I received a package today containing a stack of Daniel Cohen’s monster books. It brings my grand total of Cohen’s books up to about a dozen (edit: ha, ha, way more than a dozen now!). There are at least two more I remember owning as a kid, and another I got out of the library with frequency (Cohen is to blame in part for some particular malfunctions of my brain). So, I got thinking just how many books did Daniel Cohen write about monsters, exactly?

The internet being what it is these, I was unable to type in a simple query like “Daniel Cohen bibliography” and get the information I sought. Wikipedia hadn’t bothered with a full list, just a brief paragraph noting his most well-known titles. Internet Speculative Fiction Database was a little better, but only listed 23 titles. I find this aggravating. Cohen was a prolific writer, but if there was an easy way to find an index of all the books he wrote, I couldn’t find it (probably because he wrote mostly for young audiences). So I made one.

Below is a list of 82 of Cohen’s books on monsters, ghosts, horror films, the occult and other paranormal topics. I am sure I missed some – please let me know if an omission jumps out at you. Orange titles I own (part of the reason I went looking was to have a checklist) so if you have a black title you no longer want, let me know that too!

1965 – Myths of the Space Age
1969 – Mysterious Places (1975, Lost Worlds)
1970 – A Modern Look at Monsters
1971 – A Natural History of Unnatural Things
1971 – Masters of the Occult
1971 – Superstition
1971 – Witchcraft, Superstition and Ghostly Magic
1972 – In Search of Ghosts
1972 – Voodoo, Devils, and the New Invisible World
1973 – How the World Will End
1973 – Magicians, Wizards, and Sorcerers
1973 – The Magic Art of Foreseeing the Future
1974 – Curses, Hexes and Spells
1974 – The Magic of the Little People
1975 – The Body Snatchers
1975 – Monsters, Giants and Little Men from Mars: An Unnatural History of the Americas

1975 – Supermonsters
1975 – The Far Side of Consciousness
1976 – Mysterious Disappearances
1976 – The Ancient Visitors
1977 – ESP: The Search Beyond the Senses
1977 – Ghostly Animals
1977 – Real Ghosts
1977 – The Greatest Monsters in the World
1978 – Creatures from UFOs
1978 – The World of UFOs
1979 – Ceremonial Magic
1979 – Dealing with the Devil
1979 – Famous Curses
1979 – Missing: Stories of Strange Disappearances
1979 – The World’s Most Famous Ghosts
1980 – Monsters You Never Heard Of
1980 – The Monsters of Star Trek
198 – Science Fiction’s Greatest Monsters
1981 – A Close Look at Close Encounters

1981 – Everything You Need to Know About Monsters and Still Be Able to Get to Sleep
1981 – Ghostly Terrors
1981 – The Great Airship Mystery: A UFO of the 1890s
1982 – America’s Very Own Monsters
1982 – Bigfoot: America’s No. 1 Monster
1982 – Real Magic
1982 – The Encyclopedia of Monsters
1983 – Ghostly Terrors
1983 – Monster Hunting Today
1983 – Waiting for the Apocalypse
1984 – Encyclopedia of Ghosts
1984 – Horror in the Movies
1984 – Horror Movies
1984 – Masters of Horror
1984 – The Headless Roommate and Other Tales of Terror
1984 – The Restless Dead: Ghostly Tales from Around the World
1985 – America’s Very Own Ghosts
1985 – Encyclopedia of the Strange

1986 – ESP: The New Technology
1987 – Hollywood Dinosaur
1988 – Phone Call from a Ghost
1988 – UFOs: The Third Wave
1989 – Southern Fried Rat and Other Gruesome Tales
1990 – Great Ghosts
1990 – The Ghosts of War
1991 – Phantom Animals
1992 – Magical World of Monsters (with Erni Cabat)
1992 – Ghostly Tales of Love and Revenge
1992 – Railway Ghosts and Highway Horrors
1993 – Ghost in the House
1993 – Ghosts of the Deep
1993 – The Beheaded Freshman and Other Nasty Rumors
1994 – Into the Darkness: Nineteen Tales for Telling After Midnight

1994 – Young Ghosts
1994 – Cults
1994 – The Mummy’s Curse
1995 – Real Vampires
1995 – The Phantom Hitchhiker
1996 – Dangerous Ghosts
1996 – Ghostly Warnings
1996 – Screaming Skulls: 101 Of the World’s Greatest Ghost Stories
1996 – The Riddle of the Stones and Other Unsolved Mysteries
1996 – Werewolves
1997 – Raising the Dead
1997 – The Ghost of Elvis
1998 – The Alien Files: Conspiracy
1998 – The Alien Files: Contact
1999 – Civil War Ghosts
2002 – Hauntings and Horrors: The Ultimate Guide to Spooky America

I left out the many additional titles that covered history, crime, sociology, current events, dinosaurs and science, as well as his heartbreaking memoir, co-written with his wife Susan, about the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing, which killed their daughter. But there are at least 80 of those, but they are outside my wheelhouse. Dude wrote a lot.