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Descriptive Summary
Title: Frederick and Patricia Shroyer Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Collection
Dates: 1890-1950
Collection Number: SC.15
Creator/Collector:
Frederick and Patricia Shroyer
Extent: 1671 volumes and 4 boxes (240 linear feet)
Repository:
California State University, Fullerton. University Archives and Special Collections
Fullerton, California 92834-4150
Abstract: The Frederick and Patricia Shroyer Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Horror Book Collection consists of late 19th to 20th century
genre fiction, 1890 to 1950, and thirty-one periodical titles from 1897 to 1909.
Language of Material: English
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The collection is open to the public.
Preferred Citation
Frederick and Patricia Shroyer Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Collection. California State University, Fullerton. University
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Scope and Content of Collection
Dr. Fredrick Shroyer was a professor at California State University, Los Angeles who donated his science fiction, fantasy,
and horror book collection in 1981. He collected all significant authors from 1890 to 1950 in those genres. A separate gift
at a later date was 360 short stories from the 1920s and 1930s in the form of tear sheets in indexed pressboard covers together
with runs of thirty-one periodicals from 1897 to 1909. Many of the books have their original dust jackets. The books are
fully cataloged and shelved in call number order. The tear sheets and periodicals have not been processed.
Indexing Terms
Science Fiction
Fantasy