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Finger Man and Other Stories by Raymond Chandler (Avon Murder Mystery Monthly, 1946, #43, pb, co)
Three pulp novelets from the 1930s, most later included in The Simple Art of Murder, and an article from 1944.

· The Bronze Door · Raymond Chandler · nv Unknown November 1939

· Finger Man [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · na Black Mask October 1934

· Smart-Aleck Kill [Mallory] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask July 1934

· The Simple Art of Murder · Raymond Chandler · ar The Atlantic Monthly December 1944

Five Murderers by Raymond Chandler (Avon Murder Mystery Monthly, 1944, #19, pb, co)

· Blackmailers Don’t Shoot [Mallory] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask December 1933

· Goldfish [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · na Black Mask June 1936

· Guns at Cyrano’s [Ted Malvern] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask January 1936

· Nevada Gas · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask June 1935

· Spanish Blood · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask November 1935

Five Sinister Characters by Raymond Chandler (Avon Murder Mystery Monthly, 1945, #28, pb, co)

· Trouble Is My Business [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine August 1939

· Pearls Are a Nuisance [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine April 1939

· I’ll Be Waiting [Tony Reseck] · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 14 1939

· The King in Yellow · Raymond Chandler · na Dime Detective Magazine March 1938

· Red Wind [John Dalmas] · Raymond Chandler · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1938

Kingston Noir ed. Colin Channer (Akashic Books, 2012, 978-1-61775-074-8, $15.95, 285pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]
Eleven original stories set in Kingston, Jamaica.

· What If? Why Would? · Colin Channer · in

· Part I: Hard Road to Travel

· My Lord · Kwame Dawes · ss; set in Portmore.

· The White Gyal with the Camera · Kei Miller · ss; set in August Town.

· Tomcat Beretta · Patricia Powell · ss; set in New Kingston.

· A Grave Undertaking · Ian Thomson · ss; set in Downtown Kingston.

· Part II: Is This Love?

· Immaculate · Marlon James · ss; set in Constant Spring.

· Roll It · Leone Ross · ss; set in Mona.

· One-Girl Half Way Tree Concert · Marcia Douglas · ss; set in Half Way Tree.

· Leighton Leigh Anne Norbrook · Thomas Glave · ss; set in Norbrook.

· Part III: Pressure Drop

· “54-46 (That’s My Number)” · Christopher John Farley · ss; set in Trench Town.

· Sunrise · Chris Abani · ss; set in Greenwich Town.

· Monkey Man · Colin Channer · ss; set in Hughenden.

· About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Breath of Genius by Mark Channing (Hutchinson, 1944, hc, co)
Collection with some crime.

· Abraham’s Cat · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Blind Justice · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Blue Madonna · Mark Channing · ss The Daily Mail July 7 1933

· The Breath of Genius · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Cauldron · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Chivalry · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Dogged · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Doll Doctor · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Feet · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Frustration · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Greater Love · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Leaves · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Love Master · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Marionettes · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· “O.E.” of the Mounties · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Old Brass · Mark Channing · ss The Daily Mail September 6 1932

· The Outcasts · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Phantom · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Private View · Mark Channing · ss The Daily Mail December 23 1932

· The Red Sketch · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Safety Catch · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Scarecrow · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Second Thoughts · Mark Channing · ss The Daily Mail January 18 1933

· The Slump · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Soot and Sentiment · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Soul of Benedict Vaillant · Mark Channing · ss MacLean’s April 1 1931

· Strange Miracle · Mark Channing · ss The (London) Evening News January 23 1935

· The Tide · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Tiger’s Claws · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Toad · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Twilight of a God · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· An Unwitting Benefactor · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· The Vengeance of Kwan Yin · Mark Channing · ss (r)

· Words and Music · Mark Channing · ss (r)

The Black Room Manuscripts: Volume Three ed. Daniel Marc Chant & J. R. Park (Sinister Horror Company, February 24, 2018, 978-1-912578-00-9, $13.00, 500pp, tp, oa)
A charitable anthology with the proceeds going to the nonprofit organization Shelter.
Details taken from online listing.

· Horrors, Both Old and New · Adrian Shotbolt · in

· Prologue · [uncredited] · lk

· AC43RON · Lex H. Jones · ss

· The Hidebehind · Jonathan Butcher · ss

· A Death Most Hideous · Daniel Marc Chant · ss

· These Are Our Town’s Monsters · Paul Tremblay · ss

· Deceitful · C. C. Adams · ss

· Midnight in the Meat Room · Kerry Lipp · ss

· Followers · Paul Kane · nv

· Toad in the Hole · Guy N. Smith · ss

· A Stronger Magic · Anthony Watson · ss

· Doody-Head · Lydian Faust · ss

· Making Friends with Fold Out Flaps · Andrew Hook · ss

· The Angels of London · Adam L. G. Nevill · nv Terror Tales of London ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2013

· Haunted by Obscurity · Ash Hartwell · ss

· Gifts · Phil Sloman · ss

· Mary Mary · Ray Cluley · nv The 2nd Spectral Book of Horror Stories ed. Mark Morris, Spectral Press, 2015

· Bacon Man · Linda Angel · ss

· Indebted · James Jobling · ss

· The Itch · Jack Bantry · ss

· The Ugly · J. R. Park · nv

· Murders on Morgue Street · Orrin Grey · ss Painted Monsters & Other Strange Beasts by Orrin Grey, Word Horde, 2015

· The Cloud Sculptors of Hachimantai · Preston Grassmann & Chris Kelso · ss

· Pater in Tenebris · Andrew Freudenberg · ss

· Orson’s Gas N Go · Glenn Rolfe · ss

· Nolan Higgs Is Out of His Depth · David Moody · ss

· I Am the Storm · Michael Bray · nv

· Epilogue · [uncredited] · lk

· Afterword · Mark Richard Adams · aw

The Lost Star and Other Stories by Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin (Falmouth Pub. House, 1948, 78pp, hc, co)

· The Lost Star · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Prior · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Diet of Worms · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Bagpipes · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· Ad Astra · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Dryad · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· All Souls · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Rivals · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Leech · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Iconoclast · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Last Hansom · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

· The Shadow · Maud Louise Hudnut Chapin · ss (r)

A Thousand Beginnings and Endings ed. Elsie Chapman & Ellen Oh (Greenwillow Books, June 26, 2018, 978-0-06-267115-8, $17.99, 326pp, hc, oa, cover by Feifei Ruan)
Details taken from online listing.

5 · Forbidden Fruit · Roshani Chokshi · ss

20 · Olivia’s Table · Alyssa Wong · nv

47 · Steel Skin · Lori M. Lee · nv

73 · Still Star-Crossed · Sona Charaipotra · ss

90 · The Counting of Vermillion Beads · Aliette de Bodard · ss

109 · The Land of the Morning Calm · E. C. Myers · nv

139 · The Smile · Aisha Saeed · ss

155 · Girls Who Twirl and Other Dangers · Preeti Chhibber · nv

184 · Nothing Into All · Renée Ahdieh · ss

202 · Spear Carrier · Rahul Kanakia · nv

224 · Code of Honor · Melissa de la Cruz · ss

238 · Bullet, Butterfly · Elsie Chapman · nv

259 · Daughter of the Sun · Shveta Thakrar · nv

282 · The Crimson Cloak · Cindy Pon · ss

302 · Eyes Like Candlelight · Julie Kagawa · ss

Danger Music by Stepan Chapman (The Ministry of Whimsy Press, December 1996, no ISBN, $4.25, 40pp, ph, co, cover by Heinrich Kley)
Chapbook collection of ten “fables”, most previously unpublished.

5 · Scheherazarr · Stepan Chapman · vi

8 · The Hermit and the Fallen Sky · Stepan Chapman · vi

11 · High Cocoalorum at the E.I.A. · Stepan Chapman · vi

14 · The Sister City · Stepan Chapman · ss

18 · The Heaven of the Animators · Stepan Chapman · ss

22 · A Human at the Barbecue · Stepan Chapman · ss Freezer Burn Magazine #4, 1996

26 · The God of Dollars · Stepan Chapman · ss

30 · The Sick Ox and the Stairways of Causation · Stepan Chapman · ss

34 · When the Moths Came Down · Stepan Chapman · vi Freezer Burn Magazine #5, 1996

37 · The Prison of Sod · Stepan Chapman · vi

40 · About the Author · [uncredited] · bg

Dossier by Stepan Chapman (Creative Arts Book Company, January 2001, 0-88739-280-6, $13.95, 166pp, tp, co)
Collection of 17 stories.

1 · The Rainmakers · Stepan Chapman · ss

7 · Boots Practice · Stepan Chapman · ss

11 · The Fallen Sky · Stepan Chapman · ss

17 · Mr. Lentiger’s Microscopes · Stepan Chapman · ss

25 · The Stairways of Causation · Stepan Chapman · ss

31 · Nocturne · Stepan Chapman · ss

39 · The Selection of Toothpick · Stepan Chapman · ss

53 · At Her Ladyship’s Suggestion · Stepan Chapman · nv

79 · The One-Armed Elek · Stepan Chapman · ss

85 · An Example of Ataxia · Stepan Chapman · ss

91 · A Legend of the Wheelgirls · Stepan Chapman · ss Scheherazade #17, 1998

97 · The Quest · Stepan Chapman · ss

105 · The Sister City · Stepan Chapman · ss Danger Music by Stepan Chapman, Ministry of Whimsy, 1996

111 · The Prison of Sod · Stepan Chapman · vi Danger Music by Stepan Chapman, Ministry of Whimsy, 1996

117 · When the Moths Came Down · Stepan Chapman · vi Freezer Burn Magazine #5, 1996

123 · A Song on the Drift Ice · Stepan Chapman · ss Indigenous Fiction #3, August 1999

128 · Minutes of the Last Meeting · Stepan Chapman · nv Leviathan, Volume Two ed. Jeff VanderMeer & Rose Secrest, Ministry of Whimsy, 1998

The Enchantresses by Vera Chapman (with Mike Ashley) (Gollancz, January 8, 1998, 0-575-06524-9, £16.99, 223pp, hc, n., cover by Harvey Parker)
Arthurian fantasy novel of his three “half-sisters”: Morgause, Vivian, and Morgan, trained in magic by Merlin, completed by Mike Ashley after Chapman’s death. An extract was published as ‘A Sword for Arthur’ in The Merlin Chronicles (ed. Mike Ashley, Raven, 1995).

The Enchantresses ,(with:Ashley, Mike) by Vera Chapman (Vista, February 25, 1999, 0-575-60325-9, £5.99, 223pp, pb, n., cover by Harvey Parker)
Reprint (Gollancz 1998) Arthurian fantasy novel completed by Mike Ashley after Chapman’s death.

The Notorious Abbess by Vera Chapman (Academy Chicago, September 1, 1997, 0-89733-387-X, $22.50, 247pp, hc, oc, cover by Tom Hertzberg) [edited by Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski]
Collection of 12 related historical fantasy stories about the devious Abbess of Shaston and her encounters with kings, Crusaders, fantastic creatures, magic, and the Devil himself. A trade paperback edition (-447-7, $12.95) was announced.

7 · Introduction · Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski · in

13 · Monks and Mermaids · Vera Chapman · ss

29 · The White Knight’s Gambit · Vera Chapman · nv

57 · The Justice of the Abbess · Vera Chapman · ss

75 · In a Glass Darkly · Vera Chapman · ss

93 · With a Long Spoon · Vera Chapman · ss Visions of Wonder ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski, Avon, 1981

109 · A Question of Taste · Vera Chapman · nv

131 · Little Silas · Vera Chapman · nv

157 · Marduk · Vera Chapman · ss

171 · Crusader Damosel · Vera Chapman · ss The Fantastic Imagination II ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski, Avon, 1978

193 · The Devil to Pay · Vera Chapman · ss

213 · The Wyf-Wolf · Vera Chapman · ss

229 · Seeking Whom He May Devour · Vera Chapman · ss

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