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Let It Snow (Zebra/Kensington, November 2003, 0-8217-7643-6, $6.99, 413pp, pb, an) 7 · A Misty Harbor Christmas · Marcia Evanick · na 91 · A from Blueberry Hill · Marcia Evanick · ex 105 · All I Want · Holly Chamberlin · na 223 · from Living Single · Holly Chamberlin · ex 235 · Merry, Merry · Fern Michaels · na A Joyous Season, Zebra Books, 1996 309 · Christmas Eve · Virginia Henley · na 1995

Let’s Talk of Graves ed. Dorothy M. Tomlinson, uncredited (Hutchinson, 1970, 318pp, hc, an)     Abridged from A Century of Ghost Stories; see also Walk in Dread. Also as Arrow pb, 1970. 9 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv In a Glass Darkly by J. S. Le Fanu, R. Bentley & Son, 1872 revised from “The Watcher”, Dublin University Magazine, November 1847. 56 · Gibbet Lane · Anthony Gittins · ss 50 Years of Ghost Stories, Hutchinson, 1935 65 · A Warning to the Curious · M. R. James · ss The London Mercury August 1925 85 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890 96 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914 written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length. 111 · The Rosewood Door · Oliver Onions · na The Painted Face by Oliver Onions, Heinemann, 1929 171 · The Song in the House · Ann Bridge · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1933 193 · The Operation · Violet Hunt · nv Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt, Heinemann, 1911 224 · The Sweeper · Ex-Private X · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931 243 · Perez · W. L. George · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1919, as “The Phantom Truth” 260 · The Phantom Coach · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1864, as “Another Past Lodger Relates His Own Ghost Story”, uncredited. 276 · The Gray Champion · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine January 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy” 285 · The Werewolf · Frederick Marryat · ex from The Phantom Ship, Henry Colburn, May 1839 309 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835

The Library of Classic Horror Stories (Running Press/Courage Books, 2001, 0-7624-1116-3, $15.98, 1045pp, hc, an, cover by Gil Cohen)     Anthology of eight stories and four novels: Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson (1886), Dracula by Bram Stoker (1897), The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells (1896), with two additional stories by Stevenson and six by Edgar Allan Poe. An instant remainder edition. · Frankenstein [Frankenstein] · Mary W. Shelley · n. Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, uncredited. · The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · Robert Louis Stevenson · na Longmans, Green, January 5 1886 · The Body Snatcher · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Pall Mall Gazette Christmas 1884 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 · Dracula [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · n. Constable, 1897 · The Island of Doctor Moreau · H. G. Wells · n. Stone & Kimball, 1896 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 · The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1841 · The Masque of the Red Death · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine May 1842, as “The Mask of the Red Death: A Fantasy” · The Pit and the Pendulum · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present, MDCCCXLIII, Carey & Hart, 1842 · The Gold-Bug · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Dollar Newspaper June 21 1843 (+1) · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846

Lightning Flashes and Electric Dashes (W.J. Johnston, 1877, hc, an)     Anthology of telegraph stories and non-fiction. 7 · The Volcanograph · Joseph Christie · ss (r) 11 · The Month of May · H. G. Adams · pm (r) 12 · Biography of Edward O. Chase (Nuf Ced) · [uncredited] · bg (r) 13 · A Leaf of Autobiography · W. P. Phillips · ss (r) 17 · Professor Morse and the Telegraph · Benson J. Lossing, LL.D. · ar (r) 28 · Biography of D. C. Shaw (Oney Gagin) · [uncredited] · bg (r) 29 · The Telegraph Dispatch—A Story of Telegraphy in the Early Days · J. D. Reid · nv (r) 38 · ’Tis Better to Have Loved and Lost · [uncredited] · hu (r) 39 · The Song of the Plug · G. W. Russell · pm (r) 40 · Biography of Joseph Christie (Werner) · [uncredited] · bg (r) 41 · Wives for Two; or, Joe’s Little Joke · E. O. Chase · ss (r) 45 · $1,000 Reward—My Foot Race with a Telegram · Ralph W. Pope · ss (r) 49 · Leander’s Tour of Investigation · D. C. Shaw · ss (r) 51 · Congressional Investigating Committee · [uncredited] · hu (r) 52 · Song of the Wire · [uncredited] · pm (r) 52 · Some Grave Thoughts · [uncredited] · vi (r) 53 · Kate—An Electromechanical Romance · Charles Barnard · nv Scribner’s Magazine 62 · Out of Adjustment · G. W. Russell · pm (r) 63 · George Washington Cribb’s Telegram · Joseph Christie · ss (r) 65 · A Perilous Christmas Courtship, or, Dangerous Telegraphy · J. M. Maclachlan · ss (r) 69 · Playing with Fire · L. A. Churchill · ss (r) 72 · Thoughts for Serious Moments · [uncredited] · ms (r); quotations. 74 · A Slight Mistake · L. A. Churchill · ss (r) 75 · The Telegrapher’s Song · J. A. Wyllie · pm (r) 75 · The Te—Leg—Rapher · Joseph Christie · hu (r); satire. 76 · The Vow of the Six Telegraph Operators · G. W. Russell · nv (r) 90 · Some Oxberience Mit a Railroats · C. B. Watts · hu (r); dialect humor. 91 · Scrapes · Geo. H. Bliss · hu (r) 93 · A Reminiscence · Joseph Christie · hu (r) 95 · Poor Dick · J. A. Clippinger · ss (r) 97 · The Telephone · James Walton Jackson · pm (r) 97 · Cabling Across the Atlantic · [uncredited] · ar (r) 98 · Snags · Geo. H. Bliss · ss (r) 101 · How a Signal Service Man Lost His Sweetheart · [uncredited] · hu (r) 101 · A Centennial Telegraphic Romance · W. J. Johnston · nv (r) 111 · By Telegraph · [uncredited] · pm (r) 112 · An Evening Reverie · W. P. Phillips · vi (r) 115 · What Came of Being Caught in a Snowstorm · Ned Kent · vi (r) 118 · Into the Jaws of Death · H. Van Hoevenbergh · ss (r) 122 · Hamilton Doless · W. C. Cherry · hu (r) 123 · Scenes and Incidents in a Superintendent’s Office · Tracy Barnes · vi (r) 124 · Our Night Car · Joseph Christie · vi (r) 127 · Lightning Anecdotes · [uncredited] · hu (r) 129 · The Quadruplex · Joseph Christie · hu (r) 130 · Putting “Ile” in the Batteries · Joseph Christie · ct (r) 130 · A Ludicrous Mistake · [uncredited] · ar (r) 131 · The Carnival of Oshkosh · T. C. Noble, Jr. · pl (r)

Listen to the Future (A Different Drum, August 2004, 0-9753631-0-7, $19.95, 195pp, tp, oa, cover by Will Foster)     Original anthology of ten futuristic stories with an accompanying CD with original synthpop soundtrack. Introduction by Todd Durant. · Introduction · Todd Durant · in · Creation · Rachael M. Haring · ss · Color Matching · Nathaniel Forgotson · ss · To Carry the Past · Thomas Kelley · ss · Six Minutes of Air · Paul Dworschack-Kinter · ss · Neil the Intelligent · Ian Stoner · ss · Survivor’s Guilt · Eric R. Goedken · ss · The Persistent Rhythm of Before · Christopher Hanks · ss · Firewall · Jennifer Dworschack-Kinter · ss · The Pure Ones · Scottland Jacobson · ss · Signals and Noise · Jill Ziegler · ss

The Literary Traveler: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (Viking, October 1994, 0670845787, 354pp, hc, an)     Contents list from Yahoo Books. 1 · The Gardens of Mont-Saint-Michel · William Maxwell · ss The New Yorker August 9 1969 25 · Great Barrier Reef · Diane Johnson · ss The New Yorker September 7 1992 47 · I’m Worried About You · Ward Just · ss (r) 67 · Travel · Sue Miller · ss (r) 85 · Delirium Eclipse · James Lasdun · ss (r) 105 · Wasted Lives · Fay Weldon · ss The New Yorker April 19 1993 117 · In Isfahan · William Trevor · ss (r) 139 · American Express · James Salter · nv Esquire February 1988 161 · The Fellow Passenger · Elizabeth Jolley · ss (r) 175 · The Sepia Postcard · Steven Millhauser · ss The Barnum Museum by Steven Millhauser, Poseidon, 1990 193 · Portrait of a Lady · Paul Theroux · ss World’s End and Other Stories by Paul Theroux, Houghtom Mifflin, 1980 207 · You Have Left Your Lotus Pods on the Bus · Paul Bowles · ss (r) 217 · Summer Opportunity · Maria Thomas · ss (r) 231 · Cruise · John Updike · ss The New Yorker April 4 1994 245 · Hold Me Fast, Don’t Let Me Pass · Alice Munro · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1988 275 · Which Is More Than I Can Say About Some People · Lorrie Moore · ss The New Yorker November 8 1993 295 · Virgin of Tenderness · Kate Braverman · ss (r) 309 · Succor · Allen Barnett · nv (r) 341 · Verona: A Young Woman Speaks · Harold Brodkey · ss Esquire July 1977 349 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

The Little Book of Big Chills (Lowell House Juvenile, 1994, 1-56565-557-5, 48pp, ph, an)     Anthology, two supernatural horror stories; intended for teenage audience. 7 · Nature’s Way · Q. L. Pearce · ss Bone-Chilling Tales of Fright, Lowell House Juvenile, 1994 29 · Post-Mortem · Don Wulffson · ss Bone-Chilling Tales of Fright, Lowell House Juvenile, 1994

Little Stories (Dean & Son, 1970, 110pp, hc, oa, cover: [boy and girl launching toys on toy sailboat])     In the “Little Ones’ Reader” series. Details supplied by Lia McGunigle from Table of Contents. 6 · The Easter Surprise · Charles Griffiths · ss 12 · The Town Clock Strikes · Joyce Eley · ss 15 · The Grumpy King · Charles Griffiths · ss 21 · The Quarrel · Constance Woodhead · ss 28 · The Cat and the Chick · Roma Lobel · ss 31 · Mr. Rabbit’s Treat · E. M. Saunders · ss 37 · Greencap’s Capers · Marjorie Groom · ss 42 · Peter Moon’s Red Whiskers · Iris Chick · ss 45 · The Monkey’s Plight · Arthur Groom · ss 51 · Jill’s Wishing Tree · H. E. Pemberton · ss 58 · The Bus That Went the Wrong Way · Joyce Eley · ss 64 · Cross Mr. Cross · Mabel M. Stevenson · ss 68 · Sam’s Sticky Toffee · Violet M. Williams · ss 73 · The Tale of the Little Black Pig · D. E. Ward · ss 77 · A Message for Uncle Bill · J. G. Metcalfe · ss 82 · The Family Tree · Charles Griffiths · ss 87 · Bobbin’s Walk · M. G. Rhodes · ss 93 · The Sockey Horse · P. K. Dutton · ss 99 · Mr. Jones’s House · Violet M. Williams · ss 105 · The Wood Dwarf · Agnes Nightingale · ss

London Mystery Anthology ed. Michael Hall, uncredited (Norman Kark, n.d., 21/-, 439pp, hc, an)     Reprint (Hulton 1952 as Mystery) horror/legends anthology. Rebound and retitled copies, reissued by Kark in the late fifties.

The Long Arm and Other Detective Stories (Chapman & Hall, 1895, hc, an) 1 · The Long Arm · Mary E. Wilkins (with Joseph Edgar Chamberlin) · na Chapman’s Magazine August 1895 67 · The Murder at Jex Farm · George Ira Brett · na (r) 139 · The Secret of the Treaty · Roy Tellet · na Chapman’s Magazine October 1895 187 · The Twinkling of an Eye · Brander Matthews · nv Chapman’s Magazine September 1895

The Longest Voyage/Slow Lightning (Tor, February 1991, 0-812-51170-0, $3.95, 241pp, pb, an, cover by Wayne Douglas Barlowe)     Anthology with “The Longest Voyage”, a Hugo-winning classic novelette by Poul Anderson, and an original short novel by Steven Popkes. 3 · The Longest Voyage · Poul Anderson · nv Analog Science Fact—Fiction December 1960 57 · Slow Lightning · Steven Popkes · n.

Lords of the Dead (Black Library US, February 2016, 978-1-78496-151-0, $19.00, 925pp, tp, an) [Warhammer: Time of Legends]     Tie-in omnibus with three stories and two novels: The Return of Nagash by Josh Reynolds (2015) and The Fall of Altdorf by Chris Wraight (2015). · The Return of Nagash [Warhammer: Time of Legends] · Josh Reynolds · n. Black Library, January 15 2015 · The Fall of Altdorf [Warhammer: Time of Legends] · Chris Wraight · n. Black Library, February 26 2015 · The Bone Cage [Warhammer: Time of Legends] · Phil Kelly · ss Black Library, February 2015 · With Ice and Sword [Warhammer: Time of Legends] · Graham McNeill · ss Black Library, February 2015 · Marienburg’s Stand [Warhammer: Time of Legends] · David Guymer · ss Black Library, February 2015

Lords of the Night (Zebra, March 1997, 0-8217-5593-5, $4.99, 320pp, pb, oa)     Original anthology of three dark-fantasy romance novellas by Janice Bennett, Sara Blayne, and Monique Ellis. 7 · The Deville Inheritance · Monique Ellis · na 143 · Dark Shadows · Sara Blayne · na 237 · The Full of the Moon · Janice Bennett · na

Lords of the Night (Kensington, September 2001, 0-7582-0049-8, $12.00, 276pp, tp, oa)     Reprint (Zebra 1997) vampire-romance anthology of three stories by Janice Bennett, Sara Blayne, and Monique Ellis.

Lords of the Night (Kensington/Zebra, September 2002, 0-8217-7318-6, $5.99, 320pp, pb, oa)     Reissue (Zebra 1997) vampire-romance anthology of three stories by Janice Bennett, Sara Blayne, and Monique Ellis. Second printing.

The Lost (Jove, November 24, 2009, 978-0-515-14718-6, $7.99, 373pp, pb, oa)     Original anthology of four stories, including an Eve Dallas novella by J.D. Robb. Other authors are Patricia Gaffney, Mary Blayney, and Ruth Ryan Langan. 1 · Missing in Death [Eve Dallas] · J. D. Robb · na 97 · The Dog Days of Laurie Summer · Patricia Gaffney · na 191 · Lost in Paradise · Mary Blayney · na 281 · Legacy · Ruth Ryan Langan · na