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Twenty-Five Great Ghost Stories ed. W. Bob Holland--- see under Anon..

Virtual Girls: The Erotic Gems of Evan Hollander by Evan Hollander (Circlet Press, August 1995, 1-885865-04-X, $6.95, 64pp, tp, co, cover by Lee Seed)
Collection of five erotic SF stories, one original. There is an introduction by Steve Dorfman, editor of Gent, in which most of these stories originally appeared. Hollander is a pen name of Edo van Belkom.

xi · Introduction · Steve Dorfman · in

1 · Artistic License · Evan Hollander · ss Gent July 1990

11 · Virtual Girl · Evan Hollander · ss

21 · Night Vision · Evan Hollander · ss Gent July 1991

31 · Sex in Time · Evan Hollander · ss Gent April 1995

41 · The Zero Gee Spot · Evan Hollander · ss Gent November 1990

51 · Afterword · Evan Hollander · aw

53 · About the author · [uncredited] · bg

Parabolas of Science Fiction ed. Veronica Hollinger & Brian Attebery--- see under Brian Attebery.

Another Tomorrow ed. Bernard C. Hollister (Pflaum Publishing, 1974, 0-8278-0037-1, 121pp, tp, an)

· Introduction · Bernard C. Hollister · in

· MarsAmerica

1 · History Lesson · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Startling Stories May 1949

12 · Southbound on the Freeway · May Swenson · pm The New Yorker February 16 1963

· Progress

14 · Gadget vs. Trend · Christopher Anvil · ss Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction October 1962

29 · Write Science Fiction? Right · Bernard C. Hollister · ar 1974

· Machine

33 · Gas Mask · James D. Houston · ss Nugget 1964

43 · Devil Car [Sam Murdock] · Roger Zelazny · ss Galaxy Magazine June 1965

49 · Univac to Univac · Louis B. Salomon · pm Harper’s Magazine March 1958

· Society

53 · To See the Invisible Man · Robert Silverberg · ss Worlds of Tomorrow April 1963

66 · The Handler · Damon Knight · ss Rogue August 1960

72 · “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman · Harlan Ellison · ss Galaxy Magazine December 1965

84 · The Winner · Donald E. Westlake · ss Nova 1 ed. Harry Harrison, Delacorte, 1970

· Weapons

95 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941

102 · Crab-Apple Crisis · George MacBeth · ss New Worlds SF #167, 1966

113 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

You and Science Fiction ed. Bernard C. Hollister (National Textbook Co., 1976, 349pp, tp, an)
A Humanistic Approach to Science Fiction.

1 · Introduction · Bernard C. Hollister · in

7 · Who Am I This Time? · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 16 1961, as “My Name Is Everyone”

21 · Profession · Isaac Asimov · na Astounding Science Fiction July 1957; edited.

40 · Rat Race · Raymond F. Jones · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact April 1966

57 · Survival Ship · Judith Merril · ss Worlds Beyond January 1951

68 · The Smile · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Summer 1952

81 · Gilead [People] · Zenna Henderson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1954

108 · All Summer in a Day · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1954

117 · Day of Truce · Clifford D. Simak · nv Galaxy Magazine February 1963

138 · The Subliminal Man · J. G. Ballard · ss New Worlds Science Fiction #126, January 1963

156 · It’s Such a Beautiful Day · Isaac Asimov · nv Star Science Fiction Stories No. 3 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1955

179 · Now Let Us Sleep · Avram Davidson · ss Venture Science Fiction September 1957

194 · What to Do Until the Analyst Comes · Frederik Pohl · ss Imagination February 1956, as “Everybody’s Happy but Me!”

207 · Consumer’s Report · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss Imagination October 1955, as “No Gun to the Victor”

219 · Computers Don’t Argue · Gordon R. Dickson · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact September 1965

237 · Into the Shop · Ron Goulart · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1964

256 · Caught in the Organ Draft · Robert Silverberg · ss And Walk Now Gently Through the Fire ed. Roger Elwood, Chilton, 1972

270 · The Pill · Maggie Nadler · vi Fantastic Stories April 1972

281 · The Birds · Daphne du Maurier · nv Good Housekeeping October 1952

304 · Frog Pond [Thea] · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1971

315 · Billenium · J. G. Ballard · ss New Worlds Science Fiction #112, November 1961

330 · The Census Takers · Frederik Pohl · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1956

339 · The Crawlers · Philip K. Dick · ss Imagination July 1954

347 · Epilog · Bernard C. Hollister · aw

All the Visions: A Novel of the Sixties/Space Baltic by Anselm Hollo & Rudy Rucker--- see under Rudy Rucker.

Transactions of the Flesh ed. Peter Holman & D. P. Watt (Ex Occidente Press, November 2013, 254pp, hc, oa)
Subtitled “A Homage to Joris-Karl Huysmans”. Limited edition of 150 copies.
Details taken from online listing.

· Pray to the God of Flux · Jonathan Wood · ss

· Ziegler Against the World · John Howard · nv

· Towards Nature · Douglas Thompson · ss

· In Our Deep Vaulted Cell · Derek John · ss

· Summer Dusk, Winter Moon · Berit Ellingsen · ss

· Ash Sun, Raspberry Sky · Adam Golaski · ss

· Angel Head · Harold Billings · ss

· Starless Mornings Find Me Older · Peter Holman · ss

· An Expiatory Pessimism · Eugene Thacker · ss

· The Red Seed · Louis Marvick · ss

· Indescribable · M. O. N. · ss

· The Key to Jerusalem · Mark Valentine · ss

· Endgame Aesthete · Jeremy Reed · pm

· The Sulphur Remedy · Oliver Smith · ss

· Salammbô and the Zaïmph of Tanit · Colin Insole · ss

· Again, the Granite; or, A 21st Century Secret Experiment in Devastating Ennui · Charles Schneider · ss

· A Hive of Pain · D. P. Watt · ss

· Martyr’s Fuligin · Adam S. Cantwell · ss

· Pierrot the Sceptic · Léon Hennique & J.-K. Huysmans · ss
translated from the French (“Pierrot Sceptique”, 1881).

Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Worlds ed. Rachel E. Holmen & Marion Zimmer Bradley--- see under Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Sword and Sorceress XIV ed. Rachel E. Holmen & Marion Zimmer Bradley--- see under Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Figurehead by Carly Holmes (Tartarus Press, July 2018, 978-1-912586-06-6, £35.00, 246pp, hc, co)
Limited to 300 copies.
Details taken from online listing.

· The Demon L · Carly Holmes · nv

· Miss Luna · Carly Holmes · ss

· Little Matrons · Carly Holmes · ss

· Sleep · Carly Holmes · nv

· Ghost Story · Carly Holmes · ss Wales Arts Review February 27 2014

· Dropped Stitches · Carly Holmes · ss

· Like Water Through Fingers · Carly Holmes · ss Wales Arts Review October 30 2014

· Maria’s Silence · Carly Holmes · ss The Yellow Room Autumn 2012

· Piece by Piece · Carly Holmes · ss A Flock of Shadows ed. Claire Houguez & Rebecca Parfitt, Parthian Books, 2015

· The Glamour · Carly Holmes · ss The Ghastling #1, 2014

· Wich · Carly Holmes · ss

· Three for a Girl · Carly Holmes · nv

· Strumpet · Carly Holmes · ss Wales Arts Review June 5 2016

· Runty · Carly Holmes · ss

· Into the Woods · Carly Holmes · ss

· Alter · Carly Holmes · ss The Lonely Crowd Winter 2016

· Before the Fairytale · Carly Holmes · ss Wales Arts Review June 5 2016

· Bake Day · Carly Holmes · ss

· Friday · Carly Holmes · ss Rarebit: New Welsh Fiction ed. Susie Wild, Parthian Books, 2014

· Heartwood · Carly Holmes · ss The Ghastling #6, 2017

· Figurehead · Carly Holmes · ss

· They Tell Me · Carly Holmes · ss

· Woodside Close · Carly Holmes · ss

· A Small Life · Carly Holmes · nv Black Static #61, November/December 2017

· Beneath the Skin · Carly Holmes · ss Wales Arts Review October 30 2015

· Rootless · Carly Holmes · ss Syntax & Salt Magazine #1, January 2017

Uncertainties 7 ed. Carly Holmes, Brian J. Showers & Timothy J. Jarvis (Swan River Press, November 11, 2024, 978-1-78380-050-6, €40.00, ix+220pp, hc, oa, cover: Detour by James F. Johnston)
Limited to 425 copies, the first 100 of which are embossed and hand-numbered.
Details taken from publisher website.

· Foreword · Carly Holmes · fw

· Pond Scum · Tyler Keevil · ss

· An Innocent Beast · Georgina Bruce · ss

· Mama Fungus · Sarah Read · ss

· Sad Face · Mark Morris · ss

· The Winding of the Willows · Steve Toase · ss

· Subject Matter · Philippa Holloway · ss

· A Suit of Darkest Blue · Steven J. Dines · ss

· Little Nothings · Premee Mohamed · ss

· Ends Abruptly · Tim Major · ss

· The Son · Bethany W. Pope · ss

· The Good Old Days · Craig Rosenberg · ss

· An Empty House · Jessica Hagy · ss

· Contributor Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Floating Fancies Among the Weird and Occult by Clara H. Holmes (F. Tennyson Neely, 1898, 248pp, hc, co)

7 · Nordhung Nordjansen · Clara H. Holmes · ss

29 · In the Beyond · Clara H. Holmes · ss

51 · The Tragedy of the Gnomes · Clara H. Holmes · ss

67 · An Unfair Exchange · Clara H. Holmes · nv

99 · Limitations · Clara H. Holmes · ss

119 · A Tale of Two Pictures · Clara H. Holmes · nv

152 · A Nineteenth Century Ghost · Clara H. Holmes · ss

169 · What Became of the Money? · Clara H. Holmes · nv

196 · His Friend · Clara H. Holmes · ss

214 · A Tale of the X-Ray · Clara H. Holmes · ss

231 · An Averted Tragedy · Clara H. Holmes · ss

The Magic Within ed. Diane Holmes, Emily Alward & Alicia Rasley--- see under Emily Alward.

Macabre Military Stories ed. Ronald Holmes (Leo Cooper, March 1979, 0-85052-244-7, £7.50, 175pp, hc, an)

vii · Introduction · Ronald Holmes · in (r)

1 · The Bold Dragoon · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon & Gent., John Murray, 1824, as by Geoffrey Crayon

11 · The Roll-Call of the Reef · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q

27 · Master Ghost and I · Barbara Softly · ss Haunting Tales ed. Barbara Ireson, Faber and Faber, 1973

47 · The Black Ferry · John Galt · ss The Club Book ed. Andrew Picken, Cochrane & Pickersgill, 1831, as “The Book of Life”

61 · Apparitions · Bourchier Wrey Savile, Rev. · ex Apparitions ed. Rev. Bourchier Savile, London, 1874

73 · The Phantom Regiment · James Grant · nv The Phantom Regiment or Stories of “Ours” by James Grant, Thomas Hodgson, 1856

99 · The Copper Bowl · George Fielding Eliot · ss Weird Tales December 1928

111 · The Soldiers’ Rest · Arthur Machen · ss The (London) Evening News October 20 1914

117 · A Trade Report Only · C. E. Montague · ss Fiery Particles by C. E. Montague, Chatto & Windus, 1923

133 · The Living Dead · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1967

141 · And Give Us Yesterday · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales January 1948

159 · The Scarlet King · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt December 25 1954

171 · The Battle · Robert Sheckley · ss If September 1954

Macabre Railway Stories ed. Ronald Holmes (W.H. Allen, October 1982, 0-491-02827-X, 231pp, hc, an)
Anthology of stories of fantasy, horror, and the supernatural. Reprinted by Star Books, London, 1986, from which details taken.

7 · Introduction · Ronald Holmes · in (r)

13 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman”

29 · The Garside Fell Disaster · L. T. C. Rolt · ss Sleep No More by L. T. C. Rolt, Constable, 1948

41 · The Engineer · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 5 Branch Line. The Engineer”

63 · The Tunnel · Raymond Harvey · ss The Eighth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1967

75 · The Eighth Lamp · Roy Vickers · ss The Novel Magazine July 1916

91 · The Compensation House · Charles Allston Collins · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 3 Branch Line. The Compensation House”

111 · All Change · John Edgell · ss John Edgell’s Ghosts ed. John Edgell, Wayland, 1970

119 · Midnight Express · Alfred Noyes · ss This Week November 3 1935

127 · The Last Train · Harry Harrison · ss The Second Bedside Book of Strange Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Arthur Barker, 1976

135 · A Tale of a Gas-Light Ghost · [uncredited] · ss New Christmas Annual 1867, 1866

149 · The Attic Express · Alex Hamilton · nv The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1963

171 · The Woman in the Green Dress · Joyce Marsh · ss Spectre 3 ed. Richard Davis, Abelard Schuman UK, 1976

185 · The Very Silent Traveller · Paul Tabori · ss Lilliput September/October 1953

193 · Take the Z-Train · Allison V. Harding · ss Weird Tales March 1950

205 · The Third Level · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s October 7 1950

213 · The Man Who Rode the Trains · Paul A. Carter · ss Travellers by Night ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1967

Vintage Book of International Lesbian Fiction: An Anthology ed. Naomi Holoch & Joan Nestle (Vintage Books, June 1999, 0679759522, $15.00, 384pp, tp, an)
Contents list from Yahoo Books.

· Introduction · Naomi Holoch & Joan Nestle · in (r)

3 · A Noise from the Woodshed · Mary Dorcey · ex (r)

15 · Caribbean Chameleon · Makeda Silvera · ss (r)

21 · Stephanie’s Book · Mireille Best · ss (r)

35 · Final Judgment and Singing in the Desert · Cristina Peri Rossi · ss (r)

43 · Lemon Scent · Shani Mootoo · ss (r)

52 · Sappho or Suicide · Marguerite Yourcenar · ss (r)

63 · Looking for Petronilla · Emma Donoghue · ss (r)

76 · Certificate of Absence · Sylvia Molloy · ex (r)

85 · Gypsophila · Dale Gunthorp · ss (r)

102 · They Came at Dawn · Karen Williams · ss (r)

107 · Lesbian Bedrooms · Cynthia Price · ss (r)

109 · My World of the Unknown · Alifa Rifaat · ss (r)

127 · The Civil War, Sandalwood, Transl(iter)ation I, and Transl(iter)ation II (for Aruna and Giti) · Yasmin V. Tambiah · ss (r)

132 · Madame Alaird’s Breasts · Dionne Brand · ss (r)

139 · L’Asphyxie · Violette Leduc · ex (r)

158 · Red Azalea · Anchee Min · ex (r)

167 · Four Winds · Gerd Brantenberg · ex (r)

182 · The Same Sea as Every Summer · Esther Tusquets · ex (r)

193 · Lost Faces · Karen-Susan Fessel · ss (r)

198 · The Girl Typist Who Worked for a Provincial Ministry of Culture · Maria Eugenia Alegria Nunez · ss (r)

202 · Paretipua, Old Man Tuna, and Watching the Big Girls · Ngahuia Te Awekotuku · ss (r)

215 · Letters to Marina · Dacia Maraini · ex (r)

227 · Forever Lasts Only a Full Moon · Rosamaria Roffiel · ss (r)

235 · Lonely Adventure · Anna Blaman · ex (r)

244 · The Child Manuela · Christa Winsloe · ex (r)

255 · Waters · Achy Obejas · ss (r)

269 · Mauve Desert · Nicole Brossard · ex (r)

277 · Meeting Natalia · Gila Svirsky · ss (r)

285 · The Microcosm · Maureen Duffy · ex (r)

296 · Georgie · Jeanne d’Arc Jutras · ex (r)

300 · Under the Ironwood Trees · Suzana Tratnik · ss (r)

305 · Aphrodite’s Vision · Elena Georgiou · ss (r)

318 · In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country · Etel Adnan · ex (r)

328 · Minnie Gets Married · Gina Schein · ss (r)

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