Mark Owings

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Bibliographer Mark Owings, 64, died December 30, 2009 from pancreatic cancer. Owings worked with Jack Chalker on The Index to the Science-Fantasy Publishers (1991) and The Revised H.P. Lovecraft Bibliography (1973), and was one of the publishers at Croatan House. He was a founder of the Baltimore Science Fiction Society, served as Balticon chair many times, and was chair of the Compton Crook Award committee.

Mark Owings Anecdote Surfaces

The seller also stated: Signed with an anecdote by the surviving compiler Mark Owings (see photo). A catalog of the largest Lovecraft collection ever found, Irving Binkin had died leaving behind an entire apartment of mint and scarce Lovecraft books, pulps, ephemera.

Mirage #9 1970

MIRAGE #9 1970. 42 page hectographed fanzine published by Jack L. Chalker, who later founded Mirage Press and somewhat even later became a popular science fiction author in his own right. Nonfiction includes “Prolegomenon to a Constitution for the Planet Mongo” by John Boardman (a detailed article on Flash Gordon’s adopted world), a checklist of the unpublished works of David H. Keller by Paul Spencer and “The Necronomicon: A Bibliography” by Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings. Back cover detached but present, otherwise a Very Good copy. There is no reserve on this item. Thank you. CFM Books, Charles F. Miller, Publisher, Inc.

Lovecraft's Legacy: 1970 (Mirage 9)

MIRAGE #9 1970. 42 page hectographed fanzine published by Jack L. Chalker, who later founded Mirage Press and somewhat even later became a popular science fiction author in his own right. Nonfiction includes “Prolegomenon to a Constitution for the Planet Mongo” by John Boardman (a detailed article on Flash Gordon’s adopted world), a checklist of the unpublished works of David H. Keller by Paul Spencer and “The Necronomicon: A Bibliography” by Jack L. Chalker and Mark Owings.