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The World’s Greatest Short Stories ed. James Daley (Dover Books, 2006, 978-0-486-44716-2, $3.50, 236pp, tp, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. v · Note · James Daley · in 1 · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited. 31 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884). 38 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r) 85 · The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom ’Rickshaw and Other Eerie Tales by Rudyard Kipling, Wheeler, 1888 113 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 127 · The Fortune-Teller · Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis · ss (r) 136 · The Lady with the Toy Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) 150 · How Old Timofei Died with a Song · Rainer Maria Rilke · ss (r) translated from the German. 155 · The Path to the Cemetery · Thomas Mann · ss (r) 162 · The Prussian Officer · D. H. Lawrence · nv The English Review August 1914, as “Honour and Arms” 180 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 185 · Mrs. Frola and Mr. Ponza, Her Son-in-Law · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r) 192 · The Mark on the Wall · Virginia Woolf · ss Two Stories by Virginia & L. S. Woolf, The Hogarth Press, 1917 198 · A Hunger Artist · Franz Kafka; translated by Ian Johnston · ss 2003 translated from the German. 206 · The Garden-Party · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Saturday Westminster Gazette February 4 1922 (+2) 219 · The Grasshopper and the Bell Cricket · Yasunari Kawabata; translated by Lane Dunlop & J. Martin Holman · vi Palm-of-the-Hand Stories by Yasunari Kawabata, North Point Press, 1988 translated from the Japanese. 222 · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933 226 · The Sacrificial Egg · Chinua Achebe · ss Girls at War and Other Stories by Chinua Achebe, Pearson Education, 1972 230 · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 236 · Borges and I · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by James E. Irby · vi Labyrinths by Jorge Luís Borges, New Directions, 1962 translated from the Spanish (“Borges y yo”, La Biblioteca, January 1957).

Best New Vampire Tales, Volume One ed. James Roy Daley (Books of the Dead Press, March 11, 2011, 978-0-9868157-3-7, $9.99, 260pp, tp, oa, cover by Danielle Tunstall)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Ad Infinitum · Robert Elrod · ss 16 · Through the Valley of Death · Matt Hults · ss 36 · Cold Calls · John F. D. Taff · ss 49 · A Sunset So Glorious · Rycke Foreman · ss Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine Spring 1995 52 · The Verbpire · Fredrick Obermeyer · ss Forgotten Worlds #2, June 2006 63 · A Candle Lit in Sunlight · David Niall Wilson · nv 85 · Morning Sickness · William Meikle · ss 92 · When Barrettes Brought Justice to a Burning Heart · John Everson · ss Cage of Bones & Other Deadly Obsessions by John Everson, Delirium Books, 2000 108 · The New Racism · James Newman · ss Darkness Within #4, 2000 111 · Banalica · Michael Laimo · ss Demons, Freaks, and Other Abnormalities by Michael Laimo, Delirium Books, 1999 128 · Window Across the Street · Jay Caselberg · ss Bloodlust June 2003 144 · Endless Night · Barbara Roden · nv Exotic Gothic 2 ed. Danel Olson, Ash-Tree Press, 2008 167 · Preserver · Tim Waggoner · ss Blood Muse ed. Esther M. Friesner & Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine, 1995 178 · A New House · John L. French · vi Weird Stories #2, November 1996 181 · The Sabbatarian · David M. Fitzpatrick · nv 214 · Bridges · Alan Smale · ss Dark Regions #16, Fall 2001 221 · Thirteen Lines · Don Webb · ss Blood Muse ed. Esther M. Friesner & Martin H. Greenberg, Donald I. Fine, 1995 229 · Flotsam · Scott Harper · ss The Bitter End: Tales of Nautical Terror ed. Jessy Marie Roberts, Pill Hill Press, 2009 237 · Moving Lines · Steve Vernon · ss Nightmare Dreams by Steve Vernon, Cyber-Pulp Press, 2004 248 · Farm Wife · Nancy Kilpatrick · ss The Vampire’s Crypt #5, Spring 1992

Best New Zombie Tales, Volume One ed. James Roy Daley (Books of the Dead Press, April 22, 2010, 978-0-9865664-2-4, $9.99, 350pp, tp, oa, cover by Tom Melnick)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · James Roy Daley · in · Zombie Love · Ray Garton · na Subterranean Press, November 2003 · Feeding Frenzy · Matt Hults · ss Fried! Fast Food, Slow Deaths ed. Joel A. Sutherland & Colleen Morris, Graveside Tales, 2007 · Wings · Jessica Brown · ss · The Man Who Breaks the Bad News · Kealan Patrick Burke · ss Ravenous Ghosts by Kealan Patrick Burke, 3f Publications, 2003 · Immunity · Jeff Strand · ss Bits of the Dead ed. Keith Gouveia, Coscom Entertainment, 2008 · In the Land of the Blind · Robert Swartwood · ss ChiZine #22, October/December 2004 · Nowhere People · Gary McMahon · ss Supernatural Tales #10, 2006 · Darkness Comprehended · Harry Shannon & Gord Rollo · ss City Slab #2, 2003 · Muddy Waters · Brian Knight · ss Dragonfly by Brian Knight, Catalyst Press, 2002 · Connections · Simon McCaffery · ss Mondo Zombie ed. John Skipp, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006 · Sign of the Times · John Grover · ss · After, Life · Jeff Parish · ss · Paradise Denied · John L. French · ss Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Spring 2004 (+1) · On the Usefulness of Old Books · Kim Paffenroth · ss · The Revelations of Dr. Maitland · Charles Black · ss · Pegleg and Paddy Save the World · Jonathan Maberry · ss History Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2007 · SKN-3 · Steven E. Wedel · ss · Fishing · Jason Brannon · ss · Ground Wood · Bev Vincent · ss · Sleepwalk: Working Stiff · Robert Elrod · ss

Best New Zombie Tales, Volume Two ed. James Roy Daley (Books of the Dead Press, August 1, 2011, 978-0-9865664-1-7, $9.99, 336pp, tp, oa, cover by Terry Callen)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction 2 · James Roy Daley · in 7 · Sleepwalk: The Deduction · Robert Elrod · ss 22 · Bury Me Not · Rio Youers · ss 36 · Laundry Day · Steven A. Roman · nv The Dead Walk Again! ed. Vincent Sneed, Padwolf Publishing, 2007 60 · Provider · Tim Waggoner · nv The Book of Final Flesh ed. James Lowder, Eden Studios, 2003 82 · The Truth About Brains · Narrelle M. Harris · nv 106 · Gravedigger · Nate Kenyon · nv When the Night Comes Down ed. Bill Breedlove & John Everson, Dark Arts Books, 2010 127 · Coming Home · David Niall Wilson · ss 140 · The Third Option · Derek Gunn · ss History Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2007 151 · The Worst Is Yet to Come · Pete Mesling · ss 162 · La Sequia · T. F. Davenport · nv 185 · ’Til Decay Do Us Part · Myrrym Davis · ss 193 · We Will Rebuild · Cody Goodfellow · ss Zombies: Encounters with the Hungry Dead ed. John Skipp, Black Dog & Leventhal, 2009 209 · Dredging Up the Dead · J. W. Schnarr · ss 224 · Camille Smiled · John Everson · ss Cold Flesh ed. Paul Fry, HellBound Books, 2005 243 · Not with a Bang but a Whimper · Monica J. O’Rourke · ss 258 · Reunion · James Newman · ss Bits of the Dead ed. Keith Gouveia, Coscom Entertainment, 2008 261 · Gran’ma’s in the Bathroom (…and She’s Not Coming Out) · Ken Goldman · ss 274 · The Old Man and the Dead · Mort Castle · nv Still Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Ziesing, 1992 303 · The Finger · Matt Hults · nv The Undead, Volume 2: Skin and Bones ed. D. L. Snell & Travis Adkins, Permuted Press, 2007

Best New Zombie Tales, Volume Three ed. James Roy Daley (Books of the Dead Press, August 1, 2011, 978-0-9868157-9-9, $9.99, 308pp, tp, oa, cover by Danielle Tunstall)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Sleepwalk: Undying Love · Robert Elrod · ss 17 · Introduction 3 · James Roy Daley · in 24 · The Lazarus Condition · Paul Kane · na The Lazarus Condition by Paul Kane, Tasmaniac Publications, 2007 111 · Of Cabbages and Kings · Nate Southard · ss The Dead Walk Again! ed. Vincent Sneed, Padwolf Publishing, 2007 129 · Those Below · Jeremy C. Shipp · ss Apex Magazine #14, July 2010 139 · The Traumatized Generation · Murray J. D. Leeder · ss Open Space ed. Claude Lalumière, Red Deer Press, 2003 153 · The Cyclist · Simon Wood · ss 156 · Family First · JG Faherty · ss 170 · The Way of Things in Fly-Over Country · Aaron Polson · ss 182 · The Beach · Tim Lebbon · vi Nasty Snips ed. Christopher C. Teague, MT Publishing, 1999 185 · Fast Eddie’s Night Out · John L. French · ss Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine #32, Winter 2003 202 · Night of the Living Dead Bingo Women · Simon McCaffery · ss Thin Ice #7, 1990 207 · Worm-sacks and Dirt-backs · Lee Clark Zumpe · ss 219 · The Purple Word · Erik T. Johnson · ss 233 · Sabbatical in the Ohio Methlands · Joe McKinney · ss The Pedestal Magazine #55, 2009 252 · The Basement · William T. Vandermark · ss 254 · Working Man’s Burden · David C. Pinnt · ss The World Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2009 272 · The Last Supper · John Claude Smith · ss 280 · Memory Bones · Michael Stone · ss Stillwaters Journal December 2002 289 · Going Down · Nancy Kilpatrick · ss Mondo Zombie ed. John Skipp, Cemetery Dance Publications, 2006

A Land of Ash ed. David Dalglish (CreateSpace, November 21, 2010, 978-1-4563-7678-9, $5.99, 124pp, tp, oa)     Details taken from online listing. 5 · One Last Dinner Party · David Dalglish · ss 17 · Alone on the Mountain · David McAfee · ss 30 · Shelter · David Dalglish · ss 45 · Beach Puppies · Daniel Arenson · ss 49 · Toward the Storm · David Dalglish · ss 65 · Last Words · Michael Crane · ss 73 · Refugees · John Fitch, V · ss 86 · A Harmless American · David Dalglish · ss 95 · Secret Mission · David Dalglish · ss 102 · The One That Matters · Robert J. Duperre · ss 113 · Let It Continue · David Dalglish · ss

Otherwhens, Otherwheres: Favorite Tales by John Dalmas (Silver Dragon Books, April 2003, 1-932300-00-7, $14.95, 171pp, tp, co)     Collection of eight stories, each with an introduction by Dalmas. A print-on-demand book. 1 · Gullikksen and the 500-Pound Hallucination · John Dalmas · ss Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact February 1984 15 · Moonlight Nocturne · John Dalmas · ss Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine September 20 1991 25 · The Picture Man · John Dalmas · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction August 1984 44 · Out of the North a Giant · John Dalmas · nv Far Frontiers Vol. III ed. Jerry Pournelle & Jim Baen, Baen, 1985 72 · The Railroad · John Dalmas · nv War World Vol. IV: Invasion ed. Jerry Pournelle, Baen, 1994 97 · The Stoor’s Map · John Dalmas · na Halflings, Hobbits, Warrows and Weefolk ed. Baird Searles & Brian Thomsen, Warner Questar, 1991 129 · Tiger Hunt · John Dalmas · nv New Destinies, Vol. IX ed. Jim Baen, Baen, 1990 159 · The Ides of September · John Dalmas · ss The Saint Magazine June 1984

James Dean: The Mutant King (unpublished) by David Dalton (Savoy, n.d., 0-86130-043-2, £1.95, 400pp, tp, nf)     Biography of James Dean, subsequently published by Plexus in 2017.

The Complete Casebook of Marty O’Day and the Reckoner by Carroll John Daly (Steeger Books, December 2, 2024, $85.00, 168pp, hc, co, cover by John Newton Howitt) [Marty O’Day]     Details taken from publisher website. · Dead Men Do Tell [Marty O’Day] · Carroll John Daly · nv Black Aces February 1932 · The Blackmail Boss [Marty O’Day] · Carroll John Daly · ss Black Aces March 1932 · Mock Duck [Marty O’Day] · Carroll John Daly · ss Black Aces May 1932 · The Curtain of Steel [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1933 · Drawn in Blood [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine June 1 1933 · Blood on the Curtain [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine December 1 1933 · Answered in Blood [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine March 1 1934

The Complete Cases of Race Williams, Volume 1 by Carroll John Daly (Black Mask, November 27, 2023, $135.00, 710pp, hc, co)     Reprint (Altus Press 2015 as Them That Lives by Their Guns) collection. Details taken from publisher website.

The Complete Cases of the Reckoner by Carroll John Daly (Altus Press, November 19, 2015, 978-1-61827-215-7, $19.95, 236pp, tp, co) [Marty Day; The Reckoner]     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · The Curtain of Steel [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine February 1933 55 · Drawn in Blood [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine June 1 1933 107 · Blood on the Curtain [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine December 1 1933 171 · Answered in Blood [Marty Day; The Reckoner] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine March 1 1934

The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 1 by Carroll John Daly (Altus Press, April 23, 2014, 978-1-61827-141-9, $29.95, 374pp, tp, co) [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)]     Details taken from Table of Contents. i · Vee Brown: Killer of Men, Master of Melodies · Ed Hulse · in 1 · The Crime Machine [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · ss Dime Detective Magazine January 1932 21 · The Sixth Bullet [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · ss Dime Detective Magazine February 1932 42 · The Curtain of Frost [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · ss Dime Detective Magazine March 1932 63 · The Call to Kill [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine April 1932 105 · The Death Master [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine May 1932 147 · Murder at Midnight [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine August 1932 191 · As Midnight Strikes [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine October 1932 241 · The Red Death [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine November 1932 291 · The Price of Silence [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine March 15 1933

The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 2 by Carroll John Daly (Steeger Books, August 16, 2019, 978-1-61827-402-1, $24.95, 352pp, tp, co) [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)]     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · The Black Warning [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine September 1 1933 63 · The Death Mask [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine November 1 1933 163 · The Swinging Corpse [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine December 15 1933 257 · Make Your Own Corpse! [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine April 15 1934

The Complete Cases of Vee Brown, Volume 3 by Carroll John Daly (Popular Publications, November 25, 2023, 978-1-61827-744-2, $34.95, 434pp, tp, co) [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)]     Details taken from publisher website. · The Murder Syndicate [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine July 15 1934 · Red Friday [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine September 1 1934 · The Clawed Killer [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine October 15 1934 · The Mark of the Raven [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · nv Dime Detective Magazine January 1936 · Red Dynamite [Vivian “Vee” Brown (aka The Crime Machine)] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine July 1936

Gangman’s Gallows by Carroll John Daly (Steeger Books, November 26, 2020, 978-1-61827-563-9, $29.95, 445pp, tp, co) [Race Williams]     Volume six in “The Collected Hard-Boiled Stories of Race Williams”. Details taken from Table of Contents. xi · Introduction · Professor Brooks E. Hefner · in 1 · A Corpse on the House [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine March 1938 39 · A Corpse for a Corpse [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine July 1938 76 · The Men in Black [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine October 1938 113 · The Quick and the Dead [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine December 1938 152 · Hell with the Lid Lifted [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine March 1939 189 · A Corpse in the Hand [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine June 1939 224 · Gangman’s Gallows [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine August 1939 265 · The White-Headed Corpse [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine November 1939 306 · Cash for a Killer [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Dime Detective Magazine February 1940 346 · Victim for Vengeance [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Clues Detective Stories September 1940 384 · Too Dead to Pay [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · na Clues Detective Stories March 1941