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Janet Kaye Fox (October 25, 1940 – October 21, 2009)〔(''Topeka Capital-Journal'' ) (obituary)〕 was an American fantasy and horror writer, poet, teacher, and founder-editor-publisher of the now-defunct ''Scavenger's Newsletter''. She lived in Osage City, Kansas. ==Career== Fox spent fifteen years as a teacher of English and foreign language at Osage City High School, and a number of years after as an instructor for Writer's Digest School. She served as secretary/treasurer of the Small Press Writers and Artists' Organization, as well as issuing a newsletter for the group, afterwards establishing ''Scavenger's Newsletter'', a monthly market letter for "SF/Fantasy/Horror/Mystery writers and artists with an interest in the small press" published from 1984 to 2003. ''Scavenger's Newsletter'' also published short fiction, poems, essays, reviews, interviews and interior illustrations from writers like Marge Simon, Bruce Boston, Jeff VanderMeer, Lela E. Buis and others. Fox's writing career began in 1970, with her work appearing in professional and small press publications. Most of Fox's book length fiction was written as Alex McDonough, the shared pseudonym under which Ace Books's six-volume "Scorpio" series was issued in the early 1990s. She wrote all but the first volume.〔Fox, Janet. ("Janet Fox" ) in (''Speculative Fiction & Beyond'' ).〕 She also wrote, under her own name, the collection ''A Witch's Dozen'' (2005) and numerous other short stories and poems. Her short fiction appeared in ''Borderland'', ''Cemetery Dance'', ''Collage'', ''Crossroads'', ''Dark Regions'', ''Dead of Night'', ''Eldritch Tales'', ''Eternity'', ''Fantastic'', ''Fantasy Book'', ''Grue'', ''The Horror Show'', ''Infinitum'', ''Marion Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine'', ''Metamorphoses'', ''New Blood'', ''Shadow Sword'', ''Sorcerer's Apprentice'', ''Tales as Like as Not'', ''Tales of the Unanticipated'', ''Twilight Zone'', ''2AM FII'', ''The Urbanite'', ''Weirdbook'', ''Whispers'', and such anthologies as ''All the Devils Are Here'' (David D. Deyo, Jr., ed., 1986), ''Amazons!'' (Jessica Amanda Salmonson, ed., 1979), ''Best of the Horror Show'' (David B. Silva, ed., 1987), ''Burning With a Vision'' (Robert Frazier, ed., 1984), ''The Definitive Best of the Horror Show'' (David B. Silva, ed., 1992), ''Dragon Tales'' (Isaac Asimov, et al., eds., 1982), ''Fantasy Tales #6'' (Stephen Jones, et al., eds., 1991), ''Fears'' (Charles L. Grant, ed., 1983), ''The Giant Book of Fantasy Tales'' (Stephen Jones, et al., eds., 1996), ''Horrorstory Volume Three'' (Karl Edward Wagner, ed., 1992), ''Midnight'' (Charles L. Grant, ed., 1985), ''100 Fiendish Little Frightmares'' (Stefan Dziemianowicz, et al., eds., 1997), ''100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories'' (Isaac Asimov, et al., ed., 1984), ''100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment'' (Stefan Dziemianowicz, et al., eds., 1998), ''100 Wicked Little Witch Stories'' (Stefan Dziemianowicz, et al., eds., 1995), ''Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghastly Horror'' (Paul F. Olson, et al., eds., 1989), ''Shadows #2'' (Charles L. Grant, ed., 1979), ''Shadows #9'' (Charles L. Grant, ed., 1986), ''Sword and Sorceress #1'' (Marion Zimmer Bradley, ed., 1984), ''Sword and Sorceress #5'' (Marion Zimmer Bradley, ed., 1988), ''Tales by Moonlight II'' (Jessica Amanda Salmonson, ed., 1989), ''Voices from the Night'' (John Maclay, ed., 1994), ''When the Black Lotus Blooms'' (Elizabeth A. Saunders, ed., 1990), ''The Year's Best Fantasy Stories #5'' (Lin Carter, ed., 1980), ''The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VI'' (Gerald W. Page, ed., 1978), and ''The Year's Best Horror Stories: Series VII'' (Gerald W. Page, ed., 1979). Her poetry appeared in ''Critical Mass'', ''Dreams & Nightmares'', ''Eldritch Tales'', Joseph Payne Brennan's ''Essence'', ''Fungi FII'', ''Grue'', ''Nøctulpa'', ''Nyctalops'', ''Owlflight'', ''Paradox'', ''The Tome'', ''2AM'', ''Star *Line'', ''Weird Tales'', and such anthologies as ''Aliens & Lovers'' (Millea Kenin, ed., 1983), ''Burning with a Vision'' (Robert Frazier, ed., 1984), and ''Once Upon a Midnight'' (Jame A. Riley et al., eds., 1995). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Janet Fox (author)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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