Michael R. Collings

Collings at Life, the Universe, & Everything, a science fiction and fantasy symposium at Brigham Young University.

Michael Robert Collings (born 1947)^[1] is an author, poet, literary critic, and bibliographer, and a former professor of creative writing and literature at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.^[1][2] He was Poet in Residence at Pepperdine's Seaver College from 1997-2000.^[3] After graduating with a Master's degree in English from the University of California, Riverside in 1973, Collings received his Ph.D. in English literature from UCR in 1977, specializing in Milton and The Renaissance.^[4]

Collings has had multiple collections of his poetry published on subjects such as Mormon theology, Joseph Smith, Christmas, science fiction, and horror.^[3] He is known for his literary critiques and bibliographies of the works of Orson Scott Card and Stephen King,^[1][2][3] though he has also published critiques and bibliographies of the works of Peter Straub, Dean Koontz, C. S. Lewis, Brian W. Aldiss, and Piers Anthony.^[1][3] His In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card was the first book-length academic look at Card's works.^[3][5]

Selected works

Articles and papers

• "C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation" (July–August 1979), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "The Mechanisms of Fantasy" (January 1980), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "To Be Still a Man: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis" (January 1982), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis’s Ransom Novels", (December 1986), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
• "Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss’s Psychological Landscape" (1988), Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Greenwood Press
• "Brian W. Aldiss" (1989), Reader’s Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, American Library Association

Sources:^[3]

Non-fiction books

• The Many Facets of Stephen King (1985), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261143
• The Shorter Works of Stephen King (1985), with David A. Engebretson, Starmont House, ISBN 093026102X
• Stephen King as Richard Bachman (1985), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261003
• The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America’s Premier Horror Writer (1986), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261801
• The Films of Stephen King (1986), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261100
• Card Catalogue: The Science Fiction and Fantasy of Orson Scott Card (1987), Hypatia Press, ISBN 0940841010
• The Stephen King Phenomenon (1987), Starmont House, ISBN 0930261127
• In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card (1990), Greenwood Press, ISBN 0-313-26404-X
• Scaring Us to Death: The Impact of Stephen King on Popular Culture (1997), Borgo Press, ISBN 0930261372
• The Work of Orson Scott Card: An Annotated Bibliography and Guide (1997), with Boden Clarke
• Hauntings: The Official Peter Straub Bibliography (2000), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-15-4
• Storyteller: The Official Guide to the Works of Orson Scott Card (2001), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-26-X
• Horror Plum'd: An International Stephen King Bibliography and Guide 1960-2000 (2003), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-45-6
• Stephen King Is Richard Bachman, (March 2008), Overlook Connection Press, ISBN 1-892950-74-X

Sources:^[1][3][5]

Fiction

• The House Beyond the Hill (2007), Wildside Press, ISBN 1-4344-0066-2

Sources:^[3][6]

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e} Wands, D C (2008-02-16). "Michael R Collings". FantasticFiction. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/michael-r-collings/. Retrieved 2008-02-29. 
2. ^ ^{a b} George W. Beahm (1998) Stephen King from A to Z: an encyclopedia of his life and work, Andrews McMeel Publishing, p.43, ISBN 0836269144
3. ^ ^{a b c d e f g h} "Michael R. Collings". Brigham Young University. 2003. http://mormonlit.lib.byu.edu/lit_author.php?a_id=372. Retrieved 2008-02-29. 
4. ^ "Michael R. Collings Bio Information". Pepperdine University. http://arachnid.pepperdine.edu/humteachered/faculty/collings/bio_info.html. Retrieved 2008-02-29. ^{[dead link]}
5. ^ ^{a b} Langford, Jonathan (1997-10-21). "AML-List Review: In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card". Association for Mormon Letters. Archived from the original on 2007-10-26. http://web.archive.org/web/20071026054057/http://www.aml-online.org/reviews/b/B199766.html. Retrieved 2008-02-29. 
6. ^ "The House Beyond the Hill by Michael R Collings". FantasticFiction. http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/c/michael-r-collings/house-beyond-hill.htm. Retrieved 2008-02-29. 

External links

• StarShine and Shadows (official site)

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Name	Collings, Michael Robert
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Short description	Author, poet, literary critic and bibliographer
Date of birth	1947
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