
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
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The cover of Warrior
Witch of Hel features the art of Boris Vallejo.
Two
I Am Dracula Covers. The first edition is on the
left. The later edition cover is on the right.
This is the cover of the
Russian edition of Warrior
Witch of Hel.
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