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The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2003: Ghosts at The Cornhill 1931-1939 ed. Jack Adrian (Ash-Tree Press, December 29, 2003, 1-55310-060-3, $52.00, xix+200pp, hc, an, cover by Rob Suggs)     This, the second of two Annual Macabres highlighting the magazine’s supernatural content, contains stories ranging from the odd to the horrific: a rich mix of the weird, the outré, and the downright horrid. Limited to 500 copies A world-wide edition available in the US for $42.00 and in the UK for £25.00. ix · Introduction · Jack Adrian · in 3 · The Garden House · W. M. Letts · ss The Cornhill Magazine August 1931 15 · The Eyes of the Moor · Joyce Kilburn · ss The Cornhill Magazine August 1932 23 · The House of Desolation · Alan Griff · ss The Cornhill Magazine January 1934 35 · The Sword · Mary Webb · ss The Cornhill Magazine April 1934 43 · The Street He Never Found · Elizabeth Horsfall · ar The Cornhill Magazine May 1934, as “The Street?” 47 · The Climb · C. Gordon Glover · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1934 53 · The Barwick Stone · Winifred Peck · ss The Cornhill Magazine March 1935 69 · And No Ghost Walks · M. A. Peart · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1937 79 · Hallucination · Anthony ffettyplace · ss The Cornhill Magazine December 1937 91 · The Bell · M. A. Peart · ss The Cornhill Magazine June 1938 105 · Between Two Worlds · Mary Lutyens · ss The Cornhill Magazine August 1938 117 · Vibrations · Anthony ffettyplace · nv The Cornhill Magazine January 1939 139 · Children of the Rectory · Kathleen Collison-Morley · ss The Cornhill Magazine April 1939 151 · Curious Adventure of Mr. Bond · Nugent Barker · nv The Cornhill Magazine July 1939 169 · Can These Things Be? · Maud Diver · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1939 187 · Notes and Sources · [uncredited] · ms

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2004: The Last “Queer Stories from Truth” ed. Jack Adrian (Ash-Tree Press, December 31, 2004, 1-55310-077-8, $52.00, xxxix+140pp, hc, an, cover by Rob Suggs)     Anthology of thirty-one short stories from the “Queer Story” feature in Truth. This is a limited edition of 500. A world-wide edition available in the US for $43.00 and in the UK for £25.00. ix · Introduction · Jack Adrian · in 3 · The Exchange · [uncredited] · ss Truth February 12 1919 10 · A Psychic Mystery · [uncredited] · ss Truth December 24 1919 16 · The Damned Spot · Violet M. Methley · ss Truth June 21 1921 20 · “Dusty Death” · Violet M. Methley · ss Truth November 16 1921 25 · The Escape · George W. Nixon · ss Truth August 2 1922 29 · The Dream Giver · Chris Sewell · ss Truth December 6 1922 35 · Bitter Almonds · A. B. Cox · ss Truth August 1 1923 39 · The Cab in Sloane Square · Mark Napier · ss Truth May 13 1925 44 · Goolang · Anthony Armstrong · ss Truth December 26 1926 51 · Michael Leinster’s Picture · Anthony Armstrong · ss Truth June 8 1927 58 · The End of the World · Helen Sutherland · ss Truth November 26 1930 62 · The Spade in the Night · Myfanwy Pryce · ss Truth June 8 1932 68 · Exeat · Aymer Vallance · ss Truth December 29 1937 75 · The Last Appointment · Douglas Pike · ss Truth October 3 1941 78 · Exit · Mary Ann Abbs · ss Truth February 13 1942 81 · Annyversry · H. Russell Wakefield · ss Truth October 16 1942 84 · The Fisherman · Frank Batchelor · ss Truth April 9 1943 88 · Open Sesame · Frank Batchelor · ss Truth June 25 1943 92 · Strange Company · Michael Hervey · ss Truth December 24 1943 96 · Little Old Lady · Jane C. Butler · ss Truth December 29 1944 99 · The Bright Room · George A. Whiting · ss Truth May 25 1945 103 · Traveller’s Tale · Alan Raymond · ss Truth September 21 1945 106 · Thin Air · Anne King · ss Truth December 21 1945 110 · “Pobson” · Horace Newte · ss Truth April 26 1946 114 · The Sisters · Magdalen King-Hall · ss Truth January 10 1947 118 · The Parson Vanishes · Alfred Ridgway · ss Truth February 6 1948 121 · The Man at the Door · Alfred Ridgway · ss Truth August 27 1948 124 · Brambles · H. L. V. Fletcher · ss Truth November 12 1948 127 · Hell, Twice Daily · Rosemary Timperley · ss Truth April 20 1951 131 · Poltergeist · E. A. Williams · ss Truth May 4 1951 134 · The Dagger · Lane Mitchell · ss Truth June 1 1951 139 · Sources and Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · bi

The Ash-Tree Press Annual Macabre 2005: Haven’t I Read This Before? ed. Jack Adrian (Ash-Tree Press, February 28, 2006, 978-1-55310-087-4, C$50.00, xxxiv+214pp, hc, an)     This is a limited edition of 400. A world-wide edition available in the US for $45.00 and in the UK for £27.00. Details supplied by Denny Lien. ix · Introduction · Jack Adrian · in 3 · I. W.W. Jacobs · Jack Adrian · si 7 · The Toll-House · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Strand Magazine April 1907 17 · Reconstruction · Michael Kent · ss The Blue Magazine #13, July 1920 27 · Blind Man’s Buff · H. R. Wakefield · ss The Sketch April 25 1928 32 · The Well · W. W. Jacobs · ss The Queen June 23 1900 44 · The Well in the Garden · Peter Gladwin · ss (r) 57 · II. Agatha Christie · Jack Adrian · si 60 · Mrs. Morrel’s Last Séance · Edgar Jepson · ss The London Magazine February 1912 68 · Over the Telephone · A. B. Cox · ss Truth February 17 1926 75 · III. Daphne Du Maurier · Jack Adrian · si 77 · The Starlings · William Caine · ss The Blue Magazine #13, July 1920 87 · IV. Barry Perowne · Jack Adrian · si 91 · “And There’s Your Proof” · Douglas Newton · ss Truth November 21 1934 97 · The Blind Spot · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #25, November 1945 111 · V. Arthur Conan Doyle · Jack Adrian · si 113 · The Case of Muelvos y Sagra [John Pym] · David Christie Murray · ss The Woman at Home June 1894, uncredited. 129 · VI. Andrew Lang · Jack Adrian · si 132 · The House of Strange Stories · Andrew Lang · ss In the Wrong Paradise, and Other Stories by Andrew Lang, 1886 144 · A Sentence of Death · Katharine Tynan · ss The Story-teller May 1908 153 · Mrs. Carabay’s Curious Dream · Mary E. Mann · ss The Story-teller May 1912 161 · The Man on the Hearse · Janet Deene · ss Truth June 27 1934 165 · VII. Katharine Tynan · Jack Adrian · si 167 · The Dream House · Katharine Tynan · ss The Story-teller January 1909 178 · The House of His Fathers · A. M. Burrage · ss The Novel Magazine April 1914 190 · The Garden of Fancy · A. M. Burrage · ss The London Magazine June 1926 203 · VIII. Lafcadio Hearn · Jack Adrian · si 206 · Mujina · Lafcadio Hearn · vi Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 208 · The Follower · Lady Cynthia Asquith · ss My Grimmest Nightmare, Allen & Unwin, 1935

Aylmer Vance: Ghost-Seer by Alice & Claude Askew ed. Jack Adrian--- see under Alice Askew.

Couching at the Door by D. K. Broster ed. Jack Adrian--- see under D. K. Broster.

Crime at Christmas ed. Jack Adrian (Equation, September 22, 1988, 1-85336-031-7, £14.95, 224pp, hc, an)     A Seasonal Box of Murderous Delights. 7 · Introduction · Jack Adrian · in 9 · A Problem in White · Nicholas Blake · ss The Strand Magazine February 1949, as “The Snow Line” 23 · Detective’s Day Off · John Dickson Carr · ss Weekend Magazine December 25/December 29 1957 33 · Santa-San Solves It · James Melville · ss 43 · Herlock Sholmes’s Christmas Case [Herlock Sholmes] · Peter Todd · ss The Magnet Library December 9 1916 51 · The Three Travellers · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1976, as by R. L. Stevens 63 · Murder in Store · Peter Lovesey · ss Woman’s Own December 21 1985 73 · Waxworks · Ethel Lina White · ss Pearson’s Magazine December 1930 89 · Serenade to a Killer [Sen. Brooks U. Banner] · Joseph Commings · ss Mystery Digest July 1957 103 · Stuffing · Edgar Wallace · ss John Bull Annual Christmas 1926 111 · No Room at the Inn [John Quincannon & Sabina Carpenter] · Bill Pronzini · ss 123 · Sister Bessie or Your Old Leech · Cyril Hare · ss The Evening Standard December 23 1949 133 · Murder Under the Mistletoe [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Sunday Telegraph December 24 1961, as “The Snapdragon and the C.I.D.” 145 · Christmas Train [Jeremiah Jones (The Laughing Crook)] · Will Scott · ss The Passing Show December 23 1933 157 · A Present for Christmas · Robert Arthur · ss Detective Fiction Weekly January 21 1939, as “Christmas Present” 169 · The Santa Claus Club [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss Suspense (UK) December 1960 181 · The Secret in the Pudding Bag · Herlock Sholmes · ss Penny Popular December 27 1924 191 · The Great Christmas Train Mystery · Anthony Burgess · ss Suspense (UK) December 1960 199 · The Plot Against Santa Claus [Christmas Stories] · James Powell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1971 217 · Biggles’s Apple Snowballs · Jack Adrian · aw 221 · Solution to “A Problem in White” · [uncredited] · ms (r)

Detective Stories from The Strand ed. Jack Adrian (Oxford University Press, November 1991, 0-19-212306-8, £15.95, 374pp, hc, an, cover by Mick Brownfield)     Anthology of 25 mystery/detection stories originally published in Strand magazine, with a foreword by Julian Symons. vii · Foreword · Julian Symons · fw xv · Introduction · Jack Adrian · in 1 · I. The Great Detectives · Jack Adrian · si 4 · The Vampire of the Village [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Strand Magazine August 1936 21 · The Dream [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 23 1937 44 · The Ginger King [Insp. Gabriel Hanaud] · A. E. W. Mason · ss The Strand Magazine August 1940 62 · The Ministering Angel [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine November 1938, as “Trent and the Ministering Angel” 77 · Tokay of the Comet Year · H. Warner Allen · ss The Strand Magazine July 1930 89 · II. Legal Niceties · Jack Adrian · si 91 · A Point of Law · W. Somerset Maugham · ss The Strand Magazine October 1903 104 · Not Guilty · Will Scott · ss The Strand Magazine January 1939 119 · III. The Twist · Jack Adrian · si 122 · The Idol’s Eye · “Sapper” · ss The Strand Magazine December 1919 136 · The Perfect Crime · Seamark · ss The Strand Magazine September 1923 151 · The Intruder · Augustus Muir · vi The Strand Magazine September 1938 155 · Cast-Iron Alibi · Richard Keverne · ss The Strand Magazine August 1941 173 · IV. Rogues, Knaves, and Fortune-Hunters · Jack Adrian · si 176 · A Deal in Old Masters · Aldous Huxley · ss The Strand Magazine February 1923 187 · Private Water · A. J. Alan · ss The Strand Magazine September 1933 195 · A Gift from the Nabob · D. L. Murray · ss The Strand Magazine December 1941 200 · The Episcopal Seal · J. Maclaren-Ross · ss The Strand Magazine November 1948 211 · V. Mostly Murder · Jack Adrian · si 215 · The Interruption · W. W. Jacobs · ss Liberty July 4 1925 227 · The Chobham Affair · Edgar Wallace · ss The Strand Magazine December 1930 240 · By Kind Permission of the Murdered Man · Hylton Cleaver · ss The Strand Magazine March 1934 252 · In View of the Audience · Marguerite Steen · ss The Strand Magazine June 1934 269 · The Man Who Dreamed Too Much [Baron von Genthner] · Quentin Reynolds · ss The Strand Magazine September 1936 287 · Inquest · Loel Yeo · ss The Strand Magazine April 1932 303 · VI. The Master · Jack Adrian · si 305 · The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Collier’s Weekly March 26 1904 322 · The Adventure of the Creeping Man [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine March 1923 342 · The Adventure of the Lion’s Mane [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Liberty November 27 1926 360 · The Adventure of the First Class Carriage [Sherlock Holmes] · Ronald A. Knox · ss The Strand Magazine February 1947 372 · Sources · Jack Adrian · bi

The Experiences of Flaxman Low by Kate & Hesketh Prichard ed. Jack Adrian--- see under Kate Prichard.

The Face by E. F. Benson ed. Jack Adrian--- see under E. F. Benson.

Fine Feathers and Other Stories by E. F. Benson ed. Jack Adrian--- see under E. F. Benson.

Hard-Boiled ed. Jack Adrian & Bill Pronzini--- see under Bill Pronzini.

Hard-Boiled: An Anthology of Crime Stories ed. Jack Adrian & Bill Pronzini (Oxford University Press, October 26, 1995, 0-19-508499-3, £17.99, 532pp, hc, an)     Reprint (??? ???) Anthology of 36 stories, each with a lengthy biographical introduction of the author. Several are of genre interest, and by genre authors. 3 · Introduction · Jack Adrian & Bill Pronzini · in 20 · The Scorched Face [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask May 1925 55 · Round Trip · W. R. Burnett · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1929 65 · Mistral · Raoul Whitfield · ss Adventure December 15 1931 83 · Backwash [Kennedy of the Free Press; Captain Steve MacBride] · Frederick Nebel · nv Black Mask May 1932 109 · Trouble-Chaser [Black] · Paul Cain · ss Black Mask April 1934 128 · Fruit Tramp · Daniel Mainwaring · ss Harper’s Magazine July 1934 141 · Brush Fire · James M. Cain · ss Liberty December 5 1936 150 · Human Interest Stuff · Brett Halliday · ss Adventure September 1938, as by Davis Dresser 163 · Waiting for Rusty · William Cole · ss Black Mask October 1939 168 · I’ll Be Waiting [Tony Reseck] · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 14 1939 185 · Marijuana and a Pistol · Chester Himes · ss Esquire 1940 189 · Who Said I Was Dead? [William “Bail Bond” Dodd] · Norbert Davis · nv Dime Detective Magazine August 1942 224 · Nor Iron Bars · John D. MacDonald · ss Doc Savage March/April 1947 230 · Dock Walloper · Benjamin Appel · nv Dock Walloper by Benjamin Appel, Lion, 1953 257 · Three-Ten to Yuma · Elmore Leonard · nv Dime Western Magazine March 1953 272 · The Bobby-Soxer · Jonathan Craig · ss Manhunt October 1953 277 · Black Pudding · David Goodis · nv Manhunt December 1953 301 · Guilt-Edged Blonde [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Manhunt January 1954, as by John Ross Macdonald 316 · Mama’s Boy · David Alexander · nv Manhunt May 1955 335 · The Screen Test of Mike Hammer · Mickey Spillane · pl Male July 1955 340 · Home · Gil Brewer · ss Accused Detective Story Magazine March 1956 348 · So Pale, So Cold, So Fair · Leigh Brackett · nv Argosy July 1957 377 · A Piece of Ground · Helen Nielsen · ss Manhunt July 1957 388 · The Merry, Merry Christmas · Evan Hunter · ss Manhunt December 1957 396 · Forever After · Jim Thompson · ss Shock—The Magazine of Terrifying Tales May 1960 405 · The Old Pro · H. A. DeRosso · ss Manhunt December 1960 418 · The Saturday Night Deaths · Michael Kerr · ss Mystery Monthly July 1976 429 · Graveyard Shift · James M. Reasoner · vi Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine November 1978, as by M. R. James 433 · Deadhead Coming Down · Margaret Maron · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine April 1978 438 · To Florida · Robert Sampson · nv The New Black Mask No.8 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1987 455 · It’s a Hard World · Andrew Vachss · ss A Matter of Crime, Vol. 1 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, Harvest, 1987 460 · Junior Jackson’s Parable · James Hannah · ss Desperate Measures by James Hannah, Southern Methodist University Press, 1988 474 · Bonding · Faye Kellerman · ss Sisters in Crime ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1989 488 · Gravy Train · James Ellroy · ss The Armchair Detective Winter 1990 503 · Batman’s Helpers [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · ss Justice for Hire ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1990 518 · The Long Silence After · Ed Gorman · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 527 · Credits · ms (r) 531 · Name Index · ms (r)