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Smoke and Mirrors: Short Fictions and Illusions by Neil Gaiman (Subterranean Press, June 2014, no ISBN, $250.00, 272pp, hc, co)     Reprint (Avon 1998) collection of 30 stories and poems, with new illustrations and designed by Dave McKean. This is a slipcased limited edition of 500 signed by both Gaiman and McKean; a lettered edition of 26 is also available.

Trigger Warning—Short Fictions & Disturbances by Neil Gaiman (Headline, February 3, 2015, 978-1-4722-1768-4, £18.99, xxxvi+307pp, hc, co)     Collection of 24 stories and poems, including an original novelette, “Black Dog”. Simultaneous with the US (Wm. Morrow) edition. ix · Introduction · Neil Gaiman · in 3 · Making a Chair · Neil Gaiman · ss Biting Dog Press, 2012 5 · A Lunar Labyrinth · Neil Gaiman · ss Shadows of the New Sun ed. J. E. Mooney & Bill Fawcett, Tor, 2013 14 · The Thing About Cassandra · Neil Gaiman · ss Songs of Love and Death ed. George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Gallery, 2010 34 · Down to a Sunless Sea · Neil Gaiman · ss The Guardian March 22 2013 38 · “The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains…” · Neil Gaiman · nv Stories ed. Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio, William Morrow, 2010 69 · My Last Landlady · Neil Gaiman · pm Off the Coastal Path ed. Jo Fletcher, Stanza Press, 2010 73 · Adventure Story · Neil Gaiman · ss McSweeney’s #40, 2012 77 · Orange · Neil Gaiman · ss The Starry Rift ed. Jonathan Strahan, Viking, 2008 86 · A Calendar of Tales · Neil Gaiman · nv first published online at www.acalendaroftales.com. 115 · The Case of Death and Honey [Sherlock Holmes] · Neil Gaiman · nv A Study in Sherlock ed. Laurie R. King & Leslie S. Klinger, Bantam Books, 2011 136 · The Man Who Forgot Ray Bradbury · Neil Gaiman · ss Shadow Show ed. Sam Weller & Mort Castle, Morrow, 2012 143 · Jerusalem · Neil Gaiman · ss A Little Gold Book of Ghastly Stuff by Neil Gaiman, Borderlands Press, 2011 first broadcast on BBC Radio 4, November 29, 2007. 151 · Click-Clack the Rattlebag · Neil Gaiman · ss Impossible Monsters ed. Kasey Lansdale, Subterranean Press, 2013 first released as an audio download in October 2012. 156 · An Invocation of Incuriosity [Dying Earth] · Neil Gaiman · ss Songs of the Dying Earth ed. George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, Subterranean Press, 2009 170 · “And Weep, Like Alexander” · Neil Gaiman · ss Fables from the Fountain ed. Ian Whates, NewCon Press, 2011 175 · Nothing O’Clock [Doctor Who] · Neil Gaiman · nv Puffin, 2013 206 · Diamonds and Pearls: A Fairy Tale · Neil Gaiman · ss from Who Killed Amanda Palmer, Eight Foot Books, 2009 210 · The Return of the Thin White Duke · Neil Gaiman · ss a small portion of this story first appeared in “V” Magazine, #29, Summer 2004. 222 · Feminine Endings · Neil Gaiman · ss Four Letter Word: Original Love Letters February 14 2008 229 · Observing the Formalities · Neil Gaiman · pm Troll’s Eye View ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2009 231 · The Sleeper and the Spindle · Neil Gaiman · nv Rags & Bones: New Twists on Timeless Tales ed. Melissa Marr & Tim Pratt, Headline, 2013 258 · Witch Work · Neil Gaiman · pm Under My Hat ed. Jonathan Strahan, Random House, 2012 260 · In Relig Odhráin · Neil Gaiman · pm 2010 264 · Black Dog [American Gods] · Neil Gaiman · nv

Now We Are Sick ed. Neil Gaiman & Stephen Jones (DreamHaven, October 1991, 0-9630944-1-6, $20.00, 93pp, hc, oa, cover by Clive Barker)     Anthology of mostly original “nasty verse” and macabre poetry, with illustrations by Andrew Smith. Limited to 1,000 copies. A leatherbound limited edition of 300 copies (-0-8) was announced but not seen. 11 · Now We Are Sick · Neil Gaiman & Stephen Jones · pm Now We Are Sick Sampler ed. Neil Gaiman & Stephen Jones, DreamHaven, 1986 14 · A Slice of Life · Diana Wynne Jones · pm Now We Are Sick Sampler ed. Neil Gaiman & Stephen Jones, DreamHaven, 1986 16 · Auntie Ethel · Richard Hill · pm 17 · You Always Eat the One You Love · Kim Newman · pm 18 · Chocolate and Worms · David S. Garnett · pm 21 · The Dangers of Colour TV · Simon Ian Childer · pm 22 · The Children’s Hour · Alan Moore · pm 1986 24 · Radio Nasty · Stephen Gallagher · pm 26 · Something Came Out of the Toilet · Harry Adam Knight · pm 29 · The Secret Book of the Dead · Terry Pratchett · pm 31 · Mummy’s Blocked the Lav Again · John Grant · pm 34 · Rice Pudding · Brian W. Aldiss · pm 36 · Aboard the Good Ship ‘Revenger’ · Galad Elflandsson · pm 39 · The Dream of Omar K. Yam · David Sutton · pm 40 · You’re Deceased, Father William · Colin Greenland · pm 44 · A Landlady’s Lament · Ramsey Campbell · pm Now We Are Sick Sampler ed. Neil Gaiman & Stephen Jones, DreamHaven, 1986 48 · The Borgia Brats · Garry Kilworth · pm 50 · Another Cursed House Story · John M. Ford · pm 1986 52 · Waiting… · James Herbert · pm 54 · The Thing at the Top of the Stairs · Sharon Baker · pm 55 · Things That Go Bump in the Night · Ian Pemble · pm 60 · In the Dark · Storm Constantine · pm 62 · Lights Out · Alex Stewart · pm 63 · A Mother’s Tender Love · Jo Fletcher · pm Now We Are Sick Sampler ed. Neil Gaiman & Stephen Jones, DreamHaven, 1986 65 · Catcawls · Samantha Lee · pm 69 · The Haunted Henhouse · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · pm 70 · When the Music Breaks · R. A. Lafferty · pm 72 · Nasty Snow · Jody Scott · pm 73 · Why Private War · Gene Wolfe · pm 1986 75 · The Answering Machine · S. P. Somtow · pm 83 · Warning: Death May Be Injurious to Your Health · Robert Bloch · pm

The Sandman: Book of Dreams ed. Neil Gaiman & Edward E. Kramer (HarperPrism, August 1996, 0-06-100833-8, $22.00, 293pp, hc, oa, cover by Dave McKean)     Original anthology of 19 dark-fantasy stories based on the comic-book character. Authors include Gene Wolfe, Barbara Hambly, Tad Williams, and Nancy A. Collins. The frontispiece is by Clive Barker; there is a preface by Frank McConnell. Simultaneous with the UK (HarperCollins Voyager) edition. x · Frontispiece: Death · Clive Barker · il 1 · Preface · Frank McConnell · pr 7 · Masquerade and High Water · Colin Greenland · ss 21 · Chain Home, Low · John M. Ford · nv 43 · Stronger than Desire · Lisa Goldstein · ss 55 · Each Damp Thing · Barbara Hambly · nv 77 · The Birth Day · B. W. Clough · ss 85 · Splatter · Will Shetterly · ss 105 · Seven Nights in Slumberland · George Alec Effinger · ss 123 · Escape Artist · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss 137 · An Extra Smidgen of Eternity · Robert Rodi · ss 149 · The Writer’s Child · Tad Williams · ss 169 · Endless Sestina · Lawrence Schimel · pm 173 · The Gate of Gold · Mark Kreighbaum · ss 181 · A Bone Dry Place · Karen Haber · ss 195 · The Witch’s Heart · Delia Sherman · nv 217 · The Mender of Broken Dreams · Nancy A. Collins · ss 231 · Ain’t You ’Most Done? · Gene Wolfe · nv 255 · Valóság and Élet · Steven Brust · ss 261 · Stopp’t-Clock Yard · Susanna Clarke · nv 285 · Afterword: Death · Tori Amos · aw 289 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Stories ed. Neil Gaiman & Al Sarrantonio (HarperCollins/Morrow, June 2010, 978-0-06-123092-9, $27.99, x+428pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology of 27 stories, by authors including Tim Powers, Gene Wolfe, Diana Wynne Jones, Michael Moorcock, and Joe Hill. Introduction by Neil Gaiman. Simultaneous with the UK (Headline) edition. 1 · Just Four Words · Neil Gaiman · in 5 · Blood · Roddy Doyle · ss 15 · Fossil-Figures · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Ontario Review 2010 29 · Wildfire in Manhattan · Joanne Harris · ss 46 · The Truth Is a Cave in the Black Mountains · Neil Gaiman · nv 70 · Unbelief · Michael Marshall Smith · ss 77 · The Stars Are Falling · Joe R. Lansdale · nv 103 · Juvenal Nyx · Walter Mosley · nv 132 · The Knife · Richard Adams · ss 135 · Weights and Measures · Jodi Picoult · ss 150 · Goblin Lake · Michael Swanwick · ss 162 · Mallon the Guru · Peter Straub · ss 168 · Catch and Release · Lawrence Block · ss 181 · Polka Dots and Moonbeams · Jeffrey Ford · ss 194 · Loser · Chuck Palahniuk · ss 202 · Samantha’s Diary · Diana Wynne Jones · ss Plokta #40, May 2009 216 · Land of the Lost · Stewart O’Nan · ss 221 · Leif in the Wind · Gene Wolfe · ss 233 · Unwell · Carolyn Parkhurt · ss 243 · A Life in Fictions · Kat Howard · ss 248 · Let the Past Begin · Jonathan Carroll · ss 260 · The Therapist · Jeffery Deaver · nv 293 · Parallel Lines · Tim Powers · ss 304 · The Cult of the Nose · Al Sarrantonio · ss 313 · Human Intelligence · Kurt Andersen · ss 330 · Stories · Michael Moorcock · nv 351 · The Maiden Flight of McCauley’s Bellerophon · Elizabeth Hand · nv 399 · The Devil on the Staircase · Joe Hill · nv

Temps Volume 1 ed. Neil Gaiman & Alex Stewart (Roc UK, August 5, 1991, 0-14-014560-5, £4.50, 354pp, pb, oa)     Anthology of downbeat stories about mediocre British superheroes. 5 · Nothing Special · Colin Greenland · nv 31 · Leaks · David Langford · nv 57 · Third Person Singular · Liz Holliday · nv 91 · Frog Day Afternoon · Marcus L. Rowlands · nv 119 · Pitbull Brittan · Jack Yeovil · na 189 · The String Man · Graham Higgins · ss 205 · Someone to Watch Over Me · Alex Stewart · ss 223 · The Oedipus Effect · Brian M. Stableford · nv 259 · The College Spirit · Storm Constantine · nv 299 · The Rose Garden · David V. Barrett · ss 319 · A Lonely Impulse · Roz Kaveney · nv

Unnatural Creatures ed. Neil Gaiman & Maria Dahvana Headley (Harper, April 2013, 978-0-06-223629-6, $17.99, 462pp, hc, an, cover by Iacopo Bruno)     Young-adult anthology of 16 stories, three original, about unlikely, mythical, and/or impossible creatures. Only Gaiman is credited on the cover; the title page reads “Stories Selected by Neil Gaiman with Maria Dahvana Headley”. Authors with original stories are Nnedi Okorafor, Megan Kurashige, and Nalo Hopkinson; other authors include Diana Wynne Jones, Larry Niven, and Peter S. Beagle. Illustrated by Briony Morrow-Cribbs. Sales benefit literary non-profit 826DC. A trade paperback edition (-223630-2, $9.99) is also available. · Introduction · Neil Gaiman · in 1 · [inksplot] · Gahan Wilson · ss Again, Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1972 19 · The Cartographer Wasps and the Anarchist Bees · E. Lily Yu · nv Clarkesworld #55, April 2011 35 · The Griffin and the Minor Canon · Frank R. Stockton · nv St. Nicholas October 1885 59 · Ozioma the Wicked · Nnedi Okorafor · ss 75 · Sunbird · Neil Gaiman · nv Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs ed. Ted Thompson & Eli Horowitz, McSweeney's Books, 2005 107 · The Sage of Theare [Chrestomanci] · Diana Wynne Jones · nv Hecate’s Cauldron ed. Susan M. Shwartz, DAW, 1982 147 · Gabriel-Ernest · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 29 1909 159 · The Cockatoucan; or, Great-Aunt Willoughby · E. Nesbit · nv The Strand Magazine March 1900 185 · Moveable Beast · Maria Dahvana Headley · ss 199 · The Flight of the Horse [Hanville Svetz] · Larry Niven · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1969, as “Get a Horse!” 223 · Prismatica · Samuel R. Delany · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1977 273 · The Manticore, the Mermaid, and Me · Megan Kurashige · ss 293 · The Compleat Werewolf [Fergus O’Breen] · Anthony Boucher · na Unknown Worlds April 1942 373 · The Smile on the Face · Nalo Hopkinson · nv Girls Who Bite Back: Witches, Mutants, Slayers And Freaks ed. Emily Pohl-Weary, Sumach Press, 2004 411 · Or All the Seas with Oysters · Avram Davidson · ss Galaxy Science Fiction May 1958 429 · Come Lady Death · Peter S. Beagle · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1963

Dead Cats Bouncing ed. GAK & Gerard Houarner--- see under Gerard Houarner.

World’s Spring ed. Vladimir Gakov (Macmillan, 1981, 0-02-542180-8, $12.95, xiv+297pp, hc, oa) ix · Introduction · Vladimir Gakov; translated by Roger DeGaris · in translated from the Russian. 3 · The Surf of Mars · Dmitri Bilenkin; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Marsianskiy priboy”, 1966). 12 · The Port of Rock Storms · Genrikh Altov; translated by Roger DeGaris · nv translated from the Russian (“Port Kamennykh bur’”, 1965). 38 · World’s Spring · Victor Kolupaev; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Vesna sveta”, 1972). 48 · Nine Minutes · Genrikh Altov; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Devyat’ minut”, 1964). 61 · The World in Which I Vanished · Anatoly Dneprov; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Mir, v kotorom ya ischez”, Znanie-Sila February 1961). 76 · The Sun Sets in Donomag · Ilya Varshavsky; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Solntse zahodit v Donomage”, 1966). 82 · Testing Grounds · Sever Gansovsky; translated by Roger DeGaris · nv translated from the Russian (“Poligon”, 1966). 104 · The Ultimate Threshold · German Maksimov; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Posledniy porog”, 1965). 117 · City and Wolf · Dmitri Bilenkin; translated by Roger DeGaris · nv translated from the Russian (“Gorod i volk”, 1970). 144 · An Ugly Bioform · Kirill Bulychev; translated by Roger DeGaris · nv translated from the Russian (“O nekrasivom bioforme”, 1974). 167 · The Very Biggest House · Victor Kolupaev; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Samyy bol’shoy dom”, 1974). 181 · Appendix · Andrei Balabukha; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Appendiks”, 1968). 195 · The Great Actor Jones · Gennady Gor; translated by Roger DeGaris · nv translated from the Russian (“Velikiy akter Dzhons”, 1966). 217 · The Stanislavsky Method · Alexander Gorbovsky; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Po sisteme Stanislavskogo”, 1974). 226 · Life Space · Marietta Chudakova; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Prostranstvo zhizni”, 1969). 239 · A Day of Wrath · Sever Gansovsky; translated by Roger DeGaris · nv translated from the Russian (“Den’ gneva”, 1965). 265 · Once at Night · Dmitri Bilenkin; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Odnazhdy noch’yu”, 1973). 272 · The Choice · Kirill Bulychev; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Vybor”, 1971). 286 · An Old Robot’s Two Times Two · Vladimir Grigorev; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Nichto chelovecheskoye nam ne chyzhdo”, 1962). 294 · Coincidence · Alexander Gorbovsky; translated by Roger DeGaris · ss translated from the Russian (“Sovpadeniye”, 1972).