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Murder in Vegas: New Crime Tales of Gambling and Desperation ed. Michael Connelly (Tor, March 2005, 0-7653-0739-1, $24.95, 352pp, hc, oa)
22 new stories by members of the International Association of Crime Writers.

11 · 10,000 Eyes in the Sky · Michael Connelly · in

15 · The Sunshine Tax · James Swain · ss

19 · Passline · S. J. Rozan · ss

31 · Dust Up · Wendy Hornsby · nv

45 · The Kidnapping of Xiang Fei · Michael Collins · ss

63 · Killer Heels Kill Twice as Dead · T. P. Keating · ss

75 · Iggy’s Stuff · J. Madison Davis · ss

87 · A Temporary Crown · Sue Pike · ss

97 · The Gambling Master of Shanghai · Joan Richter · ss

111 · House Rules · Libby Fischer Hellmann · ss

125 · Rolling the Bones · Tom Savage · ss

141 · Oddsmaker · Edward Wellen · ss

161 · The Dope Show · K. J. A. Wishnia · ss

177 · Death of a Whale in the Church of Elvis · Linda Kerslake · ss

195 · Neighbors · John Wessel · ss

213 · The End of the World (As We Know It) · Lise McClendon · ss

227 · Nickels and Dimes · Ronnie Klaskin · ss

243 · Even Gamblers Have to Eat · Ruth Cavin · ss

253 · The Magic Touch · A. B. Robbins · ss

273 · Catnapping · Gay Toltl Kinman · ss

285 · Miscast · Micki Marz · ss

303 · Lightning Rider · Rick Mofina · nv

321 · Grieving Las Vegas · Jeremiah Healy · nv

347 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Apex Magazine 2021 ed. Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore (Apex Publications, December 19, 2022, 978-1-955765-06-0, $27.95, 544pp, tp, an, cover by Marcela Bolívar)
Details taken from online listing.

· Root Rot · Fargo Tbakhi · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Your Own Undoing · P. H. Lee · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Love, That Hungry Thing · Cassandra Khaw · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Mr. Death · Alix E. Harrow · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· The Niddah · Elana Gomel · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· All I Want for Christmas · Charles Payseur · vi Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Gray Skies, Red Wings, Blue Lips, Black Hearts · Merc Fenn Wolfmoor · ss Apex Magazine #121, 2021

· Barefoot and Midnight · Sheree Renée Thomas · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· The Amazing Exploding Women of the Early Twentieth Century · A. C. Wise · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· Black Box of the Terraworms · Barton Aikman · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· If Those Ragged Feet Won’t Run · Annie Neugebauer · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· A Love That Burns Hot Enough to Last: Deleted Scenes from a Documentary · Sam J. Miller · ss Apex Magazine #122, 2021

· The Life & Death of Mia Fremont: An Interview with a Killer · A. K. Hudson · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· This Is the Moment, or One of Them · Mari Ness · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Throw Rug · Aurelius Raines, II · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Mishpokhe and Ash · Sydney Rossman-Reich · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· All This Darkness · Jennifer R. Donohue · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Demon Fighter Sucks · Katherine Crighton · ss Apex Magazine #123, 2021

· Eilam Is Forever · Beth Dawkins · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Without Wishes to Bind You · E. Catherine Tobler · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· How to Be Good · R. Gatwood · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Osu · Kingsley Okpii · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Survival, After · Nicole J. LeBoeuf · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· What Sisters Take · Kelly Sandoval · ss Apex Magazine #124, 2021

· Cottonmouth · Joelle Wellington · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Next to Cleanliness · Rose Keating · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Discontinuity · Jared Millet · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Candyland · Maggie Slater · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Gift for the Cutter Man · D. Thomas Minton · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Wake Up, I Miss You · Rachel Swirsky · ss Apex Magazine #125, 2021

· Security Breach at Sugar Pine Suites · Pamela Rentz · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· Happy Trails · Theodore C. Van Alst, Jr. · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· Marked by Bears · Jessie Loyer · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· Spirits of the Broken Lands · Kevin Wabaunsee · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· When Evening Arrives · Tiffany Morris · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· An Incident at Hellpoint Prime · Norris Black · ss Apex Magazine #126, 2021

· To Seek Himself Again · Marie Croke · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· This Shattered Vessel, Which Holds Only Grief · Izzy Wasserstein · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· In Haskins · Carson Winter · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· Whose Mortal Taste · Erin K. Wagner · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· Hank in the South Dakota Sun · Stephanie Kraner · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· I Call Upon the Night as Witness · Zahra Mukhi · ss Apex Magazine #127, 2021

· Soil of Our Home, Storm of Our Lives · Renan Bernardo · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· Robin’s Last Song · Nina Munteanu · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· Godmother · Cheryl S. Ntumy · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· The Synchronism of Touch · Gabriela Damián Miravete; translated by Sally McCorry · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021
translated from the Spanish.

· Dreamports · Tlotlo Tsamaase · nv Apex Magazine #128, 2021

· Samsāra in a Teacup · Lavanya Lakshminarayan · ss Apex Magazine #128, 2021

Best of Apex Magazine: Volume 1 ed. Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore (Apex Publications, January 5, 2016, 978-1-937009-37-3, $15.95, 258pp, tp, an)
Data from Amazon.com as of 2016-01-16.
Details taken from online listing.

fc. · [front cover] · Adrian Borda · cv Apex Magazine #71, April 2015

vii · Foreword · Lesley Conner · fw

1 · Jackalope Wives · Ursula Vernon · ss Apex Magazine #56, January 2014

14 · Going Endo · Rich Larson · ss Apex Magazine #74, July 2015

22 · Candy Girl · Chikodili Emelumadu · ss Apex Magazine #66, November 2014

33 · If You Were a Dinosaur, My Love · Rachel Swirsky · ss Apex Magazine #46, March 2013

36 · Advertising at the End of the World · Keffy R. M. Kehrli · ss Apex Magazine #3, September 2009

48 · The Performance Artist · Lettie Prell · ss Apex Magazine #44, January 2013

56 · A Matter of Shapespace · Brian Trent · ss Apex Magazine #51, August 2013

67 · Falling Leaves · Liz Argall · ss Apex Magazine #60, May 2014

82 · Blood from Stone [Woodcutter Universe] · Alethea Kontis · ss Apex Magazine #43, December 2012

94 · Sexagesimal · Katharine E. K. Duckett · ss Apex Magazine #40, September 2012

106 · Multo · Samuel Marzioli · ss Apex Magazine #68, January 2015

116 · Keep Talking · Marie Vibbert · ss Apex Magazine #67, December 2014

126 · Remembery Day · Sarah Pinsker · ss Apex Magazine #72, May 2015

134 · Blood on Beacon Hill · Russell Nichols · ss Apex Magazine #78, November 2015

156 · The Green Book · Amal El-Mohtar · ss Apex Magazine #18, November 2010

166 · L’Esprit de L’Escalier · Peter M. Ball · ss Apex Magazine #16, September 2010

176 · Still Life (A Sexagesimal Fairy Tale) · Ian Tregillis · ss Apex Magazine #17, October 2010

195 · Build-a-Dolly · Ken Liu · ss Apex Magazine #47, April 2013

198 · Armless Maidens of the American West · Genevieve Valentine · ss Apex Magazine #39, August 2012

205 · Pocosin · Ursula Vernon · ss Apex Magazine #68, January 2015

219 · She Gave Her Heart, He Took Her Marrow · Sam Fleming · ss Apex Magazine #79, December 2015

238 · Afterword · Jason Sizemore · aw

Do Not Go Quietly: An Anthology of Defiance in Victory ed. Lesley Conner & Jason Sizemore (Apex Publications, May 21, 2019, 978-1-937009-78-6, $29.95, 352pp, hc, oa, cover by Marcela Bolívar)
Details taken from online listing.

· Permian Basin Blues · Lucy A. Snyder · pm Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #7, October 2000

· #greenlivesmatter · Joshua Gage · pm Star*Line Spring 2016

· Glossolalia · John Hornor Jacobs · ss

· The Judith Plague · A. Merc Rustad · ss

· What the Mountain Wants · Maurice Broaddus & Nayad Monroe · ss

· Sympathizer · Karin Lowachee · ss

· Kindle · Brooke Bolander · ss

· What We Have Chosen to Love · Cassandra Khaw · ss

· The Society for the Reclamation of Words and Meaning · Fran Wilde · ss

· Scurry · Rich Larson · ss

· Everything Is Closed Today [A Song for a New Day] · Sarah Pinsker · ss

· Thirteen Year Long Song · Sheree Renée Thomas · ss

· Nobody Lives in the Swamp · Dee Warrick · ss

· Rage Against the Vending Machine · Russell Nichols · ss

· Hey Alexa · Meg Elison · ss

· South of the Waffle House · Marie Vibbert · ss

· Face · Veronica Brush · ss Apex Magazine #119, April 2019

· Choose Your Truth · Jo Miles · ss

· Oil Under Her Tongue · Rachael K. Jones · ss

· April Teeth · Eugenia Triantafyllou · ss

· Kill the Darlings (Silicone Sister Remix) · E. Catherine Tobler · ss

· Salted Bone and Silent Sea · Shanna Germain · ss

· To Write · Annie Neugebauer · pm

· The Skeleton Archer Speaks · Jeremy Paden · pm

· If the Fairy Godmother Comes · Mary Soon Lee · pm

· The Dolls · Christina Sng · pm

· Witch’s Star · Alethea Kontis · pm

· Plot Twist · Bianca Spriggs · pm

Great English Short Novels ed. Cyril Connolly (Dial Press, 1953, hc, an)

3 · Life of Richard Savage · Samuel Johnson · na (r)

87 · Castle Rackrent · Maria Edgeworth · na (r)

163 · The Room in the Dragon Volant [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · n. London Society February 1872 (+4)

287 · Cousin Phillis · Mrs. Gaskell · na The Cornhill Magazine November 1863 (+3), uncredited.

385 · The Lifted Veil · George Eliot · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1859, uncredited.

433 · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1)

477 · The Farcical History of Richard Greenow · Aldous Huxley · na Limbo by Aldous Huxley, Chatto and Windus, 1920

537 · The Case of General Ople and Lady Camper · George Meredith · na (r)

593 · Nightmare Abbey · Thomas Love Peacock · na 1818

669 · Liber Amoris · William Hazlitt · na 1823

753 · Between the Acts · Virginia Woolf · na (r)

Nocturnes by John Connolly (Hodder & Stoughton, October 11, 2004, 0-340-83458-7, £14.99, 401pp, hc, oc)
Collection of 15 stories, only one of which seems to be a reprint. A trade paperback (OME) edition (-83459-5) was announced but not seen.

1 · The Cancer Cowboy Rides · John Connolly · na

75 · Mr. Pettinger’s Daemon · John Connolly · ss

91 · The Erlking · John Connolly · ss

103 · The New Daughter · John Connolly · ss

119 · The Ritual of the Bones · John Connolly · ss

135 · The Furnace Room · John Connolly · ss

149 · The Underbury Witches · John Connolly · nv

191 · The Inkpot Monkey · John Connolly · ss Like a Charm ed. Karin Slaughter, Century, 2004

205 · The Shifting of the Sands · John Connolly · ss

221 · Some Children Wander by Mistake · John Connolly · ss

233 · Deep Dark Green · John Connolly · ss

245 · Miss Froom, Vampire · John Connolly · ss

259 · Nocturne · John Connolly · ss

273 · The Wakeford Abyss · John Connolly · ss

289 · The Reflecting Eye [Charlie “Bird” Parker] · John Connolly · na

This Way to Egress by Lawrence C. Connolly (Ash-Tree Press, 2010, 978-1-55310-117-8, C$49.00, iv+195pp, hc, co, cover by Jason Zerrillo)
This is a limited edition of 400. A world-wide edition available in the US for $49.00 and in the UK for £29.00. A special paperback edition (978-1-55310-122-2) of one hundred copies was produced for the World Horror Convention 2010.
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

3 · Ingress · Lawrence C. Connolly · in

13 · This Way to Egress · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss

23 · Circle of Lias · Lawrence C. Connolly · nv Borderlands 4 ed. Elizabeth & Thomas Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1994

37 · Painkeeper · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Cemetery Dance #59, 2008

50 · Moon and the Devil · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss The Horror Show Spring 1987

57 · Smuggling the Dead [Russian Gangster] · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Terminal Fright #13, Fall 1996

69 · Flames · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Shades of Darkness ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2008

82 · Lesions · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss The Asylum, Vol. 2: The Violent Ward ed. Victor Heck, DarkTales Publications, 2002

88 · The Break-In Artist [Russian Gangster] · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss HandHeldCrime (online) October 26 2001

99 · Wired for Fear · Lawrence C. Connolly · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998

102 · Reckoning · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss

110 · Striking Terror · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Cemetery Dance #49, 2004

113 · The Soothsayer [Russian Gangster] · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss The Fortune Teller ed. Lawrence Schimel & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1997

124 · Shooting Evil · Lawrence C. Connolly · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998

126 · Hungry Ann · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss The Horror Show Summer 1988

131 · Things · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Cemetery Dance #46, 2003

141 · Decanting Oblivion · Lawrence C. Connolly · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 2003

163 · Buckeye and Spitball · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic January 1981

179 · Mrs. Halfbooger’s Basement · Lawrence C. Connolly · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine June 1982

189 · Echoes · Lawrence C. Connolly · vi Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine January/February 1983

Clark Ashton Smith: A Comprehensive Bibliography by Scott Connors, S. T. Joshi & David E. Schultz--- see under S. T. Joshi.

Science-Fantasy Correspondent One: An Anthology of Variations on a Theme ed. Willis Conover--- see under Science-Fantasy Correspondent #1, 1975.

Spectrum ed. Robert Conquest & Kingsley Amis--- see under Kingsley Amis.

Spectrum II ed. Robert Conquest & Kingsley Amis--- see under Kingsley Amis.

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