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My Mother She Killed Me, My Father He Ate Me: Forty New Fairy Tales ed. Kate Bernheimer & Carmen Giménez Smith (Penguin (US), September 28, 2010, 978-0-14-311784-1, $17.00, 608pp, tp, oa, cover by Julie Morstad)
Original anthology of 41 fairy tales (16 reprints) inspired by traditional tales from around the world. Authors with new stories include Francesca Lia Block, Karen Joy Fowler, and Brian Evenson. Foreword by Gregory Maguire.
Details taken from online listing.

xvii · Introduction · Kate Bernheimer · in

xxv · Drawing the Curtain · Gregory Maguire · ar

1 · Baba Iaga and the Pelican Child · Joy Williams · ss

8 · Ardour · Jonathon Keats · ss

14 · I’m Here · Ludmilla Petrushevskaya; translated by Keith Gessen & Anna Summers · ss

30 · The Brother and the Bird · Alissa Nutting · ss

42 · Hansel and Gretel · Francine Prose · ss The Peaceable Kingdom by Francine Prose, Farrar Straus Giroux, 1993

59 · A Day in the Life of Half of Rumpelstiltskin · Kevin Brockmeier · ss Things That Fall from the Sky by Kevin Brockmeier, Pantheon Books, 2002

74 · With Hair of Hand-Spun Gold · Neil LaBute · ss

84 · The Swan Brothers · Shelley Jackson · nv

105 · The Warm Mouth · Joyelle McSweeney · ss

113 · Snow White, Rose Red · Lydia Millet · ss Tin House Summer 2010

126 · The Erlking · Sarah Shun-Lien Bynum · ss The New Yorker July 5 2010

139 · Dapplegrim · Brian Evenson · ss

149 · The Wild Swans · Michael Cunningham · ss

152 · Halfway People · Karen Joy Fowler · ss

165 · Green Air · Rikki Ducornet · ss

171 · The Mermaid in the Tree · Timothy Schaffert · nv

200 · What the Conch Shell Sings When the Body Is Gone · Katherine Vaz · nv

221 · The Snow Queen · Karen Brennan · ss

237 · Eyes of Dogs · Lucy Corin · ss www.conjunctions.com May 20 2008

250 · Little Pot · Ilya Kaminsky · ss Brothers & Beasts ed. Kate Bernheimer, Wayne State University Press, 2007

254 · A Bucket of Warm Spit · Michael Martone · ss

270 · Catskin · Kelly Link · nv McSweeney’s Mammoth Treasury of Thrilling Tales ed. Michael Chabon, Vintage Books, 2003

299 · Teague O’Kane and the Corpse · Chris Adrian · ss

316 · Pleasure Boating in Lituya Bay · Jim Shepard · nv Like You’d Understand, Anyway by Jim Shepard, Alfred A. Knopf, 2007

337 · Body-Without-Soul · Kathryn Davis · ss

353 · The Girl, The Wolf, The Crone · Kellie Wells · ss Fairy Tale Review v6 #1, 2010, as “The Girl, The Wolf, and The Elderly Woman”

361 · My Brother Gary Made a Movie and This Is What Happened · Sabrina Orah Mark · ss

366 · The Color Master · Aimee Bender · ss

386 · The White Cat · Marjorie Sandor · ss Fairy Tale Review #1, 2005

390 · Blue-Bearded Lover · Joyce Carol Oates · vi The Assignation by Joyce Carol Oates, The Ecco Press, 1988

394 · Bluebeard in Ireland · John Updike · ss Playboy January 1993

411 · A Kiss to Wake the Sleeper · Rabih Alameddine · ss

423 · A Case Study of Emergency Room Procedure and Risk Management by Hospital Staff Members in the Urban Facility · Stacey Richter · ss Fairy Tale Review #1, 2005

434 · Orange · Neil Gaiman · ss The Starry Rift ed. Jonathan Strahan, Viking, 2008

443 · Psyche’s Dark Night · Francesca Lia Block · ss

460 · The Story of the Mosquito · Lily Hoang · ss

467 · First Day of Snow · Naoko Awa · ss

472 · I Am Anjuhimeko · Hiromi Ito · nv

495 · Coyote Takes Us Home · Michael Mejia · ss Notre Dame Review Summer/Fall 2008

512 · Ever After · Kim Addonizio · ss Fairy Tale Review #1, 2005

527 · Whitework · Kate Bernheimer · ss Tin House Fall 2007

xo Orpheus: Fifty New Myths ed. Kate Bernheimer (Penguin (US), September 24, 2013, 978-0-14-312242-5, $18.00, xxiii+547pp, tp, oa, cover by Julie Morstad)
Original anthology of 50 stories inspired by myths. Authors include Brian Aldiss, Aimee Bender, Emma Straub & Peter Straub, and Kit Reed.
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · Kate Bernheimer · in

· Anthropogenesis, or, How to Make a Family · Laura van den Berg · ss

· Argos · Joy Williams · ss

· The Sisters · Sabina Murray · ss

· Sawdust · Edward Carey · ss

· Friend Robin · Maile Chapman · ss

· The Veiled Prophet · David B. · ss

· Henry and Booboo · Elanor Dymott · ss

· Modern Coyotes · Shane Jones · ss

· Devourings · Aimee Bender · ss

· Labyrinth · Ron Currie, Jr. · ss

· The Last Flight of Daedalus · Anthony Marra · ss

· Daphne · Dawn Raffel · ss

· Demeter · Maile Meloy · ss The New Yorker November 19 2012

· Kid Collins · Willy Vlautin · ss

· Sleeping Beauty · Gina Ochsner · ss

· Galatea · Madeline Miller · ss

· The Hand · Manuel Muñoz · ss

· The Dummy · Benjamin Percy · ss Cemetery Dance #70, 2013

· The Girl with the Talking Shadow · Kate Bernheimer · ss

· Wait and See · Edith Pearlman · ss The American Scholar Winter 2013

· An Occasional Icarus · Georges-Olivier Châteaureynaud · ss

· Killcrop · Victor LaValle · ss

· The Squid Who Fell in Love with the Sun · Ben Loory · ss

· Birdsong from the Radio · Elizabeth McCracken · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Fall 2013

· The Lotus Eaters · Aurelie Sheehan · ss

· Slaves · Elizabeth Evans · ss

· Drona’s Death · Max Gladstone · ss

· So Many-Headed Gates · Sheila Heti · ss

· The Status of Myth · Kelly Braffet & Owen King · ss

· Narcissus · Zachary Mason · ss

· Back to Blandon · Michael Jeffrey Lee · ss Fairy Tale Review v6 #1, 2010

· The Story I Am Speaking to You Now · Davis Schneiderman · ss

· The Brigadier-General Takes His Final Stand by James Butt · Imad Rahman · ss

· Dark Resort · Heidi Julavits · ss

· Mystery Spot: 95065 · Karen Tei Yamashita · ss

· Lost Lake · Peter & Emma Straub · ss

· What Wants My Son · Kevin Wilson · ss

· Thousand · Laird Hunt · ss

· Belle-Medusa · Manuela Draeger · ss

· The Swan’s Wife · Aamer Hussein · ss

· Sanna · Kathryn Davis · ss

· Madame Liang · Lutz Bassmann · ss

· Sissy · Kit Reed · ss

· In a Structure Simulating an Owl · Ander Monson · ss

· Cat’s Eye · Donají Olmedo · ss

· Betrayal · Sigrid Nunez · ss

· A Horse, a Vine · Johanna Skibsrud · ss

· The Hungers of an Old Language · Brian Aldiss · ss

· The White Horse · Sarah Blackman · ss

Boucher’s Choicest ed. Jeanne F. Bernkopf (Dutton, 1969, LC:72-78383, $5.95, 320pp, hc, an)
A Collection of Anthony Boucher’s Favorites from Best Detective Stories of the Year. Derivative anthologies: The Menace Masters and The Cream of Crime.

9 · Introduction · Allen J. Hubin · in

11 · Editor’s Note · Jeanne F. Bernkopf · pr

15 · H as in Homicide [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964

27 · Justice, Inc. · Rog Phillips · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1963

42 · The Adventure of the Double-Bogey Man [Schlock Homes] · Robert L. Fish · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1962

53 · File #1: The Mayfield Case [Daniel Kearny Associates] · Joseph N. Gores · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1967

69 · A Humanist · Romain Gary · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 26 1963

75 · A Case for the UN · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1964

85 · A Soliloquy in Tongues · William Wiser · ss Cosmopolitan May 1964

98 · I Will Please Come to Order · William North Jayme · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1963

107 · His Brother’s Keeper · James McKimmey, Jr. · ss Cosmopolitan September 1962

116 · The Opposite Number · Jacob Hay · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1966

128 · The Right Man for the Right Job · J. C. Thompson · ss Playboy July 1962

138 · The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss MD June 1965, as “Abraham Lincoln’s Clue”

155 · The Chosen One · Rhys Davies · nv The New Yorker June 4 1966

185 · The Adventure of the Red Leech [Solar Pons] · August Derleth · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1966

201 · The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Donald A. Yates · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1962
translated from the Spanish (“Una Leyenda Arabiga (Historia de los dos Reyes y los dos Laberintos, como Nota de Burton)”, El Aleph, Editorial Losada, 1949).

203 · Papa Tral’s Harvest · Barry Perowne · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964

222 · Good Man, Bad Man · Jerome Weidman · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 1 1967

238 · The Stollmeyer Sonnets [Acting Sergeant Maynard Bullock] · James Powell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1966

258 · The Dr. Sherrock Commission [Augustus Mandrell] · Frank McAuliffe · ss Of All the Bloody Cheek by Frank McAuliffe, Ballantine, 1965

270 · The Oblong Room [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Saint Magazine July 1967

280 · The Peppermint-Striped Goodbye · Ron Goulart · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1965

287 · The Gracious, Pleasant Life of Mrs. Afton · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1963

299 · By Child Undone · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1967

310 · The Possibility of Evil · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965

The Cream of Crime ed. Jeanne F. Bernkopf (Dell, March 1972, 1571, 75¢, 203pp, pb, an)
More Tales from Boucher’s Choicest.

xi · Introduction · Allen J. Hubin · in Boucher’s Choicest ed. Jeanne F. Bernkopf, Dutton, 1969

xiii · Editor’s Note · Jeanne F. Bernkopf · pr Boucher’s Choicest ed. Jeanne F. Bernkopf, Dutton, 1969

1 · The Adventure of the Double-Bogey Man [Schlock Homes] · Robert L. Fish · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1962

16 · A Humanist · Romain Gary · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 26 1963

24 · A Case for the UN · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1964

37 · A Soliloquy in Tongues · William Wiser · ss Cosmopolitan May 1964

55 · I Will Please Come to Order · William North Jayme · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1963

68 · The Opposite Number · Jacob Hay · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1966

84 · The Chosen One · Rhys Davies · nv The New Yorker June 4 1966

126 · Papa Tral’s Harvest · Barry Perowne · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964

152 · The Oblong Room [Captain Leopold] · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Saint Magazine July 1967

165 · The Peppermint-Striped Goodbye · Ron Goulart · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1965

174 · By Child Undone · Jack Ritchie · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1967

189 · The Possibility of Evil · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965

Menace Masters ed. Jeanne F. Bernkopf (Dell, December 1971, 5537, 75¢, 210pp, pb, an)
Tales from Boucher’s Choicest.

ix · Introduction · Allen J. Hubin · in Boucher’s Choicest ed. Jeanne F. Bernkopf, Dutton, 1969

xiii · Editor’s Note · Jeanne F. Bernkopf · pr Boucher’s Choicest ed. Jeanne F. Bernkopf, Dutton, 1969

1 · H as in Homicide [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964

18 · Justice, Inc. · Rog Phillips · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1963

38 · File #1: The Mayfield Case [Daniel Kearny Associates] · Joseph N. Gores · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1967

60 · His Brother’s Keeper · James McKimmey, Jr. · ss Cosmopolitan September 1962

73 · The Right Man for the Right Job · J. C. Thompson · ss Playboy July 1962

86 · The Adventure of Abraham Lincoln’s Clue [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss MD June 1965, as “Abraham Lincoln’s Clue”

109 · The Adventure of the Red Leech [Solar Pons] · August Derleth · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1966

130 · The Two Kings and the Two Labyrinths · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Donald A. Yates · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1962
translated from the Spanish (“Una Leyenda Arabiga (Historia de los dos Reyes y los dos Laberintos, como Nota de Burton)”, El Aleph, Editorial Losada, 1949).

132 · Good Man, Bad Man · Jerome Weidman · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 1 1967

153 · The Stollmeyer Sonnets [Acting Sergeant Maynard Bullock] · James Powell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1966

180 · The Dr. Sherrock Commission [Augustus Mandrell] · Frank McAuliffe · ss Of All the Bloody Cheek by Frank McAuliffe, Ballantine, 1965

196 · The Gracious, Pleasant Life of Mrs. Afton · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1963

The Never Never Land ed. Phillip Berrie, Mitchell Akhurst & Ian McHugh--- see under Mitchell Akhurst.

The Roots of Fantasy: Myth, Folklore & Archetype ed. Shelley Dutton Berry (World Fantasy Convention 1989, October 1989, no ISBN, 124pp, tp, an)
Anthology of eight stories plus various non-fiction pieces, particularly profiles of the GoH’s. This is the program book for the 1989 World Fantasy Convention held in Seattle and is a limited edition of 1,000 copies.

ix · Preface · Shelley Dutton Berry · pr

1 · Opening Remarks · Ginjer Buchanan · in

3 · Yoshitaka Amano · Kiyoshi Imaoka & Alex Fleischer · bg [Ref. Yoshitaka Amano]

7 · Ginjer Buchanan: The Short Version · Suzanne Tompkins & Jerry Kaufman · bg [Ref. Ginjer Buchanan]

9 · Avram Davidson: The Fish Unturned · Gene Wolfe · ar Weird Tales Winter 1988/1989 [Ref. Avram Davidson]

13 · Without Apparent Effort, an introduction to Ursula K. Le Guin · Vonda N. McIntyre · bg [Ref. Ursula K. Le Guin]

19 · Robert R. McCammon (his ownself) · Joe R. Lansdale · bg [Ref. Robert R. McCammon]

21 · A.k.a. S.P. Somtow · Deborah L. Notkin · bg [Ref. Somtow Sucharitkul]

23 · Joseph Who? · Kris Demien · bg [Ref. Joseph Campbell]

27 · Or the Grasses Grow · Avram Davidson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1958

35 · Legends for a New Land · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar
originally given as a speech at Mythcon in 1988.

47 · Chico · Robert R. McCammon · ss Blue World and Other Stories by Robert R. McCammon, Grafton, 1989

55 · Lottery Night · S. P. Somtow · nv

73 · Roots · Terry Pratchett · ar

77 · Little Tales of Ho and Naipon · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · ss

85 · The Lovesick Simurgh · M. J. Engh · ss Arabesques ed. Susan M. Shwartz, Avon, 1988

93 · Visitation · Greg Bear · vi Omni June 1987

97 · Fantastic Heroes Now and Then · Sharon Baker · ar
speech delivered at the 1988 Conference of the International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts.

103 · The Story of Urashima Taro · Tomoko Oshiro; translated by Gene Van Troyer · ss

109 · The Faithful Companion at Forty · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1987

117 · The Master Goes Whacko! · Bruce Taylor · ss

Yesterday Knocks by Noel Bertram (G. Arthur Coleby, 1953, 71pp, hc, co)

· The Half Legs · Noel Bertram · ss

· The Bellarmine Jars · Noel Bertram · ss

· Lot 629 · Noel Bertram · ss

· The North Cloister Walk · Noel Bertram · ss

· P Aia Johns Blak · Noel Bertram · nv

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