The FictionMags Index

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In Fear and Dread ed. Arthur J. Arkley (Getaway, 1974, 0-17-432054-X, 92pp, pb, an) 9 · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959 20 · Close Behind Him · John Wyndham · ss Fantastic January/February 1953 36 · The Hated House · Celia Fremlin · ss Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark by Celia Fremlin, Gollancz, 1970 45 · The Little Girl Eater · Septimus Dale · ss The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1963 56 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 67 · The Quest for “Blank Claveringi” · Patricia Highsmith · ss The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories by Patricia Highsmith, Doubleday, 1970 revised from “The Snails” (The Saturday Evening Post, June 17, 1967). 84 · The Loaded Dog · Henry Lawson · ss Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson, Blackwood, 1901

Ghost Stories by Michael Arlen (W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1927, 2/6d, 181pp, hc, co) 7 · The Prince of the Jews · Michael Arlen · nv Woman January 1925 36 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 60 · To Lamoir · Michael Arlen · ss May Fair by Michael Arlen, Collins, 1925 83 · The Ghoul of Golders Green [Capel (Beau) Maturin] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch Christmas 1923 128 · The Ancient Sin [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine May 1923 142 · The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler December 13 1922 150 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony”

May Fair by Michael Arlen (Collins, 1925, 7/6d, vii+320pp, hc, co) · Prologue · Michael Arlen · pr · A Romance in Old Brandy · Michael Arlen · ss (r) · The Ace of Cads [Capel (Beau) Maturin] · Michael Arlen · ss The Royal Magazine March 1924 · Where the Pigeons Go to Die · Michael Arlen · ss The Royal Magazine October 1924 · The Battle of Berkeley Square · Michael Arlen · ss The Red Book Magazine April 1925 · The Prince of the Jews · Michael Arlen · nv Woman January 1925 · The Three-Cornered Moon · Michael Arlen · ss · The Revolting Doom of a Gentleman Who Would Not Dance with His Wife · Michael Arlen · ss (r) · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 · To Lamoir · Michael Arlen · ss · The Ghoul of Golders Green [Capel (Beau) Maturin] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch Christmas 1923 · Farewell, Farewell, These Charming People · Michael Arlen · ss (r)

These Charming People by Michael Arlen (W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923, 265pp, hc, co) 1 · Introducing a Lady of No Importance and a Gentleman of Even Less · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 15 · When the Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square · Michael Arlen · ss Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine February 1923 38 · The Hunter After Wild Beasts · Michael Arlen · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine May 1923 49 · The Man with the Broken Nose [Lord George Tarlyon; Michael Wagstaffe] · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine March 1923 74 · The Luck of Captain Fortune · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler January 3 1923 86 · The Ancient Sin [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine May 1923 100 · The Cavalier of the Streets [Michael Wagstaffe] · Michael Arlen · ss Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine May 1923 122 · Major Cypress Goes Off the Deep End [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 140 · Consuelo Brown · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 151 · The Irreproachable Conduct of a Gentleman Who Once Refused a Knighthood [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 172 · Salute the Cavalier [Michael Wagstaffe] · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine May 1923 193 · The Shameless Behaviour of a Lord · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler November 29 1922 204 · The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler December 13 1922 212 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony” 244 · The Real Reason Why Shelmerdene Was Late for Dinner · Michael Arlen · ss

About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, July 2008, 978-1-930585-55-3, $19.95, 268pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon 21 · Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell 31 · An Anachronism, or Missing One’s Coach · [uncredited] · ss Dublin University Magazine June 1838 50 · A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall, December 19 1843 112 · A Tale of the Ragged Mountains · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book April 1844 121 · An Uncommon Sort of Spectre · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun March 30 1879 129 · The Clock That Went Backward · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun September 18 1881 141 · Newton’s Brain · Jakub Arbes; translated by Josef Jiří Král · na Clever Tales ed. Helen A. Clarke & Charlotte Porter, Copeland and Day, 1897 translated from the Czech (“Newtonův mozek”, J. Otto, 1877). 180 · John Bartine’s Watch · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 22 1893 185 · The Hour-Glass · Robert Barr · ss The Strand Magazine December 1898 198 · The New Accelerator · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine December 1901 210 · “Wireless” · Rudyard Kipling · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1902 226 · Phantas · Oliver Onions · ss Nash’s Magazine February 1910 239 · Accessory Before the Fact · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Westminster Gazette September 2 1911 245 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916

Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Enigmatic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, 2009, 978-1-61646-000-6, $14.95, 358pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Story of Tsoqélem · [uncredited] · ss (r) 10 · Two Nights in Southern Mexico · Karl Anton Postl · ex from Scenes and Adventures in Central America, William Blackwood & Sons, 1852 translated from the German (Süden und Norden by Charles Sealsfield, 1842). 34 · Hunting of the Soko · Phil Robinson · nv Under the Punkah by Phil Robinson, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881 53 · Manmat’ha · Charles De Kay · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1876 69 · A Haunt of the Jinkarras · Ernest Favenc · ss The Last of Six by Ernest Favenc, The Bulletin Newspaper Co.,, 1893 77 · From a Simian Point of View · H. Knight Horsfield · ss National Review October 1891 88 · Dankwarra, the Isle of Fear · Stevens Vail · ss 1893 96 · The Depths of Kyamo · J.-H. Rosny the Elder · ss (r) translated from the French (“Les profondeurs de Kyamo”, 1896). 107 · No-Man’s-Land · John Buchan · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1899 154 · The Harbour-Master [Bronx Park Zoological Society; Gilland the Zoologist] · Robert W. Chambers · ss Ainslee’s Magazine August 1899 179 · Found by the Missing Link · W. L. Alden · ss The London Magazine February 1902 188 · In the Lower Passage · Harle Oren Cummins · ss Welsh Rarebit Tales by Harle Oren Cummins, Mutual Book Co., 1902 194 · Beyond the Banyans · Epes Winthrop Sargent · nv The All-Story Magazine October 1909 235 · Back There in the Grass · Gouverneur Morris · ss Collier’s December 16 1911 250 · The Ape-Man · Arthur James Ogilvy · na The Daily Post 1913, as by A. J. O. 291 · The Missing Link · Marcel Roland; translated by Georges T. Dodds · ss Pulpdom #46, June 2006 translated from the French (“L’Echelon”, Journal des Voyages #909, 3 May 1914). 296 · Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Wolverine March 1921 (+1) 306 · Spirit Island · Captain Henry Toke Munn · nv Chambers’s Journal November 1922 333 · The Horror-Horn · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine September 1922 347 · The Tale of the Abu Laheeb [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1926, as “The Abu Laheeb”

Arboris Mysterius: Stories of the Uncanny and Undescribed from the Botanical Kingdom ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, April 21, 2014, 978-1-61646-246-8, 316pp, tp, an)     Details supplied by Charles G. Waugh. 9 · The Giant Wistaria · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine June 1891 18 · Kasper Craig · Maud Howe · ss Two Tales May 7 1892 35 · The Gold Plant · George Griffith · ss Pearson’s Weekly May 11 1895 47 · The Story of the Grey House [Flaxman Low] · Kate & Hesketh Prichard · ss Pearson’s Magazine May 1898, as by E. & H. Heron 61 · The Flower of Death · A. V. Pankey · ss University of Virginia Magazine March 1916 66 · Lure of the Lavender Trees · Maryland Allen · ss The Cavalier January 18 1913 75 · The Warlock of Glororum · Howard Pease · ss Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease, Macdonald, 1919 82 · An Orchid of Asia · Edna Worthley Underwood · nv Asia August 1920 (+1) 115 · “Glued” · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss The Popular Magazine June 20 1921 130 · The Tree · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Tryout October 1921 135 · Through the Crater’s Rim · A. Hyatt Verrill · nv Amazing Stories December 1926 171 · The Blood-Flower [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales March 1927 197 · The Devils of Po Sung · Bassett Morgan · nv Weird Tales December 1927 219 · White Orchids · Gordon Philip England · ss Weird Tales December 1927 230 · Vine Terror · Howard Wandrei · nv Weird Tales September 1934 255 · The Devil Flower · Harl Vincent · ss Fantastic Adventures May 1939 269 · The Garden of Hell · Leroy Yerxa · nv Fantastic Adventures May 1943 298 · The Cactus · Mildred Johnson · ss Weird Tales January 1950

Botanica Delira: More Stories of Strange, Undiscovered, and Murderous Vegetation ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, 2010, 978-1-61646-025-9, 289pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 9 · Preface · Chad Arment · pr 11 · The Electric Tree of New Guinea · [uncredited] · ms 1885 15 · A Strange Vegetable Production · [uncredited] · ms 1890 18 · A Metal Eating Plant · [uncredited] · ms 1890 21 · Vegetable Boa Constrictors · [uncredited] · ms 1893 22 · An Arizona Yarn · [uncredited] · ms 1894 24 · Rather Uncanny · [uncredited] · ms 1895 26 · The Land Octopus · [uncredited] · ms 1895 27 · Demon Flowers · [uncredited] · ms 1896 29 · Editorial, American Botanist · [uncredited] · ms 1912 31 · Plants That Fight · N. Tourneur · ar 1913 35 · Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy’s Curse · Louisa May Alcott · ss The New World January 16 1869 46 · The Man-Eating Tree · [uncredited] · ss New York World April 26 1874, as by Karl Leche 55 · The Devil Tree · [uncredited] · ss Frank Leslie’s Pleasant Hours 1883 73 · Carnivorine · Lucy H. Hooper · ss Peterson’s Magazine October 1889 84 · My One Gorilla · Grant Allen · ss 1890 93 · The Lamparagua · May Crommelin · ss The Pall Mall Magazine August 1897 106 · The Flower of Death · Flavel Scott Mines · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1894 114 · The Man-Killing Tree of Ceylon · [uncredited] · ss 1893 119 · The Death Plant of South Africa · H. B. M. Buchanan · ss 1895 123 · The Guardian of Mystery Island · Dr. Edmond Nolcini · ss The Black Cat September 1896 141 · The Man-Trap Cactus · [uncredited] · ss 1895 148 · A Flesh-Eating Plant · [uncredited] · ss 1901 152 · The Gray Weed · Owen Oliver · ss Tom Watson’s Magazine April 1905 169 · The Tale of the Scarlet Butterflies [Vaiti] · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1908 188 · The Black Orchid · Marjorie L. C. Pickthall · ss McClure’s Magazine September 1910 195 · The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1910 222 · Spores of Death [Fu Manchu; (Sir Denis) Nayland Smith] · Sax Rohmer · ss The Story-teller June 1913 241 · The Thunder Beast · Joseph B. Ames · nv Boys’ Life May 1920 (+1) 273 · Orchid Death · James Hanson · ss Overland Monthly May 1921 277 · Drosera Cannibalis · René Morot · ss The Living Age February 25 1922 translated from the French (“Le Drosera cannibalis”, 1921). 283 · The Malignant Flower · Anthos · ss Amazing Stories September 1927

Cats of Shadow, Claws of Darkness: Stories of Were-Cats, Ghost Cats, and Other Supernatural Felines ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, October 26, 2012, 978-1-61646-146-1, $14.95, 372pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. · The Cats of Ulthar [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · vi The Tryout November 1920 · The Empty Sleeve · Algernon Blackwood · ss The London Magazine January 1911 · In the Valley of the Sorceress · Sax Rohmer · ss The Premier Magazine #21, January 1916 · Spotted Satan · Otis Adelbert Kline & E. Hoffmann Price · nv Weird Tales January 1940 · Ancient Sorceries [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · nv John Silence by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1908 · Toean Matjan · Vennette Herron · ss Weird Tales January 1938 · Tobermory · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 27 1909 · Fangs of Vengeance · Nathan Hindin · ss Weird Tales April 1937 · The Black Cat · William J. Wintle · ss Ghost Gleams by W. J. Wintle, Heath Cranton, 1921 · The Eyes of the Panther · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner October 17 1897 · The Gray Cat · Barry Pain · ss Stories in the Dark by Barry Pain, Grant Richards, 1901 · The Tiger · A. E. Coppard · ss Metropolitan April 1921 · The Man at the Next Table · Robert W. Chambers · nv New York Press 1896 · Tiger · Bassett Morgan · ss Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror March 1932 · The Man-Tiger · H. Wellington Vrooman · ss The Golden Argosy December 29 1883 · The Leopard Woman · Marta St. Clair; as told to Edith Ross · ss Ghost Stories January 1929; gikven as by Edith Ross alone. · The King of the Cats · Thomas Lyttelton · vi from Letters of the Late Lord Lyttleton, Wright, Goodenow, & Stockwell, 1807 · Murtough Murphy’s Story · Samuel Lover · ex from Handy Andy: A Tale of Irish Life, Frederick Lover, 1842 · The Were-Tiger · Sir Hugh Charles Clifford · ss The Further Side of Silence by Hugh Clifford, Doubleday, Page, 1916 · A Vendetta of the Jungle · Arthur Applin & H. Sidney Warwick · ss The Idler October 1899 · A Were-Tiger · Sir William George Maxwell · ss In Malay Forests by George Maxwell, William Blackwood and Sons, 1907 · The Were-Tiger · Lyman Bryson · ss Adventure April 1 1927

Cetus Insolitus: Sea Serpents, Giant Cephalopods, and Other Marine Monsters in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, December 2008, 978-1-930585-66-9, $14.95, 391pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · The Tail of the Big Sea-Serpent · William H. G. Kingston · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine December 1848 24 · Jim Newman’s Yarn: Or, A Sight of the Sea Serpent · John C. Hutcheson · ss 1886 37 · A Real Sea-Serpent · [uncredited] · ss 1889 41 · A Matter of Fact · Rudyard Kipling · ss The People January 24 1892 54 · The Rival Beauties · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Million March 30 1895 62 · The Sea Raiders · H. G. Wells · ss The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement December 6 1896 73 · In the Abyss · H. G. Wells · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1896 89 · The Last Stand of the Decapods · Frank T. Bullen · ar The Strand Magazine December 1901 105 · The Voyage of the “Mary Simpson” · Arthur Colton · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine February 1902 110 · Out of the Deep · Owen Oliver · ar The London Magazine July 1904 125 · The Sea Serpent Syndicate [Billy Martin; Jimmy Raines] · Everard Jack Appleton · ss The Popular Magazine December 1904 137 · A Tropical Horror · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Grand Magazine June 1905 147 · From the Tideless Sea [Sargasso Sea] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Monthly Story Magazine April 1906 189 · The Terror of the Sea Caves · Charles G. D. Roberts · ss Everybody’s Magazine January 1907 208 · The Mystery of the Derelict [Sargasso Sea] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Story-teller July 1907 221 · The Winkler Ashore: Sea-Serpent · Gouverneur Morris · ss The Outing Magazine March 1907 226 · Crew Saved by Sea Serpent · [uncredited] · ss 1910 230 · The Thing in the Weeds [Sargasso Sea] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Story-teller January 1913 244 · The Finding of the Graiken [Sargasso Sea] · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine February 15 1913 265 · From the Darkness and the Depths · Morgan Robertson · nv New Story Magazine January 1913 287 · The Stone Ship · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine July 1 1914, as “The Mystery of the Ship in the Night” 316 · De Profundis · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss The Popular Magazine June 7 1917 331 · Demons of the Sea · William Hope Hodgson · ss Sea Stories Magazine October 5 1923 342 · The Habitants of Middle Islet · William Hope Hodgson · ss Dark Mind, Dark Heart ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1962 355 · The Finless Death · Robert Ernest Vernède · ss The Port Allington Stories by R. E. Vernède, 1921 366 · The Octopus Cycle · Irvin Lester & Fletcher Pratt · nv Amazing Stories May 1928