John Gregory Betancourt

John Gregory Betancourt is a best-selling author and editor, with more than 40 books and numerous short stories published in the science fiction, fantasy, horror, and most recently the mystery genres. A partially complete working bibliography is below. 

Novels
Starskimmer (1987)
Rogue Pirate (1987)
Johnny Zed (1988)
The Blind Archer (1988, reprinted 2005 by ibooks)
Rememory(1990)
Devil in the Sky [Star Trek Deep Space Nine] (1995) withGreg Cox
Incident at Arbuk [Star Trek Voyager] (1995)
Born of Elven Blood (1995) withKevin J. Anderson
Birthright: The Hag's Contract (1996)
The Heart of the Warrior [Star Trek Deep Space Nine] (1996)
The Wrath of Poseidon (1997)
The Vengeance of Hera (1997)
Infection [Star Trek The Next Generation] (1995)
Cutthroat Island [novelization] (1995)
The Gates of Hades (2001)
Pacifica (2002)
The Dawn of Amber (2003)
The Dragon Sorcerer (2003)
Chaos and Amber (2004)
To Rule in Amber (2004)
Shadows of Amber (2005)
Horizon(2006, forthcoming from ibooks)
Sword of Chaos (2006, forthcoming from ibooks)

Short Story Collections
Slab's Tavern and Other Uncanny Places (1991)
Performance Art (1992)
Playing in Wonderland (2005)
 

Young Adult Series
Dr. Bones
#4 The Dragons of Komako (1989)
Robert Silverberg's Time Tours
#4 The Dinosaur Trackers (as Thomas Shadwell) (1991) withArthur Byron Cover andTimothy Robert Sullivan
#6 Caesar's Time Legions (as Jeremy Kingston) (1991)
 

Magazines edited
Amazing Stories (as assistant editor toGeorge H. Scithers)
Weird Tales (withGeorge H. Scithersand Darrell Schweitzer)
Adventure Tales
Cat Tales
 

Anthologies
The Ultimate Frankenstein (1991) withByron Preiss
The Ultimate Werewolf (1991) withByron Preiss
Swashbuckling Editor Stories (1993)
The Ultimate Witch (1993) withByron Preiss
The Ultimate Zombie (1993) withByron Preiss
The Ultimate Alien (1995) withByron Preiss
Best of Weird Tales: 1923 (1995)
New Masterpiecees of Horror (1996)
Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror (1997)
Horrorscape : New Masterpieces of Horror, Vol. 1 (2005)
Horrorscape 2 : New Masterpieces of Horror (2006) forthcoming from ibooks
The Year's Best Horror: 2006 Edition (2006) forthcoming from ibooks
 

Nonfiction
Serve It Forth -- Cooking With Anne McCaffrey (1996) withAnne McCaffrey
The Sci-Fi Channel Trivia Book (1996)
The Sci-Fi Channel Encyclopedia of TV Science Fiction (1998) withRoger Fulton

 

Short fiction - Mysteries    
Pit and the Pendulum (July/Aug 2005, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) 
A Christmas Pit (Jan/Feb 2006, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) 
Pit on the Road to Hell (forthcoming, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) 

Short fiction - Science Fiction
And the Band Played On: The Band’s Tale (Tales from Jabba’s Palace, ed. Kevin J. Anderson, Bantam Spectra 1996; reprinted in Star Wars Tales, ed. Kevin J. Anderson, SFBC 1997 ) 
Blooding Jeffy (Starshore, Fall 1990; excerpt from Rememory) 
Pit on the Road to Hell (forthcoming, Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine) 
The Darkfishers (Aboriginal SF, July/August 1987; reprinted in Playing in Wonderland, Wildside Press 1995)
DragNeuroNet (More Whatdunits, ed. Mike Resnic & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993)
Final Call (Playing in Wonderland; reprinted in Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998)
Human Spirit, Beetle Spirit [A Riverworld story] (Aboriginal SF, Fall 1993; reprinted in Quest to Riverworld, ed. Philip José Farmer, Warner Questar 1993; Playing in Wonderland, Wildside Press 1995)
Hunter’s Pink (Aboriginal SF, Winter 1992)
The Invasion of the Jack Benny Snatchers (Performance Art, Wildside Press 1992)
The Merry Men of Riverworld [A Riverworld story] (Tales of Riverworld, ed. Philip José Farmer, Warner Questar 1992; reprinted in Playing in Wonderland, Wildside Press 1995)
Messiah (Amazing Stories, May 1987)
On the Scent of Trouble [Star Trek, the Next Generation] (Amazing Stories, Summer 1998)
Prototype (Isaac Asimov’s History of I-Botics, ed. James Chambers, HarperPrism 1997)
A Rat Aloft (Starshore, Winter 1990)
Vole (Alien Pregnant by Elvis, ed. Esther M. Friesner & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1994)

Short fiction - Fantasy
The Brothers Lammiat (Amazing Stories, July 1986; reprinted in Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places; reprinted in Fresh Ink #1 1991) 
The Brothers Lammiat at the Fortress of Lord Mur (Amazing Stories, March 1988) 
The Brothers Lammiat in Yasséné (Adventures of Sword & Sorcery, Winter 1995) 
Cleaning Up at Slab's (Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places, Ganley 1990)
Copycat (The Further Adventures of Batman Volume 3, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1993; reprinted Tales of the Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books 1995 )
Dogs Questing (Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurences, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Atlanta, GA: Unnameable Press 1992; reprinted in Grails: Visitations of the Night, ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc 1994)
Dreamtime in Adjaphon (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Fall 1988; reprinted in Performance Art, Wildside Press 1992)
An Evening in the Bronx with Venom (with Keith R. A. DeCandido) (The Ultimate Spider-Man, ed. Stan Lee, Berkley 1994)
Faramigon’s Eye (Fantasy Book, December 1985; reprinted in Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places, Ganley 1990)
Godfall (Weirdbook #23 1988; reprinted in Playing in Wonderland, Wildside Press 1995)
In Their Cups at Slab’s (Aladdin: Master of the Lamp, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992)
The Last Child of Masferigon (with Darrell Schweitzer), Tom O’Bedlam’s Night Out and Other Strange Excursions, Buffalo, NY: W. Paul Ganley 1985; reprinted in Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places, Ganley 1990; Performance Art, Wildside Press 1992; The Anthology of Fantasy & the Supernatural, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Tiger 1994)
The Last Guardian of Ru Ishtl (Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Fall 1989; reprinted in Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places, Ganley 1990)
On the Rocks at Slab’s (The Dragon, January 1986; reprinted in Tales from the Spaceport Bar, ed. George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer, Avon 1987; Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places, Ganley 1990)
On the Scent at Slab’s (The Dragon, October 1995)
The Pirates of Caluur (Fantasy Book, December 1986; reprinted in Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places, Ganley 1990)
Reformed  [Batman] (The Further Adventures of Batman 2, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bantam 1992; reprinted in Tales of the Batman, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, MJF Books 1995)
Tap Dancing (Weird Tales Spr 1991; reprinted in Performance Art, Wildside Press 1992; Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown, ed. Marvin Kaye, Garden City, NY: Guild America 1993 )
Vernan’s Dragon (100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories, ed. Isaac Asimov, Terry Carr & Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday 1984; revised version reprinted in Bruce Coville’s Book of Magic II, ed. Bruce Coville, Scholastic/Apple 1997)
The Weird of Mazal Dey (Fantasy Book, September 1985; reprinted in Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places)
Well Bottled at Slab’s (The Dragon, October 1987; reprinted in Another Round at the Spaceport Bar, ed. George H. Scithers & Darrell Schweitzer, Avon 1989; Slab’s Tavern and Other Uncanny Places, Ganley 1990; Wildside, Fall 1993)

Short fiction - Horror
The Art of the Smile (Weirdbook #30 1997) 
Buck, Glory Rae, & the Three Little Pigs (Weird Tales, Spring 1993) 
By Moonlight (I, Vampire, ed. Jean Stine & Forrest J Ackerman, Longmeadow Press 1995)
The Children of Lommos (with Darrell Schweitzer) (Night Cry, Summer 1987; reprinted in Transients and Other Disquieting Stories, Darrell Schweitzer, W. Paul Ganley 1993)
The Duke of Demolition Goes to Hell (Return to the Twilight Zone, ed. Carol Serling & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1994)
The Green Thumb (Damnations, R.L. Leming 1984; revised version reprinted in Don’t Open This Book!, ed. Marvin Kaye, SFBC 1998)
In the Cusp of the Hour (The Ultimate Dracula, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor & Megan Miller, Dell 1991)
The Man Who Collected Knives (Predators, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc 1993)
>Miss Vampire New Mexico Meets Her Dream Date (100 Vicious Little Vampire Stories, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1995)
The River Lethe Is Made of Tears (Christmas Ghosts, ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1993)
Shark! (Bruce Coville’s Book of Ghosts II, ed. Bruce Coville, Scholastic/Apple 1997)
Sympathy for Mad Scientists (Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998)
Sympathy for Mummies (Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998)
Sympathy for Psychos (Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998)
Sympathy for Vampires (Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998)
Sympathy for Wolves (Horrors! 365 Scary Stories, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998)
The Tale of Lady Ashburn (The Book of Kings, ed. Richard Gilliam & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc 1995)
Sympathy for Zombies (Weird Tales, Spring 1999)

Short fiction - Mystery/Pastiche
The Adventure of the Amateur Mendicant Society (ascribed to H.G. Wells) [Sherlock Holmes], Resurrected Holmes, ed. Marvin Kaye, St. Martin’s 1996; revised version reprinted in The Mammoth Book of New Sherlock Holmes Adventures, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson 1997)