- Author: Richard S. Shaver Author Record # 1152
- Legal Name: Shaver, Richard Sharpe
- Birthplace: Berwick, Pennsylvania, USA
- Birthdate: 8 October 1907
- Deathdate: 5 November 1975
- Language: English
- Webpages: sf-encyclopedia.com, Wikipedia-EN
- Used These Alternate Names: Wes Amherst, Edwin Benson, Alexander Blade, Peter Dexter, Richard Dorot, The Red Dwarf, Richard English, G. H. Irwin, J. H. Irwin, Paul Lohrman, Frank Patton, Stan Raycraft, D. Richard Sharpe, Richard Shaver, Gerald Vance
- Author Tags: archive.org (4), science fiction (2), historical fantasy (1), NESFA Core Reading List (1), dystopia (1), space travel (1), erotica (1), action-adventure (1), hollow earth (1), heroic fantasy (1), occult (1), lost world (1)
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Fiction Series
- Ben Uniaty
-
The Masked World (1946)
also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- The Masked World (Complete Novel) (1946)
- Earth Slaves to Space (1946) [SF]
-
The Masked World (1946)
also appeared as:
- Big Jim Steele
-
Cult of the Witch Queen (1946)
with
Bob McKenna
also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- Cult of the Witch Queen (Complete Novel) (1946)
- The Sea People (1946) [SF]
-
Gods of Venus (1948)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Zauberbann der Venus [German] (1973)
- Serializations:
- Gods of Venus (Complete Novel) (1948)
-
Titan's Daughter (1948)
also appeared as:
- Translation: Titans Tochter [German] (1975)
- Serializations:
- Titan's Daughter (Complete Novel) (1948)
-
Cult of the Witch Queen (1946)
with
Bob McKenna
also appeared as:
- Mutan Mion
-
"I Remember Lemuria!" (1945) [SF]
also appeared as:
- Variant: I Remember Lemuria! (unknown)
- Variant: "I Remember Lemuria!" (1945) [as by Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver]
- Variant: I Remember Lemuria (1945)
- Invasion of the Micro-Men (1946) [SF]
- The Return of Sathanas (1946) [SF] [also as by Bob McKenna and Richard S. Shaver]
- The Land of Kui (1946) [SF]
- We Dance for the Dom (1950) [SF]
-
Beyond the Barrier (1953)
also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- Beyond the Barrier (Part 1 of 4) (1952)
- Beyond the Barrier (Part 2 of 4) (1952)
- Beyond the Barrier (Part 3 of 4) (1953)
- Beyond the Barrier (Part 4 of 4) (1953)
-
"I Remember Lemuria!" (1945) [SF]
also appeared as:
- The Shaver Mystery Collections
- 1 The Shaver Mystery, Book One (2011) [C]
- 2 The Shaver Mystery, Book Two (2011) [C]
- 3 The Shaver Mystery, Book Three (2012) [C]
- 4 The Shaver Mystery, Book Four (2013) [C]
- 5 The Shaver Mystery, Book Five (2014) [C]
- 6 The Shaver Mystery: Book Six (2015) [C]
- 8 The Shaver Mystery: Book Eight (2020) [C]
- The Shaver Mystery Compendiums
- 1 The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 1 (2019) [C]
- 2 The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 2 (2019) [O]
- 3 The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 3 (2019) [C]
- 4 The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 4 (2019) [C]
- 5 The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 5 (2019) [C]
- 6 The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 6 (2019) [C]
- 8 The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 8 (2019) [C]
-
The Sun-Smiths (1952)
also appeared as:
- Serializations:
- The Sun-Smiths (Part 1 of 3) (1952)
- The Sun-Smiths (Part 2 of 3) (1952)
- The Sun-Smiths (Part 3 of 3) (1952)
- I Remember Lemuria, and the Return of Sathanas (1948)
- The Sea People / Witch's Daughter (2012)
- The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 7 (2019)
- De monsters van Delta Sira [Dutch] (1962) [only as by J. H. Irwin]
- I Remember Lemuria (2007)
- The Return of Sathanas (2007)
- Of Stegner's Folly (2010)
- The Dark Goddess (2010)
- The Plotters (2010) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- Daughter of the Night (2010)
- Paradise Planet (2021)
- Frank Farar
- Lair of the Grimalkin (1948) [only as by G. H. Irwin]
- Where No Foot Walks (1949) [only as by G. H. Irwin]
- Glass Woman of Venus (1951) [only as by G. H. Irwin]
- Red Dwarf (Shaver)
- 1 Daughter of the Night (1948)
- 2 Erdis Cliff (1949)
- The Shaver Mystery
- 1 I Contacted an Unknown Race (1955) [ES]
- 2
The Rescue of Atlantis and Lemuria by the Flying Saucers (1956)
with
Raymond A. Palmer
only appeared as:
- Variant: The Shaver Mystery No. 2: The Rescue of Atlantis and Lemuria by the Flying Saucers (1956) [as by Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver]
- 3
Why Do We Die? (1956) [ES]
with
Raymond A. Palmer
only appeared as:
- Variant: The Shaver Mystery No. 3: Why Do We Die? (1956) [as by Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver]
- 4 The Secret Caves of the Dero (1956) [ES]
- 5 The Flying Saucers (1956) [ES]
-
The Shaver Mystery—A Defense (Shaver Mystery Issue) (1958) [ES]
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Shaver Mystery - A Defense (1958)
- Return of a Demon (1943) [also as by Alexander Blade]
- Thought Records of Lemuria (1945)
- Cave City of Hel (1945)
- Quest of Brail (1945)
- An Adam from the Sixth (1946)
- Luder Valley (1946)
- The Tale of the Last Man (1946)
- Death Seems So Final (1947) [also as by Alexander Blade]
- First Rocket (1947) [only as by D. Richard Sharpe]
- The Tale of the Red Dwarf Who Writes with His Tail (1947) [only as by The Red Dwarf]
- The Vanishing Spaceman (1947) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- The Mind Rovers (1947)
- Joe Dannon, Pioneer (1947)
- The Princess and Her Pig (1947)
- The Crystalline Sarcophagus (1947)
- Formula from the Underworld (1947)
- The Red Legion (1947)
- Witch's Daughter (1947)
- Zigor Mephisto's Collection of Mentalia (1947)
- Mer-Witch of Ether "18" (1947)
- Witch of the Andes (1947)
- Of Gods and Goats (1947)
- Flesh Against Spirit (1948) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- The Monster from Mars (1948) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- The Plotters (1948) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- "Slaves of the Worm" (1948)
- The Thin Woman (1948)
- Ice City of the Gorgon (1948) with Chester S. Geier
- The Valley of Madness (1948) [also as by Alexander Blade]
- Mirrors of the Queen (1948)
- Fountain of Change (1948) with Chester S. Geier
- Dynasty of the Devil (1949) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- Pillars of Delight (1949) [only as by Stan Raycraft]
- Prometheus' Daughter (1949) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- The Jinx (1949) [only as by Alexander Blade]
- When the Moon Bounced (1949) [only as by Frank Patton]
- The Cyclopeans (1949)
- Exiles of the Elfmounds (1949)
- Battle in Eternity (1949) with Chester S. Geier
- The Fall of Lemuria (1949)
- The Devil in a Box (1950) [only as by Gerald Vance]
- The World of the Lost (1950) [only as by Paul Lohrman]
- Sons of the Serpent (1950) [only as by Wes Amherst]
- Lady (1950)
- Marai's Wife (1950) [only as by Edwin Benson]
- The Gamin (1950) [only as by Peter Dexter]
- Palace of Darkness (1950) [only as by Peter Dexter]
- Green Man's Grief (1951)
- Journey to Nowhere (1951)
- Lightning Over Saturn (1951) with Chester S. Geier
- Yelisen (1951)
- Of Stegner's Folly (1952)
-
The Scarpein of Delta Sira (1952)
only appeared as:
- Variant: The Scarpein of Delta Sira (1952) [as by G. H. Irwin]
- Translation: De monsters van Delta Sira [Dutch] (1962) [as by J. H. Irwin]
- The Dark Goddess (1953)
- Paradise Planet (1953)
- The Heart of the Game (1953) [only as by Richard English]
- She Was Sitting in the Dark (1953) [only as by Richard Dorot]
- Why Skeets Malloy Has Two Heads (1954) [only as by Richard Shaver]
- The Dream Makers (1958)
- A Taste of Heaven (1961)
- A Witch in the Night (1961)
- Disaster and Escape (1961)
- Flight into Futility (1961)
- I Enter the Caves (1961)
- The Living Library (1961)
- The Tormenting Voices (1961)
- An Ancient Language (unknown)
- Invitation to Adventure (unknown)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, January 1944): An Ancient Language (1944) [only as by S. Shaver]
- Mantong, the Language of Lemuria (1945) with Raymond A. Palmer [also as by Richard S. Shaver]
- Open Letter to the World (1945)
- Letter to Reader (The Shaver Mystery Compendium: Volume 2) (1946)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, August 1946) (1946)
- Fragment from a Letter: The Green Goddess (1947)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, May 1947) (1947)
- Proofs (1947)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, August 1947) (1947)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, October 1947) (1947)
- Foreword (I Remember Lemuria, and the Return of Sathanas) (1948)
- Medieval Illicit (1948)
- Shaver on Inertia (1948)
- If We Get a Chance! (1948)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, November 1948) (1948)
- The Cyclops (1949)
- The People Who Make Other Worlds No. 4: Richard S.Shaver (1952)
- How I Discovered the Caves (1955)
- Historical Aspect of the Saucers (1957)
-
The Key to Mantong—The Ancient Language (Shaver Mystery Issue) (1958)
with
Joel Kos
also appeared as:
- Variant: The Key to Mantong (1958)
- A Dictionary of the Manthong Language (1961)
- The Ancient Alphabet (1961) with Raymond A. Palmer [only as by Ray Palmer and Richard S. Shaver]
- Why the Caves Are Secret (1961)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, November 1971) (1971)
- Letter (Amazing Stories, September 1972) (1972)
- The Shaver Papers (1974)
- Mr. Shaver's Lemurian Alphabet (2014)
-
Shaver Mystery Magazine, 1947 (1947)
only appeared as:
- Interior Art: Shaver Mystery Magazine, 1947 (cover) (1947) [as by Richard Shaver]
Non-Genre Titles
Short Fiction
- The Tunca Pincu Nugget (1946)