Jessica Amanda Salmonson (born January 6, 1950

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The Encyclopedia of Fantasy ''The Encyclopedia of Fantasy'' is a 1997 reference work concerning fantasy fiction, edited by John Clute and John Grant. Other contributors include Mike Ashley, Neil Gaiman, Diana Wynne Jones, David Langford, Sam J. Lundwall, Michael Scott R ...

'', pp. 832–833, Orbit, London / St Martin’s Press, New York (1997).) is an American author and editor of

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and poetry. She lives on Puget Sound with her partner, artist and editor Rhonda Boothe.

Writing career

Author

Salmonson is the author of the ''Tomoe Gozen'' trilogy, a fantasy version of the tale of the historical female samurai

Tomoe Gozen Tomoe Gozen (, ) was an onna-musha from the late Heian period of Japanese history. She served Minamoto no Yoshinaka during the Genpei War and was a part of the conflict that led to the first shogunate. Her family had strong affiliations with Yos ...

. Her other novels are ''The Swordswoman'', ''Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman'', an Asian fantasy, and a modern horror novel, ''Anthony Shriek''. Her short story collections include ''A Silver Thread of Madness''; ''Mystic Women''; ''John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head''; ''The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic''; and ''The Dark Tales''. Poetry collections include ''Horn of Tara'' and ''The Ghost Garden''.

Editor

Salmonson was the editor of the anthologies ''

Amazons! ''Amazons!'' is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson, with a cover and frontispiece by Michael Whelan. It was first published in paperback by DAW Books in December 1979, and was the first significant fantasy anthol ...

'' and '' Amazons II''; ''

Heroic Visions ''Heroic Visions'' is an anthology of fantasy stories, edited by Jessica Amanda Salmonson. It was first published in paperback by Ace Books in March 1983. The book collects eleven new short stories and novelettes by various fantasy authors, with ...

'' and '' Heroic Visions II''; ''Tales by Moonlight'' and ''Tales by Moonlight II''; and ''What Did Miss Darrington See: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Stories''. She has also edited a series of single-author collections of ghost stories and weird tales, many of them of historical significance to genre literature, including volumes by

Marjorie Bowen Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long (née Campbell; 1 November 1885 – 23 December 1952), who used the pseudonyms Marjorie Bowen and Joseph Shearing, was a British author who wrote historical romances, supernatural horror stories, popular history and ...

, Alice Brown, Thomas Burke,

Olivia Howard Dunbar Olivia Howard Dunbar (1873–1953) was an American short story writer, journalist and biographer, best known today for her ghost fiction. Life Dunbar was born in West Bridgewater, Massachusetts in 1873. She graduated from Smith College, after ...

Hildegarde Hawthorne Hildegarde Hawthorne (September 25, 1871 – December 10, 1952) was an American writer of supernatural and ghost stories, a poet and biographer. Family Born on September 25, 1871, in New York City, Hildegarde Hawthorne was the granddaughter o ...

Julian Hawthorne Julian Hawthorne (June 22, 1846 – July 14, 1934) was an American writer and journalist, the son of novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne and Sophia Peabody. He wrote numerous poems, novels, short stories, mysteries and detective fiction, essays, t ...

Augustus Jessopp Augustus Jessopp (20 December 1823 – 12 February 1914) was an English cleric and writer. He spent periods of time as a schoolmaster and then later as a clergyman in Norfolk, England. He wrote regular articles for ''The Nineteenth Century'', va ...

Sarah Orne Jewett Theodora Sarah Orne Jewett (September 3, 1849 – June 24, 1909) was an American novelist, short story writer and poet, best known for her local color works set along or near the southern coast of Maine. Jewett is recognized as an important ...

Anna Nicholas Anna Nicholas (born 1961, Rochester, Kent) is a British travel writer and author based in Majorca, Spain. Nicholas spent most of her childhood in London before studying Classics and English Literature at Leeds University in 1980. She worked for ...

Fitz-James O'Brien Fitz James O'Brien (also spelled Fitz-James; 25 October 1826 – 6 April 1862) was an Irish-American Civil War soldier, writer, and poet often cited as an early writer of science fiction. Biography O'Brien was born Michael O'Brien in Cork, Irela ...

, Vincent O'Sullivan,

Georgia Wood Pangborn Georgia Wood Pangborn (1872–1955) was an American writer of novels and short stories. She is known as a writer of horror and the macabre. She was the mother of Edgar Pangborn and Mary Pangborn. Life Georgia Wood was born in Malone, New Yor ...

Harriet Prescott Spofford Harriet Elizabeth Prescott Spofford (April 3, 1835 – August 14, 1921) was an American writer of novels, poems and detective stories. One of the United States's most widely-published authors, her career spanned more than six decades and included ...

Mary Heaton Vorse Mary Heaton Vorse (October 11, 1874 – June 14, 1966) was an American journalist and novelist. She established her reputation as a journalist reporting the labor protests of a largely female and immigrant workforce in the east-coast textile indus ...

Jerome K. Jerome Jerome Klapka Jerome (2 May 1859 – 14 June 1927) was an English writer and humourist, best known for the comic travelogue ''Three Men in a Boat'' (1889). Other works include the essay collections '' Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow'' (1886) an ...

. From 1973 to 1975, she was one of the editors of ''The Literary Magazine of Fantasy and Terror'', a small-press magazine She went on to edit ''Fantasy Macabre'' from 1985 until the final issue, #17, in 1996. The magazine was subtitled "Beauty plus strangeness equals terror."

Awards

*1980:

World Fantasy Award The World Fantasy Awards are a set of awards given each year for the best fantasy literature, fantasy fiction published during the previous calendar year. Organized and overseen by the World Fantasy Convention, the awards are given each year a ...

for best collection, ''Amazons!'' (1979) *1990:

Lambda Literary Award Lambda Literary Awards, also known as the "Lammys", are awarded yearly by Lambda Literary to recognize the crucial role LGBTQ writers play in shaping the world. The Lammys celebrate the very best in LGBTQ literature.The awards were instituted i ...

for Lesbian Science Fiction/Fantasy, ''What Did Miss Darrington See?: An Anthology of Feminist Supernatural Fiction''

Selected bibliography

Novels

Tomoe Gozen trilogy

* ''

'' (Ace Books, 1981); revised as ''The Disfavored Hero'' (Pacific Warriors 1999; Open Road Media e-book, 2015) * ''The Golden Naginata'' (Ace Books, 1982; Open Road Media e-book, 2015) * ''Thousand Shrine Warrior'' (Ace Books, 1984; Open Road Media e-book, 2015)

Other novels

* ''The Swordswoman'' (Ace Books 1982) * ''Ou Lu Khen and the Beautiful Madwoman'' (Ace Books, 1985) * ''Anthony Shriek, His Doleful Adventures; or, Lovers of Another Realm'' (Dell Abyss, 1992; hardcover from Centipede Press, 2017) * ''Namer of Beasts, Maker of Souls: The Gnostic/Cabbalistic Biography of Merlin'' (Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011)

Collections

*''Tragedy of the Moisty Morning'' (Oregon: Angst World Library, 1978) *''Hag's Tapestry'' (Haunted Library, UK: 1986) *''A Silver Thread of Madness'' (Ace Books, 1989) *''John Collier and Fredric Brown Went Quarreling Through My Head'' (W. Paul Ganley/Weirdbook Press, 1989) *''Harmless Ghosts'' (Haunted Library, UK: 1990) *''Mystic Women: Their Ancient Tales and Legends Recounted by a Woman Inmate of the Calcutta Insane Asylum'' (Seattle: Street of Crocodiles 1991) *''The Mysterious Doom and Other Ghostly Tales of the Pacific Northwest'' (Seattle: Sasquatch Books 1992) *''The Eleventh Jaguarundi and Other Mysterious Persons'' (LaGrande, OR: Wordcraft of Oregon 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011) *''Phantom Waters: Northwest Legends of Rivers, Lakes & Shores'' (Seattle: Sasquatch Books 1995) *''Mister Monkey and Other Sumerian Fables'' (Seattle: Tabula Rasa Press, 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011) *''Twenty-one Epic Novels'' (Seattle: Tabula Rasa, 2002) *''The Dark Tales'' (Wales: Sarob Press 1991) *''Strange Miniatures from a Northwest Studio'' (Bremerton: Duck's-foot Tree Productions, 2001) *''The Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic'' (British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press 2003) *''The Complete Weird Epistles of Penelope Pettiweather, Ghost Hunter'' (Alchemy Press, UK, 2016)

Poetry

*''The Black Crusader and Other Poems of Horror'' (Springfield, MO: W. D. Firestone, 1979) *''On the Shores of Eternity'' (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree Productions 1981) *''Feigned Death and Other Sorceries'' (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1983) *''Innocent of Evil: Poems in Prose''(Madison, WI: Dream House, 1984) *''The Ghost Garden'' (Liverpool: Dark Dreams Press, 1988) *''Sorceries and Sorrows: Early Poems'' (Polk City, IA: Chris Drumm Books, 1992) *''Songs of the Maenads'' (Seattle Duck's-Foot Tree and the Street of Crocodiles, 1992) *''Wisewomen and Boggy-Boos: A Dictionary of Lesbian Fairy Lore'' (1992) (with Jules Remedios Faye) *''The Horn of Tara'' (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1995; Duck's-foot Tree Productions e-book, 2011) *''Lake of the Devil'' (Seattle: Duck's-Foot Tree, 1995) *''The Death Sonnets and Others'' (UK: Rainfall Books, 2015) *''Pets Given in Evidence of Old English Witchcraft and Other Bewitched Beings'' (Minneapolis: Sidecar Preservation Society, 2016) *''Daisy Zoo and Other Punk-Ass Nonsense'' (Bremerton: Duck's-foot Tree Productions, 2016)

Non-fiction

*''The Encyclopedia of Amazons: Women Warriors from Antiquity to the Present Era'' (NY: Paragon House, 1991, ; Anchor Doubleday, 1992; Open Road Media, 2015)

Anthologies edited by

*''

'' (NY: DAW Books, 1979) *'' Amazons II'' (NY: DAW Books, 1982) *''

'' (NY: Ace Books, 1983) *''Tales by Moonlight'' (NY: Tor Books, 1983) *''The Haunted Wherry and Other Rare Ghost Stories'' (Madison: Strange Company, 1985) *'' Heroic Visions II'' (NY: Ace Books, 1986) *''Tales by Moonlight II'' (NY: Tor Books, 1989) *''What Did Miss Darrington See?'' (NY: The Feminist Press at CUNY, 1989) *''Wife or Spinster: Short Stories by 19th Century American Women'' (Maine: Yankee Books, 1991) with Charles Waugh

Collections edited by

*''Faded Garden: The Collected Ghost Stories of

'' (1985) *''The Supernatural Stories of

Volume One: Macabre Tales'' (NY: Doubleday, 1988) *''The Supernatural Stories of Fitz-James O'Brien Volume Two: Dream Tales and Fantasies'' (NY: Doubleday, 1988) *''From Out of the Past: The Indiana Ghost Stories of Anna Nicholas'' (Ghost Story Society, UK: 1992) *''Master of Fallen Years: Complete Supernatural Stories of Vincent O'Sullivan'' (Ghost Story Press, UK: 1995) *''The Rose of Death and Other Mysterious Delusions'' by

(British Columbia: Ash-Tree Press, 1997) *''The Shell of Sense: Collected Ghost Stories of

'' (Uncasville, CT: R. H. Fawcett, 1997) *''Twilight and Other Supernatural Romances'' by

(Ash-Tree Press, 1998) *''Lady Ferry and Other Uncanny People'' by

(Ash-Tree Press, 1998) *''The Phantom Coach and Other Ghost Stories of an Antiquary'' by

(R. H. Fawcett, 1998) *''The Wind at Midnight'' by

(Ash-Tree Press, 1999) *''The Moonstone Mass and Others'' by

(Ash-Tree Press, 2000) *''The Golden Gong and Other Night-Pieces'' by Thomas Burke (Ash-Tree Press, 2001) *''Sinister Romance: Collected Ghost Stories'' by

(Ash-Tree Press, 2002) *''The Empire of Death and Other Strange Stories'' by Alice Brown (Ash-Tree Press, 2003) *''City of the Sea and Other Ghost Stories'' by

(Ash-Tree Press, 2008) *''The Wondersmith and Others'' by Fitz-James O'Brien (Ash-Tree Press, 2008)

References

External links

Storyteller: 2004 interview

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