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100 Sneaky Little Sleuth Stories ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, 1997, 0-7607-0143-1, xii+587pp, hc, an) xi · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · Am I a Murderer? · Ken Kessler · na Mammoth Detective October 1946 7 · At Last I’ve Found You · Robert Moore Williams · vi Mammoth Detective October 1946 11 · Attitude · Morris Hershman · ss 18 · Aunt Hattie’s Dolls · Edie Hanes · vi 1991 21 · Bait · Henry Norton · vi Dime Detective Magazine May 1943 23 · The Best Meal [Jack Hagee] · C. J. Henderson · ss Classic Pulp Fiction Stories #22, March 1997 30 · The Bird Has Flown! · Fergus Truslow · ss Mammoth Detective March 1946 39 · Blood and Bone · H. R. F. Keating · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1995 44 · Broken Ivory · David Crewe · ss Detective Fiction Weekly March 2 1935 49 · Burning Issue · Ted Stratton · ss New Detective Magazine July 1946 58 · Case of the Well-Cleansed Corpse · Stuart Friedman · ss Mammoth Detective January 1943 65 · The Chair · Geoffrey Vace · ss 1936 72 · Charlotte’s Ruse · Morris Hershman · vi 75 · Cloak and Digger [Mr. Roger] · John Jakes · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine (UK) October 1961, as “Cloak and Dagger” 79 · A Common Error [Harriet Unwin] · H. R. F. Keating · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1987 84 · Confidential Information · John L. French · ss 89 · Crime Scene · Carolyn Wheat · ss Sisters in Crime ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1989 96 · Curtain Call · Alexander Blade · ss Mammoth Detective May 1945 103 · Die, Mr. Spraggins! · Ted Stratton · ss Mammoth Detective November 1944 111 · The Element of Chance [Judge Ephraim Peck] · August Derleth · ss 1952 115 · Fainting Cop · Edward S. Sullivan · ss Detective Fiction Weekly October 1 1938 121 · The Fasterfaster Affair · William F. Nolan · ss The Pseudo-People ed. William F. Nolan, Sherbourne, 1965, as by Frank Anmar 128 · Fool Proof [Judge Ephraim Peck] · August Derleth · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #73, December 1949, as “?”; title contest story. 133 · Footprints in Perdu · Hugh B. Cave · ss Whispers V ed. Stuart David Schiff, Doubleday, 1985 140 · Frame Me in Oils · S. M. Tenneshaw · ss Mammoth Detective March 1947 149 · Frozen Food—for Thought · Glenn Low · ss Mammoth Detective January 1947 155 · The Future of the Service [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) April 1962, as “On Slay Down” 162 · A Game to Be Played · C. J. Henderson · ss Detective Story Magazine #2, September 1988 170 · The Ghost in the Bottle · Madelyn Ralph · ss Dime Detective Magazine July 1937 173 · Gramp Takes a Hand · Hugh B. Cave · ss 1944 180 · The Hands Called It Murder · Calvin S. Allen · ss Detective Book Magazine Summer 1943 184 · Her Master’s Choice · Ken Kessler · ss Mammoth Mystery December 1946 191 · High School Reunion · Edward D. Hoch · ss 1980 195 · Hotel Stygia · Richard Gilliam · ss Fred Olen Ray’s Weird Menace ed. Fred Olen Ray, American Independent Press, 1994 203 · I Want to Be a Detective · Stan Knowlton · ss Mammoth Detective February 1945 207 · Inchy’s Forty-Grand Alibi · John Maitland · ss Detective Tales July 1948 215 · It Shouldn’t Happen to a Dog · Leonard B. Rosborough · ss Mammoth Detective May 1947 224 · It’s in the Book · E. E. Halleran · vi Mammoth Detective May 1944 227 · Just a Bullet Between Friends · Wallace Umphrey · ss New Detective Magazine May 1950 235 · Just a Little Joke · Edie Hanes · vi 1995 238 · Killer Unleashed · Stuart Friedman · ss Detective Tales May 1950 245 · A Lesson in Homicide · John G. Pearsol · ss Detective Tales February 1939 252 · Let’s Cry for the Dead · W. T. Brannon · ss Mammoth Mystery February 1947 258 · The Locked Bathroom [Mrs. Craggs] · H. R. F. Keating · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 2 1980 262 · The Long, Red Night · John Lane (by John D. MacDonald) · ss Detective Tales May 1950 270 · A Man’s Home · Shelley Singer · ss A Woman’s Eye ed. Sara Paretsky, Delacorte, 1991 277 · Marry Rich: Free Particulars · Lyle Thomas · vi Mammoth Detective November 1943 280 · Mary Dies Tonight · A. J. Collins · ss Mammoth Mystery August 1946 285 · Merrill-Go-Round [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense ed. Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg & Barry N. Malzberg, Arbor House, 1981 292 · Mrs. Craggs’s Sixth Sense [Mrs. Craggs] · H. R. F. Keating · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1978 297 · Murder at the Crossroads · Leonard Finley Hilts · ss Mammoth Detective November 1945 303 · Murder Can’t Take It · Maurice Sachs · ss Mammoth Detective May 1945 310 · Murder Is My Hobby · Phyllis Dayton · ss Mammoth Detective January 1946 317 · The Nervous Finger · Ted Stratton · ss Mammoth Mystery June 1946 326 · Night Noises · Lyle Robertson · ss Detective Book Magazine Summer 1943 328 · No Excuse for the Dead · Leonard Finley Hilts · ss Mammoth Mystery February 1947 335 · No Rest for the Wicked · Ric Hasse · ss Mammoth Detective October 1946 344 · Nobody Loves a Cop · Dennis Wiegand · ss Dime Detective Magazine June 1952 352 · O’Sheen Is Best Man [Paddy O’Sheen] · Leroy Yerxa · ss Mammoth Detective January 1943 355 · O’Sheen Minds the Baby [Paddy O’Sheen] · Leroy Yerxa · ss Mammoth Detective February 1944 359 · O’Sheen’s Photo Finish [Paddy O’Sheen] · Leroy Yerxa · ss Mammoth Detective August 1943 362 · O’Sheen Sees Red [Paddy O’Sheen] · Leroy Yerxa · ss Mammoth Detective May 1944 370 · O’Sheen’s Sweet Tooth [Paddy O’Sheen] · Leroy Yerxa · ss Mammoth Detective November 1943 374 · Old Hokey · Robert A. Garron · ss Speed Mystery September 1943 383 · The Other Man in the Pinstripe · Francis M. Nevins, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 5 1980 388 · Paper Tiger · Morris Hershman · vi 390 · Parlor, Bedroom, and Death · Ken Lewis · ss Dime Detective Magazine September 1944 398 · Past Sins · John L. French · ss Hardboiled #13, March 1992 404 · The Personal Touch · Chet Williamson · vi Playboy August 1983 407 · A Piece of the Auction [Rachel Hennings] · Jon L. Breen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1986 414 · Piu Mosso · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Espionage Magazine August 1985 417 · Possessed · Will F. Jenkins · ss Manhunt February 1957 424 · Proof Negative · Morris Hershman · ss Espionage Magazine August 1985 428 · The Right Horse · Roy Frentz · ss Mammoth Detective February 1944 430 · A Sad Case of Simony [Mrs. Craggs] · H. R. F. Keating · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1984 437 · A Sandy Beach [The Suiciders] · C. J. Henderson · ss 1989 444 · Satan Picks the Winner · Basil Wells · ss 10-Story Detective Magazine December 1947 450 · Serenade to a Wealthy Widow · Don James · ss Detective Tales December 1946 460 · The Simplest Thing in the World · H. B. Hickey · ss Mammoth Detective May 1947 464 · Sing a Song of Slaughter · Don James · ss Dime Detective Magazine February 1950 474 · The Smarter They Come… · Phillip Sharp · ss Mammoth Detective March 1947 479 · The Spy Who Did Nothing [Jeffrey Rand] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1965 486 · The Spy Who Had Faith in Double-C [Jeffrey Rand] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1965 494 · Stormy Weather · Mickey Friedman · ss Sisters in Crime ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1989 501 · The Story of a Conscience · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner June 1 1890 506 · The Street with No Houses [Nancy Trentino] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine March 1983 510 · Sweet Dreams, Darling · Paul W. Fairman · vi Mammoth Detective July 1947 515 · Ten Cent Alibi · Sissy O’Daniel · ss Mammoth Mystery February 1947 521 · This Little Pig Goes to Market… · Stephen E. Chalet · ss Mammoth Detective August 1943 528 · Three for the Kill · Joseph V. Hickey · ss Dime Detective Magazine June 1952 532 · Three Men and a Corpse · Victor K. Ray · ss Dime Detective Magazine November 1948 538 · Time Out for Murder · Stan Knowlton · ss Mammoth Detective March 1946 545 · A Touch of Magic · Hugh B. Cave · ss (r) 549 · The Trap · Joy DeWeese Wehen · ss Detective Book Magazine Winter 1951/1952 553 · Traynor’s Cipher · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Saint Detective Magazine July 1958 557 · Violet Crime · Edward D. Hoch · ss 1983 561 · Wild Mustard [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss The Eyes Have It ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1984 568 · The Wink · Hugh B. Cave · ss 572 · Witch of Mulberry Holler · H. Wolff Salz · ss Mammoth Detective February 1944 580 · Wrong Number · Roger Torrey · ss Double Detective November 1937

100 Tiny Tales of Terror ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble, September 1996, 0-76070-140-7, $7.98, 565pp, hc, oa, cover by Cheryl Knippenburg)     Anthology of 100 horror stories, one original. Authors include Ambrose Bierce, Joe R. Lansdale, Nancy A. Collins, and John Shirley. This is an instant remainder edition. ix · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in 1 · Ashes of Circumstance · J. U. Giesy · ss Weird Tales September 1925 7 · At the Bend of the Trail · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales October 1934 11 · August Heat · William Fryer Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 15 · Beside the Seaside · Ramsey Campbell · ss The Height of the Scream by Ramsey Campbell, Arkham House, 1976 20 · Best of Luck · David Drake · ss The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series VI ed. Gerald W. Page, DAW, 1978 24 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891 28 · Boo, Yourself · Joe R. Lansdale · vi Whispers October 1987 31 · The Broken Thread · Kirk Mashburn · ss Weird Tales May 1932 36 · The Bus-Conductor · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1906 43 · The Chill · Dennis Etchison · ss Weirdbook #15, 1981 48 · The Cleaning Machine [Ronald Burke] · F. Paul Wilson · ss Startling Mystery Stories March 1971 51 · The Coffin Merchant · Richard Middleton · ss The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton, Unwin, 1912 56 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ex from Novel Notes, Leadenhall Press, 1893 62 · The Desert Lich · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales November 1924 68 · Dickon the Devil [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss London Society Christmas 1872 76 · The Doll’s Ghost · F. Marion Crawford · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1896 85 · The Dreamclown · Nancy A. Collins · ss The Horror Show Fall 1983 90 · Ember · Fred Chappell · ss Weird Tales Fall 1990 98 · The Empty House · Maurice Level; translated by Alys Eyre Macklin · ss Hearst’s Magazine September 1920 translated from the French (“La Maison Vide”, Le Journal 1909). 102 · The Epiphany of Death · Clark Ashton Smith · ss The Fantasy Fan July 1934 106 · The Everlasting Club · Ingulphus · ss The Cambridge Review October 27 1910 111 · Fair Trade · William F. Nolan · ss Whispers March 1982 115 · The Family Underwater · Lucy Taylor · ss Close to the Bone by Lucy Taylor, Silver Salamander Press, 1993 119 · Fear · Guy de Maupassant · ss Library of the World’s Best Mystery and Detective Stories: French: Italian: Spanish: Latin ed. Julian Hawthorne, The Review of Reviews, 1907 translated from the French (“La Peur”, Le Gaulois, October 23, 1882). 124 · Fluffy · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Weird Tales March 1947 130 · Footprints in the Water · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Women of Darkness II ed. Kathryn Ptacek, Tor, 1990 134 · The Frenzied Farmhouse · Stefan Grabinski; translated by Miroslaw Lipinski · ss Crypt of Cthulhu #66, Lammas 1989 140 · Gobble, Gobble! · William F. Nolan · ss Weird Tales Winter 1990/1991 145 · Graven Images · William Browning Spencer · ss The Return of Count Electric by William Browning Spencer, The Permanent Press, 1993 149 · The Greater Festival of Masks · Thomas Ligotti · ss Songs of a Dead Dreamer by Thomas Ligotti, Silver Scarab Press, 1986 155 · The Green Scarab · Willis Knapp Jones · ss Weird Tales August 1925 expanded and revised from the story of the same name in The Hamilton Literary Magazine (February 1916). 161 · The Grim Passenger · Donald Edward Keyhoe · ss Weird Tales April 1925 167 · Have You Seen Me? · Nancy Holder · ss Cemetery Dance #9, Summer 1991 175 · Heroes · Richard T. Chizmar · ss Predators ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1993 181 · The Hollow · David B. Silva · ss Cemetery Dance #3, Winter 1990 187 · The House of Shadows · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales April 1933 193 · In Kropfsberg Keep · Ralph Adams Cram · ss Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895 201 · In the Triangle · Howard Wandrei · ss Weird Tales January 1934 204 · In the Vault · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Tryout November 1925 211 · Itself · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales September 1925 216 · Jason, Come Home · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Night Cry Winter 1986 223 · Johnny on the Spot · Frank Belknap Long · vi Unknown December 1939 226 · Justice · Brian Stableford · ss Far Point #1, November/December 1991 232 · The Law of the Hills · Grace M. Campbell · ss Weird Tales August 1930 240 · Letter from Will Stotler, Dated October 32nd as Received by D. E. LeRoss · William R. Stotler & D. E. LeRoss · ss 1995 246 · Lightning Rod · Melanie Tem · ss Skin of the Soul ed. Lisa Tuttle, The Women's Press, 1990 254 · The Lions in the Desert · David Langford · ss The Weerde: Book 2 ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK, 1993 262 · The Little Green Ones · Les Daniels · ss Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 266 · Miracles · Barry Pain · ss Short Stories of To-Day and Yesterday by Barry Pain, Harrap, 1928 273 · Morella · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger April 1835 277 · Moving Out · Nicholas Royle · ss Skeleton Crew January 1991 282 · Mr. Lupescu · Anthony Boucher · ss Weird Tales September 1945 285 · Mr. Templeton’s Toyshop · Thomas Wiloch · ss All the Devils Are Here ed. David D. Deyo, Jr., Unnameable Press, 1986, as “Selections from “Mr. Templeton’s Toyshop”” 290 · Mrs. Bentley’s Daughter · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales October 1930 294 · Mrs. Edmonds’ Pantry · Tina L. Jens · ss 301 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis by Saki, John Lane, 1911 305 · The Mystery of the Semi-Detached · Edith Nesbit · ss Grim Tales by E. Nesbit, Innes, 1893 308 · The Ninth Skeleton · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales September 1928 311 · No Eye-Witnesses · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales August 1932 318 · Old Clothes · Ramsey Campbell · ss Midnight ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1985 326 · One-Night Stand · Donald R. Burleson · ss Four Shadowings by Donald R. Burleson, Necronomicon Press, 1994 330 · One Size Eats All: A Campfire Tale for Children · T. E. D. Klein · ss Outside Kids Summer 1993 334 · An Original Revenge · W. C. Morrow · ss The Ape, the Idiot and Other People by W. C. Morrow, Lippincott, 1897 339 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926 344 · Over Time’s Threshold · Howard Wandrei · ss Weird Tales September 1932 350 · The Palace of the Dead · Robert Peery · ss Weird Tales October 1929 356 · Past Tense · Brian Hodge · ss Final Shadows ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday Foundation, 1991 365 · People Who Love Life · Douglas Clegg · ss The Scream Factory #6, 1991 373 · Phantom Brass [Telegraph Service] · Carl Jacobi · ss Railroad Stories August 1934 379 · The Ponderer · Eric Frank Russell · ss Weird Tales November 1948 386 · Preparations for the Game · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Whispers August 1982 394 · Purification · Robert Barr · ss Revenge! by Robert Barr, Chatto & Windus, 1896 400 · A Queer Cicerone · Bernard Capes · ss The Fabulists by Bernard Capes, Mills & Boon, 1915 405 · The Rag Thing · Donald A. Wollheim · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1951, as by David Grinnell 409 · The Rajah’s Gift [Ismeddin] · E. Hoffmann Price · ss Weird Tales January 1925 414 · Roadside Pickup · Richard Laymon · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1974 418 · Schizo Jimmie · Fritz Leiber · ss The Saint Mystery Magazine February 1960 427 · Shrapnel · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Night Visions 2 ed. Charles L. Grant, Dark Harvest, 1985 433 · Silent Crickets · John Shirley · vi Fantastic Stories April 1975 436 · The Skeptic · Hugh B. Cave · ss The Urbanite #3, 1993 441 · The Striding Place · Gertrude Atherton · ss The Speaker June 20 1896, as “The Twins” 446 · The Sultan’s Jest [Ismeddin] · E. Hoffmann Price · ss Weird Tales September 1925 452 · Talent · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction September 1953 459 · The Tapestry Gate · Leigh Brackett · ss Strange Stories August 1940 470 · The Terminus · Kim Newman · ss Fantasy Tales #15, Winter 1985 an earlier version was in the fanzine Sheep Worrying, 1981. 473 · A Terrible Night · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1856, uncredited. 478 · The Three · Louise Van de Verg · ss Weird Tales February 1929 482 · The Three Marked Pennies · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales August 1934 489 · The Three Sisters · W. W. Jacobs · ss Night Watches by W. W. Jacobs, Hodder & Stoughton, 1914 495 · Tom Toothacre’s Ghost Story · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss Sam Lawson’s Oldtown Fireside Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe, Osgood, 1871 500 · Tombstone Moon · Norman Partridge · ss Souls in Pawn ed. George Hatch, Horror's Head Press, 1992 507 · The Torture by Hope · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam; translated by Mary J. Safford · ss Short Stories July 1894 translated from the French (“La Torture par l’Espérance”, Nouveaux Contes Cruels, La Librairie Illustrée, 1888). 511 · Two Doctors · M. R. James · ss A Thin Ghost by M. R. James, Longmans, Green, 1919 517 · The Visitor · John Bender · ss Dime Mystery Magazine June 1948 523 · Wave Scars · Joel Lane · ss Sugar Sleep ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1993 530 · A Wedding Chest · Vernon Lee · ss Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Tales by Vernon Lee, Grant Richards, 1904 538 · What Can a Child Do? · Chet Williamson · ss Weird Tales Spring 1988 544 · What Say the Frogs Now, Jenny? · Hugh B. Cave · ss Whispers IV ed. Stuart David Schiff, Doubleday, 1983 550 · Wild Grapes · August Derleth · vi Weird Tales July 1934 554 · Will · Vincent O’Sullivan · ss The Green Window by Vincent O'Sullivan, Leonard Smithers, 1899 translated from the French (“Le Scarabée Funèbre”, Mercure de France).