Frank David McSherry, Jr

Background

Frank David McSherry was born on December 18, 1927, in McAlester, Oklahoma, United States. He was the son of Frank D. and Mary (Clinton) McSherry.

Education

In 1953, McSherry received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Oklahoma. McSherry also attended Texas A & M University and the University of Santo Tomas.

Career

After serving in the U.S. Army Air Force, McSherry began his career as a commercial artist in 1953, remaining in this vocation until his retirement in 1974. His first book was Baseball Three Thousand. He co-edited over thirty anthologies during the 1980s and 1990s and often penned the introductory essays.

All included stories with science-fictional, horror, or detective-fiction elements, reflecting McSherry’s lifelong interest in those genres. Studies in Scarlet: Essays on Mystery and Detective Fiction, a collection of his essays, was published posthumously.

Achievements

• McSherry was notable for his books: A Treasury of American Horror Stories (1985); Nightmares in Dixie (1987); Haunted New England (1988); The Best Horror Stories of Arthur Conan Doyle (1989); A Treasury of American Mystery Stories (1989); and his last book, Civil War Women II: Stories by Women about Women (1997).
  
  Frank was a contributor to many other anthologies, including Popular Culture and the Expanding Consciousness, A Mystery Reader, and Villains, Detectives, and Heroes, as well as to the major genre magazines, such as Armchair Detective, Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine, Zane Grey Western, Mystery Fancier, and Mystery Reader’s Newsletter.
  
  

Works

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  • The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle

    (The Best Supernatural Tales of Arthur Conan Doyle gathers...)

    1989
  • Haunted New England

    (Seventeen tales of ghosts, ghouls, and eerie goings-on se...)

    1988
  • Civil War Women II: Stories by Women About Women (Civil War Series)

    (A collection of stories offers a look at life as a woman ...)

    1997
  • Detectives A to Z: 26 Stories

    (A collection of mystery stories featuring many of fiction...)

    1986
  • Death In Dixie

    (If his client died of suicide, McGavock woders, why did s...)

    1996
  • A Treasury of American Horror Stories 1985
  • Haunted Dixie. Great Ghost Stories From the Am0erican South 1994
  • Yankee Witches: 15 Short Stories of Horror and Humor 1992
  • A Treasury of American Mystery Stories 1989
  • Dixie Ghosts 1994
  • Ghosts of the heartlands 1990
  • Hollywood Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from America's Film Capital 1991
  • Nightmares in Dixie: Thirteen Horror Tales from the American South 1987
  • Confederate Battle Stories 1992

Politics

McSherry was a Democrat by his party affiliation.

Membership

McSherry was a member of the McAlester Writers Guild and an honorary member of the Baker Street Irregulars. He also belonged to the Friends of the McAlester Public Library, where a collection of his written works and illustrations are displayed, and of the McAlester Arts and Humanities Council.

Connections

Father:

Frank David McSherry

20 November 1891 - 15 December 1977

Mother:

Mary Clinton McSherry

October 1891 - 21 December 1960

Brother:

Walter Clinton McSherry

28 January 1929 - 5 February 2020

Walter Clinton McSherry was very active in the Republican Party having served as president of the West Side Republican Club in Manhattan for eight years. In addition, he was a delegate to the Republican National Convention as a presidential elector in 1988 for George H. W. Bush.

colleague:

Martin H. Greenberg

March 1, 1941 – June 25, 2011

Martin Harry Greenberg was an American academic and speculative fiction anthologist.

colleague:

Charles G. Waugh

Born on July 18, 1943

Charles G. Waugh is an American artist, portraitist, inventor, designer, Photographer and author.

References

• Contemporary Authors New Revision Series: A Bio-Bibliographical Guide to Current Writers in Fiction, General Non-Fiction, Poetry, Journalism, Drama, Motion Pictures, Television, and Other Fields In response to the escalating need for up-to-date information on writers, Contemporary Authors New Revision Series brings researchers the most recent data on the worlds most-popular authors.
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