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Everett Franklin Bleiler (April 30, 1920 — June 13, 2010) was an editor, bibliographer, and scholar of science fiction, detective fiction, and fantasy literature. In the late 1940s and early 1950s, he co-edited the first "year's best" series of science fiction anthologies, and his Checklist of Fantastic Literature has been called "the foundation of modern SF bibliography". Among his other scholarly works are two Hugo Award—nominated volumes concerning early science fiction...Science-Fiction: The Early Years and Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years...and the massive Guide to Supernatural Fiction.
Bleiler worked at Dover Publications from 1955, becoming executive vice-president of the company from 1967 until he left the company in 1977; he then worked for Charles Scribner's Sons until 1987. He edited a number of ghost story collections for Dover, containing what the genre historian Mike Ashley has described as "detailed and exemplary introductions".
Bleiler received the Pilgrim Award for lifetime achievement in science fiction scholarship in 1984, the World Fantasy Award for Life Achievement in 1988, the First Fandom Hall of Fame award in 1994, and the International Horror Guild Living Legend award in 2004.
As editor
The Best Science Fiction
- 1949 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1950 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1951 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1952 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1953 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1954 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1952 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1953 (with T. E. Dikty)
- 1954 (with T. E. Dikty)
Other anthologies
- Imagination Unlimited (with T. E. Dikty, 1952)
- Three Gothic Novels (1966)
- Five Victorian Ghost Novels (1971)
- Eight Dime Novels (1974)
- Three Supernatural Novels of the Victorian Period (1975)
- Three Victorian Detective Novels (1978)
- A Treasury of Victorian Detective Stories (1979)
- A Treasury of Victorian Ghost Stories (1981)
Single-author collections
- Three Prophetic Science Fiction Novels of H. G. Wells (1960)
- Best Ghost Stories of J. S. Le Fanu (1964)
- Ghost and Horror Stories of Ambrose Bierce (1964)
- The Best Tales of Hoffmann, by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1967)
- The King in Yellow and Other Stories, by Robert W. Chambers (1970)
- Ghost Stories and Mysteries, by J. S. Le Fanu (1971)
- Best Max Carrados Detective Stories, by Ernest Bramah (1972)
- Gods, Men and Ghosts, by Lord Dunsany (1972)
- The Best Dr. Thorndyke Detective Stories, by R. Austin Freeman (1973)
- Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood (1973)
- Best "Thinking Machine" Detective Stories, by Jacques Futrelle (1973)
- Best Martin Hewitt Detective Stories, by Arthur Morrison (1976)
- Great Cases of the "Thinking Machine", by Jacques Futrelle (1976)
- The Collected Ghost Stories of Mrs J. H. Riddell (1977)
- The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle (1979)
- The Old Man in the Corner: Twelve Mysteries, by Baroness Orczy (1980)
Nonfiction
- The Checklist of Fantastic Literature (1948; corrected and revised edition, 1978)
- Science Fiction Writers (1982)
- The Guide to Supernatural Fiction (1983)
- Supernatural Fiction Writers: Fantasy and Horror (1985)
- Science-Fiction: The Early Years (1990)
- Science-Fiction: The Gernsback Years (1998)
Total Books: 7