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The Best Maine Stories The Marvelous Mystery ed. Sanford Phippen, Charles Waugh & Martin Greenberg (Lance Tapley, 1986, 0-912769-07-6, $10.95, 314pp, tp, an) 1 · Summer 3 · The Viking’s Daughter [Ephraim Tutt] · Arthur Train · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 5 1927 45 · Maine · Margaret Osborn · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1944 61 · The Lesson · Sam Brown, Jr. · ss Yankee February 1970 73 · Prayer for the Dying · Willis Johnson · ss TriQuarterly #55, Fall 1982 91 · Berrying · Rebecca Cummings · ss Kaisa Kilponen by Rebecca Cummings, Coyote Love Press, 1985 105 · Fall 107 · Greg’s Peg · Louis Auchincloss · ss The Injustice Collectors by Louis Auchincloss, Houghton Mifflin, 1950 131 · A Bundle of Letters · Henry James · ss The Parisian December 18 1879 167 · The Search · Virginia Chase · ss Puckerbrush Review 1983 175 · Step-Over Toe-Hold · Sanford Phippen · ss The Police Know Everything by Sanford Phippen, Puckerbrush Press, 1982 185 · Winter 187 · The Ledge · Lawrence Sargent Hall · ss The Hudson Review Winter 1958/1959 205 · When Dustin “Called On” · Holman Day · ss Pine Tree Magazine 1906 219 · “Ollie, Oh…” · Carolyn Chute · ss Ploughshares Summer/Fall 1982 235 · They Grind Exceeding Small · Ben Ames Williams · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 13 1919 249 · Spring 251 · Small Point Bridge · Stephen Minot · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Winter 1969 261 · Head of the Line · Gladys Hasty Carroll · ss Redbook Magazine November 1939 287 · The Soldier Shows His Medal · Ruth Moore · ss 1973 expanded from “It Don’t Change Much” (The New Yorker, October 19, 1945). 295 · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 309 · The People of Winter · Sanford Phippen · aw

Art After Apogee by Rosemary Phipps & Brian Aldiss--- see under Brian Aldiss.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016 Edition ed. Diana Pho, Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Liz Gorinsky, Justin Landon, Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ann VanderMeer & Miriam Weinberg--- see under Ellen Datlow.

Game On! ed. Tony Pi & Stephen Kotowych--- see under Stephen Kotowych.

A Little Black Book of Noir Stories by Tom Piccirilli (Borderlands Press, October 24, 2003, $17.00, 118pp, hc, co) · Fellowship · Tom Piccirilli · ss Speculative Fiction & Beyond 1997 · Seems Like Old Times · Tom Piccirilli · ss Pirate Writings #5, Fall 1994 · Horsepower · Tom Piccirilli · ss Best Fetish Erotica ed. Cara Bruce, Cleis, 2002 · Hostages · Tom Piccirilli · ss The Dog Syndrome & Other Sick Puppies by Tom Piccirilli, Marietta Publishing, 1997 · Inside the Works · Tom Piccirilli · ss Inside the Works, Necro Publications, 1997 · Diamond Mozzarella · Tom Piccirilli · ss · Black · Tom Piccirilli · ss

Murder in La-La Land ed. Kathleen Piché, Lenore Carlson & Donna May--- see under Lenore Carlson.

The First Lady Murders ed. Nancy Pickard (Pocket Books, February 1999, 0-671-01444-7, $6.99, x+436pp, pb, oa) ix · Introduction · Nancy Pickard · in 1 · The Secret President · Barbara Paul · ss 26 · Political Decision · John Lutz · ss 40 · “A” Is for Adams · Carolyn Wheat · nv 65 · You Run · Sarah Shankman · ss 83 · The Bachelor’s Wife · Judith Kelman · nv 114 · Lost at Sea · Pamela J. Fesler · ss 121 · Madame President · Anne Perry · ss 141 · The Mother of Our Country · Linda Grant · ss 162 · Dolley Madison and the Staff of Life · Barbara D’Amato · ss 170 · Alice Holds the Cards · Carole Nelson Douglas & Jennifer Waddell · nv 204 · Jackie-O · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ss 215 · Goodbye, Dolley · Gillian Roberts · ss 239 · Portal · T. J. MacGregor · ss 258 · Adams and Evil · Sarah Booth Conroy · nv 286 · A Tale of Two Sisters · Richard Timothy Conroy · ss 311 · The Second Lady · Peter Crowther · nv 340 · The First Ladies’ Secret · Nancy Pickard · ss 360 · Mrs. Lincoln’s Dilemma · Janet Dawson · nv 386 · Julia Grant, A.K.A. Private Eye · Jan Grape · ss 406 · Blood in Buzzard’s Bay; or, Sweets to the Sweet · P. M. Carlson · ss

Malice Domestic 3: An Anthology of Original Traditional Mystery Stories ed. Nancy Pickard (ghost written by ed. Martin H. Greenberg) (Pocket, May 1994, 0-671-73828-3, $4.99, 240pp, pb, oa)     Anthology of 13 “cozy” mystery stories, with an introduction by Pickard. Pickard “presents” this volume, which was actually edited by Martin H. Greenberg, whose name appears only in the copyright. ix · Malicious Donesticus · Nancy Pickard · in 1 · The Dying Light · Taylor McCafferty · nv 22 · Cast Your Fate to the Wind · Deborah Adams · ss 41 · Fannie’s Back Fence Caper · Susan & Bill Albert · nv 64 · His Tears · Marilyn Wallace · ss 79 · Sign of the Times · Nancy Pickard · ss 86 · The Family Jewels · Dorothy Cannell · nv 108 · The Trouble with the Shoot · Camilla T. Crespi · ss 126 · Double Delight · L. B. Greenwood · nv 156 · High Heels in the Headliner · Wendy Hornsby · ss 167 · Make Yourselves at Home · Joan Hess · ss 185 · Cara’s Turn · Marlys Millhiser · ss 198 · Highwater · D. R. Meredith · nv 222 · Gentle Reader · Sharyn McCrumb · ss

Mom, Apple Pie, and Murder ed. Nancy Pickard (Berkley, May 1999, 978-0-425-16890-5, $13.00, x+303pp, tp, oa) ix · Introduction · Nancy Pickard · in 1 · A Worm in the Winesap · Susan Dunlap · ss 17 · Coin of the Realm · Pamela J. Fesler · ss 37 · Mom and Dad at Home · Ed Gorman · ss 47 · The Second-Oldest Profession · Linda Grant · ss 63 · Rotten to the Core · Jeremiah Healy · ss 77 · The Maggody Files: Death in Bloom · Joan Hess · ss 89 · The Gift · Gregory Janicke · ss 105 · Sex, Lies, and Apple Pie · Janet LaPierre · ss 123 · Growth Marks · Margaret Maron · ss 139 · With Thanks to Agatha Christie · Sarah J. Mason · ss 157 · Out of Africa · Nancy Pickard · ss 179 · Clear Sailing · Gillian Roberts · nv 201 · If You Can’t Take the Heat · Sarah Shankman · nv 229 · Thinking · Marilyn Wallace · ss 245 · A Bus Called Pity · Carolyn Wheat · ss 265 · Hello? · Angela Zeman · nv 293 · A Mysterious Collection of Apple Recipes · Various · ms

Fiction 100: An Anthology of Short Stories (9th edition) ed. James H. Pickering (Prentice Hall College Div., June 2000, 0-130-14328-6, $49.00, tp, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Preface · James H. Pickering · pr (r) · His Women · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker May 15 1995 · I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set November 1919 · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957 · The Lesson · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Redbook January 1973 · Cortés and Montezuma · Donald Barthelme · ss Great Days by Donald Barthelme, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1979 · Antlers · Rick Bass · ss Special Report: Fiction November 1990/January 1991 · Janus · Ann Beattie · ss The New Yorker May 27 1985 · Looking for Mr. Green · Saul Bellow · nv Commentary March 1951 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 · Astronomer’s Wife · Kay Boyle · ss The White Horses of Vienna and Other Stories by Kay Boyle, Harcourt, Brace and Co., 1936 · August 2002: Night Meeting [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury, Doubleday, 1950 · The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r) · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 · I Could See the Smallest Things · Raymond Carver · ss (r) · What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Knopf, 1981 · The Country Husband · John Cheever · nv The New Yorker November 20 1954 · The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925 · The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) · Appetites · Kathryn Chetkovich · ss Zyzzyva 1997 · Athenaise: A Story of a Temperament · Kate Chopin · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1896 (+1) · The Storm · Kate Chopin · ss The Complete Works of Kate Chopin by Kate Chopin, Louisiana State University, 1969 · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” · The Witness for the Prosecution · Agatha Christie · nv Flynn’s January 31 1925, as “Traitor’s Hands” · The House on Mango Street · Sandra Cisneros · ss (r) · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel L. Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865). · The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg · Samuel L. Clemens · na Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1899, as by Mark Twain · My First Kill · Art Coelho · ss (r) · A Country Wedding · Laurie Colwin · ss The New Yorker January 23 1984 · Heart of Darkness · Joseph Conrad · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1899 (+2) · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1) · Youth · Joseph Conrad · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine September 1898 · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898 · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891 · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944 · Mauser · Louise Erdrich · ss The New Yorker April 8 1991 · Barn Burning · William Faulkner · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1939 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 · Winter Dreams · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv Metropolitan December 1922 · Rock Springs · Richard Ford · nv Esquire February 1982 · A New England Nun · Mary Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891 · Aura · Carlos Fuentes; translated by Lysander Kemp · nv Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1965 translated from the Spanish (Aura, Ediciones Era, 1962). · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971 · If I Were a Man · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss Physical Culture July 1914 · The Yellow Wall-Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 · A Jury of Her Peers · Susan Glaspell · nv Every Week March 5 1917 based on material from the play “Trifles”. · Dream Children · Gail Godwin · ss (r) · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r) translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842). · Home · Nadine Gordimer · ss The New Yorker April 25 1988 · We · Mary Grimm · ss The New Yorker October 17 1988 · The Three Strangers · Thomas Hardy · nv Longman’s Magazine March 1883 · Tennessee’s Partner · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly October 1869 · My Kinsman, Major Molineux · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv The Token 1832, 1831, as by The Author of “Sights from a Steeple” · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927 · How to Talk to a Hunter · Pam Houston · ss Quarterly West 1989 · Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925 · Trying to Save Piggy Sneed · John Irving · ss (r) · The Legend of Sleepy Hollow · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #6, March 15 1820, as by Geoffrey Crayon · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 · Four Meetings · Henry James · ss Scribner’s Monthly November 1877 · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892 · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · Dorothy M. Johnson · nv Cosmopolitan July 1949 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · The Dead · James Joyce · na The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · Sunday in the Park · Bel Kaufman · ss (r) · The Tip-Top Club · Garrison Keillor · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1981 · What Did We Do Wrong? · Garrison Keillor · ss The New Yorker September 16 1985 · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994 · Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa · W. P. Kinsella · ss Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa by W. P. Kinsella, Oberon Press, 1980 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 · We Are Not in This Together · William Kittredge · ss (r) · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 · The Horse Dealer’s Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The English Review April 1922 · Horse Camp · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker August 25 1986 · Wine · Doris Lessing · ss The Habit of Loving by Doris Lessing, MacGibbon & Kee, 1957 · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954 · Death in Venice · Thomas Mann · na (r) translated from the German (“Der Tod in Venedig”, S. Fischer Verlag, 1912). · Her First Ball · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Sphere November 28 1921 · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920 · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884). · Rust · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La rouille”, Gil Blas, September 14, 1882 as by Maufrigneuse). · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited. · The Lightning-Rod Man · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly August 1856 · Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review #91, Spring 1984 · Meneseteung · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker January 11 1988 · A Real Life · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker February 10 1992 · Four Summers · Joyce Carol Oates · ss The Yale Review Spring 1967 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 · Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931 · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe” · Big Blonde · Dorothy Parker · nv The Bookman February 1929 · Surprise! · Robert Phillips · ss (r) · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935 · Coach · Mary Robison · ss The New Yorker September 14 1981 · Nadine at 35: A Synopsis · Jo Sapp · vi North American Review September 1981 · The Girls in Their Summer Dresses · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker February 4 1939 · Yellow Woman · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss The Man to Send Rain Clouds ed. Kenneth Mark Rosen, Viking Press, 1974 · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r) · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 · Brooksmith by Henry James · Daniel Stern · ss (r) · A Little Burst · Elizabeth Strout · ss The New Yorker June 1 1998 · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r) story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday. · Young Girl’s Wish · Amy Tan · ss The New Yorker October 2 1995 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r) · Ten Miles West of Venus · Judy Troy · ss The New Yorker June 27/July 4 1994 · The Country Doctor · Ivan Turgenev · ss (r) · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 · Here Come the Maples · John Updike · ss The New Yorker October 11 1976 · Separating · John Updike · ss The New Yorker June 23 1975 · To Hell with Dying · Alice Walker · ss (r) · Why I Live at the P.O. · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1941 · Wherever That Great Heart May Be · W. D. Wetherell · ss (r) · The Columbus School for Girls · Liza Wieland · ss (r) · Taking Care · Joy Williams · ss Taking Care by Joy Williams, Random House, 1982 · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933 · The Golden Darters · Elizabeth Winthrop · ss American Short Fiction 1991 · Nightingale · Tobias Wolff · ss The New Yorker January 6 1997 · Say Yes · Tobias Wolff · ss (r) · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r) · Love Letters · Patricia Zelver · ss A Man of Middle Age & Twelve Stories by Patricia Zelver, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) · A Short Story Handbook · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Chronological Table of Contents · [uncredited] · ms (r)