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Scotland the Strange: Weird Tales from Storied Lands ed. Johnny Mains (British Library Publishing, November 2, 2023, 978-0-7123-5454-7, £16.99, 304pp, hc, an) [British Library Hardback Classics]     Details taken from Table of Contents. vii · Introduction · Johnny Mains · in xi · A Note from the Publisher · [uncredited] · ms 1 · The Hunt of Eildon · James Hogg · nv The Brownie of Bodsbeck by James Hogg, Wm. Blackwood, 1818 55 · The Murder Hole · Catherine Sinclair · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1829, uncredited. 65 · The Doom of Soulis · John Mackay Wilson · ss Tales of the Borders 1834 · The Seven Lights · John Mackay Wilson · ss Tales of the Borders 1834 93 · The Devil of Glenluce · Eliza Lynn Linton · ss Witch Stories by Elizabeth Lynn Linton, Chapman & Hall, 1861 105 · The Cavern of Steenfoll: A Scottish Legend · Wilhelm Hauff; translated by S. Mendel · ss Tales by Wilhelm Hauff by Wilhelm Hauff, tr. S. Mendel, George Bell & Sons, 1886 translated from the German (“Die Höhle von Steenfoll: Eine schottländische Sage”, 1827). 121 · Ticonderoga · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1887 135 · “Death to the Head That Wears No Hair!” · David Grant · ss Scotch Stories by David Grant, E.& S. Livingstone, 1888 145 · The Ghosts of Craig-Aulnaic · [uncredited] · ss Folk-Lore and Legends: Scotland, W. W. Gibbings, 1889 153 · The Stag-Haunted Stream · Mrs. Campbell of Dunstaffnage · ss Waifs and Strays of Celtic Tradition ed. Lord Archibald Campbell, David Nutt, 1889 157 · The Two Sisters and the Curse · translated by Rev. John Gregorson Campbell · ss Clan Traditions and Popular Tales of the Western Highlands and Islands by Rev. John Gregorson Campbell, David Nutt, 1895 165 · The Outgoing of the Tide · John Buchan · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1902 187 · Assipattle and the Mester Stoorworm · Elizabeth W. Grierson · ss Scottish Fairy Book by Elizabeth W. Grierson, T. Fisher Unwin, 1910 205 · Black-Haired John of Lewis, Sailor · translated by Rev. James MacDougall · ss Folk Tales and Fairy Lore by Rev. James MacDougall, John Grant, 1910 217 · The Moor · Neil M. Gunn · ss Hidden Doors by Neil M. Gunn, Porpoise, 1929 231 · Good Bairns · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss Thou Shalt Not Suffer a Witch by Dorothy K. Haynes, Methuen, 1949 243 · The Lass with the Delicate Air · Eileen Bigland · ss The Second Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1952 261 · The Inheritance · Simon Pilkington · ss Tandem Horror 2 ed. Richard Davis, Tandem, 1968 283 · The Curse of Mathair Nan Uisgeachan · Angus Wolfe Murray · nv Prevailing Spirits ed. Giles Gordon, Hamish Hamilton, 1976

The Screaming Book of Horror ed. Johnny Mains (Screaming Dreams, October 2012, 978-1-906652-15-9, £20.00, 336pp, hc, oa, cover by Steve Upham)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Johnny Mains · in 5 · Christenings Can Be Dangerous · John Llewellyn Probert · ss 17 · Larva · John Brunner · nv 39 · The Swarm · Alison Littlewood · ss 51 · Natural Selection · Robin Ince · ss 57 · One of the Family · Bernard Taylor · ss 77 · “Cut!” · Anna Taborska · ss 93 · The Christmas Toys · Paul Finch · ss 113 · The Quixote Candidate · Rhys Hughes · ss 129 · Helping Mummy · Kate Farrell · ss 139 · The City of Plenty · Alex Miles · ss Glory and Splendour by Alex Miles, Karōshi Books, 2012 149 · The Iron Cross · Craig Herbertson · nv 173 · Sometimes You Think You Are Alone · Alison Moore · ss 179 · Bird Doll · Claire Massey · ss 187 · What Shall We Do About Barker? · Reginald Oliver · ss 205 · Old Grudge Ender · David A. Riley · nv 227 · Jack and Jill · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 233 · The Blackshore Dreamer [Dr. Caspian and Bronwen] · John Burke · nv 263 · Imagination · Christopher Fowler · nv 285 · The Baby Trap · Janine-Langley Wood · ss 295 · The Tip Run · Johnny Mains · ss Frightfully Cosy and Mild Stories for Nervous Types by Johnny Mains, Shadow Publishing, 2012 301 · Dementia · Charlie Higson · ss

The Rushdie File ed. Sara Maitland & Lisa Appignanesi--- see under Lisa Appignanesi.

Calling the Wind ed. Clarence Major (HarperPerennial, 1993, 0-06-018337-3, $30.00, 622pp, hc, an)     Twentieth-Century African-American Short Stories. Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. xiii · Introduction · Clarence Major · in 1 · The Goophered Grapevine · Charles Chesnutt · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1887 12 · The Ingrate · Paul Laurence Dunbar · ss The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Dodd, Mead & Co., 1900 18 · Mary Elizabeth · Jessie Fauset · ss The Crisis December 1919 25 · Esther · Jean Toomer · ss Modern Review January 1923 30 · The Hands: A Story · Marita Bonner · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #32, August 1925 34 · Sanctuary · Nella Larsen · ss The Forum January 1930 39 · Truant · Claude McKay · ss 1932 50 · A Summer Tragedy · Arna Bontemps · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life 1931 58 · Miss Cynthie · Rudolph Fisher · ss Story #13, June 1933 69 · The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story #14, August 1933 79 · Headwaiter · Chester Himes · ss Opportunity March 1939, as “Salute to the Passing” 94 · Bright and Morning Star · Richard Wright · nv New Masses May 10 1938 123 · Jack in the Pot · Dorothy West · ss New York Daily News 1940 135 · Flying Home · Ralph Ellison · ss Cross Section 1944 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1944 151 · Who’s Passing for Who? · Langston Hughes · ss Laughing to Keep from Crying by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1952 155 · The Only Man on Liberty Street · William Melvin Kelley · ss 1956 163 · Come Out of the Wilderness · James Baldwin · ss Mademoiselle March 1959 182 · Has Anybody Seen Miss Dora Dean? · Ann Petry · ss The New Yorker October 25 1958 196 · Mother Dear and Daddy · Junius Edwards · ss 1962 205 · Blues for Pablo · John Stewart · ss 1962 220 · Son in the Afternoon · John A. Williams · ss The Angry Black ed. John A. Williams, Lancer, 1962 226 · What’s Your Problem? · Robert Boles · ss The New Yorker October 17 1964 232 · The Distributors · Henry Dumas · ss 1964 242 · Wade · Rosa Guy · ss from Bird at My Window, J.B. Lippincott, 1966 251 · Key to the City · Diane Oliver · ss Red Clay Reader #2, 1965 261 · The Alternative · LeRoi Jones · ss Transatlantic Review #18, Spring 1965; given as by LeRoi Jones & Amiri Baraka. 275 · To Da-Duh, in Memoriam · Paule Marshall · ss 1967 284 · A New Day · Charles Wright · ss The Best Short Stories by Negro Writers ed. Langston Hughes, Little, Brown, 1967 289 · Night and the Loves of Joe Dicostanzo · Samuel R. Delany · ss Alchemy and Academe ed. Anne McCaffrey, Doubleday, 1970 305 · The Lookout · Cyrus Colter · ss The University of Kansas City Review 1961 311 · A Long Day in November · Ernest J. Gaines · nv Story Summer 1964 348 · The Lesson · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Redbook January 1973 355 · The Story of a Scar · James Alan McPherson · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1973 366 · Soldiers · Ellease Southerland · vi Black World June 1973 370 · Roselily · Alice Walker · ss In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 374 · White Rat · Gayl Jones · ss White Rat by Gayl Jones, Random House, 1977 381 · Loimos · Edgar Nkose White · ss The Liberator v9 #12, 389 · The Education of Mingo · Charles Johnson · nv Mother Jones August 1977 399 · Scat · Clarence Major · ss 1979 405 · Now Is the Time · Cecil M. Brown · ss Black Scholar v12, 1981 421 · Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, Avon, 1981 428 · Kiswana Browne · Gloria Naylor · ex from The Women of Brewster Place, Viking, 1982 438 · “Recitatif” · Toni Morrison · ss Confirmation ed. Amiri & Amina Baraka, Morrow, 1983 454 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978 456 · Chitterling · Henry Van Dyke · ss The Available Press/PEN Short Story Collection, Ballantine, 1985 466 · Jesus and Fat Tuesday · Colleen J. McElroy · ss 1987 480 · The World of Rosie Polk · Ann Allen Shockley · ss Black American Literature Forum 1987 498 · Mali Is Very Dangerous · Reginald McKnight · ss Massachusetts Review Summer 1986 508 · Her Mother’s Prayers on Fire · Don Belton · ss Black American Literature Forum Summer 1989 517 · Wings of the Dove · Hal Bennett · ss Black American Literature Forum Summer 1989 524 · Zazoo · Larry Duplechan · ss Black American Literature Forum Summer 1989 534 · Guess Who’s Coming to Seder · Trey Ellis · ss Black American Literature Forum Summer 1989 539 · Top of the Game · John McCluskey, Jr. · ss Black American Literature Forum Summer 1989 552 · Going to Meet Aaron · Richard Perry · ss 1989 558 · Willie Bea and Jaybird · Tina McElroy Ansa · ss Callaloo Winter 1991 566 · Screen Memory · Michelle Cliff · ss Bodies of Water by Michelle Cliff, Dutton, 1990 578 · Age Would Be That Does · Percival Everett · ss Callaloo v13, 1990 584 · Going for the Moon · Al Young · ss A Gathering of Flowers by Joyce Carol Thomas, HarperCollins, 1990 597 · Quilting on the Rebound · Terry McMillan · ss Voices Louder Than Words ed. William Shore, Random House, 1991

Where the Stars Rise ed. Derwin Mak & Lucas K. Law--- see under Lucas K. Law.

Dead in the Water ed. Violette Malan & Therese Greenwood (RendezVous Press, April 2006, 1-894917-37-5, $14.95, 312pp, tp, oa)     An Anthology of Canadian Mystery Fiction. 1 · Foreword · Linwood Barclay · fw 5 · Dead in the Water · Dennis Richard Murphy · ss 19 · Voices from the Deep · Barbara Fradkin · ss 36 · The Will of God · H. Mel Malton · ss 48 · Fish or Cut Bait · Pat Wilson & Kris Wood · ss 58 · Alone with the Dead at Kakabeka Falls · Jason S. Ridler · ss 73 · Under the Star Spangled Roger [Acting Sergeant Maynard Bullock] · James Powell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1984, as “Under the Spangled Roger” 100 · High Seas · Vicki Cameron · ss 117 · Bow Tide · Jayne Barnard · ss 135 · Lake Whisper · Steven Price · ss 147 · Undercurrents · Bev Panasky · ss 163 · Boom Time at Buffalo Pound · Violette Malan · ss 178 · Don’t Make Waves · Pat Withrow · ss 189 · The Vengeful Spirit of Lake Nepeakea [Victory “Vicki” Nelson] · Tanya Huff · nv What Ho, Magic! by Tanya Huff, Meisha Merlin, 1999 231 · Current Event · Mavis Andrews · ss 248 · A Lifetime Burning in a Moment · Rick Mofina · ss 266 · Tit for Tat · Victoria Maffini · ss 278 · Egyptian Queen · Joanna C. Szasz · ss 294 · River Rage · Joan Boswell · ss 303 · Dr. Spankie’s Car · Therese Greenwood · ss

Amok: An Anthology of Asia-Pacific Speculative Fiction ed. Dominica Malcolm (Solarwyrm Press, April 30, 2014, 978-0-9805084-4-4, 252pp, tp, oa, cover by Jun Hun Yap)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Dominica Malcolm · in 9 · The Donor · Brett Adams · ss 24 · Moon Rabbit · Jo Wu · ss 36 · Operation Toba 2049 · Kris Williamson · ss 42 · Target: Heart · Recle Etino Vibal · ss 54 · Dreams · Tabitha Sin · ss 59 · Bumbye! Said the Candelarios · Aila Hopkins · ss 69 · Kitsune · K. Z. Morano · ss 72 · The Volunteer · T. R. Napper · ss 90 · Bright Student · Terence Toh · nv 113 · No Name Islands · Kawika Guillermo · ss 117 · The Dead of the Night · Barry Rosenberg · ss 128 · Yamada’s Armada · Eeleen Lee · ss 139 · Love and Statues · Jax Goss · ss 143 · Gone Fishing · Jo Thomas · ss 155 · Shadows of an Ancient Battle · Daniel A. Kelin, II · ss 159 · In Memoriam · Fadzlishah Johanabas · ss 175 · Lola’s Lessons · Shenoa Carroll-Bradd · ss 181 · When the Rice Was Gone · Dominica Malcolm · ss 196 · The Healer · Aashika Nair · ss 202 · Caves of Noble Truth and Dangerous Knowledge · Celeste A. Peters · ss 209 · The Seventh Month · Agnes Ong · ss 219 · And Then It Rained · Rebecca Freeman · ss 228 · Where the Fireflies Go · N. J. Magas · ss 239 · The King of Flotsamland · Tom Barlow · ss

Nine Ghosts by R. H. Malden (Ash-Tree Press, December 15, 1995, 1-899562-07-9, £17.50, xiv+120pp, hc, co, cover by Rachel A. Crittenden)     Reprint (Edward Arnold 1943) collection of ghost stories, with a new Introduction by David Rowlands. Limited to 300 numbered copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $29.00. ix · Introduction · David Rowlands · in 5 · A Collector’s Company · R. H. Malden · ss 17 · The Dining-room Fireplace · R. H. Malden · ss 29 · Stivinghoe Bank · R. H. Malden · ss 41 · The Sundial · R. H. Malden · ss Leeds Parish Church Magazine December 1930 52 · Between Sunset and Moonrise · R. H. Malden · ss 63 · The Blank Leaves · R. H. Malden · ss 78 · The Thirteenth Tree · R. H. Malden · ss 92 · The Coxswain of the Lifeboat · R. H. Malden · ss 105 · The Priest’s Brass · R. H. Malden · ss

Mystery Writers’ Choice ed. Arthur Maling--- see under When Last Seen ed. Arthur Maling, Harper & Row, 1977.

When Last Seen ed. Arthur Maling (Harper & Row, 1977, 0-06-012848-8, $10.95, 337pp, hc, an)     A Mystery Writers of America Anthology. Also available in the U.K. (Gollancz 1978 as Mystery Writers’ Choice). ix · Introduction · Arthur Maling · in 1 · Gone Girl [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Manhunt February 1953, as “The Imaginary Blonde” by John Ross Macdonald 37 · The Crime of Ezechiele Coen · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1963 65 · That Monday Night · Pauline C. Smith · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1971 93 · The Three Halves [Daniel Kearny Associates] · Joseph N. Gores · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1968, as “The Pedretti Case” 111 · Back in Five Years [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull December 18 1948 123 · The Vanishing of Velma [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1969 145 · The Perfectionist · Gerald Tomlinson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1974 157 · The Girl Who Found Things · Henry Slesar · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1973 185 · Born Killer · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #120, November 1953 203 · Putting the Pieces Back · Bill Pronzini · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1976 211 · The Philippine Key Mystery [Martin Leroy & King Danforth] · James Holding · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1968 229 · The Lost Heir [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1974 249 · Nadigo · Stanley Cohen · ss Mystery Monthly September 1976 269 · The Dog Incident · Patrick O’Keeffe · ss 279 · The Blue Door · Vincent Starrett · na Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories August 1927, as by Edgar Savage 335 · All the Way Home · Dan J. Marlowe · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1965, as by Jaime Sandaval