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Mysterious Sea Stories ed. William Pattrick (W.H. Allen, January 1985, 0-491-03114-9, £9.95, 247pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 14 sea fantasies. American edition: Salem House 1985.

1 · Introduction · William Pattrick · in

5 · Ms. Found in a Bottle · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Baltimore Saturday Visitor October 19 1833

19 · The Legend of the Bell Rock · Captain Frederick Marryat · ss 1836

31 · Hood’s Isle and the Hermit Oberlus · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly May 1854

43 · A Bewitched Ship · W. Clark Russell · ss 1884

57 · J. Habakuk Jephson’s Statement · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Cornhill Magazine January 1884, uncredited.

91 · The Benevolent Ghost and Captain Lowrie · Richard Sale · nv Argosy March 9 1940, as “Till Doomsday”

113 · Make Westing · Jack London · ss The Pall Mall Magazine April 1908

123 · The Black Mate · Joseph Conrad · nv The London Magazine April 1908

153 · A Matter of Fact · Rudyard Kipling · ss The People January 24 1892

169 · The Finding of the Graiken [Sargasso Sea] · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine February 15 1913

193 · Davy Jones’s Gift · John Masefield · ss Country Life November 11 1905

199 · In the Abyss · H. G. Wells · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1896

217 · Undersea Guardians · Ray Bradbury · ss Amazing Stories December 1944

235 · The Turning of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936

Kansas City Noir ed. Steve Paul (Akashic Books, 2012, 978-1-61775-128-8, $15.95, 218pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]
Fourteen original stories set in Kansas City.

11 · Papa’s Blues · ed. Steve Paul · in

15 · Part I: Heartland

17 · Missing Gene · J. Malcolm Garcia · ss; set on Troost Lake.

35 · Cat in a Box · Kevin Prufer · ss; set in Country Club Plaza.

51 · Mission Hills Confidential · Grace Suh · ss; set in Mission Hills.

65 · Come Murder Me Next, Babe · Daniel Woodrell · ss; set on 12th Street.

71 · The Softest Crime · Matthew Eck · ss; set at 41st and Walnut.

85 · You Shouldn’t Be Here · Philip Stephens · ss; set in Midtown.

107 · Part II: Crazy Little Women

109 · The Incident · Catherine Browder · ss; set in the Northeast.

125 · The Good Neighbor · Linda Rodriguez · ss; set in South Troost.

138 · Thelma and Laverne · John Lutz · ss; set on West 8th Street.

151 · Lightbulb · Nancy Pickard · ss; set in the Paseo.

167 · Part III: Smoke & Mirrors

169 · Yesterdays · Andrés Rodríguez · ss; set in Milton’s Tap Room.

180 · Last Night at the Rialto · Mitch Brian · ss; set in the Celluloid City.

192 · Charlie Price’s Last Supper · Nadia Pflaum · ss; set at 18th and Vine.

210 · The Pendergast Musket · Phong Nguyen · ss; set in West Bottoms.

220 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Wandering Weeds: Tales of Rabid Vegetation ed. Frances Pauli & Jaleta Clegg--- see under Jaleta Clegg.

Shadows on the Wall by Steven Paulsen (IFWG Publishing Australia, 2018, 978-1-925496-44-4, 210pp, tp, co, cover by Shaun Tan)
Subtitled “Dark and Weird Stories” on the cover and “Weird Tales of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and the Supernatural” on the title page. Each story is followed (on separate page) by an “Afterword” explaining its background.
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

1 · Foreword · Isobelle Carmody · fw

3 · Ma Rung · Steven Paulsen · ss Dreaming Down-Under ed. Jack Dann & Janeen Webb, Voyager Australia, 1998

21 · Two Tomorrow · Steven Paulsen · vi Eidolon Spring 1990

25 · Greater Garbo · Steven Paulsen · ss Australian & NZ PC User October 1992

35 · In the Light of the Lamp · Steven Paulsen · ss Terror Australis ed. Leigh Blackmore, Coronet Australia, 1993

51 · Logic Loop · Steven Paulsen · vi Aphelion Science Fiction Magazine #5, Summer 1986/1987

53 · Harold the Hero & the Talking Sword · Steven Paulsen & Jack Dann · nv And Then…The Great Big Book of Awesome Adventure Tales, Vol. 2 ed. Ruth Wykes & Kylie Fox, Clan Destine Press, 2018

93 · Fixed in Time · Steven Paulsen · ss

103 · The Place · Steven Paulsen · vi Terror Australis Autumn 1988

109 · The Wine Cellar · Steven Paulsen · ss

127 · Pest Control · Steven Paulsen · ss Cthulhu: Deep Down Under ed. Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, Horror Australis, 2015

137 · Old Wood · Steven Paulsen · ss Terror Australis Winter 1988

151 · The Sorcerer’s Looking Glass · Steven Paulsen · ss Fantastic Worlds ed. Paul Collins, Moonstone Australia, 1998

167 · Christmas Morning · Steven Paulsen · vi Hell’s Bells ed. AHWA Committee, Australian Horror Writers Association, 2016

171 · The Black Diamond of the Elephant God · Steven Paulsen · nv

205 · Publication History · Steven Paulsen · bi

The Architecture of Fear ed. Peter D. Pautz & Kathryn Cramer--- see under Kathryn Cramer.

2012 ed. Ben Payne & Alisa Krasnostein (Twelfth Planet Press, March 2008, 978-0-9804841-0-6, A$20.00, viii+118pp, tp, oa, cover by Cat Sparks)
Details taken from online listing.

vii · Introduction · Ben Payne & Alisa Krasnostein · in

1 · Watertight Lies · Deborah Biancotti · ss

13 · Fleshy · Tansy Rayner Roberts · ss

24 · Oh, Russia · Simon Brown · ss

31 · Soft Viscosity · David Conyers · nv

53 · Apocalypse Rules, OK? · Lucy Sussex · ss

57 · The Last Word · Dirk Flinthart · ss

71 · Ghost Jail · Kaaron Warren · ss

87 · I Love You Like Water · Angela Slatter · ss

98 · Skinsongs · Martin Livings · ss

105 · David Bowie · Ben Peek · ss

111 · Oblivion · Sean McMullen · ss

A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti ed. Ben Payne & Alisa Krasnostein--- see under Deborah Biancotti.

The Pick of the Roundup ed. Stephen Payne (Avon, 1963, pb, oa)
(old WWA #11 / new WWA #12) In 1965, Legends and Tales of the Old West, the 1962 anthology of retold tall tales, was added to the WWA list at position #10 and changed the previous numbering.

· The Way of the Old West · S. Omar Barker · pm

· The Fort Greer Mules · Bill Burchardt · ss

· Mountain Man on a Mule · William R. Cox · ss

· The Far Cry · Max Evans · ss

· The Promise of the Fruit · Ann Ahlswede · nv

· Melody on the Range · John L. Shelley · ss

· The Deep Valley · Lucia Moore · ss

· Comanche Woman · Fred Grove · ss

· They Walked Tall · T. V. Olsen · ss

· Uncle Jeff and the Gunfighter · Elmer Kelton · ss

· Beat the Drums Slowly · Richard Wormser · ss

Various Temptations ed. Thomas Payne (Avon Books, 1955, T-109, 35¢, 192pp, pb, an)
Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson.

7 · Various Temptations · William Sansom · ss Cosmopolitan March 1948, as “The Intruder”

23 · The Girls of Tongatabu · John Langdon · ss Story #110, November/December 1944

30 · The Indian Feather · Thomas Mabry · nv The Sewanee Review Autumn 1952

51 · Stuffed Shirt · Robert Standish · ss Private Enterprise, and Other Stories by Robert Standish, Peter Davies, 1954; c. by D. G. Gerahty.

66 · The Flamingos · Frederic Prokosch · pm Harper’s Magazine August 1933

75 · Tangier · Truman Capote · ar Local Color, Random House, 1950

83 · Search Through the Streets of the City · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker August 2 1941

91 · The Pale Virgins Shrouded in Snow · John Heffron Porter · ss Partisan Review January/February 1952; given as by John Heffrom Porter in the Table of Contents.

101 · The Great Linda · Herman Wouk · ss Today’s Woman June 1952

114 · Boy for Tea · Ward Greene · ss The American Mercury June 1930

123 · The Dare · Budd Schulberg · ss Esquire May 1949

138 · Monday Morning · Evelyn Shefner · ss The Hudson Review Winter 1955

151 · The Language of Men · Norman Mailer · ss Esquire April 1953

162 · Flesh and the Devil · Peter De Vries · ss The New Yorker December 16 1950

168 · The Crapshooter · John Steinbeck · ar New York Herald Tribune August 12 1943, as “Steinbeck Tells Dice Game Epic with a Mulligan Denouement”

172 · An Episode at the Honeypot [unnamed inspector] · Mark Van Doren · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #105, August 1952

178 · The Patented Gate and the Mean Hamburger · Robert Penn Warren · ss Mademoiselle January 1947

191 · Notes on the Authors · Clark Kinnaird · ms

Mondo Elvis ed. Richard Peabody & Lucinda Ebersole--- see under Lucinda Ebersole.

Mondo Marilyn ed. Richard Peabody & Lucinda Ebersole--- see under Lucinda Ebersole.

Boy in Darkness and Other Stories by Mervyn Peake (Peter Owen, January 2008, 978-0-7206-1306-3, £9.95, 143pp, tp, co, cover by Mervyn Peake) [edited by Sebastian Peake]
Collection of 6 stories, including the title novella about “Titus Groan”, and a range of illustrations.

7 · Foreword · Joanne Harris · fw

11 · Preface · Sebastian Peake · pr

14 · [illustrations] · Various · pi (r)

17 · Foreword to Boy in Darkness · Maeve Gilmore · fw 1976

23 · Boy in Darkness [Gormenghast] · Mervyn Peake · na Sometime, Never, Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1956

95 · The Weird Journey · Mervyn Peake · ss 1948
original in Harvest, Volume 1: Travel (ed. Vincent Stuart, Castle Press).

103 · I Bought a Palm-tree · Mervyn Peake · ss 1978
first published “in a corrected version” in Peake’s Progress (Allen Lane).

111 · The Connoisseurs · Mervyn Peake · ss Lilliput January 1950

117 · Danse Macabre · Mervyn Peake · ss Science Fantasy #61, 1963

131 · Same Time, Same Place · Mervyn Peake · ss Science Fantasy #60, 1963

Boy in Darkness and Other Stories by Mervyn Peake ed. Sebastian Peake--- see under Mervyn Peake.

Familiar and Haunting by Philippa Pearce (HarperCollins/Greenwillow, May 2002, 0-06-623964-8, $16.95, 388pp, hc, co)
Young-adult collection/omnibus of 37 stories, about 20 supernatural. Most of the stories were previously collected in the US as What the Neighbors Did and Other Stories (1973), The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural (1977), and Who’s Afraid? and Other Strange Stories (1987). Eight additional stories were published in the UK as collection The Rope and Other Stories (Puffin UK 2000).

· The Rope · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Early Transparent · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Fir Cone · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Nutmeg · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Bluebag · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Nest Egg · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Inside Her Head · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· What Neighbors Did · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Black Eyes · Philippa Pearce · ss Black Eyes and Other Spine Chillers ed. Lance Salway, Pepper Press, 1981

· In the Middle of the Night · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Tree in the Meadow · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Fresh · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Who’s Afraid? · Philippa Pearce · ss Hundreds and Hundreds ed. Peter Dickinson, Puffin, 1984

· Still Jim and Silent Jim · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Great Blueberry Pick · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Lucky Boy · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· Return to Air · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Shadow-Cage · Philippa Pearce · nv The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· Miss Mountain · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· Guess · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· At the River-Gates · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· Her Father’s Attic · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Running-Companion · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· Beckoned · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· The Dear Little Man with His Hands in His Pockets · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Dog Got Them · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· Mrs. Chamberlain’s Reunion · Philippa Pearce · ss (r)

· The Strange Illness of Mr. Arthur Cook · Philippa Pearce · ss The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977

· A Christmas Pudding Improves with Keeping · Philippa Pearce · ss Who’s Afraid? and Other Strange Stories by Philippa Pearce, Kestrel/Penguin, 1986

· Samantha and the Ghost · Philippa Pearce · ss 1981

· A Prince in Another Place · Philippa Pearce · ss They Wait, and Other Spine Chillers ed. Lance Salway, Pepper Press, 1983

· The Road It Went By · Philippa Pearce · ss Outsiders ed. Bryant Newman, Collins, 1985

· Auntie · Philippa Pearce · ss Who’s Afraid? and Other Strange Stories by Philippa Pearce, Kestrel/Penguin, 1986

· His Loving Sister · Philippa Pearce · ss Ghost After Ghost ed. Aidan Chambers, Kestrel, 1982

· Mr. Hurrel’s Tallboy · Philippa Pearce · ss Who’s Afraid? and Other Strange Stories by Philippa Pearce, Kestrel/Penguin, 1986

· The Hirn · Philippa Pearce · ss Who’s Afraid? and Other Strange Stories by Philippa Pearce, Kestrel/Penguin, 1986

· The Yellow Ball · Philippa Pearce · ss Who’s Afraid? and Other Strange Stories by Philippa Pearce, Kestrel/Penguin, 1986

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