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The Penguin Book of British Comic Writing ed. Patricia Craig (BCA, 1992, 0-670-83658-3, 460pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Penguin 1992) anthology of humorous writing. ix · Introduction · Patricia Craig · in 1992 1 · Then and Now · Max Beerbohm · hu (r) 6 · “Noblesse Oblige” · Robert Lynd · hu (r) 11 · Mrs Grundy at the Parkers’ · E. M. Forster · hu (r) 16 · Thrillers · P. G. Wodehouse · ar Louder and Funnier by P. G. Wodehouse, Faber and Faber, 1932 revised from “A School for Movie Villains” (Vanity Fair, October 2, 1915, as by Pelham Grenville) and “About These Mystery Stories” (Saturday Evening Post, May 26, 1929). 28 · Trying to Find the Strand · James Stephens · hu (r) 31 · Men’s Clothes · Harold Nicolson · ar Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine November 1929 38 · High Life in Victorian Fiction · Hugh Kingsmill · hu (r) 43 · Topsy and the Fresh Mind · A. P. Herbert · hu (r) 47 · Femina’s Supplement · E. M. Delafield · hu (r) 56 · Meet Irene · D. B. Wyndham Lewis · hu (r) 60 · The Young Rebecca · Rebecca West · ex (r) 66 · Trousers Over Africa · “Beachcomber” · hu (r) 75 · Through Darkest Pondelayo · Serena Livingstone-Stanley · ex (r) 85 · Toujours Lamour · C. A. Lejeune · hu (r) 89 · On Not Rising to the Occasion · Elizabeth Bowen · hu (r) 94 · Faits Divers · V. S. Pritchett · hu (r) 101 · The Memoirs of Mipsie · Mary Dunn · ex (r) 113 · Boys’ Weeklies · George Orwell · hu (r) 140 · Where Engels Fears to Tread · Cyril Connolly · hu (r) 157 · The Thirties · Malcolm Muggeridge · ex (r) 174 · Awake My Soul! It Is a Lord · Evelyn Waugh · hu (r) 178 · The Gentle Art of Being Interviewed · Evelyn Waugh · ar Nash’s Annual Winter 1948/1949 184 · Laughter in the Kitchen · Lord Kinross · hu (r) 188 · A Hoax on Mr. Hulton · Graham Greene · ar The Spectator August 25 1939 192 · Bestseller · Claud Cockburn · ex (r) 206 · Diary · A. J. P. Taylor · hu (r) 221 · Under the Sugar Loaf · Louis MacNeice · hu (r) 227 · Death and Mrs Dale · Peter Fleming · hu (r) 231 · People Who Say Goodbye · P. Y. Betts · ex (r) 235 · Christmas Reviews of Books for Girls · Arthur Marshall · hu (r) 251 · Bertie’s Booster · James Cameron · hu (r) 254 · The Trade in Dublin · Flann O’Brien · hu (r) 263 · Case History · Lawrence Durrell · hu (r) 268 · Good Lord, Jeeves · Julian MacLaren-Ross · hu (r) 272 · A Boy’s Best Bodyguard · Patrick Campbell · hu (r) 280 · Doing the Cobblers’ Trot · Patrick Campbell · hu (r) 283 · How to Begin a Story · Dylan Thomas · hu (r) 287 · A Rose by Any Other Name · Anthony Carson · ex (r) 297 · Sickert at St. Peter’s · Denton Welch · hu (r) 304 · Cheap Clothes for Fat Old Women · Marghanita Laski · hu (r) 307 · A Fresh Eye · Honor Tracy · hu (r) 320 · Age-old Ceremony at Mumbles · Kingsley Amis · hu (r) 325 · Coastal Lights · Alan Ross · ex (r) 331 · Clinging to the Wreckage · John Mortimer · ex (r) 339 · My Family and Other Animals · Gerald Durrell · ex (r) 346 · Prescriptions of a Pox Doctor’s Clerk · Robert Robinson · ex (r) 355 · Wrong Notes · Bernard Levin · hu (r) 359 · Henry Miller · Brigid Brophy · hu (r) 367 · Miz Peggy · Penelope Gilliatt · hu (r) 372 · Lost Cause · Alice Thomas Ellis · hu (r) 374 · At Bay in Gear Street · Michael Frayn · ex (r) 380 · A Word in Time · Philip Howard · ex (r) 386 · Ten Days That Shook Me · Alan Bennett · hu (r) 396 · Bohemia · Alan Coren · hu (r) 403 · Thanks for the Memory · Alan Coren · hu (r) 409 · Mothers and Daughters · Auberon Waugh · hu (r) 413 · A Blizzard of Tiny Kissess · Clive James · hu (r) 422 · The Female Eunuch · Germaine Greer · ex (r) 433 · A High-class Tipple, Make No Mistake · Miles Kington · hu (r) 436 · The Life and Times of the Famous One · Miles Kington · hu (r) 439 · Journeys to the Underworld · Fiona Pitt-Kethley · ex (r)

Domestic Stories by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax".

Romantic Tales by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

The Unkind Word and Other Stories Vol. I by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

The Unkind Word and Other Stories Vol. II by Mrs. Craik--- see under The Author of "John Halifax, Gentleman".

Winifred’s Wooing and Other Tales by Georgiana M. Craik (Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1881, 288pp, pb, co)     Reissue (Tauchnitz 1868) collection. Vol. 943 in the “Collection of British Authors”. Details supplied by Endre Zsoldos. 5 · Winifred’s Wooing · Georgiana M. Craik · n. (r) 229 · A Tale of Florence · Georgiana M. Craik · nv (r) 262 · Poor Christine · Georgiana M. Craik · ss Once a Week September 1 1866

The Best American Mystery Stories 2012 ed. Robert Crais (Mariner Books, 2012, 0547553986, $14.95, 396pp, tp, an) ix · Foreword · Otto Penzler · fw xii · Introducton · Robert Crais · in 1 · The Hit · Tom Andes · nv Xavier Review v31 #1, 2011 22 · The Bridge Partner · Peter S. Beagle · nv Sleight of Hand by Peter S. Beagle, Tachyon, 2011 44 · Filament · K. L. Cook · ss One Story #147, March 21 2011 58 · The Funeral Bill · Jason DeYoung · ss New Orleans Review v37 #1, 2011 76 · Fifty Minutes · Joe Donnelly & Harry Shannon · ss Slake: Los Angeles 2: Crossing Over ed. Laurie Ochoa & Joseph Donnelly, Slake Media LLC, 2011 90 · Man on the Run · Kathleen Ford · ss New England Review v31 #4, 2010 104 · The Other Place · Mary Gaitskill · ss The New Yorker February 14/February 21 2011 118 · Safety · Jesse Goolsby · ss Greensboro Review December 2011 131 · Trafficking · Katherine L. Hester · ss storySouth Spring 2011 146 · Soul Anatomy · Lou Manfredo · ss New Jersey Noir ed. Joyce Carol Oates, Akashic Books, 2011 165 · The Good Samaritan · Thomas McGuane · ss The New Yorker April 25 2011 182 · Looking for Service · Nathan Oates · ss The Antioch Review Spring 2011 200 · Dog on a Cow · Gina Paoli · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 2011 216 · Vic Primeval [Robbie Brownlaw] · T. Jefferson Parker · ss San Diego Noir ed. Maryelizabeth Hart, Akashic Books, 2011 233 · Hard Truths · Thomas J. Rice · nv The New Orphic Review v14 #1, 2011 270 · Local Knowledge · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 2011 295 · Icarus · Lones Seiber · ss Indiana Review Summer 2011 312 · Trafalgar [Inspector Ian Rutledge] · Charles Todd (ghost written by Caroline Todd) · nv The Mammoth Book of Historical Crime Fiction ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson, 2011 348 · Half-Lives [Charlie Raines] · Tim L. Williams · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2011 375 · Returning the River · Daniel Woodrell · ss The Outlaw Album by Daniel Woodrell, Little, Brown, 2011 381 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 395 · Other Distinguished Mystery Stories of 2011 · [uncredited] · bi

Black Spirits and White: A Book of Ghost Stories by Ralph Adams Cram (Stone & Kimball, 1895, $1.00, 151pp, hc, co) 3 · No. 252 Rue M. le Prince · Ralph Adams Cram · nv 33 · In Kropfsberg Keep · Ralph Adams Cram · ss 55 · The White Villa · Ralph Adams Cram · nv 83 · Sister Maddelena · Ralph Adams Cram · nv 115 · Notre Dame des Eaux · Ralph Adams Cram · ss 133 · The Dead Valley · Ralph Adams Cram · ss 151 · Postscript · Ralph Adams Cram · aw

A Night in Moonbeam County by Alexander Cramer (Macmillan Scribners, April 1994, 0-684-19704-9, $15.95, 197pp, hc, oc, cover by Gregory Manchess)     Young-adult collection of ten connected ghost stories told by a group of hobos to two teenage boys over a campfire, plus a framing story. 1 · Arrival · Alexander Cramer · ss 9 · The Boy Who Stole the Moon · Alexander Cramer · ss 25 · The Wheels of the World · Alexander Cramer · ss 47 · Emily and the Soul Painter · Alexander Cramer · ss 63 · The Land of the Might-Have-Been · Alexander Cramer · ss 74 · Call Me Scratch · Alexander Cramer · ss 93 · The Sorceress’s Apprentice · Alexander Cramer · ss 117 · Caleb Johnston · Alexander Cramer · ss 126 · Who’s Gonna Marry Sally Ann? · Alexander Cramer · ss 142 · The Deserter · Alexander Cramer · ss 166 · Another Shore · Alexander Cramer · ss 189 · Howsoever Far They’ve Traveled · Alexander Cramer · ss

Sailing Into Danger: 15 Tales of Adventure ed. Carl Cramer & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2013, 978-1-935573-58-6, $22.95, 360pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. · A Game of Life and Death [Capt. Nichols] · Lincoln Colcord · ss The American Magazine February 1909 · Thomas Jefferson Brown · James Oliver Curwood · ss Munsey’s Magazine July 1911 · Yorke the Adventurer · Louis Becke · ss Yorke the Adventurer, and Other Stories by Louis Becke, Unwin, 1901 · I Escaped from Pirates · Philip Ashton · ss 1841 · The Adventures and Hair Breath Escapes of Capt. Lemont, Native of Bath · Everett L. Getchell · ss 1909 · Dalton of the “Osiris” · [uncredited] · ss McClure’s Magazine August 1911 · The Ice Dogs · James B. Connolly · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1907 · The Grain Ship · Morgan Robertson · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine March 1909 · The Right Whale’s Flukes · Ben Ames Williams · ss The Bellman #624, June 29 1918 · Out of Exile · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review November 1919 · From the Darkness and the Depths · Morgan Robertson · nv New Story Magazine January 1913 · Back There in the Grass · Gouverneur Morris · ss Collier’s December 16 1911 · Once Aboard the Lugger · Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch · ss Tauchnitz Magazine March 1892, as by Q · The House of Mapuhi · Jack London · nv McClure’s Magazine January 1909 · The Dealings of Captain Sharkey [Captain John Sharkey] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1897, as “The Two Barques”

The Architecture of Fear ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz (Arbor House, October 1987, 0-87795-921-8, $18.95, 304pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology with 14 horror stories by Gene Wolfe, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant, and others. xi · Introduction · Peter D. Pautz · in 1 · In the House of Gingerbread · Gene Wolfe · ss 20 · Where the Heart Is · Ramsey Campbell · ss 30 · Ellen, in Her Time · Charles L. Grant · ss 41 · Nesting Instinct · Scott Baker · nv 84 · Endless Night · Karl Edward Wagner · ss 94 · Trust Me · Joseph Lyons · ss 97 · The Fetch · Robert Aickman · nv New Tales of Terror ed. Hugh Lamb, Magnum, 1980 144 · Visitors · Jack M. Dann · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1987 not the same as the story of the same name in the December 1977 issue of Fantastic Stories. 158 · Gentlemen · John M. Skipp & Craig Spector · nv 188 · Down in the Darkness · Dean R. Koontz · nv The Horror Show Summer 1986 214 · Haunted · Joyce Carol Oates · nv 237 · In the Memory Room · Michael Bishop · ss 249 · Tales from the Original Gothic · John M. Ford · ss 269 · The House That Knew No Hate · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · nv 299 · Afterword: Houses of the Mind · Kathryn Cramer · aw 303 · A Guide to Significant Works of Architectural Horror · [uncredited] · bi

The Ascent of Wonder ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell--- see under David G. Hartwell.

Christmas Ghosts ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell (Arbor House, September 1987, 0-87795-873-4, $17.95, 284pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 17 “classic ghost stories of Christmas.” xiii · The Spirit of Christmas · David G. Hartwell · in 1 · Their Dear Little Ghost · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Outlook October 29 1898 8 · The Curse of the Catafalques · F. Anstey · nv The Cornhill Magazine August 1882, uncredited. 43 · The Story of the Goblins Who Stole a Sexton · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837 55 · Christmas Night · Elizabeth Walter · nv Dead Woman by Elizabeth Walter, Collins and Harvill Press, 1975 76 · A New Christmas Carol [Christmas Carol] · Arthur Machen · vi The (London) Evening News December 28 1920, as “Scrooge: 1920” 80 · A Christmas Game · A. N. L. Munby · ss The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories by Alan Noel Latimer Munby, Dennis Dobson, 1949 90 · The Great Staircase at Landover Hall · Frank R. Stockton · ss Harper’s Weekly December 17 1898 105 · The Water Ghost of Harrowby Hall · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly June 27 1891 115 · Christmas Meeting · Rosemary Timperley · vi Truth 1952 119 · The Ghost · William D. O’Connor · na Putnam’s Monthly January 1856 167 · Christmas Reunion · Sir Andrew Caldecott · ss Not Exactly Ghosts by Andrew Caldecott, Edward Arnold, 1946 179 · The Ghosts at Grantley · Leonard Kip · nv The Argus Christmas 1875 215 · The Christmas Banquet · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1843 235 · The Crown Derby Plate · Marjorie Bowen · ss Grace Latouche and the Warringtons by Marjorie Bowen, Selwyn & Blount, 1931 249 · A Strange Christmas Game · Charlotte Riddell · ss The Broadway January 1868 261 · Calling Card · Ramsey Campbell · ss Dark Companions by Ramsey Campbell, Macmillan, 1982 268 · A Christmas Tree · Charles Dickens · nv Household Words #39, December 21 1850, uncredited.

The Hard SF Renaissance ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell--- see under David G. Hartwell.

Hieroglyph: Stories & Visions for a Better Future ed. Kathryn Cramer & Ed Finn--- see under Ed Finn.

The Space Opera Renaissance ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell--- see under David G. Hartwell.

Spirits of Christmas ed. Kathryn Cramer & David G. Hartwell (Wynwood, October 1989, 0-922066-16-7, $18.95, 284pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 20 Christmas ghost stories, seven of them originals. 19 · The Prescription · Marjorie Bowen · ss The London Magazine January 1929 34 · The Mystery of My Grandmother’s Hair Sofa · John Kendrick Bangs · ss Harper’s Weekly December 14 1895 41 · How the Bishop Sailed to Inniskeen · Gene Wolfe · ss 48 · Old Applejoy’s Ghost · Frank R. Stockton · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly December 1897 61 · Green Holly · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener December 21 1944 70 · Floodlights · Martha Soukup · ss 79 · The Real and the Counterfeit · Mrs. Alfred Baldwin · ss The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, Dent, 1895 93 · Snow Ghosts · Richard A. Lupoff · ss 103 · Unawares · Hildegarde Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine December 1908 108 · A Midwinter’s Tale · Michael Swanwick · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine December 1988 122 · The Haunted Man · Charles Dickens · na Bradbury & Evans, December 19 1848 196 · The Haunted Man: A Christmas Story by Ch-r-s D-c-k-n-s · Bret Harte · ss Sensation Novels: Condensed by Bret Harte, Holten, 1871 203 · The Confessions of Ebenezer Scrooge · James Morrow · ss 210 · O Come Little Children… · Chet Williamson · ss 219 · But Do You Recall…? · Greg Cox · ss 224 · A Handful of Silver · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Travellers by Night ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1967 231 · A Masquerade of Voices · Susan Palwick · ss Amazing Stories November 1988 242 · The Breakdown · Marjorie Bowen · ss Kecksies and Other Twilight Tales by Marjorie Bowen, Arkham House, 1976 250 · The Peculiar Demesne · Russell Kirk · nv Dark Forces ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980 274 · Icicle Music · Michael Bishop · ss