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Great Tales of Horror and the Supernatural ed. Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg & Barry N. Malzberg (A&W/Galahad, 1985, 0-88365-699-X, $8.98, 597pp, hc, an)     Abridged reprint of The Arbor House Treasury of Horror and the Supernatural (Arbor House, 1981), omitting “Mass Without Voices” by Arthur L. Samuels. 11 · Introduction · Stephen King · in (r) 25 · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849 32 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine” 62 · Squire Toby’s Will · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Temple Bar January 1868 91 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893 103 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908 135 · “Man Overboard!” · Winston Churchill · ss The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine January 1899 139 · The Hand · Theodore Dreiser · nv Munsey’s Magazine May 1919 157 · The Valley of the Spiders · H. G. Wells · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1903 168 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890 177 · Pickman’s Model · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales October 1927 190 · Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1943 207 · The Screaming Laugh · Cornell Woolrich · ss Clues Detective Stories November 1938 228 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 238 · Bianca’s Hands · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Argosy (UK) May 1947 247 · The Girl with the Hungry Eyes · Fritz Leiber · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 262 · Shut a Final Door · Truman Capote · ss The Atlantic Monthly August 1947 276 · Come and Go Mad · Fredric Brown · nv Weird Tales July 1949 317 · The Scarlet King · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt December 25 1954 328 · Sticks [Cthulhu] · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Whispers March 1974 347 · Sardonicus · Ray Russell · nv Playboy January 1961 380 · A Teacher’s Rewards · Robert S. Phillips · ss The Land of Lost Content by Robert Phillips, Vanguard, 1970 388 · The Roaches · Thomas M. Disch · ss Escapade October 1965 397 · The Jam · Henry Slesar · ss Playboy November 1958 403 · Black Wind · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1979 408 · The Road to Mictlantecutli · Adobe James · ss Adam Bedside Reader #20, 1965 422 · Passengers · Robert Silverberg · ss Orbit 4 ed. Damon Knight, Putnam, 1968 435 · The Explosives Expert · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1967 442 · Call First · Ramsey Campbell · ss Night Chills ed. Kirby McCauley, Avon, 1975 447 · The Fly · Arthur Porges · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1952 452 · Namesake · Elizabeth Morton · vi Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic July 1981 454 · Camps · Jack M. Dann · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1979 480 · You Know Willie · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1957 485 · The Mindworm · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Worlds Beyond December 1950 498 · Warm · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1953 507 · Transfer · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Fantastic Stories August 1975 514 · The Doll · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch 1980 536 · If Damon Comes [Oxrun Station] · Charles L. Grant · ss The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI ed. Gerald W. Page, DAW, 1978 548 · The Oblong Room [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Saint Magazine July 1967 558 · The Party · William F. Nolan · ss Playboy April 1967 568 · The Crate · Stephen King · nv Gallery July 1979

Great Tales of the West ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Galahad Books, 1982, 0-88365-702-3, 445pp, hc, an)     Revised as Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories (Arbor House 1982). 11 · Introduction · John Jakes · in 23 · Part One: The First Fifty Years 25 · Buck Fanshaw’s Funeral · Mark Twain · ss from Roughing It, American Publishing Company, 1872 33 · How Santa Claus Came to Simpson’s Bar · Bret Harte · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1872 46 · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898 72 · The Vengeance of Padre Arroyo · Gertrude Atherton · ss Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine July 1891 78 · The Reformation of Calliope · O. Henry · ss Associated Sunday Magazine February 28 1904, as by Sydney Porter 86 · Timberline · Owen Wister · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 7 1908 97 · All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine November 1905 115 · The Honk-Honk Breed · Stewart Edward White · ss Everybody’s Magazine July 1907 124 · The Trouble Man · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 20 1909 141 · From Missouri · Zane Grey · nv McCall’s Magazine August 1926 164 · Ananias Green [Andy Green; Flying U Ranch] · B. M. Bower · ss The Popular Magazine February 1909 175 · The Hold-Up [Hopalong Cassidy] · Clarence E. Mulford · ss The Coming of Cassidy by Clarence E. Mulford, A.L. Burt, 1913 188 · Science at Heart’s Desire [Dan Anderson] · Emerson Hough · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 1 1904 199 · Last Warning · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories January 10 1943 210 · The Weight of Obligation · Rex Beach · ss Crimson Gardenia, and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach, Harper & Brothers, 1916 229 · Dust Storm · Max Brand · ss Collier’s April 3 1937 243 · Part Two: The Second Fifty Years 245 · Top Hand · Luke Short · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 30 1943 257 · High Wind · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s January 5 1935 271 · The Gift of Cochise · Louis L’Amour · ss Collier’s July 5 1952 285 · First Principal · A. B. Guthrie, Jr. · ss Gunsmoke 1953 294 · I Woke Up Wicked · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s February 18 1955 308 · Sergeant Houck · Jack Schaefer · nv Collier’s July 14 1951 327 · The Woman at Apache Wells · John Jakes · ss Max Brand’s Western Magazine September 1952, as “Lobo Loot” 335 · The Boy Who Smiled · Elmore Leonard · ss Gunsmoke June 1953 347 · Hired Gun · William R. Cox · ss Argosy January 1951 357 · Due Process · Steve Frazee · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1960, as “All Legal and Proper” 374 · Riverboat Fighter · Brian Garfield · ss They Opened the West ed. Tom Blackburn, Doubleday, 1967 386 · Snowblind · Evan Hunter · ss Gunsmoke August 1953 395 · The Hanging Man · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 12 1981 408 · The Patriarch of Gunsight Flat · Wayne D. Overholser · ss The Blue Book Magazine June 1950 419 · Rainbow Captive · Stephen Overholser · ss Antæus #25/26, Spring/Summer 1977 430 · The Trap · Clay Fisher · nv The Oldest Maiden Lady in New Mexico, and Other Stories by Clay Fisher, Macmillan, 1962

The Gunfighters ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Fawcett Gold Medal, January 1988, 0-449-13147-5, $2.50, 247pp, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 3 · The Killer · Henry Herbert Knibbs · pm (r) 6 · Billy the Kid · Pat F. Garrett · ts (r) 53 · First Kill · Will C. Brown · ss (r) 68 · The Makings · Norman A. Fox · ss Collier’s June 19 1948 73 · The Streets of Laredo · Clay Fisher · ss Western Roundup ed. Nelson Nye, Macmillan, 1961, as by Will Henry 90 · Too Good with a Gun · Lewis B. Patten · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine April 1950 102 · Gunman · L. L. Foreman · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine September 1950 116 · Mean Men Are Big · Wayne D. Overholser · ss Frontiers West ed. S. Omar Barker, Doubleday, 1959 131 · Killer in Town · Thomas Thompson · ss Western Story Magazine February 1953 151 · Jugged · Elmore Leonard · ss Western Magazine December 1955 168 · Portrait of a Gunfighter · Hal G. Evarts, Jr. · ss (r) 185 · The Man We Called Jones · T. V. Olsen · ss Ranch Romances November 1959 199 · The Gunny · Bill Pronzini · ss 206 · Billy the Button · William R. Cox · ss Zane Grey Western Magazine November 1970 226 · The Last Gunman · Donald Hamilton · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 2 1959

Hard-Boiled ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian (Oxford University Press US, 1995, 0-19-508499-3, $25.00, 532pp, hc, an) 3 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian · in 20 · The Scorched Face [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask May 1925 55 · Round Trip · W. R. Burnett · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1929 65 · Mistral · Raoul Whitfield · ss Adventure December 15 1931 83 · Backwash [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick Nebel · nv Black Mask May 1932 109 · Trouble-Chaser [Black] · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask April 1934 128 · Fruit Tramp · Daniel Mainwaring · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1934 141 · Brush Fire · James M. Cain · ss Liberty December 5 1936 150 · Human Interest Stuff · Brett Halliday · ss Adventure September 1938, as by Davis Dresser 163 · Waiting for Rusty · William Cole · ss Black Mask October 1939 168 · I’ll Be Waiting [Tony Reseck] · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 14 1939 185 · Marijuana and a Pistol · Chester Himes · ss Esquire 1940 189 · Who Said I Was Dead? [William “Bail Bond” Dodd] · Norbert Davis · nv Dime Detective Magazine August 1942 224 · Nor Iron Bars · John D. MacDonald · ss Doc Savage March/April 1947 230 · Dock Walloper · Benjamin Appel · nv Dock Walloper by Benjamin Appel, Lion, 1953 257 · Three-Ten to Yuma · Elmore Leonard · nv Dime Western Magazine March 1953 272 · The Bobby-Soxer · Jonathan Craig · ss Manhunt October 1953 277 · Black Pudding · David Goodis · nv Manhunt December 1953 301 · Guilt-Edged Blonde [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Manhunt January 1954, as by John Ross Macdonald 316 · Mama’s Boy · David Alexander · nv Manhunt May 1955 335 · The Screen Test of Mike Hammer · Mickey Spillane · pl Male July 1955 340 · Home · Gil Brewer · ss Accused Detective Story Magazine March 1956 348 · So Pale, So Cold, So Fair · Leigh Brackett · nv Argosy July 1957 377 · A Piece of Ground · Helen Nielsen · ss Manhunt July 1957 388 · The Merry, Merry Christmas · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt December 1957 396 · Forever After · Jim Thompson · ss Shock—The Magazine of Terrifying Tales May 1960 405 · The Old Pro · H. A. DeRosso · ss Manhunt December 1960 418 · The Saturday Night Deaths · Michael Kerr · ss Mystery Monthly July 1976 429 · Graveyard Shift · James M. Reasoner · vi Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine November 1978, as by M. R. James 433 · Deadhead Coming Down · Margaret Maron · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine April 1978 438 · To Florida · Robert Sampson · nv The New Black Mask No.8 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1987 455 · It’s a Hard World · Andrew Vachss · ss A Matter of Crime, Vol. 1 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, Harvest, 1987 460 · Junior Jackson’s Parable · James Hannah · ss Desperate Measures by James Hannah, Southern Methodist University Press, 1988 474 · Bonding · Faye Kellerman · ss Sisters in Crime ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1989 488 · Gravy Train · James Ellroy · ss The Armchair Detective Winter 1990 503 · Batman’s Helpers [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · ss Justice for Hire ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1990 518 · The Long Silence After · Ed Gorman · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992

Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of Crime Stories ed. Bill Pronzini & Jack Adrian--- see under Jack Adrian.

Homicidal Acts ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Ivy, January 1989, 0-8041-0294-5, $3.50, 244pp, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in 3 · Blond and Blue [Amos Walker] · Loren D. Estleman · nv The New Black Mask No.4 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1986 30 · Moving Spirit [Harry Purvis (White Hart)] · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Tales from the White Hart by Arthur C. Clarke, Ballantine, 1957 43 · Address Unknown · Joyce Harrington · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1982 60 · Charlie’s Game [Charlie Dark] · Brian Garfield · nv Checkpoint Charlie by Brian Garfield, Mysterious Press, 1981 revised from “Joe Cutter’s Game” (Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine, July 1976). 82 · The Curious Facts Preceding My Execution · Donald E. Westlake · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1960, as by Richard Stark 95 · The Jail · Jesse Hill Ford · ss Playboy March 1975 112 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 137 · Dagger · John W. Jakes · ss Hunted Detective Story Magazine #9, April 1956 151 · Skin Deep [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss The New Black Mask No.8 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1987 165 · Buried Treasure · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1982 178 · The Candy Skull · Ray Bradbury · ss Dime Mystery Magazine January 1948 197 · The Killer · Norman Mailer · ss Evergreen Review v8, #32, April/May 1964 204 · The People Across the Canyon · Margaret Millar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1962 222 · Iris · Stephen Greenleaf · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984

The Horse Soldiers ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Fawcett Gold Medal, August 1987, 0-449-13146-7, $2.50, 196pp, pb, an) vii · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) ix · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms (r) 1 · Some Call Him Brave · S. Omar Barker · pm (r) 4 · When a Document Is Official · Frederic Remington · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1899 13 · Cat Nipped · Jack Schaefer · nv The Pioneers by Jack Schaefer, Houghton Mifflin, 1954 34 · By the Beard of Saint Crispin · James Warner Bellah · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 3 1946 47 · Tear Up the Orders! · Bill Gulick · ss New Western Magazine May 1947 62 · Renegade · Gil Brewer · nv Blazing Guns Western Story Magazine #2, December 1956 79 · The Unbeliever · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s August 16 1952 94 · Desert Command · Elmer Kelton · ex from The Wolf and the Buffalo, Doubleday, 1980 117 · The Old Chief’s Mountain · Bryce Walton · ss Gunsmoke June 1953 129 · The Glory Riders · Brian Garfield · ss With Guidons Flying ed. Charles Heckelmann, Doubleday, 1970 146 · The Colonel’s Lady · Elmore Leonard · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine November 1952 160 · The White Man’s Road · Clay Fisher · ss (r)

Kill or Cure ed. Bill Pronzini & Marcia Muller--- see under Marcia Muller.

Lady on the Case ed. Bill Pronzini, Marcia Muller & Martin H. Greenberg--- see under Marcia Muller.

The Lawmen ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Fawcett Gold Medal, June 1984, 0-449-12689-7, $2.50, 243pp, pb, an) 1 · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in (r) 3 · Tom Smith of Abilene · S. Omar Barker · pm (r) 6 · The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky · Stephen Crane · nv McClure’s Magazine February 1898 20 · McQuestion Rides [Matt McQuestion] · Ernest Haycox · nv Collier’s June 20 1931 34 · The Marshal of Broken Lance · Frank Gruber · ss Short Stories April 25 1938 52 · The Bounty Killers · Steve Frazee · ss Swank December 1955, as “I’ll Kill You Smiling, John Sevier” 69 · Star for a Warrior · Talmage Powell · ss (r) 82 · The Graveyard on the Hill · Edward D. Hoch · ss Blazing Guns Western Story Magazine #4, April 1957 86 · Epitaph · Tom W. Blackburn · nv Zane Grey’s Western Magazine July 1949, as “Epitaph for a Boomtown Marshal” 110 · The Sheriff of Chayute · Theodore Sturgeon · ss (r) 126 · Gun Job · Thomas Thompson · nv Collier’s February 28 1953 149 · Peace Officer · Brian Garfield · ss Iron Men and Silver Stars ed. Donald Hamilton, Fawcett, 1967 166 · The Guns of William Longley · Donald Hamilton · ss Iron Men and Silver Stars ed. Donald Hamilton, Fawcett, 1967 183 · The Hanging Man · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 12 1981 199 · They Hanged Wild Bill Murphy · Wayne D. Overholser · na Fifteen Western Tales September 1947

Locked Room Puzzles ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

The Mammoth Book of Private Eye Stories ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg (Robinson, 1988, 592pp, hc, an)     Also available in tp (Carroll & Graf 1988). xi · Introduction · Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg · in 1 · Wrong Pigeon [Philip Marlowe] · Raymond Chandler · nv The Daily Mail April 6 1959, as “Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate” 28 · Not My Corpse [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Thrilling Detective June 1948 74 · Diamonds of Death [Dan Turner] · Robert Leslie Bellem · nv Spicy Detective Stories July 1934 92 · Before She Kills [Ed & Am Hunter] · Fredric Brown · nv Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #3, 1961 120 · So Dark for April [Paul Pine] · Howard Browne · nv Manhunt February 1953, as by John Evans 141 · Stolen Star [Joe Puma] · William Campbell Gault · ss Manhunt November 1957 160 · Guilt-Edged Blonde [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Manhunt January 1954, as by John Ross Macdonald 173 · Suicide Is Scandalous [Peter Chambers] · Henry Kane · nv Esquire June 1948 201 · Dead Giveaway [Shell Scott] · Richard S. Prather · na Cavalier #44, February 1957, as “The Case of the Three Wild Blondes” 248 · Surf [Dave Brandstetter] · Joseph Hansen · nv Mystery Monthly December 1976, as “Murder on the Surf” 270 · A Reason to Die [Dan Fortune] · Michael Collins · nv The New Black Mask Quarterly No.2 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1985 293 · Death Flight · Ed McBain · na Argosy September 1954, as “Ticket to Death” by Evan Hunter 333 · Wanted—Dead and Alive [Chester Drum] · Stephen Marlowe · ss Manhunt October 1963 344 · The Other Eye [Al Darlan (aka Al Diamond)] · Edward D. Hoch · nv Crime Wave, Collins, 1981 358 · Busted Blossoms [Toby Peters] · Stuart M. Kaminsky · ss Mean Streets ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1986 368 · Out of the Window [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1977 397 · Ride the Lightning [Alo Nudger] · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1985 416 · She Didn’t Come Home [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · ss Redbook April 1986 430 · The Reason Why [Jack Dwyer] · Edward Gorman · ss Criminal Elements ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Ivy, 1988 444 · Iris · Stephen Greenleaf · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 462 · Skeleton Rattle Your Mouldy Leg [Nameless Private Eye] · Bill Pronzini · nv The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 485 · The Broken Men [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · na Women Sleuths ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Academy Chicago, 1985 526 · Trouble in Paradise [Jacob Asch] · Arthur Lyons · nv The New Black Mask Quarterly No.1 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1985 549 · The Strawberry Teardrop [Nate Heller] · Max Allan Collins · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 564 · The Nickel Derby [Henry Po] · Robert J. Randisi · ss Hardboiled #7, Spring 1987 579 · Greektown [Amos Walker] · Loren D. Estleman · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1983