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- ↑ Tartarus Press website
- ↑ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2002 Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2004 Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2012 Archived 2015-12-10 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Stoker Awards Recipients: 2009
- ↑ World Fantasy Awards Recipients: 2004 Archived 2007-10-12 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ What’s weird?, The Washington Post, June 1 2023
- ↑ imdb entry
- ↑ imdb entry
