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- ↑ 1943 Retro-Hugo Awards, at TheHugoAwards.org; retrieved March 16, 2019
- ↑ THE COMPLEAT WEREWOLF, reviewed at Kirkus Reviews ; published November 1, 1969; subsequently posted online; retrieved March 16, 2019
- ↑ The Compleat Boucher, reviewed by Peter D. Tillman, at the SF Site; published 2000; retrieved March 16, 2019
- ↑ The Fantasy Hall of Fame, ed. Robert Silverberg, reviewed by Brian Stableford, originally published in The New York Review of Science Fiction #121 (September 1998); archived in News of the Black Feast and Other Random Reviews, published March 1, 2009; note that the text misspells it as "Complete"
- ↑ Unnatural Creatures , reviewed at Publishers Weekly ; published April 8, 2013; retrieved March 16, 2019
- ↑ Griffins, Unicorns, and Yet Weirder Chimerae: Unnatural Creatures, edited by Neil Gaiman and Maria Dahvana Headley, reviewed by Karin L. Kross, at Tor.com; published April 17, 2013; retrieved March 16, 2019
- ↑ Neil Gaiman: Unnatural Creatures, reviewed by Noah Cruickshank, in The A.V. Club ; published April 22, 2013; retrieved March 16, 2019