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Rabid Transit: Petting Zoo ed. Barth Anderson, Christopher Barzak, Alan DeNiro & Kristin Livdahl (Velocity Press, May 2004, no ISBN, $6.00, 67pp, ph, oa, cover by Jesse McManus)     Chapbook original anthology of seven stories, the third from the writers’ group called the Ratbastards. Authors include David Moles, M. Rickert, and Amber van Dyk. · Art Is Not a Violent Subject · M. Rickert · ss · The Golden Age of Fire Escapes · John Aegard · ss · Five Irrational Histories · David Moles · ss · How to Write an Epic Fantasy · David Lomax · ss · Ophelia and the Beast · Elad Haber · ss · Storyville · Amber van Dyk · ss

Fifty Shades of Slay ed. C. S. Anderson (Alucard Press, October 30, 2015, 978-0-692-56355-7, $8.75, 270pp, tp, oa)     Details taken from online listing. · Fifty Shades of Slay · A. M. Vance · ss · Onyx Rings & Rotten Things · A. M. Vance · ss · Sunday Morning · Veronica Smith · ss · The Cat Lady · Veronica Smith · ss · Pink Surprise · William Bradley · ss · Joel’s Benevolence · William Bradley · ss · Mermaid Sushi · Chris Thompson · ss · Scratch · Chris Thompson · ss · Have Faith · Weston Kincade · ss · Away Wi’ Em · J. C. Michael · ss · The Burden · J. C. Michael · ss · Playtime, Simone · David Owain Hughes · ss · I Didn’t Write This · Sharon L. Higa · ss · Mine! · Sharon L. Higa · ss · Child of Hate · Jay Helmstutler · ss · The Confessional · Lisa Vasquez · ss · The Freaks Toy · Kevin Kennedy · ss · A Taste of Scotland · Kevin Kennedy · ss · The Judgement of Cloverville · J. L. Lane · ss · Knocking in the Night · J. L. Lane · ss · Dying Wish · Jonathan Edward Ondrashek · ss · The Curse · Stephen Mayo · ss · Shhhh · C. S. Anderson · ss · A Matter of Taste · C. S. Anderson · ss · Tunnel Vision · Doreen McCrindle · ss · Cursed · Alice Black · ss · Dark Eyes · Lori Fontanez · ss

Playground of Lost Toys ed. Colleen Anderson & Ursula Pflug (Exile Editions, December 2015, 978-1-55096-502-5, $17.95, xiv+318pp, tp, oa)     Details taken from online listing. xi · We Are Made of Memories · Colleen Anderson · in xii · Dream-Eating Rabbits May or May Not Be Real · Ursula Pflug · in 7 · The Compass · Joe Davies · ss 21 · Hide and Seek · Catherine A. MacLeod · ss 31 · Show and Tell · Kate Story · ss 48 · The Die · Meagan Whan · ss 57 · The Food of My People · Candas Jane Dorsey · nv 87 · Chaya and Loony-Boy · Rati Mehrotra · ss 96 · The Ghost Rattle · Nathan Adler · ss 113 · The Garden of Our Deceit · Rhonda Eikamp · ss 131 · Hacker Chess · Robert Runté · ss 143 · And They All Lived Together in a Crooked Little House · Linda DeMeulemeester · ss 157 · Balero · Kevin Cockle · ss 166 · Less Than Katherine · Claude Lalumière · ss 181 · Goodbye Is a Mouthfull of Water · Dominik Parisien · ss 189 · Treasure · dvsduncan · ss 196 · Of Dandelions and Magic · Christine Daigle · ss 211 · What Not to Expect in the Toddler Years · Melissa Yuan-Innes · ss 230 · When the Trains Run on Time · Shane Simmons · ss 238 · Makour · Lisa Carreiro · ss 252 · With One Shoe · Karen Abrahamson · ss 271 · Wheatiesfields in Fall · Geoffrey W. Cole · ss 290 · Between the Branches of the Nine · Alex C. Renwick · ss 309 · The Casual Magic of Play · Derek Newman-Stille · aw

Tesseracts Seventeen: Speculating Canada from Coast to Coast to Coast ed. Colleen Anderson & Steve Vernon (Hades/EDGE Science Fiction and Fantasy, October 2013, 978-1-77053-044-7, $16.95, 271pp, tp, oa, cover by Tomislav Tikulin)     Original anthology of 27 stories two poems by Canadian writers, including Lisa Smedman, Edward Willet, Alyxandra Harvey, and Wiliam Meikle. Introduction by Anderson; afterword/essay on editing by Vernon. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Vermilion Wine · Claude Lalumière · ss 7 · Introduction · Colleen Anderson · in 13 · Night Journey: West Coast · Eileen Kernaghan · pm Dark Voices ed. Jack Fisher & Nancy Bennett, Flesh & Blood Press, 2002 14 · The Wall · Rhea Rose · ss 22 · 2020 Vision · Lisa Smedman · ss 29 · Why Pete? · Timothy Reynolds · ss 41 · Bird Bones · Megan Fennell · ss 51 · Bedtime Story · Rhonda Parrish · ss 57 · Graveyard Shift · Holly Schofield · ss 66 · The Path of Souls · Edward Willett · ss 73 · Sin a Squay · David Jón Fuller · ss 84 · Hereinafter Referred to as the Ghost · Mark Leslie · ss 92 · Anywhere · Alyxandra Harvey · ss 105 · Secret Recipes · Costi Gurgu · ss 116 · Star Severer · Ben Godby · ss 129 · The Lighthouse Keeper’s Wife · Dave Beynon · ss 144 · Graffiti Borealis · Lisa Poh · ss 156 · My Child Has Winter in His Bones · Dominik Parisien · pm 157 · Team Leader 2040 · Catherine Austen · ss 170 · Sand Hill · Elise Moser · ss 179 · The Ripping · Vincent Grant Perkins · ss 190 · Unwilling to Turn Around · J. J. Steinfeld · pm 192 · Piquette Assiette · Catherine MacLeod · ss 204 · Leaving Cape Roseway · John Bell · pm Dreams and Nightmares #60, September 2001 207 · Everybody Wins · Rachel Cooper · ss 217 · In the Bubble · William Meikle · ss 225 · Hermione and Me · Dwain Campbell · ss 236 · Blizzard Warning · Jason Barrett · ss 243 · M.E.L. · Diane Homan · ss 255 · The Calligrapher’s Daughter · Patricia Robertson · ss 268 · Editing Anthologies Made Easy · Steve Vernon · ar

Aftermath: An Anthology of Post-Vietnam Fiction ed. Donald Anderson (Holt, April 1995, 0805036563, $12.95, 272pp, tp, an)     Contents list from Yahoo Books. · Foreword · George C. Herring · fw · “Confessions of a Noncombatant” · Donald Anderson · in 1 · Vietnam No Big Deal · James Park Sloan · ss (r) 15 · Testimony of Pilot · Barry Hannah · nv Airships by Barry Hannah, Alfred A. Knopf, 1978 47 · A Bridge · Louise Erdrich · ss (r) 61 · Speaking of Courage · Tim O’Brien · nv Massachusetts Review Summer 1976 79 · Soldier’s Joy · Tobias Wolff · ss Esquire October 1985 103 · The Missing Person · Maxine Kumin · ss TriQuarterly 1978 115 · The Art of Living · John Gardner · nv (r) 151 · War Torn · Lynne Hanley · ss (r) 159 · Despair · Robley Wilson · ss (r) 167 · Kid MacArthur · Stephanie Vaughn · nv The New Yorker December 17 1984 193 · Baby Teeth · Donald Anderson · ss (r) 201 · Letters from My Father · Robert Olen Butler · ss A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain by Robert Olen Butler, Henry Holt, 1992 211 · The Pugilist at Rest · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker December 2 1991 235 · Helping · Robert Stone · nv The New Yorker June 8 1987

Adrift on the Haunted Seas by William Hope Hodgson ed. Douglas A. Anderson--- see under William Hope Hodgson.

The Dragon Path: The Collected Tales of Kenneth Morris by Kenneth Morris ed. Douglas A. Anderson--- see under Kenneth Morris.

The Dream of X and Other Fantastic Visions by William Hope Hodgson ed. Douglas A. Anderson--- see under William Hope Hodgson.

H.P. Lovecraft’s Favorite Weird Tales ed. Douglas A. Anderson (Cold Spring Press, October 2005, 1-59360-056-9, $14.00, 391pp, tp, an, cover by Daniel Govar)     Anthology of 18 stories listed by HPL as his favorite literary and popular weird tales. Edited and with an introduction by Douglas A. Anderson. Authors include Arthur Machen, Ambrose Bierce, and A. Merritt. 7 · Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson · in 11 · I The Literary Weird Tale 12 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 30 · The Suitable Surroundings · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 14 1889 38 · The Death of Halpin Frayser · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave December 19 1891 52 · The Novel of the Black Seal · Arthur Machen · na The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895 87 · The Novel of the White Powder · Arthur Machen · nv The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895 102 · The Yellow Sign · Robert W. Chambers · nv The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers, F. Tennyson Neely, 1895 119 · Count Magnus · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 131 · The White People · Arthur Machen · nv Horlick’s Magazine and Home Journal for Australia, India and the Colonies January 1904 165 · The Willows · Algernon Blackwood · na The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 209 · The House of Sounds · M. P. Shiel · nv The Pale Ape by M. P. Shiel, T. Werner Laurie, 1911 a revised and updated version of “Vaila”, Shapes in the Fire, 1896. 235 · The Moon Pool [Walter Goodwin] · A. Merritt · na All-Story Weekly June 22 1918 279 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 307 · II The Popular Weird Tale 308 · Beyond the Door · Paul Suter · ss Weird Tales April 1923 324 · The Floor Above · M. Humphreys · ss Weird Tales May 1923 336 · The Night Wire · H. F. Arnold · ss Weird Tales September 1926 343 · The Canal · Everil Worrell · nv Weird Tales December 1927 362 · Bells of Oceana · Arthur J. Burks · ss Weird Tales December 1927 374 · In Amundsen’s Tent · John Martin Leahy · nv Weird Tales January 1928

Seekers of Dreams: Masterpieces of Fantasy ed. Douglas A. Anderson (Cold Spring Press, July 2005, 1-59360-048-8, $14.00, 314pp, tp, an, cover by Daniel Govar)     Anthology of 22 stories, mixing light and dark fantasy ranging from L. Frank Baum, Lord Dunsany, and H.P. Lovecraft to Robert Holdstock and Thomas Ligotti. Edited and with introduction and notes by Douglas A. Anderson. 9 · Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson · in 11 · Friend’s Best Man · Jonathan Carroll · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 1987 28 · Mountains of the Moon · Laurence Housman · ss The Pall Mall Magazine May 1899 33 · The Gods of the Mountain · Lord Dunsany · pl The Irish Review December 1911 60 · The Challenge from Beyond [Part 1 of 5; Cthulhu] · C. L. Moore · rr Fantasy Magazine September 1935 · The Challenge from Beyond [Part 2 of 5; Cthulhu] · A. Merritt · rr Fantasy Magazine September 1935 · The Challenge from Beyond [Part 3 of 5; Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · rr Fantasy Magazine September 1935 · The Challenge from Beyond [Part 4 of 5; Cthulhu] · Robert E. Howard · rr Fantasy Magazine September 1935 · The Challenge from Beyond [Part 5 of 5; Cthulhu] · Frank Belknap Long · rr Fantasy Magazine September 1935 75 · The Bright Valley · R. H. Barlow · ss Eyes of the God by R. H. Barlow, Hippocampus Press, 2002 79 · The Shadow at the Bottom of the World · Thomas Ligotti · ss Fear #16, April 1990 88 · The Saint and the Forest-Gods · Kenneth Morris · ss The Theosophical Path January 1917, as by Evan Snowdon 97 · The Unicorn Tapestries · Peter S. Beagle · pm A Fantasy Reader ed. Jeff Frane & Jack Rems, Seventh World Fantasy Convention, 1981 105 · A King’s Lesson · William Morris · ss The Commonweal September 18 1886, as “An Old Story Retold” 111 · Senator Bilbo · Andy Duncan · ss Starlight 3 ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Tor, 2001 125 · The Moon-Dial · Henry S. Whitehead · nv Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror January 1932 146 · The Face by the River · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales July 2005 152 · The Fifty-First Dragon · Heywood Broun · ss New-York Tribune April 13 1919 160 · Quercus Hobbs · Leonard Cline · ss 171 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891 188 · The Grimoire · Montague Summers · nv The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories ed. Montague Summers, Fortune Press, 1936 205 · The Were-Wolf · Clemence Housman · nv Atalanta #39, December 1890 241 · Inexplicable · L. G. Moberly · ss The Strand Magazine December 1917 253 · The Golden Rat · Alexander Harvey · nv The Smart Set May 1913 271 · The Haunted Jarvee [Thomas Carnacki] · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Premier Magazine #30, March 1929 287 · The Wonderful Wizard of Oz [Oz] · L. Frank Baum · ex Hill, 1900 296 · Green Hill Country · Verlyn Flieger · ss

The Shadow at the Bottom of the World %%2 by Thomas Ligotti ed. Douglas A. Anderson--- see under Thomas Ligotti.

Tales Before Narnia: The Roots of Modern Fantasy and Science Fiction ed. Douglas A. Anderson (Ballantine Del Rey, April 2008, 978-0-345-49890-8, $15.00, 339 + xipp, tp, an, cover by John Howe)     Anthology of 16 stories, two novel excerpts, and two poems that might have influenced Lewis’s Chronicles of Narnia. One novel excerpt is from the previously unpublished The Wood that Time Forgot by Roger Lancelyn Green. Other authors include E. Nesbit, George MacDonald, and Charles Dickens. ix · Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson · in 3 · Proem: Tegnér’s Drapa · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pp 1849 7 · The Aunt and Amabel · E. Nesbit · ss Blackie’s Children’s Annual 1909, Blackie, 1909 17 · The Snow Queen: A Tale in Seven Stories · Hans Christian Andersen · nv (r) translated from the Danish (“Snedronningen”, Nye Eventyr. Første Bind. Anden Samling, C.A. Reitzel, 1844). 45 · The Magic Mirror · George MacDonald · ex from Phantastes, Smith, Elder, 1858; from chapter 13. 63 · Undine · Friedrich de la Motte Fouqué; translated by F. E. Burnett · na 1885 translated from the German (Die Jahreszeiten Spring 1811). 129 · Letters from Hell: Letter III · Valdemar Thisted · ss 1884 135 · Fastosus and Avaro · John Macgowan · ss 1772 from Infernal Conference: or, Dialogues of Devils, 1772. 147 · The Tapestried Chamber; or, The Lady in the Sacque · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828 161 · The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837 173 · The Child and the Giant · Owen Barfield · ss 1930 183 · A King’s Lesson · William Morris · ss The Commonweal September 18 1886, as “An Old Story Retold” 191 · The Waif Woman · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1914; subtitled “A Cue—from a Saga”. 207 · First Whisper of The Wind in the Willows · Kenneth Grahame · ex Methuen, 1908 239 · The Wish House · Rudyard Kipling · ss MacLean’s October 15 1924 257 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury December 1935 269 · The Dragon’s Visit · J. R. R. Tolkien · pm The Oxford Magazine February 4 1937 275 · The Coloured Lands · G. K. Chesterton · ss Number Three Joy Street, 1925 283 · The Man Who Lived Backwards · Charles F. Hall · ss Tales of Wonder #3, Summer 1938 301 · The Wood That Time Forgot: The Enchanted Wood · Roger Lancelyn Green · ss; extract from an unpublished novel. 313 · The Dream Dust Factory · William Lindsay Gresham · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1947 329 · Author Notes and Recommended Reading · [uncredited] · ms