Janet Fox

Janet Fox (10/25/1940 - 10/21/2009) was a fantasy and horror writer and poet. She was born in Topeka, Kansas, and became a teacher of English and foreign language.

Fox served as a secretary/treasurer of the Small Press Writers and Artists' Organization. Later she established the Scavenger's Newsletter. Her writing career spanned from 1970 to 2003 when her collection "A Witch's Dozen" was published.

Fox wrote five books in the six-book Scorpio Novel series for Ace Books under the name Alex McDonough.

Novels[]

Scorpio Rising
Scorpio Descending
Dragon's Blood
Dragon's Eye
Dragon's Claw

A Witch's Dozen[]

Fox had a collection of short stories, titled A Witch's Dozen published by Wildside Press originally in 2003 and reprinted in 2005.

Anthologies[]

The following anthologies have published works by Janet Fox

100 Fiendish Little Nightmares
100 Great Fantasy Short Stories
100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment
100 Wicked Little Witch Stories
Aliens & Lovers
All the Devils Are Here
Amazons!
Best of the horror Show
Burning with a Vision
Damnations
Dragon Tales
Fears
Horrorstory, Volume Three
Midnight
Once Upon a Midnight
Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghostly Horror
Shadows 2
Shadows 9
Sword and Sorceress
Sword and Sorceress V
Tales By Moonlight
The Anthology of Speculative Poetry #3
The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales
The Year's Best Fantasy Stories 5
The Year's Best Horror Stories VI
The Year's Best Horror Stories VII
Voices From the Night: 27 Stories of Horror and Suspense
When the Black Lotus Blooms

Magazine Credits[]

The following magazines published works by Janet Fox. They are displayed by titles not editions.

2AM
Amazing Science Fiction Stories
Cemetery Dance
Critical Mass
Crossroads
Dark Regions
Dead of Night
Dementia
Dreams & Nightmares
Eldritch Tales
Fantastic
Fantasy Book
Fantasy Macabre
Fantasy Review
Fantasy Tales
Grue
Infinitum
Magazine of Horror
Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy
Noctulpa
Nyctalops
Owlflight
Rod Serling's The Twilight Zone Magazine
Shadow Sword
Space and Time
Star-Line
Tales of the Unanticipated
The Tome
The Urbanite
Violent Legends
Weird Tales
Weirdbook
Whispers

Short Story Credits[]

A Witch in Time
Answer Came There None
Christobel
Cille's World
Clown Black
Cradle Robbers
Demon and Demoiselle
Dream Journey
Eyes of the Laemi
Garage Sale
Gate of the Damned
Getting Miss Grisley
Heirloom
Hey Mom
How Jaquerel Fell Prey to Ankarrah
How Jaquerel Learned to Let Sleeping Gods Lie
How Jaquerel Was Slain By the God Brann
Immortality and Mrs. Mundy
In the Kingdom of the Thorn
Intimately, With Rain
Late Bloomer
Materialist
Mirror Trick
Morrien's Bitch
Say It with Spiders
Screaming to Get Out
She-Bear
Small Magic
Strands
Surrogate
Taking Care of Bertie
The Bloodfruit
The Bug Boy
The Dragon Business (with Kevin J. Anderson)
The Ghost-Winder
The Kirkhall Legacy
The Lord Loved Little People
The Man Who Loved the Wizard's Son
The Miraculous God Machine
The Name Unspeakable in Tel Urath
The Saturday Morning Horrors
The Servitor
The Skins You Love to Touch
The Umbrella
The Unicorn Girl
The Woman Who Went Home
To a Crow, All Crows are White
Valentine
When Jaquerel Made War in Bel Azhurra
When Jaquerel Walked with Shadows
Witches

Poetry Credits[]

(____)
A Goblet
All the Black Crayons
As the Wind Improvised
Bag Lady's Ghost
Cthulhu of the Webbed Cross
Death
Haiku
Hard Knight's Work
In the First Month of Becoming
In the Mask Shop
Insomniac
Institutions
Ledger
Legions of Grotesques
Like an Old Wizard....
Nocturnal...Elisions
O Slapstick Buddha
Pterodactyls
Quotella
Some Kind of Monster
Telepathy
That Maniac Upstairs
The Time Barrier
Time as a Closet
To Love the Dark
Two Poems
Under Jennie's Bed
Untitled
Untitled ("Fading in and out of intermittent...")
Untitled ("Neon in vomit green...)
When We Lived in the Cemetery
Willow Woman Walks

Non-Fiction Credits[]

Janet Fox
Other Side of the Desk
Overview of Horror, SF and Fantasy: A Long-range Market Study