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Best of Best Short Stories 1986-1995 ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes (Minerva, 1995, 0-7493-9562-1, £7.99, vii+504pp, tp, an) vii · Introduction · Giles Gordon & David Hughes · in 1 · Career Move · Martin Amis · nv The New Yorker June 29 1992 21 · The Age of Lead · Margaret Atwood · ss New Statesman and Society July 20 1990 35 · Answers to a Questionnaire · J. G. Ballard · ss Ambit #100, Spring 1985 40 · Dragons · Julian Barnes · ss Granta #32, Summer 1990 53 · The Dream Lover · William Boyd · ss The London Magazine February/March 1993 66 · The Last Island Boy · George Mackay Brown · ss The Scotsman December 24 1985 72 · Medusa’s Ankles · A. S. Byatt · ss Woman’s Journal September 1990 85 · ’Tis Pity She’s a Whore · Angela Carter · nv Granta #25, Autumn 1988 103 · The Mermaid · David Constantine · ss Critical Quarterly Autumn 1991 128 · A Death in the Family · Michael Dibdin · ss GQ December 1990 130 · Forain · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker June 24 1991 147 · The Book of Ands · Robert Grossmith · ss Critical Quarterly Autumn 1988 155 · People for Lunch · Georgina Hammick · ss Stand Winter 1985/1986 177 · Five Paintings of the New Japan · Steven Heighton · ss Stand v32 #3, 1991 198 · Maundy · Christopher Hope · ss The New Yorker June 1 1992 212 · Unperformed Experiments Have No Results · Janette Turner Hospital · ss Queen’s Quarterly Winter 1994 226 · Sisters · Colum McCann · ss Analecta 1992 241 · The Wrong Vocation · Moy McCrory · ss Critical Quarterly v31 #1, 1989 253 · Creatures of the Earth · John McGahern · ss Granta #49, Winter 1994 268 · A Pair of Spoons · Shena Mackay · ss Critical Quarterly Spring 1990 287 · Alas for the Egg · Hilary Mantel · ss The London Magazine December 1986/January 1987 304 · Remission · Adam Mars-Jones · nv Granta #22, Autumn 1987 326 · A Real Life · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker February 10 1992 349 · Wilderness · Edna O’Brien · nv The New Yorker March 16 1992 380 · Oranges from Spain · David Park · ss Critical Quarterly v31 #2, 1989 394 · A Fairly Regular Four · Frederic Raphael · ss Best Short Stories 1991 ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes, William Heinemann Ltd., 1991 first broadcast on BBC Radio 4 Morning Story, 26 November 1990. 400 · Burning End · Ruth Rendell · ss The Spectator December 17/December 24 1994 410 · Notes of a Copernican Biographer · Patrick Rogers · ss Panurge #8, April 1988 423 · Good Advice Is Rarer Than Rubies · Salman Rushdie · ss The New Yorker June 22 1987 429 · Good Friday, 1633 · Helen Simpson · ss The Listener September 3 1987 438 · Stalin, Stalin, and Stalin · Jonathan Treitel · ss The New Yorker September 21 1992 445 · Two of Them · Rose Tremain · ss Marie Claire August 1992 456 · Cocktails at Doney’s · William Trevor · ss The New Yorker April 8 1985 471 · Ind Aff*--or Out of Love in Sarajevo · Fay Weldon · ss The Observer August 7 1988 479 · Bank Holiday · Jonathan Wilson · ss The New Yorker January 11 1993 489 · Biographical Notes on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 501 · Index to Best Short Stories 1986-1995 · [uncredited] · ix

A Book of Contemporary Nightmares ed. Giles Gordon (Michael Joseph, 1977, 0-7181-1571-6, £4.25, 192pp, hc, oa)     Also in pb (Sphere 0-7221-3968-3, 1978) where the story sequence is rearranged. 9 · The Bang-Bang · Brian W. Aldiss · nv 44 · Voices · Francis King · ss 57 · The Other Husband · Penelope Shuttle · ss 64 · In Cold Daylight · William Sansom · ss 76 · Scenes from the Country of the Blind · John Sladek · ss 91 · Power-Cut · Joan Aiken · ss 101 · The Scarlet House · Angela Carter · ss 115 · Birth · George MacBeth · ss 128 · The Minstrel Girl [Jerry Cornelius] · Michael Moorcock · nv 137 · Death of a Primitive Humanist · Barry Unsworth · ss 150 · Please Don’t Shoot the Trees · Patricia Highsmith · ss 166 · Broken Homes · William Trevor · ss 181 · Our Lady of the Ice · Peter Redgrove · ss 190 · Notes on Contributors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

Minerva Book of Short Stories 1 ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes (Minerva, 1990, 0-7493-9051-4, ix+258pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Heinemann 1988 as Best Short Stories 1988) anthology.

Minerva Book of Short Stories 2 ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes (Minerva, 1990, 0-7493-9085-9, ix+287pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Heinemann 1989 as Best Short Stories 1989) anthology.

Minerva Book of Short Stories 4 ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes (Minerva, 1992, 0-7493-9991-0, £5.99, ix+305pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Heinemann 1991 as Best Short Stories 1991) anthology.

Minerva Book of Short Stories 5 ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes (Minerva, 1993, 0-7493-9968-6, £5.99, ix+321pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Heinemann 1992 as Best Short Stories 1992) anthology. vii · Introduction · Giles Gordon & David Hughes · in 1 · FOAM · Brian Aldiss · nv New Worlds 1 ed. David S. Garnett, Gollancz, 1991 24 · Lizzie’s Tiger · Angela Carter · ss Cosmopolitan (UK) September 1991 39 · The Mermaid · David Constantine · ss Critical Quarterly Autumn 1991 55 · Craigavon Bridge · Seamus Deane · ss Granta #37, Autumn 1991 60 · Love of Fat Men · Helen Dunmore · ss Stand Winter 1991 67 · The Visitors’ Book · Stephen Gallagher · ss Darklands ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1991 81 · Forain · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker June 24 1991 100 · Five Paintings of the New Japan · Steven Heighton · ss Stand v32 #3, 1991 124 · The End-of-the-Line End-of-the-World Disco · Janette Turner Hospital · ss The London Magazine June/July 1991 133 · The Sandcastle · Matthew Kramer · ss Panurge #14, April 1991 146 · Meng’s Pool · Isobel Lusted · ss Stand Summer 1991 157 · Say Something · Brian McCabe · ss 166 · Cybernetics · David Mackenzie · ss The New Edinburgh Review 1991 176 · Sing, Milo, Sing! · Bryan MacMahon · ss Ireland’s Own March 22 1991 181 · Bears in Mourning · Adam Mars-Jones · ss Granta #38, Winter 1991 192 · Possibilities · Mary Morrissy · ss The London Magazine October/November 1991 199 · Carried Away · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker October 21 1991 242 · Three Minute Egg · Wendy Perriam · ss Esquire (UK) June 1991 251 · Queen Mahatonga Retires for the Night · Don Rodgers · ss Critical Quarterly Summer 1991 264 · Christopher Columbus and Queen Isabella of Spain Consummate Their Relationship, Santa Fe, January, 1492 · Salman Rushdie · ss The New Yorker June 17 1991 272 · Dear George · Helen Simpson · ss Woman December 1991 280 · My Father’s War · Ken Smith · ss 287 · Waltz Time · Jonathan Treitel · ss The New Yorker February 11 1991 293 · Old Flame · William Trevor · ss The New Yorker February 25 1991 307 · Love Among the Artists · Fay Weldon · ss The Times December 24 1991 316 · Biographical Notes on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Minerva Book of Short Stories 6 ed. Giles Gordon & David Hughes (Minerva, 1994, 0-7493-9998-8, £6.99, ix+370pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Heinemann 1993 as Best Short Stories 1993) anthology.

Prevailing Spirits ed. Giles Gordon (Hamish Hamilton, 1976, 0-241-89403-4, £3.50, 216pp, hc, oa)     “A Book of Scottish Ghost Stories”. 1 · Holiday · Forbes Bramble · ss 19 · Beliah · George Mackay Brown · nv 48 · The Foothold · Elspeth Davie · ss 63 · A Kind of Possession · James Allan Ford · ss 80 · Who’s Been Sitting in My Car? · Antonia Fraser · ss 95 · The Haunted Chimley · Clifford Hanley · ss 107 · The Curator · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss 123 · The Curse of Mathair Nan Uisgeachan · Angus Wolfe Murray · nv 149 · Randal · Robert Nye · ss 160 · The Brothers · Iain Crichton Smith · ss 174 · Proud Lady in a Cage · Fred Urquhart · ss 194 · The Horseshoe Inn · Gordon Williams · ss 213 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Selected Ghost Stories ed. Giles Gordon (Bloomsbury, November 14, 1996, 0-7475-2914-0, £10.95, 232pp, hc, an, cover by Jeff Fisher)     Anthology of 13 classic ghost stories. A mini-hardback. 1 · A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705 · Daniel Defoe · ar B. Bragg, 1706, uncredited. 13 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828 33 · The Lady with the Velvet Collar · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon, John Murray, 1824, as “The Adventure of the German Student” 40 · The Gray Champion · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine January 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy” 50 · No. 1 Branch Line: The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866 67 · The Dream Woman · Wilkie Collins · nv Temple Bar November 1874 (+1) revised from “Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dream-Woman” (The Queen of Hearts, Hurst and Blackett, 1859), itself revised from “The Ostler” (Household Words, Christmas 1855). 93 · A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 14 1889 101 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908 146 · The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral · Montague Rhodes James · nv The Contemporary Review April 1910 166 · The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 195 · The Quincunx · Walter de la Mare · ss The Lady’s Realm January 1907 209 · The Apple Tree · Elizabeth Bowen · ss When Churchyards Yawn ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1931 225 · The Leaf-Sweeper · Muriel Spark · ss The London Mystery Magazine #31, December 1956

A Pride of Felons ed. Gordon Gordon, Thomas B. Dewey, Mildred Gordon & Jean Leslie--- see under The Gordons.

The Innkeeper Chronicles: Volume One by Ilona & Andrew Gordon--- see under Ilona Andrews.

The Kinsmen Universe by Ilona & Andrew Gordon--- see under Ilona Andrews.

Small Magics by Ilona & Andrew Gordon--- see under Ilona Andrews.

The Armchair Science Reader ed. Isabel S. Gordon & Sophie Sorkin (Simon & Schuster, 1959, $7.95, 832pp, hc, an)     Only Science Fiction listed. · Invasion from Mars · Howard Koch · pl Invasion from Mars by Hazel Gaudet, Princeton University Press, 1940 first broadcast on the CBS radio network on October 30, 1938. · Flight to Malacandra · C. S. Lewis · ex from Out of the Silent Planet, John Lane, 1938 · Our Distant Cousins [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 23 1929 · The Nautilus Reaches the Pole [Captain Nemo] · Jules Verne · ex from 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, G.M. Smith, 1873 · A Descent Into the Maelström · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May 1841 · John Thomas’s Cube · John Leimert · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1945 · In Hiding [Timothy Paul] · Wilmar H. Shiras · nv Astounding Science Fiction November 1948 · Creative Evolution · George Bernard Shaw · ex from Back to Methuselah (r); from the preface. · Split Cherry Tree · Jesse Stuart · ss Esquire January 1939 · Cabinet Decision · Nigel Balchin · ex from Who Is My Neighbour (r) · Dr. Southport Vulpes’s Nightmare · Bertrand Russell · ss Nightmares of Eminent Persons by Bertrand Russell, Allen & Unwin, 1954 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941 · By the Waters of Babylon · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 31 1937, as “The Place of the Gods” · Laputan Projects [Gulliver] · Jonathan Swift · ex from Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World, Benjamin Motte, 1726 · Machines Do Our Work · Edward Bellamy · ex from Looking Backward: 2000-1887, Ticknor, 1888 · In Bondage to a Central Authority · Aldous Huxley · ex from Brave New World, Chatto & Windus, 1932 · The Machine Stops · E. M. Forster · nv Oxford and Cambridge Review November 1909 · The Morning of the Day They Did It · E. B. White · ss The New Yorker February 25 1950

Dark Faith: Invocations ed. Jerry Gordon & Maurice Broaddus--- see under Maurice Broaddus.

Dark Faith: Last Rites ed. Jerry Gordon & Maurice Broaddus--- see under Maurice Broaddus.

Streets of Shadows ed. Jerry Gordon & Maurice Broaddus--- see under Maurice Broaddus.

Left in the Dark: The Supernatural Tales of John Gordon by John Gordon (Medusa Press, October 2006, 978-0-9725324-1-9, $40.00, xvi+318pp, hc, co, cover by Frank Chigas)     Collection of 30 stories, one original; many of the stories were previously collected in The Spitfire Grave and Other Stories (Kestrel), Catch Your Death and Other Stories (1984), and The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts (1992). Foreword by Frank Chigas; introduction by Gordon. This is a limited edition of 450; a deluxe signed edition of 50 ($60.00) is also available. Details taken from online listing. · Foreword · Frank Chigas · fw · Introduction · John Gordon · in · Left in the Dark · John Gordon · nv Shades of Dark ed. Aidan Chambers, Patrick Hardy, 1984 · Death Wish · John Gordon · nv The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts by John Gordon, Walker, 1992 · Uncle Walter · John Gordon · ss The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings ed. Dennis Pepper, Oxford University Press, 1997 · The Burning Baby · John Gordon · nv The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts by John Gordon, Walker, 1992 · The Kissing Gate · John Gordon · ss The Young Oxford Book of Christmas Stories ed. Dennis Pepper, Oxford University Press, 2001 · Better the Devil You Know · John Gordon · ss · Bone Meal · John Gordon · nv Point Horror ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1994 · Under the Ice · John Gordon · nv The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts by John Gordon, Walker, 1992 · Oh, My Bairn · John Gordon · ss · Kroger’s Choice · John Gordon · ss Ghost Stories ed. Deborah Shine, Octopus Books, 1980 · The Pot of Basil · John Gordon · ss · Catch Your Death · John Gordon · ss Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories by John Gordon, Patrick Hardy Books, 1984 · Black Beads · John Gordon · ss The Mammoth Book of Dracula ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997 · If She Bends, She Breaks · John Gordon · ss Ghost After Ghost ed. Aidan Chambers, Kestrel, 1982 · The Smile of Eugene Ritter · John Gordon · ss Beware! Beware! ed. Jean Richardson, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 · The Key · John Gordon · ss The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts by John Gordon, Walker, 1992 · The Broken O · John Gordon · ss · Half a Crown · John Gordon · ss · Eels · John Gordon · ss The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts by John Gordon, Walker, 1992 · Without a Mark · John Gordon · ss · Never Grow Up · John Gordon · ss Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories by John Gordon, Patrick Hardy Books, 1984 · Vampire in Venice · John Gordon · ss 13 Again ed. A. Finnis, Scholastic UK, 1995 · Joby’s Pint · John Gordon · ss · All the Children · John Gordon · ss · Grandmother’s Footsteps · John Gordon · ss The Walker Book of Ghost Stories ed. Susan Hill, Walker, 1990 · The Girl Outside · John Gordon · ss · The Black Prince · John Gordon · ss A Quiver of Ghosts ed. Aidan Chambers, The Bodley Head, 1987 · Little Black Pies · John Gordon · ss Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories by John Gordon, Patrick Hardy Books, 1984 · The Place · John Gordon · ss · The Night Watch · John Gordon · ss