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Boomerang Dice: The Complete Black Mask Cases of Johnny Hi Gear by Stewart Sterling (Black Mask, July 3, 2020, 978-1-61827-475-5, $16.95, 218pp, tp, co, cover by Jes Schlaikjer) [Johnny Hi Gear]     Details taken from Table of Contents. i · Introduction · Will Murray · in 3 · Boomerang Dice [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask April 1931, as by Stewart Stirling 25 · Two-Timer [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask June 1931, as by Stewart Stirling 49 · Cold Blood [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask July 1931, as by Stewart Stirling 73 · Pushover [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask September 1931, as by Stewart Stirling 99 · 600 to 1 [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask December 1931, as by Stewart Stirling 125 · Table Stakes [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask January 1932, as by Stewart Stirling 151 · One for the Book [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask April 1932, as by Stewart Stirling 181 · Starita Takes a Rumble [Johnny Hi Gear] · Stewart Sterling · ss Black Mask May 1933, as by Stewart Stirling 202 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg (r)

Silver Screams: Murder Goes Hollywood ed. Adam Stern & Cynthia Manson--- see under Cynthia Manson.

Memoirs of a Space Traveler by Joel Stern & Maria Swiecicka-Ziemianek--- see under Stanislaw Lem.

The Great Ghost Stories ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Washington, 1962, W592, 60¢, 326pp, pb, an)     Reprint (Pocket 1947 as The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories) ghost/horror anthology. Abridged from The Midnight Reader, omitting the last two stories.

Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Pocket, November 1954, C-156, 35¢, 485pp, pb, an)     Reprint (Doubleday, Doran 1943 as The Moonlight Traveler) fantasy anthology.

The Midnight Reader ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Holt, March 1942, $3.00, 564pp, hc, an)     Abridged as The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories. 1 · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in 23 · The Beckoning Fair One · Oliver Onions · na Widdershins by Oliver Onions, Secker, 1911 106 · The Mezzotint · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904 121 · Tarnhelm · Hugh Walpole · ss Liberty December 28 1929 141 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 204 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 211 · The Mark of the Beast · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Pioneer July 12 1890 (+1) 228 · Couching at the Door · Dorothy K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 258 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph 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. 308 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 335 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 342 · The Yellow Wall Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 363 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910 402 · Full Fathom Five · Alexander Woollcott · ss The New Yorker June 22 1929 406 · The Millvale Apparition · Louis Adamic · nv My America by Louis Adamic, Harper's, 1939 430 · The Turn of the Screw [Turn of the Screw] · Henry James · na Collier’s Weekly January 27 1898 (+11)

The Midnight Reader (var. 1) ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (World/WDL, 1960, HH970, 2/6d, 254pp, pb, an)     Ten stories selected from the original hardcover edition. 7 · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in The Midnight Reader ed. Philip Van Doren Stern, Holt, 1942 25 · Tarnhelm · Hugh Walpole · ss Liberty December 28 1929 43 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 97 · The Mark of the Beast · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Pioneer July 12 1890 (+1) 111 · Couching at the Door · Dorothy K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 137 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph 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. 181 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 205 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 211 · The Yellow Wall Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 231 · Full Fathom Five · Alexander Woollcott · ss The New Yorker June 22 1929 235 · The Millvale Apparition · Louis Adamic · nv My America by Louis Adamic, Harper's, 1939

The Moonlight Traveler: Great Tales of Fantasy and Imagination ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Doubleday, May 1943, $3.00, xx+487pp, hc, an) ix · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in (r) 3 · The Celestial Omnibus · E. M. Forster · nv Albany Review January 1908 23 · Desire · James Stephens · ss Reedy’s Mirror March 1 1918 33 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916 67 · The Man Who Could Work Miracles · H. G. Wells · ss The Illustrated London News July 1898 87 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald February 8 1891 (+3) 121 · Adam and Eve and Pinch Me · A. E. Coppard · ss Adam and Eve and Pinch Me by A. E. Coppard, Golden Cockerel Press, 1921 135 · Lord Mountdrago · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan February 1939, as “Doctor and Patient” 163 · All Hallows · Walter de la Mare · nv The Connoisseur and Other Stories by Walter de la Mare, W. Collins Sons, 1926 201 · Our Distant Cousins [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 23 1929 231 · Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe · Jan Struther · ss G.K.’s Weekly October 24 1925 239 · The Man Who Missed the ’Bus · Stella Benson · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1929 257 · Sam Small’s Better Half [Sam Small] · Eric Knight · ss Maclean’s June 1 1940 277 · Mr. Arcularis · Conrad Aiken · nv Harper’s Magazine March 1931 299 · The Diamond as Big as the Ritz · F. Scott Fitzgerald · na The Smart Set June 1922 347 · William Wilson · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1840, Carey & Hart, 1839 371 · The Curfew Tolls · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 5 1935 391 · The Most Maddening Story in the World · Ralph Straus · ss The Sovereign Magazine August 1920 411 · Phantas · Oliver Onions · ss Nash’s Magazine February 1910 431 · Roads of Destiny · O. Henry · nv Ainslee’s Magazine April 1903 457 · Wireless · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1902 479 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911

The Moonlight Traveller ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (World/WDL, November 1960, HH981, 2/6d, 224pp, pb, an)     Ten stories selected from the original hardcover edition (Doubleday, 1945 as The Moonlight Traveler). 7 · The Celestial Omnibus · E. M. Forster · nv Albany Review January 1908 24 · Desire · James Stephens · ss Reedy’s Mirror March 1 1918 33 · The Man Who Could Work Miracles · H. G. Wells · ss The Illustrated London News July 1898 52 · Lord Mountdrago · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Cosmopolitan February 1939, as “Doctor and Patient” 78 · All Hallows · Walter de la Mare · nv The Connoisseur and Other Stories by Walter de la Mare, W. Collins Sons, 1926 114 · Our Distant Cousins [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 23 1929 141 · Cobbler, Cobbler, Mend My Shoe · Jan Struther · ss G.K.’s Weekly October 24 1925 148 · The Diamond as Big as the Ritz · F. Scott Fitzgerald · na The Smart Set June 1922 194 · Roads of Destiny · O. Henry · nv Ainslee’s Magazine April 1903 218 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911

The Other Side of the Clock ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1969, $5.95, 192pp, hc, an)     Also in pb (Pinnacle 1971). 6 · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in (r) 16 · Chronoclasm · John Wyndham · nv Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 36 · The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler May 1896 52 · No Ships Pass · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Story-teller May 1932 75 · Look After the Strange Girl · J. B. Priestley · ss Collier’s May 9 1953, as “The Strange Girl” 92 · “—And He Built a Crooked House” · Robert A. Heinlein · nv Astounding Science-Fiction February 1941 112 · Such Interesting Neighbors · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s January 6 1951 126 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 131 · The Phantom Setter · Robert Murphy · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 17 1961 146 · And It Comes Out Here · Lester del Rey · ss Galaxy Science Fiction February 1951 158 · The Old Man · Holloway Horn · ss Great Short Stories of Detection, Mystery, and Horror Vol. 2 ed. Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1931 164 · Dial “O” for Operator · Robert Presslie · nv Science Fantasy #27, 1958 182 · The Greatest Gift · Philip Van Doren Stern · ss self-published, December 1943

The Pocket Book of Adventure Stories ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Pocket, February 1945, 284, 25¢, 295pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. v · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in 1 · Fifty Grand · Ernest Hemingway · nv The Atlantic Monthly July 1927 28 · Flight · John Steinbeck · nv The Long Valley by John Steinbeck, Viking, 1938 49 · Red · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Asia April 1921 74 · Gun Crazy · MacKinlay Kantor · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 3 1940 96 · Escape from the Mine · Walter D. Edmonds · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 11 1936 120 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Connell · nv Collier’s January 19 1924 139 · The Fourth Man · John Russell · nv Collier’s January 6 1917 161 · The Man Who Saw Through Heaven · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine September 1925 182 · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897 210 · The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales by Rudyard Kipling, Wheeler, 1888 249 · The King’s Messenger [Captain Peter Blood] · Rafael Sabatini · nv Pearson’s Magazine March 1930 272 · The Sire de Malétroit’s Door · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Temple Bar January 1878

The Pocket Book of Ghost Stories ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Pocket Books, November 1947, 384, 25¢, vi+405pp, pb, an)     Abridged from The Midnight Reader, omitting the last two stories. Later pb reprinting retitled Great Ghost Stories, Washington, 1962. 3 · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in The Midnight Reader ed. Philip Van Doren Stern, Holt, 1942 23 · The Beckoning Fair One · Oliver Onions · na Widdershins by Oliver Onions, Secker, 1911 106 · The Mezzotint · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904 121 · Tarnhelm · Hugh Walpole · ss Liberty December 28 1929 141 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 204 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 211 · The Mark of the Beast · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Pioneer July 12 1890 (+1) 228 · Couching at the Door · Dorothy K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 258 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph 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. 308 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 335 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 342 · The Yellow Wall Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 363 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910 402 · Full Fathom Five · Alexander Woollcott · ss The New Yorker June 22 1929

The Pocket Book of Modern American Short Stories ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Pocket Books, November 1943, 238, 25¢, 310pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. vii · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in 1 · Johnny Pye and the Fool-Killer · Stephen Vincent Benét · nv The Saturday Evening Post September 18 1937 26 · The Romance of Rosy Ridge · MacKinlay Kantor · nv The Saturday Evening Post June 5 1937 58 · The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Ernest Hemingway · nv Esquire August 1936 86 · The Leader of the People [Billy Buck] · John Steinbeck · ss The Argosy (UK) August 1936 105 · Champion · Ring Lardner · nv Metropolitan October 1916 130 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 156 · Silent Snow, Secret Snow · Conrad Aiken · nv The Virginia Quarterly Review October 1932 178 · Country Full of Swedes · Erskine Caldwell · ss The Yale Review Winter 1933 197 · You Were Perfectly Fine · Dorothy Parker · ss The New Yorker February 23 1929 201 · The Night the Ghost Got In · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker August 12 1933 207 · Young Man Axelbrod · Sinclair Lewis · ss The Century Magazine June 1917 225 · That Evening Sun Go Down · William Faulkner · nv The American Mercury March 1931; revised. 246 · The Explorers · Jerome Weidman · ss The New Yorker May 21 1938 257 · The Happiest Man on Earth · Albert Maltz · nv Harper’s Magazine June 1938 270 · That Tree · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Flowering Judas by Katherine Anne Porter, Harcourt Brace, 1930 288 · Going Home · William Saroyan · ss Redbook Magazine February 1935 295 · Profession: Housewife · Sally Benson · ss The New Yorker July 2 1938 303 · A Visit of Charity · Eudora Welty · ss Decision June 1941

The Pocket Companion ed. Philip Van Doren Stern (Pocket Books, May 1942, 142, 25¢, 493pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. also contains puzzles, not detailed vii · Introduction · Philip Van Doren Stern · in 3 · The Invisible Man · H. G. Wells · n. C. Arthur Pearson, 1897 155 · A Letter from the Queen · Sinclair Lewis · ss Cosmopolitan December 1929 175 · Freedom’s a Hard-Bought Thing · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 18 1940 191 · England to America · Margaret Prescott Montague · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1919 210 · The Happy Hypocrite · Max Beerbohm · nv The Yellow Book October 1896 242 · Death of Red Peril · Walter D. Edmonds · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1928 256 · The Lost God · John Russell · ss Collier’s August 18 1917 280 · The Great Pancake Record · Owen Johnson · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 16 1907 298 · The Nice Judge Trowbridge · Richard Lockridge · ss The New Yorker January 29 1938 302 · Night Club · Katharine Brush · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1927 318 · The Sign in the Sky [Harley Quin] · Agatha Christie · ss The Grand Magazine July 1925 339 · The U.S.A. · The Editors of Fortune · ar Fortune February 1939 375 · Mutiny on the Brig · Hanson Baldwin · ar Admiral Death by Hanson Baldwin, Simon & Schuster, 1939 397 · The Treasurer’s Report · Robert Benchley · hu (r) 407 · The River · Pare Lorentz · pm (r) 418 · Food and Drink · Louis Untermeyer · pm (r) 421 · Songs from Shakespeare’s Plays · William Shakespeare · pm (r) 426 · Dover Beach · Matthew Arnold · pm New Poems by Matthew Arnold, 1867 428 · The Building of the Ship · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm 1849 428 · In Time of “The Breaking of Nations” · Thomas Hardy · pm (r) 429 · Recessional · Rudyard Kipling · pm The Times July 17 1897 430 · Song for All Seas, All Ships · Walt Whitman · pm New York Daily Graphic April 4 1873, as “Sea Captains, Young or Old” 431 · Tomorrow · John Masefield · pm (r) 432 · A Foreign Ruler · Walter Savage Landor · pm (r) 432 · The Lost Leader · Robert Browning · pm Dramatic Romances and Lyrics by Robert Browning, Robert Browning, 1845 433 · The Walrus and the Carpenter · Lewis Carroll · pm from Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, Macmillan, 1871 437 · Ozymandias · Percy Bysshe Shelley · pm The Examiner January 11 1818 438 · The Ballad of Dead Ladies · Dante Gabriel Rossetti · pm (r); from François Villon. 439 · To His Coy Mistress · Andrew Marvell · pm Miscellaneous poems by Andrew Marvell, Esq. by Andrew Marvell, Robert Boulter, 1681 440 · To a Louse · Robert Burns · pm (r) 442 · Smells · Christopher Morley · pm Chimney Smoke by Christopher Morley, George H. Doran Company, 1917 442 · The Ballad of Bouillabaisse · William Makepeace Thackeray · pm (r) 446 · Ecclesiastes or, the Preacer · [uncredited] · ex from The Bible Designed to Be Read as Living Literature, Simon & Schuster, 1936