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Twisters ed. Steve Bowles (Collins, 1981, 0-0067-1798-5, 90p, 123pp, pb, an)     Fifteen stories of the sinister and macabre each with a twist at the end. Also published in a simultaneous hardcover edition. 7 · Introduction · Steve Bowles · in 9 · A Lot to Learn · Robert T. Kurosaka · vi (r) 11 · Nightmare in Yellow · Fredric Brown · vi The Dude May 1961 14 · The Man Who Could Turn Back the Clock · Ralph Milne Farley · vi The Omnibus of Time by Ralph Milne Farley, FPCI, 1950 16 · Examination Day · Henry Slesar · ss Playboy February 1958 21 · Hey, You Down There! · Harold Rolseth · ss Yankee 1971 34 · Pick-Up on the Dover Road · Julian Symons · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1972 48 · Little Old Lady from Cricket Creek · Len Gray · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1969 53 · Firebird · John Escott · ss Naked Nancy and Other Stories by John Escott, Heinemann, 1978 64 · Man Eater · Dorothy Edwards · ss 71 · The Chaser · John Collier · ss The New Yorker December 28 1940 75 · Sauce for the Goose · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1972 89 · The Haunted Man · Henry Slesar · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1974 106 · Maid to Measure · Damon Knight · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1964 110 · A Judicious Half Inch · Ursula Curtiss · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1973 119 · Nasty · Fredric Brown · vi Playboy April 1959

A Book of Islands ed. John S. Bowman (Doubleday, 1971, LC:76-131069, xiv+346pp, hc, an)     A selection of weird and bizarre stories set on islands collected by a noted travel writer. x · Introduction · John S. Bowman · in · Section One: Marvelous Islands 3 · The Shipwrecked Sailor · [uncredited] · ss (r); from the Egyptian. 7 · The Odyssey · Homer · ex (r) 14 · The True History · Lucian · ex (r) 19 · Sindbad the Sailor: First Voyage · [uncredited] · ss from The Arabian Nights (r) 27 · Gulliver’s Travels [Gulliver] · Jonathan Swift · ex Benjamin Motte, 1726, as “Travels Into Several Remote Nations of the World” 40 · Adventures of Baron Munchausen · Rudolf Erich Raspe · ex 1785, as “Baron Munchhausen’s Narrative of His Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia” 45 · To Whom This May Come · Edward Bellamy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1889 · Section Two: Man Alone 63 · Robinson Crusoe · Daniel Defoe · ex 1719 72 · Swiss Family Robinson · Johann Rudolf Wyss · ex 1812 actually written by his father, Johann Wyss (1743-1818). 83 · Masterman Ready · Frederick Marryat · ex from Mooreman Ready, Longmans, 1841 92 · The Mysterious Island · Jules Verne; translated by William H. G. Kingston · ex Scribner's, 1875; chapter 11. 102 · German Harry · W. Somerset Maugham · vi Cosmopolitan January 1924 · Section Three: Supernatural Sites 109 · Guests from Gibbet Island · Washington Irving · ss The Knickerbocker October 1839 120 · The Isle of Voices · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The National Observer February 4 1893 137 · The Fiend of the Cooperage · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Manchester Weekly Times October 1 1897 148 · Æpyornis Island · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget December 27 1894 159 · A Haunted Island · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Pall Mall Magazine April 1899 174 · Desert of the Dead · Arthur J. Burks · ss Weird Tales March 1925 · Section Four: Nature in the Raw 183 · The Legend of Last Island · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Chita: A Memory of Lost Island by Lafcadio Hearn, Harper, 1889 201 · The White Seal [Mowgli] · Rudyard Kipling · nv National Review August 1 1893 216 · The Landing · Liam O’Flaherty · ss T.P.’s and Cassell’s Weekly May 24 1924 223 · Pincher Martin · William Golding · ex Faber and Faber, 1956; chapter 3. · Section Five: Concentrated Reality 231 · The Saga of Njal · [uncredited] · ex (r); from the Icelandic. 241 · Mateo Falcone · Prosper Mérimée · ss International Short Stories ed. & tr. Wm Patten, P.F. Collier's Sons, 1910 translated from the French. 253 · Property · Giovanni Verga; translated by D. H. Lawrence · ss Little Novels of Sicily by Giovanni Verga, Seltzer, 1925 260 · Semillante · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Une vendetta”, Le Gaulois, October 14, 1883). 266 · The Two Hoaxers · Stratis Myrivilis & Abbott Rick · ex The Charioteer Summer 1960 · Section Six: Pink-Tinted Adventures 279 · The Count of Monte Cristo · Alexandre Dumas · ex Chapman & Hall, 1846; chapters 20-21. translated from the French (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Pétlon, 1845/46). 289 · Typee · Herman Melville · ex Wiley and Putnam, 1846 297 · Treasure Island · Robert Louis Stevenson · ex Cassell & Co., November 14 1883; chapter 13. 302 · The Vagrant · Richard Harding Davis · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine June 1899 321 · A Son of Empire · Lloyd Osbourne · ss The London Magazine November 1912 332 · The Most Dangerous Game · Richard Connell · nv Collier’s January 19 1924

The Best American Mystery Stories 2020 ed. C. J. Box (Mariner, November 3, 2020, 978-1-328-63610-2, $16.99, xiv+408pp, tp, an) ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xii · Introduction · C. J. Box · in 1 · Justice · Pamela Blackwood · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January/February 2019 37 · Home Movie · Jerry M. Burger · ss The Briar Cliff Review Spring 2019 47 · Deportees [Hackberry Holland] · James Lee Burke · nv The Strand Magazine #59, October 2019/January 2020 67 · Second Cousins · Michael Cebula · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2019 89 · The Surrogate Initiative · Brian Cox · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2019 116 · Shanty Falls · Doug Crandell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January/February 2019 136 · The Duelist · David Dean · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2019 157 · Security · Jeffery Deaver · nv Odd Partners ed. Anne Perry, Random House, 2019 186 · Rhonda and Clyde · John M. Floyd · nv Black Cat Mystery Magazine #5, 2019 208 · On Little Terry Road · Tom Franklin · ss From Sea to Stormy Sea ed. Lawrence Block, Pegasus Books, 2019 218 · See Humble and Die · Richard Helms · ss The Eyes of Texas ed. Michael Bracken, Down & Out Books, 2019 232 · All This Distant Beauty · Ryan David Jahn · nv Mystery Tribune #8, Winter 2019 258 · Miss Martin · Sheila Kohler · ss Cutting Edge ed. Joyce Carol Oates, Akashic Books, 2019 271 · The Most Powerful Weapon · Jake Lithua · ss The Odds Are Against Us ed. Oren Litwin, Liberty Island Media, 2019 284 · Baddest Outlaws · Rick McMahan · ss After Midnight ed. Phoef Sutton, Level Best Books, 2019 304 · What Ever Happened to Lorna Winters? · Lisa Morton · ss Odd Partners ed. Anne Perry, Random House, 2019 320 · Girl with an Ax · John Sandford · ss From Sea to Stormy Sea ed. Lawrence Block, Pegasus Books, 2019 334 · Pretzel Logic · David B. Schlosser · ss Die Behind the Wheel ed. Brian Thornton, Down & Out Books, 2019 354 · Nightbound · Wallace Stroby · ss At Home in the Dark ed. Lawrence Block, Subterranean Press, 2019 373 · The Last Hit · Robin Yocum · ss The Strand Magazine #58, July/November 2019 391 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 407 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2019 · [uncredited] · bi

Giant Book of Amazing Stories by Edward Boyd & Maurice Allward--- see under Maurice Allward.

Space Story Omnibus by Edward Boyd & Maurice Allward--- see under Maurice Allward.

Whopper Space Stories by Edward Boyd & Maurice Allward--- see under Maurice Allward.

Whopper Space Stories by Edward Boyd & Maurice Allward--- see under Maurice Allward.

Strange Tales of the Borders, Old and New by Halbert J. Boyd (Moray Press, 1948, 8/6d, 238pp, hc, co) · The Duel of the Dowie Dens of Yarrow · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Wicked Laird of Buckholm · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · A Night in Hermitage · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Seil of Littledean · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · Raeburn’s Meadow · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · Canobie Dick · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Treasure of the Tribune · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Murder Moss · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Fanatic · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · Spot · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · Sandybed Pool · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Return · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Rat Man · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · Happy Valley · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Gift of the Goddess · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r) · The Iconoclast · Halbert J. Boyd · ss (r)

Dark Imaginings: A Collection of Gothic Fantasy ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski (Dell, 1978, 0-440-53118-7, $4.95, 348pp, tp, an) 13 · Introduction · Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski · in 23 · Cross Purposes · George MacDonald · nv Beeton’s Christmas Annual 1862 43 · The Woman of the Wood · A. Merritt · nv Weird Tales August 1926 73 · The Mirrors of Tuzun Thune [Kull] · Robert E. Howard · ss Weird Tales September 1929 85 · Werewoman [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Leaves #2, 1938 111 · The Enchantress of Sylaire [Averoigne] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales July 1941 129 · The Unholy Grail [Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser] · Fritz Leiber · nv Fantastic Stories of Imagination October 1962 157 · Three Hearts and Three Lions · Poul Anderson · ex Doubleday, 1961 169 · Darkness Box · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination November 1963 181 · The Brown Hand · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine May 1899, as “The Story of the Brown Hand” 199 · The Habitants of Middle Islet · William Hope Hodgson · ss Dark Mind, Dark Heart ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1962 215 · Smith and the Pharaohs · H. Rider Haggard · na The Strand Magazine December 1912 (+2) 259 · The Dance of Death · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 273 · The Haunter of the Dark [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales December 1936 299 · The Troll · T. H. White · ss Gone to Ground, 1935 313 · The Crowd · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales May 1943 327 · Lila the Werewolf [Sam Farrell] · Peter S. Beagle · nv guabi #1, 1969, as “Farrell and Lila the Werewolf”

The Fantastic Imagination ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski (Avon, February 1977, 0-380-00956-0, $2.25, ix+325pp, pb, an)     Anthology of high fantasy, with introduction considering the nature of the genre, and informative introductions to each story. 1 · Introduction · Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski · in 9 · The Elves · Johann Ludwig Tieck; translated by Thomas Carlyle · nv German Romance, Volume 2 ed. Thomas Carlyle, W. Tait, 1827 translated from the German (Die Elfen, 1811). 33 · The Sword of Welleran · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany, George Allen & Sons, 1908 51 · The Light Princess · George MacDonald · na Adela Cathcart by George MacDonald, Hurst & Blackett, 1864 101 · The Grove of Ashtaroth · John Buchan · nv Blackwood’s Magazine June 1910 131 · The Music from Behind the Moon · James Branch Cabell · nv John Day, 1926 165 · The Accommodating Circumstance · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Clocks of Rondaine and Other Stories by Frank R. Stockton, Scribner's, 1892 185 · The Peach-Tree · H. E. Bates · ss Seven Tales and Alexander by H. E. Bates, Scholastic Press, 1929 199 · The Loquacious Goblin · Alexander Grin · ss (r); translation taken from Modern Soviet Short Stories, New York, 1961. 208 · Riddles in the Dark · J. R. R. Tolkien · ex from The Hobbit, Allen & Unwin, 1937 231 · The Magician’s Book · C. S. Lewis · ex from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Geoffrey Bles, 1952 241 · The Dufflepuds Made Happy · C. S. Lewis · ex from The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, Geoffrey Bles, 1952 253 · The Tall One · Mark Van Doren · ss The Witch of Ramoth, and Other Tales by Mark Van Doren, Maple Press Co., 1950 265 · The Foundling [Chronicles of Prydain] · Lloyd Alexander · ss The Foundling and Other Tales by Lloyd Alexander, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973 277 · Come Lady Death · Peter S. Beagle · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1963 299 · The Rule of Names [Earthsea] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination April 1964 313 · Beliard · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The New Yorker April 29 1974

The Fantastic Imagination II ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski (Avon, December 1978, 0-380-41533-X, $2.50, xi+307pp, pb, an)     Anthology of high fantasy, with introduction considering further the nature of the genre. Has informative introductions to each story. 1 · Introduction · Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski · in 11 · The Golden Key · George MacDonald · nv Dealings with the Fairies by George MacDonald, Arthur Strahan, 1867 42 · The Glass of Supreme Moments · Barry Pain · ss Stories and Interludes by Barry Pain, Henry & Co., 1892 55 · Old Pipes and the Dryad · Frank R. Stockton · ss St. Nicholas June 1885 76 · The Kith of the Elf-Folk · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sword of Welleran and Other Stories by Lord Dunsany, George Allen & Sons, 1908 94 · Red-Peach-Blossom Inlet · Kenneth Morris · ss The Theosophical Path October 1916, as by Hankin Maggs 108 · The Legend of the Christmas Rose · Selma Lagerlöf; translated by Charles Wharton Stork · ss Girl from the Marsh Croft by Selma Lagerlöf, Little, 1910 126 · Above Ker-Is · Evangeline Walton · ss 142 · The Abominable Imprecation · Eric Linklater · ss God Likes Them Plain by Eric Linklater, Cape, 1935 162 · Jirel Meets Magic [Jirel of Joiry] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales July 1935 202 · The Thirty and One [Cecil of Cornwall] · David H. Keller · ss Marvel Science Stories November 1938 217 · April in Paris · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination September 1962 234 · A Harp of Fishbones · Joan Aiken · ss Miscellany Four ed. Edward Blishen, Oxford University Press, 1967 252 · The Smith, the Weaver, and the Harper [Chronicles of Prydain] · Lloyd Alexander · ss The Foundling and Other Tales by Lloyd Alexander, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1973 261 · The Throme of the Erril of Sherill · Patricia A. McKillip · ex Atheneum, 1973 275 · Elphenor and Weasel · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The New Yorker December 16 1974 294 · Crusader Damosel · Vera Chapman · ss

The Notorious Abbess by Vera Chapman ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski--- see under Vera Chapman.

The Phoenix Tree: An Anthology of Myth Fantasy ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski (Avon, September 1980, 0-380-76380-X, $2.50, 279pp, pb, an) xiii · Introduction · Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski · in 1 · The Banished King · Frank R. Stockton · ss St. Nicholas December 1882 12 · Ixion in Heaven · Benjamin Disraeli · nv The New Monthly Magazine December 1832 (+1) 42 · The Moon-Slave · Barry Pain · ss Stories in the Dark by Barry Pain, Grant Richards, 1901 51 · The Rose and the Cup · Kenneth Morris · ss The Theosophical Path April 1916, as by Wentworth Tompkins 69 · The Mistress of Kaer-Mor · Evangeline Walton · ss; given as by Evangeline Walton Ensley in the introduction to the story, but as Evangeline Walton in the Table of Contents and on the story itself. 85 · The Twilight of the Gods · Richard Garnett · nv The Twilight of the Gods by Richard Garnett, Unwin, 1888 108 · The Shield-Maiden · Verner von Heidenstam; translated by Charles Wharton Stork · ss The Swedes and Their Chieftains by Karl Gustaf Verner von Heidenstam, Sweden, 1909 121 · The Valley of the Beasts · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Wolves of God by Algernon Blackwood & Wilfred Wilson, Cassell & Co., 1921 145 · Witches’ Hollow · H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth · ss Dark Mind, Dark Heart ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1962 written by Derleth from a fragment by Lovecraft. 164 · The Goose Girl · Eric Linklater · nv The Sealskin Trousers and Other Stories by Eric Linklater, Hart-Davis, 1947 197 · Niña Sol · Félix Martí-Ibáñez · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1963 217 · The Bride of the Man-Horse · Lord Dunsany · ss The Sketch February 1 1911 225 · The Circular Ruins · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by James E. Irby · ss Labyrinths by Jorge Luís Borges, New Directions, 1962 translated from the Spanish (“Las ruinas circulares”, Sur, December 1940). 234 · The Story of El-ahrairah and the Black Rabbit of Inlé · Richard Adams · ex from Watership Down, Rex Collings, 1972 251 · The Thread · Vera Chapman · ss 266 · Night Rider on a Pale Horse · Galad Elflandsson · ss