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The Railroaders ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Fawcett Gold Medal, March 1986, 0-449-12722-2, $2.50, 212pp, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 3 · Casey Jones · [uncredited] · pm (r) 5 · The Passing of Black Eagle · O. Henry · ss Ainslee’s Magazine March 1902 19 · The Holdup [Hopalong Cassidy] · Clarence E. Mulford · ss The Coming of Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford, A.L. Burt, 1913 38 · The Yellow Mail · Frank H. Spearman · ss McClure’s Magazine May 1901, as “The Run of the Yellow Mail” 54 · C.P.R. · James Stevens · ss (r) 69 · Song of the Steel Rails · Tom W. Blackburn · ss Dime Western Magazine October 1941 81 · The Angel of Canyon Pass · Charles W. Tyler · ss Railroad Stories April 1936 100 · For Want of a Horse · Clay Fisher · ss (r) 116 · Steel to the West · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Western Writers of America Silver Anniversary Anthology ed. August Lenniger, Ace, 1977 126 · Flying Switch · H. L. Davis · ss Collier’s August 2 1930 146 · Westward Rails · Giles A. Lutz · ss Western Writers of America Silver Anniversary Anthology ed. August Lenniger, Ace, 1977 164 · The Phantom Train Robbers · Jeffrey M. Wallmann · ss Zane Grey Western Magazine January 1973 172 · Hell on the High Iron · John Jakes · nv Big-Book Western Magazine March 1953, as “The High-Iron Killer!”

The Reel West ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Doubleday & Co., 1984, 0-385-19319-X, $11.95, 177pp, hc, an) vii · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 1 · Tennessee’s Partner · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly October 1869; basis for film Tennessee’s Partner. 11 · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898; basis for film Face to Face. 23 · A Double-Dyed Deceiver · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine December 1905; basis for film The Texan. 35 · Massacre · James Warner Bellah · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 22 1947; basis for film Fort Apache. 49 · The Tin Star · John M. Cunningham · nv Collier’s December 6 1947; basis for film High Noon. 65 · My Brother Down There · Steve Frazee · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #113, April 1953; basis for film Running Target. 101 · Three-Ten to Yuma · Elmore Leonard · nv Dime Western Magazine March 1953; basis for film 3:10 to Yuma. 117 · The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance · Dorothy M. Johnson · nv Cosmopolitan July 1949; basis for film The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. 133 · Town Tamer · Frank Gruber · ss Short Stories January 1957 149 · Jeremy Rodock · Jack Schaefer · nv Lilliput January 1956

The Second Reel West ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Doubleday & Co., 1985, 0-385-23103-2, $12.95, 182pp, hc, an, cover by Frederick Porter) vii · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 1 · The Outcasts of Poker Flat [John Oakhurst] · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly January 1869; basis for film The Outcasts of Poker Flat. 10 · The Passing of Black Eagle · O. Henry · ss Ainslee’s Magazine March 1902; basis for film Black Eagle. 19 · The Two-Gun Man · Stewart Edward White · ss Collier’s April 15 1905; basis for film Under a Texas Moon. 30 · Back to God’s Country · James Oliver Curwood · nv Back to God’s Country by James Oliver Curwood, Grosset, 1920; basis for film Back to God’s Country. 53 · Command · James Warner Bellah · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 8 1946 · Big Hunt · James Warner Bellah · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 6 1947; basis for film Back to God’s Country. 75 · Yankee Gold · John M. Cunningham · nv Pic Magazine 1946; basis for film The Stranger Wore a Gun. 98 · A Man Called Horse · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s January 7 1950; basis for film A Man Called Horse. 111 · The Singing Sands · Steve Frazee · nv Fifteen Western Tales June 1949, as “The Devil’s Grubstake”; basis for film Gold of the Seven Saints. 136 · Sergeant Houck · Jack Schaefer · nv Collier’s July 14 1951; basis for film Trooper Hook. 156 · The Captives · Elmore Leonard · nv Argosy February 1955; basis for film The Tall T.

Shared Tomorrows: Science Fiction in Collaboration ed. Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg (St. Martin’s, October 1979, 0-312-71637-0, $10.00, xiv+233pp, hc, an) xi · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg · in 1 · Tiger Ride · James Blish & Damon Knight · ss Astounding Science Fiction October 1948 17 · Dark Interlude · Mack Reynolds & Fredric Brown · ss Galaxy Science Fiction January 1951 28 · Beasts of Bourbon [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1951 41 · Sound Decision · Randall Garrett & Robert Silverberg · nv Astounding Science Fiction October 1956 83 · Gratitude Guaranteed · Reginald Bretnor & Kris Neville · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1953 109 · Mary Celestial · Miriam Allen deFord & Anthony Boucher · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1955 130 · The Quaker Cannon · Frederik Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth · nv Analog Science Fact—Fiction August 1961 157 · Elementary · Laurence M. Janifer & Michael J. Kurland · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1964 171 · The Loolies Are Here · Ruth Allison & Jane Rice · ss Orbit 1 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1966, as by Allison Rice 178 · Murphy’s Hall · Poul & Karen Anderson · nv Infinity Two ed. Robert Hoskins, Lancer, 1971 196 · Faces Forward · Jack M. Dann & George Zebrowski · ss Dystopian Visions ed. Roger Elwood, Prentice Hall, 1975 202 · Prose Bowl · Bill Pronzini & Barry N. Malzberg · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1979 233 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

She Won the West ed. Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller--- see under Marcia Muller.

Specter! A Chrestomathy of “Spookery” ed. Bill Pronzini (Arbor House, 1982, 0-87795-391-0, $13.95, 298pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in 23 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835 34 · The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837, as “The Ghosts of the Mail” 56 · The Furnished Room · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World August 14 1904 65 · Lost Hearts · M. R. James · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1895 78 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891 101 · Phantas · Oliver Onions · ss Nash’s Magazine February 1910 121 · On the Moors · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910, as “Across the Moors” 129 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review February 23 1887 (+1) 167 · The Panelled Room · August Derleth · ss Westminster Magazine September 1933 180 · The Skull of the Marquis de Sade · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales September 1945 203 · Silver Spectre [unnamed journalist] · Jon L. Breen · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 26 1980 216 · Deathlove · Bill Pronzini · ss Shadows ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1978 227 · Fish Night · Joe R. Lansdale · ss 238 · Dust to Dust · Marcia Muller · ss 252 · Chained · Barry N. Malzberg · ss 259 · Night-Side · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Night-Side by Joyce Carol Oates, Vanguard, 1977 289 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

The Steamboaters ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Fawcett Gold Medal, July 1986, 0-449-12723-0, $2.50, 229pp, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 3 · Voyageurs · Henry Herbert Knibbs · pm (r) 5 · Poker Dell · William R. Cox · nv (r) 38 · The River Smeller · James Stevens · nv (r) 61 · Only the Dead Ride Proudly · Norman A. Fox · ss The Blue Book Magazine June 1948 78 · Sacramento Run · Tom W. Blackburn · nv 1948 122 · Riverboat Fighter · Brian Garfield · ss They Opened the West ed. Tom Blackburn, Doubleday, 1967 138 · Sternwheeler · Michele McQuaid · nv Far West Winter 1981 167 · The Cruise of the Prairie Queen · D. D. Beauchamp · ss Cosmopolitan February 1947 180 · River Reckoning · Steve Hail · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine December 1951 197 · The Tinhorn Fills His Hand! · John Jakes · nv 10 Story Western Magazine June 1953

Suspicious Characters ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Ivy, December 1987, 0-8041-0126-4, $2.95, 229pp, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in 3 · The Redhead [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1984 21 · The Victim · P. D. James · nv Winter’s Crimes 5 ed. Virginia Whitaker, Macmillan UK, 1973 41 · Hot Cars · Ed McBain · ss Genesis November 1974, as by Evan Hunter 55 · Black Cat in the Snow · John D. MacDonald · ss Manhunt February 1958 62 · Three-Dot Po [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 81 · Tickled to Death · Simon Brett · nv Winter’s Crimes 14 ed. Hilary Watson, Macmillan UK, 1982 101 · Is Betsy Blake Still Alive? · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1958 121 · Theory of the Crime · Kay Nolte Smith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1974 133 · The Treasure of Jack the Ripper [Simon Ark] · Edward D. Hoch · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1978 156 · Wriggle · John Lutz · ss Creature! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor, 1981 166 · Jode’s Last Hunt · Brian Garfield · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1977 188 · Sanctuary [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · ss Graveyard Plots by Bill Pronzini, St. Martin's Press, 1985 200 · Eyes for Offa Rex · Jonathan Gash · nv Winter’s Crimes 11 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1979

Tales of Mystery ed. Bill Pronzini (Bonanza, 1986, 0-517-61819-2, $16.95, 320pp, hc, an)     Abridged from The Arbor House Treasury of Detective and Mystery Stories from the Great Pulps. Omits “Diamonds of Death” by Robert Leslie Bellem. 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in The Arbor House Treasury of Detective and Mystery Stories from the Great Pulps ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1983 6 · Arson Plus [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask October 1 1923, as by Peter Collinson 26 · Knights of the Open Palm [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · ss The Black Mask June 1 1923 51 · The Mopper-Up · Horace McCoy · nv Black Mask November 1931 82 · Red Pavement [“Tough Dick” Donahue] · Frederick Nebel · ss Black Mask December 1932 113 · Parlor Trick · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask July 1932 121 · The Living Lie Down with the Dead · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine April 1936 148 · Holocaust House [Doan & Carstairs] · Norbert Davis · na Argosy November 16 1940 (+1) 201 · Blue Murder · Fredric Brown · ss The Shadow September 1943 218 · Hear That Mournful Sound · Dane Gregory · nv Detective Tales November 1942, as “Lynchville Had a Barber” 242 · The Day Nobody Died [Inspector Allhoff] · D. L. Champion · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1944 278 · Fatal Accident · John D. MacDonald · ss The Shadow Fall 1948 289 · See No Evil · William Campbell Gault · ss New Detective Magazine September 1950, as “See No Murder” 299 · Crime of Omission · John D. MacDonald · ss Detective Tales August 1951 306 · The Girl in the Golden Cage · John W. Jakes · ss Thrilling Detective Summer 1953, as by Alan Payne

Tales of the Dead ed. Bill Pronzini (Crown/Bonanza, 1986, 0-517-61818-4, $11.95, 711pp, hc, an)     Slightly altered reprint of The Arbor House Necropolis anthology (Arbor House 1981), which had one more story- “White Rabbit” by Joe R. Lansdale. This has 37 tales of terror. 9 · Preface · Bill Pronzini · pr The Arbor House Necropolis ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1981 11 · Voodoo! · ed. Bill Pronzini · an Arbor House, 1980 19 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in Voodoo! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor, 1980 33 · Papa Benjamin · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Mystery Magazine July 1935, as “Dark Melody of Madness” 77 · “…Dead Men Working in the Cane Fields” · William B. Seabrook · ar from The Magic Island, Harcourt Brace & World, 1929 89 · Mother of Serpents · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales December 1936 101 · The Digging at Pistol Key · Carl Jacobi · ss Weird Tales July 1947 118 · Seven Turns in a Hangman’s Rope · Henry S. Whitehead · na Adventure July 15 1932 179 · The Isle of Voices · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The National Observer February 4 1893 201 · Powers of Darkness · John Russell · ss Collier’s March 30 1929 216 · Exú · Edward D. Hoch · ss Voodoo! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor, 1980 223 · Seventh Sister · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · nv Weird Tales January 1943 244 · The Devil Doll · Bryce Walton · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1947 254 · Kundu · Morris West · ex Kundu by Morris West, Dell, 1956 271 · The Candidate · Henry Slesar · ss Rogue August 1961 281 · Mummy! · ed. Bill Pronzini · an Arbor House, 1980 283 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 301 · Lot No. 249 · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1892 337 · Some Words with a Mummy · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Review April 1845 356 · Monkeys · E. F. Benson · ss Weird Tales December 1933 374 · Bones · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Stirring Science Stories February 1941 382 · The Vengeance of Nitocris · Tennessee Williams · ss Weird Tales August 1928, as by Thomas Lanier Williams 397 · The Mummy’s Foot · Théophile Gautier; translated by F. C. de Sumichrast · ss The Complete Works of Théophile Gautier: Volume VI by Théophile Gautier, tr. F. C. de Sumichrast, Bigelow, Smith & Co., 1900 translated from the French (“Le Pied de Momie”, Musée de Familles, September 1840). 410 · The Eyes of the Mummy [Sebek (unnamed narrator)] · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales April 1938 429 · Charlie · Talmage Powell · ss Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 447 · The Weekend Magus · Edward D. Hoch · ss Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 459 · The Princess · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 474 · The Eagle-Claw Rattle · Ardath Mayhar · ss Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 482 · The Other Room · Charles L. Grant · nv Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 503 · Revelation in Seven Stages · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 509 · Ghoul! · ed. Bill Pronzini · an The Arbor House Necropolis ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1981 511 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini · in The Arbor House Necropolis ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1981 523 · The Edinburgh Landlady · Aubrey Davidson · pm Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 30 1980 525 · The Body-Snatcher · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Pall Mall Gazette Christmas 1884 546 · The Loved Dead · C. M. Eddy, Jr. (with H. P. Lovecraft) · ss Weird Tales May/June/July 1924 559 · Indigestion · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Fantastic Stories September 1977 569 · The Chadbourne Episode [Gerald Canevin] · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales February 1933 586 · Disturb Not My Slumbering Fair · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · ss Cautionary Tales by Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Doubleday, 1978 600 · Quietly Now · Charles L. Grant · nv The Arbor House Necropolis ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1981 629 · The Ghoul · Sir Hugh Clifford · ss The Further Side of Silence by Hugh Clifford, Doubleday, Page, 1916 644 · The Spherical Ghoul · Fredric Brown · nv Thrilling Mystery January 1943 671 · Corpus Delectable [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss Tales from Gavagan’s Bar by L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt, Twayne, 1953 681 · Memento Mori · Bill Pronzini · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1974; revised. 689 · Gray Matter · Stephen King · ss Cavalier October 1973 703 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi The Arbor House Necropolis ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1981

The Texans ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1988, 0-449-13470-9, $3.50, 245pp, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 3 · The Ranger · Zane Grey · n. Ladies’ Home Journal October 1929 (+2) 42 · Pecos Bill and the Willful Coyote · William C. White · ss Story #96, July/August 1942 58 · The Higher Abdication · O. Henry · ss Munsey’s Magazine August 1906 78 · When the Children Cry for Meat · Noel M. Loomis · ss (r) 97 · One More River to Cross · William R. Cox · ss Rivers to Cross ed. William R. Cox, Dodd, Mead, 1966 116 · The Beast and Sergeant Gilhooley · Wayne Barton · ss Fiction #9, 1976 122 · Trail Song · Bennett Foster · ss 1950 136 · King Fisher’s Road · Clay Fisher · ss The Oldest Maiden Lady in New Mexico, and Other Stories by Clay Fisher, Macmillan, 1962 153 · Red Sand · Will C. Brown · nv Spur Western Novels #1, February/April 1955 193 · The Last Indian Fight in Kerr County · Elmer Kelton · ss Roundup ed. Stephen Overholser, Doubleday, 1982 209 · The Girl Who Invaded Texas · Bob Obets · nv Zane Grey’s Western Magazine January 1953