literature on the subject and, in fact, there was very little being produced by fandom. It was an attempt to say, 'Look, here's what has been done in the medium.' I didn't sit down and talk to creators at great length or anything like that." Both Comix and the more extensively researched Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics – Marvel (1991) were written with a general audience in mind, in the hopes of educating both comic book fans and those unfamiliar with the medium. Fiction Don Sebastian de Villanueva The Black Castle (1978) The Silver Skull (1979) Citizen Vampire (1981) Yellow Fog (1986; revised and expanded edition 1988) No Blood Spilled (1991) White Demon (begun circa 1991 but never completed) An unabridged audio-book recording of The Black Castle was released by Crossroad Press in 2018. Non-fiction Comix: A History of Comic Books in America 198 pages, 1971, Random House, Living in Fear: A History of Horror in the Mass Media, 248 pages, 1975, Charles Scribner's Sons, Marvel: Five Fabulous Decades of the World's Greatest Comics, 287 pages, 1991, Harry N. Abrams, DC Comics: Sixty Years of the World's Favorite Comic Book Heroes, 256 pages, 1995, Bulfinch, Superman, the Complete History: The Life and Times of the Man of Steel, 192 pages, 1998, Chronicle Books, Superman: Masterpiece Edition, 96 pages, 1999, Chronicle Books, Batman The Complete History: The Life and Times of the Dark Knight, 208 pages, 1999, Chronicle Books, The Batman Masterpiece Edition: The Caped Crusader's Golden Age, 96 pages, 2000, Chronicle Books, Wonder Woman: The Complete History, 96 pages, 2000, Chronicle Books, Wonder Woman: The Golden Age, 80 pages, 2001, Chronicle Books, The Golden Age of DC Comics: 365 Days, 744 pages, 2004, Harry N. Abrams, As editor Thirteen Tales of Terror (1971; with Diane Thompson) Fear (1975) Dying of Fright: Masterpieces of the Macabre (1976) See also List of horror fiction authors References External links 1943 births 2011 deaths American horror writers Comics critics Brown University alumni