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Dead Funny: Horror Stories by Comedians ed. Johnny Mains & Robin Ince--- see under Robin Ince.

Halloweird: Classic Stories from the Season of Samhain ed. Johnny Mains (British Library Publishing, October 10, 2024, 978-0-7123-5502-5, £16.99, xvi+299pp, hc, an, cover by Mag Ruhig) [British Library Hardback Classics]     Details taken from online listing. vii · A Brief History of Early Halloween · Johnny Mains · in 3 · Hallowe’en · John Mayne · pm Ruddiman’s Weekly Magazine November 1780 9 · Halloween · Robert Burns · pm Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect by Robert Burns, John Wilson, 1786 21 · Hallowe’en: Or a Tale of Terror · Revi · pm Belfast Commercial Chronicle November 18 1807 25 · ’Twas the Night of All Hallows · Geraldine · pm The Brooklyn Daily Eagle October 31 1865 33 · Vermudyn’s Fate · R. Fryer · ss Chambers’s Journal August 23 1884 (+1) 53 · Out of the Night · Elizabeth Phipps Train · ss Peterson’s Magazine November 1889 71 · The Face in the Glass · Letitia Virginia Douglas · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book October 1891 85 · ’Struther Kannock’s Halloween · Edgar L. Wakeman · ss New Haven Daily Morning Journal and Courier October 27 1894 105 · The Phantom Ride: A Hallowe’en Ghost Story · Lyllian Huntley · ss Sunny South October 27 1901 115 · The Vow on Hallowe’en · Lyllian Huntley Harris · vi Weird Tales May/June/July 1924 121 · The Banshee’s Halloween [Darby O’Gill] · Herminie Templeton Kavanagh · ss McClure’s Magazine May 1903, as by Herminie Templeton 145 · The Graveyard · Alphonse Courlander · ss The Sketch March 6 1907 155 · All Souls’ Night · Eleanor Fitzgerald · ss The New Ross Standard October 29 1909 163 · The Sword · Rachel Swete Macnamara · ss The Sketch November 28 1917 171 · Cock-Crow Inn · Tod Robbins · nv Mystery Magazine March 1 1926 195 · When Hell Laughed · Flavia Richardson · ss Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine January 1926 207 · All Souls’ · Edith Wharton · nv Ghosts by Edith Wharton, Appleton-Century, 1937 235 · Moonlight—Starlight · Virginia Layefsky · ss Ladies’ Home Journal October 1959 249 · The New House · Elizabeth Walter · nv Snowfall and Other Chilling Events by Elizabeth Walter, Harvill Press, 1965 283 · The Grove · Mary Williams · ss Chill Company by Mary Williams, Kimber, 1976

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

Angel Maker by Sara Maitland (Holt, August 1996, 0-8050-4412-4, $25.00, 340pp, hc, co, cover by Cathleen Toelke)     Collection of 30 literary stories, many derived from myth and fairy tales. 1 · Angel Maker · Sara Maitland · ss A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 11 · Siren Song · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 21 · Flower Garden · Sara Maitland · ss A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 35 · The Lady Artemis · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 47 · Lullaby for My Dyke and Her Cat · Sara Maitland · ss A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 57 · Conquistador · Sara Maitland · ss Bananas #13, January/February 1979 69 · The Burning Times · Sara Maitland · ss Telling Tales by Sara Maitland, Journeyman Press, 1983 81 · An Edwardian Tableau · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 91 · An Un-Romance · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 101 · Forceps Delivery · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 111 · Fag Hags: A Field Guide · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 119 · The Tale of the Beautiful Princess Kalito · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 131 · Maybe a Love Poem for My Friend · Sara Maitland · pm A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 133 · Heart Throb · Sara Maitland · ss Passion Fruit by Sara Maitland, Winterson, Pandora, 1986 145 · Daphne · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 155 · The Loveliness of the Long-Distance Runner · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 165 · Better Safe than Sorry · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 171 · The Eighth Planet · Sara Maitland · ss A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 183 · Triptych · Sara Maitland · ss A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 203 · Apple Picking · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 221 · The Wicked Stepmother’s Lament · Sara Maitland · ss More Tales I Tell My Mother by Sara Maitland, Journeyman, 1987 229 · Cassandra · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 241 · The Tale of the Valiant Demoiselle · Sara Maitland · nv A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 267 · Seal-Self · Sara Maitland · ss A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland, Michael Joseph, 1987 279 · Blessed Are Those Who Mourn · Sara Maitland · ss Bananas #7, Spring 1977 291 · Andromeda · Sara Maitland · ss Bananas #5, Summer 1976 301 · Dragon Dreams · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 311 · A Fall from Grace · Sara Maitland · ss Weddings and Funerals ed. La Tourette & Sara Maitland, Latourette/Maitland, Brilliance, 1984 323 · True North · Sara Maitland · ss (r) 331 · “Let Us Now Praise Unknown Women and Our Mothers Who Begat Us” · Sara Maitland · ss Stepping Out by Sara Maitland, Oosthuizen, 1986

A Book of Spells by Sara Maitland (Michael Joseph, September 1987, 0-7181-2755-2, £9.95, 174pp, hc, oc, cover by Lesley Craig)     Collection of short stories (mainly original) about magic. 1 · Angel Maker · Sara Maitland · ss 11 · The Eighth Planet · Sara Maitland · ss 23 · Seal-Self · Sara Maitland · ss 33 · Heart Throb · Sara Maitland · ss Passion Fruit by Sara Maitland, Winterson, Pandora, 1986 45 · Maybe a Love Poem for My Friend · Sara Maitland · pm 47 · The Tale of the Valiant Demoiselle · Sara Maitland · nv 73 · Promises · Sara Maitland · ss 83 · Miss Manning’s Angelic Moment · Sara Maitland · ss 91 · Lullaby for My Dyke and Her Cat · Sara Maitland · ss 101 · Triptych · Sara Maitland · ss 121 · Flower Garden · Sara Maitland · ss 135 · A Fall from Grace · Sara Maitland · ss Weddings and Funerals ed. La Tourette & Sara Maitland, Latourette/Maitland, Brilliance, 1984 147 · The Wicked Stepmother’s Lament · Sara Maitland · ss More Tales I Tell My Mother by Sara Maitland, Journeyman, 1987 155 · “Let Us Now Praise Unknown Women and Our Mothers Who Begat Us” · Sara Maitland · ss Stepping Out by Sara Maitland, Oosthuizen, 1986 165 · Particles of a Wave · Sara Maitland · aw More Tales I Tell My Mother by Sara Maitland, Journeyman, 1987

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.

The Garden of TNT by William J. Makin (Black Dog Books, March 31, 2015, 978-1-884449-57-4, $24.95, 550pp, tp, co, cover by Herbert Morton Stoops)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 7 · The Man Behind the Wolf · Mike Ashley · in 13 · The Woman of Antioch [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss Pearson’s Magazine November 1932, as “A King Goes By” 36 · The Desert of the Singing Sands [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1932, as “The Man Who Sold Beds” 54 · The Dhow That Sailed to Nowhere [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv Pearson’s Magazine January 1933 81 · Miracle in the Desert [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv The Blue Book Magazine February 1933 116 · The Secret of Zogra Island [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss Pearson’s Magazine February 1933, as “The Three-Four Flash” 128 · The Three Dead Camels [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv Pearson’s Magazine April 1933 147 · Thirteen Men [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1933, as “Thirteen Men at the Opera” 161 · It Happened in Port Said [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv The Blue Book Magazine June 1933 181 · The Jerusalem Express [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine December 1933 196 · The Gold Ship [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine February 1934 208 · The Garden of T.N.T. [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine March 1934 223 · The Drums of Omdurman [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine April 1934 243 · Red Sea Pearls [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1934 261 · Death in the Desert [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine September 1934 275 · The Merchant of Mocha [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1934 288 · The Planes That Never Returned [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine March 1935 306 · The Queen of Sheba [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine June 1935 322 · The Gorge of Terror [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine September 1935 335 · The Lion of Judah [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine December 1935 350 · The Mines of Sheba’s Queen [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv The Blue Book Magazine April 1936 372 · The Return of the Red Wolf [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1937 386 · The Assassins of Angora [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine October 1937 401 · The Blue Oasis [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv The Blue Book Magazine November 1937 420 · The Murder Club of Bagdad [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1938 433 · The Treasure of Abdul the Damned [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine April 1938 446 · The Dogs of Istanbul [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine May 1938 456 · Bethlehem—1939 [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine October 1939 471 · The Elusive General [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine December 1939 488 · London Blackout [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine March 1940 500 · Orient Express [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · ss The Blue Book Magazine April 1940 517 · The Thirteenth Man [Paul Rodgers (The Red Wolf of Arabia)] · William J. Makin · nv The Blue Book Magazine November 1944