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100 Creepy Little Creature Stories ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, August 1994, 1-56619-511-X, $7.98, 585pp, hc, oa, cover by Kevin McGuinness)     Anthology of 100 dark fantasy and horror stories featuring monsters, seven apparently original, with an introduction by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz. This is an instant remainder edition. xvii · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · After Dark in the Playing Fields · M. R. James · vi College Days June 28 1924 4 · The Amulet of Hell · Robert Leonard Russell · ss Weird Tales October 1935 10 · The American’s Tale · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss London Society Christmas 1880, uncredited. 16 · Amina · Edward Lucas White · ss The Bellman June 1 1907 26 · The Avenging Hand · Roy Wallace Davis · ss Weird Tales February 1926 32 · The Basilisk · R. Murray Gilchrist · ss The National Observer July 23 1892 38 · Baynter’s Imp · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales September 1943 44 · The Beast of the Yungas · Willis Knapp Jones · ss Weird Tales September 1927 51 · The Beetle · Garnett Radcliffe · ss Weird Tales September 1953 57 · A Birthday Present for Tommy · Charles King · ss Weird Tales March 1945 65 · The Cactus · Mildred Johnson · ss Weird Tales January 1950 74 · Call First · Ramsey Campbell · ss Night Chills ed. Kirby McCauley, Avon, 1975 78 · Caterpillars · E. F. Benson · ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills & Boon, 1912 86 · Dagon · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Vagrant #11, November 1919 91 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 99 · Dark Brother · Donald R. Burleson · ss Lemon Drops and Other Horrors by Donald R. Burleson, 1993 103 · Deep Wood · Mark Rainey · ss The Sterling Web Summer 1990 111 · Demons of the Sea · William Hope Hodgson · ss Sea Stories Magazine October 5 1923 120 · The Deserted Garden · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales March 1929 125 · The Devil of the Marsh · H. B. Marriott-Watson · ss Diogenes of London by H. B. Marriott Watson, Methuen, 1893 129 · The Devilish Rat · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun January 27 1878 137 · Dog, Cat, and Baby · Joe R. Lansdale · vi Masques II ed. J. N. Williamson, Maclay & Associates, 1987 139 · Dummy · Simon MacCulloch · ss 145 · The Dump · Joe R. Lansdale · vi Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine July 1981 150 · The Edge of the Shadow · R. Ernest Dupuy · ss Weird Tales July 1927 154 · Exhibit “A” · Anne Harris Hadley · ss Weird Tales April 1924 160 · Fairy Gossamer · Harry Harrison Kroll · ss Weird Tales December 1924 165 · Familiar Face · Robert M. Price · ss 174 · Father’s Vampire · Alvin Taylor & Len J. Moffatt · ss Weird Tales May 1952 181 · The Feather Pillow · Horacio Quiroga; translated by Margaret Sayers Peden · ss The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories by Horacio Quiroga, University of Texas Press, 1976 translated from the Spanish (“El almohadón de plumas”, Caras y Caretas, 1907). 184 · The Fisherman’s Special · H. L. Thomson · ss Weird Tales August 1939 188 · The Frog · Granville S. Hoss · ss Weird Tales June 1930 193 · Frogfather · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales November 1946 198 · The Gargoyle Sacrifice · Tina L. Jens · ss 204 · Ghouls of the Sea · J. B. S. Fullilove · ss Weird Tales March 1934 208 · The Gray Wolf · George MacDonald · ss Works of Fancy and Imagination by George MacDonald, Alexander Strahan, 1871 213 · The Green-and-Gold Bug · J. M. Alvey · ss Weird Tales November 1924 217 · The House on the Rynek · Dermot Chesson Spence · ss Little Red Shoes by Dermot Chesson Spence, Williams & Norgate, 1937 226 · I’ll Be Glad When I’m Dead · Charles King · ss Weird Tales July 1946 231 · Indigestion · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Fantastic Stories September 1977 238 · The Inn · Rex Ernest · ss Weird Tales November 1937 243 · Itching for Action · Charles Garofalo · ss 250 · Jikininki · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 254 · John Mortonson’s Funeral · Ambrose Bierce · vi Cosmopolitan Magazine March 1906 255 · The Keen Eyes and Ears of Kara Kedi · Claude Farrère; translated by Roy Temple House · ss Weird Tales December 1937 translated from the French (“La peur du chat”, 1907). 260 · The Kelpie · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales July 1936 266 · Ladies in Waiting · Hugh B. Cave · ss Whispers June 1975 274 · Laura · Saki · ss The Morning Post June 25 1912, as by H. H. Munro 279 · Left by the Tide · Edward E. Schiff · vi Weird Tales March 1929 282 · The Lesser Brethren Mourn · Seabury Quinn · ss Strange Stories October 1940 290 · The Marmot · Allison V. Harding · ss Weird Tales March 1944 298 · Metzengerstein · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Philadelphia Saturday Courier January 14 1832 305 · Mimic · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Astonishing Stories December 1942, as by Martin Pearson 311 · Mive · Carl Jacobi · ss Minnesota Quarterly Fall 1928 317 · The Moon-Slave · Barry Pain · ss Stories in the Dark by Barry Pain, Grant Richards, 1901 321 · Monsters in the Night · Clark Ashton Smith · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1954, as “A Prophecy of Monsters” 324 · The Mother of Monsters · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Albert M. C. McMaster · ss The Complete Works of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The C.T. Brainard Publishing Co., 1910 translated from the French (“La mère aux monstres”, Gil Blas, June 12, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse). 328 · Mother of Toads [Averoigne] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales July 1938 335 · Mummy · Kelsey Percival Kitchel · ss Weird Tales November 1929 341 · My Father, the Cat · Henry Slesar · ss Fantastic Universe December 1957 348 · The Necromancer · Arthur Gray · ss The Cambridge Review October 17 1912, as by Ingulphus 354 · Night Shapes · Robert Weinberg · vi 357 · The Owl on the Moor · Marc Schorer & August W. Derleth · ss Weird Tales September 1928 361 · The Phantom Drug · A. W. Kapfer · ss Weird Tales April 1926 368 · The Place of Hairy Death · Anthony M. Rud · ss Weird Tales February 1934 376 · The Plant-Thing · R. G. Macready · ss Weird Tales July 1925 381 · The Power of the Dog · G. G. Pendarves · ss Weird Tales August 1927 388 · A Problem of the Dark · Frances Arthur · ss Weird Tales October 1927 395 · Professor Jonkin’s Cannibal Plant [Professor Jonkin] · Howard R. Garis · ss The Argosy August 1905 403 · The Quare Gander [The Purcell Papers] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine October 1840, uncredited. 411 · The Real Wolf · Thomas Ligotti · ss Nocturne #1, Autumn 1988 415 · The Sacrifice · Miroslaw Lipinski · ss Nøctulpa #2, Spring 1988 421 · The Seeds from Outside · Edmond Hamilton · ss Weird Tales March 1937 426 · Seeing the World · Ramsey Campbell · ss Shadows 7 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1984 432 · Seven Drops of Blood · H. F. Jamison · ss Weird Tales May 1930 439 · Short and Nasty · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Obsessions ed. Gary Raisor, Dark Harvest, 1991 448 · The Silver Knife · Ralph Allen Lang · ss Weird Tales January 1932 453 · The Sky Garden · Peter Cannon · ss Dementia Press, 1989 461 · Smoke Fantasy · Thomas R. Jordan · vi Weird Tales March 1939 463 · Smudge Makes a New Best Friend · Peter Cannon · ss 469 · Snail Ghost · Will Murray · ss Eldritch Tales #11, 1985 473 · Something Nasty · William F. Nolan · ss The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd, Mead, 1983 481 · The Specter Spiders · William J. Wintle · ss Ghost Gleams by W. J. Wintle, Heath Cranton, 1921 489 · The Spider of Guyana · Émile Erckmann & Alexandre Chatrian · ss The Strand Magazine January 1899, as by Erckmann-Chatrian translated from the French (“L’araignée-crabe”, Les Contes Fantastiques, Hachette, 1860). 498 · Spidertalk · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Night Visions 1 ed. Alan Ryan, Dark Harvest, 1984 504 · The Tabernacle · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales January 1930 509 · Take Me, for Instance · Hugh B. Cave · ss Argosy (UK) February 1966 516 · That Only a Mother Could Love · Mollie L. Burleson · ss 520 · There Was Soot on the Cat · Suzanne Pickett · ss Weird Tales July 1952 526 · There’s No Such Thing as Monsters · Steve Rasnic Tem · vi Fantasy and Terror #3, 1984 528 · The Throwback · Orlin Frederick · vi Weird Tales October 1926 530 · The Toad Idol · Kirk Mashburn · ss Weird Tales September 1935; given as by Kirk W. Mashburn. 535 · Tzo-Lin’s Nightingales · Ben Belitt · ss Weird Tales February/March 1931 541 · The Unnamable [Randolph Carter] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales July 1925 548 · The Vampire Maid · Hume Nisbet · ss Stories Weird and Wonderful by Hume Nisbet, F.V. White, 1900 553 · The Werewolf Howls · Clifford Ball · ss Weird Tales November 1941 560 · The Werewolf’s Howl · Brooke Byrne · ss Weird Tales December 1934 567 · The Werewolf Snarls · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales March 1937 572 · The White Dog · Feodor Sologub; translated by John Cournos · ss The Old House and Other Tales by Feodor Sologub, tr. John Cournos, Martin Secker, 1915 translated from the Russian (“Sobaka”, 1908). 577 · The White Wyrak · Stefan Grabinski; translated by Miroslaw Lipinski · ss

100 Crooked Little Crime Stories ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, December 1994, 1-56619-556-X, $7.98, 589pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 100 crime stories, 12 new. xvii · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · All Sewed Up! · Curt Hamlin · ss Detective Tales April 1947 6 · Always Together · Allen Beck · ss Death ed. Stuart David Schiff, Playboy, 1982, as by Hugh B. Cave 13 · Appointment with Yesterday · Geoffrey Vace · ss Detective Fiction Weekly May 24 1941, as by Hugh B. Cave 21 · At the Pistol’s Point · E. W. Hornung · ss The Strand Magazine June 1897 29 · The Best Policy · Ferenc Molnár · vi Lilliput May 1941 32 · Beyond Reasonable Doubt · Robert C. Dennis · ss Detective Tales April 1947 39 · Blind Date · J. Lane Linklater · ss Dime Mystery Magazine March 1945 43 · Brand of Cain · Dan Gordon · ss Detective Tales December 1947 50 · The Burglar’s Story · W. S. Gilbert · ss Holly Leaves December 8 1883 56 · A Burning Clue · E. Hoffmann Price · ss Ten Detective Aces May/June 1933 60 · The Compliments of the Chief · Lincoln Steffens · ss Ainslee’s Magazine July 1900 68 · The Confession · Maurice Level · ss The Black Mask June 1920 72 · The Crimson Complex · G. Fleming-Roberts · ss Ten Detective Aces September 1933 77 · The Cunning of the Serpent · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Adventure May 20 1925 86 · A Dead Clue · David Nowinson · ss Ten Detective Aces September 1933 90 · Dead Man’s Drop · R. Van Taylor · ss Detective Tales November 1949 96 · Dead Men Talk · Ernest C. Amaral · ss New Detective Magazine November 1949 101 · Death’s Old Sweet Song · George William Rae · vi Dime Mystery Magazine September 1946 106 · The Debt Collector · Maurice Level · ss Hearst’s Magazine November 1919 111 · A Devil’s Highball [Garvin Clark] · G. Fleming-Roberts · ss Ten Detective Aces July 1933 115 · Double Demon · William Fryer Harvey · ss Moods and Tenses by William Fryer Harvey, Basil Blackwell, 1933 122 · Each Night She Dies… · William Brandon · vi Dime Mystery Magazine December 1949 125 · Easy Kill · William Hellman · ss Dime Mystery Magazine September 1946 132 · Eight Dollar Murder · Robert Sidney Bowen · ss Detective Tales February 1939 138 · Ferry Slip · Don James · vi Dime Detective Magazine January 1942 141 · Final Game · Hugh B. Cave · ss Whispers October 1983 148 · First Kill · Chet Williamson · ss Cold Shocks ed. Tim Sullivan, Avon, 1991 156 · Flophouse Court · Hapsburg Liebe · ss Ten Detective Aces September 1933 161 · Flowers for Mr. Vecchi · Larry Allan · vi Ten Detective Aces July 1933 164 · Footsteps · Justin Case · ss This Week September 26 1965, as by Hugh B. Cave 169 · Footsteps in the Night · Hugh B. Cave · vi 1962 172 · Good Night, Sweet Alibi · Rufus Bakalor · ss Detective Fiction January 1951 178 · The Grave Joker · Morris Cooper · vi Dime Detective Magazine December 1950 181 · Graveyard Race · Andrew Fell · ss Detective Tales December 1947 190 · The Guy Who Heard Murder · Francis K. Allan · ss Detective Tales April 1947 199 · The Hard-Luck Kid · Geoffrey Vace · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1992, as by Hugh B. Cave 207 · A Helping Hand · Rufus Bakalor · ss Detective Fiction July 1951 212 · How to Show a Corpse · Johanas L. Bouma · ss Detective Tales October 1947 221 · I Hope They’re Worried · Don James · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1946 229 · If the Shoe Fits · Ken Lewis · ss Dime Detective Magazine June 1945 238 · Imperfect Alibi · D. L. Champion · ss Dime Detective Magazine December 1943 not the same as the story of the same name in the February 1946 issue. 242 · In the Bag · Carey Barnett · vi Argosy May 22 1937, as by Hugh B. Cave 245 · Incense Sticks · Ernest Leong · ss 254 · An Ingenious Defense · [uncredited] · ss The Leisure Hour April 28 1877 257 · Into the Lion’s Den · William F. Nolan · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1956, as “The Strange Case of Mr. Pruyn” 264 · It’s Your Neck · George William Rae · ss Dime Mystery Magazine May 1946 270 · Jackie Won’t Be Home · Dane Gregory · ss Detective Tales June 1941 277 · Jeff Peters as a Personal Magnet [Jeff Peters] · O. Henry · ss The Gentle Grafter by O. Henry, McClure, 1908 283 · The Job · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Razored Saddles ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Patrick LoBrutto, Dark Harvest, 1989 287 · Kerrigan · Edwin Baird · vi Detective Fiction Weekly May 24 1941 290 · Last Laugh · Lix Agrabee · ss Dime Mystery Magazine January 1948 294 · Let Nature Take Its Corpse · C. William Harrison · ss Detective Tales December 1946 301 · The Letters of Halpin Chalmers · Peter Cannon · ss 306 · The Man of the Knife · Alexandre Dumas · ss (r) translated from the French. 313 · Many Happy Returns · Justin Case · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1966, as by Hugh B. Cave 319 · Marked in Red · Ralph Powers · ss Ten Detective Aces May/June 1933 327 · A Matter of Proof · Grover Brinkman · ss Dime Mystery Magazine June 1948 330 · Mind Over Mayhem · Mack Reynolds · ss New Detective Magazine November 1950 334 · Mine Host—The Ghost · Costa Carousso · ss Dime Mystery Magazine July 1941 342 · Motive · August Derleth · ss Top-Notch Detective March 1939 346 · Murder in Bronze · Herbert L. McNary · ss Ten Detective Aces July 1933 351 · Mushrooms · Chet Williamson · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 361 · New Blood · Gary Lovisi · vi 364 · Nimble Fingers · W. Ryerson Johnson · ss Detective Tales February 1923 368 · No Flowers for Henry · Carl Hughes · ss Whispers October 1987, as by Hugh B. Cave 376 · Nobody, That’s Who · William F. Nolan · ss Impact-20 by William F. Nolan, Paperback Library, 1963 380 · Numb · Wayne A. Harold · ss 384 · On a Dark October · Joe R. Lansdale · vi The Horror Show Spring 1984 388 · One Man’s Poison · Curt Hamlin · ss Dime Mystery Magazine August 1949 393 · The Pigeon Drop · Michael A. Black · ss 399 · A Quarter for Crazy Eddie · Will Murray · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 6 1980 405 · The Raffle · Wayne D. Dundee · ss 416 · A Real Nice Guy · William F. Nolan · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine April 1980 426 · Red Runs the Tide · John P. Foran · ss Fifteen Detective Stories August 1953 431 · The Red Sail · Lester Dent · ss 435 · A Retrieved Reformation · O. Henry · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903, as “A Retrieved Reform” 442 · Sacrifice · C. J. Henderson · vi 445 · The Sapient Monkey [Sebastian Zambra] · Headon Hill · ss The Million October 22 1892 453 · Side Door to Hell · Cyril Plunkett · ss Dime Mystery Magazine September 1943 460 · The Silver Protector · Ellis Parker Butler · ss Everybody’s Magazine February 1909, as “Our First Burglar” 466 · The Slave-Maker [Henry Arthur Milton (The Ringer)] · Edgar Wallace · ss Dime Mystery Magazine December 1933 476 · Some Jobs Are Simple · Chet Williamson · ss The New Black Mask No.5 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1986 480 · Strictly Accidental · Morgan Talbot · ss Detective Tales June 1941 488 · Sudden Violence · Robert Petyo · ss 494 · Switch · Gerald Tollesfrud · ss 499 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 504 · Terror’s Night · I. R. Austin · ss New Detective Magazine November 1950 510 · Thaxton’s Call · Jack Dolphin · ss 515 · They Tell No Tales · Francis Chase, Jr. · vi Detective Fiction Weekly May 17 1941 518 · Till Death Do Us Part · Dana McGuire · ss Dime Mystery Magazine May 1946 527 · The Time Is Now! · Dorothy Dunn · ss Dime Mystery Magazine October 1948 532 · To the Point · Hugh B. Cave · vi Tall Tales & Short Stories August 1993 535 · Turnabout · Colby Quinn · ss Spicy Detective Stories December 1938 540 · Two Must Die! · Ric Hasse · ss New Detective Magazine March 1950 547 · Untimely Visitor · John Bender · ss Detective Fiction March 1951 552 · A Valentine from Teacher · Jim Knapp · ss 562 · The White Square · Everett M. Webber · ss Dime Mystery Magazine September 1946 569 · Whitemail · Joyce Kilmer · ss The Smart Set March 1914 576 · Whose Turn Is It? · C. J. Henderson · ss Obsessions ed. Gary Raisor, Dark Harvest, 1991 582 · The Witch’s Way · Joseph Shallit · ss Dime Mystery Magazine November 1947