Fred Chappell

Author · 21 books

Fred Davis Chappell retired after 40 years as an English professor at University of North Carolina at Greensboro. He was the Poet Laureate of North Carolina from 1997-2002. He attended Duke University. His 1968 novel Dagon, which was named the Best Foreign Book of the Year by the Academie Française, is a recasting of a Cthulhu Mythos horror story as a psychologically realistic Southern Gothic. His literary awards include the Prix de Meilleur des Livres Etrangers, the Bollingen Prize, and the T. S. Eliot Prize.

Books

Family Gathering

The Inkling

Dagon

Familiars

The Big Book of Modern Fantasy

C

Brighten the Corner Where You Are

Farewell, I'm Bound to Leave You

The Fred Chappell Reader

The Gaudy Place

Shadow Box

I Am One of You Forever

A Shadow All of Light

First and Last Words

Naked Came the Leaf Peeper

Ancestors and Others

Backsass

Look Back All the Green Valley

Spring Garden

Midquest

More Shapes Than One