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Flora Curiosa: Cryptobotany, Mysterious Fungi, Sentient Trees, and Deadly Plants in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, August 2008, 978-1-930585-56-0, $19.95, 337pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine” 34 · The American’s Tale · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss London Society Christmas 1880, uncredited. 41 · The Man-Eating Tree · Phil Robinson · ss Under the Punkah by Phil Robinson, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881 49 · The Balloon Tree · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun February 25 1883 57 · The Flowering of the Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 2 1894 65 · The Treasure in the Forest · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 23 1894 73 · The Purple Pileus · H. G. Wells · ss Black & White December 1896 84 · The Purple Terror · Fred M. White · ss The Strand Magazine September 1899 99 · A Vine on a House · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905 102 · Professor Jonkin’s Cannibal Plant [Professor Jonkin] · Howard R. Garis · ss The Argosy August 1905 111 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 156 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907 168 · The Orchid Horror · John Blunt · ss The Argosy September 1911 183 · The Man Whom the Trees Loved · Algernon Blackwood · na The London Magazine March 1912 246 · The Pavilion · E. Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine November 1915 262 · The Sumach · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 272 · The Green Death · H. C. McNeile · nv The Strand Magazine August 1920 (+1) 300 · Si Urag of the Tail · Oscar Cook · ss Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine January 1923 315 · Green Thoughts · John Collier · ss The London Mercury May 1931 330 · The Walk to Lingham [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Life and Letters December 1933/February 1934

Hortus Diabolicus: Further Twisted Tales of Menacing Flora and Malignant Fungi ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, April 18, 2022, 978-1-61646-525-4, 410pp, tp, an)     Details supplied by Charles G. Waugh. 7 · Phalaenopsis Gloriosa · John Jason Trent · ss The Monthly Story Magazine November 1905 27 · The Tree That Eats · Brew Molohan · ss Chambers’s Journal June 27 1908 39 · The Devil Plant · Lyle Wilson Holden · ss Weird Tales May 1923 51 · Fungus Isle · Philip M. Fisher, Jr. · nv Argosy Allstory Weekly October 27 1923 109 · Mandrake · Adam Hull Shirk · ss Weird Tales July/August 1923 119 · Si Urag of the Tail · Oscar Cook · ss Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine January 1923 139 · The Gray Death · Loual B. Sugarman · ss Weird Tales June 1923 153 · The Man-Trap · Hamilton Craigie · ss Weird Tales November 1925 163 · The Plant-Thing · R. G. Macready · ss Weird Tales July 1925 171 · Dorner Cordaianthus · Hester Holland · ss Grim Death ed. Christine Campbell Thomson, Selwyn & Blount, 1932, as by H. H. Gorst 187 · The Devil-Plant · John Murray Reynolds · ss Weird Tales September 1928 207 · The Gas-Weed · Stanton A. Coblentz · ss Amazing Stories May 1929 229 · Up Irriwaddy Way · Edgar Gardiner · ss Weird Tales April 1929 253 · Moss Island · Carl Jacobi · ss Amazing Stories Quarterly Winter 1932 revised from The Quest May ’30. 265 · The Giant Puffball · Eugene Stowell · ss Amazing Stories Quarterly Summer 1931 273 · At the Bend of the Trail · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales October 1934 279 · Seeds from Space [Stranger Club] · Laurence Manning · nv Wonder Stories June 1935 319 · The Moaning Lily · Emma Vanne · ss Wonder Stories May 1935 331 · The Glowworm Flower · Stanton A. Coblentz · ss Astounding Stories June 1936 345 · Forest of Evil · John Murray Reynolds · nv Weird Tales April 1938 383 · Seed · Jack Snow · ss Weird Tales January 1946

Invertebrata Enigmatica: Giant Spiders, Dangerous Insects, and Other Strange Invertebrates in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, December 2008, 978-1-930585-65-2, $14.95, 396pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · The Sphinx · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Arthur’s Ladies’ Magazine January 1846 12 · The Blue Beetle: A Confession · A. G. Gray, Jr. · ss The Train January 1857 21 · The Strong Spider · Henry Abbey · pm Stories in Verse by Henry Abbey, A.D.F. Randolph & Co., 1869 30 · The Queen of the Bees · Erckmann-Chatrian · ss The Man-Wolf and Other Tales by Mm. Erckmann-Chatrian, Ward, Lock & Tyler, 1876 translated from the French (“La reine des abeilles”, La Revue européenne, November 1, 1861). 41 · The Crab Spider · Erckmann-Chatrian; translated by Julia de Kay · ss Romance October 1893 translated from the French (“L’araignée-crabe”, Les Contes Fantastiques, Hachette, 1860). 53 · A Moth—Genus Novo · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Gazette March 28 1895 63 · The Purple Emperor [Dick Darrel] · Robert W. Chambers · nv The Mystery of Choice by Robert W. Chambers, Appleton, 1897 83 · The Messenger [Dick Darrel] · Robert W. Chambers · nv Scribner’s Magazine February 1897 118 · The Captivity of the Professor · A. Lincoln Green · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1901 150 · The Valley of Spiders · H. G. Wells · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1903 161 · The Ash-Tree · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 174 · The Great White Moth [Drenton Denn] · Fred M. White · ss The Strand Magazine (US) September 1904 186 · The Green Spider · Sax Rohmer · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1904, as by A. Sarsfield Ward 198 · The Empire of the Ants · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine December 1905 213 · The Lace Designers · Don Mark Lemon · vi The Black Cat May 1907 216 · The Feather Pillow · Horacio Quiroga; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga, University of Texas Press, 1976 translated from the Spanish (“El almohadón de plumas”, Caras y Caretas, 1907). 220 · Caterpillars · E. F. Benson · ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills & Boon, 1912 228 · The Golden Fly · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Eye-Witness December 29 1911 234 · Red Spider · H. P. Holt · ss Overland Monthly June 1915 239 · An Egyptian Hornet · Algernon Blackwood · ss Reedy’s Mirror March 19 1915 245 · The Spider · Hanns Heinz Ewers · nv The International December 1915 translated from the German (“Die Spinne”, 1908). 264 · Eggs of the Silver Moon [Bronx Park Zoological Society; Percy Smith] · Robert W. Chambers · nv Hearst’s Magazine March 1915 280 · The Blue Cockroach [University of Cosmopoli] · Edward Heron-Allen · ss The Purple Sapphire and Other Posthumous Papers by Christopher Blayre, Philip Allan, 1921, as by Christopher Blayre 287 · The Gold-Seekers · Al Khanzir · ss Blackwood’s Magazine May 1920 305 · The Spectre Spiders · William J. Wintle · ss Ghost Gleams by W. J. Wintle, Heath Cranton, 1921 314 · The Eggs from Lake Tanganyika · Curt Siodmak; translated by C. A. Brandt · ss Amazing Stories July 1926 323 · Mive · Carl Jacobi · ss Minnesota Quarterly Fall 1928 330 · The Worm · David H. Keller, M.D. · ss Amazing Stories March 1929 344 · Vampires of the Desert · A. Hyatt Verrill · nv Amazing Stories December 1929 384 · The Bees from Borneo · Will H. Gray · ss Amazing Stories February 1931

Monstrum: Classic Tales of Legendary, Beastly, and Ghastly Creatures ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, 2010, 978-1-61646-022-8, 346pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Henric Van Kaarten or, The Valley of Spirits · [uncredited] · ss 1856 16 · The Devil of the Marsh · H. B. Marriott-Watson · ss Diogenes of London by H. B. Marriott Watson, Methuen, 1893 22 · The Basilisk · R. Murray Gilchrist · ss The National Observer July 23 1892 29 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 51 · The Gorgon’s Head · Gertrude Bacon · ss The Strand Magazine December 1899 63 · Medusa · Phil Robinson · nv Tales by Three Brothers by Phil, E. K. & H. Perry Robinson, Isbister and Company, 1902 82 · The Man Who Went Too Far · E. F. Benson · nv The Pall Mall Magazine June 1904 105 · Amina · Edward Lucas White · ss The Bellman June 1 1907 117 · Lukundoo · Edward Lucas White · ss Weird Tales November 1925 132 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 182 · The Derelict · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine December 1 1912 209 · Fishhead · Irvin S. Cobb · ss The Cavalier January 11 1913 220 · The Mollmeit of the Mountain · Cynthia Stockley · ss Wild Honey by Cynthia Stockley, Putnam, 1914 243 · The Yarn of Lanky Job · John Masefield · ss A Mainsail Haul by John Masefield, Elkin Mathews, 1905 246 · The People of the Pit · A. Merritt · nv All-Story Weekly January 5 1918 263 · The Song of the Sirens · Edward Lucas White · nv Song of the Sirens by Edward Lucas White, Dutton, 1919 296 · The Thing That Smelt [University of Cosmopoli] · Christopher Blayre · ss The Purple Sapphire and Other Posthumous Papers by Christopher Blayre, Philip Allan, 1921 303 · Negotium Perambulans · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine November 1922, as “Visible and Invisible” 319 · The Ghoul · Sir Hugh Charles Clifford · ss The Further Side of Silence by Hugh Clifford, Doubleday, Page, 1916 333 · The Cube · Charles Loring Jackson · ss The Gold Point and Other Strange Stories by Charles Loring Jackson, The Stratford Company, 1926

Other Life: An Anthology of Non-Terrestrial Biology ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, March 31, 2016, 978-1-61646-327-4, $19.95, 394pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Green Thumb · Clifford D. Simak · nv Galaxy Science Fiction July 1954 · The Green Splotches · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure 1st January 1920 · Hunt the Hunter · Kris Neville · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1951 · Tree, Spare That Woodman · Dave Dryfoos · ss Galaxy Science Fiction October 1952 · The Thing from—“Outside” · George Allan England · ss Science and Invention April 1923 · In the Forest · Leslie Perri · vi If September 1953 · The Botticelli Horror · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · nv Fantastic Science Fiction Stories March 1960 · The Planetoid of Peril · Paul Ernst · nv Astounding Stories November 1931 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 · The Anglers of Arz · Roger Dee · ss If January 1953 · The Night of Hoggy Darn · R. M. McKenna · nv If December 1958 · Tabby · Winston Marks · ss If March 1954 · Spawn of the Comet · Otis A. Kline · nv Argosy September 27 1930

Out of the Sand: Mummies, Pyramids, and Egyptology in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, August 2008, 978-1-930585-58-4, $19.95, 448pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 9 · The Mummy’s Foot · Théophile Gautier; translated by Lafcadio Hearn · ss New Orleans Item June 16 1878 (+1) translated from the French (“Le Pied de Momie”, Musée de Familles, September 1840). 21 · Some Words with a Mummy · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Review April 1845 37 · Lost in a Pyramid, or the Mummy’s Curse · Louisa May Alcott · ss The New World January 16 1869 47 · My New Year’s Eve Among the Mummies · Grant Allen · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1878, as by J. Arbuthnot Wilson 61 · The Ring of Thoth · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Cornhill Magazine January 1890, uncredited. 77 · Lot No. 249 · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1892 108 · A Professor of Egyptology · Guy Boothby · ss The Graphic December 10 1904 125 · The Story of Baelbrow [Flaxman Low] · E. & H. Heron · ss Pearson’s Magazine April 1898 137 · The Mysterious Mummy · Sax Rohmer · ss Pearson’s Weekly Christmas Extra November 26 1903, as by A. Sarsfield Ward 148 · The Mummy of Thompson-Pratt · C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne · ss Cassell’s Magazine August 1898 159 · Mustapha · S. Baring-Gould · ss Western Weekly Mercury 1894 174 · The Nemesis of Fire [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · na John Silence by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1908 239 · Sand · Algernon Blackwood · na Pan’s Garden by Algernon Blackwood, Macmillan & Co., 1912 313 · Smith and the Pharaohs · H. Rider Haggard · na The Strand Magazine December 1912 (+2) 355 · In the Valley of the Sorceress · Sax Rohmer · ss The Premier Magazine #21, January 1916 369 · The Death-Ring of Sneferu [Abu Tabah] · Sax Rohmer · ss The Premier Magazine #43, November 1917, as “The Death Ring” 386 · The Wings of Horus · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Century Magazine November 1914 406 · Lord of the Jackals · Sax Rohmer · ss The New Magazine (UK) January 1917 421 · The Ape · E. F. Benson · ss The Story-teller May 1917 436 · Black Coffee · Jeffery Farnol · ss The Shadow and Other Stories by Jeffery Farnol, 1929

Sauria Monstra: Dinosaurs, Pterosaurs, and Other Fossil Saurians in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, March 27, 2009, 978-1-930585-77-5, $14.95, 413pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · The Last of the Vampires · Phil Robinson · ss The Contemporary Review March 1893 15 · The Lizard · Charles John Cutcliffe Hyne · ss The Strand Magazine June 1898 25 · The Monster of Lake LaMetrie · Wardon Allan Curtis · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1899 39 · The Slaying of the Plesiosaurus · Edwin J. Webster · ss National Magazine March 1903 49 · The Pterodactyl · Thomas Charles Sloane · ss The Grand Magazine April 1907 70 · The Monster of “Partridge Creek” · Georges Dupuy · ts The Strand Magazine July 1908 translated from the French (“Le monstre de Partridge Creek”, 1908). 77 · The Diplodocus · Porter Emerson Browne · ss The New Broadway Magazine August 1908 89 · The Last Haunt of the Dinosaur · Henry Francis · ss The English Illustrated Magazine September 1908 99 · The Great Beast of Kafue · Richard Dehan · ss Under the Hermés, and Other Stories by Richard Dehan, William Heinemann, 1917 110 · The Lizard God · Charles J. Finger · nv All’s Well, or The Mirror Repolished December 1920 128 · The Beast of the Yungas · Willis Knapp Jones · ss Weird Tales September 1927 137 · The Paradise of the Ice Wilderness · Jul. Regis · ss Amazing Stories October 1927 translated from the Swedish (“Isens fångar”, Isens fångar och andra äventyrsberättelser för ungdom, 1925). 146 · The Ancient Horror · Hal Grant · nv Amazing Stories April 1928 177 · Report on the Status Quo · Terence Roberts · na Merlin Press, Inc., 1955, as by Terence Roberts 211 · The Lost World [Professor Challenger] · Arthur Conan Doyle · n. Hodder & Stoughton, October 1912

Shadows from a Veiled Creation: Classic Tales of Supernatural Fiction in the Christian Tradition ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, May 2006, 978-1-930585-26-3, $19.95, 503pp, tp, an, cover by Simon Taylor)     In between some stories, on separate pages, are short quotes from poems, essays, the Bible, etc. Details taken from online listing. 9 · Introduction · Chad Arment · in 11 · A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal… · Daniel Defoe · ar B. Bragg, 1706, uncredited. 21 · The Brownie of the Black Hags · James Hogg · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine October 1828 35 · The Rime of the Ancient Mariner: In Seven Parts · Samuel Taylor Coleridge · pm Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1798 55 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828 69 · The Devil and Tom Walker · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon & Gent., John Murray, 1824, as by Geoffrey Crayon 79 · Uncle Cornelius, His Story · George MacDonald · ss St. Paul’s Magazine January 1869 99 · The Cruel Painter · George MacDonald · nv Adela Cathcart by George MacDonald, Hurst & Blackett, 1864 127 · A Dead Finger · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss A Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould, Methuen, 1904 143 · Aunt Joanna · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss A Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould, Methuen, 1904 153 · The Gray Man · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 159 · A Somewhat Improbable Story [Club of Queer Trades] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Daily News January 25 1908 163 · The Perfect Game · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Daily News August 11 1906 167 · The Shop of Ghosts · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Daily News December 22 1906 171 · A Picture of Tuesday · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Quarto v1, 1896 175 · The Green Robe · Robert H. Benson · ss The Light Invisible by R. H. Benson, Isbister, 1903 179 · The Bridge Over the Stream · Robert H. Benson · ss The Light Invisible by R. H. Benson, Isbister, 1903 183 · Under Which King? · Robert H. Benson · ss The Light Invisible by R. H. Benson, Isbister, 1903 189 · Unto Babes · Robert H. Benson · ss The Light Invisible by R. H. Benson, Isbister, 1903 197 · The Traveller · Robert H. Benson · ss The Light Invisible by R. H. Benson, Isbister, 1903 205 · The Man with the Roller · E. G. Swain · ss The Peterborough Standard December 23 1911 213 · Bone to His Bone · E. G. Swain · ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales by E. G. Swain, W. Heffer, 1912 221 · The Richpins · E. G. Swain · ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales by E. G. Swain, W. Heffer, 1912 233 · The Rockery · E. G. Swain · ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales by E. G. Swain, W. Heffer, 1912 243 · The Kirk Spook · E. G. Swain · ss The Stoneground Ghost Tales by E. G. Swain, W. Heffer, 1912 249 · An Episode of Cathedral History · M. R. James · ss The Cambridge Review June 10 1914 263 · Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook · M. R. James · ss National Review March 1895, as “The Scrap-Book of Canon Alberic” 273 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Arnold, 1911 291 · The Mezzotint · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 301 · The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral · M. R. James · nv The Contemporary Review April 1910 315 · The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 331 · The Uncommon Prayer-Book · M. R. James · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1921 345 · The Bowmen · Arthur Machen · vi The (London) Evening News September 29 1914 349 · The Soldiers’ Rest · Arthur Machen · ss The (London) Evening News October 20 1914 353 · Beside the Bee-Hives · Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch · ss Noughts and Crosses by Q, Cassell & Co., 1891, as by Q 357 · Oceanus · Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch · ss The Speaker February 13 1897 (+1) 367 · The Seventh Man · Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts by A. T. Quiller-Couch, Cassell & Company, 1900 379 · A Gentle Ghost · Mary E. Wilkins · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1889 391 · The Shadows on the Wall · Mary Wilkins · ss Everybody’s Magazine March 1903, as by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman 405 · The Southwest Chamber · Mary Wilkins · na The Wind in the Rose-Bush and Other Stories of the Supernatural by Mary E. Wilkins, Doubleday, 1903 429 · The Shadows · Henry S. Whitehead · nv Weird Tales November 1927 447 · Passing of a God [Gerald Canevin] · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales January 1931 463 · The Shut Room [Gerald Canevin] · Henry S. Whitehead · nv Weird Tales April 1930 483 · Black Terror [Gerald Canevin] · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales October 1931 493 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury December 1935