The FictionMags Index

Book Contents Lists: Page 157

Out of My Mind by Hugo Baruch--- see under Jack Bilbo.

Before and Afterlives by Christopher Barzak (Lethe Press, March 2013, 978-1-59021-369-8, $15.00, 227pp, tp, co, cover by Steven Andrew)     Collection of 17 stories, one original. Details taken from online listing. 1 · What We Know About the Lost Families of —— House · Christopher Barzak · ss Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing ed. Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, Interstitial Arts Foundation, 2007 19 · The Drowned Mermaid · Christopher Barzak · ss Realms of Fantasy June 2003 33 · Dead Boy Found · Christopher Barzak · ss Trampoline ed. Kelly Link, Small Beer Press, 2003 49 · A Mad Tea Party · Christopher Barzak · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet Winter 1999 57 · Born on the Edge of an Adjective · Christopher Barzak · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #10, June 2002 71 · The Other Angelas · Christopher Barzak · ss Pindeldyboz (online) December 2004 75 · A Resurrection Artist · Christopher Barzak · ss The Third Alternative #39, Autumn 2004 87 · The Boy Who Was Born Wrapped in Barbed Wire · Christopher Barzak · ss The Endicott Studio Journal of Mythic Arts Autumn 2005 97 · Map of Seventeen · Christopher Barzak · nv The Beastly Bride ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2010 119 · Dead Letters · Christopher Barzak · ss Realms of Fantasy February 2006 131 · Plenty · Christopher Barzak · ss Strange Horizons May 28 2001 143 · The Ghost Hunter’s Beautiful Daughter · Christopher Barzak · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 2009 165 · Caryatids · Christopher Barzak · ss Nerve.com June 11 2001 171 · A Beginner’s Guide to Survival Before, During, and After the Apocalypse · Christopher Barzak · ss 177 · Smoke City · Christopher Barzak · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction April/May 2011 189 · Vanishing Point · Christopher Barzak · ss Descant Fall 2003 201 · The Language of Moths · Christopher Barzak · ss Realms of Fantasy April 2005

Rabid Transit: A Mischief of Rats ed. Christopher Barzak, Barth Anderson, Alan DeNiro & Kristin Livdahl--- see under Barth Anderson.

Rabid Transit: Long Voyages, Great Lies ed. Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro & Kristin Livdahl (Velocity Press, May 2006, no ISBN, $6.00, 92pp, tp, oa)     Original anthology/magazine of six stories, the fifth in a series from the writers’ group called the Ratbastards. Authors include David J. Schwartz, F. Brett Cox, and Heather Shaw. 5 · The Mom Walk: A Story in Five Stories · Alice Kim · ss 21 · Shackles · David J. Schwartz · ss 31 · My Whole World Lies Waiting · F. Brett Cox · ss 45 · Mountain, Man · Heather Shaw · ss 59 · The Ghost Line · Meghan McCarron · ss 79 · Release the Bats · Geoffrey H. Goodwin · ss

Rabid Transit: Menagerie ed. Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro & Kristin Livdahl (Velocity Press, May 2005, no ISBN, $6.00, 92pp, ph, oa)     Original anthology of six stories in perfect-bound chapbook form, the fourth in a series from the writers’ group called the Ratbastards. Authors include Vandana Singh, Matthew Cheney, and Rudi Dornemann. 5 · The Sign in the Window · Vandana Singh · ss 13 · Fragments · Matthew Cheney · ss 25 · Terminós · Dean Francis Alfar · ss 39 · Pick, I Am, I Am. · James Allison · ss 57 · The Sky Green Box · Rudi Dornemann · ss 77 · Ballerina Ballerina · Eric Rickstad · ss

Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo ed. Christopher Barzak, Barth Anderson, Alan DeNiro & Kristin Livdahl--- see under Barth Anderson.

Classic Short Stories of Crime and Detection ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor (Garland, 1983, 0-8240-4975-6, hc, an) ix · Editors’ Introduction · Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor · in 3 · Strictly Diplomatic [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine December 1939, as by Carter Dickson 15 · Miss Phipps and the Nest of Illusion [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1969 29 · The Splintered Monday · Charlotte Armstrong · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1966 45 · Partner in Crime · Emily Neff · ss Wicked Women ed. Lee Wright, Pocket, 1959 61 · Wife Missing [Department of Dead Ends] · Roy Vickers · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1958 83 · The Cooperative Defendant · Seicho Matsumoto · nv (r) 113 · So Dark for April [Paul Pine] · Howard Browne · nv Manhunt February 1953, as by John Evans 139 · “Yes, Sir: No, Sir” · John Rossiter · nv John Creasey’s Crime Collection 1978 ed. Herbert Harris, Gollancz, 1978 165 · The One and Only East [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1975 181 · The Nine Mile Walk [Nicky Welt] · Harry Kemelman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 197 · Murder in the Rue St. André des Arts [C. Auguste Dupin] · Michael Harrison · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1970 213 · The Raffles Hunt [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1974 233 · Cloud Nine · Christianna Brand · ss Verdict of 13 ed. Julian Symons, Faber and Faber, 1978 247 · The Lost Heir [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1974 267 · The Green Gorevan · Robert McNear · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1969 281 · The Theft of the Venetian Window [Nick Velvet] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1975 301 · Merry-Go-Round [Gervase Fen; Insp. Humbleby] · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard February 23 1953

Classic Stories of Crime and Detection ed. Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor (Garland, 1976, 0-8240-2350-1, $10.00, hc, an) vii · Editors’ Introduction · Jacques Barzun & Wendell Hertig Taylor · in 1 · The One Best Bet [Average Jones] · Samuel Hopkins Adams · nv Success April 1911, as “Flash Light” 31 · Mr. Flexman’s Boast · Belton Cobb · ss Detective Stories of To-Day ed. Raymond Postgate, Faber and Faber, 1940 43 · The Refugees [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure October 10 1925 89 · The Case of Jacob Heylyn [Anthony Slade] · Leonard R. Gribble · nv Many Mysteries ed. E. Phillips Oppenheim, Rich & Cowan, 1933 109 · The Clairvoyants [Constance Dunlap] · Arthur B. Reeve · nv Pearson’s Magazine (US) February 1914 137 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 161 · The Case of the Mysterious Weapon [Prof. Augustus S.F.X. Van Dusen (The Thinking Machine)] · Jacques Futrelle · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #83, October 1950, as “The Mysterious Weapon” heavily revised from “The Case of the Scientific Murderer” (The Popular Magazine, September 1, 1912). 183 · Life Is a Brutal Affair · Helen McCloy · na The American Magazine September 1949, as “Better Off Dead” 235 · The Incautious Burglar [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine October 1940, as “A Guest in the House” 251 · After-Dinner Story [Hardecker] · William Irish · nv Black Mask January 1938, as by Cornell Woolrich 271 · Mind Over Matter [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv The Blue Book Magazine October 1939 297 · The Adopted Daughter [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Red Book Magazine June 1916 311 · One Hundred in the Dark · Owen Johnson · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 21 1911 341 · The Eleventh Juror · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories August 1927

The Delights of Detection ed. Jacques Barzun (Criterion, 1961, LC:61-7193, $5.95, 381pp, hc, an) 9 · Detection and the Literary Art · Jacques Barzun · in 27 · The Tragedy at Brookbend Cottage [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv News of the World September 7 1913 (+1) 50 · The Bottomless Well [Horne Fisher] · G. K. Chesterton · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1921 67 · The Log Case [Dr. Cedric Dodd] · Kenneth Livingston · nv The Dodd Cases by Kenneth Livingston, Methuen, 1933 95 · The Professor’s Manuscript [Montague Egg] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Passing Show October 20 1934 107 · The Unknown Peer [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine February 1938, as “Trent and the Unknown Peer” 122 · The Greek Play [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv The Delineator March 1930 155 · A Case of Premeditation [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv McClure’s Magazine August 1910 199 · The Nine Mile Walk [Nicky Welt] · Harry Kemelman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 209 · The Weir · Daniel Pettiward · ss The London Mystery Magazine #19, 1954 227 · The Homesick Buick · John D. MacDonald · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #82, September 1950 241 · Otherwhere [Gervase Fen] · Edmund Crispin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #113, April 1953, as “All in the Way You Look at It” 253 · One Word at a Time · Bayard Wendell · nv (r) 285 · The Oyster Catcher [Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) August 1957 301 · Murder Is No Joke [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv And Four to Go by Rex Stout, Viking, 1958 345 · Cloak Without Dagger · P. C. de Beaumarchais · ss (r) 349 · The Rifle · William Leggett · nv The Atlantic Souvenir, Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827 375 · The King’s Private Eye · Alexandre Dumas · ex from Le Vicomte de Bragelonne ou Dix Ans Plus Tard, 1848

The Happy Ghost and Other Stories by H. H. Bashford (William Heinemann, 1925, 440pp, hc, co) 1 · The Happy Ghost · H. H. Bashford · vi The Living Age June 7 1919 9 · Father Prescott’s Creed · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 27 · Mr. Parchester and the Gods · H. H. Bashford · ss The Strand Magazine September 1924 49 · Back to the Trees · H. H. Bashford · ss The London Magazine September 1925 65 · The Escape · H. H. Bashford · ss The Windsor Magazine May 1916 87 · Before Dinner · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 97 · Maud · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 117 · Crossing the Bridge · H. H. Bashford · ss The New Magazine (UK) October 1911 125 · The Brink · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 135 · The Last of the Aristocrats · H. H. Bashford · ss The Living Age May 10 1919 145 · Farquarson · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 155 · The Bishop’s Move · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 171 · God and the Bud Openers · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 177 · The Human Factor · H. H. Bashford · nv The Designer and The Woman’s Magazine June 1923 209 · Mr. Curgenven-Curgenven · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 223 · The Gentleman Upstairs · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 241 · The Waiter Whose Hand Shook · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 255 · Good Beds for Gentlemen · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 261 · The Miracle · H. H. Bashford · ss (r) 273 · The Gardener of Eden · H. H. Bashford · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1915

Clockwork Fairy Tales ed. James C. Bassett & Stephen L. Antczak--- see under Stephen L. Antczak.

Zombiesque ed. James C. Bassett, Stephen L. Antczak & Martin H. Greenberg--- see under Stephen L. Antczak.

Fifty Extremely SF* Stories ed. Michael Bastraw (Niekas, August 1982, 0-910619-00-X, $3.95, 51pp, digest, oa) 1 · Fifty Words by Robert Bloch · Robert Bloch · in 2 · Story · Ray Faraday Nelson · vi 3 · Dibs on Earth · F. M. Busby · vi 4 · About Time · David Thiry · vi 5 · The Way It Was · Owen K. Laurion · vi 6 · The Mage Undone · Susan M. Shwartz · vi 7 · Who? · Mary Lou Lacefield · vi 8 · The Triumph of Science · David Thiry · vi 9 · To the Death · Piers Anthony · vi 10 · She, He, and the End of the World · Ben P. Indick · vi 11 · Intermission · Fred Saberhagen · vi 12 · Buy You a Drink? · Chris Steinbrunner · vi 13 · How the Boy Icarus Grew Up and, After a Legendary Disaster, Learnt New Things About Himself and the External World, Until He Was Able to Comprehend the Magic That Had Been His in His Earliest Years /or/ Second Flight · Brian W. Aldiss · vi 14 · Abandoned · Harry J. N. Andruschak · vi 15 · Thunderstruck · Lisa Torrey · vi 16 · The Devil You Don’t · John Brunner · vi 17 · Time Barrier · Joe R. Christopher · vi 18 · The Destroyer · B. Terry Jeeves · vi 19 · Why There Are No More Unicorns · Anne J. Braude · vi 20 · Sauce for the Goose · Margaret L. Carter · vi 21 · Number, Please · James Ian Elliot · vi 22 · Happy Ending · Leo M. Gallagher · vi 23 · Only a Nightmare · Jason C. Eckhardt · vi 24 · Deadline · Piers A. Jacob · vi 25 · The Martian Space-Slip · David Palter · vi 26 · A Grand Quest · Keith Williams · vi 27 · Consummation · Margaret L. Carter · vi 28 · A Universal Language · Cyril Bosch · vi 29 · Fannish Version One Letter Shorter Than the Story Which Is Shorter by One Letter Than the Shortest Science Fiction Story Ever Written · Dennis D’Asaro · vi 30 · Glitch · James Ian Elliot · vi 31 · No Great Shakes for Mr. Dakes · Anne Etkin · vi 32 · And Then I Woke Up · David L. Travis · vi 33 · The Brave Crazy Swim of Matthew P. Quisquis · Anne Etkin · vi 34 · When Charlie Came · Shariann Lewitt · vi 35 · Fernbach in Space · Anthony Magistrale · vi 36 · Two Way Traffic · Benjamin St. Cyr · vi 37 · Progress · Leonard Ratushewitz · vi 38 · Transmogrification · Pier Xanthony · vi 39 · Ad Infinitum · George Spelvin · vi 40 · Apartment Haunt · Ruth Berman · vi 41 · Litmus Test · John Brunner · vi 42 · Legislative Action · Mike Bastraw · vi 43 · The Missing Verse · Spider Robinson · vi 44 · Automatic Success · Don D’Ammassa · vi 45 · My Last Bier · Cassa A. Skein · vi 46 · On the Hoof · Rod C. Walker · vi 47 · Call Yourself a Christian · Brian W. Aldiss · vi 48 · No Big Deal · Paul Demzioquoi · vi 49 · Last Criterion · Fritz Stock · vi 50 · Laugh Not · Keith Williams · vi 51 · Two Investigations with One Solution · David L. Travis · vi

Intoxicated Ghost and Other Stories by Arlo Bates (Houghton, Mifflin and Company, April 1908, 303pp, hc, co) 1 · The Intoxicated Ghost · Arlo Bates · nv The Century Magazine July 1893 43 · A Problem in Portraiture · Arlo Bates · nv Scribner’s Magazine November 1889 85 · The Knitters in the Sun · Arlo Bates · nv (r) 117 · A Comedy in Crape · Arlo Bates · nv (r) 145 · A Meeting of the Psychical Club · Arlo Bates · nv (r) 177 · Tim Calligan’s Grave-Money · Arlo Bates · nv (r) 207 · Miss Gaylord and Jenny · Arlo Bates · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1904 249 · Dr. Polnitzski · Arlo Bates · nv Ainslee’s Magazine July 1903 277 · In the Virginia Room · Arlo Bates · ss The Century Magazine June 1905

Seven Tales and Alexander by H. E. Bates (Scholastic Press, 1929, 7/6d, 166pp, hc, co) · Alexander · H. E. Bates · ss (r) · The Barber · H. E. Bates · ss (r) · The Child · H. E. Bates · ss The Criterion January 1929 · A Comic Actor · H. E. Bates · ss The New Statesman June 29 1929 · The Peach-Tree · H. E. Bates · ss · A Tinker’s Donkey · H. E. Bates · ss The Manchester Guardian November 9 1928 · The King Who Lived on Air · H. E. Bates · ss (r) · Lanko’s White Mare · H. E. Bates · ss (r)

The Miraculous Horde and Other Stories by Ralph Bates (Jonathan Cape, 1939, 7/6d, 315pp, hc, co) · Monastery with Curled Clouds · Ralph Bates · ss (r) · The Miraculous Horde · Ralph Bates · ss (r) · Jarama Ballad · Ralph Bates · ss (r) · Brunette Ballad · Ralph Bates · ss (r) · The Yoke · Ralph Bates · ss (r) · 43rd Division · Ralph Bates · nv Harper’s Magazine December 1938 (+1) · The Haunted Man · Ralph Bates · nv · Burning Corn · Ralph Bates · ss (r)