Robert Weinberg

Author, editor, publisher, and fan Robert E. Weinberg, died September 25, 2016. Weinberg was an expert on pulp magazines. He was also a prolific anthologist, editing or co-editing more than 150 volumes. Born August 29, 1946 in New Jersey. His first publications of genre interest were bibliographical indexes of SF magazines, and he compiled and published many books on the field, most notably in Hugo Award finalist and World Fantasy Award winner A Biographical Dictionary of Science Fiction and Fantasy Artists (1988). He also produced fanzines, most notably Pulp (1970-81). In 1976 he bought 'Weird Tales," and leasing out the title to various editors and publishers over the years. His Robert Weinberg Publications operated from 1974 to 1981, devoted to reprinting pulp SF-fantasy, including the Pulp Classics series, Lost Fantasies series, and Weird Menace Classics anthology series. In the 80s he moved into bookselling and continued until 1997. Later in life,he collaborated with Martin H. Greenberg on many anthologies, including Lovecraft's Legacy (1990) and Love Kills (1997). Later with Greenberg & Stefan R. Dziemianowicz: Weird Tales: 32 Unearthed Terrors (1988), a dozen books in the 100 anthology series. Horrors! 365 Scary Stories (1998) won a Stoker Award. He began publishing fiction of genre interest with Destroyer in If (1969). Debut novel The Devil s Auction (1988) began the Alex Warner series, which continued with The Armageddon Box (1991). He also wrote the Kaufman and Lane series, the Today's Sorcery series, the Masquerade of the Red Death series, and the Horizon War series. His last novel was The Web of Arachnos (2005). He wrote for comics as well, working with Marvel in the early 2000s. He won a Stoker Award for his comic Nightside (2003). He won the Moskowitz Archive Award from the First Fandom Hall of Fame in 2001, and a Bram Stoker Award for life achievement in 2008. The 2012 Worldcon gave him a Special Committee Award for years of service and devotion given to advancing the field of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. --LOCUS Magazine obituary: Sept. 2