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    Night and the City by Gerald Kersh (iBooks, November 2001, 0-7434-1304-0, $12.00, 379pp, tp, n., cover by Steranko)
        Reprint (Michael Joseph 1938) contemporary low-life thriller. Edited, and with an essay on Kersh, by Paul Duncan. The US edition imported from 3 December 2001 at £7.99.
    • vii · Glossary · ms (r)
    • ix · Note on Cockney Rhyming Slang · ms (r)
    • 1 · Night and the City · Gerald Kersh · n. Michael Joseph, 1938
    • 355 · Gerald Kersh: Man of Many Skins: An Analysis · Paul Duncan · ar 2001

    The Stars of David ed. D. J. Kessler (DLZ Media, January 1996, 0-9650294-0-9, $18.00, 414pp, tp, oa)
        Original anthology of two novels, “Can Androids Be Jewish?” by Joe Sampliner and “Miriam’s World”, the first volume in a trilogy by Sol Weiss; both are first novels. This is the first in a new series of Jewish SF.

    Demons of the Night: Tales of the Fantastic, Madness, and the Supernatural from Nineteenth-Century France ed. Joan C. Kessler (University of Chicago, April 1995, 0-226-43208-4, $14.95, li+347pp, tp, oa, cover by Tony Johannot)
        Anthology of 13 fantastic stories by such authors as Balzac, Jules Verne, Alexandre Dumas, Guy de Maupssant, and Theophile Gautier. Edited with notes to each story by Kessler, who also translated nine of the stories, and wrote a 51-page critical introduction (not included in the page count). This edition also gives an ISBN for a hardcover edition (-43207-6, $45.00).
    • xi · Introduction · Joan C. Kessler · in
    • 1 · Smarra, or The Demons of the Night · Charles Nodier; translated by Joan C. Kessler · nv
      translated from the French (“Smarra, ou Les Démons de la Nuit”, 1821).
    • 30 · The Red Inn · Honoré de Balzac; translated by Joan C. Kessler · nv
      translated from the French (“L’auberge rouge”, 1831).
    • 63 · The Venus of Ille · Prosper Mérimée; translated by Jean Kimber · nv The Venus of Ille and Other Stories by Prosper Mérimée, Oxford University Press, 1966
      translated from the French (“La Vénus d’Ille”, La Revue des Deux Mondes, May 1837).
    • 91 · The Dead in Love · Théophile Gautier; translated by Joan C. Kessler · nv
      translated from the French (“La morte amoureuse”, La Chronique de Paris, June 23rd and 26th, 1836).
    • 118 · Arria Marcella · Théophile Gautier; translated by Joan C. Kessler · nv
      translated from the French (“Arria Marcella”, Revue de Paris, March 1, 1852).
    • 145 · The Slap of Charlotte Corday · Alexandre Dumas; translated by Joan C. Kessler · nv
      translated from the French (“Le soufflet de Charlotte Corday”, 1849).
    • 172 · Aurélia, or Dream and Life · Gérard de Nerval; translated by Joan C. Kessler · na
      translated from the French (“Aurélia”, 1855).
    • 224 · Master Zacharius · Jules Verne; translated by Joan C. Kessler · nv
      translated from the French (“Maître Zacharius ou l’horloger qui avait perdu son âme”, Musée des Familles, April & May 1854).
    • 258 · The Sign · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam; translated by Robert Baldick · ss (r)
      translated from the French (“L’intersigne”, 1868).
    • 274 · Véra · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam; translated by Robert Baldick · ss (r)
      translated from the French (“Véra”, La Semaine parisienne, May 7, 1874).
    • 284 · The Horla · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Joan C. Kessler · nv
      translated from the French (“Le Horla” (revised and expanded version), Le Horla, Paul Ollendorff, May 1887).
    • 309 · Who Knows? · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Joan C. Kessler · ss
      translated from the French (“Qui Sait?”, L’Écho de Paris, 6 April 1890).
    • 322 · The Veiled Man · Marcel Schwob; translated by Iain White · ss (r)
      translated from the French (“L’homme voilé”, L’Écho de Paris, July 20, 1890).

    Old Flames by Jack Ketchum (Leisure, June 2008, 978-0-8439-5999-4, $7.99, 289pp, pb, co)
        Associational collection of two non-supernatural horror novellas, the original novella of the title, plus Right to Life (CD Publications 1999).

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