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Year’s Best Hardcore Horror Volume 4 ed. Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax (Red Room Press, April 13, 2019, 978-1-936964-12-3, $14.95, 297pp, tp, an, cover by Sabercore)     Details taken from online listing. 9 · Hardcore Carnival · Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax · in 13 · Vigil · Chad Lutzke · ss Doorbells at Dusk ed. Evans Light, Corpus Press, 2018 23 · Hair and Teeth · Deborah Sheldon · ss Aurealis #113, August 2018 33 · Rut Seasons · Brian Hodge · ss New Fears 2 ed. Mark Morris, Titan, 2018 51 · Control · Jeff Parsons · ss The Captivating Flames of Madness by Jeff Parsons, HellBound Books Publishing, 2018 59 · Cilantro · Annie Neugebauer · ss Fire: Demons, Dragons, and Djinns ed. Rhonda Parrish, Tyche Books Ltd., 2018 69 · Voices Like Barbed Wire · Tim Waggoner · ss Tales from the Lake: Volume 5 ed. Kenneth W. Cain, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2018 85 · Bent · Rebecca Rowland · nv The Horrors Hiding in Plain Sight by Rebecca Rowland, Dark Ink Books, 2018 113 · Lord of the Mesa · Scáth Beorhthe · ss Hollow Boy by Scath Beorh, self published, 2018 125 · The Godhead Grimoire · Sean Patrick Hazlett · ss Galaxy’s Edge #30, January 2018 139 · Carnal Bodies · R. E. Hellinger · ss Two Dead Queers Present: Guillozine: Volume 1 by K. M. Claude & R. E. Hellinger, CreateSpace, 2018 153 · Crossroads of Opportunity · Doungjai Gam & Ed Kurtz · ss Lost Highways ed. D. Alexander Ward, Crystal Lake Publishing, 2018 165 · Dad’s Famous Preserves · Seras Nikita · ss Hinnom Magazine #4, 2017 183 · The Bearded Woman · Alessandro Manzetti · ss Splatterpunk Forever ed. Jack Bantry & Kit Power, Splatterpunk Zine, 2018 191 · The Devil’s Dreamland · Sara Tantlinger · pm The Devil’s Dreamland by Sara Tantlinger, StrangeHouse Books, 2018 213 · All God’s Creatures Got Reasons · Frank Oreto · ss Hinnom Magazine #5, February 2018 225 · The Ugly · J. R. Park · nv The Black Room Manuscripts: Volume Three ed. Daniel Marc Chant & J. R. Park, Sinister Horror Company, 2018 247 · I Have a Confession · Douglas Ford · ss Infernal Ink Magazine Fall/Winter 2018 257 · When the Owls Call · Lyman Graves · ss Grotesque Quarterly v2 #2, 2018 271 · Bloodletting and Intrigue on All Hallows’ Eve · Jeremy Thompson · ss Sweet Chuckling Morbidity by Jeremy Thompson, Sad Mannequin Press, 2018 287 · Monkey See, Monkey Do · Alicia Hilton · ss Fri-SciFi February 9 2018

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 5: Going Global ed. Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax (Red Room Press, April 27, 2020, 978-1-936964-14-7, $14.95, 282pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 9 · Going Global · Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax · in 15 · Feast for Small Pieces · Hailey Piper · ss The Bronzeville Bee June 2019 21 · Goddess of Gallows · Kristopher Triana · ss The Big Book of Blasphemy ed. Regina Garza Mitchell & David G. Barnett, Necro Publications, 2019 41 · Late Night Incident at the White Trash Motel · Duane Bradley · ss Deep Fried Horror ed. Becky Narron, Deadman's Tome, 2019 53 · A New Mother’s Guide to Raising an Abomination · Gwendolyn Kiste · ss The New Flesh ed. Sam Richard & Brendan Vidito, Weirdpunk Books, 2019 67 · Upper Crust · Michael Paul Gonzalez · ss Tales from the Crust ed. Max Booth, III & David James Keaton, Perpetual Motion Machine Publishing, 2019 85 · Redless · Annie Neugebauer · ss The Binge-Watching Cure II ed. Bill Adler & Sarah Doebereiner, Claren Books, 2019 89 · A Touch of Madness · Tim Waggoner · nv The Pulp Horror Book of Phobias ed. M. J. Sydney, Lycan Valley Press, 2019 109 · Paradisum Voluptatis · Joanna Koch · ss Honey & Sulphur ed. Joseph Bouthiette, Jr., Carrion Blue 555, 2019 129 · Radix Malorum · Sean Patrick Hazlett · ss Vastarien Fall 2019 139 · Lackers · Leo X. Robertson · ss The New Flesh ed. Sam Richard & Brendan Vidito, Weirdpunk Books, 2019 151 · Why Do Birds Suddenly Appear? · Rajiv Moté · ss Honey & Sulphur ed. Joseph Bouthiette, Jr., Carrion Blue 555, 2019 165 · Darjeeling · Syon Das · ss self-published, September 16 2019 183 · MRSA Me · Alicia Hilton · ss Rigor Morbid: Lest Ye Become ed. Sandra Ruttan, Speakeasy, 2019 189 · What Did You Do to the Children? · David L. Tamarin · ss Dig Two Graves: Volume II, Death's Head Press, 2019 203 · Have a Heart · Matthew V. Brockmeyer · ss Under Rotting Sky by Matthew V. Brockmeyer, Black Thunder Press, 2019 215 · Swings and Suspensions · D. A. Xiaolin Spires · ss Gorgon: Stories of Emergence ed. Sarah Read, Pantheon Magazine, 2019 221 · Kirti · Alessandro Manzetti · ss Space and Time #135, Winter 2019 227 · The Tea and Sugar Train · Deborah Sheldon · ss Dimension6 #18, 2019 245 · Screams for Stargirl · Ben Pienaar · nv Dark Moon Digest #35, April 2019 267 · Queer Weather · Scáth Beorh · ss Barnes & Noble, December 2019

Year’s Best Hardcore Horror: Volume 6: Masquerade ed. Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax (Red Room Press, May 18, 2021, 978-1-936964-15-4, $14.95, 293pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 11 · Welcome to the Masquerade · Randy Chandler & Cheryl Mullenax · in 15 · The Nipples in Dad’s Tool Box · Ronald Kelly · nv The Essential Sick Stuff by Ronald Kelly, Silver Shamrock Publishing, 2020 39 · Going Green · Christine Morgan · nv Yet More Tales of Body Enhancements Gone Bad! ed. Weldon Burge, Smart Rhino Publications, 2017 59 · Whiskey to the Wound · Rachel Nussbaum · ss Brewtality ed. K. Trap Jones, The Evil Cookie Publishing, 2020 71 · thestrangethingwebecome · Eric LaRocca · ss 34 Orchard #1, Spring 2020 89 · Hey, Valentine · Amanda Cecelia Lang · ss Tales from the Moonlit Path February 14 2021 previously available as an audio download from Acast, February 10, 2020. 93 · In Subspace, No One Can Hear You Scream · Hailey Piper · ss Mycelia December 2020 103 · The Pogonip Fog · Sean Patrick Hazlett · ss Galaxy’s Edge #42, January 2020 119 · Gunfire and Brimstone · Alicia Hilton · ss Vastarien Fall 2020 137 · The Happiest Man in the World · Matthew Brockmeyer · ss Nest of Salt by Matthew V. Brockmeyer, Black Thunder Press, 2020 153 · Synaesthete · Melanie Harding-Shaw · ss Black Dogs, Black Tales ed. Tabatha Wood, Things in the Well, 2020 161 · Full Moon Shindig · Patrick C. Harrison, III · nv Visceral: Collected Flesh by Patrick C. Harrison, III & Christine Morgan, Death's Head Press, 2020 183 · The Drinking-Horn · Christine Morgan · ss Brewtality ed. K. Trap Jones, The Evil Cookie Publishing, 2020 195 · Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead · Octavia Cade · ss The Dark #59, April 2020 207 · All the Stars in Her Eyes · Deborah Sheldon · nv Andromeda Spaceways Magazine #80, September 2020 229 · The Village · Matias F. Travieso-Diaz · ss The Fantasy Library February 2020 247 · The Smell of Night in the Basement · Wendy N. Wagner · ss previously available as an audio download from PseudoPod, November 2020. 263 · The Saint · Alessandro Manzetti · ss The Radioactive Bride by Alessandro Manzetti, Necro Publications, 2020 273 · Her Wounded Eyes · Robert Guffey · ss New Reader Magazine June 2020

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)