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First Thrills ed. Lee Child (Forge, June 2010, 978-0-7653-2648-5, $25.99, 367pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology of 25 stories by members of the International Thriller Writers, Inc. 13 · Introduction · Lee Child · in 19 · The Thief · Gregg Hurwitz · ss 35 · Scutwork · C. J. Lyons · ss 47 · The Bodyguard · Lee Child · ss 57 · Last Supper · Rip Gerber · ss 75 · After Dark · Alex Kava & Deb Carlin · ss 89 · Wednesday’s Child · Ken Bruen · ss 103 · Eddy May · Theo Gangi · ss 119 · The Pilot · Jeffery Deaver · nv 141 · Eye of the Storm · John Lutz & Lise Baker · ss 153 · The Dead Club · Michael & Daniel James Palmer · ss 169 · Underbelly · Grant McKenzie · ss 181 · The Gato Conundrum · John Lescroart · ss 201 · The Princess of Felony Flats · Bill Cameron · ss 219 · Savage Planet · Stephen Coonts · ss 235 · Suspended · Ryan Brown · ss 249 · Invisible · Sean Michael Bailey · ss 253 · When Johnny Comes Marching Home · Heather Graham · ss 271 · On the Train · Rebecca Cantrell · ss 281 · Children’s Day · Kelli Stanley · ss 295 · My Father’s Eyes · Wendy Corsi Staub · ss 303 · Program with a Happy Ending · Cynthia Robinson · ss 313 · Killing Carol Ann · J. T. Ellison · ss 327 · Chloe · Marc Paoletti · ss 333 · Cold, Cold Heart · Karin Slaughter · nv 359 · Calling the Shots · Karen Dionne · ss 365 · Afterword · Steve Berry · aw

Killer Year: Stories to Die For…from the Hottest New Crime Writers ed. Lee Child (St. Martin’s Minotaur, January 2008, 0312374704, $24.95, 281pp, hc, oa) xiii · Introduction · Lee Child · in xv · The Class of Co-opetition · M. J. Rose · ss 1 · Introduction to “Perfect Gentleman” · James Rollins · is 1 · Perfect Gentleman · Brett Battles · ss 23 · Killing Justice · Allison Brennan · ss 45 · Introduction to “Bottom Deal” · Gayle Lynds · is 45 · Bottom Deal · Robert Gregory Brown · nv 77 · Time of the Green · Ken Bruen · ss 93 · Introduction to “Slice of Pie” · Anne Frasier · is 93 · Slice of Pie · Bill Cameron · ss 101 · Introduction to “A Failure to Communicate” · Harley Jane Kozak · is 101 · A Failure to Communicate · Toni McGee Causey · ss 119 · Introduction to “One Serving of Bad Luck” · Ken Bruen · is 119 · One Serving of Bad Luck · Sean Chercover · ss 143 · Introduction to “Prodigal Me” · Lee Child · is 143 · Prodigal Me · J. T. Ellison · ss 153 · Introduction to “The Only Word I Know in Spanish” · Tess Gerritsen · is 153 · The Only Word I Know in Spanish · Patry Francis · nv 179 · Introduction to “Teardown” · Joe R. Lansdale · is 179 · Teardown · Marc Lecard · ss 193 · Introduction to “Runaway” · Douglas Clegg · is 193 · Runaway · Derek Nikitas · ss 213 · Introduction to “The Crime of My Life” · Allison Brennan · is 213 · The Crime of My Life · Gregg Olsen · ss 223 · Introduction to “Point Guard” · Jeffery Deaver · is 223 · The Point Guard · Jason Pinter · ss 235 · Introduction to “Gravity and Need” · David Morrell · is 235 · Gravity and Need · Marcus Sakey · ss 249 · Death Runs Faster · Duane Swierczynski · ss 259 · Introduction to “Righteous Son” · Duane Swierczynski · is 259 · Righteous Son · Dave White · ss 273 · Coda · Laura Lippman · ss 277 · Author Biographies · [uncredited] · bg

The Mysterious Bookshop Presents the Best Mystery Stories of the Year: 2021 ed. Lee Child (The Mysterious Bookshop, September 14, 2021, 978-1-61316-267-5, $16.95, 451pp, hc, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. xiii · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xvii · Introduction · Lee Child · in 1 · 30 and Out · Doug Allyn · nv Deadly Anniversaries ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Hanover Square Press, 2020 29 · Things That Follow · Jim Allyn · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2020 55 · Blest Be the Tie That Binds · Michael Bracken · ss Black Cat Mystery Magazine #6, 2020 77 · Harbor Lights · James Lee Burke · ss A Private Cathedral (Barnes & Noble edition) by James Lee Burke, Simon & Schuster, 2020 101 · The Locked Cabin · Martin Edwards · ss The Book of Extraordinary Impossible Crimes and Puzzling Deaths ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Mango Publishing Group, 2020 123 · Biloxi Bound · John M. Floyd · ss The Strand Magazine #60, February/May 2020 141 · That Which Is True · Jacqueline Freimor · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July/August 2020 155 · The Gift · Alison Gaylin · nv Amazon Original Stories, July 30 2020 183 · If You Want Something Done Right… · Sue Grafton · ss Deadly Anniversaries ed. Marcia Muller & Bill Pronzini, Hanover Square Press, 2020 209 · The Sixth Decoy · Paul Kemprecos · nv Nothing Good Happens After Midnight ed. Jeffery Deaver, Suspense Publishing, 2020 243 · The Fifth Step · Stephen King · ss Harper’s Magazine March 2020 255 · The Client · Janice Law · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2020 269 · The Truth About Lucy · Dennis McFadden · nv Louisiana Literature v37 #1, 2020 299 · The Adventure of the Home Office Baby [Sherlock Holmes] · David Marcum · ss The Strand Magazine #60, February/May 2020 317 · Heat Wave · Tom Mead · ss Detective Thrillers Short Stories, Flame Tree, 2020 341 · Requiem for a Homecoming · David Morrell · ss The Darkling Halls of Ivy ed. Lawrence Block, Subterranean Press, 2020 355 · Parole Hearing, California Institution for Women, Chino, CA · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Boulevard #104/105, Spring 2020 365 · Love & Other Crimes · Sara Paretsky · nv Love & Other Crimes by Sara Paretsky, William Morrow, 2020 401 · Etta at the End of the World · Joseph S. Walker · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2020 417 · The Path I Took · Andrew Welsh-Huggins · ss Mystery Tribune #12, Winter 2020 441 · My Favorite Murder · Ambrose Gwinnett Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner September 16 1888 453 · The Best Mystery Stories 2021 Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance ed. Lee Child (Mulholland Books, April 2012, 978-0316176347, 376pp, hc, oa)     Twenty-one original stories about crimes and those who avenge them. ix · Introduction · Lee Child · in 3 · The Fourteenth Juror · Twist Phelan · ss 20 · Lost and Found · Zoë Sharp · ss 29 · The Mother · Alafair Burke · nv 50 · Blind Justice · Jim Fusilli · ss 61 · The Consumers · Dennis Lehane · ss 80 · Moonshiner’s Lament · Rick McMahan · nv 104 · River Secret · Anne Swardson · ss 119 · Hot Sugar Blues · Steve Liskow · ss 133 · The Final Ballot · Brendan DuBois · nv 156 · Africa Always Needs Guns · Michael Niemann · nv 177 · The Unremarkable Heart · Karin Slaughter · nv first published in Holland as an e-book original 19 2010 as “Ongez1en,” and in the United Kingdom as an e-book in 2011. 213 · It Ain’t Right · Michelle Gagnon · ss 217 · Silent Justice · C. E. Lawrence · nv 240 · Even a Blind Man · Darrell James · nv 262 · The General · Janice Law · ss 276 · A Fine Mist of Blood [Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch] · Michael Connelly · ss 296 · Leverage · Mike Cooper · nv 318 · The Hotline · Dreda Say Mitchell · ss 337 · Blood and Sunshine · Adam Meyer · ss 354 · In Persona Christi · Orest Stelmach · ss 372 · The Hollywood I Remember · Lee Child · ss 379 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 385 · Copyrights · [uncredited] · ms (r)

Vengeance ed. Lee Child--- see under Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance ed. Lee Child, Mulholland Books, 2012.

Dark Banquet: A Feast of 12 Great Ghost Stories ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s, October 1985, 0-312-18233-3, $15.95, 255pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 12 tales of the supernatural. ix · A Note on the Selections · Lincoln Child · pr xi · Introduction to the Banquet · Lincoln Child · in 1 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 15 · Thrawn Janet · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1881, as by R. L. S. 26 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 48 · The Horror of the Heights · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine November 1913 65 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert S. Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved” 111 · The Yellow Sign · Robert W. Chambers · nv The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, F. Tennyson Neely, 1895 131 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 154 · The House of Sounds · M. P. Shiel · nv The Pale Ape by M. P. Shiel, T. Werner Laurie, 1911 a revised and updated version of “Vaila”, Shapes in the Fire, 1896. 184 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 198 · The Man Who Went Too Far · E. F. Benson · nv The Pall Mall Magazine June 1904 220 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 251 · Blind Man’s Buff · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Sketch April 25 1928

Dark Company: The Ten Greatest Ghost Stories ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s, January 1984, 0-312-18231-7, $12.95, 334pp, hc, an)     Anthology of well-known stories by Poe, Le Fanu, M.R. James, W.W. Jacobs, Arthur Machen, Blackwood, Oliver Onions, William Hope Hodgson, and Lovecraft. vii · Introduction · Lincoln Child · in 1 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 19 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited. 49 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908 81 · The Mezzotint · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904 92 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 103 · The Great God Pan · Arthur Machen · na The Great God Pan and The Inmost Light by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1894 a portion appeared earlier in The Whirlwind, Dec 13, 1890. 152 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 198 · The Beckoning Fair One · Oliver Onions · na Widdershins by Oliver Onions, Secker, 1911 260 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907 273 · The Shadow Out of Time [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · na Astounding Stories June 1936

Tales of the Dark ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s, July 1987, 0-312-90339-1, $3.50, 184pp, pb, an)     Anthology of 10 horror stories. vii · Introduction · Lincoln Child · in 1 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 19 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 33 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited. 63 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893 75 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 91 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 113 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 129 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 152 · The Yellow Sign · Robert W. Chambers · nv The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, F. Tennyson Neely, 1895 172 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907

Tales of the Dark 2 ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s, September 1987, 0-312-90769-9, $3.50, 181pp, pb, an)     Anthology of 9 late-19th and early-20th-century supernatural stories. vii · Introduction · Lincoln Child · in 1 · The Dead Hand · Wilkie Collins (with Charles Dickens) · ex from “The Lazy Tour of Two Idle Apprentices”, anonymously, Household Words October 3 1857 (+4), uncredited. 28 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 39 · Man-Size in Marble · E. Nesbit · nv Home Chimes December 1887 56 · The Leather Funnel · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss McClure’s Magazine November 1902 71 · Mr. Humphreys and His Inheritance · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Arnold, 1911 103 · The Novel of the White Powder · Arthur Machen · nv The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895 124 · The Flowering of the Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 2 1894 134 · The Empty House [Jim Shorthouse] · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1906 155 · Benlian · Oliver Onions · nv The Fortnightly Review January 1911 178 · A Note on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Tales of the Dark #3 ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s, February 1988, 0-312-90539-4, $3.50, 179pp, pb, an)     Anthology of 9 horror stories. ix · Introduction · Lincoln Child · in 1 · An Episode of Cathedral History · M. R. James · ss The Cambridge Review June 10 1914 18 · Caterpillars · E. F. Benson · ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills & Boon, 1912 27 · A:B:O. · Walter de la Mare · ss Eight Tales by Walter de la Mare, Arkham House, 1971 45 · The Red Lodge · H. Russell Wakefield · ss They Return At Evening by H. Russell Wakefield, Phillip Allan, 1928 58 · The Shadow Over Innsmouth [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · na Visionary Press, 1936 126 · The Grey Ones · J. B. Priestley · nv Lilliput April/May 1953 144 · The Curse of Yig · Zealia Brown Reed Bishop (with H. P. Lovecraft) · ss Weird Tales November 1929, as by Zealia Brown Reed written by Lovecraft based on a story idea and some notes by Bishop. 162 · Sweets to the Sweet · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales March 1947 171 · Call First · Ramsey Campbell · ss Night Chills ed. Kirby McCauley, Avon, 1975 177 · A Note on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Out for a Hero ed. Amanda Ching (Storm Moon Press, April 8, 2016, 978-1-62757-117-3, $3.99, ebook, oa, cover by Susan Jane Bigelow)     Details taken from online listing. · The Integrals · Chrysoula Tzavelas · ss · Sparks · Lana Drake · ss · Firebreak · Sean M. Locke · ss · DVDRW · Elyan Smith · ss · Pedal to the Mettle · Gretchen Crane · nv · A Memory of Wind · Susan Jane Bigelow · ss