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White Fire: Further Fantastic Literature ed. Alberto Manguel (Picador, April 12, 1991, 0-330-31380-0, £9.99, 941pp, tp, an, cover by George Tooker)     Reprint (Lester & Orpen Dennys 1990 as Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic) anthology of 65 stories and novel excerpts, primarily by literary and mainstream authors.

One Horn to Rule Them All: A Purple Unicorn Anthology ed. Lisa Mangum (WordFire Press, August 11, 2014, 978-1-61475-192-2, $15.99, 302pp, tp, oa, cover by James A. Owen)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Kevin J. Anderson · in 5 · Rhubarb and Beets · Todd J. McCaffrey · ss Shadows of the New Sun ed. J. E. Mooney & Bill Fawcett, Tor, 2013 13 · Purple Is the New Black · Jody Lynn Nye · ss 33 · A Single Spark · Mary Pletsch · ss 49 · Best of All Possible Worlds · John D. Payne · ss 61 · Korgak’s Daily Schedule · Jeanette Gonzalez · ss 67 · Dead Friends and New Horses · Sharon Dodge · ss 83 · The Godfairy · Quincy J. Allen · ss 103 · The Faerie Journal · Megan Grey · ss 119 · The Greggs Family Zoo of Odd and Marvelous Creatures · Kristin Luna · ss 137 · Menagerie Violette · Colette Black · ss 149 · The Unicorn Prince [The Nylean Chronicles] · Gama Ray Martinez · ss 161 · The Girl with the Artist’s Eyes · Nathan Barra · ss 181 · Conner Bright and the Case of the Purple Unicorn · Robert J. McCarter · ss 201 · My Hero · Mark Ryan · ss 219 · Of Unicorns and Pie · Nathan & Sharon Dodge · ss 229 · Gateway Blood · Ezekiel James Boston · ss 233 · The Monoceros · Lou J. Berger · ss 247 · The Last Dregs of Winter · Scott Eder · ss 263 · Professor Gottesman and the Indian Rhinoceros · Peter S. Beagle · nv Peter S. Beagle’s Immortal Unicorn ed. Peter S. Beagle, Janet Berliner & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1995 285 · Red Roses · Todd J. McCaffrey · ss

X Marks the Spot ed. Lisa Mangum (WordFire Press, January 17, 2020, 978-1-68057-112-7, $17.99, 362pp, tp, oa, cover by Tiffany Brazell)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · The Wish Shore · Kristen Bickerstaff · ss 19 · The Wreckers · Ken Hoover · ss 37 · Scourge · L. V. Bell · ss 53 · The Pirate’s Cat · Tracy Leonard Nakatani · ss 71 · Annie Spark and the Pirates of Port 1337 · David Cole · ss 89 · Tidying Magic · Linda Maye Adams · ss 101 · By Stars and Gears · Trisha J. Wooldridge · ss 117 · Porch Pirates of Pasadena · Amy Hughes · ss 135 · Sabbath · Jessica Guernsey · ss 149 · A Good Pirate’s Final Storm · Tanya Hales · ss 163 · Percival Bunnyrabbit and the Robot Wizard · John D. Payne · ss 181 · Plundering Lives · Lauren Lang · ss 199 · Time Comes for All Men · Melissa Koons · ss 215 · Life Pirate · Elmdea Adams · ss 225 · Pirated RPG · Jace Killan · ss 243 · Breath of the Cherubim · Clint Hall · ss 261 · Princess Yum Yum’s Challenge · Nancy DiMauro · nv 283 · Where We Will All Go · C. H. Hung · ss 301 · Silver Future · Mary Pletsch · ss 321 · Sea Wolves · Julie Frost · ss 335 · Harry the Ghost Pirate · Robert J. McCarter · ss

Baleful Beasts ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1974, 0-688-41573-3, 222pp, hc, an)     Great Supernatural Stories of the Animal Kingdom, illustrated by Emanuel Schongut. 13 · Introduction · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · in 15 · Phut Phat Concentrates · Lilian Jackson Braun · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1963 29 · The Boy Who Drew Cats · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Hasegawa, 1898 36 · Kerfol · Edith Wharton · nv Scribner’s Magazine March 1916 68 · The Horse of the Invisible [Thomas Carnacki] · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Idler April 1910 104 · The Terror of Blue John Gap · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine August 1910 129 · The Man and the Snake · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 29 1890 141 · The Tiger · Hugh Walpole · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1927 166 · Sealskin Trousers · Eric Linklater · ss The Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories by Eric Linklater, Hart-Davis, 1947 189 · The Story-Teller · Saki · ss The Morning Post, as by H. H. Munro 198 · Change of Heart · George Whitley · ss New Worlds Science Fiction #110, September 1961 219 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Bewitched Beings ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1974, 0-688-41657-8, $5.95, 224pp, hc, an)     Stories of phantoms, familiars and the possessed, illustrated by Emanuel Schongut. 11 · Introduction · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · in 13 · The Swap · H. F. Heard · nv The Great Fog and Other Weird Tales by H. F. Heard, Vanguard, 1944 37 · The Rabbit Prince · Davis Grubb · ss Woman’s Home Companion June 1949 54 · Swamp Girl · Prentiss Combs · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 11 1960 76 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv In a Glass Darkly by J. S. Le Fanu, R. Bentley & Son, 1872 revised from “The Watcher”, Dublin University Magazine, November 1847. 125 · The Black Lamb · Lady Jane Wilde · ar Ancient Legends, Mystic Charms & Superstitions of Ireland by Lady Jane Wilde, Ticknor & Co., 1887 129 · The Man Who Went Too Far · E. F. Benson · nv The Pall Mall Magazine June 1904 158 · The Vampire · Jan Neruda; translated by Sarka B. Hrbkova · ss Czechoslovak Stories ed. Sarka B. Hrbkova, Duffield & Co., 1920 translated from the Czech (“Vampyr”, Různé lidé, 1871). 165 · The Compensation House · Charles Allston Collins · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 3 Branch Line. The Compensation House” 188 · The Witch Hare · Mr. S. C. & Mrs. S. C. Hall · ss (r) 192 · Lost Hearts · M. R. James · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1895 207 · The Ghost of Fear · H. G. Wells · nv The Idler March 1896, as “The Red Room” 221 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Christmas Ghosts ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Doubleday, 1978, xii+227pp, hc, an)     Eleven seasonal ghost stories. xi · Introduction · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · in 1 · The Prescription · Marjorie Bowen · ss The London Magazine January 1929 26 · On Christmas Day in the Morning [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Evening Standard December 23 1950 40 · Thirteen at Table · Lord Dunsany · ss Tamworth Herald January 4 1913 53 · Wolverden Tower · Grant Allen · nv The Illustrated London News November 23 1896 93 · Tarnhelm · Hugh Walpole · ss Liberty December 28 1929 116 · A Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall, December 19 1843; version abridged by Dickens for his public readings. 160 · Transition · Algernon Blackwood · ss The New Witness December 11 1913, as “Mudbury’s Xmas Adventure” 169 · The Ether-Hogs · Oliver Onions · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 181 · Christmas Eve in the Blue Chamber · Jerome K. Jerome · ss Told After Supper by Jerome K. Jerome, Leadenhall Press, 1891 192 · The White Road · E. F. Bozman · ss Ghost Stories ed. John Hampden, Everyman, 1939 207 · The Necklace of Pearls [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Radio Times December 18 1931 223 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Fun Phantoms: Tales of Ghostly Entertainment ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1979, 0-688-41877-5, $7.95, 186pp, hc, an) 13 · Foreword · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · fw 14 · My Displaced Ghosts · John West · ss A Red Skeleton in Your Closet ed. Red Skelton, Grosset & Dunlap, 1965 34 · The Haunted Mill: or, The Ruined Home · Jerome K. Jerome · ss The Wave February 21 1891 40 · The Water Ghost · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891 50 · The Dog Got Them · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977 62 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review February 23 1887 (+1) 100 · The Night the Ghost Got In · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker August 12 1933 108 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 122 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 128 · The Transferred Ghost · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine May 1882 144 · The Ghost-Extinguisher · Gelett Burgess · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1905 158 · To Starch a Spook · Andrew Benedict · ss A Red Skeleton in Your Closet ed. Red Skelton, Grosset & Dunlap, 1965 178 · The Mortal · Oliver Onions · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 183 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

A Gathering of Ghosts ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Funk & Wagnalls, 1970, 217pp, hc, an)     12 ghost stories plus a grouping of ghostly verse. 11 · Preface · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · pr 21 · The Panelled Room · August Derleth · ss Westminster Magazine September 1933 35 · The Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902, as “The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost” 51 · The Lamp · Agatha Christie · ss 1924 63 · Cool Air · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Tales of Magic and Mystery March 1928 75 · The Haunted House · Pliny the Younger · ss Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories: French: Italian: Spanish: Latin ed. Julian Hawthorne, The Review of Reviews, 1907, as “Letter to Sura” translated from the Latin (as a letter to Sura, 2nd century AD). 81 · Quite Immaterial · Alexander Woollcott · ar 1943 essay incorporating several anecdotal stories. 89 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828 107 · The Ghost’s Song · [uncredited] · pm (r) 107 · Dibdin’s Ghost · Eugene Field · pm (r) 109 · Haunted Houses · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm (r) 111 · The Phantom-Wooer · Thomas Lovell Beddoes · pm from Death’s Jest-Book, William Pickering, 1850 112 · The Only Ghost I Ever Saw · Emily Dickinson · pm Poems by Emily Dickinson: Second Series by Emily Dickinson, Roberts Brothers, 1891 112 · To an Importunate Ghost · James Whitcomb Riley · pm (r) 113 · As If a Phantom Caress’d Me · Walt Whitman · pm (r) 113 · The Composite Ghost · Marion Couthouy Smith · pm (r) 121 · The Dream · Lucius Apuleius · ex from The Golden Ass, ca. 160 129 · The Screaming Skull · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s July 11 1908 (+1) 163 · Ghost of Hamlet’s Father (from Hamlet) · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623 175 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914 written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length. 191 · The Transferred Ghost · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine May 1882 207 · Ghosts in Literature · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · ar (r) 213 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Ghostly Gentlewomen: Two Centuries of Spectral Stories by the Gentle Sex ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1977, 0-688-41782-5, 237pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · in 10 · Mr. Edward · Norah Lofts · ss At Close of Eve ed. Jeremy Scott, Jarrolds, 1947 32 · Kentucky’s Ghost · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1868, uncredited. 49 · Faithful Jenny Dove · Eleanor Farjeon · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine October 1924 71 · The Queen’s Twin · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1899 95 · The Coach · Violet Hunt · ss The English Review March 1909 119 · Christmas Meeting · Rosemary Timperley · vi Truth 1952 125 · New England Tavern Ghosts · Alice Morse Earle · ar In Old Narragansett by Alice Morse Earle, Charles Scribner's Sons, 1898 135 · Mr. Tallent’s Ghost · Mary Webb · ss The Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1926 152 · The Shadow in the Moonlight · Mrs. Molesworth · nv Uncanny Tales by Mary Louisa Molesworth, Hutchinson, 1896 203 · Mommy · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales April 1939 217 · The Dutch Officer’s Story · Catherine Crowe · ss Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858 230 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921

Grande Dames of Detection ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Lothrop Lee & Shepard, 1973, 0-688-41551-2, $5.95, 220pp, hc, an)     Two Centuries of Sleuthing Stories by the Gentle Sex. 11 · Introduction · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · in 14 · The Dublin Mystery [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1902 33 · Christabel’s Crystal · Carolyn Wells · ss Sunday Record-Herald October 15 1905 50 · The Plymouth Express [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch April 4 1923, as “The Mystery of the Plymouth Express” 69 · The Learned Adventure of the Dragon’s Head [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Pearson’s Magazine June 1926, as “The Dragon’s Head” 96 · Family Affair [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1960 111 · A Memorable Murder · Celia Thaxter · nv (r) 141 · Death on the Air [Roderick Alleyn] · Ngaio Marsh & A. Drummond Sharpe · nv The Grand Magazine February 1937; given as by Ngaio Marsh alone. 177 · A Midsummer Night’s Crime [Miss Phipps] · Phyllis Bentley · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1961 213 · Finger-Prints Can’t Lie · Evelyn Johnson & Gretta Palmer · ss Murder by Evelyn Johnson & Gretta Palmer, Covici Friede, 1928

The Haunted Dolls ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Doubleday, 1980, 0-385-15363-5, $10.95, 318pp, hc, an) ix · Introduction · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · in 1 · The Dressmaker’s Doll · Agatha Christie · ss Woman’s Journal December 1958 31 · The Peg-Doll · Rosemary Timperley · ss The Twelfth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1971 42 · The Haunted Dolls’ House · M. R. James · ss The Empire Review February 1923; written to fill a miniature book in the library of Queen Mary’s doll house. 63 · The Doll · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Doll, and One Other by Algernon Blackwood, Arkham House, 1946 111 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ex from Novel Notes, Leadenhall Press, 1893 131 · The Grey Lady · Mary Danby · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 152 · The Steadfast Tin Soldier · Hans Christian Andersen · ss 1838 translated from the Danish (“Den standhaftige tinsoldat”, Eventyr, Fortalte for Børn. Ny Samling. Første Hefte, C.A. Reitzel, 1838). 161 · The Dolls’ Ball · [uncredited] · ss Leslie’s Christmas 173 · Feathertop · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The International Magazine February 1852 (+1) 205 · The Doll · Terry Tapp · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 228 · “The Life of Aunt Sally, Alias Blackmore, Alias Rosabella, Alias Amelia, as Related by Herself” · [uncredited] · nv Aunt Judy’s Letters by Mrs. Alfred Gatty, Bell and Daldy, 1862, as “Aunt Sally’s Life” by Mrs. Alfred Gatty 268 · The Puppets · J. H. Pearce · ss (r) 276 · The Christmas of the Big Bisque Doll · Seon Manley · ss 292 · The Doll’s Ghost · F. Marion Crawford · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1896 315 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Ladies of Fantasy: Two Centuries of Sinister Stories by the Gentle Sex ed. Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis (Lothrop, Lee & Shepard, 1975, 0-688-41681-0, 214pp, hc, an) 1 · Introduction · Seon Manley & Gogo Lewis · in 3 · The Pavilion · Edith Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine November 1915 26 · Searching for Summer · Joan Aiken · ss Argosy (UK) September 1958 39 · The Unwanted · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales January 1951 58 · The Muted Horn · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Fantastic Universe May 1957 76 · The Sorcerer · Grazia Deledda (translated) · ss Tales from the Italian and Spanish, Vol. III, Stories of Humor and Adventure, The Review of Reviews, 1920 translated from the Italian (“Il mago”, La Tribuna illustrata June 28th, 1891). 85 · The Ensouled Violin · Helena P. Blavatsky · nv Nightmare Tales by Helena P. Blavatsky, Theosophical Publishing House, 1892 121 · The Red Wagon · Jane Roberts · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1956 134 · The Tilting Island · Thomas J. Vivian & Grena J. Bennett · ss Everybody’s Magazine September 1909; given as by Grena J. Bennett alone. 153 · Doorway Into Time · C. L. Moore · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries September 1943 179 · No Ships Pass · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Story-teller May 1932 211 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg