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C. DEAN ANDERSSON Biography

C. Dean Andersson wrote horror, fantasy, and science fiction with an edge. The Death Wagon Rolls on By received a Horror Writers Association Bram Stoker finalist award. I Am Dracula was highlighted with a Count Dracula Fan Club recommendation and featured in Olalla, an epic vampire film, as a vampire’s favorite book. Bloodsong, a sword-wielding Scandinavian warrior woman, cut new ground for heroines in fantasy as she led slaves in revolt with her rallying cry, "Bloodsong and Freedom!” Publishers Weekly reviewed Death Riders of Hel as The Heavy Metal of Fantasy Adventure. Visit Dean's website at www.cdeanandersson.com

C. DEAN ANDERSSON (AKA DRAKE) Novels

Title: I Am Dracula
Publisher: Zebra-Kensington

Title: I Am Frankenstein
Publisher: Zebra-Kensington

Title: Fiend
Publisher: Zebra-Kensington

Title: Buried Screams
Publisher: Popular Library

Title: Raw Pain Max
Publisher: Popular Library

Title: Torture Tomb
Publisher: Popular Library

Title: Werebeasts of Hel
Publisher: Questar-Popular Library

Title: Death Riders of Hel
 Publisher: Questar-Popular Library

 Title: Warrior Witch of Hel
Publisher: Questar-Popular Library

Title: The Lair of Ancient Dreams
Publisher: Avon Books

Title: Crimson Kisses
Publisher: Avon Books

C. DEAN ANDERSSON SHORT STORIES

“The Testiment of Tuff”

WHAT SCARES THE BOOGEY MAN?

Hel Laughs Last”

FENCON IV Program Book

“Slim and Swede and the Damned Dead Horse”        

CROSS PLAINS UNIVERSE: TEXANS CELEBRATE ROBERT E. HOWARD

“How Grandpa Got Weird”

TALES TOLD AT MIDNIGHT ALONG THE RIO GRAND              

“The Horror of Her Annihilation”      

HIGH FEROCITY                                                        

“Hang Tuff”

SMALL BITES

“The Tomb of Fog and Flowers”

THE MANY FACES OF VAN HELSING

“Dust Bowl”

THE BOOK OF ALL FLESH

“The Blood of Othinn”

DARK DESTINY III: Children of Dracula

“My Greatest Fear”

SONS OF DARKNESS: Tales of Men, Blood, and Immortality

“The War Skull of Hel”

PAWN OF CHAOS: Tales of the Eternal Champion

“Small Brown Bags of Blood”

DARK DESTINY

“Troll Story”

THE SPLENDOUR FALLS

“Horror Heaven”

DARK SEDUCTIONS

“Night Watch”

SCARE CARE

“The Death Wagon Rolls on By”

Cemetery Dance

C. DEAN ANDERSSON Personal Recollections

Dean and I first meet at a DFW Science Fiction convention in Dallas, TX. We would chat in hallways between panels and other places, swapping stories and shared life experiences. I was intrigued when I found out that he had gone to college after a few years in the Air Force Band as a percussionist. He wanted to study astronomy to make his science fiction novels more accurate and graduated summa cum laude with an Astrophysics degree. Along the way, I found out that we were both Technical Writers, he writing mainframe computer software manuals and I telephone exchange software manuals. Most recently we would have lunch together,  and I would show him my theoretical physics research notebooks and discuss my work. I miss my conversations with Dean and hope that wherever  he is, he is happy and writing horror, fantasy and science fiction.

-- David  Gray, Friend and Fellow Writer

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My friend Dean Andersson's world-line passed into a different space-time two years ago. I do miss him.  Dean was known in fandom as a horror fiction writer (though he did have a day job to keep in groceries).

I first met Dean at an Armadillocon sometime in the 1980s and struck up a palship.` After that we met at conventions in Dallas (where he lived) , Austin and Aggiecon.

We talked about science fiction and fantasy, but we had a great time talking about films, movies of all kinds. He was a great conversationalist, and we had a lot of good times together.

Te Desidero

Al Jackson

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Back in the day, when the Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits were exciting, new shows, the characters of smart starpeople were more often than not presented as haughty, cold, self-absorbed, even cruel beings, who recognized but ignored the needs of 'lesser' beings.

In my travels forward through time, I have met a few smart starpeople who acted like that. However, I have been lucky in that I have met many more smart starpeople who proved to be thoughtful, concerned, caring, every-day beings.

And then, I had the very good fortune to meet C. Dean Andersson. Dean and I were put on panels together at various science fiction conventions. I, as a technical editor and writer of science fiction short stories, was a panelist. Dean, the talented, professional novelist, working technical writer, and for-really scientist, was usually the moderator.

As such, Dean could have taken a Star-turn, but instead, he was invariably kind and sharing with every person on his panels and with every person in our audiences. Everybody got a chance to share ideas and have fun. If someone wanted to talk more after the panel ended, Dean made time for them.

That was the Dean Andersson I knew. He was a smart, gifted starperson who gladly, quietly shared what he had with those around him. In this, Dean walked lightly on the earth and left it a better place than he found it.

If you missed getting to know C. Dean Andersson while he was here, it is not too late for you to get to know something of him now. He left behind some wonderful novels for you. Read them and meet the writer who was Dean. When you do, I know you'll be glad you took the time to get to know that smart, quiet, amazing, kindly starperson whom I knew as  Dean Andersson.

-- Mary Gearhart-Gray, Artist, Friend and Fellow Panelist


C. Dean Andersson

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The cover of Warrior Witch of Hel features the art of Boris Vallejo.

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Two I Am Dracula Covers. The first edition is on the left. The later edition cover is on the right.


I Am Dracula Covers

This is the cover of the Russian edition of Warrior Witch of Hel.

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