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Nebula Awards Showcase 55: Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Catherynne M. Valente (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, August 15, 2021, 978-0-9828467-5-9, $19.99, 482pp, tp, an, cover by Lauren Raye Snow)
Details taken from online listing.

ix · Introduction · Catherynne M. Valente · in

1 · The Best of Twines, the Worst of Rhymes: A Tale of Two C++ies (or, Why Game Writing Is Bad and Great) · Seth Dickinson · ar

9 · Queering Chaos · Foz Meadows · ar

13 · Lois McMaster Bujold and Being a Grand Master · LaShawn Wanak · ar [Ref. Lois McMaster Bujold]

17 · Give the Family My Love · A. T. Greenblatt · ss Clarkesworld #149, February 2019

37 · The Dead, In Their Uncontrollable Power · Karen Osborne · ss Uncanny Magazine #27, March/April 2019

55 · And Now His Lordship Is Laughing · Shiv Ramdas · ss Strange Horizons September 9 2019

77 · Ten Excerpts from an Annotated Bibliography on the Cannibal Women of Ratnabar Island · Nibedita Sen · ss Nightmare #80, May 2019

83 · A Catalog of Storms · Fran Wilde · ss Uncanny Magazine #26, January/February 2019

99 · How the Trick Is Done · A. C. Wise · nv Uncanny Magazine #29, July/August 2019

125 · A Strange Uncertain Light · G. V. Anderson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2019

173 · For He Can Creep · Siobhan Carroll · nv Tor.com July 10 2019

201 · His Footsteps, Through Darkness and Light [Majestic Oriental Circus] · Mimi Mondal · ss Tor.com January 23 2019

225 · The Blur in the Corner of Your Eye · Sarah Pinsker · nv Uncanny Magazine #29, July/August 2019

253 · Carpe Glitter · Cat Rambo · ex Meerkat Press, October 29 2019

265 · The Archronology of Love · Caroline M. Yoachim · nv Lightspeed #107, April 2019

297 · A Song for a New Day · Sarah Pinsker · ex Berkley, September 10 2019

311 · Riverland · Fran Wilde · ex Amulet Books, April 9 2019

331 · Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom · Ted Chiang · ex Exhalation by Ted Chiang, Alfred A. Knopf, 2019

351 · The Haunting of Tram Car 015A [Ministry of Alchemy] · P. Djèlí Clark · ex Tor.com, February 19 2019

367 · This Is How You Lose the Time War · Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone · ex Jo Fletcher Books, July 16 2019

393 · Her Silhouette, Drawn in Water · Vylar Kaftan · ex Tor.com, May 21 2019

417 · The Deep · Daveed Diggs, William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes & Rivers Solomon · ex Saga Press, June 4 2019

439 · Catfish Lullaby · A. C. Wise · ex Broken Eye Books, September 3 2019

459 · Biographies · [uncredited] · bg

Lost Estates by Mark Valentine (Swan River Press, May 2024, 978-1-78380-047-6, €40.00, 201pp, hc, co, cover by Jason Zerrillo)
Collection of 12 stories, 4 previously unpublished. Limited to 450 signed, numbered, copies.
Details taken from publisher website.

3 · A Chess Game at Michaelmas · Mark Valentine · nv The Pale Illuminations, Sarob Press, 2019

34 · Worse Things Than Serpents · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

46 · Fortunes Told: Fresh Samphire · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

56 · The House of Flame · Mark Valentine · ss Sorcery and Sanctity ed. Daniel Corrick, Hieroglyphic Press, 2013

65 · The Seventh Card · Mark Valentine · ss Supernatural Tales #42, Winter 2019/2020

78 · And Maybe the Parakeet Was Correct · Mark Valentine · ss Supernatural Tales #45, Winter 2020/2021

88 · Laughter Ever After · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

98 · Readers of the Sands · Mark Valentine · ss Crooked Houses ed. Mark Beech, Egaeus Press, 2020

114 · The Understanding of the Signs · Mark Valentine · ss (r)
presented as a talk to the Newcastle Literary & Philosophical Society.

124 · Lost Estates · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

137 · The End of Alpha Street · Mark Valentine · ss Strange Tales: Tartarus Press at 30 ed. Rosalie Parker, Tartarus Press, 2020

151 · The Fifth Moon · Mark Valentine · nv From Ancient Ravens, Sarob Press, 2017

The Mascarons of the Late Empire & Other Studies by Mark Valentine (Ex Occidente Press, July 2010, 82pp, hc, oc)
Details taken from online listing.

· A Walled Garden on the Bosphorus · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Mascarons of the Late Empire · Mark Valentine · ss

· A Lantern for Carpathia · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Atelier in Iasi · Mark Valentine · ss

Masques and Citadels: More Tales of the Connoisseur by Mark Valentine (Tartarus Press, June 7, 2003, 1-872621-76-7, £27.50, 212pp, hc, co)
Collection of 10 fantasy tales in a Victorian style & setting, centred on the sleuth who made his first appearance in In Violet Veils. Limited to 300 copies.

· The Hesperian Dragon · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

· The Lighting of the Vial · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

· Nephoseum, or, The Play of Shadows [The Connoisseur] · Mark Valentine · ss A Christmas Miscellany, 2000, Tartarus Press (catalog), 2000

· Sea Citadels · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

· The Prince of Barlocco · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Black Eros · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

· Mad Lutanist · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Mist on the Mere · Mark Valentine · ss (r)

· The White Solander · Mark Valentine & John Howard · ss (r)

· The Last Archipelago · Mark Valentine & John Howard · ss (r)

· Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms (r)

The Nightfarers by Mark Valentine (Ex Occidente Press, July 2009, 978-973-7764-22-5, 191pp, hc, co)

· The 1909 Proserpine Prize · Mark Valentine · ss

· Carden in Capaea · Mark Valentine · ss Strange Tales Volume II, Tartarus Press, 2007

· White Pages · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Inner Sentinel · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Dawn at Tzern · Mark Valentine · ss

· The White Sea Company · Mark Valentine · ss At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007

· Undergrowth · Mark Valentine · ss Nemonymous #7, 2007, uncredited.

· The Seer of Trieste [Haunted Histories] · Mark Valentine · ss Swan River Press, December 2008

· Their Dark and Starry Mirrors · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Bookshop in Novy Svet · Mark Valentine · ss

· The English Leopard: An Heraldic Dialogue · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Box of Idols · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Axholme Toll · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Seven Treasures of Bucharest · Mark Valentine · ss

· About the Stories · Mark Valentine · ms

The Peacock Escritoire by Mark Valentine (Ex Occidente Press, February 2011, $200.00, 236pp, hc, co, cover by Santiago Caruso)
Only available in a boxed set limited to 100 hand numbered copies along with with Shards & Plumes: Journal Notes containing over 70 single pages with “Notes, Unfinished Stories, Journal Entries and more”; three large postcards; an old map of Trebizond; and the Santiago Caruso Portofolio containing 11 amazing illustrations done especially for this edition.
Details taken from online listing.

· The Ka of Astarakhan · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Late Post · Mark Valentine · ss

· A Revelation of Cormorants · Mark Valentine · ss Nightjar Press, 2010

· The Amber Cigarette · Mark Valentine · nv

· Sime in Samarkand · Mark Valentine · ss

· Morpheus House · Mark Valentine · ss Strange Tales Volume III, Tartarus Press, 2009

· The Antioch Imperial · Mark Valentine · ss

· A Certain Power · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Tontine of Thirteen · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Second Master · Mark Valentine · fa The Ghosts & Scholars M.R. James Newsletter #17, April 2010

· The Autumn Keeper · Mark Valentine · ss Cinnabar’s Gnosis ed. Dan T. Ghetu, Ex Occidente Press, 2009

· The Days on Castel Rosso · Mark Valentine · ss

· Echoes of Saumur · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Return to Trebizond · Mark Valentine · ss

· The Old Light · Mark Valentine · ss

· About the Stories · Mark Valentine · ms

Romances of the White Day by Mark Valentine, John Howard & Ron Weighell--- see under John Howard.

Secret Europe by Mark Valentine & John Howard--- see under John Howard.

The Seer of Trieste by Mark Valentine (Swan River Press, December 2008, €5.00, 12pp, ph, ss, cover by Meggan Kehrli) [Haunted Histories]
Supposedly the text of a lecture to the Aeolian Club of Lincoln. Limited to 150 hand-numbered copies. Volume six in the series.
Details taken from publisher website.

Aklo, A Volume of the Fantastic ed. Mark Valentine, Roger Dobson & R. B. Russell--- see under Aklo, A Volume of the Fantastic ed. Mark Valentine, Roger Dobson & R. B. Russell, Tartarus Press, 1998.

The Black Veil and Other Tales of Supernatural Sleuths ed. Mark Valentine (Wordsworth Editions, 2008, xiii+256pp, hc, an)

vii · Introduction · Mark Valentine · in

3 · The Warder of the Door [John Bell (The Ghost Exposer)] · L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace · ss Cassell’s Family Magazine July 1897

19 · The Story of Sevens Hall [Flaxman Low] · E. & H. Heron · ss Pearson’s Magazine January 1899

31 · The Gateway of the Monster [Thomas Carnacki] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Idler January 1910

49 · The Red Hand [Dyson] · Arthur Machen · nv Chapman’s Magazine December 1895

75 · The Haunted Woman [Alwyne Sargent & Jack Hargreaves] · Allen Upward · ss The Royal Magazine April 1906

89 · The Ghost with the Club-Foot [Eugène Valmont] · Robert Barr · nv The Saturday Evening Post May 27 1905

115 · The Curious Activities of Basil Thorpenden · Vernon Knowles · nv Two and Two Make Five by Vernon Knowles, Newnes, 1935

139 · The Necromancer [Leslie Vane] · Donald Campbell · nv (r)

155 · Waste Manor [Dr. James Livingstone] · L. Adams Beck · nv The Openers of the Gate by L. Adams Beck, Cosmopolitan, 1930

183 · The House of Fenris · John Cooling · ss

189 · The Prince of Barlocco · Mark Valentine · ss Masques and Citadels: More Tales of the Connoisseur by Mark Valentine, Tartarus Press, 2003

207 · The Legacy of the Viper · C. P. Langeveld · ss (r)

217 · The Sheelagh-na-gig [Jane Bradshawe] · Mary Ann Allen · ss Midnight Never Comes ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 1997, as by Rosemary Pardoe

223 · The Black Veil · A. F. Kidd · ss

233 · Like Clockwork · R. B. Russell · ss

247 · Spirit Solutions · Rosalie Parker · nv

The Far Tower: Stories for W. B. Yeats ed. Mark Valentine (Swan River Press, December 2019, 978-1-78380-030-8, €35.00, xiii+184pp, hc, oa, cover by John Coulthart)
Original anthology of ten stories of magic and myth, folklore and fairy traditions, the occult and the outré, inspired by the rich mystical world of Ireland’s greatest poet, W.B. Yeats. Limited to 400 copies.
Details taken from online listing.

vii · Introduction · Mark Valentine · in

3 · Under the Frenzy of the Fourteenth Moon · Ron Weighell · ss

19 · Daemon Est Deus Inversus · D. P. Watt · ss

37 · The Shiftings · Rosanne Rabinowitz · nv

65 · Hermit for Hire · Caitriona Lally · ss

78 · The Property of the Dead · John Howard · ss

94 · Cast a Cold Eye · Timothy J. Jarvis · ss

103 · The Messiah of Blackhall Place · Derek John · nv

124 · This Crumbling Pageant · Lynda E. Rucker · ss

139 · Shadowy Waters · Reggie Oliver · nv

168 · “The Host of the Air”: Yeats and the Sidhe · Nina Antonia · ss

181 · Notes on Contributors · Mark Valentine · bg

Haunted Pavilions ed. Mark Valentine (Mark Valentine, August 1992, no ISBN, 47pp, ph, oa, cover by C. P. Langeveld)
Original anthology of nine original ghost stories set in the world of cricket. This edition is limited to 111 copies.

1 · Introduction · Mark Valentine · in

3 · What’s in a Name? · David G. Rowlands · ss

8 · The Demonic Bowler · C. P. Langeveld · ss

13 · Playing Gracefully · Lynn M. Cochrane · ss

17 · Eleventh Man Not…? · Jonathan Wood · ss

29 · Night Watchman · Keith Jones · ss

33 · The Holy Game of Cricket · R. B. Russell · ss

36 · The Annual Cricket Match · Pauline E. Dungate · vi

38 · The Green Lady Pavilion · John Gale · ss

43 · Twilight at Little Brydon Cricket Club · Mark Valentine · ss

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