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Words of the Witches ed. Yvonne Jocks (Berkley, August 6, 2002, 978-0-425-18497-4, $13.00, x+306pp, tp, oa)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. fc. · [front cover] · Edward Burne-Jones · cv (r); contains portions of “The Golden Stairs” (1880) and “Summer” (1869). ix · Introduction · Yvonne Jocks · in 1 · Anytown, U.S.A. · Maggie Shayne · nv 30 · A Spell to Promote Healing and Tolerance in Your Community · Maggie Shayne · ms 33 · Angel Web · Carol Lynn Stewart · nv 60 · Clearing and Grounding · Carol Lynn Stewart · ms 62 · A Reverence for Tress · Lorna Tedder · nv 87 · Lorna’s Calm and Sleep Inducer · Lorna Tedder · ms 88 · Psyche’s Tears · Charlotte Brisbon · nv 114 · Meg Bradley’s Purification Incense · Charlotte Brisbon · ms 116 · At Midnight in the Garden of the Gods · Pamela Luzier · ss 133 · I Am · Charlotte Brisbon · pm 135 · The Spelling Error · Jen Sokoloski · nv 166 · Pagan Family Values · Jen Sokoloski · ms 168 · Tambourine Moon · Zelena Winters · nv 194 · A Spell for Seeing Your Path of Destiny · Zelena Winters · ms 196 · The Letter · Celia Moon · nv 219 · A Magickal Housecleaning · Maggie Shayne · ms 222 · The Reluctant Psychic · Valerie Taylor · ss 239 · Mom’s Charm and Ritual · Valerie Taylor · ms 244 · A Solitary Path · Evelyn Vaughan · nv 279 · Star Trek Time-Travel Survival Spells · Evelyn Vaughan · ms 284 · The Iron Bride [Bast] · Rosemary Edghill · ss

The Best of Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine ed. Karl Johanson (Bundoran Press, November 2006, 978-0-9782052-0-1, C$18.99, 163pp, tp, an, cover: Bowls Full of Plants, Moons and Stars by Karl Johanson)     Details taken from publisher website. 7 · Foreword · Karl Johanson · fw 8 · All the Tea in China · Yvonne Pronovost · ss Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine #6, 2005 20 · Virtually Yours · Nina Munteanu · ss Hadrosaur Tales Volume Fifteen ed. David Lee Summers, Hadrosaur Productions, 2002 31 · Staphmeyer’s Mantra · Hank Quense · ss 48 · The Wind and the Sky · Suzanne Church · ss Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine #5, 2005 61 · Survival Strategies · Vaughan Stanger · ss Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine #6, 2005 76 · A Song for Morning · Hayden Trenholm · ss Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine #5, 2005 · The Smell of Dangerous Jasmine · Terry Bramlett · ss Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine #2, 2004 · Heaven Flower · C. L. Russo · ss · Stars Cry Too · Jim Gurley · ss · The Silver Connection · Frank C. Gunderloy, Jr. · nv Neo-Opsis Science Fiction Magazine #6, 2005

Jason X: Death Moon by Alex S. Johnson (Black Flame US, December 2005, 1-84416-273-7, $7.99, 414pp, pb, n.) [Friday the 13th]     Horror novelization based on the character from the movies. Copyrighted by New Line Cinema. This has the same ISBN as the simultaneous Black Flame UK edition, but only lists US and Canadian prices.

The Sorcerer’s Apprentice by Charles Johnson (Atheneum, January 1986, 0-689-11653-5, $9.95, 169pp, hc, co)     Collection of 8 stories, most with sf, fantasy & mythic elements. Most are written from a black perspective and in a black idiom. 1 · The Education of Mingo · Charles Johnson · nv Mother Jones August 1977 25 · Exchange Value · Charles Johnson · ss Choice 1981 41 · Menagerie, a Child’s Fable · Charles Johnson · ss Indiana Review Spring 1984 61 · China · Charles Johnson · nv MSS 1983 97 · Alethia · Charles Johnson · ss Antæus #34, Summer 1979 113 · Moving Pictures · Charles Johnson · ss New American Review September 1985 125 · Popper’s Disease · Charles Johnson · nv Callaloo February 1982 147 · The Sorcerer’s Apprentice · Charles Johnson · nv Callaloo February 1983

Best Little Magazine Fiction 1971 ed. Curt Johnson & Alvin Greeberg (New York University Press, 1971, hc, an)     Details supplied by Todd Mason. · Tales of Diego · John Houghton Allen · ss Southwest Review · The Quest Sonata · Luther Askeland · ss Minnesota Review · Still Life with Fruit · Doris Betts · ss Red Clay Reader #7, 1970 · Barbed Wire · Robert Canzoneri · ss The Southern Review Winter 1970 · A Night Out · Raymond Carver · ss December · The Invention of the Airplane · R. V. Cassill · ss Seneca Review · Dear Papa · Fielding Dawson · ss Lillabulero · Weeping · Sandra M. Gilbert · ss Epoch · Sole Surviving Son · Stephen Goodwin · ss Shenandoah · In Sherwood Forest · Erlene Hubly · ss Western Humanities Review · One of the Seas Is Called Tranquility · Bernard Kaplan · ss The Antioch Review · End of the World Chapter · Elia Katz · ss Chicago Review · Black Jesus · Peter Leach · ss Panache · No Trace · David Madden · nv The Southern Review Winter 1970 · Through the Looking Glass · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Malahat Review · As It Is Written · Filippa Rolf · ss Partisan Review · Closing with Nature · Norman Rush · nv Massachusetts Review 1970 · American Autumn · Peter Schneeman · ss New American Review · The Complicate Chimera: Jeremy & Greta · Kent Thompson · ss University of Windsor Review · A Woman’s Story · Marilyn Thompson · ss Seneca Review

Fen by Daisy Johnson (Vintage Digital, June 2, 2016, 978-1-4735-2364-7, £8.99, 208pp, ebook, oc)     Details taken from online listing. · Starver · Daisy Johnson · ss · Blood Rites · Daisy Johnson · ss · A Bruise the Size and Shape of a Door Handle · Daisy Johnson · ss · How to Lose It · Daisy Johnson · ss · How to Fuck a Man You Don’t Know · Daisy Johnson · ss · Language · Daisy Johnson · ss · The Superstition of Albatross · Daisy Johnson · ss · A Heavy Devotion · Daisy Johnson · ss · The Scattering: A Story in Three Parts · Daisy Johnson · nv · Birthing Stones · Daisy Johnson · ss · The Cull · Daisy Johnson · ss · The Lighthouse Keeper · Daisy Johnson · ss

Stories of Strange Happenings ed. Eleanor M. Johnson, Poldi Wittels & Barbara Nolen (American Education Publications, 1959, 128pp, hc, an)     Also contains 15 poems and a “Riddles” page. Heavily illustrated. 6 · The Haunted Skyscraper · Jane Flory · ss My Weekly Reader 12 · The Left-Over Hat · Charles Williams · ss My Weekly Reader 14 · The Secret Staircase · Melicent Humason Lee · ss My Weekly Reader 22 · The Fairy Boat · Eleanor Christensen · ss My Weekly Reader 26 · Katie Catches a Ghost · Katharine Koch · ss My Weekly Reader 33 · The Haunted Wreck · Le Grand · ss My Weekly Reader 40 · Fraidy Cat · Quail Hawkins · ss My Weekly Reader 44 · Helpful Henry · Florence Brumbaugh · ss My Weekly Reader 47 · Forest Killer · Paul Norton · ss My Weekly Reader 52 · Ice-Cold Lemonade · Earl Marvin Rush · ss My Weekly Reader 58 · Castaways in Space · Richard Elam · ss My Weekly Reader 65 · Last-Light Channel · Willis Lindquist · ss My Weekly Reader 73 · Little Chuck · Walter Bridgeman · ss My Weekly Reader 80 · Dog to Be Proud Of · Maud Beery · ss My Weekly Reader 83 · Leander the Lion · Mabel Leigh Hunt · ss My Weekly Reader 90 · King of the Range · Margaret Jamison · ss My Weekly Reader 96 · Zoo Blues · Helen J. Ramsay · ss My Weekly Reader 98 · A Pound of Pluck · Mark Hager · ss My Weekly Reader 102 · Scout for General Washington · Ivy Bolton · ss My Weekly Reader 107 · Valentine Verse · Ivy O. Eastwick · ss My Weekly Reader 108 · Lincoln’s Totem Pole · J. A. Rickard · ss My Weekly Reader 110 · Paul Revere Rides Again · Jack Bechdolt · ss My Weekly Reader 117 · The Witches’ Birthday Party · Frances Veirs · ss Story Parade 1952 121 · Christmas Went Smash · John Ullman · ss My Weekly Reader

Fantastic Tales of Terror ed. Eugene Johnson (Crystal Lake Publishing, October 26, 2018, 978-1-64467-968-5, $18.99, xiii+533pp, tp, oa, cover by Luke Spooner)     Subtitled “History’s Darkest Secrets” on the cover only. Details taken from online listing. xi · Introduction · Tony Todd · in 1 · The Deep Delight of Blood · Tim Waggoner · ss 19 · Unpretty Monster · Mercedes M. Yardley · ss 31 · The Tell-Tale Mind · Kevin J. Anderson · nv 53 · Topsy-Turvy · Elizabeth Massie · ss 69 · Ray and the Martian · Bev Vincent · ss 83 · The Girl with the Death Mask · Stephanie M. Wytovich · ss 93 · On a Train Bound for Home · Christopher Golden · nv Madness on the Orient Express ed. James Lowder, Chaosium, 2014, as “Bound for Home” 118 · The Custer Files · Richard Chizmar · nv 142 · Red Moon · Michael Paul Gonzalez · nv 173 · The Prince of Darkness and the Showgirl · John Palisano · ss 187 · The Secret Engravings · Lisa Morton · ss Danse Macabre: Close Encounters with the Reaper ed. Nancy Kilpatrick, Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2012 207 · Mutter · Jess Landry · nv 228 · La Llorona · Cullen Bunn · ss 242 · The London Encounter · Vince Liaguno · ss 259 · Bubba Ho-Tep · Joe R. Lansdale · nv The King Is Dead ed. Paul M. Sammon, Delta, 1994 313 · Gorilla My Dreams · Jonathan Maberry · ss 332 · Articles of Teleforce · Michael Bailey · nv 361 · Sic Olim Tyrannis · David Wellington · ss 375 · The Washingtonians · Bentley Little · nv Cemetery Dance #14, Fall 1992 396 · Scent of Flesh · Jessica Marie Baumgartner · nv 433 · Rotoscoping Toodies · Mort Castle · ss 451 · Lone Wolves · Paul Moore · nv 507 · The Great Stone Face vs. the Gargoyles · Jeff Strand · ss 519 · The Return of the Thin White Duke · Neil Gaiman · ss Trigger Warning—Short Fictions & Disturbances by Neil Gaiman, Headline, 2015 a small portion of this story first appeared in “V” Magazine, #29, Summer 2004.

All of Us Are Dying and Other Stories by George Clayton Johnson (Subterranean Press, August 1999, 1-892284-21-9, $40.00, 464pp, hc, co, cover by Burt Shonberg)     Collection of 23 stories, ten original, plus three screenplays, eight story treatments, pieces on writing for TV and film, and occasional commentary by Johnson. Introduction by Christopher Conlon; afterword by Dennis Etchison. This is a signed, limited edition of 600; a lettered edition is also available (-22-7, $195.00) containing a short pamphlet with an original story, “The Love Song of Bertha Gingrich”. 7 · Voice from the Twilight Zone: Encountering George Clayton Johnson—and Myself · Christopher Conlon · in 17 · Your Three Minutes Are Up · George Clayton Johnson · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine June 1989 23 · The Ring of Truth · George Clayton Johnson · ss MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 31 · Dealer’s Choice · George Clayton Johnson · ss Rogue November 1963 35 · The Freeway · George Clayton Johnson · ss Gamma #1, 1963 47 · Devlin’s Dream · George Clayton Johnson · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1977 51 · The Man with the Hoe · George Clayton Johnson · ss Cutting Edge ed. Dennis Etchison, Doubleday, 1986 62 · Lullaby and Goodnight · George Clayton Johnson · ss Gamma #5, September 1965 66 · The Cold at the End of the Pier · George Clayton Johnson · ss Chase May 1964 70 · Drum Dancer · George Clayton Johnson · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine May 1981 76 · The Hornet · George Clayton Johnson · ss Rogue September 1962 81 · A Bicycle Like a Flame · George Clayton Johnson · ss Connoisseur’s World July 1964 87 · All of Us Are Dying · George Clayton Johnson · ss Rogue October 1961 94 · A Note from the Underground · George Clayton Johnson · ss 97 · Interview Interlude: On Television Scripts · Christopher Conlon · iv [Ref. George Clayton Johnson] 99 · Writing for the Tube, or the Great Telephone Mindspace in the Sky · George Clayton Johnson · ar 110 · The Twilight Zone: Nothing in the Dark · George Clayton Johnson · pl Scripts and Stories Written for The Twilight Zone by George Clayton Johnson, Valcour & Kreuger/Shroud, 1977 broadcast on CBS television, January 5, 1962. 136 · The Law and Mr. Jones: The Boy Who Said No · George Clayton Johnson · pl 175 · Interview Interlude: On Television Story Outlines · Christopher Conlon · iv [Ref. George Clayton Johnson] 178 · TV Stories · George Clayton Johnson · ar 181 · The Creature’s Blood · George Clayton Johnson · pl 194 · Kung Fu: The Demon God · George Clayton Johnson · pl 203 · Twilight Zone: A Penny for Your Thoughts · George Clayton Johnson · pl Scripts and Stories Written for The Twilight Zone by George Clayton Johnson, Valcour & Kreuger/Shroud, 1977 211 · Movie of the Week: Man’s World · George Clayton Johnson · pl 222 · Twilight Zone: The Prime Mover · George Clayton Johnson · pl 232 · Sea Change · George Clayton Johnson · pl screenplay based on the short story of the same name (Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine, October 1981). 241 · Star Trek: Rock-a-Bye Baby—Or Die! [Star Trek] · George Clayton Johnson · pl 247 · Lovecraft: A Movie Proposal · George Clayton Johnson · ms 255 · Interview Interlude: On Screenwriting · Christopher Conlon · iv [Ref. George Clayton Johnson] 257 · The Gulfs of Space · George Clayton Johnson · pl 259 · The Edge of the World! · George Clayton Johnson · pl 369 · Interview Interlude: On New Stories · Christopher Conlon · iv [Ref. George Clayton Johnson] 371 · The Monstering Kind · George Clayton Johnson · ss Subterranean Gallery ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press, 1999 378 · The God (a novel fragment) · George Clayton Johnson · uw 386 · Thorndyke · George Clayton Johnson · ss 392 · The Birth · George Clayton Johnson · ss Gamma #3, 1964 396 · Fat Essie · George Clayton Johnson · ss 398 · The New Law · George Clayton Johnson · vi 399 · The Man Who Was Slugger Malone · George Clayton Johnson · ss California Sorcery ed. William F. Nolan & William Schafer, Cemetery Dance, 1999 405 · The Prevailing Westerlies · George Clayton Johnson · vi 407 · Clear Weather Is Coming · George Clayton Johnson · ss 411 · Every Other War · George Clayton Johnson · na 460 · Afterword · Dennis Etchison · aw · The Love Song of Bertha Gingrich · George Clayton Johnson · ss; in the lettered edition only.