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The Mammoth Book of Fairy Tales ed. Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf, October 1997, 0-7867-0475-6, $10.95, 628pp, tp, an, cover by Frederick Goodall)     Reprint (Robinson 1997) anthology of 56 stories, three original. Authors include Walter de la Mare, Lewis Carroll, Louise Cooper, and Nancy Springer. First American edition.

The Mammoth Book of Fantasy ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, September 27, 2001, 1-84119-374-7, £6.99, xii+500pp, tp, an, cover by John Howe)     Anthology of 23 stories, one an original by Louise Cooper. Authors include Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock, A. Merritt, and James P. Blaylock. xi · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in 2001 1 · The Wall Around the World · Theodore R. Cogswell · nv Beyond Fantasy Fiction September 1953 30 · Darkrose and Diamond [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 1999 61 · The Valley of the Worm [James Allison] · Robert E. Howard · nv Weird Tales February 1934 85 · The Golden Key · George MacDonald · nv Dealings with the Fairies by George MacDonald, Arthur Strahan, 1867 114 · The Hoard of the Gibbelins · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sketch January 25 1911 119 · The Last Hieroglyph [Zothique] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales April 1935 137 · The Sorcerer Pharesm [Cugel; Dying Earth] · Jack Vance · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1966 163 · King Yvorian’s Wager · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Weird Tales Winter 1989/1990 182 · The Howling Tower [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · ss Unknown June 1941 198 · Kings in Darkness [Elric] · Michael Moorcock & James Cawthorn · nv Science Fantasy #54, 1962, as by Michael Moorcock 230 · The Bells of Shoredan [Dilvish] · Roger Zelazny · ss Fantastic March 1966 249 · A Hero at the Gates [Cyrion] · Tanith Lee · ss Shayol #3, Summer 1979 265 · Lady of the Skulls · Patricia A. McKillip · ss Strange Dreams ed. Stephen R. Donaldson, Bantam Spectra, 1993 277 · The Sunlight on the Water · Louise Cooper · ss 291 · Paladin of the Lost Hour · Harlan Ellison · nv Universe 15 ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1985 316 · Yesterday Was Monday · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Unknown June 1941 336 · Pixel Pixies · Charles de Lint · nv Triskell Press, 1999; first published as a chapbook by Triskell Press. 363 · The Moon Pool [Walter Goodwin] · A. Merritt · na All-Story Weekly June 22 1918 408 · The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule [Griaule] · Lucius Shepard · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1984 439 · Nets of Silver and Gold · James P. Blaylock · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine December 1984 457 · The Phantasma of Q------- · Lisa Goldstein · ss Ms. March/April 1998, as “The Fantasma of Q____” 471 · Audience · Jack Womack · ss The Horns of Elfland ed. Ellen Kushner, Delia Sherman & Donald G. Keller, Roc, 1997 484 · The Edge of the World · Michael Swanwick · ss Full Spectrum 2 ed. Lou Aronica, Shawna McCarthy, Amy Stout & Patrick LoBrutto, Doubleday Foundation, 1989

The Mammoth Book of Fantasy ed. Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf, November 2001, 0-7867-0917-0, $11.95, 500pp, tp, an, cover by John Howe)     Reprint (Robinson 2001) anthology of 23 fantasy stories, one original. Authors include Louise Cooper, Ursula K. Le Guin, Tanith Lee, and Robert E. Howard. First American edition.

The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak: Classic and New Stories from the Age of Fighting Sail ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, July 26, 2001, 1-84119-279-1, £6.99, xx+492pp, tp, oa, cover by John Groves)     Anthology of 22 historical war stories (14 original). Authors include Bulmer, Hodgson, Guy N. Smith, Peter Tremayne. and F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre. xi · Preface · Mike Ashley · pr xiii · Introduction · David Donachie · in 1 · Deadly Transit · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · nv 25 · Nelson: First Blood · David Donachie · ex from On a Making Tide, Orion, 2001 43 · Special Duties · Derek Wilson · nv 69 · Fountains of Resolve · Keith Taylor · na 117 · Davy Jones’s Locker · Harriet Hudson (by Amy Myers) · ss 137 · The Friendship of Monsieur Jeynois · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine August 2 1915 160 · The Burning Deck · Peter T. Garratt · nv 187 · Casabianca · Felicia Dorothea Hemans · pm The Monthly Magazine August 1826 190 · The Trap [George Abercrombie Fox] · Kenneth Bulmer · ex from Fox: Treasure, as by Adam Hardy, New English Library, 1973, as by Adam Hardy 217 · The Revenge · Frederick Marryat · ex from The Privateersman, 1846 240 · The Night Attack [Nathaniel Drinkwater] · Richard Woodman · nv 268 · King George’s Free Traders · M. B. Warriss · ss 283 · The Deserter · Guy N. Smith · ss 295 · Nelson Expects · Nigel Brown · ss 315 · The Knight Errant · Richard Butler · ss 333 · The Revenge of the Gunner’s Daughter · Peter Tremayne · nv 356 · The Gauntlet [Nick Penrose] · Jane Jackson · nv 378 · Hornblower and His Majesty [Horatio Hornblower] · C. S. Forester · ss Collier’s March 23 1940 394 · Gunfire off Makapuu · Jacland Marmur · nv The Blue Book Magazine April 1942 436 · The Guns of the Ghost [Jack Gallant] · Charles Partington · nv 466 · The Last Engagement · John Frizell · ss 478 · Goodbye to His Master [Brigadier Gerard] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine May 1903, as “How Etienne Gerard Said Good-bye to His Master”

The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, August 18, 2011, 978-1-84901-435-9, £7.99, x+467pp, tp, oa, cover by Joe Roberts)     Original crime anthology. ix · Return to the Crime Scene · Mike Ashley · in 1 · Archimedes and the Scientific Method · Tom Holt · nv 24 · Something to Do with Diana [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv 60 · Eyes of the Icon · Mary Reed & Eric Mayer · nv 99 · Night of the Snow Wolf [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv 137 · Jettisoned · Deirdre Counihan · nv 183 · A Fiery Death [Niccolo Zuliani] · Ian Morson · nv 217 · Hide and Seek · Tony Pollard · nv 252 · The Fourth Quadrant · Dorothy Lumley · nv 291 · Brodie and the Regrettable Incident · Anne Perry · nv Murder, They Wrote II ed. Elizabeth Foxwell & Martin H. Greenberg, Boulevard Books, 1998, as “Brodie and the Regrettable Incident of the French Ambassador” 326 · Forty Morgan Silver Dollars [Tonneman Family] · Maan Meyers · na 386 · Trafalgar [Inspector Ian Rutledge] · Charles Todd (ghost written by Caroline Todd) · nv 423 · Dead of Winter · Richard A. Lupoff · nv

The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction ed. Mike Ashley (Running Press, September 2011, 978-0-7624-4267-6, $13.95, 467pp, tp, oa)     Reprint (Robinson 2011) twelve stories (eleven original, one reprint) set from Bronze-Age Britain to Medieval Venice to 1930s New York. 1st US Edition.

The Mammoth Book of Historical Detectives ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, July 11, 1995, 1-85487-406-3, £5.99, xii+532pp, tp, an)     Anthology of from all over the world and all historical periods including Brother Cadfael, Brother Athelstan, Decius Metellus and Sister Frevisse as well as some newcomers including detective Hans Christian Anderson’s first case. xi · The Second Book of Chronicles · Mike Ashley · in 1 · Part I: The Ancient World 3 · Death in the Dawntime · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · ss 24 · Judgement of Daniel · [uncredited] · ss (r) 28 · Death Wears a Mask [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1992 52 · The King of Sacrifices [SPQR] · John Maddox Roberts · ss 70 · The Three Travellers · R. L. Stevens · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1976 79 · The Case of the Murdered Senator [Sollius (The Slave Detective)] · Wallace Nichols · nv The London Mystery Magazine #6, 1950 103 · A Mithraic Mystery [John the Eunuch] · Mary Reed & Eric Mayer · ss 120 · Abbey Sinister [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv 147 · The Two Beggars [Judge Dee] · Robert van Gulik · ss Judge Dee at Work by Robert van Gulik, Scribner's, 1967 165 · Part II: The Middle Ages 167 · The Investigation of Things · Charles Ardai · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1991 192 · The Midwife’s Tale [Dame Frevisse] · Margaret Frazer · nv 217 · The Duchess and the Doll · Edith Pargeter · ar The Uncertain Element ed. Kay Dick, Jarrolds, 1950 237 · Ordeal by Fire [Father Hugh] · Mary Monica Pulver · ss 246 · The Chapman and the Tree of Doom [Roger the Chapman] · Kate Sedley · nv 269 · Part III: The Age of Discovery 271 · The Murder of Innocence · P. C. Doherty · nv 295 · Cassandra’s Castle; or, The Devious Disappearances [William Shakespeare, Detective] · J. F. Peirce · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1975 309 · Man’s Inherited Death [George Man] · Keith Heller · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1987 324 · The Curse of the Connecticut Clock [Captain Jeremy Cork] · S. S. Rafferty · nv Fatal Flourishes by S. S. Rafferty, Avon, 1979 348 · The Scent of Murder [The Great “Detectives”] · Theodore Mathieson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1958, as “Captain Cook: Detective” 358 · The Inn of the Black Crow · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Red Magazine October 1 1915 372 · The Spirit of the ’76 [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1977 387 · Part IV: Regency and Gaslight 389 · Deadly Will and Testament [Harrison Hull] · Ron Burns · ss 402 · The God of the Hills [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Country Gentleman September 1927 418 · The Admiral’s Lady · Joan Aiken · ss 428 · The Eye of Shiva · Peter MacAlan · ss 447 · The Trail of the Bells [Ben Snow] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1985 461 · Murdering Mr Boodle [Auguste Didier] · Amy Myers · nv 485 · Part V: Holmes and Beyond 487 · The Phantom Pistol · Jack Adrian · ss Felonious Assaults ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Ivy, 1989 498 · The Adventure of the Frightened Governess [Solar Pons] · Basil Copper · nv The Further Adventures of Solar Pons (var. 1) by Basil Copper, Academy Chicago, 1987 restored from the unauthorised version in The Uncollected Cases of Solar Pons (Pinnacle, 1980).

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, October 11, 1993, 1-85487-229-X, £5.99, 522pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 23 historical mysteries, with a foreword by Ellis Peters and an afterword by Arthur Griffiths. xiii · The Chronicles of Crime · Mike Ashley · in xviii · Foreword · Ellis Peters · fw 1 · Part I: The Ancient World 3 · The Locked Tomb Mystery · Elizabeth Peters · ss Sisters in Crime ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1989 16 · The Thief Versus King Rhampsinitus · Herodotus; translated by George Rawlinson · ex from The History of Herodotus, John Murray, 1858 translated from the Greek. 20 · Socrates Solves a Murder [Socrates] · Brèni James · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1954 28 · Mightier Than the Sword [SPQR] · John Maddox Roberts · ss 44 · The Treasury Thefts · Wallace Nichols · gp (r) _44 · The Case of the Empress’s Jewels [Sollius (The Slave Detective)] · Wallace Nichols · nv The London Mystery Magazine #3, 1950 _71 · The Treasury Thefts [Sollius (The Slave Detective)] · Wallace Nichols · nv The London Mystery Magazine #4, 1950 99 · A Byzantine Mystery [John the Eunuch] · Mary Reed & Eric Mayer · ss 106 · He Came with the Rain [Judge Dee] · Robert van Gulik · nv Judge Dee at Work by Robert van Gulik, Scribner's, 1967 130 · The High King’s Sword [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv 157 · Part II: The Middle Ages 159 · The Price of Light [Brother Cadfael] · Ellis Peters · nv Winter’s Crimes 11 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1979 178 · The Confession of Brother Athelstan · Paul Harding · nv 204 · The Witch’s Tale · Margaret Frazer · ss 221 · Father Hugh and the Deadly Scythe [Father Hugh] · Mary Monica Pulver · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1990 230 · Leonardo Da Vinci, Detective [The Great “Detectives”] · Theodore Mathieson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1959 243 · A Sad and Bloody Hour · Joe Gores · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1965 259 · Part III: Regency and Gaslight 261 · The Christmas Masque [Captain Jeremy Cork] · S. S. Rafferty · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1976 286 · Murder Lock’d In [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1 1980 300 · Captain Nash and the Wroth Inheritance · Raymond Butler · n. Harwood-Smart Publishing, 1975 404 · The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 18 1914 415 · Murder in the Rue Royale [C. Auguste Dupin] · Michael Harrison · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1968 431 · The Gentleman from Paris · John Dickson Carr · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #77, April 1950 455 · The Golden Nugget Poker Game [Ben Snow] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1987, as “Poker Game at the Golden Nugget” 469 · Part IV: Holmes and Beyond 471 · The Case of the Deptford Horror [Sherlock Holmes] · Adrian Conan Doyle · nv Collier’s September 18 1953, as “The Adventure of the Deptford Horror” 489 · Five Rings in Reno · R. L. Stevens · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1976 504 · Afterword: Old-Time Detection · Arthur Griffiths · ar Cassell’s Magazine April 1902 514 · The Chroniclers of Crime · Mike Ashley · bi

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits ed. Mike Ashley (Carroll & Graf, November 1993, 0-7867-0024-6, $9.95, 522pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Robinson 1993) anthology of 23 historical mysteries, with a foreword by Ellis Peters and an afterword by Arthur Griffiths. First US edition.

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Brand New Collection ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, August 30, 2001, 1-84119-373-9, £6.99, 500pp, tp, oa, cover by Joe Roberts)     Associational anthology of 14 original stories and one reprint (by Steve Saylor). Authors include Michael Kurland, Keith Taylor, Cherith Baldry, and Peter Tremayne. 1 · Past Crimes · Mike Ashley · in 3 · Poppy and the Poisoned Cake [Gordianus the Finder] · Steven Saylor · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1998 27 · Blind Justice [Marcus Fabius Quintilianus] · Michael Kurland · nv 50 · A Payment to the Gods [Libertus] · Rosemary Rowe · ss 68 · The Last Legion · Richard Butler · nv 97 · And All That He Calls Family [John the Eunuch] · Mary Reed & Eric Mayer · ss 115 · Death of an Icon [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv 139 · King Hereafter · Philip Gooden · nv 162 · The Death Toll · Susanna Gregory · ss 179 · The Isle of Saints · Kate Ellis · nv 204 · A Perfect Crime · Derek Wilson · nv 228 · On Wings of Love · Carol Anne Davis · ss 237 · A Lion Rampant [Friar Gregory] · Jean Davidson · nv 258 · The Amorous Armourer [Sir Baldwin Furnshill] · Michael Jecks · nv 281 · Benefit of Clergy [Sir John Mandeville] · Keith Taylor · ss 297 · The Pilgrim’s Tale [Geoffrey Chaucer] · Cherith Baldry · ss 313 · And What Can They Show, or What Reasons Give? · Mat Coward · ss 331 · Heretical Murder [Bishop Pecock] · Margaret Frazer (by Gail Frazer) · nv 359 · A Moon for Columbus · Edward D. Hoch · ss 370 · House of the Moon [Don Alessandro Orsini] · Claire Griffen · nv 393 · Flibbertigibbet · Paul Finch · na 453 · The Vasty Deep · Peter T. Garratt · nv 478 · A Taste for Burning · Marilyn Todd · nv

The Mammoth Book of Historical Whodunnits: Third New Collection ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, June 2005, 1-84529-004-6, £7.99, xi+564pp, tp, oa, cover by Joe Roberts)     Associational anthology of 15 original stories and 11 reprints. vii · Three Thousand Years of Crime · Mike Ashley · in 1 · His Master’s Servant · Philip Boast · nv 28 · Death in the Desert · Jean Davidson · ss 47 · The Judgment of the Gods · Robert Reginald · nv 72 · The Oracle of Amun [Herodotus] · Mary Reed & Eric Mayer · ss 91 · Cupid’s Arrow [Claudia Seferius] · Marilyn Todd · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2003 114 · The Spiteful Shadow [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv 136 · Catherine and the Sibyl [Catherine LeVendeur] · Sharan Newman · ss 153 · The Jester and the Mathematician [Fools’ Guild] · Alan Gordon · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 2000 178 · The Duke’s Tale [Geoffrey Chaucer] · Cherith Baldry · ss 197 · Sea of Darkness · Sarah A. Hoyt · ss 215 · The Stone-Worker’s Tale [Dame Frevisse] · Margaret Frazer · nv 235 · The Witching Hour · Martin Edwards · nv 256 · The Dutchman and the Wrongful Heir [Tonneman Family] · Maan Meyers · nv 298 · If Serpents Envious [Joseph Fisher] · Clayton Emery · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1998 325 · The Uninvited Guest [Alexander Swift] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1996 345 · Benjamin’s Trap [Benjamin Franklin] · Richard W. Moquist · ss The Franklin Mysteries by Richard W. Moquist, Northwest, 1994 365 · The Serpent’s Back [Cullender] · Ian Rankin · nv Midwinter Mysteries 5 ed. Hilary Hale, Little, Brown UK, 1995 386 · Botanist at Bay · Edward Marston · ss 406 · The Living and the Dead · Judith Cutler · ss 423 · Footprints [Jasper Shrig] · Jeffery Farnol · ss Britannia and Eve May 1929 439 · The Tenth Commandment [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 2 1912 452 · Murder in Old Manhattan · Frank Bonham · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1946 471 · The Abolitionist · Lynda S. Robinson · nv 503 · Poisoned with Politeness [Thomas Ludlow; Harry Leather] · Gillian Linscott · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 1997 523 · Threads of Scarlet · Claire Griffen · nv 545 · The Gentleman on the Titanic · John Lutz · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1999