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Dallas Noir ed. David Hale Smith (Akashic Books, November 5, 2013, 978-1-61775-190-5, $19.95, 256pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]     Details taken from ebook. · A Permanent Black Scar · David Hale Smith · in · Part I: Cowboys · Hole-Man · Matt Bondurant · ss; set in White Rock. · The Realtor · Ben Fountain · ss; set in Swiss Avenue. · In the Air · Daniel J. Hale · ss; set in Deep Ellum. · The Clearing · Emma Rathbone · ss; set in Plano. · En la Calle Doce (Flaco’s Blues) · Oscar C. Peña · ss; set in Oak Cliff. · Part II: Rangers · The Private Room · Merritt Tierce · ss; set in Uptown. · Night Work · Clay Reynolds · ss; set in Old East Dallas. · Full Moon · Lauren Davis · ss; set in Pleasant Grove. · Like Kissing Your Sister · James Hime · ss; set in Irving. · An Angel from Heaven · Fran Hillyer · ss; set in Northpark. · Part III: Mavericks · Coincidences Can Kill You · Kathleen Kent · ss; set in Cleburne. · Big Things Happening Here · David Haynes · ss; set in Oak Lawn. · The Stickup Girl · Harry Hunsicker · ss; set in South Dallas. · Dog Sitter · Catherine Cuellar · ss; set in Love Field. · Miss Direction · J. Suzanne Frank · ss; set in Downtown. · Swingers Anonymous · Jonathan Woods · ss; set in M Streets.

A Case for Aliens by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, October 26, 2021, 978-1-56146-593-4, $6.99, 142pp, tp, co, cover by grandfailure)     Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · If Sex Is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the Mess? · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #5, February 2014 27 · Who’s Holding Donna Now? · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #12, September 2014 47 · In Case of Emergency · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #8, May 2014 67 · The Last Man [Buckey the Space Pirate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #43, April 2017 85 · Squatter’s Rights on the Street of Broken Men · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, July 13 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 109 · My Socks Rolled Down · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 13 2011

Christmas Guests by Dean Wesley Smith & Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Writer’s Ink Press, December 2002, 68pp, octavo, oc, cover by Paul Perez)     limited to 50, Christmas gift chapbooks for 2002 from Dean Wesley Smith and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, the 6th of these chapbooks done by the duo. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction to Christmas Guests · Dean Wesley Smith · in 4 · The Old Girlfriend of Doom [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 17 · Dead Even [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 28 · Gods Aren’t Funny [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 41 · To Grandmother’s House · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss 48 · Cookies for Mr. Carson · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss 54 · Foreign Exchange · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss 61 · A Soul Cake · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss

Five from the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, January 9, 2011, 978-1-4580-0886-2, $4.99, ebook, co)     Details taken from online listing. · Jukebox Gifts [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 1994 · A Golden Dream [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Black Cats and Broken Mirrors ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW, 1998, as “The Song of a Gift Horse” · Black Betsy [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Alternate Outlaws ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1994 · Our Slaying Song Tonight [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Five from the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2011 · Ghosts of the Garden Lounge [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Time After Time ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2005

Luck Be Ladies by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 18, 2019, 978-1-56146-096-0, $6.99, 166pp, tp, co)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · For the Balance of a Heart [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, August 17 2012 55 · That Lost Riddle [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Fiction River #1, Unnatural Worlds, April 2013 79 · Luck Be a Lady [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Intelligent Design ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2009 115 · You Forgive the Night’s Scream [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #6, March 2014 133 · The Rules of the Game [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Chicks and Balances ed. Esther Friesner & John Helfers, Baen, 2015

Playing a Hunch by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, July 28, 2020, 978-1-56146-355-8, $6.99, 124pp, tp, co, cover by Allyson Longueira)     Details taken from online listing. xi · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Leaking Away a Life [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2015 31 · A Reason to Play a Hunch [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #40, January 2017 49 · The Rude Improbable Presumptive [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2015 67 · The Library of Atlantis [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #34, July 2016 89 · Gods Have History [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2015

Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, April 11, 2016, 978-1-56146-649-8, $19.99, 348pp, tp, oc)     Reprint (WMG Publishing 2015) original collection of 32 short stories written, one each day (plus one extra), in July 2015 together with 32 articles about the writing of each story. Subtitled “32 Original Stories Written in July 2015”. 5 · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 9 · The Case of the Dead Lady Blues [Pilgrim Hugh] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 21 · A Bad Patch of Humanity [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 31 · They Were Divided by Cold Debt [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 43 · The Problem of Grapevine Springs [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 55 · Best Eaten on a Slow Tuesday · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 63 · A Matter for a Future Year [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 73 · Roses Around the Moment [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 87 · For the Delusion That Waited · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 91 · Here to Stay on the Edge · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 101 · The Great Alien Vibration · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 111 · A Great First Day [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 123 · The Face in the Fullness of Time · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 129 · Why Delay? Just Rub [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 139 · The Stone Slept Here · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 147 · An Obscene Crime Against Passion [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 159 · Make Myself Just One More [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 169 · Gods Have History [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 181 · Idanha Hotel [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 193 · Something Wasted On · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 201 · Nobody Slept Here [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 213 · Leaking Away a Life [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv 227 · Coffee Shop Comedy [Danny and Dora] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 237 · The Cavern [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 251 · A Bad Day for the Dream [Cold Poker Gang] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 261 · The Remodeling of a Life [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 269 · Dreaming Large [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 281 · To Remember a Single Minute · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 289 · The Case of the Lost Treasure [Pilgrim Hugh] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 301 · A Study of an Accident [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 311 · The Lady of Whispering Valley [Buckey the Space Pirate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 321 · The Rude Improbable Presumptive [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 331 · Start with a Coffin [Captain Brian Saber] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss

Through the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, September 28, 2017, 978-1-56146-783-9, $6.99, 140pp, tp, co)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 4 · Jukebox Gifts [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 1994 44 · The Songs of Memory [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, January 20 2011 66 · The Wages of the Moment [Thunder Mountain; Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 26 2013 82 · Our Slaying Song Tonight [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Five from the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2011 106 · Black Betsy [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Alternate Outlaws ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1994

Too Strange for the Name by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, November 4, 2021, 978-1-56146-596-5, $6.99, 140pp, tp, co)     Subtitled “Six Really, Really, Really Whacked Out Stories with Sex”. Details taken from Table of Contents. vi · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Don’t Rust on Me Now · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, March 4 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 21 · Iron Eyebrows · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 7 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield; subtitled “A Romance with Too Much Hair”. 37 · Mated from the Morgue · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, April 7 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 53 · The Romance Novel Challenge · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, June 10 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield; given as “The Romance Novel Challenge” in the Table of Contents. 75 · Squatter’s Rights on the Street of Broken Men · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, July 13 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 101 · If Sex Is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the Mess? · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #5, February 2014

Weird Crime by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, October 26, 2021, 978-1-56146-592-7, $6.99, 138pp, tp, co, cover by Paulfleet & Depositphotos)     Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · After the Dance · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #18, March 2015 17 · Death in the Morning [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #37, October 2016 45 · Center Drives [Sky Tate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #49, May 2021 59 · Cheerleader Revelation · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, May 13 2013 81 · Eyes on My Cards [Doc Hill] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Fiction River Special #1, Crime 2014 103 · I Killed Adam Chaser · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #3, December 2013

An Afterlife of Really Creepy Stories: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, July 17, 2024, 978-1-56146-004-5, $16.99, 272pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. xiii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Harry the Ghost Pirate · Robert J. McCarter · ss X Marks the Spot ed. Lisa Mangum, WordFire Press, 2020 23 · New Beginnings · R. W. Wallace · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #17, 2022 49 · The Eyeball at the End of the Rainbow [Dan Shamble] · Kevin J. Anderson · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #27, 2024 81 · Waiting for the Hunger [Greystone Bay] · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss Doom City ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1987 95 · Scrooge and Marley · David H. Hendrickson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #24, 2023 111 · When the Cows Come Home · Keith West · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #28, 2024 127 · The Spirit House · Lisa S. Silverthorne · nv Quantum Speculative Fiction ed. Kurt Roth, Obscura Press, 1999 153 · All Things Must End · Scott Edelman · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #29, 2024 169 · After · Annie Reed · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #29, 2024 181 · Grief Spam · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Fiction River #36, Dark & Deadly Passions 2021

Alibi Murder: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 28, 2023, 978-1-56146-876-8, $9.99, 176pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Market Street · O’Neil De Noux · ss Crimewave #1, 1999 17 · January 3rd · Ron Collins · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13, 2021 37 · Last Job · Rebecca M. Senese · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #15, 2021 51 · A Fool and His Money · Jerry Oltion · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #16, 2022 69 · Death of a Woman of Ill Repute · Annie Reed · ss Crimes of Yesteryear by Annie Reed, Thunder Valley Ink, 2020 87 · Cleanup Crew · Ray Vukcevich · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #17, 2022 93 · A Father’s Daughter · Lisa Silverthorne · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #19, 2022 103 · Self Service · J. Steven York · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #19, 2022 109 · Wishful Thinking [Dan Shamble] · Kevin J. Anderson · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #4, Fall 2018 135 · At Witt’s End [Spade & Paladin] · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #1, January 2018

The Alien Who Ate My Homework and Burped: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, July 17, 2024, 978-1-56146-994-9, $16.99, 224pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. xi · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Francesca and the Sentient Peaches from Outer Space · Bonnie Elizabeth · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #23, 2023 13 · The Sleeping Agent · Charlotte Munich · nv Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #25, 2024 41 · Objects of Desire · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · nv Alien Pets ed. Denise Little, DAW, 1998 65 · Power Chords · Brigid Collins · ss Snot-Nosed Aliens ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2019 81 · A Nice Short Conversation · Robert J. McCarter · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #26, 2024 95 · The Bobs · Annie Reed · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #26, 2024 113 · Walking the Dog · J. Steven York · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #13, 2021 125 · The 1970s Must Die! · Robert Jeschonek · ss Space: 1975, Pie Press, 2021 155 · From the Good Old Days · Jim Gotaas · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #9, 2020 187 · Two-Minute Drill · David H. Hendrickson · ss Snot-Nosed Aliens ed. Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2019

Aliens Among Us: Stories from Pulphouse Fiction Magazine ed. Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, February 4, 2021, 978-1-56146-368-8, $9.99, 206pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. v · The Best Alien Stories from the Pages of Pulphouse Fiction Magazine · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Planet Suds and the Sockpocalypse · Lisa Silverthorne · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #9, 2020 17 · Human Subjects · Ray Vukcevich · ss Amazing Stories September 2004 29 · No Common Scents · Jim Gotaas · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #8, Fall 2019 51 · Suicide by UFO · Jerry Oltion · nv Science Fiction Review #2, Summer 1990 81 · Another Door · Annie Reed · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #7, Summer 2019 101 · The Injustice Collector · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv I, Alien ed. Mike Resnick, DAW, 2005 137 · My Socks Rolled Down · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 13 2011 151 · Alien Automotive · Kent Patterson · vi Analog Science Fiction and Fact January 1993 159 · The Time Cop · Patrick Alan Mammay · ss Pulphouse Fiction Magazine #2, April 2018 173 · Blackbeard’s Aliens · Robert Jeschonek · ss Pie Press, 2012