004)
• The Mammoth Book of Sorcerer's Tales (2004)
• The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy (2005)
• The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures (2005) (in collaborazione con Eric Brown)
• The Mammoth Book of King Arthur (2005)
• The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection (2005), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of New Historical Whodunnits (2005)
• The Mammoth Book of Comic Fantasy: Fourth All-New Collection (2005), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of New Comic Fantasy
• The Mammoth Book of Extreme Science Fiction (2006)
• The Mammoth Book of Jacobean Whodunnits (2006)
• The Mammoth Book of Perfect Crimes and Impossible Mysteries (2006)
• The Mammoth Book of Dickensian Whodunnits (2007)
• The Mammoth Book of Extreme Fantasy (2008)
• The Mammoth Book of Mindblowing SF (2009), criticato per aver contenuto solo opere di uomini bianchi.
• The Mammoth Book of Time Travel SF (2013)

Serie Smarties

• All the Incredible Facts You Ever Need to Know (1999), in seguito diviso in due libri, Wacky World (2001) e Hairy Humans (2001)
• Incredible Monsters (2000), in seguito diviso in due libri, Beautiful Beasties (2001) e Deadly Dinosaurs (2001)

Serie Story of the Science Fiction Magazines

• The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part One: 1926–1935 (1974)
• The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part Two: 1936–1945 (1975)
• The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part Three: 1946–1955 (1976)
• The History of the Science Fiction Magazine, Part Four: 1956–1965 (1978)
• The Time Machines. The Story of the Science-Fiction Pulp Magazines from the Beginning to 1950 (2000)
• Transformations. The Story of the Science Fiction Magazines from 1950 to 1970 (2005)
• Gateways to Forever. The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1970 to 1980 (2007)
• Science Fiction Rebels: The Story of the Science-Fiction Magazines from 1981 to 1990 (2016)

Altri libri

• Who's Who in Horror and Fantasy Fiction (1977)
• Fantasy Readers' Guide No. 1: The John Spencer Fantasy Publications (1979)
• The Seven Wonders of the World (1979)
• Fantasy Readers' Guide No. 2: The File on Ramsey Campbell (1980)
• The Complete Index to Astounding/Analog (1981)
• The Writings of Barrington J. Bayley (1981)
• The Illustrated Book of Science Fiction Lists (1982)
• Monthly Terrors (1985) (in collaborazione con Frank H. Parnell)
• Science Fiction, Fantasy and Weird Fiction Magazines (1985) (in collaborazione con Marshall B. Tymn)
• Algernon Blackwood: A Bio-Bibliography (1987)*
• The Work of William F. Temple (1994)
• The Supernatural Index (1995) (in collaborazione con William G. Contento)
• The Life and Times of King Arthur (1996)
• British Monarchs (1998), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Mammoth Book of British Kings and Queens, e poi edito e rinominato come A Brief History of British Kings and Queens (2002)
• Starlight Man: The Extraordinary Life of Algernon Blackwood (2001), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come Algernon Blackwood: An Extraordinary Life
• The Gernsback Days: The Evolution of Modern Science Fiction from 1911–1936 (2004) (in collaborazione con Robert A. W. Lowndes)
• The Age of the Story Tellers: British Popular Fiction Magazines 1880–1950 (2006)
• Taking Liberties (2008)
• Out of This World: Science Fiction But Not As You Know It (2011)
• Notturno: Dark Tales [Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories], traduzione di Gabriella Diverio, Vallardi, 2023 [2019].
• Abisso. Dark Tales [From the Depths: And Other Strange Tales of the Sea], traduzione di Gabriella Diverio, Vallardi, 2024 [2019].
• Insonnia: Dark Tales [Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories], traduzione di Gabriella Diverio, Vallardi, 2024 [2019].

Antologie di Artù

• The Pendragon Chronicles: Heroic Fantasy from the Time of King Arthur (1990)
• The Camelot Chronicles: Heroic Adventures from the Time of King Arthur (1992)
• The Merlin Chronicles (1995)
• Chronicles of the Holy Grail (1996). Also published as Quest for the Holy Grail (1997)
• The Chronicles of the Round Table (1997). Also published as Tales of the Round Table (1997)

Altre antologie o raccolte ad autore singolo

• Souls in Metal: an Anthology of Robot Futures (1977)
• Weird Legacies (1977)
• SF Choice '77 (1977)
• The Best of British SF in 2 volumes (1977)
• Mrs. Gaskell's Tales of Mystery and Horror (1978)
• Jewels of Wonder (1981)
• Algernon Blackwood's Tales of the Supernatural (1983)
• Crypt of Cthulhu #62 (1989), numero speciale d'ospite dedicato a Robert A. W. Lowndes.
• Robert E. Howard's World of Heroes (1989)
• The Magic Mirror: Lost Supernatural and Mystery Stories by Algernon Blackwood (1989)
• When Spirits Talk (1990)
• The Giant Book of Myths and Legends (1995)
• Classical Stories (1996). Revised and expanded as The Giant Book of Heroic Adventure Stories (1997)
• Classical Whodunnits: Murder And Mystery from Ancient Greece And Rome (1996)
• Space Stories (1996), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Random House Book of Science Fiction Stories (1997)
• Fantasy Stories (1996), pubblicato negli Stati Uniti come The Random House Book of Fantasy Stories (1997)
• Shakespearean Whodunnits (1997)
• Shakespearean Detectives (1998)
• Royal Whodunnits: Tales of Right, Royal Murder And Mystery (1999)
• Phantom Perfumes and Other Shades: Memories of Ghost Stories Magazine (2000)
• A Haunting Beauty (2000), una raccolta di storie di Charles Birkin.
• The Merriest Knight: The Collected Arthurian Tales of Theodore Goodridge Roberts (2001)
• The Mirror and Other Strange Reflections (2002), una raccolta di storie di Arthur Porges.
• Thing of Darkness (2006), una raccolta di storie di G. G. Pendarves, raccolte in collaborazione con John Pelan.
• Great American Ghost Stories (2008)
• Unforgettable Ghost Stories by Women Writers (2008)
• Dreams and Wonders: Stories from the Dawn of Modern Fantasy (agosto 2010)
• The Duel of Shadows: The Extraordinary Cases of Barnabas Hildreth (2011) di Vincent Cornier
• Lost Mars: Stories from the Golden Age of the Red Planet (2016)

Collegamenti esterni

• (EN) Mike Ashley, su The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction.
• (EN) Opere di Mike Ashley, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Bibliografia di Mike Ashley, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
• Bibliografia italiana di Mike Ashley, su Catalogo Vegetti della letteratura fantastica, Fantascienza.com.
• (EN) Mike Ashley su Fantastic Fiction