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Winter’s Tales, New Series: 6 ed. Robin Baird-Smith (St. Martin’s, 1990, 0-312-05299-5, 302pp, hc, oa)
Reprint (Constable 1990) original anthology. First American edition.
Details supplied by Denny Lien.

7 · Editor’s Note · Robin Baird-Smith · pr

9 · Something to Reflect Upon · Clare Colvin · nv

35 · Gates of Swimming · Peter Benson · ss

43 · Manante Cora · David Plante · nv

67 · My Lover’s Touch · Patrick Roscoe · nv

89 · Right Hand Man · Laura Kalpakian · nv

115 · South Dublin · Isidoro Blaisten · ss

135 · The Serpent She Loved · Janice Elliott · ss

145 · The Hair · Joyce Carol Oates · nv

167 · The Death of the Poet · Rasaad Jamie · ss

183 · The Interrogator’s Divorce · Paul Sayer · nv

205 · Irma · Anita Mason · ss

221 · The Conversion · Haydn Middleton · nv

247 · The Telephone Call · Carlo Gégler · ss

257 · A Lost Opportunity · Francis King · ss

273 · Maria Krizove · Simon Mason · nv

300 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Winter’s Tales, New Series: 7 ed. Robin Baird-Smith (St. Martin’s, 1991, 0-312-07122-1, $19.95, 304pp, hc, oa)
Reprint (Constable 1991) original anthology. First American edition.

7 · Editor’s Note · Robin Baird-Smith · pr

11 · The Mirage · Helen Harris · ss

27 · Family Christmas · Piers Paul Read · nv

53 · Dance of the Vipers · Tom Wakefield · ss

63 · The Other Psychiatrist · Patrick McGrath · nv

89 · Change at Empoli · Laura Kalpakian · na

137 · The Last Card Game · Balraj Khanna · nv

161 · Necessary Appendages · Tony Peake · nv

193 · The Archduke’s Dwarf · Clare Colvin · nv

223 · Queen Christina and the Windsurfer · Alison Fell · ss

241 · The Power of Love · Patrick Roscoe · nv

285 · I’ll Never Know · A. L. Barker · ss

295 · Carpe Diem · Isidoro Blaisten; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni & Susan Ashe · ss

302 · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg

American Satire: An Anthology of Writings from Colonial to Present Times ed. Nick Bakalar (Meridian, April 1997, 0-452-01174-4, $16.95, 468pp, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.

· The New English Canaan · Thomas Morton · ss New Canaan by Thomas Morton, Jacob Frederick Stam, 1637

· The Sot-Weed Factor · Ebenezer Cook · ss 1708

· On Sending Felons to America · Benjamin Franklin · ss (r)

· The Sale of the Hessians · Benjamin Franklin · ss (r)

· Model of a Letter of Recommendation · Benjamin Franklin · ss (r)

· Rules by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One · Benjamin Franklin · ss (r)

· Humourous Reasons for Restoring Canada · Benjamin Franklin · ss (r)

· A Pretty Story · Francis Hopkinson · ss 1774

· The Tuesday Club · Alexander Hamilton · ss (r)

· The British Prison-Ship · Philip Freneau · ss (r)

· Modern Chivalry · Hugh Brackenridge · ss (r)

· Tales of a Traveler · Washington Irving · ss (r)

· The Celestial Railroad · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss United States Magazine and Democratic Review May 1843

· Have We Any Men Among Us? · Fanny Fern · ss (r)

· Tom Pax’s Conjugal Soliloquy · Fanny Fern · ss (r)

· To Gentlemen · Fanny Fern · ss (r)

· Has a Mother a Right to Her Children? · Fanny Fern · ss (r)

· Fresh Leaves · Fanny Fern · ss (r)

· A Chapter for Parents · Fanny Fern · ss (r)

· The Biglow Papers · James Russell Lowell · ss (r)

· The Devil’s Dictionary · Ambrose Bierce · nb Neale Publishing Co., 1911

· Mr. Dooley [Mr. Dooley] · Finley Peter Dunne · ss (r)

· Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses · Mark Twain · ar North American Review July 1895 [Ref. James Fenimore Cooper]

· A Helpless Situation · Mark Twain · ss (r)

· Advice to Youth · Mark Twain · ss (r)

· The Art of Inhumation · Mark Twain · ss from Life on the Mississippi (r)

· American in Europe · Mark Twain · ss from A Tramp Abroad (r)

· The War Prayer · Mark Twain · ss (r)

· The Sultan of Sulu · George Ade · ss (r)

· A Newspaper Is a Collection of Half-Injustices · Stephen Crane · ss (r)

· War Is Kind · Stephen Crane · ss The Bookman February 1896

· How Little Red Riding Hood Came to Be Eaten · Guy Wetmore Carryl · ss (r)

· How Rudeness and Kindness Were Justly Rewarded · Guy Wetmore Carryl · ss (r)

· Xingu · Edith Wharton · nv Scribner’s Magazine December 1911

· Expiation · Edith Wharton · ss The Cosmopolitan December 1903

· Rondo on an Ancient Theme · H. L. Mencken · ss (r)

· A Letter from the Queen · Sinclair Lewis · ss Cosmopolitan December 1929

· A Day at the Democratic Convention · Will Rogers · ss (r)

· A Day at the Republican Convention · Will Rogers · ss (r)

· Words, Words, Words · Dorothy Parker · ss (r)

· Far from Well · Dorothy Parker · ss (r)

· Comment · Dorothy Parker · ss (r)

· One Perfect Rose · Dorothy Parker · pm (r)

· Tom, the Young Kidnapper · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker June 10 1933

· American Heartbreak · Langston Hughes · ss (r)

· Ku Klux · Langston Hughes · ss (r)

· Ballad of the Landlord · Langston Hughes · ss (r)

· In a Manner That Must Shame God Himself · Kurt Vonnegut · ss (r)

· Universal Military Motion · Russell Baker · ss (r)

· Pictures from Vietnam · Art Buchwald · ss (r)

· Telling the Truth · Art Buchwald · ss (r)

· Ronnie and Nancy: A Life in Pictures · Gore Vidal · ss (r)

· Old Marrieds · Calvin Trillin · ss (r)

· The Innocents Abroad, Updated · P. J. O’Rourke · ss (r)

· H. Ross Went Seven Bubbles Off Plumb (And Other Tales) · Molly Ivins · ss (r)

· New Heights of Piffle · Molly Ivins · ss (r)

Great Ghost Stories of the Old West ed. Betty Baker (Four Winds, 1968, LC:68-27268, $3.50, 126pp, hc, oa)

9 · Introduction · Betty Baker · in

13 · The Strange Valley · T. V. Olsen · ss

27 · The Phantom Mustang · S. Omar Barker · pm Triple-X Magazine #71, April 1930, as “The White Mustang”

29 · The Trap · Clay Fisher · nv The Oldest Maiden Lady in New Mexico, and Other Stories by Clay Fisher, Macmillan, 1962

56 · The White Riders · Glenn R. Vernam · ss

72 · Back Before the Moon · S. Omar Barker · ss Strange Tales of Mystery and Terror March 1932

85 · The Hexer · Thomas Thompson · ss

99 · Johnny Who Rode the Ghost Train · Phoebe & Todhunter Ballard · ss

111 · Ghost Wolf of Thunder Mountain · Will Henry · ss Sons of the Western Frontier by Will Henry, Chilton, 1966

Bizarre Loves by Denys Val Baker (Belmont, June 1964, L92-598, 50¢, 141pp, pb, co)

7 · The Woman on the Houseboat · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

26 · One in a Million · Denys Val Baker · ss American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy Free v5 #18, 1955

43 · The Doctor’s Discovery · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

58 · The Three of Us · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

65 · Carnal Knowledge · Denys Val Baker · ss American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy Free v4 #15, 1954

71 · The Affair of the Judge’s Wife · Denys Val Baker · nv (r)

99 · The Mother · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

102 · A Tale Washed Up by the Sea · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

114 · The Boat · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

121 · Journal of a Strange Love · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

125 · The Woman at the Window · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

131 · The Beautiful House · Denys Val Baker · ss Story #1 ed. Whit & Hallie Burnett, David McKay, 1951

Echoes from the Cornish Cliffs by Denys Val Baker (William Kimber, 1976, hc, co)
Collection with some crime.

· At the Edge of the Sea · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Au-Pair Girl · Denys Val Baker · ss Mayfair v2 #4, 1967

· The Convert · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Echoes from the Cornish Cliffs · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Girls Next Door · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Hunter and the Hunted · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Last Assignment · Denys Val Baker · nv Worlds Without End by Denys Val Baker, The Sylvan Press, 1945

· Loveday at the Fair · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Quest · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Surfers · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Swimmers · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Temptress · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Trip · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· When the World Was Bright and Beautiful · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Year Before Yesterday · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker (Arkham House, 1971, $3.75, 113pp, hc, co, cover by Gary Gore)

3 · The Face in the Mirror · Denys Val Baker · ss The Briarcliff Quarterly January 1945

20 · The Inheritance · Denys Val Baker · ss

34 · The Anniversary · Denys Val Baker · ss The Flameswallower and Other Stories from Cornwall by Denys Val Baker, J.M. Lake, 1963

42 · Voice from the Past · Denys Val Baker · ss

50 · Passenger to Liverpool · Denys Val Baker · ss Selected Stories by Denys Val Baker, Staples, 1944

62 · The Trees · Denys Val Baker · ss

72 · A Woman of Talent · Denys Val Baker · ss

79 · The Cruise of the Morwenna · Denys Val Baker · ss

87 · A Tall Tale · Denys Val Baker · ss

94 · The Old Man of the Towans · Denys Val Baker · ss

101 · The Tune · Denys Val Baker · ss

108 · The Last Laugh · Denys Val Baker · ss

The Girl in the Photograph by Denys Val Baker (William Kimber, 1982, hc, co)
Collection with some crime.

· Artists in Wonderland · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Death by Drowning · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Eye of the Beholder · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Girl in the Photograph · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· A Man and a Woman · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Meeting · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Seeker · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Silence for His Lordship · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· A Tale Washed Up by the Sea · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

The Return of Uncle Walter and Other Stories by Denys Val Baker (Sampson Low, Marston, 1948, 8/6d, viii+247pp, hc, co)

· The Return of Uncle Walter · Denys Val Baker · ss Wales May 1948

· A Man and a Trumpet · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Man from the Ministry · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Escape · Denys Val Baker · ss

· A Tale Washed Up by the Sea · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Silence for His Lordship · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Woman on the Couch · Denys Val Baker · ss

· The Last Day · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Mask of Carlton Smithers · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· My Uncle Who Paints Pictures · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Evan the Prophet · Denys Val Baker · ss Tomorrow November 1947

· Miss Meakin’s Burglar · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Memories of Michaelmas House · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Beyond the Dump · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Way of the Healer · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Seed Will Bear No Fruit · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Child of Time · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

The Secret Place by Denys Val Baker (William Kimber, 1977, hc, co)
Collection with some crime.

· The Anniversary · Denys Val Baker · ss The Flameswallower and Other Stories from Cornwall by Denys Val Baker, J.M. Lake, 1963

· Aunt May · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Baroness · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Beyond the Dump · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Cat Without a Name · Denys Val Baker · ss Tomorrow Summer 1962

· Embers · Denys Val Baker · ss The (London) Evening News June 30 1956

· In the Words of the Prophet · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Miss Vivienne Potts · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· My Son, My Son · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Old Man of the Towans · Denys Val Baker · ss The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker, Arkham House, 1971

· A Parcel for Rogers · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Potter’s Art · Denys Val Baker · ss

· The Rival · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· The Secret Place · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· So Near-So Far · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Summer with Miss Owens · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· Tommo by Moonlight · Denys Val Baker · ss (r)

· A Voice from the Past · Denys Val Baker · ss The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker, Arkham House, 1971

· A Woman of Talent · Denys Val Baker · ss The Face in the Mirror by Denys Val Baker, Arkham House, 1971

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