Robert R. McCammon

About the Author

Robert R. McCammon is a popular horror fiction writer. He was born in 1952 in Birmingham, Alabama and attended the University of Alabama. After college he spent a number of years working in advertising for bookstores in Birmingham, where he still lives. McCammon's first novel, "Baal," was published show more in 1978. He quickly joined the group of horror writers that includes Stephen King, Dean R. Koontz, and Anne Rice, who write suspenseful stories with modern-day settings. He has published over two dozen books to date. With the publication of "Boy's Life" in 1991, McCammon left behind the horror genre, noting that he finds real life horrifying enough these days. While there are some aspects of the supernatural in "Boy's Life," it is more a story of growing up in a small Southern town. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

Includes the names: Robert McCammon, Robert McCammon, Robert R. McCammon, Robert R. McGammon, McCammon Robert R., Robert R. MacCammon, Robert R. MC Cammon, etc Robert R McCammon, רוברט ר מקמון, Роберт Маккаммон, ロバート・R. マキャモン, Robert R McCammon; Robert McCammon

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Matthew Corbett

Michael Gallatin

I Travel By Night

Works by Robert R. McCammon

Popular Recent

Swan Song (1987) 3,417 copies

Boy's Life (1991) 2,554 copies

The Wolf's Hour (1989) 1,029 copies

Speaks the Nightbird (2002) 980 copies

Gone South (1992) 841 copies

Stinger (1987) 826 copies

They Thirst (1981) 810 copies

Mine (1990) 724 copies

Mystery Walk (1983) 655 copies

Usher's Passing (1984) 628 copies

Blue World (1989) 597 copies

The Queen of Bedlam (2007) 566 copies

Baal (1978) 482 copies

The Night Boat (1980) 454 copies

Mister Slaughter (2010) 365 copies

Bethany's Sin (1980) 356 copies

The Five (2011) 265 copies

Speaks the Nightbird: Judgment of the Witch (2002) 242 copies

The Border (2015) 231 copies

The Providence Rider (2012) 203 copies

Under the Fang (1991) — Editor; Contributor — 189 copies

Speaks the Nightbird: Evil Unveiled (2003) 162 copies

I Travel by Night (2013) 154 copies

The Listener (2018) 154 copies

The River of Souls (2014) 151 copies

The Hunter from the Woods (2011) 142 copies

Freedom of the Mask (2016) 124 copies

Cardinal Black (2019) 110 copies

Two Classic Volumes From Robert R Mccammon Boys Life Gone South (1998) 54 copies

The King of Shadows (2022) 51 copies

Last Train From Perdition (2013) 50 copies

The Monster Novels: Stinger, The Wolf's Hour, and Mine (2018) 29 copies

Halloween Carnival Volume 1 (2017) — Author — 23 copies

He'll Come Knocking At Your Door (1900) 21 copies

Tales from Greystone Bay (1900) 19 copies

Seven Shades of Evil (2023) 17 copies

Night Crawlers (1989) 16 copies

Makeup (A Short Story) (2014) 13 copies

Swans Song, Part 2 (2023) 13 copies

The Southern Novels (2018) 12 copies

Swans Song, Part 1 (2023) 10 copies

Night Calls the Green Falcon (A Short Story) (2014) 9 copies

La hora del lobo (1993) 7 copies

A Little Amber Book of Wicked Shots 7 copies

The Collected Stories Robert R. McCammon 6 copies

Horror factor 7 (1988) 6 copies

Eat Me 4 copies

I Travel by Night and Last Train from Perdition (2022) 4 copies

Los senderos del terror (1999) 3 copies

Pin [short fiction] 3 copies

The Room at the Bottom of the Stairs (2014) 3 copies

The Miracle Mile [short fiction] 3 copies

Something Passed By (1990) 2 copies

The Horror Writers of America, Inc. Presents Under the Fang (1991) 2 copies

Nightcrawlers (A Short Story) (2014) 2 copies

The Deep End 2 copies

The Great White Way (2014) 2 copies

On a Beautiful Summer's Day He Was 2 copies

WOLF'S HOUR Band 1: Die Verwandlung (2016) 2 copies

WOLF'S HOUR Band 2: Berserker (2016) 2 copies

Il canto di Swan (Fanucci Editore) 2 copies

MATTHEW CORBETT und der maskierte Rächer: Roman (German Edition) (2023) 2 copies

1990 - Mine v4 2 copies

Il canto di Swan (2022) 1 copy

Children of the Bedtime Machine 1 copy

Yellowjacket Summer 1 copy

Huída al sur (1993) 1 copy

Black Boots {short story} (1989) 1 copy

Smrt před úsvitem (2023) 1 copy

The Collected Stories: Nightcrawlers, The Deep End, Doom City, The Night I Killed the King (with Paul Schulz), Night… 1 copy

2015 1 copy

Little Amber Book Of Wicked Shots (Limited (Signed) 1 copy

Children of the Bedtime Machine [Private Printing] 1 copy

The Pale Pipesmoker (Matthew Corbett, #6.1) 1 copy

The Wolf and the Eagle (2014) 1 copy

Sea Chase (2014) 1 copy

The Man from London (2014) 1 copy

Death of a Hunter (2014) 1 copy

Best Friends [short story] 1 copy

The Red House 1 copy

The Thang 1 copy

Boys Life - Die Suche nach einem Mörder 1 copy

Three Novels of Creeping Terror: The Night Boat, Baal, and Bethany's Sin (2022) 1 copy

Matthew Corbett und die Hexe von Fount Royal, Band 2 1 copy

Die Schwarze Pyramide 1 copy

Wandernde Seelen 1 copy

The Listener 1 copy

Strange Candy: A Halloween Short Story 1 copy

MATTHEW CORBETT und der Fluss der Seelen (2021) 1 copy

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Associated Works

Book of the Dead (1989) — Contributor — 386 copies

Shadow Show (2012) — Contributor — 366 copies

Stalkers: 19 Original Tales by the Masters of Terror (1989) — Contributor — 228 copies

Hot Blood: Tales of Provocative Horror (1989) — Contributor — 199 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Third Annual Collection (1988) — Contributor — 182 copies

The Further Adventures of the Joker (1990) — Contributor — 159 copies

Dark Masques (2001) — Contributor — 137 copies

Vampires: The Greatest Stories (1997) — Contributor — 122 copies

Silver Scream (1969) — Contributor — 111 copies

The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy (2000) — Contributor — 92 copies

Best New Horror (1989) — Contributor — 87 copies

Razored Saddles (1989) — Contributor — 87 copies

Night Visions 4: Hardshell (1987) — Contributor — 84 copies

New Stories from the Twilight Zone (1991) — Contributor — 81 copies

Best New Horror 3 (1992) — Contributor — 74 copies

Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2011) — Contributor — 74 copies

Creatures: Thirty Years of Monsters (2011) — Contributor — 68 copies

Greystone Bay (1985) — Contributor — 67 copies

Demons (2011) — Contributor — 66 copies

Post Mortem (Short Stories Anthology) (1989) — Contributor — 60 copies

Modern Masters of Horror (1963) — Contributor — 52 copies

Masques: All New Works of Horror and the Supernatural (1984) — Contributor — 50 copies

The Year's Best Fantasy Stories: 12 (1986) — Contributor — 49 copies

Halloween Horrors (1984) — Contributor — 49 copies

Dark Screams: Volume Two (2015) — Contributor — 43 copies

The Seaharp Hotel (1990) — Contributor — 36 copies

Doom City (1987) — Contributor — 35 copies

Best Of Masques (1988) — Contributor — 30 copies

Bad Seeds: Evil Progeny (2013) — Contributor — 30 copies

October Dreams II (Anthology) (2016) — Contributor — 29 copies

Night Visions 8 (1990) — Contributor — 26 copies

Midnight in the Graveyard (2019) — Contributor — 24 copies

Dark Screams: Volume Seven (2017) 24 copies

The Giant Book of Terror (1994) — Contributor — 20 copies

Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 3 (2020) — Contributor — 19 copies

Julma on rakkaus (1992) — Contributor — 17 copies

Outoja tarinoita 3 (1991) — Contributor — 16 copies

Better Weird: A Tribute to David B. Silva (Anthology) (2015) — Contributor — 14 copies

Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital (American Ghost Series) (1991) — Contributor — 12 copies

When the Black Lotus Blooms (1990) — Introduction — 8 copies

Nightmare Magazine, June 2013 (2013) — Contributor — 7 copies

The Roots of Fantasy: Myth, Folklore & Archetype (1989) — Contributor — 4 copies

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Common Knowledge

Canonical name: McCammon, Robert R.
Legal name: McCammon, Robert Rick
Other names: McCammon, Robert R.
Birthdate: 1952-07-17
Gender: male
Nationality: USA
Birthplace: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Places of residence: Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Education: University of Alabama (Journalism)
Occupations: novelist
Awards and honors: Bram Stoker Award (Short Story, 1987) "The Deep End" (Short Story ∙ 1987)
Bram Stoker Award (Short Story, 1989) "Eat Me" (Short Story ∙ 1989)
World Fantasy Award Nominee (Short Story ∙ 1985)
World Fantasy Award Nominee (Novella, 1988) "Best Friends" (Novella ∙ 1988)
World Horror Convention Grand Master Award (2008)

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Discussions

THE DEEP ONES: "Black Boots" by Robert McCammon in The Weird Tradition (May 2023)

Disfigured faces later change to reflect a persons heart in Name that Book (August 2015)

horror book twin brothers powers in Name that Book (September 2012)

Sci Fi - post apocalytic -diease that causes face to crystalize calcifi in Name that Book (April 2012)

Anyone remember They Thirst? in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (August 2011)

Robert McCammon's Speaks the Nightbird/The Queen of Bedlam in Thing(amabrarian)s That Go Bump in the Night (July 2008)

Reviews

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

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LLonaVahine | 121 other reviews | May 22, 2024 |

The Wolf's Hour (The Michael Gallatin Thrillers) by Robert McCammon

DNF at ~35%. I loved the pastoral masterpiece that is Boy's Life but this story is too dumb to waste any more time on. I made it through the eye-roll inducing opera house scene before calling it quits.

½

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ScoLgo | 22 other reviews | May 8, 2024 |

Swan Song by Robert McCammon

Definitely entertaining. The writing itself lacks eloquence. Not much to read into, very literal (no pun intended).

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arlyspag | 121 other reviews | Apr 21, 2024 |

Speaks the Nightbird by Robert R. McCammon

this book is in desperate need of editing. it is way too long. the first quarter of the book or so does not pertain to the plot of the book. It establishes the element of illness for a character, which could have been done in another way, in much less time.

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sawcat | 36 other reviews | Apr 8, 2024 |

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