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The Vicious Circle: Mystery and Crime Stories by Members of the Algonquin Round Table ed. Otto Penzler (Pegasus Books, December 2007, 1-933648-67-8, $25.00, 205pp, hc, an) 11 · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 19 · Coroner’s Inquest · Marc Connelly · vi Collier’s February 8 1930 31 · The Mystery of the Poisoned Kipper · Robert Benchley · ss Liberty February 13 1932 39 · Farewell, My Lovely Appetizer · S. J. Perelman · ss The New Yorker December 16 1944 53 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 75 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 83 · The Great Warburton Mystery · George S. Kaufman & Howard Dietz · ss (r) 101 · Big Blonde · Dorothy Parker · nv The Bookman February 1929 139 · Up the Close and Down the Stair · S. J. Perelman · ss The New Yorker September 8 1951 153 · The Man Who Came Back · Edna Ferber · ss The American Magazine April 1911 171 · Rien Ne Va Plus · Alexander Woollcott · vi The New Yorker March 5 1932 177 · Four-and-Twenty Blackjacks · S. J. Perelman · ar The New Yorker March 3 1951 191 · Stop Me—If You’ve Heard This One · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan July 1929

Whodunit? Houdini? ed. Otto Penzler (Harper & Row, 1976, 0-06-013336-8, $10.95, 283pp, hc, an)     Thirteen Tales of Magic, Murder, Mystery. ix · Introduction · Otto Penzler · in 1 · From Another World [The Great Merlini] · Clayton Rawson · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #55, June 1948 29 · In the House of Suddhoo · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Civil and Military Gazette April 30 1886, as “Section 420, I.P.C.” 37 · Rope Enough · John Collier · ss The New Yorker November 18 1939 44 · The New Invisible Man [Colonel March] · Carter Dickson · ss The Strand Magazine April 1938 60 · Blind Man’s Buff [The Infallible Godahl] · Frederick Irving Anderson · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 24 1913 77 · The Lord of Time [Count Alessandro Cagliostro] · Rafael Sabatini · nv Help Yourself! Annual 1932 99 · Papa Benjamin · William Irish · nv Dime Mystery Magazine July 1935, as “Dark Melody of Madness” by Cornell Woolrich 140 · Juliet and the Magician · Manuel Peyrou; translated by Donald A. Yates · ss The Saint Detective Magazine August 1958 translated from the Spanish. 151 · The Mad Magician [Norgil the Magician] · Maxwell Grant (by Walter B. Gibson) · ss Crime Busters July 1938 171 · One Night in Paris [Gerard Whitestone (The Great Gerard)] · Walter B. Gibson · nv The Saint Detective Magazine November 1955 203 · The Shadow · Ben Hecht · ss Liberty January 30 1926 220 · The Moment of Decision · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1955 243 · The Hand Is Quicker than the Eye [Lester Leith] · Erle Stanley Gardner · na Detective Fiction Weekly September 16 1939, as “Lester Leith, Magician”

The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories ed. Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press, September 1, 1994, 0-19-278126-X, £12.99, 314pp, hc, an, cover: [photo] by Simon Marsden)     Solid and entertaining collection of unusual ghost stories, including several originals. Illustrated by Nick Harris, Jonathan Heap, Ian Miller, Brian Pedley, Eric Stemp & Adam Stower. 1 · Introduction · Dennis Pepper · in 3 · The Rivals · Vivien Alcock · ss Spooky ed. Pamela Lonsdale, Methuen, 1983 12 · Spook House · Marc Alexander · ss Not After Nightfall by Marc Alexander, Viking, 1985 20 · The House with the Brick-Kiln · E. F. Benson · ss The London Magazine December 1908 32 · The Monkeys · Ruskin Bond · ss The Night Train at Deoli and Other Stories by Ruskin Bond, Penguin India, 1988 37 · Room at the Inn · Sydney J. Bounds · ss The Sixth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1974 42 · The Crown Derby Plate · Marjorie Bowen · ss Grace Latouche and the Warringtons by Marjorie Bowen, Selwyn & Blount, 1931 55 · Mayday! · Redvers Brandling · ss 60 · It Was Rose Hall · Petronella Breinburg · ss The Haunted and the Haunters ed. Lines, Bodley Head, 1975 68 · Earthbound · Roberta Simpson Brown · vi The Walking Trees and Other Scary Stories by Roberta Simpson Brown, August House, 1991 70 · The Marble Hands · Bernard Capes · ss The Fabulists by Bernard Capes, Mills & Boon, 1915 73 · Fat Andy · Stephen Dunstone · ss The Man in Black, BBC Books, 1990 85 · Bang, Bang—Who’s Dead? · Jane Gardam · ss Beware! Beware! ed. Jean Richardson, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 95 · Carlotta · Adèle Geras · ss 103 · Little Black Pies · John Gordon · ss Catch Your Death and Other Ghost Stories by John Gordon, Patrick Hardy Books, 1984 109 · The Guitarist · Grace Hallworth · vi 1984 111 · The Chocolate Ghost · Julia Hawkes-Moore · ss 120 · Children on the Bridge · Kenneth Ireland · ss We’re Coming for You, Jonathan by Kenneth Ireland, Hodder & Stoughton, 1983 133 · Rats · M. R. James · ss At Random March 23 1929 140 · The Haunted Mill · Jerome K. Jerome · ss The Wave February 21 1891 144 · The Last Bus · J. M. Johnson-Smith · ss Short Stories Magazine August 1981 148 · The Scene of the Crime · Gerald Kersh · ss The (London) Evening News April 9 1946 154 · ’Tain’t So · Maria Leach · vi Whistle in the Graveyard by Maria Leach, Viking Penguin, 1974 based on “The Man Who Wouldn’t Believe He Was Dead” by John Bennett (Doctor to the Dead, Rinehart, 1946). 156 · The Servant · Michael MacLiammoir · ss Dublin Evening Herald 160 · In Black and White · Jan Mark · ss In Black and White and Other Stories by Jan Mark, Viking, 1991 170 · The Warning · Joyce Marsh · ss The Tenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1978 181 · John Charrington’s Wedding · E. Nesbit · ss Temple Bar September 1891 190 · Dead Call · William F. Nolan · ss Frights ed. Kirby McCauley, St. Martin's, 1976 194 · Caves in Cliffs · Josh Pachter · ss Top Fantasy ed. Josh Pachter, Dent, 1985 204 · The Running-Companion · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977 211 · Gibson’s · Ann Pilling · ss The Fourteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1982 225 · The Servant · Alison Prince · ss The Fifteenth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1983 238 · The Ring and the Rib · J. J. Reneaux · ss Cajun Folktales by J. J. Reneaux, August House, 1992 244 · A Pair of Muddy Shoes · Lennox Robinson · ss Eight Short Stories by Lennox Robinson, T. Fisher Unwin, 1919 251 · The Hard-Working Ghost · Dal Stivens · ss The Gambling Ghost by Dal Stivens, Angus & Robertson, 1953 257 · The Tale of Caseley Halt · Barry Sutton · ss The Tenth Ghost Book ed. Aidan Chambers, Barrie & Jenkins, 1974 263 · Christmas Meeting · Rosemary Timperley · vi Truth 1952 266 · An Apple for Miss Stevenson · Michael Vestey · ss The After Midnight Ghost Book ed. James Hale, Hutchinson, 1980 280 · Dual Control · Elizabeth Walter · nv Dead Woman by Elizabeth Walter, Collins and Harvill Press, 1975 290 · The Call · Robert Westall · ss The Call and Other Stories by Robert Westall, Viking UK, 1990 304 · The Little Yellow Dog · Mary Williams · ss Chill Company by Mary Williams, Kimber, 1976

The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares ed. Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press, September 2000, 978-0-19-278179-6, £12.99, viii+214pp, hc, an, cover by George Smith)     Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Dennis Pepper · in 1 · Mason’s Life · Kingsley Amis · ss The Sunday Times 1972 5 · Seafood · Francis Beckett · ss 8 · Nightmare in Blue · Fredric Brown · vi The Dude May 1961 11 · Dream Ghost · Sydney J. Bounds · ss The Eighth Armada Ghost Book ed. Mary Danby, Armada, 1976 18 · The Lost Child · John Burke · ss Magpie November 1952 29 · The Gargles · Michael Chislett · ss 41 · Blood Will Cry Out · J. J. Curle · ss Upon the Midnight ed. R. C. Bull, Macdonald, 1957, as “Awake, Asleep, Awake” 52 · Nightmare · Berlie Doherty · ss Beware! Beware! ed. Jean Richardson, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 63 · The Big Wind · Marien Dreyer · ss Summer’s Tales 1 ed. Kylie Tennant, Macmillan Australia, 1964 75 · Four Twenty-Four Precisely · John Edgell · ss 1970 79 · S. Q. · Adèle Geras · ss 84 · Uncle Walter · John Gordon · ss The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings ed. Dennis Pepper, Oxford University Press, 1997 93 · Dream Fountain · Dennis Hamley · ss 102 · Frisky · Kenneth Ireland · ss 110 · The White-Washed Room · Gerald Kersh · ss Men Without Bones by Gerald Kersh, Heinemann, 1955 115 · Scottish Melody · Sheila Lavelle · ss 127 · Mrs. Beale and Trixie · Christopher Leach · ss 1980 138 · Nightmare · Morgan Llywelyn · ss 1996 146 · The Front Room · Michelle Magorian · ss They Wait, and Other Spine Chillers ed. Lance Salway, Pepper Press, 1983 158 · Dream Justice · E. W. Mayo · vi Weird Tales February 1932 161 · The Patch · Philip Murray · ss Shudders, Philip Allan, 1932 164 · The Eyes · Kit Pearson · ss Don’t Read This!, Front Street, 1998 179 · The Water Mill · Alison Prince · ss 189 · Gone · Sue Welford · ss 199 · Dark Zone · Ed Williams · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998 202 · The Corpse Will Walk · Carolyn Swift · ss 1994 213 · Badnight Story · Robert Scott · ss

The Young Oxford Book of Timewarp Stories ed. Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press, November 2001, 0-19-278167-7, £7.99, viii+215pp, tp, an)     Young-adult anthology of 21 stories (3 original). Authors include Anderson, Finney, Harrison, Bradbury, Harrison, and Fredric Brown. vii · Introduction · Dennis Pepper · in 1 · My Object All Sublime · Poul Anderson · ss Galaxy Magazine June 1961 11 · They Live Forever · Lloyd Biggle, Jr. · ss Satellite Science Fiction March 1959 19 · Timestorm · Steve Bowkett · ss 31 · A Sound of Thunder · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s June 28 1952 45 · Vengeance Fleet · Fredric Brown · vi Super Science Stories July 1950, as “Vengeance, Unlimited” 48 · All the Time in the World · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Startling Stories July 1952 A061 · …And Three to Go · Ken Cowley · ss Miscellany Macabre: Tales of the Unknown by Ken Cowley, British Fantasy Society, 1999 71 · Room 409 · Nance Donkin · ss A Handful of Ghosts ed. Barbara Ker Wilson, Knight Books, 1976 80 · The Love Letter · Jack Finney · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 1 1959 94 · If · Harry Harrison · ss If February 1969, as “Praiseworthy Saur” 101 · Time Shift · Kenneth Ireland · ss 109 · The Brighton Monster [Adze] · Gerald Kersh · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1948, as “The Monster” 123 · Let’s Go to Golgotha! · Garry Kilworth · ss Sunday Times Weekly Review December 15 1974 136 · What Time Is It? · Rita Lamb · ss 139 · The Silver Box · Louise Lawrence · nv A Quiver of Ghosts ed. Aidan Chambers, The Bodley Head, 1987 159 · The Picnic · Penelope Lively · ss Young Winter’s Tales 6 ed. M. R. Hodgkin, Macmillan UK, 1975 173 · The Man from When · Dannie Plachta · vi If July 1966 175 · Fire, Fire · Alison Prince · ss A Haunting Refrain by Alison Prince, Methuen, 1988 186 · Master Ghost and I · Barbara Softly · ss Haunting Tales ed. Barbara Ireson, Faber and Faber, 1973 205 · The Doctor · Ted Thomas · ss Orbit 2 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1967 214 · The Choice · Wayland Hilton-Young · vi Punch March 19 1952 215 · Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms

The Club Dumas by Arturo Perez-Reverte (Subterranean Press, March 2010, 978-1-59606-292-4, $125.00, 327pp, hc, n., cover by Vincent Chong)     Reprint (Harcourt Brace 1997) literary fantasy novel of bibliophiles and Satanists. Translated by Sonia Soto from the Spanish (1993). This is a signed, limited edition of 500 with color illustrations by Vincent Chong; a lettered edition of 26 is also available.

Racing Can Be Murder ed. Tony Perona & Brenda R. Stewart--- see under Brenda R. Stewart.

The Best American Short Stories 2012 ed. Tom Perotta & Heidi Pitlor (Houghton Mifflin, 2012, 978-0-547-24209-5, $28.00, xix+356pp, hc, an) ix · Foreword · Heidi Pitlor · fw xii · Introduction · Tom Perotta · in 1 · The Last Speaker of the Language · Carol Anshaw · ss New Ohio Review #10, Fall 2011 16 · Pilgrim Life · Taylor Antrim · nv American Short Fiction #53, 2011 40 · What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank · Nathan Englander · nv The New Yorker December 12 2011 61 · The Other Place · Mary Gaitskill · ss The New Yorker February 14/February 21 2011 75 · North Country · Roxane Gay · ss Hobart #12, April 2011 87 · Paramour · Jennifer Haigh · ss Ploughshares Winter 2011/2012 97 · Navigators · Mike Meginnis · ss Hobart #12, April 2011 108 · Miracle Polish · Steven Millhauser · ss The New Yorker November 14 2011 122 · Axis · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker January 31 2011 138 · Volcano · Lawrence Osborne · ss Tin House Spring 2011 152 · Diem Perdidi · Julie Otsuka · ss Granta #117, Autumn 2011 162 · Honeydew · Edith Pearlman · ss Orion September/October 2011 174 · Occupational Hazard · Angela Pneuman · nv Ploughshares Spring 2011 196 · Beautiful Monsters · Eric Puchner · ss Tin House Fall 2011 212 · Tenth of December · George Saunders · nv The New Yorker October 31 2011 236 · The Sex Lives of African Girls · Taiye Selasi · nv Granta #115, Spring 2011 268 · Alive · Sharon Solwitz · ss Fifth Wednesday Journal #8, 2012 281 · M&M World · Kate Walbert · ss The New Yorker May 30 2011 294 · Anything Helps · Jess Walter · ss McSweeney’s #39, 2011 306 · What’s Important Is Feeling · Adam Wilson · ss The Paris Review #199, Winter 2011 325 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 338 · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 2011 · [uncredited] · bi 342 · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms

Survival Printout ed. Robert Perrault, Leonard Allison & Leonard Jenkin--- see under Total Effect.

East of Suez by A. Perrin (Anthony Treherne & Co. Limited, 1901, 311pp, hc, co) 1 · Beynon, of the Irrigation Department · A. Perrin · ss The Windsor Magazine November 1896 55 · The Tiger-Charm · A. Perrin · ss 81 · A Perverted Punishment · A. Perrin · ss The Windsor Magazine September 1897 107 · An Eastern Echo · A. Perrin · ss 127 · A Man’s Theory · A. Perrin · ss 141 · The Summoning of Arnold · A. Perrin · ss 155 · In the Next Room · A. Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Summer 1893 171 · The White Tiger · A. Perrin · ss 189 · Caulfield’s Crime · A. Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892 211 · The Fakirs’ Island · A. Perrin · ss 231 · The Belief of Bhagwan, Bearer · A. Perrin · ss 249 · “In the Court of Conscience” · A. Perrin · ss 271 · Chunia, Ayah · A. Perrin · ss 287 · The Biscobra · A. Perrin · ss

Death by Dickens ed. Anne Perry (Berkley Prime Crime, March 2004, 0-425-19420-5, $23.95, 280pp, hc, oa, cover by Yuan Lee)     Associational original anthology of 11 mystery stories inspired by the works of Dickens, including two pieces by Carole Nelson Douglas and Lillian Stewart Carl based on A Christmas Carol, and a pre-vampire “Jonathan Barrett” story by P.N. Elrod. · Introduction · Anne Perry · in 5 · A Stake of Holly · Lillian Stewart Carl · nv 29 · Mr. Pickwick vs. the Body Snatchers · Bill Crider · ss 49 · Death in Dover · P. N. Elrod · nv 80 · The House of the Red Candle · Martin Edwards · nv 102 · A Long and Constant Courtship · Carolyn Wheat · nv 124 · Miss Haversham Regrets · Marcia Talley · ss 140 · Scrogged: A Cyber Christmas Carol · Carole Nelson Douglas · nv 176 · The Passing Shadow · Peter Tremayne · nv 200 · Fagin’s Revenge · Brendan DuBois · nv 225 · Next Christmas at Dingley Dell · Gillian Linscott · nv 246 · A Tale of One City · Anne Perry · nv