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Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages ed. Steve Berman (Prime Books, August 14, 2013, 978-1-60701-395-2, $15.95, 379pp, tp, oa, cover by Timothy Lantz)
Anthology of 33 stories, eight reprints, about zombies from “Before Lazarus” to the early 20th Century. Authors include Jonathan Maberry, Richard E. Gropp, and Steven Popkes.
Details taken from online listing.

11 · Untitled Prologue · [uncredited] · lk

13 · Before Lazarus

15 · Blood Marker · Victoria Janssen · ss

17 · Selected Sources for the Babylonian Plague of the Dead (572-571 BCE) · Alex Dally MacFarlane · ss

21 · Immortals · Nathan Southard · ss

23 · The Cost of Moving the Dead · E. L. Kemper · ss

27 · Hauntings and Hungers on the Banks of the Vipasa · Rajan Khanna · ss

39 · After Lazarus

41 · Antiquity

43 · A Frenzy of Ravens · Christopher M. Cevasco · ss

59 · The Wedding of Osiris · Adam Morrow · ss

65 · The Middle Ages

67 · The Hyena’s Blessing · Alex Jeffers · ss

79 · The Good Shepherdess · S. J. Chambers · ss

84 · The Fledglings of Time · Carrie Laben · ss

91 · 16th and 17th Centuries

93 · Hung from a Hairy Tree · Samantha Henderson · ss

96 · Good Deaths · Paul Berger · ss

114 · Dead Reckoning · Elaine Pascale · ss

124 · Grit in a Diseased Eye · Lee Thomas · ss

126 · Theater Is Dead · Raoul Wainscoting · ss History Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2007

139 · 18th Century

141 · Deathless · Ed Kurtz · ss

161 · Tantivy · Molly Tanzer · ss

169 · Cinereous · Livia Llewellyn · ss

177 · 19th Century

179 · The Wailing Hills · L. Lark · ss

196 · As the Crow Flies · Rita Oakes · ss

210 · Seneca Falls: First Recorded Outbreak of Strain Z · Dayna Ingram · nv

234 · Pegleg and Paddy Save the World · Jonathan Maberry · ss History Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2007

248 · Dead in the Water · Richard Larson · ss

250 · Starvation Army · Joe McKinney · ss History Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2007

262 · Lonegan’s Luck · Stephen Graham Jones · nv New Genre Summer 2009

285 · The Rickshaw Pusher · Mercurio D. Rivera · ss

291 · The Revenge of Oscar Wilde · Sean Eads · ss

307 · Early 20th Century

309 · The Gringo · Silvia Moreno-Garcia · ss

312 · The End of the Caroll A. Deering · Bob Hole · ss

314 · Promised Land (Wineville, 1928) · Richard E. Gropp · ss

316 · Tell Me Like You Done Before · Scott Edelman · ss The Dead That Walk ed. Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press, 2009

332 · The Fated Sky · Aimee Payne · ss

348 · The Crocodiles · Steven Popkes · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2010

369 · Gedenkschrift Authors · [uncredited] · ms

First Armada Ghost Book ed. Christine Bernard (Armada, 1967, C197, 2/6d, 159pp, pb, an)

6 · Introduction · Christine Bernard · in

9 · Sandy MacNeil and His Dog · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Gaelic Ghosts by Sorche Nic Leodhas, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964

20 · School for the Unspeakable · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales September 1937

34 · The House of the Nightmare · Edward Lucas White · ss Smith’s Magazine September 1906

47 · The Story of the Inexperienced Ghost · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine March 1902

66 · The Giant Bones · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Gaelic Ghosts by Sorche Nic Leodhas, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1964

72 · Prince Godfrey Frees Mountain Dwellers and Little Shepherds from a Savage Werewolf and from Witches · Halina Gorska · ss Prince Godfrey by Halina Gorska, Roy, 1946

88 · The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891

102 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · nv The Idler March 1896

115 · Spooks of the Valley · Louis C. Jones · ex Houghton Mifflin, 1948; adapted from chapter 7.

132 · The Lads Who Met the Highwayman · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Ghosts Go Haunting by Sorche Nic Leodhas, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965

142 · A Pair of Hands · Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Cornish Magazine December 1898, as by Q

Second Armada Ghost Book ed. Christine Bernard (Armada, 1968, C253, 2/6d, 127pp, pb, an)

7 · Introduction · Christine Bernard · in

9 · The Ghost That Didn’t Want to Be a Ghost · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Ghosts Go Haunting by Sorche Nic Leodhas, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965

21 · The Keepers of the Wall · William Croft Dickinson · ss The Scotsman Christmas

33 · Fiddler, Play Fast, Play Faster · Ruth Sawyer · ss Long Christmas by Ruth Sawyer, Viking, 1941

42 · The Magic Shop · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine June 1903

59 · Mr. Fox · [uncredited] · ss (r)

64 · His Own Number · William Croft Dickinson · ss Dark Encounters by William Croft Dickinson, Harvill Press, 1963

79 · The Man Who Walked Widdershins Round the Kirk · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss Ghosts Go Haunting by Sorche Nic Leodhas, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1965

86 · The Flowering of the Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 2 1894

99 · The Ugly-Wuglies · Edith Nesbit · ex from The Enchanted Castle, Unwin, 1907; chapters 6 and 7.

The Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Christine Bernard (Fontana, February 1966, 1232, 3/6d, 221pp, pb, an)

9 · The Squaw · Bram Stoker · ss Holly Leaves December 2 1893

24 · No Stronger Than a Flower · Robert Aickman · ss

40 · Tarnhelm · Hugh Walpole · ss Liberty December 28 1929

58 · The Gypsy · Agatha Christie · ss The Hound of Death and Other Stories by Agatha Christie, Odhams, 1933

69 · A Case of Eavesdropping [Jim Shorthouse] · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1900

86 · The Pond · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949

94 · William and Mary · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960

125 · The Two Vaynes · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review #22, December 1950

137 · The Next in Line · Ray Bradbury · nv Dark Carnival by Ray Bradbury, Arkham House, 1947

176 · In the Steam Room · Frank Baker · ss

188 · The Interlopers · Saki · ss The Bystander January 17 1912

195 · The Cat Jumps · Elizabeth Bowen · ss Shudders ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1929

207 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891

213 · Marmalade Wine · Joan Aiken · ss Suspense (UK) September 1958

The Second Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Christine Bernard (Fontana, 1967, 3/6d, 221pp, pb, an)

9 · The Spider · Elizabeth Walter · nv The Sin-Eater and Other Scientific Impossibilities by Elizabeth Walter, Harvill, 1967

35 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · nv The London Mercury September 1930

50 · Something Strange · Kingsley Amis · nv The Spectator November 25 1960

69 · Satan’s Circus · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv Britannia and Eve June 1930

85 · The Photograph · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949

91 · The Beast with Five Fingers · W. F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928
revised from The New Decameron, Volume the First, B.H. Blackwell, 1919.

118 · As Gay as Cheese · Joan Aiken · ss Argosy (UK) December 1956

124 · The Hound of Death · Agatha Christie · ss The Hound of Death and Other Stories by Agatha Christie, Odhams, 1933

142 · Judith · Hjalmar Bergman · ss The Evening Standard February 16 1934

149 · The Victim · May Sinclair · nv The Criterion October 1922

171 · The House on Big Faraway · Norman Matson · ss The Evening Standard June 12 1934

182 · The Killing-Bottle · L. P. Hartley · nv The Black Cap ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1927

The Third Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Christine Bernard (Fontana, March 1968, 1702, 3/6d, 188pp, pb, an)

7 · Green Fingers · R. C. Cook · ss

22 · The Specialty of the House · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #54, May 1948

42 · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912

54 · The Academy · David Ely · ss Playboy June 1965

64 · Cut-Throat Farm · J. D. Beresford · ss The Westminster Gazette August 14 1909

69 · The Romance of Certain Old Clothes · Henry James · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1868, uncredited.

89 · Poison · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s June 3 1950

101 · Lucky’s Grove · Herbert Russell Wakefield · nv The Clock Strikes Twelve by H. Russell Wakefield, Herbert Jenkins, 1940

123 · Housebound · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss

134 · The Shuttered Room · H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth · nv The Shuttered Room and Other Pieces by H. P. Lovecraft, Arkham House, 1959
written by Derleth from a fragment by Lovecraft.

169 · At the End of the Passage · Rudyard Kipling · ss Boston Herald July 20 1890

The Fourth Fontana Book of Great Horror Stories ed. Christine Bernard (Fontana, August 1969, 3/6d, 190pp, pb, an)

7 · The Doll · Francis King · ss The Brighton Belle and Other Stories by Francis King, Longmans, 1968

22 · The Idiots · Joseph Conrad · ss The Savoy #6, October 1896

45 · Looking for Something to Suck · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss

58 · The Head · Edith Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine May 1907, as by Mrs. Hubert Bland

74 · Chains · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949

78 · The Empty House [Jim Shorthouse] · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Empty House by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1906

94 · The Flesh Is Weak · Sydney J. Bounds · ss

98 · Seven Floors · Dino Buzzati; translated by Judith Landry · ss Catastrophe by Dino Buzzati, Calder & Boyars, 1965
translated from the Italian.

112 · New Moon · Malachi Whitaker · ss Frost in April by M. Whitaker, Cape, 1930

121 · Mess · Francis King · nv The Brighton Belle and Other Stories by Francis King, Longmans, 1968

150 · Young Blood · Sydney J. Bounds · ss

153 · The Telegram · Violet Hunt · nv Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt, Heinemann, 1911

177 · Mateo Falcone · Prosper Mérimée · ss International Short Stories ed. & tr. Wm Patten, P.F. Collier's Sons, 1910
translated from the French.

Legal Briefs ed. William Bernhardt (Doubleday, June 1998, 0-385-49138-7, $22.95, 292pp, hc, oa)

vii · If Everyone Hates Lawyers So Much, Why Are They Buying Our Books? · William Bernhardt · in

1 · The Divorce · Grif Stockley · na

47 · Poetic Justice · Steve Martini · nv

73 · Stairwell Justice · Jay Brandon · nv

95 · The Client · Richard North Patterson · ss The Atlantic Monthly 1979

115 · What We’re Here For · William Bernhardt · nv

147 · Cook County Redemption · Michael A. Kahn · nv

179 · The Jailhouse Lawyer · Phillip M. Margolin · ss The Saint Magazine August 1984

195 · Voir Dire [John Francis Cuddy] · Jeremiah Healy · nv

231 · The Birthday · John Grisham · ss Oxford American 1994

237 · Roads · Philip Friedman · ss

257 · Carrying Concealed · Lisa Scottoline · nv

285 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg

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

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