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Haunted Nights ed. Ellen Datlow & Lisa Morton (Blumhouse Books, October 3, 2017, 978-1-101-97383-7, $16.95, xii+352pp, tp, oa)     Details taken from online listing. ix · Introduction · Lisa Morton · in 3 · With Graveyard Weeds and Wolfsbane Seeds · Seanan McGuire · ss 23 · Dirtmouth · Stephen Graham Jones · nv 45 · A Small Taste of the Old Country · Jonathan Maberry · nv 70 · Wick’s End · Joanna Parypinski · ss 83 · The Seventeen-Year Itch · Garth Nix · ss 100 · A Flicker of Light on Devil’s Night · Kate Jonez · ss 114 · Witch Hazel · Jeffrey Ford · ss 129 · Nos Galan Gaeaf [Cainsville] · Kelley Armstrong · ss 149 · We’re Never Inviting Amber Again · S. P. Miskowski · ss 169 · Sisters · Brian Evenson · ss 182 · All Through the Night · Elise Forier Edie · ss 201 · A Kingdom of Sugar Skulls and Marigolds · Eric J. Guignard · nv 226 · The Turn · Paul Kane · ss 244 · Jack · Pat Cadigan · nv 269 · Lost in the Dark · John Langan · nv 325 · The First Lunar Halloween · John R. Little · ss

Hauntings ed. Ellen Datlow (Tachyon Publications, March 2013, 978-1-61696-088-9, $16.95, 422pp, tp, an, cover: Voice of Shades by Valentina Brostean)     Anthology of 24 stories involving ghosts. Authors include Peter Straub, Kelly Link, and Neil Gaiman. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 5 · Eenie, Meenie, Ipsateenie · Pat Cadigan · ss Shadows 6 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1983 25 · Hunger: A Confession · Dale Bailey · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 2003 39 · Cargo · E. Michael Lewis · ss Shades of Darkness ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2008 55 · Delta Sly Honey · Lucius Shepard · ss In the Field of Fire ed. Jeanne Van Buren & Jack M. Dann, Tor, 1987 75 · Nothing Will Hurt You · David Morrell · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 93 · The Ammonite Violin (Murder Ballad No. 4) · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Sirenia Digest October 2006 109 · Haunted · Joyce Carol Oates · nv The Architecture of Fear ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, Arbor House, 1987 131 · The Have-Nots · Elizabeth Hand · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1992 149 · Closing Time · Neil Gaiman · ss McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003 161 · Anna · F. Paul Wilson · nv Imagination Fully Dilated, Volume 2 ed. Elizabeth Engstrom, IFD Publishing, 2000 187 · Mr. Fiddlehead · Jonathan Carroll · ss Omni February 1989 201 · The Fooly · Terry Dowling · ss Dreaming Again ed. Jack Dann, HarperCollins Australia, 2008 209 · The Toll · Paul Walther · ss New Genre Spring 2000 223 · The Pennine Tower Restaurant · Simon Kurt Unsworth · nv Lost Places by Simon Kurt Unsworth, Ash-Tree Press, 2010 245 · Distress Call · Connie Willis · ss The Berkley Showcase Vol. 4 ed. Victoria Schochet & John W. Silbersack, Berkley, 1981 259 · The Horn · Stephen Gallagher · nv Arrows of Eros ed. Alex Stewart, NEL, 1989 283 · Everybody Goes · Michael Marshall Smith · ss When God Lived in Kentish Town & Others by Michael Marshall Smith, W. H. Smith, 1998 289 · Transfigured Night · Richard Bowes · nv Tomorrow April 1995 311 · Hula Ville · James P. Blaylock · ss Sci Fiction November 3 2004 325 · The Bedroom Light · Jeffrey Ford · ss Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2007 337 · Spectral Evidence · Gemma Files · ss ChiZine #30, October/December 2006 351 · Two Houses · Kelly Link · nv Shadow Show ed. Sam Weller & Mort Castle, Morrow, 2012 371 · Where Angels Come In · Adam L. G. Nevill · ss Poe’s Progeny ed. Gary Fry, Gray Friar Press, 2005 [Ref. M. R. James] 389 · Hunger: An Introduction · Peter Straub · nv Peter Straub’s Ghosts ed. Peter Straub, Pocket Star, 1995

Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor, December 2007, 978-0-7653-1558-8, $25.95, 381pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology of 20 horror stories. Authors include K.W. Jeter, Elizabeth Bear, Joyce Carol Oates, and Lucius Shepard. 13 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 19 · Riding Bitch · K. W. Jeter · nv 41 · Misadventure · Stephen Gallagher · ss 55 · The Forest · Laird Barron · nv 85 · The Monsters of Heaven · Nathan Ballingrud · ss 101 · Inelastic Collisions · Elizabeth Bear · ss 111 · The Uninvited · Christopher Fowler · ss 125 · 13 O’Clock · Mike O’Driscoll · ss 145 · Lives · John Grant · ss 157 · Ghorla · Mark Samuels · ss 175 · Face · Joyce Carol Oates · ss 181 · An Apiary of White Bees · Lee Thomas · nv 201 · The Keeper · P. D. Cacek · ss 215 · Bethany’s Wood · Paul Finch · nv 245 · The Ease with Which We Freed the Beast · Lucius Shepard · ss 261 · Hushabye [Paul Hearn] · Simon Bestwick · ss 273 · Perhaps the Last · Conrad Williams · ss 287 · Stilled Life · Pat Cadigan · nv 313 · The Janus Tree · Glen Hirshberg · nv 345 · The Bedroom Light · Jeffrey Ford · ss 357 · The Suits at Auderlene · Terry Dowling · nv

Lethal Kisses: 19 Stories of Sex, Horror and Revenge ed. Ellen Datlow (Millennium, December 16, 1996, 1-85798-481-1, £9.99, x+370pp, tp, oa, cover by Steve Crisp)     Anthology of original stories about revenge, retribution and recompense. A hardcover edition (-480-3, £15.99) is also available. 1 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 3 · …Warmer · A. R. Morlan · nv 31 · Anamorphosis · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv 55 · A Grub Street Tale · Thomas Tessier · ss 67 · Back in the Dunes · Terry Lamsley · nv 95 · Leave Me Alone God Damn You · Joyce Carol Oates · ss 109 · Butcher’s Logic · Roberta Lannes · ss 123 · A Lie for a Lie · Pat Cadigan · nv 143 · Keeping Alice · Simon Ings · nv 179 · A Punch in the Doughtnut · David J. Schow · ss 191 · Unforgotten · Christopher Fowler · nv 213 · O, Rare and Most Exquisite · Douglas Clegg · ss 229 · Martyr and Pesty · Jonathan Lethem · ss 237 · Foreign Bodies · Michael Marshall Smith · na 283 · Ships · Michael Swanwick & Jack Dann · nv 303 · The Dreadful Day of Judgment · Ruth Rendell · ss The Fever Tree and Other Stories of Suspense by Ruth Rendell, Pantheon, 1982 317 · A Flock of Lawn Flamingos · Pat Murphy · ss 335 · Touch Me Everyplace · Michael Cadnum · ss 343 · The Screaming Man · Richard Christian Matheson · ss 349 · Rare Promise · M. M. O’Driscoll · nv

Little Deaths: 24 Tales of Sex and Horror ed. Ellen Datlow (Millennium, September 22, 1994, 1-85798-015-8, £9.99, 454pp, tp, oa)     Mainly original anthology with authors ranging from Lucius Shepard to Ruth Rendell, Harry Crews to Clive Barker. A hardcover edition (-014-X, £16.99) was announced but not seen. 1 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 5 · The Lady of Situations · Stephen Dedman · ss 17 · Hungry Skin · Lucy Taylor · ss 31 · Becky Lives · Harry Crews · ss 51 · Lover Doll · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss 71 · The Swing · Nicholas Royle · ss 79 · Sahib · J. Calvin Pierce · nv 101 · The Careful Geometry of Love · Kathe Koja & Barry N. Malzberg · ss 115 · Yaguara · Nicola Griffith · na 159 · On Amen’s Shore [Book of the Art] · Clive Barker · ss Demons and Deviants ed. Michael Brown, Phantom Press/Fantaco, 1992 175 · Isobel Avens Returns to Stepney in the Spring · M. John Harrison · nv 201 · The Pain Barrier · Joel Lane · ss 213 · Sinfonia Expansiva · Barry N. Malzberg · ss 221 · Fever Blisters · Joyce Carol Oates · ss 233 · The Rock · Melanie Tem · ss 253 · An Outside Interest · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 27 1982, as “The Man Who Frightened Women” 265 · And Salome Danced [Mars] · Kelley Eskridge · ss 279 · The Disquieting Muse · Kathe Koja · ss 293 · Holes · Sarah Clemens · ss 313 · That Old School Tie · Jack Womack · nv 343 · Ice Palace · Douglas Clegg · ss 363 · Serial Monogamist · Pat Cadigan · nv 389 · Black Nightgown · K. W. Jeter · ss 403 · Ménage à Trois · Richard Christian Matheson · vi 407 · The Last Time · Lucius Shepard · na

Lovecraft Unbound ed. Ellen Datlow (Dark Horse, October 2009, 978-1-59582-146-1, $19.95, 420pp, tp, oa)     Original anthology of 20 stories, four reprints, by authors including William Browning Spencer, Holly Phillips, and Michael Shea; reprint authors are Michael Chabon, Joyce Carol Oates, Brian Evenson, and Caitlín R. Kiernan. 9 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 11 · The Crevasse · Nathan Ballingrud & Dale Bailey · ss 31 · The Office of Doom [Dust Devil] · Richard Bowes · ss 43 · Sincerely, Petrified · Anna Tambour · nv 73 · The Din of Celestial Birds · Brian Evenson · ss The Din of Celestial Birds by Brian Evenson, Wordcraft of Oregon, 1997 85 · The Tenderness of Jackals · Amanda Downum · ss 99 · Sight Unseen · Joel Lane · ss 113 · Cold Water Survival · Holly Phillips · nv 139 · Come Lurk with Me and Be My Love · William Browning Spencer · nv 161 · Houses Under the Sea · Caitlín R. Kiernan · nv Thrillers 2 ed. Robert Morrish, Cemetery Dance, 2007 195 · Machines of Concrete Light and Dark · Michael Cisco · ss 213 · Leng · Marc Laidlaw · nv 239 · In the Black Mill · Michael Chabon · nv Playboy June 1997 267 · One Day, Soon · Lavie Tidhar · ss 277 · Commencement · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Redshift: Extreme Visions of Speculative Fiction ed. Al Sarrantonio, Roc, 2001 305 · Vernon, Driving · Simon Kurt Unsworth · ss 315 · The Recruiter · Michael Shea · ss 331 · Marya Nox · Gemma Files · ss 347 · Mongoose [Boojumverse] · Elizabeth Bear & Sarah Monette · nv 375 · Catch Hell · Laird Barron · nv 413 · That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable · Nick Mamatas · ss

Lovecraft’s Monsters ed. Ellen Datlow (Tachyon Publications, April 2014, 978-1-6169-6121-3, $16.95, 379pp, tp, an, cover by John Coulthart)     Anthology of 18 Lovecraftian stories, two original. Authors include Neil Gaiman, Kim Newman, and Gemma Files. Foreword by Stefan Dziemianowicz. 7 · Foreword · Stefan Dziemianowicz · fw 13 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 17 · Only the End of the World Again · Neil Gaiman · ss Shadows Over Innsmouth ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer, 1994 35 · Bulldozer · Laird Barron · nv Sci Fiction August 25 2004 65 · Red Goat Black Goat · Nadia Bulkin · ss Innsmouth Free Press June 2010 79 · The Same Deep Waters as You · Brian Hodge · nv Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth ed. Stephen Jones, Fedogan & Bremer, 2013 117 · A Quarter to Three · Kim Newman · ss Fear #2, September/October 1988 123 · The Dappled Thing · William Browning Spencer · nv Subterranean: Tales of Dark Fantasy 2 ed. William Schafer, Subterranean Press, 2011, as “That Dappled Thing” 141 · Inelastic Collisions · Elizabeth Bear · ss Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2007 151 · Remnants · Fred Chappell · na Cthulhu’s Reign ed. Darrell Schweitzer, DAW, 2010 197 · Love Is Forbidden, We Croak and Howl · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Sirenia Digest May 2012 205 · The Sect of the Idiot [Cthulhu] · Thomas Ligotti · ss Crypt of Cthulhu #56, Roodmas 1988 215 · Jar of Salts · Gemma Files · pm Mythic Delirium #22, 2010 219 · Black as the Pit, from Pole to Pole · Steven Utley & Howard Waldrop · nv New Dimensions: Science Fiction: Number 7 ed. Robert Silverberg, Harper & Row, 1977 259 · Waiting at the Crossroads Motel · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Black Wings II ed. S. T. Joshi, PS Publishing, 2012 269 · I’ve Come to Talk with You Again [The King in Yellow] · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Dark Terrors ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, Gollancz, 1995 275 · The Bleeding Shadow · Joe R. Lansdale · nv Down These Strange Streets ed. George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Ace, 2011 305 · That of Which We Speak When We Speak of the Unspeakable · Nick Mamatas · ss Lovecraft Unbound ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse, 2009 313 · Haruspicy · Gemma Files · pm Strange Horizons October 3 2011 317 · Children of the Fang · John Langan · ss

Mad Hatters and March Hares ed. Ellen Datlow (Tor, December 12, 2017, 978-0-7653-9106-3, $29.99, 332pp, hc, oa, cover by Dave McKean)     Details taken from online listing. 13 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 15 · Gentle Alice · Kris Dikeman · ss 17 · My Own Invention · Delia Sherman · ss 27 · Lily-White & the Thief of Lesser Night · C. S. E. Cooney · nv 51 · Conjoined · Jane Yolen · ss 65 · Eating the Alice Cake · Kaaron Warren · ss 65 · Mercury · Priya Sharma · nv 97 · Some Kind of Wonderland · Richard Bowes · ss 115 · Alis · Stephen Graham Jones · nv 147 · All the King’s Men · Jeffrey Ford · ss 163 · Run, Rabbit · Angela Slatter · ss 173 · In Memory of a Summer’s Day · Matthew Kressel · ss 185 · Sentence Like a Saturday · Seanan McGuire · ss 203 · Worrity, Worrity · Andy Duncan · nv 237 · The Queen of Hats · Ysabeau S. Wilce · ss 255 · A Comfort, One Way · Genevieve Valentine · ss 265 · The Flame After the Candle · Catherynne M. Valente · nv 303 · Moon, and Memory, and Muchness · Katherine Vaz · nv 325 · Run, Rabbit, Run · Jane Yolen · pm

The Monstrous ed. Ellen Datlow (Tachyon Publications, October 27, 2015, 978-1-61696-206-7, $16.95, 379pp, tp, an, cover by Reiko Murakami)     Anthology of 20 stories, one original, about monsters within and without. Authors include Peter Straub, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Kim Newman, and Terry Dowling. Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Ellen Datlow · in 11 · A Natural History of Autumn · Jeffrey Ford · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2012 27 · Ashputtle · Peter Straub · nv Black Thorn, White Rose ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Morrow AvoNova, 1994 45 · Giants in the Earth · Dale Bailey · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 1994 59 · The Beginning of the Year Without Summer · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Sirenia Digest April 2014 77 · A Wish from a Bone · Gemma Files · nv Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 107 · The Last, Clean, Bright Summer · Livia Llewellyn · ss Primeval: A Journal of the Uncanny #2, October 2014 123 · The Totals · Adam-Troy Castro · ss Nightmare #17, February 2014 133 · The Chill Clutch of the Unseen · Kim Newman · ss Quietly Now ed. Kealan Patrick Burke, Borderlands Press, 2004 149 · Down Among the Dead Men · Gardner Dozois & Jack Dann · nv Oui July 1982 177 · Catching Flies · Carole Johnstone · ss Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 191 · Our Turn Too Will One Day Come · Brian Hodge · nv Alone on the Darkside ed. John Pelan, Roc, 2006, as “And Our Turn Too Will One Day Come” 209 · Grindstone · Stephen Graham Jones · ss 217 · Doll Hands · Adam L. G. Nevill · nv The Burning Circus ed. Johnny Mains, British Fantasy Society, 2013 239 · How I Met the Ghoul · Sofia Samatar · ss 245 · Jenny Come to Play [Dan Truswell] · Terry Dowling · nv Eidolon Spring 1997 281 · Miss Ill-Kept Runt · Glen Hirshberg · ss Twilight Limited: The Rolling Darkness Revue 2007 ed. Paul Miller, Earthling Publications, 2007 297 · Chasing Sunset · A. C. Wise · ss Whispers from the Abyss ed. Kat Rocha, 01 Publishing, 2014 309 · The Monster Makers · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Black Static #35, July/August 2013 319 · Piano Man · Christopher Fowler · ss Black Static #10, April/May 2009 335 · Corpsemouth · John Langan · nv