The FictionMags Index

Book Contents Lists: Page 2067

Great Murder Mysteries (Octopus/Chartwell, October 1988, 1-55521-249-2, $9.98, 665pp, hc, an)     Adds one story to 65 Great Murder Mysteries edited by Mary Danby (Octopus 1983). 9 · Evidence in Camera · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine June 1949 22 · The Case of the Emerald Sky [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch July 10 1940 30 · Acid Test · Margot Arnold · ss The Tenth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1977 37 · Eye Witness · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 28 1939 49 · The Murder of the Mandarin · Arnold Bennett · ss Grim Smile of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett, Chapman & Hall, 1907 59 · Nemesis · Phyllis Bentley · ss The Windsor Magazine July 1939 68 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 82 · Sweets to the Sweet · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales March 1947 89 · Nightmare in Yellow · Fredric Brown · vi The Dude May 1961 91 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 106 · Baby · Ramsey Campbell · ss Star Book of Horror, No. 2 ed. Hugh Lamb, Star Books, 1976 121 · A Note for the Milkman · Sidney Carroll · ss Today’s Woman April 1950 130 · The Hammer of God [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 5 1910, as “The Bolt from the Blue” 143 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch September 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path” 151 · Coroner’s Inquest · Marc Connelly · vi Collier’s February 8 1930 156 · Banquo’s Chair · Rupert Croft-Cooke · ss Pharaoh and His Waggons and Other Stories by Rupert Croft-Cooke, Jarrolds, 1937 162 · Esmeralda · John Keir Cross · ss The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross, John Westhouse, 1944 177 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 186 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited. 195 · The Corpse Light · Dick Donovan · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899 204 · The Veiled Lodger [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Liberty January 22 1927, as “The Adventure of the Veiled Lodger” 213 · Surprise! Surprise! · Roger F. Dunkley · ss The Eleventh Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Mary Danby, Fontana, 1978 219 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 230 · The Kill · Peter Fleming · ss Creeps by Night ed. Dashiell Hammett, John Day, 1931 240 · Something to Do with Figures · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #21, March 1945 249 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 257 · The Blood on the Innocents · Celia Fremlin · ss By Horror Haunted by Celia Fremlin, Gollancz, 1974 264 · The Squire’s Story · Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell · ss Household Words Christmas 1853, uncredited. 277 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 281 · Mrs. Manifold · Stephen Grendon · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 291 · The Two Vaynes · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review #22, December 1950 300 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 305 · Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss News Chronicle April 30 1934 (+4) 320 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Queen June 23 1900 330 · Moment of Power · P. D. James · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1968 345 · Another Shot in the Locker · Michael Kent · ss Pearson’s Magazine June 1929 352 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling, Heinemann and Balestier, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray” 362 · The Lady with the Hatchet [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss MacLean’s April 15 1922 379 · A Thousand Deaths · Jack London · ss The Black Cat May 1899 387 · Homicidal Hiccup · John D. MacDonald · ss Detective Tales June 1948 393 · The Sound of Murder · William P. McGivern · ss Bluebook October 1952 402 · An Official Position · W. Somerset Maugham · ss Cosmopolitan July 1937 419 · Vendetta · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903, as “Semillante” translated from the French (“Une vendetta”, Le Gaulois, October 14, 1883). 423 · Such a Good Idea · Andrea Newman · ss Tales of Unease ed. John Burke, Pan, 1966 429 · The Regent’s Park Murder [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Emmuska Orczy · ss The Royal Magazine September 1901 441 · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 452 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 458 · The House by the Headland · “Sapper” · ss The Sovereign Magazine March 1920 470 · Suspicion · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Mystery League October 1933 483 · The Second Step · Margery Sharp · ss Harper’s Magazine June 1934 491 · The Case of Arnold Schuttringer [Monsieur Froget] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1942 translated from the French (Les 13 Coupables, 1932). 498 · The People Next Door · Pauline C. Smith · ss The Mysterious Traveler Magazine June 1952 503 · The King of Spades · Nancy Spain · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 510 · The Portobello Road · Muriel Spark · nv Winter’s Tales 2, Macmillan UK, 1956 528 · Blue Murder · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Harper’s Magazine October 1925 544 · The Murder · John Steinbeck · ss North American Review April 1934 554 · Markheim · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 567 · The Secret of the Growing Gold · Bram Stoker · ss Black & White January 23 1892 578 · A Theme for Hyacinth · Julian Symons · ss Argosy (UK) August 1967 596 · Miss Smith · William Trevor · ss Transatlantic Review #25, Summer 1967 605 · The Treasure Hunt [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss Flynn’s November 22 1924 619 · The Snow · Hugh Walpole · ss The (London) Evening News December 21 1928 626 · The Cone · H. G. Wells · ss Unicorn September 18 1895 635 · In the Fog · Dennis Wheatley · ss The (London) Evening News May 29 1953 640 · The Cyprian Bees [Dr. Eustace Hailey] · Anthony Wynne · ss Flynn’s February 6 1926 654 · Drawn Into Error · Elizabeth Ferrars · ss Planned Departures ed. Elizabeth Ferrars, Hodder & Stoughton, 1958

Great Murder Stories ed. Ken Crossen, uncredited (Penguin, January 1948, 655, 432pp, hc, an)     Abridged version of Murder Cavalcade (Duell, Sloan and Pearce 1946). vii · Preface · Richard Lockridge · pr 3 · His Heart Could Break [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1943 24 · Eye Witness · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 28 1939 43 · Behind the Door · Percival Wilde · ss Collier’s February 4 1928 46 · Twenty-Dollar Debt · Lawrence Treat · ss Adventure February 1940 63 · The Adventure of the Sotheby Salesman [Solar Pons] · August Derleth · ss “In Re: Sherlock Holmes” by August Derleth, Mycroft & Moran, 1945 79 · The Corpse in Grampa’s Bed [Quinny Hite] · Richard Burke · ss (r) 97 · The Homecoming · Dorothy B. Hughes · ss Murder Cavalcade, Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1946 111 · Trick-or-Treat · Anthony Boucher · ts Master Detective June 1945, as “The Ghost with the Gun” 125 · The Million-Dollar Motive · Brett Halliday · nv The Master Detective 145 · The Cafe Society Murder · Edward D. Radin · ar True Detective 177 · The Golden Twenty · Ellery Queen · ar Good Housekeeping May 1944 (+1); “The Ten Most Important Books of Detective Short Stories” and “The Ten Most Important Detective Novels”.

Great Science Fiction Stories (Octopus, 1979, 702pp, hc, an) 9 · 2001: A Space Odyssey [Space Odyssey] · Arthur C. Clarke · n. New American Library, 1968 161 · The Demolished Man · Alfred Bester · n. Shasta, 1953 329 · The Day of the Triffids [Triffids] · John Wyndham · n. Doubleday, March 1951 529 · I, Robot [Robots] · Isaac Asimov · co Gnome Press, 1950

Great Science Fiction Stories (St. Michael, 1982, 0-904230-98-8, 702pp, hc, an, cover by Chris Moore)     Reprint (Octopus 1979) sf anthology. First ed by Octopus and Heinemenn and Secker & Warburg. Revised edition (sic) 1982. Not sure what’s been altered.

Great Short Stories for Your Reading Pleasure (Royce, 1943, #106, pb, an)     Details supplied by Richard Bleiler. 3 · The Book Bag · W. Somerset Maugham · nv The Book-Bag: 20 Best Short Stories in Ray Long’s 20 Years as an Editor ed. Ray Long, Crown, 1932 70 · Guilty · Fannie Hurst · nv Cosmopolitan February 1921 114 · The Christmas Tree and the Wedding · Fyodor Dostoyevsky · ss Best Russian Short Stories ed. Thomas Seltzer, Boni & Liveright, 1917

Great Short Tales of Mystery and Terror (Readers Digest, 1982, 0-89577-091-1, 629pp, hc, an)     Some stories condensed. 9 · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 27 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 36 · The Summer People · Shirley Jackson · ss Charm September 1950 48 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 54 · The Third Floor Flat [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine January 1929 72 · The Man Who Liked Dickens · Evelyn Waugh · ss Cosmopolitan September 1933 86 · Was It a Dream? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La morte”, Gil Blas, May 31, 1887). 91 · The Fourth Man · John Russell · nv Collier’s January 6 1917 107 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 136 · The Touch of Nutmeg Makes It · John Collier · ss The New Yorker May 3 1941 144 · The Absence of Mr. Glass [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss McClure’s Magazine November 1912 156 · Miriam · Truman Capote · ss Mademoiselle June 1945 168 · The Log of the Evening Star · Alfred Noyes · ss Ladies’ Home Journal June 1918, as “The Mystery of the Evening Star” 180 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Arnold, 1911 196 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” 207 · The Whole Town’s Sleeping [Green Town] · Ray Bradbury · ss McCall’s September 1950 222 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 241 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 254 · The Gettysburg Bugle [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #90, May 1951, as “As Simple as ABC” 280 · Don’t Look Now · Daphne du Maurier · na Ladies’ Home Journal December 1970 313 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 326 · An Alpine Divorce · Robert Barr · ss The English Illustrated Magazine October 1893 331 · The Incautious Burglar [Dr. Gideon Fell] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine October 1940, as “A Guest in the House” 346 · Thanatos Palace Hotel · André Maurois · ss 1967 360 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 370 · The Rats in the Walls · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales March 1924 388 · After-Dinner Story [Hardecker] · William Irish · nv Black Mask January 1938, as by Cornell Woolrich 409 · Another Solution · Gilbert Highet · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1951 414 · The Waxwork · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 426 · For Your Eyes Only [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv For Your Eyes Only by Ian Fleming, Jonathan Cape, 1960 454 · The Foghorn · Gertrude Atherton · ss Good Housekeeping November 1933 463 · Leiningen Versus the Ants · Carl Stephenson · nv Esquire December 1938 translated from the German (“Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen”, 1937). 483 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 495 · An Invitation to the Hunt · George Hitchcock · ss San Francisco Review March 1960 505 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907 518 · Midnight Blue [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1, 1960 548 · The Return of Imray [E. Strickland] · Rudyard Kipling · ss Mine Own People by Rudyard Kipling, Heinemann and Balestier, 1891, as “The Recrudescence of Imray” 559 · Journey Backward Into Time [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956, as “Journey Into Time” translated from the French (“Les Larmes de Bougie”, Paris-Soir-Dimanche, November 22, 1936). 570 · The Movie People · Robert Bloch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1969 581 · Broker’s Special · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1956 592 · The Sea-Raiders · H. G. Wells · ss The Weekly Sun Literary Supplement December 6 1896 602 · The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Collier’s January 17 1953 618 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 623 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953

Great Tales of Fantasy and Science Fiction (Chancellor Press, 1991, 1-85152-145-3, £4.99, 544pp, hc, an, cover by Alan Baker)     Reprint (??? 1985 as The Best Fantasy Stories) SF/fantasy anthology. Revised edition of the 1985 original. I have presumed all stories were orig in F&SF. 9 · Far from Home · Walter S. Tevis · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1958 13 · My Dear Emily · Joanna Russ · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1962 33 · The Man Who Painted the Dragon Griaule [Griaule] · Lucius Shepard · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction December 1984 59 · The Vanishing American · Charles Beaumont · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955 69 · The Cloud-Sculptors of Coral D [Vermilion Sands] · J. G. Ballard · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1967 85 · The Invasion of the Church of the Holy Ghost · Russell Kirk · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1983 125 · The Accountant · Robert Sheckley · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1954 134 · The Fire When It Comes · Parke Godwin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1981 176 · My Boyfriend’s Name Is Jello · Avram Davidson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1954 181 · San Diego Lightfoot Sue · Tom Reamy · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1975 222 · Sooner or Later or Never Never [Crispin Mobey] · Gary Jennings · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1972 250 · Jeffty Is Five · Harlan Ellison · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1977 269 · The Third Level · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s October 7 1950 274 · The Silken-Swift · Theodore Sturgeon · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1953 292 · Another Orphan · John Kessel · na The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1982 334 · The Manor of Roses [John & Stephen] · Thomas Burnett Swann · na The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1966 389 · Please Stand By [Max Kearny] · Ron Goulart · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1962 409 · Downtown · Thomas M. Disch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1983 419 · Man Overboard · John Collier · nv Argosy (UK) January 1960 441 · One Ordinary Day, with Peanuts · Shirley Jackson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1955 451 · Yes, We Have No Ritchard · Bruce Jay Friedman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1960 459 · The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet · Stephen King · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 1984 504 · That Hell-Bound Train · Robert Bloch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1958 517 · Will You Wait? · Alfred Bester · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1959 524 · Sule Skerry · Jane Yolen · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1982 533 · Not Long Before the End [Mana] · Larry Niven · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1969

Great Tales of Horror and Suspense (Galahad Books, 1974, $7.95, 268pp, hc, an)     An early “instant remainder” volume subdivided into the “Weird Tales of Edgar Allan Poe”, “The Ghost Ship and Other Ghostly Stories” and a retelling of Dracula. 11 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 21 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 41 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843 51 · The Pit and the Pendulum · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present, MDCCCXLIII, Carey & Hart, 1842 70 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 99 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 110 · Man-Size in Marble · Edith Nesbit · nv Home Chimes December 1887 124 · The Bold Dragoon · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon & Gent., John Murray, 1824, as by Geoffrey Crayon 132 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review February 23 1887 (+1) 160 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 173 · The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891 187 · Dracula · Bram Stoker; adapted by Rosalie Kershaw · na (r); totally rewritten in Kershaw’s own words.