as polished as those authors’ works (there was some question as to whether Reamy intended another polish draft of the novel), critics regarded Blind Voices as an exceptional first novel, causing both fans and critics to ponder how important a figure he could have become if he had lived. Other than Blind Voices, the only other Tom Reamy book is a posthumous collection of his shorter fiction, San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories, also published in both hardcover and mass-market paperback. The volume has an insightful and passionate introduction, "Embrace the Departing Shadow," by Harlan Ellison, surveying Reamy's stories and his short career before his untimely death). The story "San Diego Lightfoot Sue" won the 1975 Nebula Award for Best Novelette, and was a finalist for the 1976 Hugo Award for Best Novelette. Only one original, 17,000-word Reamy story remains unpublished after all this time: the novella "Potiphee, Petey and Me" was sold to Harlan Ellison for his now infamous Last Dangerous Visions original anthology and was supposed to have been published in the third and final volume of that series; the anthology never appeared in Ellison's lifetime and remains unpublished. Death Tom Reamy died on November 4, 1977 at age 42 while at his home in Independence, Missouri. He was found dead from a heart attack, slumped over his typewriter seven pages into a new, untitled story for editor Edward L. Ferman at The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction. He was laid to rest in Woodson Cemetery in Woodson, Texas, where other members of the Reamy family were interred. Prior to his death, Reamy and artist George Barr had begun working again on their graphic novel adaptation of Poul Anderson's fantasy novel The Broken Sword, which had begun appearing a decade before in the pages of Reamy's Trumpet; the project languished after his untimely death. Published works Novels: Blind Voices (1978) Collections: San Diego Lightfoot Sue and Other Stories (1979) Anthologies containing stories by Tom Reamy: Nova 4 (1974) Orbit 17 (1974) New Dimensions 6 (1975) Nebula Award Stories 10 (1975) Lone Star Universe (1976) The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction #22 (1976) Nebula Award Stories 11 (1976) Six Science Fiction Plays (1976) The Thirteen Crimes of Science Fiction (1980) New Voices 4 (1981) Sci-Fi Private Eye (1984) Light Years and Dark (1984) A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985) Demons! (1987) The Best Horror Stories