John Robert Colombo

John Robert Colombo, who edited and annotated Worlds in Small, is known as the Master Gatherer for his many compilations of the lore and literature of Canada. Colombo has complied, translated, and written over eighty books. He co-translated into English five books of Bulgarian literature, not to mention books of verse originally written in Hungarian, Romanian, Polish, etc. In the field of native studies he has compiled Windigo, Poems of the Inuit, Songs of the Indians, and Songs of the Great Land. Among his large-scale literary anthologies are The Poets of Canada and Colombo’s Book of Canada. He edited Other Canada, the country’s first anthology of science fiction and fantasy, and beginning with Mysterious Canada, he has written or complied six books of Paranormal Canadiana. These books, plus media appearances, have earned him the title "Canada’s Mr. Mystery."

Books by John Robert Colombo

The Northrop Frye Quote Book

Jeepers Creepers

Fascinating Canada

Tesseracts 14

The Big Book of Canadian Hauntings

The Big Book of Canadian Ghost Stories

Strange but True

Little Book of Facts About a Really Big Country

Penguin Dictionary of Popular Canadian Quotations

Terrors of the Night

Extraordinary Experiences

The Midnight Hour

Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes Book 2

Penguin Book of Canadian Jokes

The Franklin Conspiracy

1000 Questions About Canada

Ghost Stories of Canada

Mysteries of Ontario

Haunted Toronto

UFOs Over Canada

Ghost Stories of Ontario

Worlds in Small

Dark Visions

The Little Blue Book of UFOs

Off Earth

Canadian Literary Landmarks

Learn This Poem of Mine by Heart

Symmetries

The Left-Handed One

Under the Eaves of a Forgotten Village