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Year 1: A Time of Change ed. Tom Piccirilli & Edward J. McFadden--- see under Edward J. McFadden.

Murder in La-La Land ed. Kathleen Piché, Lenore Carlson & Donna May--- see under Lenore Carlson.

Dr. Couch Saves a Bird by Nancy Pickard (Crippen & Landru, May 2009, free, 8pp, ph, ss)
Short story pamphlet commemorating Pickard as Guest of Honor at Malice Domestic XXI, May 1-3, 2009. Revised by the author.

Storm Warnings by Nancy Pickard (International Polygonics, August 2002, 155882040X, $21.95, 163pp, hc, co)
Collection of nine stories, adds an original story and introduction to Five Star 1999 edition.

vii · Show and Tell · Nancy Pickard · in

viii · It’s in a Cat’s Nature to Kill · Nancy Pickard · ss

7 · Valentine’s Night · Nancy Pickard · nv Crimes of the Heart ed. Carolyn G. Hart, Berkley, 1995

31 · A Rock and a Hard Place · Nancy Pickard · ss Women on the Case ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, 1996

52 · Sign of the Times · Nancy Pickard · ss Malice Domestic 3 ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket, 1994

59 · Dust Devil · Nancy Pickard · ss The Armchair Detective Winter 1991

78 · Storm Warnings · Nancy Pickard · ss Sisters in Crime 2 ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1990

89 · Sex and Violence · Nancy Pickard · ss Deadly Allies ed. Robert J. Randisi & Marilyn Wallace, Doubleday Perfect Crime, 1992

113 · The Dead Past · Nancy Pickard · ss Mystery Scene October 1989

128 · Speak No Evil · Nancy Pickard · ss For Crime Out Loud ed. Robert J. Randisi, Durkin Hayes Publishing Ltd., 1995

150 · It Had to Be You · Nancy Pickard · nv Marilyn: Shades of Blonde ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge, 1997

The First Lady Murders ed. Nancy Pickard (Pocket Books, February 1999, 0-671-01444-7, $6.99, x+436pp, pb, oa)

ix · Introduction · Nancy Pickard · in

1 · The Secret President · Barbara Paul · ss

26 · Political Decision · John Lutz · ss

40 · “A” Is for Adams · Carolyn Wheat · nv

65 · You Run · Sarah Shankman · ss

83 · The Bachelor’s Wife · Judith Kelman · nv

114 · Lost at Sea · Pamela J. Fesler · ss

121 · Madame President · Anne Perry · ss

141 · The Mother of Our Country · Linda Grant · ss

162 · Dolley Madison and the Staff of Life · Barbara D’Amato · ss

170 · Alice Holds the Cards · Carole Nelson Douglas & Jennifer Waddell · nv

204 · Jackie-O · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss

215 · Goodbye, Dolley · Gillian Roberts · ss

239 · Portal · T. J. MacGregor · ss

258 · Adams and Evil · Sarah Booth Conroy · nv

286 · A Tale of Two Sisters · Richard Timothy Conroy · ss

311 · The Second Lady · Peter Crowther · nv

340 · The First Ladies’ Secret · Nancy Pickard · ss

360 · Mrs. Lincoln’s Dilemma · Janet Dawson · nv

386 · Julia Grant, A.K.A. Private Eye · Jan Grape · ss

406 · Blood in Buzzard’s Bay; or, Sweets to the Sweet · P. M. Carlson · ss

Malice Domestic 3: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories ed. Nancy Pickard (ghost written by ed. Martin H. Greenberg) (Pocket, May 1994, 0-671-73828-3, $4.99, 240pp, pb, oa)
Anthology of 13 “cozy” mystery stories, with an introduction by Pickard. Pickard “presents” this volume, which was actually edited by Martin H. Greenberg, whose name appears only in the copyright.

ix · Malicious Donesticus · Nancy Pickard · in

1 · The Dying Light · Taylor McCafferty · nv

22 · Cast Your Fate to the Wind · Deborah Adams · ss

41 · Fannie’s Back Fence Caper · Susan & Bill Albert · nv

64 · His Tears · Marilyn Wallace · ss

79 · Sign of the Times · Nancy Pickard · ss

86 · The Family Jewels · Dorothy Cannell · nv

108 · The Trouble with the Shoot · Camilla T. Crespi · ss

126 · Double Delight · L. B. Greenwood · nv

156 · High Heels in the Headliner · Wendy Hornsby · ss

167 · Make Yourselves at Home · Joan Hess · ss

185 · Cara’s Turn · Marlys Millhiser · ss

198 · Highwater · D. R. Meredith · nv

222 · Gentle Reader · Sharyn McCrumb · ss

Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder ed. Nancy Pickard (Berkley, May 1999, 978-0-425-16890-5, $13.00, x+303pp, tp, oa)

ix · Introduction · Nancy Pickard · in

1 · A Worm in the Winesap · Susan Dunlap · ss

17 · Coin of the Realm · Pamela J. Fesler · ss

37 · Mom and Dad at Home · Ed Gorman · ss

47 · The Second-Oldest Profession · Linda Grant · ss

63 · Rotten to the Core · Jeremiah Healy · ss

77 · The Maggody Files: Death in Bloom · Joan Hess · ss

89 · The Gift · Gregory Janicke · ss

105 · Sex, Lies, and Apple Pie · Janet LaPierre · ss

123 · Growth Marks · Margaret Maron · ss

139 · With Thanks to Agatha Christie · Sarah J. Mason · ss

157 · Out of Africa · Nancy Pickard · ss

179 · Clear Sailing · Gillian Roberts · nv

201 · If You Can’t Take the Heat · Sarah Shankman · nv

229 · Thinking · Marilyn Wallace · ss

245 · A Bus Called Pity · Carolyn Wheat · ss

265 · Hello? · Angela Zeman · nv

293 · A Mysterious Collection of Apple Recipes · Various · ms

Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories (9th edition) ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall College Div., June 2000, 0-130-14328-6, $49.00, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Preface · James H. Pickering · pr

· His Women · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker May 15 1995

· I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set November 1919

· Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957

· The Lesson · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Redbook January 1973

· Cortés and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Great Days by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979

· Antlers · Rick Bass · ss Special Report: Fiction November 1990/January 1991

· Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985

· Looking for Mr. Green · Saul Bellow · nv Commentary March 1951

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941

· Astronomer’s Wife · Kay Boyle · ss The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories by Kay Boyle, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936

· August 2002: Night Meeting [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1950

· The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r)

· Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981

· I Could See the Smallest Things · Raymond Carver · ss (r)

· What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Knopf, 1981

· The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954

· The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925

· The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r)

· Appetites · Kathryn Chetkovich · ss Zyzzyva 1997

· Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament · Kate Chopin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1896 (+1)

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour”

· The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands”

· The House on Mango Street · Sandra Cisneros · ss (r)

· The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel L. Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg · Samuel L. Clemens · na Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1899, as by Mark Twain

· My First Kill · Art Coelho · ss (r)

· A Country Wedding · Laurie Colwin · ss The New Yorker January 23 1984

· Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2)

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

· Youth · Joseph Conrad · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine September 1898

· The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898

· The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898

· A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891

· King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944

· Mauser · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker April 8 1991

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930

· Winter Dreams · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv MacLean’s November 15 1922

· Rock Springs · Richard Ford · nv Esquire February 1982

· A New England Nun · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891

· Aura · Carlos Fuentes; translated by Lysander Kemp · nv Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965
translated from the Spanish (Aura, Ediciones Era, 1962).

· A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971

· If I Were a Man · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss Physical Culture July 1914

· The Yellow Wall-Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.

· Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r)

· The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).

· Home · Nadine Gordimer · ss The New Yorker April 25 1988

· We · Mary Grimm · ss The New Yorker October 17 1988

· The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883

· Tennessee’s Partner · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly October 1869

· My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927

· How to Talk to a Hunter · Pam Houston · ss Quarterly West 1989

· Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925

· Trying to Save Piggy Sneed · John Irving · ss (r)

· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948

· Four Meetings · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Monthly November 1877

· The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892

· A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

· The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · Dorothy M. Johnson · nv Cosmopolitan July 1949

· Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· Sunday in the Park · Bel Kaufman · ss (r)

· The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981

· What Did We Do Wrong? · Garrison Keillor · ss The New Yorker September 16 1985

· The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994

· Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa · W. P. Kinsella · ss Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella, Oberon Press, 1980

· “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904

· We Are Not in This Together · William Kittredge · ss (r)

· Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925

· The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922

· Horse Camp · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker August 25 1986

· Wine · Doris Lessing · ss The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957

· The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954

· Death in Venice · Thomas Mann · na (r)
translated from the German (“Der Tod in Venedig”, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912).

· Her First Ball · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Sphere November 28 1921

· Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r)
translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884).

· Rust · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, St. Dunstan Society, 1903
translated from the French (“La rouille”, Gil Blas, September 14, 1882 as by Maufrigneuse).

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· The Lightning-Rod Man · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly August 1856

· Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984

· Meneseteung · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker January 11 1988

· A Real Life · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker February 10 1992

· Four Summers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Yale Review Spring 1967

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch Fall 1966

· A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953

· Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931

· I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”

· Big Blonde · Dorothy Parker · nv The Bookman February 1929

· Surprise! · Robert Phillips · ss (r)

· The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846

· The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839

· The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844

· The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935

· Coach · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker September 14 1981

· Nadine at 35: A Synopsis · Jo Sapp · vi North American Review September 1981

· The Girls in Their Summer Dresses · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker February 4 1939

· Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974

· Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r)

· The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937

· Brooksmith by Henry James · Daniel Stern · ss (r)

· A Little Burst · Elizabeth Strout · ss The New Yorker June 1 1998

· No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r)
story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday.

· Young Girl’s Wish · Amy Tan · ss The New Yorker October 2 1995

· The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)

· Ten Miles West of Venus · Judy Troy · ss The New Yorker June 27/July 4 1994

· The Country Doctor · Ivan Turgenev · ss (r)

· A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961

· Here Come the Maples · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 11 1976

· Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975

· To Hell with Dying · Alice Walker · ss (r)

· Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941

· Wherever That Great Heart May Be · W. D. Wetherell · ss (r)

· The Columbus School for Girls · Liza Wieland · ss (r)

· Taking Care · Joy Williams · ss Taking Care by Joy Williams, Random House, 1982

· The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933

· The Golden Darters · Elizabeth Winthrop · ss American Short Fiction 1991

· Nightingale · Tobias Wolff · ss The New Yorker January 6 1997

· Say Yes · Tobias Wolff · ss (r)

· The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· Love Letters · Patricia Zelver · ss A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories by Patricia Zelver, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980

· Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

· A Short Story Handbook · [uncredited] · ms

· Chronological Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms

Fiction 50: An Introduction to the Short Story ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall, 1993, 0-02-395555-4, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.

· Preface · James H. Pickering · pr

· I. Reading and Studying the Short Story

· Plot

· My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple”

· Character

· Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939

· Setting

· Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· Point of View

· Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r)

· Theme

· A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886

· Symbol and Allegory

· The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948

· Style and Tone

· A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961

· II. Stones

· Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975

· Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957

· Cortés and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Great Days by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979

· Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985

· The Garden of Forking Paths · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r)
translated from the Spanish (“El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941).

· Astronomer’s Wife · Kay Boyle · ss The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories by Kay Boyle, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936

· Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981

· The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954

· The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925

· The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969

· The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands”

· The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel L. Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain
revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865).

· Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2)

· The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898

· A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891

· King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944

· Mauser · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker April 8 1991

· A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930

· The Yellow Wall-Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917
based on material from the play “Trifles”.

· The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r)
translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842).

· Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927

· Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925

· The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· Four Meetings · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Monthly November 1877

· The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914

· The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981

· We Are Not in This Together · William Kittredge · ss (r)

· The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922

· Horse Camp · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker August 25 1986

· Wine · Doris Lessing · ss The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957

· Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· Thanks for the Ride · Alice Munro · ss (r)

· Four Summers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Yale Review Spring 1967

· Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch Fall 1966

· The Artificial Nigger · Flannery O’Connor · ss A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor, Harcourt, 1955

· A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953

· I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe”

· The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846

· The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839

· The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935

· Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974

· The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r)

· Nineteen Fifty-Five · Alice Walker · ss Ms. March 1981, as “1955, or, You Can’t Keep a Good Woman Down”

· Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941

· Wherever That Great Heart May Be · W. D. Wetherell · ss (r)

· The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r)

· Love Letters · Patricia Zelver · ss A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories by Patricia Zelver, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1980

· III. Writing About the Short Story

· Reading Critically. Reading and Writing. Quotation and Documentation · [uncredited] · ms

· IV. A Short Story Handbook · [uncredited] · ms

· V. Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

· VI. Chronological Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms

And Graves Give Up Their Dead ed. Frederick Pickersgill (Corgi, 1964, GS1497, 3/6d, 174pp, pb, an)

9 · Top-Flight Aquarium · William Link & Richard Levinson · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1962

18 · The Elder · Gerald Bullett · ss Helen’s Lovers, and Other Tales by Gerald Bullett, Heinemann, 1932

37 · Royal Jelly · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960

64 · Miss Gentilbelle · Charles Beaumont · ss Stories for the Dead of Night ed. Don Congdon, Dell, 1957

82 · Girl of My Dreams · Richard Matheson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1963

96 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

106 · Death Is a Dream · Robert Arthur · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957

118 · The Female of the Species · Richard Davis · nv

145 · De Mortuis · John Collier · ss The New Yorker July 18 1942

153 · Footfalls · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review October 1920

Horror-7 ed. Frederick Pickersgill (Corgi, 1965, GS7271, 3/6d, 157pp, pb, an)

9 · The Cocoon · John B. L. Goodwin · ss Story #121, September/October 1946

32 · Slime · Joseph Payne Brennan · nv Weird Tales March 1953

66 · A View from a Hill · M. R. James · ss The London Mercury May 1925

90 · The Inmate · Richard Davis · ss The Sixth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1965

105 · You Can’t Have Them All · Charles Beaumont · ss Playboy August 1956

131 · The Upright Man · V. S. Pritchett · ss You Make Your Own Life by V. S. Pritchett, Chatto & Windus, 1938

138 · Back There in the Grass · Gouverneur Morris · ss Collier’s December 16 1911

No Such Thing as a Vampire ed. Frederick Pickersgill (Corgi, 1964, SN7050, 2/6d, 126pp, pb, an)

9 · No Such Thing as a Vampire · Richard Matheson · ss Playboy October 1959

19 · The Horsehair Trunk · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s May 25 1946

29 · The Specialty of the House · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #54, May 1948

50 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835

59 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911

65 · A Nice Cut off the Joint · Richard Davis · ss

74 · The Trains · Robert Aickman · nv We Are for the Dark by Elizabeth Jane Howard & Robert Aickman, Cape, 1951

116 · The Case of Lady Sannox · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Idler November 1893

The Best Horror Stories ed. Lynn Picknett--- see under Anon..

The Best Horror Stories (var. 1) ed. Lynn Picknett--- see under Anon..

The Monster Fly and Other Stories of the Unreal by Charles A. Piddock (Xerox Educational, 1974, 95¢, 95pp, pb, oc)

5 · The Monster Fly · Charles A. Piddock · ss

15 · To the Middle of the Earth · Charles A. Piddock · ss

35 · The Men from Outer Space · Charles A. Piddock · ss

35 · The Time Machine · Charles A. Piddock · ss

51 · The Zoo · Charles A. Piddock · ss

65 · Night Driver · Charles A. Piddock · ss

81 · The Spider God · Charles A. Piddock · ss

The First Five Star Western Series Corral ed. Vicki Piekarski (Five Star US, May 2000, 0786218487, $21.95, 236pp, hc, an)

· The Mystery Dogs · Fred Grove · ss Antæus #25/26, Spring/Summer 1977

· For the Good of the Service · Tim Champlin · ss (r)

· So Wild, So Free · T. T. Flynn · ss (r)

· Night Ride · Peter Dawson · ss (r)

· Wild Challenge · Robert Easton · ss Argosy February 1952

· Day of the Dedication · Cliff Farrell · ss (r)

· “Give-a-Damn” Jones · Bill Pronzini · ss The First Five Star Western Series Corral ed. Vicki Piekarski, Five Star US, 2000

· The Last Ride of Gunplay Maxwell · Stephen Overholser · ss (r)

· Ruby’s Cape · Jane Candia Coleman · ss (r)

· His Personal Prisoner · Les Savage, Jr. · ss Argosy October 1948

· Horse Tradin’ · Rita Cleary · ss (r)

· A Question of Faith · Ray Hogan · ss (r)

· Eagles Over Crooked Creek · Max Brand · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine January 29 1938

· Favorite Son · Cynthia Haseloff · ss (r)

The Morrow Anthology of Great Western Short Stories ed. Vicki Piekarski & Jon Tuska--- see under Jon Tuska.

No Place for a Lady: Western Stories by Women ed. Vicki Piekarski (Five Star US, 2001, hc, an)
Piekarski’s “Foreword” is an interesting survey of female writers including some, unfortunately, not represented with a story, such as Lee Hoffman, Elsa Barker, C.K. Shaw, P.A. Bechko, L.J. Washburn, Eli Colter, Honore Willsie Morrow, and B.M. Bower.

· Foreword · Vicki Piekarski · fw

· The Woman at Eighteen-Mile · Mary Austin · ss Harper’s Weekly September 25 1909

· Sidesaddle · Rita Cleary · ss

· For Two Dollars · Jane Candia Coleman · ss

· The Widow’s Stallion · Phyllis de la Garza · ss Western Digest #30, November/December 1999

· Thursdays at Snuff’s · Gretel Ehrlich · ss (r)
from Drinking Dry Clouds, Capra, 1991.

· Wilderness Road · Janice Holt Giles · ss (r)
from Wellspring, Houghton Mifflin, 1975.

· Callie · Cynthia Haseloff · ss

· Saddle Pals · Patti Hudson · ss

· The Indian Witch · Marcia Muller · ss

· The Drought · Dorothy Scarborough · ss The Century Magazine May 1920

· Brother Shotgun · Jeanne Williams · ss Ranch Romances 2nd June 1957

· Shootin’-up Sheriff · Cherry Wilson · nv Western Story Magazine June 15 1929

Westward the Women: An Anthology of Western Stories by Women ed. Vicki Piekarski (University of New Mexico Press, June 1988, 0-826-31063-X, $13.95, 179pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· On the Divide · Willa Cather · ss Overland Monthly January 1896

· The Wash-tub Mail · Gertrude Atherton · ss Before the Gringo Came by Gertrude Atherton, J. Selwin Tait & Sons, 1894

· The Last Antelope · Mary Austin · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1903

· When the Cook Fell Ill [Flying U Ranch] · B. M. Bower · ss The Popular Magazine March 1906, as by B. M. Sinclair

· The Vine · Mari Sandoz · ss Prairie Schooner January 1927, as by Marie Macumber

· Mister Death and the Redheaded Woman · Helen Eustis · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 11 1950, as “The Rider on the Pale Horse”

· Lost Sister · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s March 30 1956

· Geranium House · Peggy Simson Curry · ss Frontiers West ed. S. Omar Barker, Doubleday, 1959

· The Promise of the Fruit · Ann Ahlswede · nv The Pick of the Roundup ed. Stephen Payne, Avon, 1963

· The Deep Valley · Lucia Moore · ss The Pick of the Roundup ed. Stephen Payne, Avon, 1963

· The Outsider · Juanita Brooks · ss Great Western Short Stories ed. J. Golden Taylor, American West, 1967

· Yellow Woman · Leslie Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974

A Foot in the Grave by Jan Pienkowski & Joan Aiken--- see under Joan Aiken.

Amazing Stories of the Flying Spaghetti Monster ed. Cameron Pierce (Eraserhead Press, October 4, 2011, 978-1-936383-97-9, $11.95, 207pp, tp, oa, cover by Hauke Vagt)
Details taken from online listing.

11 · Eat All You Can Eat · Cameron Pierce · in

13 · How I Became a Famous Author · Mykle Hansen · ss

23 · Inside the Monster’s Studio · S. G. Browne · ss

34 · Babes in the Woods: (from an Appalachian Hansel & Gretel) · Kate Bernheimer · ss

39 · How We Got Rid of You (and How We Got Along After) · Cody Goodfellow · ss

44 · Another Thursday Night Buffet with the Succulent Gods · John Skipp · ss

49 · 23, 28 · Kirsten Alene · ss

65 · Say Thanks · Andersen Prunty · ss

70 · The Noodly Appendage That Feeds You · Kirk Jones · ss

76 · Praise the Lord and Pass the Parmesan · Steve Lowe · ss

89 · Vesica · J. David Osborne · ss

92 · Bloodskeleton, Scourge of the Christies · Marc Levinthal · ss

104 · Down and Out in Mythos City · Adam Bolivar · ss

112 · Coven of the Crawling Pizza Beast · Edmund Colell · ss

124 · Man and His Maker · Bradley Sands · ss

126 · The Black Sleeve of Destiny · Stephen Graham Jones · ss

140 · Hot Dogma · Kelli Owen · ss

153 · Extra Lives · Jess Gulbranson · ss

166 · The Holy Bowl · Jeffrey Thomas · ss

177 · unwittingly, the italians excel at religious iconography once again · Poncho Peligroso · vi

179 · Believe Without Evidence · Len Kuntz · ss

183 · Darwin’s Revenge · Bruce Taylor · ss

194 · All Children Go to Hell · Kevin L. Donihe · ss

199 · Grumpy Old Gods · David W. Barbee · ss

Elvis Rising: Stories on the King ed. Constance Pierce & Kay Sloan--- see under Kay Sloan.

The Best of Cordwainer Smith by Cordwainer Smith ed. John J. Pierce--- see under Cordwainer Smith.

The Best of Murray Leinster (var. 1) by Murray Leinster ed. John J. Pierce--- see under Murray Leinster.

The Best of Raymond Z. Gallun by Raymond Z. Gallun ed. John J. Pierce--- see under Raymond Z. Gallun.

Waters Luminous & Deep by Meredith Ann Pierce (Viking, April 2004, 0-670-03687-0, $16.99, 311pp, hc, co, cover by Arrasmith)
Young-adult collection of eight stories, four original, three somewhat revised.

· Prelude: Night Voyage · Meredith Ann Pierce · ss

· The Fall of Ys · Meredith Ann Pierce · ss Firebirds ed. Sharyn November, Firebird, 2003

· Where the Wild Geese Go · Meredith Ann Pierce · nv Dutton, 1988

· Icerose · Meredith Ann Pierce · ss Jabberwocky Summer 1989

· Rafiddilee · Meredith Ann Pierce · ss

· The Sea-Hag · Meredith Ann Pierce · ss

· The Frogskin Slippers · Meredith Ann Pierce · ss

· Rampion [Witch World] · Meredith Ann Pierce · na Four from the Witch World ed. Andre Norton, Tor, 1989

Science Fiction 1 ed. Robert Pierce (Houghton Mifflin, 1973, 0-395-13807-8, tp, an)
School text, senior editor James Moffett, selected stories recorded.

· The Father-Thing · Philip K. Dick · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1954

· Arena · Fredric Brown · nv Astounding Science Fiction June 1944

· Anything Box · Zenna Henderson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1956

· Vanya · Vladimir Grigoriev; translated by Mirra Ginsburg · ss Last Door to Aiya ed. Mirra Ginsburg, S.G. Phillips, 1968
translated from the Russian (“A mogla by i byt’…”, 1963).

· Segregationist [Robots] · Isaac Asimov · ss Abbottempo April 1967

· Kaleidoscope · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1949

· Further Reading · [uncredited] · bi

Science Fiction 2 ed. Robert Pierce (Houghton Mifflin, 1973, 0-395-13808-6, tp, an)
School text, senior editor James Moffett, selected stories recorded.

· Grand Central Terminal · Leo Szilard · ss University of Chicago Magazine June 1952

· Desertion [City (Websters)] · Clifford D. Simak · ss Astounding Science Fiction November 1944

· Something Bright · Zenna Henderson · ss Galaxy Magazine February 1960

· My Friend Bobby · Alan E. Nourse · ss Orbit v1 #3, 1954

· The Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 2 1894, as “The Flowering of the Strange Orchid”

· A Tale of the Ragged Mountains · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book April 1844

· Further Reading · [uncredited] · bi

Science Fiction 3 ed. Robert Pierce & Murray Suid (Houghton Mifflin, 1973, 0-395-13746-2, 107pp, tp, an)
School text, senior editor James Moffett, selected stories recorded.

· The Sentinel · Arthur C. Clarke · ss 10 Story Fantasy Spring 1951, as “Sentinel of Eternity”

· The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made”

· The Astronaut · Valentina Zhuravleva; translated by Leonid Kolesnikov · nv Destination: Amaltheia ed. Richard Dixon, tr. Leonid Kolesnikov, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1963
translated from the Russian (“Astronavt”, 1960).

· Specialist · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction May 1953

· The Other Celia · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1957

· Desert Encounter · Igor Rosokhovatsky; translated by Helen Saltz Jacobson · ss Russian Science Fiction 1968 ed. Robert Magidoff, New York University Press, 1968
translated from the Russian (“Vstrecha v pustyne”, 1961).

· Further Reading · [uncredited] · bi

Las Vegas Noir ed. Todd James Pierce & Jarret Keene--- see under Jarret Keene.

I Am Stone by R. Murray Gilchrist ed. Daniel Pietersen--- see under R. Murray Gilchrist.

Murder Takes a Holiday ed. Barry Pike (Michael O’Mara, 1989, 0-948397-22-5, £12.95, 247pp, hc, an)
Also available in pb (Headline 1990).

1 · Perfect Honeymoon · Robert Barnard · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1987

10 · The Summer Holiday Murders · Julian Symons · nv The Evening Standard July 25 1960 (+8), as “Murder on Tour”

38 · Triangle at Sea · Anna Clarke · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1984

46 · The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1910

69 · Kill and Cure · Guy Cullingford · ss Planned Departures ed. Elizabeth Ferrars, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958

78 · The Beach House · Norman A. Daniels · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) July 1965

93 · A Schoolmaster Abroad [John Dollar (The Crime Doctor)] · E. W. Hornung · ss The Red Magazine October 15 1913

112 · The Old Shell Collector · H. R. F. Keating · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1970

132 · Cottage for August · Thomas Kyd · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1957

142 · Death in Guatemala · Frances Crane · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1960

148 · The Pursuit of Mr. Blue [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Story-teller June 1934, as “Mr. Blue and Mr. Red”

164 · Love Comes to Miss Lucy · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947

177 · Food for the Sharks [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · ss The Case Book of Jimmie Lavender by Vincent Starrett, Gold Label, 1944

196 · Petrella’s Holiday [Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · nv Argosy (UK) September 1959

221 · The House by the Headland · Sapper · ss The Sovereign Magazine March 1920

234 · The Murder on the Golf Links [Paul Beck] · M. McDonnell Bodkin · ss The Royal Magazine July 1907

Bound to You by Christopher Pike (Simon Pulse, August 7, 2012, 978-1-4424-5971-7, $9.99, 490pp, tp, om)
Omnibus of two young-adult horror novels: Spellbound (1988) and See You Later (1990).
Details taken from online listing.

· Spellbound · Christopher Pike · n. Pocket Archway, 1986

· See You Later · Christopher Pike · n. Pocket, 1990

Christopher Pike’s Tales of Terror #2 by Christopher Pike (Pocket Archway, November 1998, 0-671-55076-4, $4.50, 207pp, pb, co, cover by Brian Kotzky)
Young-adult collection of five horror stories.

1 · The Burning Witch · Christopher Pike · na

74 · The Tomb of Time · Christopher Pike · nv

110 · Bamboo · Christopher Pike · ss

132 · The Thin Line · Christopher Pike · nv

184 · The Tears of Teresa · Christopher Pike · nv

Tales of Terror #1 by Christopher Pike (Pocket Archway, October 1997, 0-671-55074-8, $4.50, 196pp, pb, oc, cover by Brian Kotzky)
Young-adult collection of six horror stories, each with an introduction describing its inspiration.

1 · Death of Despair · Christopher Pike · nv

35 · The Fan from Hell · Christopher Pike · nv

81 · The Last Dawn · Christopher Pike · nv

111 · Timespell · Christopher Pike · nv

157 · Revenge · Christopher Pike · nv

180 · Dark Walk · Christopher Pike · ss

Fit to Die: A Crime and Mystery Collection ed. Sue Pike & Joan Boswell--- see under Joan Boswell.

When Boomers Go Bad ed. Sue Pike, Joan Boswell & Linda Wiken (RendezVous Crime, 2005, 978-1-894917-31-5, $12.95, 290pp, tp, oa)
Original anthology of short crime fiction from the Ladies’ Killing Circle.

1 · Where Were You Then? · Joy Hewitt Mann · pm

2 · Spoils of War · Barbara Fradkin · ss

20 · Plenty of Time · Melanie Fogel · ss

32 · My Sister Caroline · Brenda Chapman · ss

48 · Booming · Joy Hewitt Mann · pm

49 · Slow Burning Fire · Bev Panasky · ss

63 · Call Him Ishmael · Janice MacDonald · ss

70 · Glass Eats Lights · Susan C. Gates · ss

88 · My Husband the Dead Head · Joy Hewitt Mann · pm

89 · How to Make a Killing in Real Estate · Pat Wilson & Kris Wood · ss

101 · Little Bit Easy · Therese Greenwood · ss

115 · Graceful Retirement · Cecilia Kennedy · ss

129 · Black and White Blues · Joy Hewitt Mann · pm

130 · Red Pagoda · Day’s Lee · ss

146 · Life Sentences · Joan Boswell · ss

163 · An Omen for Gwen · Kathryn Cross · ss

179 · Empty Nest Syndrome · Joy Hewitt Mann · pm

180 · Day Before the Wedding · Liz Palmer · ss

194 · Cold Dead · Linda Wiken · ss

206 · Nice Cup of Something Hot · Linda Hall · ss

221 · Hopscotch · Sue Pike · ss

237 · There Was an Over-Aged Hippie · Joy Hewitt Mann · pm

238 · Seeing Strawberry Red · H. Mel Malton · ss

254 · Smoke Screen · Mary Jane Maffini · ss

272 · Dear Tabby · Vicki Cameron · ss

281 · River in Egypt · Jenifer McVaugh · ss

295 · Top Ten · Joy Hewitt Mann · pm

Cabinet des Fées: a fairy tale journal ed. Helen Pilinovsky & Erzebet Barthold-YellowBoy--- see under Cabinet des Fées v1 #1, 2006.

Cabinet des Fées: a fairy tale journal, Volume One No.2/3 ed. Helen Pilinovsky & Erzebet Barthold-YellowBoy--- see under Cabinet des Fées v1 #2, 2007.

Bloodstones ed. Amanda Pillar (Ticonderoga Publications, October 31, 2012, 978-1-921857-26-3, A$25.00, 302pp, tp, oa)
Original anthology of 17 stories. Introduction by Seanan McGuire. Authors include Jenny Blackford, Joanne Anderton, and Richard Harland. A print-on-demand edition.
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · Seanan McGuire · in

· Sanaa’s Army · Joanne Anderton · ss

· Cephalopoda Obsessia · Alan Baxter · ss

· A Moveable Feast · Jenny Blackford · ss

· Skin · Vivian Caethe · ss

· Smoke Gets in Your Eyes · M. D. Curelas · ss

· Surviving Film · Thoraiya Dyer · ss

· The Bull in Winter · Dirk Flinthart · ss

· The Skin of the World · Stephanie Gunn · ss

· A Mother’s Love · Richard Harland · ss

· Dead Inside · Pete Kempshall · ss

· A Small Bad Thing · Penny Love · ss

· Embracing the Invisible · Karen Maric · ss

· Ferreau’s Curse · Christine Morgan · ss

· Euryale · Nicole Murphy · ss

· And the Dead Shall Be Raised Incorruptible · Kat Otis · ss

· The Bone Plate · Dan Rabarts · ss

· The Foam Born · Erin Underwood · ss

Damnation and Dames ed. Amanda Pillar & Liz Grzyb--- see under Liz Grzyb.

Grants Pass ed. Amanda Pillar & Jennifer Brozek--- see under Jennifer Brozek.

Scenes from the Second Storey: Australian Edition ed. Amanda Pillar & Pete Kempshall (Morrigan Books, 2010, 978-91-977605-2-2, $23.99, 246pp, tp, oa, cover by Reece Notley)
Details taken from online listing.

· Foreword · Mark S. Deniz · fw

1 · Dream Machine · David Conyers · ss

21 · She Said · Kirstyn McDermott · ss

41 · The Blind Man · Felicity Dowker · ss

59 · I’ve Seen the Man · Paul Haines · nv

81 · The Desert Song · Andrew J. McKiernan · nv

115 · Home · Martin Livings · ss

127 · It’s All Over · L. J. Hayward · nv

151 · Temptation · Trent Jamieson · ss

161 · Out · Stephen Dedman · ss

171 · Ego · Robert Hood · nv

193 · Seven · Stephanie Campisi · ss

209 · Purity · Kaaron Warren · ss

229 · The Piano Song · Cat Sparks · ss

Murder for Pennies by Arthur Pincus--- see under James Duncan.

Cold Tales by Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen (Rizzoli/Eridanos, October 1988, 0-941419-19-3, $24.00, 282pp, hc, co, cover: Cold Tales by Francisco Goya)
Collection of 44 magical realism stories. Translated into English by Mark Schafer and Thomas Christensen, from Cuentos Frios (1987).

xi · The Death of Virgilio · Guillermo Cabrera-Infante · bg

3 · Foreword · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · fw

5 · The Fall · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“La caida”, 1944).

9 · Meat · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“La carne”, 1944).

13 · The Actaeon Case · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El caso Acteón”, 1944).

17 · The Parts · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Las partes”, 1944).

19 · The Switch · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El cambio”, 1944).

23 · Design for a Dream · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“Proyecto para un sueño”, 1944).

31 · The Ball · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El baile”, 1944).

37 · The Album · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El álbum”, 1944).

55 · The Park · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“El parque”, 1944).

57 · The Store · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“El comercio”, 1944).

59 · The Wedding · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“La boda”, 1944).

61 · The Battle · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“La batalla”, 1944).

63 · The Locomotive · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“La locomotora”, 1957).

65 · The Minister · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El señor ministro”, 1947).

69 · The Transformation · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“La transformación”, 1947).

73 · A Few Beers · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“Unas cuantas cervezas”, 1951).

79 · The Dummy · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · nv
translated from the Spanish (“El muñeco”, 1954).

113 · Affairs of Amputees · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Cosas de cojos”, 1956).

115 · Insomnia · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“En el insomnio”, 1956).

117 · Hell · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“El Infierno”, 1956).

119 · The Face · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“La cara”, 1956).

127 · The Decoration · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“La condecoración”, 1956).

131 · How I Lived and How I Died · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“Cómo viví y cómo morí”, 1956).

135 · The Trip · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“El viaji”, 1956).

137 · The Conflict · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · nv
translated from the Spanish (“El conflicto”, 1956).

165 · Swimming · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Natación”, 1957).

167 · A Saving Nakedness · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Una desnudez salvadora”, 1957).

169 · Graphomania · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Grafomania”, 1957).

171 · An Unexpected Delivery · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Un parto insospechado”, 1957).

173 · The Mountain · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“La montaña”, 1957).

175 · A Few Children · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“Unos cuantos niños”, 1957).

183 · The Great Staircase of the Legislative Palace · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“La gran escalera del Palacio Legislativo”, 1957).

187 · The Philanthropist · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El filántropo”, 1957).

207 · Hot and Cold · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“Frío en caliente”, 1959).

225 · The Employ of Darkness · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Oficio de tinieblas”, 1961).

227 · Indestructible Union · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Unión indestructible”, 1962).

229 · Argument Against the Free-Standing Bathtub · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“Alegato confra la bañadéra desempotrada”, 1962).

233 · Look of Love · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“Amores de vista”, 1962).

235 · An a Posteriori Ghost · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“Un fantasma a posteriori”, 1962).

241 · The Candy · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · nv
translated from the Spanish (“El caramelo”, 1962).

267 · The Balcony · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El balcón”, 1963).

275 · The One Who Came to Save Me · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · ss
translated from the Spanish (“El que vino a salvarme”, 1967).

281 · The Death of the Birds · Virgilio Piñera; translated by Mark Schafer & Thomas Christensen · vi
translated from the Spanish (“El muerte de los aves”, 1978).

The Sense of Falling by Ezra Pines (Spilt Milk Press, December 2006, no ISBN, $5.00, 62pp, ph, co, cover by Mark Rich)
Chapbook collection of 11 stories, two original, and two collaborations with Richard Bowes. Introduction by Hal Duncan.

5 · Consider the Sidewalks · Hal Duncan · in

8 · Antevellum · Ezra Pines · ss

13 · Maxwell’s Letter · Ezra Pines · ss Electric Velocipede #4, Spring 2003

15 · Of Light and Snow · Ezra Pines · ss

22 · Mr. Brain and the Mystery of the Passionate Tree [Mr. Brain] · Ezra Pines · vi

23 · The Better Life · Ezra Pines · ss Say… #4, 2004

28 · Mr. Brain and the Island of Lost Socks [Mr. Brain] · Ezra Pines & Richard Bowes · ss Electric Velocipede #2, Spring 2002

34 · Djang · Ezra Pines · vi Xizquil #16, 1997

36 · Mr. Brain and the Carpet of Snow [Mr. Brain] · Ezra Pines · vi Electric Velocipede Fall 2001

37 · Drawn Straws · Ezra Pines · ss Freezer Burn Magazine #9, 1997

43 · Mr. Brain and the Voting Booth from Outer Space [Mr. Brain] · Ezra Pines & Richard Bowes · ss Tales of the Unanticipated #25, August 2004/July 2005

49 · Reel · Ezra Pines · ss E-scape #9, August 1998

61 · Afterword · Ezra Pines · aw

63 · Bio Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Thirteen: Tales of Horror ed. Tonya Pines (Scholastic, October 1991, 0-590-45256-8, $3.50, viii+343pp, pb, oa)
Original anthology of 13 young adult horror stories, one a reprint.

vii · Introduction · Tonya Pines · in

1 · Collect Call: The Black Walker [Part 1 of 2] · Christopher Pike · na

61 · Lucinda · Lael Littke · nv

91 · The Guiccioli Miniature · Jay Bennett · ss

103 · Blood Kiss · D. E. Athkins · nv

127 · A Little Taste of Death · Patricia Windsor · nv

157 · The Doll · Carol Ellis · nv

185 · House of Horrors · J. B. Stamper · ss

203 · Where the Deer Are · Caroline B. Cooney · nv

225 · The Spell · R. L. Stine · nv

253 · Dedicated to the One I Love · Diane Hoh · nv

285 · Hacker · Sinclair Smith · nv

317 · Deathflash · A. Bates · nv

345 · The Boy Next Door · Ellen Emerson White · nv

377 · Collect Call: The Black Walker [Part 2 of 2] · Christopher Pike · na

410 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Against the Wind ed. Richard Pini (Tor, October 1990, 0-812-54906-6, $7.95, 277pp, tp, oa, cover by Wendy Pini) [Elfquest]
Original shared-world anthology of 8 stories in the “Elfquest” series.

1 · Prologue · Richard Pini · pr

6 · The Good Summer [Elfquest] · Lynn Abbey · nv

44 · Court and Chase [Elfquest] · Katharine Eliska Kimbriel · na

89 · Ties That Bind [Elfquest] · Mercedes R. Lackey · nv

128 · Season of Sorrows [Elfquest] · Heather Gladney & Janny Wurts · nv

158 · Firstborn [Elfquest] · Allen L. Wold · na

203 · Howl for Eldolil [Elfquest] · Nancy Springer · ss

220 · The Changeling [Elfquest] · Diana L. Paxson · nv

248 · Hero Worship [Elfquest] · Len Wein & Deni Loubert · nv

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