The FictionMags Index

Book Contents Lists: Page 1614

The Devil’s Graveyard by G. G. Pendarves--- see under BFS Booklet #14, 1988.

Thing of Darkness by G. G. Pendarves (Midnight House, 2005, 0-9740589-7-1, $45.00, 333pp, hc, co, cover by Allen Koszowski) [edited by Mike Ashley]     Limited to 525 numbered copies, of which 500 were offered for sale. 9 · Ancient Dooms · Mike Ashley · in 15 · Thing of Darkness · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales August 1937 57 · The Grave at Goonhilly · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales October 1930 81 · The Doomed Treveans · G. G. Pendarves · ss Weird Tales May 1928 99 · The Devil’s Graveyard · G. G. Pendarves · nv Hutchinson’s Mystery Story Magazine December 1924 127 · The Dark Star · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales March 1937 163 · The Lord of the Tarn · G. G. Pendarves · ss Weird Tales November 1927 179 · From the Dark Halls of Hell · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales January 1932 211 · The Black Monk · G. G. Pendarves · ss Weird Tales October 1938 221 · The Whistling Corpse · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales July 1937 261 · The Withered Heart · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales November 1939 287 · The Sin-Eater · G. G. Pendarves · nv Weird Tales December 1938

Thirty Pieces of Silver by G. G. Pendarves (Black Dog Books, July 6, 2009, 978-1-928619-85-7, $14.95, 147pp, tp, co, cover by Howard V. Brown) 7 · Beware the Black Camel · Robert Weinberg · in 11 · The Black Camel · G. G. Pendarves · ss Oriental Stories October/November 1930 28 · The Veiled Leopard · G. G. Pendarves · ss Oriental Stories December 1930/January 1931 43 · The Secret Trail · G. G. Pendarves · nv Oriental Stories February/March 1931 66 · Thirty Pieces of Silver · G. G. Pendarves · nv Oriental Stories Summer 1931 88 · El Hamel, the Lost One · G. G. Pendarves · ss Oriental Stories Winter 1932 104 · The Djinnee of El Sheyb · G. G. Pendarves · nv Oriental Stories Spring 1932 124 · Passport to the Desert · G. G. Pendarves · nv The Magic Carpet Magazine January 1934

According to the Evidence by Hugh Pendexter (Black Dog Books, March 6, 2013, 978-1-884449-34-5, $17.95, 286pp, tp, co)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 7 · Introduction · Jeremiah Healy · in 9 · The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 26 1905 18 · The Baked Apple Alibi [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 24 1906 30 · As Prescribed by the Talmud [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Wayside Tales April 1906 39 · Hiram Tanker’s Third Personality [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss The Red Book Magazine June 1906 49 · The Search for the Musical Heir [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Spare Moments June 1909 59 · Retained for the Defense [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Adventure July 1912 74 · The Death Cup [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Adventure December 1912 89 · Iramel Thacker, Claimant [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1913 100 · According to the Evidence [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Adventure March 1913 115 · The Testimony of the Dead Man [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Adventure April 1913 122 · Circumstantial Evidence [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories December 1913 134 · The Crimson Tracks [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · na Adventure September 1912 208 · The Chelsea Vase [The Bureau of Abnormal Litigation] · Hugh Pendexter · na Adventure July 1914

The Shorthorn Kid and Other Tales of the Old West by Hugh Pendexter (Black Dog Books, July 29, 2014, 978-1-884449-54-3, $14.95, 147pp, tp, co, cover by James Reynolds)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 7 · Foreword · Hugh Pendexter, III · fw 9 · The Shorthorn Kid and Other Tales of the Old West · Wayne Dundee · in 13 · The Shorthorn Kid [Hiram Polk (The Shorthorn Kid)] · Hugh Pendexter · nv Short Stories September 25 1928 41 · Big Swimmin’ [Hiram Polk (The Shorthorn Kid)] · Hugh Pendexter · nv Short Stories March 25 1929 74 · Trailin’ Home [Hiram Polk (The Shorthorn Kid)] · Hugh Pendexter · nv Short Stories June 10 1929 104 · One Town Comes Back · Hugh Pendexter · ss Frontier Stories July 1928 117 · Little Man—Big Guns · Hugh Pendexter · nv Western Novelets June 1936

The Voice of the Night by Hugh Pendexter (Black Dog Books, March 23, 2015, 978-1-884449-59-8, $14.95, 155pp, tp, co)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 7 · Introduction · Evan Lewis · in 11 · The Bride and the Bird Cage [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories September 1916 29 · The Lost Lady Hamilton [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories October 1916 46 · In the Red Orange Major Chord [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories November 1916 65 · The Purple Diamond [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories December 1916 83 · The Pig and the Mirror [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories January 1917 100 · The Forty-First Guest [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories February 1917 117 · The Voice of the Night [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories March 1917 136 · The Vase of Varus [Jeff Fanchon, Inquirer] · Hugh Pendexter · ss Short Stories April 1917

Savage Heroes: Tales of Sorcery and Black Magic ed. Eric Pendragon (Star, February 17, 1977, 0-352-39672-5, 60p, 190pp, pb, an) 9 · Introduction · Eric Pendragon · in 13 · Jirel Meets Magic [Jirel of Joiry] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales July 1935 50 · The Spawn of Dagon [Elak of Atlantis] · Henry Kuttner · ss Weird Tales July 1938 70 · Necromancy in Naat [Zothique] · Clark Ashton Smith · nv Weird Tales July 1936 91 · The Thief of Forthe [Rald] · Clifford Ball · nv Weird Tales July 1937 116 · The Song at the Hub of the Garden · Ramsey Campbell · ss 130 · Alma Mater · Daphne Castell · ss 147 · In the Lair of Yslsl [Kane] · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Midnight Sun #1, 1974 165 · The Barrow Troll · David Drake · ss Whispers December 1975 178 · The Temple of Abomination [Cormac Mac Art] · Robert E. Howard & Richard L. Tierney · nv Tigers of the Sea by Robert E. Howard, Donald M. Grant, 1973; given as by Howard alone. completed by Tierney from a 3600 word fragment by Howard (Cormac Mac Art, Baen, 1995).

Nightscapes by Michael Pendragon (BJM Press, August 1999, no ISBN, £3.50, 87pp, tp, co, cover by Gerald Gaubert)     Collection of 10 horror stories. 1 · Echoes of Brilliance · John B. Ford · in 3 · The Curiosity Piece · Michael Pendragon · ss Terror Tales #1, 1997 9 · The Hexing · Michael Pendragon · vi 16 · A Pilgrim Shadow · Michael Pendragon · ss Fantasque April 1999 23 · The Finger of Death · Michael Pendragon · ss (r) 32 · Out of the Night Closet · Michael Pendragon · ss Terror Tales #4, 1998 43 · Fool for Love · Michael Pendragon · ss Roadworks #5, Summer 1999 51 · Where the Vampires Dwell · Michael Pendragon · ss Penny Dreadful #1, Summer 1996 58 · The Man Who Walked Through Walls · Michael Pendragon · ss (r) 66 · Old Hubbard’s Barn · Michael Pendragon · ss (r) 77 · The Soul-Jackers · Michael Pendragon · ss (r) 87 · Afterword · Paul Bradshaw · aw

In the Dark & Other Ghost Stories by Mary E. Penn (Sarob Press, October 1999, 1-902309-06-5, £18.00, xii+124pp, hc, co, cover by Paul Lowe) [edited by Richard Dalby]     Collection of eight supernature tales first published in The Argosy, edited & introduced by Richard Dalby. Volume two in the “Richard Dalby’s Mistresses of the Macabre” series. Limited to 250 numbered copies. ix · Introduction · Richard Dalby · in 1 · In the Dark · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) June 1885 12 · Desmond’s Model · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1879 29 · The Tenant of the Cedars · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) September 1883 50 · Snatched from the Brink · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) June 1878 66 · The Strange Story of Our Villa · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1893 79 · How Georgette Kept Tryst · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1879 93 · Old Vanderhaven’s Will · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1880 117 · At Ravenholme Junction · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1876, uncredited. attributed to Penn on stylistic grounds alone.

Amazing Stories: Best of 2023 ed. Lloyd Penney (Experimenter Publishing Company, June 26, 2024, 979-8329542370, $15.99, 322pp, tp, an, cover by Tom & Ron Miller)     Anthology of 24 stories first published on the Amazing Stories website during 2023. Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · Introduction · Kermit Woodall · in 7 · Take Me to Your Leader · Paul Saka · ss Amazing Stories (online) May 29 2023 17 · We Hope You’ve Enjoyed the Journey · Heather Santo · ss Amazing Stories (online) January 16 2023 21 · Cattywampusly Chawed Up on Asteroid Ryugu · Royce Badgers · ss Amazing Stories (online) March 6 2023 34 · Been There, Done That · David Ian · ss Amazing Stories (online) June 12 2023 39 · The Breadships · David Hewitt · ss Amazing Stories (online) October 9 2023 46 · The Devil’s Footlocker · David Hankins · ss Amazing Stories (online) October 2 2023 64 · Illusion of Life · Adam Breckenridge · ss Amazing Stories (online) July 10 2023 79 · The Site Visit · Nerine Dorman · ss Amazing Stories (online) March 27 2023 84 · Blue · Victor Jimenez · ss Amazing Stories (online) October 23 2023 96 · A Pit of Unicorn Ashes · Gene Turchin · ss Amazing Stories (online) July 17 2023 103 · Speak, Friend, and Enter · Adrian Tchaikovsky · ss Amazing Stories (online) May 8 2023 108 · The Bother with Bowbles · Jack Mackenzie · ss Amazing Stories (online) April 3 2023 122 · Buzzer Beater · David Newkirk · ss Amazing Stories (online) February 20 2023 127 · Next Level Tina · John Andrew Karr · ss Amazing Stories (online) April 24 2023 148 · I Am Empire · James Mapes · ss Amazing Stories (online) August 21 2023 165 · Truth, Beauty and Metallurgy · Alex Graham-Heggie · ss Amazing Stories (online) August 7 2023 183 · The Most Peaceful Airship · Leonid Korogodski · ss Amazing Stories (online) November 20 2023 198 · Some Hidden Soul · Dave Creek · ss Amazing Stories (online) July 3 2023 220 · The Dark Rind of the Moon · John Taloni · ss Amazing Stories (online) March 20 2023 224 · Eat Me · Norman Spinrad · ss Amazing Stories (online) August 28 2023 239 · A Treatise on Proper Martian Chiropractic Manipulation · Lisa Fox · ss Amazing Stories (online) December 11 2023 248 · Time of the Critic · Andrew Hiller · ss Amazing Stories (online) February 27 2023 252 · Champ · Chaz Osburn · ss Amazing Stories (online) August 14 2023 256 · A Tollbooth on Mars · Ray Daley · ss Amazing Stories (online) February 6 2023

The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 ed. Louise Penny (Mariner, October 2, 2018, 978-0-544-94909-6, $15.99, xvii+411pp, tp, an) ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xv · Introduction · Louise Penny · in 1 · Banana Triangle Six · Louis Bayard · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July/August 2017 13 · Y Is for Yangchuan Lizard · Andrew Bourelle · nv D Is for Dinosaur ed. Rhonda Parrish, Poise and Pen Publishing, 2017, as “Y” 31 · The Designee · T. C. Boyle · nv The Iowa Review Fall 2017 54 · Smoked · Michael Bracken · ss Noir at the Salad Bar ed. Verena Rose, Level Best Books, 2017 68 · The Wild Side of Life · James Lee Burke · nv The Southern Review Winter 2017 90 · Too Much Time [Jack Reacher] · Lee Child · na No Middle Name by Lee Child, Delacorte Press, 2017 132 · The Third Panel · Michael Connelly · ss Alive in Shape and Color ed. Lawrence Block, Pegasus Books, 2017 142 · Gun Work · John M. Floyd · ss Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer & Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books, 2017 159 · Cabin Fever · David Edgerley Gates · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2017 180 · Small Signs [Anne DeWitt] · Charlaine Harris · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November/December 2017 199 · Take-Out · Rob Hart · ss Mystery Tribune #2, Summer 2017 214 · Death in the Serengeti · David H. Hendrickson · ss Fiction River #24, Pulse Pounders: Adrenaline, July 2017 227 · All Our Yesterdays · Andrew Klavan · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2017 242 · PX Christmas · Martin Limón · nv The Usual Santas, Soho Crime, 2016 267 · Windward · Paul D. Marks · nv Coast to Coast: Private Eyes from Sea to Shining Sea ed. Andrew McAleer & Paul D. Marks, Down & Out Books, 2017 289 · Phantomwise: 1972 · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2017 338 · Rule Number One · Alan Orloff · ss Snowbound ed. Verena Rose, Harriette Sackler & Shawn Reilly Simmons, Level Best Books, 2017 349 · The Apex Predator · William Dylan Powell · ss Switchblade #1, April 2017 360 · Waiting on Joe · Scott Loring Sanders · ss Shooting Creek and Other Stories by Scott Loring Sanders, Down & Out Books, 2017 376 · Breadfruit [Leonard & Tubby] · Brian Silverman · nv Mystery Tribune #3, Fall 2017 397 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 410 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2017 · [uncredited] · bi

White Mars, or, The Mind Set Free: A 21st-Century Utopia by Roger Penrose & Brian Aldiss--- see under Brian Aldiss.

The Battles of Jericho by Hugh Pentecost (Crippen & Landru, September 2008, 978-1-932009-75-0, $19.00, 232pp, tp, co, cover by Gail Cross) [John Jericho]     Collection of 15 stories. Also available in hc (-74-3). · Hugh Pentecost and the John Jericho Stories · S. T. Karnick · in · Jericho and the Skiing Clue [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1964 · Jericho and the Painting Clue [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1965 · Jericho and the Dying Clue [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1965 · Jericho and the Silent Witnesses [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1965 · Jericho and the Nuisance Clue [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1966 · Jericho and the Dead Clue [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1971 · Jericho and the Two Ways to Die [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1972 · Jericho and the Deadly Errand [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1973 · Jericho Plays It Cool [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1973 · Jericho and the Missing Boy [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1973 · Jericho and the Sea of Faces [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1974 · Jericho and the Frightened Woman [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1974 · Jericho and the Unknown Lover [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1975 · Jericho and the Studio Murders [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1975 · Jericho on Campus [John Jericho] · Hugh Pentecost · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1976 · Sources · [uncredited] · bi · Afterword · Daniel Philips · aw

Cream of the Crime ed. Hugh Pentecost (HRW, 1962, LC:62-18759, hc, an)     The 15th Mystery Writers of America Anthology. 5 · Foreword · Hugh Pentecost · fw 11 · The Black Cabinet · John Dickson Carr · ss 20 Great Tales of Murder ed. Helen McCloy & Brett Halliday, Random House, 1951 29 · One Morning They’ll Hang Him [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #81, August 1950 46 · Coffee and— · David Alexander · ss The Blue Book Magazine January 1952 59 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1954 75 · Death Before Breakfast [Lt. Timothy Trant] · Q. Patrick (by Hugh Callingham Wheeler) · ss This Week March 11 1951 80 · Quiet Day in the County Jail · Craig Rice · ss Manhunt July 1953 93 · Proof of the Pudding · Lawrence Treat · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 16 1938 106 · The Withered Heart · Jean Potts · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1957 118 · Three Strips of Flesh · Matthew Head · ss Four-&-Twenty Bloodhounds ed. Anthony Boucher, Simon & Schuster, 1950 131 · Walking Alone · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1957 145 · Robert · Stanley Ellin · ss Sleuth Mystery Magazine October 1958 160 · Reflections on Murder · Nedra Tyre · ss Sleuth Mystery Magazine December 1958 172 · Cop’s Gift · Rex Stout · ss What’s New December 1953, as “Tough Cop’s Gift” 177 · Mr. Dilby’s Timetable · Margaret Manners · ss 1954 193 · Modus Operandi [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg; Mr. Rumbold] · Michael Gilbert · ss John Bull June 18 1949, as “Touch of Genius” 204 · The Little Dry Sticks · Cora Jarrett · nv Ladies’ Home Journal February 1930, as by Faraday Keene 219 · Diamonds in Paradise [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1954 225 · A Matter of Ethics · Carolyn Thomas · ss The Lethal Sex ed. John D. MacDonald, Dell, 1959 237 · The Dog That Wouldn’t Talk [Insp. Leonidas Prike] · Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Argosy August 2 1941, as “The Dog from Singapore” 256 · The Disappearing Servant Wench [Dr. Sam: Johnson] · Lillian de la Torre · ss Villainy Detected by Lillian de la Torre, Appleton-Century, 1947 272 · The Anomaly of the Empty Man · Anthony Boucher · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1952