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| occupation = Writer, editor
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| genre = Horror, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Pulp Adventure, Western
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'''Mike Chinn''' is a [[Horror fiction|horror]], [[fantasy]], [[science fiction]] and [[comics]] writer from [[Birmingham]], [[England]].

Chinn has been nominated for the [[British Fantasy Award]] for Best Collection and Best Short Story.

He created the Anglerre [[fantasy]] series and Robot Kid [[science fiction]] books for the [[Starblazer]] [[comic]], published by [[D. C. Thomson & Co. Ltd]]. Starblazer has been resurrected as a licensed [[role-playing game]] from [[Cubicle 7 Entertainment]], entitled ''[[Starblazer Adventures]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.cubicle7.co.uk/starblazer-adventures-and-legends-of-anglerre-goodbye-sale/ |title=Starblazer Adventures and Legends of Anglerre Goodbye Sale | Cubicle 7 |access-date=2015-08-08 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190604190215/http://cubicle7.co.uk/starblazer-adventures-and-legends-of-anglerre-goodbye-sale/ |archive-date=2019-06-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Chinn has contributed to the RPG supplement ''[[Legends of Anglerre]]'', based on the [[Anglerre]] world and characters that he created for Starblazer.

In 1998, [[Midlands (England)|Midlands]]-based, [[British Fantasy Award]] winning publisher [[The Alchemy Press]] published their first paperback: six [[short stories]] featuring Chinn's [[pulp adventure]] heroes, Damian Paladin and [[adventure]]ss Leigh Oswin, ''[[The Paladin Mandates]]'' (which was itself short listed in the 1999 [[British Fantasy Awards]], Best Collection and Best Short Story categories). In 2017, [[Pro Se Productions]] published further adventures of Paladin and Leigh in ''[[Walkers in Shadow]]''. In 2015 the first of his [[Sherlock Holmes]] related pastiches was published.

He has edited four anthologies for [[The Alchemy Press]]: ''Swords Against the Millennium'' and three volumes of ''The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes''.

==Bibliography==

===Comics===

====Starblazer====
Source:<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://bearalley.blogspot.co.uk/2007/08/starblazer-memories.html|title = Bear Alley: Starblazer memories|date = 15 August 2007}}</ref>
*64 - ''The Exterminator'' (1982)
*141 - ''Spaceroamer'' (1985)
*172 - ''Nightraider'' (1986)
*200 - ''Demon Sword'' (1987)
*204 - ''The Robot Kid'' (1987)
*224 - ''Rune War'' (1988)
*230 - ''A Plague of Horsemen'' (1988)
*231 - ''Godstone'' (1988)
*232 - ''Return of the Robot Kid'' (1989)
*247 - ''Kayn's Quest'' (1989)
*248 - ''Tales of the Otherworld'' (1989)
*250 - ''Sun Prince'' (1989)
*271 - ''The Triune Warrior'' (1990)
*273 - ''The Robot Kid Strikes Back!'' (1990)

====The Beano====
*''Billy the Cat''<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.dcthomson.co.uk/brands/the-beano/ |title=Beano - D.C. Thomson & Co. LTD. |access-date=2017-04-14 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170620180526/https://www.dcthomson.co.uk/brands/the-beano/ |archive-date=2017-06-20 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

===Short fiction===
*''Designs of the Wizard (Second Dragons pt.1)'' (Dark Horizons 10, 1974)
*''Shadows of the Weaver (Second Dragons pt.2)'' (Dark Horizons 12, 1975)
*''The Closing of the Days (Second Dragons pt.3)'' (Dark Horizons 14, 1976)
*''The Pistol and the Sword'' (Dark Horizons, 1979)
*''Sic Transit…'' (Fantasy Tales 8, 1981)
*''But the Stones Will Stand'' (Fantasy Tales 10, 1982)
*''The Death-Wish Mandate'' (Kadath Vol.2 #1, 1982)
*''Nightfall of a Dying World'' (Dark Horizons 28, 1985)
*''Thanksgiving Dinner'' (Winter Chills 2, 1987)
*''The Hollywood Mandate'' (Fantasy Tales 17, 1987)
*''Sword of Light'' (Adventure, A Victor Summer Special, 1987)
*''Castigo'' (as Clifton Davis) (Mystique 1, 1988)
*''Judas Goat'' (Vollmond, 1988)
*''Death's Head'' (Cosmorama 1, 1988)
*''Once Upon Beltane'' (The Edge 2, 1990)
*''Day of the Dark Men'' (Fantasy Tales Vol.12 #6, 1991)
*''Rescheduled'' (Final Shadows, 1991)
*''Fair Dues'' (Dark Horizons 33, 1992)
*''Desktop Priapism on your PCW'' (Chills 7, 1993)
*''The Blood of Eden'' (The Mammoth Book of Dracula, 1997)
*''Façades'' (Phantoms of Venice, 2001)
*''Brindley's Place'' (Birmingham Noir, 2002)
*''Suffer a Witch'' (Salvo, 2003)
*''Two Weeks on Saturday'' (Dark Horizons, 2004)
*''All Beauty Must Die'' (Dark Horizons, 2007)
*''All Under Hatches Stow’d'' (Second Black Book of Horror, 2008)
*''Like a Bird'' (Third Black Book of Horror, 2008)
*''Parlour Games'' (Tales from the Smoking Room, 2008)
*''Sailors of the Skies'' (Dark Horizons, 2009)
*''Welcome to the Hotel Marianas'' (The Bitter End: Tales of Nautical Terror, 2009)
*''Kittens'' (Raw Terror, 2009)
*''The Appalachian Collection'' (Back to the Middle of Nowhere, 2010)
*''A Matter of Degree'' (Null Immortalis ([[Nemonymous]] 10), 2010)
*''Be Grateful When You're Dead'' (Dark Horizons, 2011)
*''Hell Freezes'' Over (Doomology: The Dawning of Disasters, 2011)
*''Only the Lonely'' (Dark Valentines, Spring 2011)
*''Cold Rain'' (Morpheus Tales Urban Horror Special, 2011)
*''Sons of the Dragon'' (Kzine 1, 2011)
*''Sailors of the Skies, Kindle Edition'' (The Alchemy Press, 2011)
*''Once Upon an Easter'' (Coach's Midnight Diner, 2012)
*''Saving Prince Romero'' (Unfit for Eden: Postscripts 26/27, 2012)
*''There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight'' (extended Kindle edition The Paladin Mandates, 2012)
*''Harbor Lights'' (eFantasy Vol.1 #2, 2012)
*''Holding It In'' (Ain't No Sanity Clause, 2012)
*''Give Me These Moments Back'' (Unspoken Water, 2013)
*''Cheechee's Out'' (Second City Scares - A Horror Express Anthology, 2013)
*''The Pygmalion Conjuration'' (Tenth Black Book of Horror, 2013)
*''Considering the Dead'' (Dark Muses, Spoken Silences, 2013)
*''To Die For'' (BFS Journal, 2013)
*''The Owl That Calls'' (WikiWorm, 2013)
*''Bird's Over the Bullring'' (Weird Trails, 2013)
*''Where The Long White Roadway Lies'' (Kneeling In the Silver Light, 2014)
*''E is for Ecophobia'' (Phobophobias, 2014)
*''R is for Radix Omnium Malum'' (The Grimorium Verum, 2015)
*''Chasing the Dragon'' (Superhero Monster Hunter: The Good Fight, 2015)
*''Deck the Halls'' (Occult Detective Monster Hunter: A Grimoire of Eldritch Inquests, 2015)
*''A Function of Probability'' (The Adventures of Moriarty: The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes's Nemesis, 2015)
*''Fatal Planet'' (This Twisted Earth, 2016)
*''The Adventure of the Vanishing Man'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories V: Christmas Adventures, 2016)
*''More Than Meets'' (Nebula Rift magazine, 2016)
*''The Black Tarot'' (Occult Detective Quarterly #2, 2017)
*''The Adventure of the Haunted Room'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories VII: Eliminate the Impossible, 2017)
*''Pierrot in Bombazine'' (The Further Adventures of Jerry Cornelius, 2018)
*''Eigenspace X'' (Pickman's Gallery, 2018)
*''And the Living is Easy'' (Weirdbook #40, 2018)
*''Her Favourite Place'' (The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors, 2018)
*''A World in Aspic'' (Kzine 23, 2019)
*''Hastur La Vista, Baby'' (with [[Adrian Cole (writer)|Adrian Cole]]) (The Lovecraft Squad: Rising, 2020)
*''Digging in the Dirt'' (The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2, 2020)
*''The Direction of Sunbeams'' (Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives volume 2, 2020)
*''The Adventure of the Singular Worm'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Some More Untold Cases Part XXIII: 1888-1894, 2020)
*''Cradle of the Deep'' (Startling Stories Magazine, 2021)
*''Face of Heaven, Eyes of Hell'' (Phantasmagoria #18, 2021)
*''The Essence of Dust'' (Swords & Sorceries, Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 2, 2021)
*''All I Ever See'' (The Mammoth Book of Folk Horror, 2021)
*''Echoes of Days Passed'' (The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 3: A Miscellany of Monsters, 2021)
*''The Rains of Barofonn'' (Swords & Sorceries, Tales of Heroic Fantasy Volume 3, 2021)
*''Hall of Dreams'' (Gruesome Grotesques volume 6: Carnival of Freaks, 2021)
*''The Stone of Ill Omen'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XXXII [1888-1895], 2022)
*''Watcher of the Skies'' (Terror Tales of the West Country, 2022)
*''The Airs of Eden'' (ResAliens 6, 2023)
*''Lost in the Shuffle'' (Occult Detective Magazine 9, 2023)
*''Threshold of a Dream'' (The Brumology: The Author City Birmingham Anthology, 2023)
*''Where the Sun Has Never Shone'' [reworking of ''Day of the Dark Men''] (ResAliens 7, 2023)
*''The Mystery of the Unstolen Document'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XLI: Further Untold Cases [1887-1892] 2023)
*''Hollingbourne Grange'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Spring 2024 Annual)
*''Beyond the Ghost Caves'' (Phantasmagoria Magazine 24, 2024)
*''The Return of Madame Sara'' (Sherlock and Friends: Eldritch Investigators, 2024)
*''Two Swords Waiting'' (Swords & Heroes ezine, 2024)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tulefogpress.substack.com/p/swords-and-heroes-story-10 |title=Swords & Heroes Story #10 |date=October 2024 }}</ref>

===Novels/Novellas===
*VALLIS TIMORIS (with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) (Fringeworks, 2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.fringeworks.co.uk/blog/?p=1302|title = VALLIS TIMORIS by Mike Chinn and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | Fringeworks - Blogs}}</ref>
*REVENGE IS A COLD PISTOL (Pro Se Publications, 2018)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://prose-press.com/blog/2018/8/4/retribution-rides-hard-in-new-western-thriller-revenge-is-a-cold-pistol-debuts|title = Retribution Rides Hard in New Western Thriller- 'Revenge is a Cold Pistol' Debuts| date=4 August 2018 }}</ref>
*''The Color of Nothing'' (Startling Stories magazine, 2022)
*HAIL THE NEW AGE (Saladoth Productions, 2024)

===Damian Paladin===
*''The Death-Wish Mandate'' (Kadath Vol.2 #1, 1982)
*''Thanksgiving Dinner'' (Winter Chills 2, 1987)
*''The Hollywood Mandate'' (Fantasy Tales 17, 1987)
*THE PALADIN MANDATES (The Alchemy Press, 1998)<ref name="alchemypress.wordpress.com">{{Cite web|url=https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/alchemy-publications/pre-2011-books/the-paladin-mandates/|title = The Paladin Mandates|date = 23 July 2013}}</ref>
*''Sailors of the Skies'' (Dark Horizons, 2009)
*SAILORS OF THE SKIES, Kindle Edition (The Alchemy Press, 2011)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/alchemy-publications/2011-publications/sailors-of-the-skies/|title = Sailors of the Skies|date = 23 July 2013}}</ref>
*THE PALADIN MANDATES (extended Kindle edition, 2012)<ref name="alchemypress.wordpress.com"/>
*''There'll Be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight'' (extended Kindle edition The Paladin Mandates, 2012)
*''Fire All of the Guns At One Time'' (with [[Adrian Cole (writer)|Adrian Cole]]) (Nick Nightmare Investigates, 2014)
*''Deck the Halls'' (Occult Detective Monster Hunter: A Grimoire of Eldritch Inquests, 2015)
*''The Black Tarot'' (Occult Detective Quarterly #2, 2017)
*WALKERS IN SHADOW (Pro Se Productions, 2017)<ref name="DEATH DEFYING OCCULT ADVENTURERS! ‘WALKERS IN SHADOW’ DEBUTS!">{{Cite web|url=http://prose-press.com/blog/2017/5/4/death-defying-occult-adventurers-walkers-in-shadow-debuts|title = Death Defying Occult Adventurers! 'Walkers in Shadow' Debuts!| date=4 May 2017 }}</ref><ref name="theeloquentpage.co.uk">{{Cite web|url=http://www.theeloquentpage.co.uk/2017/12/07/walkers-in-shadow-by-mike-chinn/|title = Walkers in Shadow by Mike Chinn|date = 7 December 2017}}</ref>
*''Hastur La Vista, Baby'' (with [[Adrian Cole (writer)|Adrian Cole]]) (The Lovecraft Squad: Rising, 2020)
*''Digging in the Dirt'' (The Alchemy Press Book of Horrors 2, 2020)
*THE PALADIN MANDATES (revised and expanded, Pro Se Productions, 2020)
*''Cradle of the Deep'' (Startling Stories Magazine, 2021)

===Collections===
*THE PALADIN MANDATES (The Alchemy Press, 1998)<ref name="alchemypress.wordpress.com"/>
*GIVE ME THESE MOMENTS BACK (The Alchemy Press, 2015)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/alchemy-publications/2015-publications/give-me-these-moments-back/|title = Give Me These Moments Back|date = 20 February 2015}}</ref>
*RADIX OMNIUM MALUM & OTHER INCURSIONS (Parallel Universe Publications, 2017)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/paralleluniversepublications|title=Parallel Universe Publications|website=www.facebook.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfcrowsnest.info/radix-omnium-malum-other-incursions-by-mike-chinn-book-review/|title = Radix Omnium Malum & Other Incursions by Mike Chinn (Book review)|date = 23 March 2018}}</ref>
*WALKERS IN SHADOW (Pro Se Productions, 2017)<ref name="DEATH DEFYING OCCULT ADVENTURERS! ‘WALKERS IN SHADOW’ DEBUTS!"/><ref name="theeloquentpage.co.uk"/>
*THE PALADIN MANDATES (revised and expanded, Pro Se Productions, 2020)
*DRAWING DOWN LEVIATHAN (Saladoth Productions, 2024)

===Sherlock Holmes===
*''A Function of Probability'' (The Adventures of Moriarty: The Secret Life of Sherlock Holmes's Nemesis, 2015)
*''The Adventure of the Vanishing Man'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories V: Christmas Adventures, 2016)
*''The Adventure of the Haunted Room'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories VII: Eliminate the Impossible, 2017)
*''The Direction of Sunbeams'' (Sherlock Holmes and the Occult Detectives volume 2, 2020)
*''The Adventure of the Singular Worm'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XXIII: Some More Untold Cases [1888-1894] 2020)
*''The Stone of Ill Omen'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XXXII [1888-1895], 2022)
*''The Mystery of the Unstolen Document'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories XLI: Further Untold Cases [1887-1892] 2023)
*''Hollingbourne Grange'' (The MX Book of New Sherlock Holmes Stories Spring 2024 Annual)

===As editor===
*DARK HORIZONS 19–22 (BFS, 1979/80)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.britishfantasysociety.org/about-the-bfs/a-history-of-the-bfs|title = A History of the BFS | the British Fantasy Society}}</ref>
*MYSTIQUE - TALES OF WONDER (BFS)
*OUTSIDERS by John Oram (BFS Booklet 22, 1996)
*SWORDS AGAINST THE MILLENNIUM (The Alchemy Press, 2000)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/alchemy-publications/pre-2011-books/swords-against-the-millennium|title = Swords against the Millennium|date = 23 July 2013}}</ref>
*THE ALCHEMY PRESS BOOK OF PULP HEROES (The Alchemy Press, 2012)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/alchemy-publications/2012-publications/pulp-heroes|title = Pulp Heroes|date = 21 July 2013}}</ref>
*THE ALCHEMY PRESS BOOK OF PULP HEROES 2 (The Alchemy Press, 2013)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/alchemy-publications/2013-publications/pulp-heroes-2|title=Pulp Heroes 2|date=21 July 2013}}</ref>
*THE ALCHEMY PRESS BOOK OF PULP HEROES 3 (The Alchemy Press, 2014)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://alchemypress.wordpress.com/alchemy-publications/2014-publications/pulp-heroes-3|title=Pulp Heroes 3|date=12 August 2014}}</ref>

===Non-Fiction===
*''Spaghetti Bourbonais'' (Continental Modeller, 1987)
*''Not Another Bloody Trilogy!'' (Dark Horizons 32, 1991)
*WRITING AND ILLUSTRATING THE GRAPHIC NOVEL (Barron’s Educational, 2004)
*CREATE YOUR OWN GRAPHIC NOVEL: FROM INSPIRATION TO PUBLICATION (Ilex, 2006)

=== Series ===

*THE MORIARTY PARADIGM

==References==
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