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Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear ed. Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey--- see under Edwina Harvey.

Next ed. Simon Petrie & Robert Porteous--- see under Robert Porteous.

Use Only As Directed ed. Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey (Peggy Bright Books, June 2014, 978-0-9806998-7-6, A$24.95, 216pp, tp, oa, cover by Lewis P. Morley)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · Simon Petrie & Edwina Harvey · in · Dellinger · Charlotte Nash · ss · The Blue Djinn’s Wish · Leife Shallcross · ss · The Kind Neighbours of Hell · Alex Isle · ss · Mister Lucky · Ian Nichols · ss · Home Sick · M. Darusha Wehm · ss · Always Falling Up · Grant Stone · ss · Yard · Claire McKenna · ss · Never More · Dave Freer · ss · Fetch Me Down My Gun · Lyn McConchie · ss · Uncle Darwin’s Bazooka · Douglas A. Van Belle · ss · The Climbing Tree · Michelle Goldsmith · ss · Large Friendly Letters · Stephen Dedman · ss · Future Perfect · Janeen Webb · ss · The Eighth Day · Dirk Flinthart · ss

The Exploits of Beau Quicksilver by Florence M. Pettee (Altus Press, 2018, 978-1-61827-377-2, $14.95, 112pp, tp, co)     Collection. Volume 40 in “The Argosy Library”. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 1 · A Tooth for a Tooth [Beau Quicksilver] · Florence M. Pettee · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly February 24 1923 17 · An Eye for an Eye [Beau Quicksilver] · Florence M. Pettee · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly March 3 1923 32 · The Claws of the Weasel [Beau Quicksilver] · Florence M. Pettee · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly March 10 1923 48 · The Hand of the Hyena [Beau Quicksilver] · Florence M. Pettee · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly March 17 1923 62 · The Green Rajah [Beau Quicksilver] · Florence M. Pettee · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly March 24 1923 76 · Blistering Tongues [Beau Quicksilver] · Florence M. Pettee · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly March 31 1923 93 · Murder Incognito [Beau Quicksilver] · Florence M. Pettee · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly April 7 1923

Limbus, Inc.: Book I ed. Anne C. Petty (JournalStone, November 2013, 978-1-936564-52-1, $17.95, 269pp, tp, oa, cover by Rob Grom)     Original shared-world anthology of five stories by Jonathan Maberry, Joseph Nassise, Benjamin Kane Ethridge, Anne C. Petty, and Brett J. Talley (who also provides a prologue and epilogue). 19 · The Slaughter Man · Benjamin Kane Ethridge · na 75 · The Sacrifice · Brett J. Talley · na 115 · One Job Too Many · Joseph Nassise · na 157 · We Employ · Anne C. Petty · na 197 · Strip Search · Jonathan Maberry · na 267 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

At the Track ed. Richard Peyton (Bonanza, 1987, 0-517-64281-6, 366pp, hc, an)     Reprint (Souvenir Press 1986 as Deadly Odds) anthology of horse racing stories.

Deadly Odds Crime and Mystery Stories of the Turf ed. Richard Peyton (Souvenir Press, October 16, 1986, 0-285-62771-6, 366pp, hc, an)     Also available in pb (Pan 1987). 9 · Introduction · Richard Peyton · in 11 · The Day of the Losers · Dick Francis · ss Horse and Hound February 1977 25 · The Field Against the Favourite · Angus Reach · nv 1849 65 · Silver Blaze [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1892, as “The Adventure of Silver Blaze” 93 · The Great Derby Swindle · Guy Boothby · nv (r) 119 · A Mysterious Stable [Valentine Martyn] · Nat Gould · nv The Novel Magazine July 1919 133 · The Iron Prune · Barclay Northcote · nv All-Story Weekly March 17 1917 155 · The Downfall of Mulligan’s · Banjo Paterson · ss (r) 161 · The Broken Link Handicap · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Civil and Military Gazette April 6 1887 167 · A Horse of the Same Colour [Educated Evans] · Edgar Wallace · ss More Educated Evans by Edgar Wallace, Webster's Publications, 1926 181 · The Snatching of Bookie Bob · Damon Runyon · ss Collier’s September 26 1931 195 · The Race-Gang Racket [Marcus Thane] · Frank Johnston · ss The Turf Crook by Frank Johnston, Long, 1937 207 · The Ascot Tragedy [Reginald Fortune] · H. C. Bailey · nv People’s May 1 1923 231 · Horse of Death · Ralph Straus · ss The Bystander November 29 1912 241 · Horseshoes for Luck [Inspector Field] · Anthony Gilbert · ss Detection Medley ed. John Rhode, Hutchinson, 1939 251 · The Long Shot [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss The Blue Book Magazine September 1939 271 · Jorkens Consults a Prophet [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Jorkens Has a Large Whiskey by Lord Dunsany, Putnam UK, 1940 277 · The Owners’ Handicap [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News September 11 1932, as “Won by a Neck” 289 · The Racing Robot · Robert Bloch · nv (r) 313 · The Grand National Case [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · nv 1956 337 · A Derby Horse [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss The Evening Standard May 28 1952 343 · A Day with the Toffs · Geoff O’Hara · ss The Sporting Life 351 · Outside Chance · John Welcome · ss Argosy (UK) November 1952 363 · Breakneck · Jon L. Breen · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1973

The Ghost Now Standing on Platform One: Phantoms of the Railways in Fact and Fiction ed. Richard Peyton (Souvenir Press, October 1990, 0-285-62991-3, £14.95, 322pp, hc, an, cover by Kim Palmer)     Anthology of pieces about phantoms of the railway in fact and fiction. retitled: Journey Into Fear, and Other Great Stories of Horror on the Railways. New York: Wings Books, 1991. 13 · Introduction · Richard Peyton · in 17 · The Tay Bridge Ghost Train · Richard Peyton · ms 19 · Journey Into Fear · Arnold Ridley · ss (r) 24 · The President’s Funeral Ride · Richard Peyton · ms 26 · The Ghost Train · Rod Serling; adapted by Walter B. Gibson · sa Rod Serling’s Twilight Zone Revisited by Rod Serling, Grosset & Dunlap, 1964 51 · ’The White Train’ · Richard Peyton · ms 52 · .007 · Rudyard Kipling · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1897 67 · The Black Train of Lochalsh · Richard Peyton · ms 68 · The Haunted Curve · Elliott O’Donnell · ss (r) 72 · The Phantom Locomotive of Stevens Point · Richard Peyton · ms 73 · Pacific 421 · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales September 1944 85 · The Ghost on Platform Two · Richard Peyton · ms 87 · Midnight Express · Alfred Noyes · ss This Week November 3 1935 92 · The Lyonshall Mystery · Richard Peyton · ms 93 · The Waiting Room · Robert Aickman · ss The Sketch November 9 1956 104 · The Footsteps of Doom · Richard Peyton · ms 105 · The Kill · Peter Fleming · ss Creeps by Night ed. Dashiell Hammett, John Day, 1931 116 · The Spectre of Shake City · Richard Peyton · ms 117 · The Town Where No One Got Off · Ray Bradbury · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1958 125 · The Woman in the Red Scarf · Richard Peyton · ms 126 · The Wrong Station · A. M. Burrage · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #364, April 22 1916 135 · The Night Flyer of Talylln · Richard Peyton · ms 137 · Lost in the Fog · John D. Beresford · ss Nineteen Impressions by J. D. Beresford, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918 143 · The Bedraggled Soldier · Richard Peyton · ms 144 · Branch Line to Benceston · Sir Andrew Caldecott · ss Not Exactly Ghosts by Andrew Caldecott, Edward Arnold, 1946 159 · Joe Baldwin’s Eerie Lamp · Richard Peyton · ms 160 · The Night Train to Lost Valley · Stephen Grendon · ss Weird Tales January 1948 174 · The Ghost of the Subway · Richard Peyton · ms 175 · Take the Z-Train · Allison V. Harding · ss Weird Tales March 1950 183 · Underground Phantoms · Richard Peyton · ms 184 · Confidence Trick · John Wyndham · ss Fantastic July/August 1953 203 · The Barkston Spectre · Richard Peyton · ms 205 · The Signal-Man · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 217 · The Navvy in the Tunnel · Richard Peyton · ms 218 · The Garside Fell Disaster · L. T. C. Rolt · ss Sleep No More by L. T. C. Rolt, Constable, 1948 226 · The Phantom Driver of Dunster · Richard Peyton · ms 227 · Locomotive · Richard Hughes · ss Colour December 1921 231 · The Ghost of ’Hayling Billy’ · Richard Peyton · ms 232 · Mourning Train · John Newton Chance · ss The (London) Evening News May 27 1963 237 · ’Railroad Bill’ · Richard Peyton · ms 238 · That Hell-Bound Train · Robert Bloch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1958 255 · Voices in the Fog · Richard Peyton · ms 257 · A Journey by Train · Henry L. Lawrence · ss Tales of Fear, Philip Allan, 1935 264 · The Woman in Black · Richard Peyton · ms 265 · The Astral Lady · Eden Phillpotts · ss The London Magazine April 1912 272 · Beware: Ghosts Crossing · Richard Peyton · ms 274 · Miss Slumbubble—and Claustrophobia · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 288 · The Phantom on the ’Flying Yankee’ · Richard Peyton · ms 289 · A Short Trip Home · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post December 17 1927 309 · The Dead Man of Glendive · Richard Peyton · ms 310 · Lonely Train a’ Comin’ · William F. Nolan · ss Gallery October 1981, as “The Train” 322 · The Shortest Railway Ghost Story in the World · Richard Peyton · vi

Sinister Gambits ed. Richard Peyton (Souvenir Press, 1991, 0-285-63052-0, £14.99, 318pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 18 chess stories of murder and mystery. 7 · Introduction · Richard Peyton · in · I: Grandplayer’s Nightmares 17 · The Dreams of Albert Moreland · Fritz Leiber · nv Acolyte Spring 1945 33 · The Three Sailors’ Gambit · Lord Dunsany · ss The Smart Set August 1916 41 · The Devil That Troubled the Chessboard · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly January 11 1936 50 · Pawn to King’s Four · Stephen Leacock · ss Happy Stories Just to Laugh At by Stephen Leacock, Dodd, Mead, 1943 58 · The Royal Game · Stefan Zweig · nv Woman’s Home Companion March 1944 102 · End-Game · J. G. Ballard · nv New Worlds Science Fiction #131, June 1963 · II: Bizarre Chessmen 124 · The Queen of the Red Chessmen · Lucretia P. Hale · nv The Atlantic Monthly February 1858, uncredited. 151 · A Game of Chess · Robert Barr · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1900 163 · A Set of Chessmen · Richard Marsh · ss The Cornhill Magazine April 1890, uncredited. 180 · The Haunted Chessmen · E. R. Punshon · ss The Novel Magazine March 1916 193 · Bishop’s Gambit · August Derleth · ss Avon Fantasy Reader 3 ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon Book Co., 1947, as by Stephen Grendon 205 · The Immortal Game · Poul Anderson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1954 · III: Blood Chess 222 · A Chess Problem [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch February 13 1924 234 · Checkmate · Alfred Noyes · ss The Hidden Player by Alfred Noyes, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924 248 · Professor Pownall’s Oversight · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Royal Magazine March 1928, as “The Unseen Player” 260 · The Cat from Siam · Fredric Brown · nv Popular Detective September 1949 291 · Fool’s Mate · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #96, November 1951 306 · A Better Chess-Player · Kenneth Gavrell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1989

Novacon 18 Programme Book ed. Rog Peyton (Birmingham Science Fiction Group, November 1988, no ISBN, 46pp, ph, nf)     Programme book for Novacon 18, featuring Garry Kilworth as Guest of Honour. Only partial contents listed. 9 · Garry Kilworth: The Ideas Man · Rob Holdstock · ar [Ref. Garry Kilworth] 17 · Garry Kilworth—A Bibliography · Rog Peyton · bi [Ref. Garry Kilworth]

Playground of Lost Toys ed. Ursula Pflug & Colleen Anderson--- see under Colleen Anderson.

Fantasy: Shapes of Things Unknown ed. John Pfordresher, Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage & Raymond J. Rodrigues--- see under Edmund J. Farrell.

Science Fact/Fiction ed. John Pfordresher, Edmund J. Farrell, Thomas E. Gage & Raymond J. Rodrigues--- see under Edmund J. Farrell.

The Oath of Allegiance and Other Stories by Elizabeth Phelps (Houghton Mifflin, 1909, 373pp, hc, co) 1 · The Oath of Allegiance · Elizabeth Phelps · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1894 32 · Covered Embers · Elizabeth Phelps · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1905 70 · The Autobiography of Aureola · Elizabeth Phelps · ss The Century Magazine May 1904 113 · A Chariot of Fire · Elizabeth Phelps · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine April 1905 142 · His Soul to Keep · Elizabeth Phelps · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1908 177 · A Sacrament · Elizabeth Phelps · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine December 1905 205 · “Tammyshanty” · Elizabeth Phelps · ss The London Magazine March 1909 239 · Unemployed · Elizabeth Phelps · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine November 1906 278 · The Sacred Fire · Elizabeth Phelps · ss (r) 319 · Christophorus · Elizabeth Phelps · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine April 1909 353 · The Chief Operator · Elizabeth Phelps · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine July 1909

Christmas Fairy Tales ed. Neil Philip (Little, Brown UK, September 1996, 0-316-87836-7, £15.99, 140pp, hc, an, cover by Isabelle Brent)     Juvenile collection of 13 stories. Illustrated by Isabelle Brent. 13 · Introduction · Neil Philip · in 17 · Book of Fairy Tales · Hans Christian Andersen; adapted by Neil Philip · ss (r) 28 · Christmas Cuckoo · Frances Browne · ss (r) 47 · The Nutcracker · E. T. A. Hoffman; adapted by Neil Philip · ss (r) 58 · Father Christmas and the Carpenter · Alf Prøysen · ex from Mrs Pepperpot Again (r) 65 · Why the Sea Is Salt · translated by George Webbe Dasent · ss (r); a Norwegian Folktale. 71 · The Poor Count’s Christmas · Frank Stockton · ss St. Nicholas December 1881 (+1) 89 · Babushka and the Three Wise Men · [uncredited] · vi 1962; a Russian Legend. retold by Norah Montgomerie in To Read and to Tell. 92 · The Fir Tree · Hans Christian Andersen; adapted by Neil Philip · ss (r) 103 · Schnitzle, Schnotzle, and Schnootzle · Ruth Sawyer · ex from The Long Christmas, 1941 110 · The Best That Life Has to Give · Howard Pyle · ss (r) 123 · The Story of a Cat · Mary de Morgan · ss (r) 135 · The Last Dream of the Old Oak Tree · Hans Christian Andersen; adapted by Neil Philip · ss (r)

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Four ed. Christopher Philippo (Valancourt Books, December 2020, 978-1-948405-81-2, $16.99, 232pp, tp, an)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 7 · Introduction · Christopher Philippo · in 21 · The Green Huntsman · Joseph Holt Ingraham · ss The Ladies’ Companion June 1841 40 · Burt Pringle and the “Bellesnickle” · Bill Bramble · ss Syracuse Republican November 11 1853 46 · Worse Than a Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss Grand Rapids Enquirer December 1856 57 · The Christmas Ghost · Lucy A. Randall · ss Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper December 26 1877 67 · The Frozen Husband · Frank Ibberson Jervis · ss Quad City Times December 26 1869 75 · A Sworn Statement · Emma Frances Dawson · ss The Wasp Christmas 1881 86 · The Snow Flower of the Sierras · Frederick H. Adams ,[?], uncredited · ss Cooperstown Courier December 26 1884 93 · The Devil’s Christmas · Julian Hawthorne · ss Norfolk Virginian Christmas 1885 105 · Harlakenden’s Christmas · Thomas Wentworth Higginson · pm 1887 109 · The Ghostly Christmas Gift · F. H. Brunell · ss Cleveland Plain Dealer December 25 1887 119 · The Blizzard · Luke Sharp · ss Detroit Free Press December 9 1888 127 · Warned by the Wire · Louis Glass · ss San Francisco Call December 25 1895 132 · Poor Jack · H. C. Dodge · pm 1892 134 · The Christmas Wolves · Pierre-Bartélemy Gheusi; translated by H. Switchell · ss The International December 1897 translated from the French (“Le Loups de Noel”, Figaro Illustre, January 1897). 143 · The Werwolves · Henry Beaugrand · ss The Century Magazine October 1898 157 · The Haunted Oak · Paul Laurence Dunbar · pm The Century Magazine December 1900 160 · The Anarchist’s Christmas · [uncredited] · pm Minneapolis Journal 1901 162 · Camel Bells · Hezekiah Butterworth · nv St. Louis Globe-Democrat December 20 1903 183 · The Ravings · [uncredited] · pm Arctic Eagle December 25 1903 186 · Out of the Depths · Robert W. Chambers · ss Collier’s Weekly December 3 1904 198 · Old Nick and Saint Nick · Wallace Irwin · pm Collier’s December 15 1906, as “Saint Nick and Old Nick” 201 · The Cremation of Sam McGee · Robert W. Service · pm Songs of a Sourdough by Robert W. Service, Briggs, 1907 206 · Xmas · Amorel Sterne · pm New York Age December 24 1908 209 · A Cubist Christmas · Kate Masterson · pm Life December 25 1913 211 · Desuetude: A Ghost Story · [uncredited] · ss El Paso Herald February 1914 213 · The Christmas Ghost · Anna Alice Chapin · ss The Argosy December 1914 222 · Merry Christmas · Stephen Leacock · ss Hearst’s Magazine December 1917

A Colombo Night and Others by Austin Philips (Mills & Boon, 1926, 286pp, hc, co)     Collection, some stories criminous. · The Acid Test · Austin Philips · ss The Strand Magazine March 1924 · A Colombo Night · Austin Philips · ss The Strand Magazine June 1920 · Courage · Austin Philips · ss (r) · The Dark Shadow · Austin Philips · ss · The Duel · Austin Philips · ss (r) · The Girl in the Hop Garden · Austin Philips · ss (r) · The Harder Way · Austin Philips · ss (r) · The Last Shot · Austin Philips · ss The Strand Magazine January 1925 · The Lighthouse · Austin Philips · ss The Strand Magazine July 1917 · Mate · Austin Philips · ss (r) · The Net · Austin Philips · ss (r) · The Ordeal of Mr. Justice Aylesbeare · Austin Philips · ss The Strand Magazine November 1924 · Reparation · Austin Philips · ss The Windsor Magazine April 1919 · The Rescue · Austin Philips · ss The Sketch May 19 1920 · The Short Cut · Austin Philips · ss The Strand Magazine November 1925 · A Storm in a Soul · Austin Philips · ss (r) · The Woman Who Found What She Had Lost! · Austin Philips · ss The Strand Magazine May 1926

Monsieur Zenith the Albino by George Norman Philips--- see under Anthony Skene.

The Battles of Jericho by Judson Philips--- see under Hugh Pentecost.

Cream of the Crime ed. Judson Philips--- see under Hugh Pentecost.

Philosophy and Science Fiction ed. Michael Philips (Prometheus, July 1984, 0-87975-248-3, $12.95, viii+392pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 17 sf classics by Asimov, Heinlein, Lem, Aldiss, and others, plus essays by the editor, tying in sf with philosophy. 1 · Introduction · Michael Philips · in 9 · Introduction to Part 1: Knowledge and the Meaning of Life · Michael Philips · si 17 · Solaris · Stanislaw Lem; translated by Joanna Kilmartin, Steve Cox & Jean-Michel Jasienko · ex Walker, 1970 translated by Kilmartin & Cox from the French (Solaris, Denoël, 1966) itself translated by Jasienko from the Polish (Solaris, Wydawnictwo MON, 1961). 88 · They · Robert A. Heinlein · ss Unknown April 1941 102 · The Library of Babel · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r) translated from the Spanish (“La biblioteca de Babel”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941). 113 · Introduction to Part 2: Trips Through Time and Logical Space · Michael Philips · si 117 · “All You Zombies—” · Robert A. Heinlein · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1959 128 · The Weed of Time · Norman Spinrad · ss Alchemy and Academe ed. Anne McCaffrey, Doubleday, 1970 139 · Introduction to Part 3: The Elusive Self · Michael Philips · si 143 · Catch That Zeppelin! · Fritz Leiber · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1975 160 · Impostor · Philip K. Dick · ss Astounding Science Fiction June 1953 177 · Introduction to Part 4: Persons, Minds, and the Essentially Human · Michael Philips · si 183 · The Bicentennial Man [Robots] · Isaac Asimov · nv Stellar #2 ed. Judy-Lynn del Rey, Ballantine, 1976 217 · The Show Must Go On · James Causey · ss Orbit v1 #5, 1954, as “So Lovely, So Lost” 225 · Who Can Replace a Man? · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1958, as “But Who Can Replace a Man?” 239 · Introduction to Part 5: Moral Dilemmas · Michael Philips · si 247 · Soul Mate · Lee Sutton · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1959 260 · Balaam · Anthony Boucher · ss 9 Tales of Space and Time ed. Raymond J. Healy, Henry Holt, 1954 273 · A Word to Space · Winston P. Sanders · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1960 278 · Seventh Victim [Victim] · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction April 1953 297 · Introduction to Part 6: Technology and Human Self-Transformation · Michael Philips · si 301 · Breath’s a Ware That Will Not Keep · Thomas F. Monteleone · ss Dystopian Visions ed. Roger Elwood, Prentice Hall, 1975 315 · The Machine Stops · E. M. Forster · nv Oxford and Cambridge Review November 1909 341 · R.U.R. · Karel Capek · pl (r) translated from the Czech (R.U.R., Aventinum, 1920).

Treasure of Tau Ceti by John T. Phillifent--- see under John Rackham.

The Cocaine Chronicles ed. Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon (Akashic Books, April 2005, 978-1-888451-75-7, $14.95, 250pp, tp, oa) 10 · Introduction · Gary Phillips & Jervey Tervalon · in 15 · Part I: Touched by Death 16 · Ten Keys · Lee Child · ss 26 · The Crack Cocaine Diet (Or: How to Lose a Lot of Weight and Change Your Life in Just One Weekend) · Laura Lippman · ss 40 · White Irish · Ken Bruen · ss 48 · Beneficent Diversions from the Crackdkins Diet · Donnell Alexander · ss 57 · Part II: Fiending 58 · Poinciana · Susan Straight · ss 74 · The Screenwriter · James Brown · ss 92 · Twilight of the Stooges · Jerry Stahl · ss 100 · Chemistry · Robert Ward · ss 125 · Part III: The Corruption 126 · Shame · Kerry E. West · ss 138 · Viki, Flash, and the Pied-Piper of Shoebies · Deborah Vankin · ss 152 · Golden Pacific · Nina Revoyr · ss 168 · Sentimental Value · Manuel Ramos · ss 178 · Just Surviving Another Day · Detrice Jones · ss 187 · Part IV: Gangsters & Monsters 188 · A.K.A., Moises Rockafella · Emory Holmes, II · ss 208 · Camaro Blue · Bill Moody · ss 224 · Serving Monster · Jervey Tervalon · nv 252 · Disco Zombies · Gary Phillips · ss

The Darker Mask ed. Gary Phillips & Christopher Chambers (Tor, August 2008, 978-0-7653-1850-3, $25.95, 385pp, hc, oa, cover by Tomer Hanuka)     Original anthology of 18 stories about the darker side of superheroes. Authors include L.A. Banks, Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due, Walter Mosley, and Ann Nocenti. A trade paperback edition (-1851-0, $14.95) is also available. 9 · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms 11 · Introduction · Gary Phillips & Christopher Chambers · in 17 · Dream Knights · L. A. Banks · ss 35 · Trickster · Steven Barnes & Tananarive Due · ss 57 · The Strega’s Last Dance · Lorenzo Carcaterra · ss 67 · Avatar · Christopher Chambers · ss 87 · Accidentally, Like a Martyr · Reed Farrel Coleman · ss 99 · The Whores of Onyx City · Michael A. Gonzales · ss 119 · Heatseeker · Gar Anthony Haywood · ss 143 · Tat Master · Naomi Hirahara · ss 159 · Henchman · Mat Johnson · ss 179 · The Angel of Loneliness · Victor LaValle · ss 203 · The Picket · Walter Mosley · ss 219 · Switchback · Ann Nocenti · nv 245 · And What Shall We Call You? · Gary Phillips · ss 263 · Dred · Jerry A. Rodriguez · ss 285 · The Edge of Seventeen · Alexandra Sokoloff · ss 303 · In Vino, Veritas · Peter Spiegelman · ss 319 · The Messenger · Wayne L. Wilson · ss 333 · Housework · Doselle Young · nv 361 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Orange County Noir ed. Gary Phillips (Akashic Books, April 2010, 978-1-936070-03-9, $15.95, 306pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir] 11 · Foreword · T. Jefferson Parker · fw 13 · Behind the Orange Curtain · Gary Phillips · in 15 · Part I: Only the Lonely 17 · Bee Canyon · Susan Straight · nv; set in Santa Ana Narrows. 40 · Down in Capistrano · Robert S. Levinson · ss; set in San Juan Capistrano. 58 · Diverters · Rob Roberge · nv; set in Tustin. 84 · A Good Day’s Work · Nathan Walpow · ss; set in Seal Beach. 103 · Part II: Every Move You Make 105 · Crazy for You · Barbara DeMarco-Barrett · nv; set in Costa Mesa. 126 · The Toll · Dan Duling · ss; set in Laguna Beach. 142 · 2:45 Out of Santa Ana · Mary Castillo · nv; set in Santa Ana. 164 · Old, Cold Hand · Lawrence Maddox · ss; set in the City of Orange. 180 · The Movie Game · Dick Lochte · ss; set in Laguna Niguel. 201 · Part III: Lush Life 203 · Black Star Canyon · Robert Ward · nv; set in Dana Point. 227 · The Performer · Gary Phillips · ss; set in Los Alamitos. 246 · The Happiest Place · Gordon McAlpine · ss; set in Anaheim. 266 · Dark Matter · Martin J. Smith · ss; set on Balboa Island. 281 · On the Night in Question · Patricia McFall · nv; set in Garden Grove. 308 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Politics Noir: Dark Tales from the Corridors of Power ed. Gary Phillips (Verso, April 2008, 978-1-84467-161-8, $16.95, 256pp, tp, oa) 1 · Introduction · Gary Phillips · in 3 · Negative Nixons · Mike Davis · nv 34 · The Legend of Bayboy and the Mexican Surfer · John Shannon · nv 59 · Pork · Pete Hautman · ss 78 · Strange Bedfellows · Twist Phelan · ss 93 · The Art of Avarice · Darrell James · ss 113 · Ambition · Michele Martinez · ss 130 · Madame Secretary’s Lover Man · Jake Lamar · ss 151 · Collateral Damage · Robert Greer · ss 173 · Slingin’ · Black Artemis · ss 193 · Dissed · K. J. A. Wishnia · ss 210 · Dead Right · Ken Bruen · ss 219 · The Mayor’s Movie · Sujata Massey · ss 239 · Swift Boats for Jesus · Gary Phillips · ss 261 · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Scoundrels: Tales of Greed, Murder and Financial Crimes ed. Gary Phillips (Down & Out Books, March 18, 2012, 978-1-937495-22-0, 222pp, pb, oa)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · Foreword · Scott Phillips · fw 3 · What the Creature Hath Built · David Corbett · ss 23 · We Shall Overthug · Tyler Dilts · ss 35 · The Movement · Travis Richardson · ss 59 · The Prophet · Reed Farrel Coleman · ss 73 · Arbitraging the Blood Brain Barrier · Eric Stone · ss 85 · Occupy This! · S. J. Rozan · ss 95 · Digital Dingus Four-Point-O · Bob Truluck · ss 117 · Easy Money · Pamela Samuels Young · ss 133 · The Biggest Fish in Texas · Darrell James · ss 147 · Sentence of a Lifetime · Brendan DuBois · ss 151 · Leverage · Lono Waiwaiole · ss 165 · Eight Ballers · Gary Phillips · ss 181 · The $3,300 Loser · Seth Harwood · ss 193 · Survivor · Kelli Stanley · ss 213 · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!: Stories of Crime, Love and Rebellion ed. Gary Phillips & Andrea Gibbons (PM Press, August 2011, 978-1-60486-096-2, $19.95, 356pp, tp, oa)     Associational original anthology of 18 stories of “crime, love and rebellion” and “the fight for a better world” in various genres. Authors include Sara Paretsky, Cory Doctorow & Michael Skeet, Michael Moorcock (reprint), and Kim Stanley Robinson. 9 · Introduction · Gary Phillips & Andrea Gibbons · in 11 · Bizco’s Memories · Paco Ignacio Taibo, II · ss 15 · Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell · Larry Fondation · vi 17 · Nickels and Dimes · John A. Imani · ss 36 · The El Rey Bar · Andrea Gibbons · ss 49 · Poster Child · Sara Paretsky · ss 68 · The Lunatics · Kim Stanley Robinson · nv Terry’s Universe ed. Beth Meacham, Tor, 1988 95 · Murder… Then and Now · Penny Mickelbury · ss 114 · Piece Work · Kenneth Wishnia · ss 129 · Gold Diggers of 1977 (Ten Claims That Won Our Hearts) · Michael Moorcock · na Casablanca by Michael Moorcock, Gollancz, 1989 revised from The Great Rock ’n’ Roll Swindle (Virgin 1981). 210 · Cincinnati Lou · Benjamin Whitmer · nv 231 · Berlin: Two Days in June · Rick Dakan · ss 245 · Darkness Drops · Larry Fondation · vi 247 · Orange Alert · Summer Brenner · ss 259 · Masai’s Back in Town · Gary Phillips · ss 277 · I Love Paree · Cory Doctorow & Michael Skeet · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction December 2000 313 · A Good Start · Barry Graham · ss 318 · One Dark Berkeley Night · Tim Wohlforth · ss 337 · Look Both Ways · Luis Rodriguez · ss 352 · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

South Central Noir ed. Gary Phillips (Akashic Books, September 6, 2022, 978-1-63614-054-4, $16.95, 280pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]     Details taken from ebook. · Inner-City Confidential · Gary Phillips · in · Part I: Always and Forever · All Luck · Steph Cha · ss; set in South Park. · How Hope Found Chauncey · Jervey Tervalon · ss; set in Snooty Fox Motor Inn. · The Golden Coffin · Emory Holmes, II · ss; set in Dunbar Hotel. · The Last Time I Died · Jeri Westerson · ss; set in Crenshaw Boulevard. · All That Glitters · Gar Anthony Haywood · ss; set in Watts Towers. · Part II: Cold Sweat · Collections · Eric Stone · ss; set in Central Avenue. · Haint in the Window · Tananarive Due · ss; set in Leimert Park Village. · I Am Yojimbo · Naomi Hirahara · ss; set in Kokusai Theatre. · Mae’s Family Dining · Penny Mickelbury · ss; set in Slauson Avenue. · Death of a Sideman · Gary Phillips · ss; set in Exposition Park. · Part III: The World Is a Ghetto · Sabor a Mi · Roberto Lovato · ss; set in Slauson Park. · If Found Please Return to Abigail Serna, 158 3/4 E MLK Blvd · Désirée Zamorano · ss; set in Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.. · Where the Smoke Meets the Sky · Nikolas Charles · ss; set in South Figueroa Street. · Jayson and the Liquor Store · Larry Fondation · ss; set in Imperial Highway. · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

Witnesses for the Dead ed. Gary Phillips & Gar Anthony Haywood (Soho Crime, November 8, 2022, 978-1-64129-398-3, $27.95, 303pp, hc, oa)     Details taken from ebook Table of Contents. · Introduction · Gary Phillips & Gar Anthony Haywood · in · Death at the Sundial Motel · Aaron Philip Clark · ss · The Gardener of Roses · Richie Narvaez · ss · Envy · Christopher Chambers · ss · Star Witness · Darrell James · ss · Code Name Pénélope · Cara Black · ss · The Killing at Joshua Lake · Scott Adlerberg · ss · Post-Game · Alex Segura · ss · Spiders and Fly · Gary Phillips · ss · A Family Matter · Sarah M. Chen · ss · Havana Caliente · Teresa Dovalpage · ss · Fatal Assumptions · Pamela Samuels Young · ss · On Gossamer Wings · Gar Anthony Haywood · ss · This Night in Question · Tod Goldberg · ss · Pearl Joy · S. J. Rozan · ss

In the Palace of Repose by Holly Phillips (Wildside Press/Prime Books, May 2005, 1-894815-58-0, $29.95, 203pp, hc, oc, cover by Thomas Cole)     Original collection of nine stories, two reprints, of horror and the fantastic. Introduction by Sean Stewart. 7 · Introduction · Sean Stewart · in 11 · In the Palace of Repose · Holly Phillips · nv H.P. Lovecraft’s Magazine of Horror Spring 2004 37 · The Other Grace · Holly Phillips · nv 63 · The New Ecology · Holly Phillips · ss On Spec Summer 2002 84 · A Woman’s Bones · Holly Phillips · ss infinity plus February 2005 104 · Pen & Ink · Holly Phillips · ss 122 · One of the Hungry Ones · Holly Phillips · nv 145 · By the Light of Tomorrow’s Sun · Holly Phillips · ss 160 · Summer Ice · Holly Phillips · nv Fantasy Magazine #1, 2005 179 · Variations on a Theme · Holly Phillips · nv

Tesseracts Eleven ed. Holly Phillips & Cory Doctorow--- see under Cory Doctorow.

Angela Carter: New Critical Readings ed. Lawrence Phillips & Sonya Andermahr--- see under Sonya Andermahr.

Manna, The Collected Writings of Peter Phillips by Peter Phillips (Wall Road Publishing, 2016, 270pp, tp, co)     Privately printed by family in an edition of 25 copies. Details supplied by Mike Ashley. 7 · Peter Phillips · Mike Ashley · ob ; adapted from obituary in Locus May 2012. 11 · Counter Charm · Peter Phillips · vi Slant #5, Spring 1951 12 · Manna · Peter Phillips · nv Astounding Science Fiction February 1949 32 · Criteria · Peter Phillips · vi Planet Stories May 1952 35 · The Warning · Peter Phillips · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1953 40 · Field Study · Peter Phillips · ss Galaxy Science Fiction April 1951 55 · Lost Memory · Peter Phillips · ss Galaxy Science Fiction May 1952 64 · Dreams Are Sacred · Peter Phillips · nv Astounding Science Fiction September 1948 83 · Death’s Bouquet · Peter Phillips · ss Weird Tales September 1948 92 · First Man in the Moon · Peter Phillips · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1954 94 · Lila · Peter Phillips · ss Startling Stories April 1953 107 · Next Stop the Moon · Peter Phillips · ss The Daily Herald October 14 1957 (+4); abridged, omitting the fifth part of the story. 120 · Variety Agent · Peter Phillips · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1956 125 · Plagiarist · Peter Phillips · nv New Worlds #7, Summer 1950 151 · P-Plus · Peter Phillips · nv Astounding Science Fiction August 1949 171 · University · Peter Phillips · nv Galaxy Science Fiction April 1953 188 · Unknown Quantity · Peter Phillips · ss New Worlds #5, 1949 201 · She Who Laughs · Peter Phillips · ss Galaxy Science Fiction April 1952 212 · c/o Mr. Makepeace · Peter Phillips · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1954 221 · Sylvia · Peter Phillips · ss Fantasy Fiction June 1953 229 · No Silence for Maloeween · Peter Phillips · ss Weird Tales May 1948 239 · “Well I’ll Be Hexed!” · Peter Phillips · nv Fantastic Adventures August 1950 268 · Portfolio of Photographs · [uncredited] · pi (r)

Nightshade: 20th Century Ghost Stories ed. Robert Phillips (Carroll & Graf, June 1999, 0-7867-0614-7, $25.00, 470+xviipp, hc, an)     Anthology of 27 ghost stories by noted “literary” authors including Shirley Jackson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Joan Aiken, and F. Marion Crawford. Details supplied by Alan Perfect. ix · Introduction · Robert Phillips · in 1 · Ghosts on the Lake · Ilse Aichinger; translated by Eric Mosbacher · ss The Bound Man and Other Stories by Ilse Aichinger, tr. Eric Mosbacher, Secker & Warburg, 1955 translated from the German (“Seegeister”, Der Gefesselte Erzahlungen, S. Fischer, 1953). 7 · Sonata for Harp and Bicycle · Joan Aiken · ss Argosy (UK) August 1958 17 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916 47 · The Happy Autumn Fields · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Cornhill Magazine November 1944 65 · Oh Father, Father, Why Have You Come Back? · John Cheever · ex from The Wapshot Scandal, Harper & Row, 1964; chapter 3. 74 · Dead Women’s Things · Kathy Chwedyk · vi Horrors! 365 Scary Stories ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble, 1998 77 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 100 · The Supper at Elsinore · Isak Dinesen · na Seven Gothic Tales by Isak Dinesen, Smith & Haas, 1934 150 · Lost Lives · Max Eberts · ss 166 · The Shadowy Third · Ellen Glasgow · nv Scribner’s Magazine December 1916 191 · A Shape of Light · William Goyen · nv Southwest Review v37 #1, Winter 1952 217 · W.S. · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review January 1952 229 · The Astral Body of a U.S. Mail Truck · James Leo Herlihy · ss Mademoiselle February 1963 240 · The Bus · Shirley Jackson · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 27 1965 254 · The Friends of the Friends · Henry James · nv Chapman’s Magazine May 1896, as “The Way It Came” 282 · Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor · Franz Kafka; translated by Tania Stern & James Stern · nv Franz Kafka: The Complete Stories by Franz Kafka, Schocken, 1946 translated from the German (“Blumfeld, ein älterer Junggeselle”, Beschreibung eines Kampfes, 1936). 305 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 328 · The Highboy · Alison Lurie · ss Redbook October 1990, as “A Curious Haunting” 344 · The Ghosts of August · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Edith Grossman · ss Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez, Knopf, 1993 347 · The Doll · Joyce Carol Oates · nv Epoch 1980 370 · Wolfie · Robert Phillips · ss 1997 380 · A Spiritualist · Jean Rhys · vi The Left Bank and Other Stories by Jean Rhys, Jonathan Cape, 1927 384 · Owl · Elizabeth Spencer · ss 388 · A Gracious Rain · Christopher Tilghman · ss In a Father’s Place by Christopher Tilghman, 1990 405 · Mrs. Acland’s Ghosts · William Trevor · ss Angels at the Ritz by William Trevor, The Bodley Head, 1975 422 · The Leaf-Sweeper · Muriel Spark · ss The London Mystery Magazine #31, December 1956 428 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 25 1931 461 · Notes on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

The Omnibus of 20th Century Ghost Stories ed. Robert Phillips (Robinson, November 1, 1990, 1-85487-077-7, £13.95, 373pp, hc, an, cover by Sir Stanley Spencer)     Reprint (Carroll & Graf 1989 as Triumph of the Night) ghost story anthology.

Triumph of the Night: Tales of Terror and the Supernatural ed. Robert Phillips (Carroll & Graf, September 1989, 0-88184-517-5, $18.95, 373pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 27 ghost and horror stories by writers best known for more “literary” works. 1 · Introduction · Robert Phillips · in 4 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 11 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories by Graham Greene, Heinemann, 1947 17 · The Others · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine August 1987 22 · The Followers · Dylan Thomas · ss World Review October 1952 31 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 47 · The Prison Window · Louis Auchincloss · ss Second Chance: Tales of Two Generations by Louis Auchincloss, Houghton Mifflin, 1970 62 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury April 1922 92 · Andrina · George Mackay Brown · ss The Scottish Review August 1979 100 · Away · Barry N. Malzberg · ss A Treasury of American Horror Stories ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Bonanza, 1985 104 · The Portobello Road · Muriel Spark · nv Winter’s Tales 2, Macmillan UK, 1956 126 · The Indian · John Updike · ss The New Yorker August 17 1963 132 · Full Circle · Denton Welch · ss (r) 139 · Sound Is Second Sight · Lynne Sharon Schwartz · ss Acquainted with the Night by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, Harper & Row, 1984 145 · I Used to Live Here Once · Jean Rhys · vi Sleep It Off, Lady by Jean Rhys, Andre Deutsch, 1976 147 · The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review December 1908 181 · First Dark · Elizabeth Spencer · na The New Yorker June 20 1959 200 · Missing Person · Peter Taylor · pl Presences by Peter Taylor, Houghton Mifflin, 1973 226 · The Bell in the Fog · Gertrude Atherton · nv The Smart Set August 1903 249 · The Wedding Cake Couple · Howard Lewis Russell · ss 264 · The Daemon Lover · Shirley Jackson · nv Woman’s Home Companion February 1949, as “The Phantom Lover” 279 · A Haunted House · Virginia Woolf · vi Monday or Tuesday by Virginia Woolf, Hogarth Press, 1921 281 · Up North · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker November 21 1959 287 · The Mysteries of the Joy Rio · Tennessee Williams · ss Hard Candy: A Book of Stories by Tennessee Williams, New Directions, 1954 299 · Ghost and Flesh, Water and Dirt · William Goyen · ss Ghost and Flesh by William Goyen, Random House, 1952 309 · The Celestial Omnibus · E. M. Forster · nv Albany Review January 1908 325 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910 355 · Miriam · Truman Capote · ss Mademoiselle June 1945 367 · Notes on the Authors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

Masters of Science Fiction, Volume 16: Rog Phillips: Ace of the Science Fiction Digests by Rog Phillips (Armchair Fiction, September 21, 2023, 979-8-8612-7559-0, $16.95, 312pp, digest, co, cover by Malcolm Smith from Other Worlds Science Stories March 1950) [edited by Gregory Luce]     Details taken from Table of Contents. 5 · Live in an Orbit and Love It! · Rog Phillips · ss Other Worlds Science Stories March 1950, as by Craig Browning 23 · A Handful of Sand · Rog Phillips · ss Amazing Stories April 1957 41 · Golden Kitten · Rog Phillips · ss Mystic Magazine #7, December 1954, as by Charles Lee 56 · Truckstop · Rog Phillips · ss Imaginative Tales November 1957 69 · Space Is for Suckers · Rog Phillips · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories June 1958, as by P. F. Costello 84 · Lunar Holiday · Rog Phillips · ss Fantastic Adventures November 1949, as by Peter Worth 102 · Jason’s Secret · Rog Phillips · ss Fantastic September 1958 117 · The Gallery · Rog Phillips · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories January 1959 136 · It’s Better Not to Know · Rog Phillips · ss Fantastic April 1958 152 · Captain Peabody · Rog Phillips · ss If December 1957 169 · Game Preserve · Rog Phillips · ss If October 1957 186 · Rat in the Skull · Rog Phillips · nv If December 1958 211 · Prophecy, Inc. · Rog Phillips · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories June 1958 226 · Unto the Nth Generation · Rog Phillips · ss Amazing Science Fiction Stories December 1958 244 · The Fatal Technicality · Rog Phillips · ss Other Worlds Science Stories March 1950 259 · Keepers in Space · Rog Phillips · ss Fantastic April 1959 275 · Venusian, Get Out! · Rog Phillips · ss Amazing Science Fiction April 1958 291 · Tillie · Rog Phillips · ss Amazing Stories December 1948, as by Craig Browning

Friday the 13th: Church of the Divine Psychopath by Scott Phillips (Black Flame US, August 2005, 1-84416-181-1, $7.99, 403pp, pb, n.) [Friday the 13th]     Movie tie-in. Copyrighted by New Line Cinema. This has the same ISBN as the simultaneous Black Flame UK edition, but lists only US and Canadian prices.

St. Louis Noir ed. Scott Phillips (Akashic Books, August 2, 2016, 978-1-61775-298-8, $15.95, 270pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir] 13 · High and Low Collide · Scott Phillips · in 17 · Part I: The City 19 · Abandoned Places · S. L. Coney · ss; set in Dogtown. 37 · Deserted Cities of the Heart · Paul D. Marks · ss; set in Gateway Arch. 59 · Blues for the River City · Colleen J. McElroy · ss; set in The Ville. 76 · Fool’s Luck · LaVelle Wilkins-Chinn · ss; set in Central West End. 90 · Attrition · Calvin Wilson · ss; set in Downtown Newsroom. 95 · Tracks · Jason Makansi · ss; set in The Hill. 107 · Part II: A Poetic Interlude 109 · Four St. Louis Poems · Michael Castro · gp; set in Gaslight Square. _109 · In St. Louis Heat · Michael Castro · pm _110 · Gaslight Square · Michael Castro · pm _111 · St. Louis Blues Revisited · Michael Castro · pm _113 · Halloween · Michael Castro · pm 115 · Part III: The County 117 · A Paler Shade of Death · Laura Benedict · nv; set in Glendale. 144 · Have You Seen Me? · Jedidiah Ayres · ss; set in Frontenac. 159 · A St. Louis Christmas · Umar Lee · nv; set in North County. 186 · The Pillbox · Chris Barsanti · ss; set in Maplewood. 205 · The Brick Wall · John Lutz · ss; set in Interstate 64. 223 · Part IV: Across the River 225 · Tell Them Your Name Is Barbara · L. J. Smith · ss; set in East St. Louis, IL. 250 · One Little Goddamn Thing · Scott Phillips · ss; set in Sauget, IL. 268 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv (Avon, 1953, AT66, 35¢, 281pp, pb, oa)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 9 · Oysters · Clay Putman · ss 19 · The Roman · Augusta Walker · ss 39 · Sido · Colette & Enid McLeod · ex Farrar, Straus and Young, 1953 60 · Stendhal: The Politics of Survival · Irving Howe · cr 82 · Cat’s Cradle · Eleanor Clark · ss 99 · Xavier · Patrick O’Brian · ex from The Catalans, 1953 125 · The Little Fishes · Lysander Kemp · pm 128 · This Lady · Helen Forman · pm 129 · The Well · Edgar Bogardus · pm 131 · The Balcony · Barbara Howes · pm 132 · Arrangements with Earth for Three Dead Friends · James Wright · pm 134 · In the Woods at Night · Spencer Brown · pm 135 · Snobbery and Sainthood · Howard Griffin · iv [Ref. W. H. Auden] 144 · Tonka · Robert Musil; translated by Eithne Wilkins & Ernst Kaiser · nv 186 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 200 · The Problems of Peace · Theodore Hoffman · es 208 · Simone de Beauvoir’s America · Diana Trilling · cr 218 · Coney Island Revisited · Isaac Rosenfeld · ts 226 · Roads to Nowhere · Leo Lipski; translated by Norbert Guterman · ex from Restless (r) 246 · The Mind Is It’s Own Place · Robie Macauley · nv 269 · Requiem for a Living Art · Charles M. Fair · ar

The Avon Book of Modern Writing No. 2 ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv (Avon, 1954, G-1016, 50¢, 318pp, pb, oa)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 9 · Yes and No · Elizabeth Hardwick · ss 15 · The Babies · Elliott Stein · ss 32 · The Group · Mary McCarthy · ex 55 · My Life: a Conjectural Biography · Hermann Hesse; translated by Denver Lindley · bg 73 · The Houses of the City · Gina Berriault · ss 81 · The Stranger · Dan Jacobson · ss 101 · The Comic World of Dickens · V. S. Pritchett · cr 117 · Your Childhood in Menton · Federico García Lorca; translated by Ben Belitt · pm 119 · Successful Love · Delmore Schwartz · nv 152 · The Abuse of the Terrible · Hilton Kramer · ar 163 · Mosquitoes · Pawel Mayewski · ss 173 · Gnothi Seauton · Milton Klonsky · vi 176 · The Sale · Benjamin DeMott · ex from The Brokers’ Pool (r) 201 · Back to the Sea · Alberto Moravia; translated by Bernard Wall · ss 217 · Guns of the Roaring West · Horace Gregory · cr 235 · The Granite Owl · Patricia Coombs · pm 237 · Sleepless Night · Louis O. Coxe · pm 238 · Abel, Baker, Charlie, et. al. · Elder Olson · pm 240 · New World · Claire McAllister · pm 241 · By Lamplight · Stanley Kunitz · pm 242 · Lest I Nothing Make · Barbara Guest · pm 243 · Man in Glass Skyscraper (Night View) · Morgan Blum · pm 245 · Sunday Dinner in Brooklyn · Anatole Broyard · ss 260 · Funes, the Memorious · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Anthony Kerrigan · ss 269 · The American Drama (1944-1954) · Eric Bentley · cr 287 · The Tyros · George Johnston · ts 300 · Love in the One-Way Mirror · Herbert Gold · ss

The Berkley Book of Modern Writing No. 3 ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv (Berkley, 1956, BG-18, 50¢, 218pp, pb, oa)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 5 · Do Not Drink the Water as It Is Not Pure · Elliott Stein · nv 26 · A Duchess of Dark Corners · Sonya Rudikoff · nv 56 · The Pornography of Death · Geoffrey Gorer · ar 63 · Ruminations at Dawn · Elise Asher · pm 65 · The Great Mother · Lyle Glazier · pm 67 · Tragedy · Howard Moss · pm 69 · The Mood of a Day · George Seferis; translated by Edmund Keeley · pm 71 · The Golden Coin · Frederick Young · pm 74 · Metamorphoses of Leatherstocking · Henry Bamford Parkes · cr 92 · Signora Flavia · Corrado Alvaro; translated by Frances Frenaye · ss 99 · The Gyspy · Corrado Alvaro; translated by Frances Frenaye · ss 106 · The Notebook · Norman Mailer · ss The Cornhill Magazine Summer 1953 110 · The Glorious Boys · Eileen Johnston Bassing · ss 124 · Nobody Ever Died from It · Leslie A. Fiedler · ss 143 · Take Pity · Bernard Malamud · ss 152 · Alberto Moravia-the Romance of Existence · R. W. B. Lewis · ss 166 · Urn Burial · Valentine Ackland · ss 182 · Movies, the Desparate Art · Pauline Kael · nv 206 · Hard as Hell · Paul Mayewski · ss

Sixty Years of Great Fiction from Partisan Review ed. William Phillips (Partisan Review Press, 1996, 0-9644377-5-9, $24.95, xx+425pp, hc, an, cover: Russian River by Helen Frankenthaler)     Details supplied by Todd Mason. vii · Foreword · Saul Bellow · fw xix · Introduction · William Phillips · in 3 · Two Syllables · Ignazio Silone; translated by Samuel Putnam · ss Partisan Review October 1936 7 · In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · P. Delmore Schwartz · ss Partisan Review December 1937 13 · Hurry, Hurry · Eleanor Clark · ss Partisan Review January 1938 19 · Red, White, and Blue Thanksgiving · John Dos Passos · ss Partisan Review Winter 1939 23 · The Autobiography of Rose · Gertrude Stein · pm Partisan Review Winter 1939 26 · The Only Son · James T. Farrell · ss Partisan Review Spring 1939 34 · A Goat for Azazel (A.D. 1688) · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Partisan Review May/June 1940 42 · The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt · Mary McCarthy · nv Partisan Review July/August 1941 65 · Josephine the Singer, or the Mouse Folk · Franz Kafka; translated by Clement Greenberg · ss Partisan Review May/June 1942 76 · Of This Time, of That Place · Lionel Trilling · nv Partisan Review January/February 1943 101 · The Hand That Fed Me · Isaac Rosenfeld · ss Partisan Review Winter 1944 111 · Cass Mastern’s Wedding Ring · Robert Penn Warren · nv Partisan Review Fall 1944 135 · The Prison · André Malraux; translated by Eleanor Clark · nv Partisan Review March 1948 141 · The Interior Castle · Jean Stafford · ss Partisan Review November/December 1946 151 · Two Prostitutes · Alberto Moravia; translated by Frances Frenaye · nv Partisan Review May/June 1950 166 · The Jail (Nor Even Yet Quite Relinquish—) · William Faulkner · ex from Requiem for a Nun, Random House, 1951 186 · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer; translated by Saul Bellow · ss Partisan Review May/June 1953 195 · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954 206 · Seize the Day · Saul Bellow · na Partisan Review Summer 1956 268 · The Renegade · Albert Camus; translated by Justin O’Brien · ss Partisan Review Winter 1958 277 · Any Day Now · James Baldwin · ss Partisan Review Spring 1960 285 · From the Black Notebook · Doris Lessing · ex Partisan Review Spring 1962 extract from The Golden Notebook forthcoming from Michael Joseph (April 1962). 298 · It Always Breaks Out · Ralph Ellison · ex Partisan Review Spring 1963 extract from Three Days Before the Shooting… forthcoming from Random House (2010). 308 · The Will and the Way · Susan Sontag · ss Partisan Review Summer 1965 324 · Runaway · William Styron · ex Partisan Review Fall 1966 extract from The Confessions of Nat Turner forthcoming from Random House (1967). 330 · Whacking Off · Philip Roth · ex Partisan Review Summer 1967 extract from Portnoy’s Complaint forthcoming from Random House (1969). 339 · Mercier and Camier · Samuel Beckett · ex Partisan Review Summer 1974 forthcoming from Calder and Boyars (September 1974). previously published in French (Mercier et Camier, Les Éditions de Minuit, 1970). 353 · Levitation · Cynthia Ozick · ss Partisan Review v46 #3, 1979 362 · The Idea of Switzerland · Walter Abish · nv Partisan Review v47 #1, 1980 381 · If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler · Italo Calvino; translated by William Weaver · ex Partisan Review v48 #2, 1981 forthcoming from Harcourt (1981). translated from the Italian (1979). 389 · One Summer’s Morning in the Village · Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange · vi Partisan Review Fall 1984 translated from the Hebrew. 390 · Passport Photograph · Amos Oz; translated by Nicholas de Lange · vi Partisan Review Fall 1984 translated from the Hebrew. 392 · The Red Dwarf · Michel Tournier; translated by Barbara Wright · ss Partisan Review v51 #2, 1984 translated from the French. 401 · The Feet of a King · Daphne Merkin · ss Partisan Review v53 #3, 1986 411 · Proust’s Tea · Norman Manea; translated by Mara Soceanu-Vamos · ss Partisan Review v59 #1, 1992 414 · Weddings · Norman Manea; translated by Cornelia Golna · ss Partisan Review v59 #1, 1992 422 · Serafim · Tatyana Tolstaya; translated by Jamie Gambrell · ss Partisan Review v59 #1, 1992 translated from the Russian.