Brian Stableford
Brian Michael Stableford is a British science fiction writer who has published more than 70 novels. His earlier books were published under the name Brian M. Stableford, but more recent ones have dropped the middle initial and appeared under the name Brian Stableford. He has also used the pseudonym Brian Craig for a couple of very early works, and again for a few more recent works. The pseudonym derives from the first names of himself and of a school friend from the 1960s, Craig A. Mackintosh, with whom he jointly published some very early work.
Biography
Born at Shipley, Yorkshire, Stableford graduated with a degree in biology from the University of York in 1969 before going on to do postgraduate research in biology and later in sociology. In 1979 he received a PhD with a doctoral thesis on "The Sociology of Science Fiction". Until 1988, he worked as a lecturer in sociology at the University of Reading. Since then he has been a full-time writer and a part-time lecturer at several universities for classes concerning subjects such as creative writing. He has been married twice, and has a son and a daughter by his first marriage.Awards and honours
- 2011 Science Fiction & Fantasy Translation Awards, Special Award.
Works
Fiction
Series
Dies Irae
- The Days of Glory
- In the Kingdom of the Beasts
- Day of Wrath
Hooded Swan ( Grainger)
- The Halcyon Drift ; also available as an ebook, listed at 58,069 words
- Rhapsody in Black ; also available as an ebook, listed at 51,279 words
- Promised Land ; also available as an ebook, listed at 49,848 words
- The Paradise Game ; also available as an ebook, listed at 50,303 words
- The Fenris Device ; also available as an ebook, listed at 49,782 words
- Swan Song
Swan Songs
Daedalus Mission
- The Florians
- Critical Threshold
- Wildeblood's Empire
- The City of the Sun
- Balance of Power
- The Paradox of the Sets
Asgard
- Asgard's Secret ; revised and expanded from 2 earlier versions:
- *Journey to the Center
- *Journey to the Centre
- Asgard's Conquerors ; revised and expanded from an earlier version:
- *Invaders from the Centre
- Asgard's Heart ; revised and expanded from an earlier version:
- *The Centre Cannot Hold
Warhammer
- The Orfeo Trilogy:
- *Zaragoz
- *Plague Daemon
- *Storm Warriors
- The Wine of Dreams
- Warhammer 40000: Pawns of Chaos
David Lydyard (Werewolves)
- The Werewolves of London
- The Angel of Pain
- The Carnival of Destruction
Dark Future
- Ghost Dancers
Genesys
- Serpent's Blood
- Salamander's Fire
- Chimera's Cradle
Emortality
The term "emortality", intended to indicate near-immortality as opposed to absolute immortality, is acknowledged by Stableford to have been coined by Alvin Silverstein in his 1979 book, Conquest of Death.
In the introduction to his 2007 collection, The Tree of Life and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution, Stableford describes this series as "tracking the potential effects of possible developments in biotechnology on the evolution of global society. a modified version of the future history mapped out in .
"The broad sweep of this future history envisages a large-scale economic and ecological collapse in the 21st-century brought about by global warming and other factors, followed by the emergence of a global society designed to accommodate human longevity."
- The Cassandra Complex ; revised and expanded from:
- *"The Magic Bullet", Interzone #29 1989
- Inherit the Earth ; revised and expanded from:
- *"Inherit the Earth", Analog July 1995
- Dark Ararat
- Architects of Emortality ; revised and expanded from:
- *Les Fleurs du Mal Asimov's October 1994; also, see Collection 19, below
- The Fountains of Youth ; revised and expanded from:
- *"Mortimer Gray's History of Death", Asimov's April 1995
- The Omega Expedition ; revised and expanded from:
- *"And He Not Busy Being Born..." Interzone #16 Summer 1986
- The Dragon Man: A Novel of the Future ; a stand-alone "Young Adult" novel; also available as an e-book, listed at 65,401 words
Mnemosyne
- The Wayward Muse
- *Introduction *
- *"The Secret Exhibition", Weird Tales Fall 1999; revised here, per the author's introduction
- *"The Incubus of the Rose", Weird Tales Summer 2000; revised here, per the author's introduction
- *"The Arms of Morpheus" *
- Eurydice's Lament
- The Mirror of Dionysius
- The Pool of Mnemosyne
The Empire of the Necromancers
- The Shadow of Frankenstein ; a fix-up of the following:
- *"The Grey Men" Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 2: Gentlemen of the Night, ed. Jean-Marc Lofficier & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2005
- *"The Child-Stealers" Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 3: Danse Macabre, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2006
- Frankenstein and the Vampire Countess ; a fix-up of the following:
- *"The Return of Frankenstein" Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 4: Lords of Terror, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2008
- *"The Vampire in Paris" Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 5: The Vampires of Paris, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2009
- Frankenstein in London ; a fix-up of the following:
- *"Where Zombies Armies Clash By Night" Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 6: Grand Guignol, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2010
- *"The Necromancers of London" Tales of the Shadowmen, Volume 7: Femmes Fatales, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2011
Auguste Dupin
- "The Legacy of Erich Zann", see Collections 21 & 23, below
- The Mad Trist / Valdemar's Daughter ; billed as "Wildside Double #10"
- *"Valdemar's Daughter: A Romance of Mesmerism" *; also available as an ebook, listed at 30,405 words
- *"The Mad Trist: A Romance of Bibliomania" *; also available as an ebook, listed at 32,787 words
- The Quintessence of August: A Romance of Possession
- The Cthulhu Encryption: A Romance of Piracy
- Journey to the Core of Creation: A Romance of Evolution
- Yesterday Never Dies: A Romance of Metempsychosis
Morgan's Fork
- Spirits of the Vasty Deep
- The Insubstantial Pageant
- The Truths of Darkness
Other novels
- Cradle of the Sun
- The Blind Worm
- To Challenge Chaos
- The Realms of Tartarus ; a trilogy of short novels, the first of which is slightly revised from the following:
- * The Face of Heaven
- Man in a Cage ; also available as an e-book, listed at 75,907 words; loosely based on the following story:
- * "Meeting at Eternity", Proteus #3 1966
- The Mind-Riders
- The Last Days of the Edge of the World
- The Walking Shadow
- Optiman / a.k.a. War Games
- The Castaways of Tanagar
- The Gates of Eden
- The Empire of Fear ; revised and expanded from:
- * "The Man Who Loved the Vampire Lady", F&SF August 1988
- Young Blood ; also available as an e-book, listed at 129,274 words
- Firefly: A Novel of the Far Future, ; also available as an e-book, listed at 52,589 words; revised and expanded from:
- * "Beyond Time's Aegis", Science Fantasy November 1965
- The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires – first published in somewhat abridged form in the following:
- * "The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires", Interzone January 1995
- Year Zero ; a fix-up and expansion of the following 3 stories:
- * "When Molly Met Elvis", Interzone April 1997
- * "Molly and the Angel", Interzone July 1999
- * "Molly and the Men in Black", Interzone September 1999
- The Eleventh Hour ; also available as an e-book, listed at 106,225 words
- Curse of the Coral Bride ; loosely based on the following:
- * "The Light of Achernar", The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique, ed. John Pelan, ShadowLands Press 1999
- Kiss the Goat
- The Stones of Camelot ; revised and expanded from:
- * "The Architect of Worlds", Camelot Fantastic, ed. Lawrence Schimel & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW July 1998
- Streaking: A Novel of Probability
- The New Faust at the Tragicomique
- Sherlock Holmes and the Vampires of Eternity ; book version of the following linked novellas:
- * "The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires", Interzone January 1995 / Mark V. Ziesing 1996, see above
- * "The Black Blood of the Dead", Interzone January 1997
- * "The Gateway of Eternity", Interzone January 1999
- The Moment of Truth, ; loosely based on the following:
- * "The Face of an Angel", Leviathan 3, ed. Forrest Aguirre & Jeff VanderMeer, Ministry of Whimsy 2002
- Prelude to Eternity: A Romance of the First Time Machine
- The World Beyond: A Sequel to S. Fowler Wright's The World Below
- Alien Abduction: The Wiltshire Revelations ; "A Comedy of Aliens"
- Luscinia: A Romance of Nightingales and Roses ; also available as an e-book, listed at 62,555 words
- The Plurality of Worlds: A 16th-century Space Opera ; book version of the following linked novellas:
- * "The Ethership", Asimov's August 2006
- * "Doctor Muffet's Island", Asimov's March 2007
- * "The Philosopher's Stone", Asimov's July 2008
- * "The Great Armada", Asimov's April/May 2009; text slightly restored here
- Zombies Don't Cry: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution
- Xeno's Paradox: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution
- Nature's Shift: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution ; loosely based on the following:
- * "The Growth of the House of Usher", Interzone #24 1988
- Echoes of Eternity
- Vampires of Atlantis: A Love Story ; revised and expanded from the following:
- * "Sheena", The Vampire Sextette, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC 2000 / Ace 2002
- The Darkling Wood: A Scientific Fantasy ; revised and expanded from the following:
- * "Tenebrio", Vanishing Acts, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2000
- The Devil in Detail ; loosely based on the following related stories:
- * "Chacun sa Goule", Dancing with the Dark, ed. Stephen Jones, Vista 1997
- * "The Haunted Bookshop", Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz UK 2000
- * "Beyond Bliss", The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions, Borgo Press Sep. 2007
- Portals of Paradise
- Tangled Web of Time
- Further Beyond: A Lovecraftian Science Fiction Novel ; revised and expanded from the following:
- * "Further Beyond", Black Wings III, ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing Feb. 2014
- The Death of Broceliande: A Tale of Faery ; revised and expanded from the following:
- * "Chanterelle", Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon 2000
- The Alchemy of Blood ; revised and expanded from the following:
- * "The Path of Progress", The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas, Borgo Press Aug. 2009
- The Tyranny of the Word
Chapbooks
- The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand ; collection of 2 original novelettes
- Slumming in Voodooland ; an original short story
- The Innsmouth Heritage ; an original short story, inspired by H. P. Lovecraft's fiction
- Fables and Fantasies ; a collection:
- * "Three Versions of a Fable", Bats and Red Velvet #14 1995
- * "Nephthys", Peeping Tom #13 1994
- * "The Annual Conference of the Prophets of Atlantis", Reminiscon 40 Souvenir Programme 1992
- * "The Requiem Masque", Albedo One #3 1993
- * "Kalamada's Blessing", Scheherazade #8 1993
- * "Aphrodite and the Ring", Scheherazade #11 1995
- * "How the Dragons Yetzirah and Alziluth Lost the Knowledge of a Million Lifetimes" *; revised from Star Roots #1 1989
- * "The Shepherd's Daughter", Fear! September 1990
- * "The Sleeping Soul" *
- * "The Dream" *
Collections
- Sexual Chemistry: Sardonic Tales of the Genetic Revolution ; reprinted, sans the concluding article, as Sexual Chemistry and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
- *Introduction *
- *"Bedside Conversations", Asimov's December 1990
- *"Sexual Chemistry", Interzone #20 1987
- *"Cinderella's Sisters", The Gate #1 1989
- *"The Magic Bullet", Interzone #29 1989
- *"The Invertebrate Man", Interzone #39 1990
- *"The Furniture of Life's Ambition", Zenith 2, ed. David S. Garnett, Orbit UK 1990
- *"The Fury That Hell Withheld", Interzone #35 1990
- *"The Engineer and the Executioner", Amazing May 1975; revised
- *"The Growth of the House of Usher", Interzone #24 1988
- *"And He Not Busy Being Born...", Interzone #16 1986
- *"Mankind in the Third Millennium", Social Biology and Human Affairs v54 #1 1988; originally published in Japanese in Japan Research and Technology #249 1988
- Complications and Other Stories
- *Introduction *
- *"Complications", Amazing February 1992
- *"Alternate Worlds", Interzone #38 1990
- *"The Flowers of the Forest", Amazing June 1993
- *"Layers of Meaning", Interzone #21 1987
- *"The Oedipus Effect", Temps Volume 1, ed. Neil Gaiman & Alex Stewart, Roc UK 1991
- *"Sortilege and Serendipity", Euro Temps, ed. Alex Stewart, Roc UK 1992; sequel to "The Oedipus Effect"
- *"Skinned Alive", Weekend's Fiction Extra September 1978
- *"Taken for a Ride", Science Fiction Age March 1994
- *"Virtuous Reality", Interzone January 1992
- *"Wildland", Arrows of Eros, ed. Alex Stewart, NEL 1989
- Designer Genes: Tales of the Biotech Revolution
- *Introduction *
- *"What Can Chloë Want?", Asimov's March 1994
- *"The Invisible Worm", F&SF September 1991
- *"The Age of Innocence", Asimov's June 1995
- *"Snowball in Hell", Analog December 2000
- *"The Last Supper", Science Fiction Age March 2000
- *"The Facts of Life", Asimov's September 1993
- *"Hot Blood", Asimov's September 2002
- *"The House of Mourning", Off-Limits, ed. Ellen Datlow, St. Martin's 1996
- *"Another Branch of the Family Tree", Asimov's July 1999
- *"The Milk of Human Kindness", Analog March 2001
- *"The Pipes of Pan", F&SF June 1997;
- Salomé and Other Decadent Fantasies
- *Introduction *
- *"Salomé", The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales, ed. Brian M. Stableford, Dedalus 1992
- *"O for a Fiery Gloom and Thee", Sirens and Other Daemon Lovers, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, HarperPrism 1998
- *"The Last Worshipper of Proteus", Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction #2 1995
- *"The Evil That Men Do", Realms of Fantasy August 1995
- *"Ebony Eyes", Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
- *"The Fisherman's Child", Penny Dreadful April 1998
- *"The Storyteller's Tale", The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger 1994
- *"The Unluckiest Thief", Interzone June 1992
- *"The Light of Achernar", The Last Continent: New Tales of Zothique, ed. John Pelan, ShadowLands Press 1999
- *"The Mandrake Garden", F&SF July 2000
- *"Chanterelle", Black Heart, Ivory Bones, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Avon 2000
- Sheena and Other Gothic Tales, also available as an e-book, approximately 90,000 words
- *Introduction *
- *"Rose, Crowned with Thorns", White of the Moon: New Tales of Madness and Dread, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books 1999
- *"Rent", Weird Tales Fall 1998
- *"Tenebrio", Vanishing Acts, ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor 2000
- *"Behind the Wheel", Dark Voices 2, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan UK 1990
- *"Innocent Blood", Tales of the Wandering Jew, ed. Brian Stableford, Dedalus UK 1991
- *"Emptiness", Dreams of Decadence Spring 2001 / Infinity Plus Two, ed. Keith Brooke & Nick Gevers, PS Publishing UK 2003; originally published in French in De Sang d'Encre, ed. Lea Silhol, 1999
- *"The Woman in the Mirror", The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales, ed. Brian Stableford, Dedalus UK 1992;
- *"Regression", Asimov's April 2000
- *"Heartbreaker", Million #2 1991
- *"Sheena", The Vampire Sextette, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC 2000 / Ace 2002; text restored, per the author's introduction
- The Cure for Love and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
- *Introduction *
- *"The Cure for Love", Asimov's mid-December 1993
- *"Ashes and Tombstones", Moon Shots, ed. Peter Crowther, DAW 1999
- *"Slumming in Voodooland", Pulphouse 1991
- *"The Color of Envy", Asimov's May 2001
- *"The Lady-Killer, as Observed from a Safe Distance", Asimov's August 2000
- *"Busy Dying", F&SF February 1994
- *"The Man Who Invented Good Taste", Interzone March 1991
- *"The Road to Hell", Interzone July 1995
- *"The Scream", Asimov's July 1994
- The Haunted Bookshop and Other Apparitions
- *Introduction *
- *"Seers", Gothic Ghosts, ed. Wendy Webb & Charles L. Grant, Tor 1997
- *"O Goat-Foot God of Arcady!", The Silver Web #15 2002
- *Chacun sa Goule Dancing with the Dark, ed. Stephen Jones, Vista 1997
- *"The Haunted Bookshop", Dark Terrors 5: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz UK 2000
- *"Beyond Bliss" *; sequel to "The Haunted Bookshop"
- *"All You Inherit", Taps and Sighs, ed. Peter Crowther, Subterranean Press 2000
- *"The Will", Dark Fantasies, ed. Chris Morgan, Legend UK 1989
- *"Danny's Inferno", Albedo One #32 2007
- *"Can't Live Without You", Oceans of the Mind Winter 2001
- *"Community Service", Terra Incognita Spring 1997
- *"Denial" *
- The Tree of Life and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
- *Introduction *
- *"The Tree of Life", Asimov's September 1994
- *"The Skin Trade", Asimov's November 1995
- *"Out of Touch", Asimov's October 1995
- *"Skin Deep", Amazing October 1991
- *"Carriers", Asimov's July 1993
- *"Rogue Terminator", Asimov's April 2001
- *"Home Front", Science Fiction: The DAW 30th Anniversary, ed. Sheila E. Gilbert & Elizabeth R. Wollheim, DAW 2002
- *"Hidden Agendas", Asimov's September 1999
- An Oasis of Horror: Decadent Tales and Contes Cruels
- *Introduction *
- *"An Oasis of Horror", Infinity Plus September 2006;
- *"Justice", Far Point #1 1991
- *"The Copper Cauldron" *
- *"Nobody Else to Blame", Redsine #7 January 2002
- *"Heartbeat", Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
- *"Upon the Gallows-Tree", Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK 1992
- *"The Devil's Men", 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1995
- *"The Elixir of Youth", Weird Tales #341 August/September 2006; originally appeared in French in Asphodale #4 2003;
- *"The Lamia's Soliloquy", Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
- *"And the Hunter Home From the Hill" *
- *"The Riddle of the Sphinx", Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
- *"My Mother, the Hag", Tales of the Round Table, ed. Mike Astley, Past Times 1997
- *"The Devil's Comedy", Phantoms of Venice, ed. David Sutton, Shadow 2001
- *"The Power of Prayer", Paradox #1 Spring 2003
- The Gardens of Tantalus and Other Delusions ; also available as an e-book, listed at 67,533 words
- *Introduction *
- *"The Gardens of Tantalus", Classical Whodunnits, ed. Mike Astley, Past Times 1996
- *"The Lost Romance", Chronicles of the Holy Grail, ed. Mike Astley, Carroll & Graf 1996
- *"Lucifer's Comet", Interzone September 1996
- *"The Miracle of Zunderburg", Redsine #4 February 2001
- *"The Cult of Selene", Albedo One #14 1997
- *"Ice and Fire", Albedo One #18 1998
- *"Self-Sacrifice", Interzone December 1991
- *"To the Bad", Weerde: Book 1, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK 1992
- *"Riding the Tiger", Interzone February 1993
- *"Curiouser and Curiouser: A Kitchen Sink Drama, by Carol Lewis", Redsine #6 June 2001
- *"Quality Control", The Mammoth Book of Dracula, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson 1997
- *"Worse Than the Disease", Interzone November 1996
- The Innsmouth Heritage and Other Sequels
- *Introduction *
- *"The Innsmouth Heritage", Necronomicon Press 1992
- *"The Picture", The Seventh Seal #2 2000 / Redsine #2 October 2000 / Here and Now Autumn 2004
- *"The Temptation of Saint Anthony", The Secret History of Vampires, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW 2007
- *"The Ugly Cygnet, by Hans Realist Andersen", The Seventh Seal #4 2001
- *"Art in the Blood", Shadows Over Baker Street, ed. John Pelan & Michael Reeves, Del Rey 2003
- *"Mr Brimstone and Dr. Treacle", Naked Truth #6 1996
- *"Jehan Thun's Quest", The Mammoth Book of New Jules Verne Adventures, ed. Mike Astley & Eric Brown, Robinson 2005
- *"The Immortals of Atlantis", disLocations, ed. Ian Whates, NewCon Press 2007
- *"Between the Chapters" *
- *"Three Versions of a Fable", Bats and Red Velvet #14 1995
- *"The Titan Unwrecked; or, Futility Revisited", Tales of the Shadowmen 1: The Modern Babylon, ed. Jean-Marc & Randy Lofficier, Black Coat Press 2005
- Changelings and Other Metamorphic Tales
- *Introduction *
- *"Changelings", Interzone #85 July 1994
- *"Coming to Terms with the Great Plague", Omni Online December 1997
- *"Inside Out", Asimov's March 1997
- *"After the Stone Age", BBC website March 2004;
- *"The Oracle", Asimov's May 1999
- *"The Tour", Science Fiction Age January 1998
- *"Victims", Science Fiction Age January 2000
- *"The Serpent", Interzone September 1995
- *"Tread Softly", Interzone March 2002
- *"Degrees of Separation ", The Evil Entwines, John B. Ford et. Al., Hardcastle 2002
- In the Flesh and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
- *Introduction *
- *"In the Flesh", Future Histories, ed. Stephen McClelland, Horizon House UK 1997;
- *"A Chip Off the Old Block", Postscripts Summer 2004
- *"Taking the Piss", Asimov's June 2002 / Future Crimes, ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Ace 2003
- *"Another Bad Day in Bedlam", Christmas Forever, ed. David G. Hartwell, Tor 1993
- *"Dr. Prospero and the Snake Lady", Millennium 3001, ed. Russell Davis & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 2006
- *"Casualty", Future Weapons of War, ed. Joe Haldeman & Martin H. Greenberg, Baen March 2007
- *"The Trial", Asimov's July 2007
- *"The Gift of the Magi", Interzone #122 August 1997
- *"The Incredible Whelk", Ludd's Mill #16/17 Winter 1980; revised
- *"The Piebald Plumber of Haemlin", Interzone April 1998
- The Cosmic Perspective and Other Black Comedies ; also available as an e-book, listed at 62,851 words
- *Introduction *
- *"The Cosmic Perspective", The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand, Drumm 1985
- *"The Haunted Nursery", Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
- *"The Phantom of Teirbrun" *
- *"Custer's Last Stand", The Cosmic Perspective/Custer's Last Stand, Drumm 1985
- *"The Requiem Masque", Albedo One #3 1993
- *"Meat on the Bone" *
- *"Murphy's Grail", Redsine #4 February 2001
- *"Brief Encounter in the Smoking Area", The Interpreter's House #16 February 2001
- *"Fans from Hell", The Steel Caves December 2000
- *"The Annual Conference of the Prophets of Atlantis", Reminiscon 40 Souvenir Programme 1992
- The Best of Both Worlds and Other Ambiguous Tales
- *Introduction *
- *"The Best of Both Worlds", Postscripts Summer 2008
- *"The Highway Code", We Think, Therefore, We Are, ed. Peter Crowther, DAW 2009
- *"Captain Fagan Died Alone", The DAW Science Fiction Reader, ed. Donald A. Wollheim, DAW 1976
- *"The Face of an Angel", Leviathan 3, ed. Forrest Aguirre & Jeff VanderMeer, Ministry of Whimsy 2002
- *Verstehen ConFuse '91 program book 1991 / Odyssey September 1997; originally published in German in Pilger Dürch Raum und Zeit, ed. Wilfert, Goldmann 1982
- *"The Bad Seed", Interzone April 1994
- *"The Man Who Came Back", sf Impulse October 1966
- *"Appearances" *
- The Great Chain of Being and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution ; also available as an e-book, listed at 69,250 words
- *Introduction *
- *"Following the Pharmers", Asimov's March 2008
- *"The Unkindness of Ravens", Interzone #90 December 1994
- *"The Great Chain of Being", Future Americas, ed. John Helfers & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 2008
- *"Sleepwalker", Interzone #105 March 1996
- *"The Beauty Contest" *
- *"Burned Out", Interzone #70 April 1993
- *"Inherit the Earth", Analog July 1995
- Beyond the Colors of Darkness and Other Exotica ; also available as an e-book, listed at 66,814 words
- *Introduction *
- *"Beyond the Colors of Darkness" *
- *"An Offer of Oblivion", Amazing October 1974; revised
- *"Enlightenment" *
- *"The Dragons Alziluth and Yetzirah", Fables and Fantasies, Necronomicon Press 1996
- *"A Saint's Progress" *
- *Mens Sana in Corpore Sano Violent Spectres #2 1995
- *"Black Nectar" *
- *"Nephthys", Peeping Tom #13 1994
- *"Plastic Man" *; originally appeared in Swedish in Norcon 99 program book, 1999
- *"Aphrodite and the Ring", Scheherazade #11 1995
- *Danse Macabre *
- The Return of the Djinn and Other Black Melodramas ; pre-publication catalogs listed the title of this collection as The Path of Progress and Other Black Melodramas
- *Introduction *
- *"The Path of Progress" *
- *"Kalamada's Blessing", Scheherazade #8 1993
- *"The Shepherd's Daughter", Fear! September 1990
- *"Shadows of the Past" *
- *"Reconstruction", Cold Cuts II, ed. Paul Lewis & Steve Lockley, Alun Books 1994
- *"The Return of the Djinn" *
- Le Fleurs du Mal / The Undead ; billed as "Wildside Double #4"
- *Author's Note *
- *"Le Fleurs du Mal: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution", Asimov's October 1994; text corrected here, per the author's introduction: "...I eventually decided to finish the novel version of Les Fleurs du Mal anyway, and completed it in 1992. I wrote the story to what seemed its natural length but could not sell it...I decided to cut the text drastically and attempt to sell an abridged version of the story to one or other of the sf magazines as a novella. The present text is the 29,000-word result of that cut, although Gardner Dozois—who bought it for publication in the October 1994 issue of Asimov's Science Fiction—insisted on cutting out the gratuitous car chase, thus reducing the published version to 27,000 words."; later expanded into the novel Architects of Emortality, see above
- *"The Undead: A Tale of the Biotech Revolution" *; also available as an ebook, listed at 44,110 words
- The Womb of Time
- *"The Womb of Time" *
- *"The Legacy of Erich Zann" *; first story in the Auguste Dupin series, see above
- The Golden Fleece and Other Tales of the Biotech Revolution
- *Introduction *
- *"The Golden Fleece" *
- *"Some Like It Hot", Asimov's December 2009
- *"Alfonso the Wise"
- *"Next to Godliness", Celebration: Commemorating the 50th Anniversary of the British Science Fiction Association, ed. Ian Whates, NewCon Press March 2008; text restored
- *"Mortimer Gray's History of Death", Asimov's April 1995
- The Legacy of Erich Zann and Other Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos
- *Introduction *
- *"The Legacy of Erich Zann", The Womb of Time, Perilous Press January 2011; first story in the Auguste Dupin series, see above
- *"The Truth about Pickman", Black Wings: New Tales of Lovecraftian Horror, ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing April 2010
- *"The Holocaust of Ecstasy", Cthulhu's Reign, ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW April 2010
- *"The Seeds from the Mountains of Madness" *
Uncollected short fiction
As translator (predominantly French into English)
- Vampire City
- Knightshade
- Lumen
- Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker
- The Vampire Countess
- The Scaffold
- The Vampire Soul
- The Wandering Jew's Daughter
- John Devil
- The Black Coats: 'Salem Street
- Revenants
- The Black Coats: The Invisible Weapon
- News from the Moon: Nine French proto-science fiction stories from 1768 to 1902
- Felifax the Tiger-Man
- The Nyctalope vs. Lucifer
- Anne of the Isles
- The Vampire and the Devil's Son
- Captain Vampire
- The Vampires of Mars
- The Black Coats: The Parisian Jungle
- The People of the Pole
- The Nyctalope on Mars
- An Inhabitant of the Planet Mars
- The Novel of the Future
- The Clock of the Centuries
- The Martian Epic
- The Black Coats: The Companions of the Treasure
- Panic in Paris
- Journey to the Land of the Fourth Dimension
- Enter the Nyctalope
- The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System &
- Ignis: The Central Fire
- Sâr Dubnotal vs. Jack the Ripper
- Ortog
- The Black Coats: Heart of Steel
- Doctor Lerne
- A Man Among the Microbes
- The Navigators of Space
- Mysteryville
- The Blue Peril
- The World of the Variants
- The Terror of Madame Atomos
- The Doctored Man
- The Mysterious Force
- The Master of Light
- Vamireh
- The Givreuse Enigma
- The Man Who Found Himself
- The Black Coats: The Cadet Gang
- The Age of Lead
- The Young Vampire
- The Song of Montségur
- The Eye of Purgatory
- The Gardens of the Apocalypse
- The Superhumans
- The Supreme Progress: Eighteen French proto-science fiction stories from 1862 to 1890
- Chalet in the Sky
- The Secret of Zippelius
- The Vampire Lord Ruthwen
- Voyage to Venus
- The Vengeance of the Oval Portrait by Gabriel de Lautrec )
- The World Above the World: Nine French proto-science fiction stories from 1862 to 1890
- The Mysterious Fluid
- Ever Smaller
- The Black Coats: The Sword-Swallower
- The Great Cataclysm
- City of Glass
- The Virgin Vampire
- Illa's End
- Journey to the Inverted World
- Amilec ; Giphantie ; L'Empire des zaziris sur les humains
- Baal ; Les Amantes du diable
- The Human Arrow
- The Wing
- The Xenobiotic Invasion
- The Tale of Gold and Silence
- The World in 2000 Years
- Nemoville: Twelve French proto-science fiction stories from 1757 to 1924
- The Adventures of a Parisian Aeronaut in the Unknown Worlds
- Illusions of Immortality by Edmond Haraucourt
- Timeslip Troopers
- A Surfeit of Mirrors & Histoires Incertaines
- Double Life by Charles Asselineau
- The Dominion of the World , 978-1-61227-096-8, 978-1-61227-097-5 and 978-1-61227-098-2
- The Year 5865
- The Tower of Destiny and Les Ruines de Paris
- Investigations of the Future: Seven French proto-science fiction stories from 1851 to 1909
- The Future City
- Ouha, King of the Apes
- The Human Microbes
- The New World
- The Vampire of the Val-de-Grace
- The Frenetic People
- The Golden Rock
- The Unpretentious Philosopher
- Rouletabille at Krupp's
- Spawn of the Penitentiary
- The Crazy Corner
- The Napus: The Great Plague of the Year 2227, Léon Daudet
- The Bacchantes: A Dionysian Scientific Romance, Léon Daudet
- Isoline and the Serpent-Flower
- The Conquest of the Air
- The Man Who Lost Himself: A Symbolist Novel, André Beaunier
- Champavert: Immoral Tales, Pétrus Borel the Lycanthrope
- Pharaoh's Wife
- Love in 5000 Years
- Paris in the Year 2000
- Monsieur Synthesis and Dix Mille Ans dans un Bloc de Glace
- The Castaways of Eros
- The Immortal Woman
- The Antisocial Man and Other Strange Stories, Frédéric Boutet
- The Voyage of Julius Pingouin and Other Strange Stories, Frédéric Boutet
- The Centaurs
- Electric Life
- Voyage Beneath the Waves: A Science Fiction Novel, Jules Rengade
- Claude Mercoeur's Reflection and Other Strange Stories, Frédéric Boutet
- The Eternal Flame , Ciel Rose
- In a Thousand Years
- The Children of the Crab
- Danse Macabre
- Obsession
- Ahasuerus
- The Chambrion and Other Stories, Pierre Alexis Ponson du Terrail
- The Anatomy of Love and Murder: Psychoanalytical Fantasies, Gaston Danville
- The Adventures of Captain Cap
- The Fiery Wheel
- Martyrs of Science
- Prince Bonifacio
- Cybele
- The Conqueror of Death
- Someone is Stealing Children in Paris
- The Magnetized Corpse )
- The Mysterious Doctor Cornelius ; 978-1-61227-244-3; 978-1-61227-245-0
- The Vampires of London
- The Marvelous Adventures of Serge Myrandhal on Mars
- The Necessary Evil
- Caresco, Superman
- The Exploits of Professor Tornada 1 ; L'Androgyne
- The Exploits of Professor Tornada 2 ; Mémoires d'un Immortel
- The Exploits of Professor Tornada 3 ; Le Cas de la Baronne Sasoitsu
- The Eupantophone
- The Petitpaon Era
- The Olotelepan
- An Unknown World
- The Enchanter Merlin
- The Human Ant
- The Silent Bomb
- Paris Before the Deluge
- The Battle of Strasbourg
- The Revolt of the Machines
- The Final War
- Homo-Deus and Tuer les vieux, jouir!
- Daâh: The First Human
- The Magnetized Corpse
- Prince Bonifacio and Other Stories
- The Ark and L'Arche
- The Mutilated Bacchus and Demande un Homme, ou L'Étrange Tournoi d'Amour
- Nora, the Ape-Woman
- The Misfortunes of John Bull
- The World of Mercury
- Balzac's Cane and La Canne de M de Balzac
- The Philosophic Voyager in an Island Unknown to the Inhabitants of Earth
- The Voyages of Lord Seaton to the Seven Planets
- The War of the Sexes
- Jim Click
- The Enchanted City: A Voyage to Lake Tanganyika
- The Maker of Men and his Formula
- The Missing Men of the Sirius
- The Engineer von Satanas
- The World Turned Upside Down and Le monde reversé
- The Strange Voyages of Jacques Massé and Pierre de Mésange and La Vie, Les Aventures, & le Voyage de Groenland du Révérend Pere Cordelier Pierre de Mésange
- The Merchants of Health and Other Fantastic Stories and Monsieur Personne
- The Last Fay
- Journey to the Sun
- Voyage to the Center of the Earth
- Harry Dickson: Tenebras
- The Apocryphal Napoleon
- The Second Life of Doctor Albin
- An International Mission to the Moon
- The Chimerical Quest and La Chasse aux chimères
- The Discovery of the Austral Continent by a Flying Man
- The Son of Silence and Les Paraboles Cyniques
- The End of Atlantis
- The Man Who Married a Mermaid with Paul Bocage
- Arrival in the Stars and Other Stories plus L'Arrivée aux étoiles: essai vers l'au-delà
- The Story of the Great Prince Oribeau
- The Four Beauties and the Four Beasts
- In 1965 and Other Stories
- Singular Amours
As editor
Anthology series
- Decadence
- * 1 The Daedalus Book of Decadence
- * 2 The Second Daedalus Book of Decadence: The Black Feast
Anthologies
- Tales of the Wandering Jew
- The Dedalus Book of British Fantasy: The 19th Century
- The Dedalus Book of Femmes Fatales
Nonfiction
- The Mysteries of Modern Science
- A Clash of Symbols: The Triumph of James Blish /
- Masters of Science Fiction: Essays on Six Science Fiction Authors
- The Science in Science Fiction
- Future Man: Brave New World or Genetic Nightmare?
- Scientific Romance in Britain, 1890–1950
- The Sociology of Science Fiction ; book version of Stableford's doctoral thesis
- The Way to Write Science Fiction
- Algebraic Fantasies and Realistic Romances: More Masters of Science Fiction /
- Opening Minds: Essays on Fantastic Literature /
- Outside the Human Aquarium: Masters of Science Fiction, Second Edition / ; on the fiction of Clark Ashton Smith
- Writing Fantasy & Science Fiction and Getting Published
- Glorious Perversity: The Decline and Fall of Literary Decadence /
- Yesterday's Bestsellers: A Voyage through Literary History /
- The Dictionary of Science Fiction Places
- Historical Dictionary of Science Fiction Literature ; revised as The A to Z of Science Fiction Literature
- Historical Dictionary of Fantasy Literature – ; revised as The A to Z of Fantasy Literature
- Science Fact and Science Fiction: An Encyclopedia
- Slaves of the Death Spiders and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature ; also available as an ebook, listed at 65,566 words
- Space, Time, and Infinity: Essays on Fantastic Literature
- Heterocosms and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature ; also available as an ebook, listed at 89,003 words
- The Devil's Party: A Brief History of Satanic Abuse
- Gothic Grotesques: Essays on Fantastic Literature
- News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews
- Jaunting on the Scoriac Tempests and Other Essays on Fantastic Literature
- Against the New Gods and Other Essays on Writers of Imaginative Fiction
- Narrative Strategies in Science Fiction and Other Essays on Imaginative Fiction
- Exotic Encounters: Selected Reviews
- Creators of Science Fiction: Essays on Authors, Editors, and Publishers Who Shaped Science Fiction
- The Decadent World-View: Selected Essays
- New Atlantis: A Narrative History of Scientific Romance, Vol. 1: The Origins of Scientific Romance
- New Atlantis: A Narrative History of Scientific Romance, Vol. 2: The Emergence of Scientific Romance
- New Atlantis: A Narrative History of Scientific Romance, Vol. 3: The Resurgence of Scientific Romance
- New Atlantis: A Narrative History of Scientific Romance, Vol. 4: The Decadence of Scientific Romance
- The Plurality of Imaginary Worlds: The Evolution of French Roman Scientifique