Michael Robert Collings (born October 29, 1947) is an American writer, poet, literary critic, and bibliographer, and a former professor of creative writing and literature at Pepperdine University.
He was Poet in Residence at Pepperdine's Seaver College from 1997 to 2000.
Collings was introduced to Stephen King's work by a student, David A. Engebretson, in 1983, and published his first book on him, The Many Facets of Stephen King, in 1985; reading King led to his also studying and publishing on Koontz and Robert McCammon.
"C. S. Lewis and the Music of Creation" (July–August 1979), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
"The Mechanisms of Fantasy" (January 1980), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
"To Be Still a Man: Abstraction and Concretion in C. S. Lewis" (January 1982), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
"Beyond Deep Heaven: Generic Structure and Christian Message in C. S. Lewis's Ransom Novels", (December 1986), Lamp-Post of the Southern California C.S. Lewis Society
"Brothers of the Head: Brian W. Aldiss's Psychological Landscape" (1988), Spectrum of the Fantastic: Selected Papers from the Fifth International Conference on the Fantastic in the Arts, Greenwood Press
"Brian W. Aldiss" (1989), Reader's Guide to Twentieth Century Science Fiction Writers, American Library Association
"To See the World the Poet's Way" In the Image of God: Theme, Characterization, and Landscape in the Fiction of Orson Scott Card. New York: Greenwood Press, (1990), Contemporary Literary Criticism. Ed.Jeffrey W. Hunter. Vol. 279. Detroit: Gale, 2010
Sources:
Non-fiction books
The Many Facets of Stephen King (1985), Starmont House, ISBN0-930261-14-3
The Shorter Works of Stephen King (1985), with David A. Engebretson, Starmont House, ISBN0-930261-02-X
Stephen King as Richard Bachman (1985), Starmont House, ISBN0-930261-00-3
The Annotated Guide to Stephen King: A Primary and Secondary Bibliography of the Works of America's Premier Horror Writer (1986), Starmont House, ISBN0-930261-80-1
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