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Heiresses of Russ 2014: The Year’s Best Lesbian Speculative Fiction ed. Melissa Scott & Steve Berman (Lethe Press, July 2014, 978-1-59021-293-6, $20.00, xi+284pp, tp, an, cover by Niki Smith)
Year’s best anthology of 18 lesbian speculative fiction stories from 2013. This is the fourth volume in the series. Introduction by Melissa Scott. Authors include Tansy Rayner Roberts, Cat Rambo, and Benjanun Sriduangkaew.
Details taken from Table of Contents.

ix · Introduction · Melissa Scott · in

1 · The Gold Mask’s Menagerie · Chanté McCoy · ss Sidekicks! ed. Sarah Hans, Alliteration Ink, 2013

13 · Counting Down the Seconds · Lexy Wealleans · ss Counting Down the Seconds…, Freya Publications, 2013

25 · The Other Bridge · Alex Jeffers · ss Sentence & Paragraph August 28 2013

41 · Love Over Glass, Skin Under Glass · Penny Stirling · ss Aurealis #64, September 2013

53 · Hungry · Robert E. Stutts · vi Daily Science Fiction February 4 2013

57 · Liquid Loyalty · Redfern Jon Barrett · ss The Future Fire #26, 2013

71 · Her Infinite Variety · Sacchi Green · ss The Mystical Cat ed. Dusty Rainbolt, Sky Warrior Book Publishing, 2013, as by Connie Wilkins

87 · The Coffinmaker’s Love · Alberto Yáñez · nv Beneath Ceaseless Skies #131, October 3 2013

113 · Terminal City · Zoë Blade · nv The Future Fire #28, 2013

143 · The Bride in Furs · Layla Lawlor · ss Plunge Magazine #2, 2013

151 · Your Figure Will Assume Beautiful Outlines · Claire Humphrey · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #135, November 28 2013

167 · Blood, Stone, Water · A. J. Fitzwater · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #118, April 4 2013

187 · Vector · Benjanun Sriduangkaew · ss We See a Different Frontier: A Postcolonial Speculative Fiction Anthology ed. F^a'bio Fernandes & Djibril al-Ayad, Futurefire, 2013

199 · Of Selkies, Disco Balls, and Anna Plane · Cat Rambo · ss Glitter & Mayhem ed. John Klima, Lynne M. Thomas & Michael Damian Thomas, Apex Publications, 2013

215 · Selected Program Notes from the Retrospective Exhibition of Theresa Rosenberg Latimer · Kenneth Schneyer · ss Clockwork Phoenix 4 ed. Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium Books, 2013

227 · Difference of Opinion · Meda Kahn · ss Strange Horizons September 9 2013

243 · Boat in Shadows, Crossing · Tori Truslow · nv Beneath Ceaseless Skies #113, January 24 2013

273 · The Raven and Her Victory · Tansy Rayner Roberts · ss Where Thy Dark Eye Glances ed. Steve Berman, Lethe Press, 2013

The Supernatural Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott by Sir Walter Scott (Riverrun/Calder, October 1986, 0-7145-4086-2, $8.95, 217pp, tp, co) [edited by Michael Hayes]
Reprint (Calder 1977) collection of ghost stories edited by Michael Hayes.

9 · Introduction · Michael Hayes · in

13 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828

33 · My Aunt Margaret’s Mirror · Sir Walter Scott · nv The Keepsake 1829, 1828, as by The Author of “Waverley”

75 · Wandering Willie’s Tale · Sir Walter Scott · ex from Redgauntlet, Constable, 1824

99 · The Two Drovers · Sir Walter Scott · nv Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, Cadell & Co., 1827

133 · The Highland Widow · Sir Walter Scott · na Chronicles of the Canongate by Sir Walter Scott, Cadell & Co., 1827

213 · Glossary to Wandering Willie’s Tale · [uncredited] · ms (r)

The Best American Mystery Stories 2013 ed. Lisa Scottoline (Mariner, October 8, 2013, 978-0-544-03460-0, xvii+424pp, tp, an)

ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw

xiii · Introduction · Lisa Scottoline · in

1 · Smothered and Covered · Tom Barlow · ss Needle Winter 2012

14 · A Fine Mist of Blood [Hieronymous “Harry” Bosch] · Michael Connelly · ss Mystery Writers of America Presents Vengeance ed. Lee Child, Mulholland Books, 2012

29 · Misprision of Felony [Joseph Savary] · O’Neil De Noux · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 2012

46 · The Sailor in the Picture · Eileen Dreyer · ss Crime Square ed. Robert J. Randisi, Vantage Press, 2012

61 · The Devil to Pay · David Edgerley Gates · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 2012

91 · The Street Ends at the Cemetery · Clark Howard · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 2012

126 · Crossing · Andre Kocsis · nv The New Orphic Review Spring 2012

158 · Remora, IL · Kevin Leahy · ss The Briar Cliff Review v24, 2012

172 · The Shiny Car in the Night · Nick Mamatas · ss Long Island Noir ed. Kaylie Jones, Akashic Books, 2012

180 · Drifter · Emily St. John Mandel · ss Venice Noir ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Akashic Books, 2012

194 · The Ring of Kerry · Dennis McFadden · ss New England Review v33 #2, 2012

211 · Quarry · Micah Nathan · ss Glimmer Train #82, Spring 2012

225 · So Near, Any Time Always · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2012

263 · Light Bulb · Nancy Pickard · ss Kansas City Noir ed. Steve Paul, Akashic Books, 2012

277 · Gunpowder Alley [John Quincannon & Sabina Carpenter] · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 2012

300 · The Indian · Randall Silvis · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2012

350 · When They Are Done with Us · Patricia Smith · ss Staten Island Noir ed. Patricia Smith, Akashic Books, 2012

366 · The Don’s Cinnamon · Ben Stroud · ss The Antioch Review Summer 2012

381 · Bullet Number Two · Hannah Tinti · ss Tin House Autumn 2012

392 · Bound · Maurine Watkins · ss The Strand Magazine #36, February/May 2012

409 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

423 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2012 · [uncredited] · bi

Shiela Crerar, Psychic Investigator by Ella Scrymsour (Ash-Tree Press, June 2, 2006, 978-1-55310-089-8, C$48.00, xxxvi+98pp, hc, co, cover by Jason Van Hollander)
This is a limited edition of 500. A world-wide edition available in the US for $44.00 and in the UK for £26.00.
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

ix · Introduction · Jack Adrian · in

3 · The Eyes of Doom [Shiela Crerar] · Ella Scrymsour · ss The Blue Magazine #11, May 1920

19 · The Death Vapour [Shiela Crerar] · Ella Scrymsour · ss The Blue Magazine #12, June 1920

35 · The Room of Fear [Shiela Crerar] · Ella Scrymsour · ss The Blue Magazine #13, July 1920

49 · The Phantom Isle [Shiela Crerar] · Ella Scrymsour · ss The Blue Magazine #14, August 1920

63 · The Werewolf of Rannoch [Shiela Crerar] · Ella Scrymsour · ss The Blue Magazine #15, September 1920

77 · The Wraith of Fergus McGinty [Shiela Crerar] · Ella Scrymsour · ss The Blue Magazine #16, October 1920

Dreamscapes Into Darkness ed. Alex Scully (Firbolg Publishing, April 24, 2015, 978-1-5076-3774-6, $12.99, 390pp, tp, oa)
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · Daniel Knauf · in

· Incubus · Tanya Jarvik · ss

· Bad Things Happen · Nathaniel Lee · ss

· What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited.

· First Horse · Rob Smales · ss

· End of the Road · J. G. Faherty · ss

· His Wife’s Deceased Sister · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine January 1884

· The Story of Alfred Maus · David G. Robertson · ss

· The Interlopers · Saki · ss The Bystander January 17 1912

· Property Condemned [Pine Deep] · Jonathan Maberry · ss Nightmare #1, October 2012; subtitled “A Story of Deep Pine”.
previously available as an audio download from Blackstone Audio, August 29, 2012.

· The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X

· No Man’s Land · Nancy Hayden · ss

· The Bondage of Self · Holly Newstein · ss

· That Other Place · Patrick Lacey · ss

· The Looking Glass · J. D. Beresford · nv The Cornhill Magazine August 1921

· Lead Us Not Into Temptation · Joe Powers · ss

· The Weathermaker · K. Trap Jones · ss

· The Rocking Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926

· One More · Gregory L. Norris · ss

· The Morgue · Aaron Gudmunson · ss

· The New Catacombs · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Sunlight Year Book 1898, as “Burger’s Secret”

· Graveyard · Lawrence Buentello · ss

· The Mortal Immortal · Mary Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1834, 1833

· Shelley Unbound · Bo Balder · ss

· The Son Who Shattered His Father’s Dream · B. E. Scully · ss

· Heart of Stone · Roxanne Dent · ss

· Yellow Bullet · Joe Sherry · ss

· The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926

· An Interview with Samuel X. Slayden · Kurt Fawver · ss

The Rogues Gallery: The Illustrated Police News ed. Dr. Alex Scully (Firbolg Publishing, January 14, 2014, $1.99, ebook, oa)
Details taken from online listing.

· Editor’s Notes · Dr. Alex Scully · in

· His Guilt Exhumed · Donna Cuttress · ss

· Introduction · Eva Layne · in

· The Governess · S. Kay Nash · ss

· A Clockwork Vulture · Joshua Skye · ss

· No Hard Feelings · B. E. Scully · ss

· The Edge · Miriam H. Harrison · vi

· Pinning Down Prometheus · A. Carina Barry · ss

· Rest · Miriam H. Harrison · ss

· Dead Girl Found in Cellar · M. von Schussler · ss

· The Best Laid Plans of Rats and Women · Alex James · ss

· The Blackened Cadence or Squeak · J. S. Isip · ss

· Simply Dreadful · Troy Serverance · ss

· While the Cat’s Away · Canto Clarke · ss

· Sweet Enough · A. Carina Barry · ss

· Unrest · Joshua Skye · ss

· The Rats in the Wall · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924

· The Nun’s Corpse · Debbie Powers · ss

· The Woman · Joshua Skye · ss

· Bones · Carol Gill · ss

· The Writing on the Wall · Christopher Bleakley · ss

· Consecratio Virginum · Miriam H. Harrison · ss

· The Death of Sister Dorothea · D. C. Copeland · ss

· A New Beginning · Michael Seese · ss

· The Duchess of Mount Zirra · R. J. Murray · ss

· Felicity Cinch · Eric Nash · ss

· The Beauty Within · Miriam H. Harrison · ss

· Death in the Lady’s Dressing Room · Charie D. La Marr · ss

· Forever Young · Crystal Leflar · ss

· A Mother’s Touch · Shenoa Carroll-Bradd · ss

· Dear Dead · Joshua Skye · ss

· That Sweetest Urge · Miriam H. Harrison · pm

· In the Closet · Joshua Skye · ss

· Because I Was Bored · Vince Liberato · ss

· Ominous Atonement · Blaze McRob · ss

· The Hunting · Miriam H. Harrison · ss

· Wolves in the Alley · J. B. Mulligan · ss

· The Triple Event · Miriam H. Harrison · ss

· The Second Mrs. Chapman · Brittany Warman · ss

· Only · Miriam H. Harrison · ss

· The Premature Burial · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Dollar Newspaper July 31 1844

· The Collector · Miriam H. Harrison · vi

· Another Picture for the Wall · Patrick O’Neill · ss

· Mission Box · Cheryl Anne Gardner · ss

· On Being Found Out · William Makepeace Thackeray · ar The Cornhill Magazine May 1861, uncredited.

Detective in Fiction: A Posse of Eight ed. Edward A. Seabourne (G. Bell, 1931, 239pp, hc, an)

1 · Introduction · Edward A. Seabourne · in

37 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1841

82 · Silver Blaze [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1892, as “The Adventure of Silver Blaze”

114 · The Wrong Shape [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 10 1910

138 · The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 18 1914

154 · The Jewel Robbery at the Grand Metropolitan [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Sketch March 14 1923, as “The Curious Disappearance of the Opalsen Pearls”

174 · The Bunch of Violets [Max Carrados] · Ernest Bramah · nv The Strand Magazine July 1924

204 · The Dublin Mystery [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1902

224 · The Great Detective · Stephen Leacock · ss Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock, Lane, 1911

235 · Questions and Exercises · [uncredited] · ms

The Supernatural in the English Short Story ed. Pamela Search (Bernard Hanison, January 1959, 21/-, 480pp, hc, an)
A representative selection of 21 stories showing the development of the English supernatural short story with an introductoral survey.

7 · Introduction · Pamela Search · in

21 · The Apparition of Mrs. Veal · Daniel Defoe · ar B. Bragg, 1706, as “A True Relation of the Apparition of One Mrs. Veal the Next Day After Her Death to One Mrs. Bargrave at Canterbury the 8th of September, 1705”, uncredited.

25 · Wandering Willie’s Tale · Sir Walter Scott · ex from Redgauntlet, Constable, 1824

40 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited.

68 · The Werewolf · Frederick Marryat · ex from The Phantom Ship, Henry Colburn, May 1839

86 · The Dream Woman · W. Wilkie Collins · nv Temple Bar November 1874 (+1)
revised from “Brother Morgan’s Story of the Dream-Woman” (The Queen of Hearts, Hurst and Blackett, 1859), itself revised from “The Ostler” (Household Words, Christmas 1855).

107 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited.; original version.

139 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891

155 · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838

168 · The Chimes · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall, 1844

235 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885

249 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review February 23 1887 (+1)

273 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885

291 · Sambo · William Fryer Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910

297 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved”

336 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926

350 · The Beckoning Fair One · Oliver Onions · na Widdershins by Oliver Onions, Secker, 1911

406 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911

411 · A Porta Inferi · Roger Pater · nv Mystic Voices by Roger Pater, Oates & Washbourne, 1923

422 · The Yellow Cat · Michael Joseph · ss Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine June 1924

431 · The Diary of Mr. Poynter · M. R. James · nv A Thin Ghost by M. R. James, Longmans, Green, 1919

440 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910

Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows and Weefolk ed. Baird Searles & Brian Thomsen (Warner Questar, December 1991, 0-446-39281-2, $10.99, 275pp, tp, oa, cover by Tim & Greg Hildebrandt)
Original anthology of nine stories, one a reprint, featuring “little folks” of various kinds, with an introduction by Baird Searles.

1 · Small Wonders · Baird Searles · in

5 · The Eranis Pipe · Mickey Zucker Reichert · nv

31 · Moon Shadows · Jody Lynn Nye · nv

57 · The Twice-Born Bard · Michael Williams · ss

71 · A Sparkle for Homer · R. A. Salvatore · nv

107 · A Fumbling of Fairies · Craig Shaw Gardner · nv

135 · The Graceless Child · Charles de Lint · nv

167 · Hobbits · Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff · ss Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact February 1991

185 · The Stoor’s Map · John Dalmas · na

235 · The Origin of the Hob [Hefn] · Judith Moffett · ex from “The Hob”, Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine May 1988

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