John Robert Colombo

John Robert Colombo, CM (b. March 24, 1936, Kitchener, Ontario) is nationally known as the Master Gatherer. He is among Canada's most prolific authors of serious books. He is a poet, anthologist, editor, essayist, humourist, author or editor of over 200 books, best known as a writer and compiler of reference works and editor of anthologies pertaining to Canadian culture, history and geography, and the fields of lore and literature, science fiction, fantasy, and horror; his Other Canadas [1979] was the first anthology of Canadian fantastic literature, and established that the genre did exist with characteristic features. He also co-edited Not to Be Taken at Night [1982], the first anthology of Canadian fiction of horror and terror. He...