Daniel Harms

This article is about the horror fiction author. For the early Soviet-era absurdist poet, writer and dramatist, see Daniil Kharms.

Daniel Harms
Born	United States
Occupation	Writer, novelist, librarian
Genre	Horror

Daniel Harms is a writer, author and librarian living in upstate New York.

Harms is best known for the books The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror (which won an Origins Special Achievement Award), The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia, The Necronomicon Files (co-authored with John Wisdom Gonce III), and The Long-Lost Friend: A 19th Century American Grimoire.

Harms work has appeared in publications such as The Journal for the Academic Study of Magic, Abraxas, Fortean Times, Paranoia, and The Unspeakable Oath. He is the originator of The Shadow Over Usenet, a detailed online discussion of the works of H. P. Lovecraft. He is a lecturer on Lovecraft Circle literature and occult films and history, and his blog Papers Falling from an Attic Window provides commentary on these and other topics.

Bibliography

• 1998 - The Encyclopedia Cthulhiana: A Guide to Lovecraftian Horror (Call of Cthulhu Fiction). Chaosium, Inc. (2nd edition) ISBN 1-56882-119-0 (10), ISBN 978-1-56882-119-1 (13).
• 1998 - The Necronomicon Files - Harms, Daniel; John Wisdom Gonce III (Hardcover). Night Shade Books. ISBN 1-892389-00-2 (10), ISBN 978-1-892389-00-8 (13).
• 2003 - The Necronomicon Files - Harms, Daniel; John Wisdom Gonce III. Red Wheel Weiser. ISBN 1-57863-269-2.
• 2008 - The Cthulhu Mythos Encyclopedia: A Guide to H.P. Lovecraft's Universe (Updated & Expanded Third Edition). Elder Signs Press. ISBN 1-934501-04-2 (Hardcover), ISBN 1-934501-05-0 (Trade Paperback).
• 2012 - The Long Lost Friend: A 19th Century American Grimoire. Llewellyn Worldwide. ISBN 0738732540, ISBN 978-0-738732-54-1.

See also

• List of horror fiction authors

External links

• The Shadow Over Usenet Archives
• Papers Falling from an Attic Window
• Daniel Harms at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database