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Once More Upon a Time by Diane Raetz & Patrick Thomas (Dark Quest Books, October 15, 2011, 978-0-9826197-5-9, $12.95, 170pp, tp, oc, cover by Patrick Thomas) [Murphy’s Lore]
Details taken from online listing.

9 · Introduction · Patrick Thomas · in

16 · So Much for Breadcrumbs [Murphy’s Lore] · Diane Raetz & Patrick Thomas · nv; first appeared abridged in Cosmic SF #2.

52 · Hair Apparent [Murphy’s Lore] · Diane Raetz & Patrick Thomas · nv

92 · No Business Like Snow Business [Murphy’s Lore] · Diane Raetz & Patrick Thomas · na

Mother of Invention ed. Rivqa Rafael & Tansy Rayner Roberts (Twelfth Planet Press, September 2018, 978-1-922101-47-1, A$27.00, 396pp, tp, oa, cover by Likhain)
Details taken from online listing.

· Mother, Mother, Will You Play with Me? · Seanan McGuire · ss

· Junkyard Kraken · D. K. Mok · ss

· An Errant Holy Spark · Bogi Takács · ss

· The Goose Hair of One Thousand Miles · Stephanie Lai · ss

· The Art of Broken Things · Joanne Anderton · ss

· Sexy Robot Heroes [Sexy Robots] · Sandra McDonald · ss

· A Robot Like Me · Lee Cope · ss

· New Berth · Elizabeth Fitzgerald · ss

· Fata Morgana · Cat Sparks · ss

· Bright Shores · Rosaleen Love · ss

· Quantifying Trust · John Chu · ss

· Reflecting on Indigenous Worlds, Indigenous Futurisms and Artificial Intelligence · Ambelin Kwaymullina · ar
first appeared on the publisher’s website on 16 September, 2017.

· Sugar Ricochets to Other Forms · Octavia Cade · ss

· Kill Screen · E. C. Myers · ss

· Living Proof [Making Amends] · Nisi Shawl · ss

· S’elfie · Justina Robson · ss

· Knitting Day · Jen White · ss

· The Revivalist · Kaaron Warren · ss

· Arguing with People on the Internet · E. H. Mann · ss

· Rini’s God · Soumya Sundar Mukherjee · ss

· Tidefall · Meryl Stenhouse · ss

· The Ghost Helmet · Lev Mirov · ss

The Immersion Book of SF ed. Carmelo Rafala (Immersion Press, September 2010, 978-0-9563924-1-1, £7.99, x+121pp, tp, oa)
Details taken from online listing.

v · Introduction · Carmelo Rafala · in

1 · Golden · Al Robertson · ss The Third Alternative #38, Summer 2004

11 · Tan · Tanith Lee · vi

13 · Have Guitar, Will Travel · Chris Butler · ss

30 · The Time Traveler’s Son · Jason Erik Lundberg · ss Papaveria Press, 2008

36 · Dolls · Colin P. Davies · ss 3SF #2, December 2002

50 · Grave Robbers · Anne Stringer · ss

59 · Father’s Last Ride · Aliette de Bodard · ss

73 · The Broken Pathway · Gord Sellar · ss

91 · Bird-Dropping and Sunday · Eric James Stone · ss

96 · Mango Dictionary and the Dragon Queen of Contract Evolution · Gareth Owens · ss

102 · Lode Stars [Exodus] · Lavie Tidhar · ss

The Immersion Book of Steampunk ed. Carmelo Rafala & Gareth D. Jones--- see under Gareth D. Jones.

Signet Classic Book of American Short Stories ed. Burton Raffel (Signet Classic, January 1990, 0-451-52279-6, $5.95, 560pp, tp, an)
Contents from publisher’s catalog.

· Introduction · Burton Raffel · in

· The Spectre Bridegroom · Washington Irving · ss The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #4, November 10 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon

· Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

· The Gold-Bug · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Dollar Newspaper June 21 1843 (+1)

· Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited.

· Miss Asphyxia · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss (r)

· The Iliad of Sandy Bar · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly November 1870

· Who Was She? · Bayard Taylor · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1874

· Grit · Rose Terry Cooke · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1877, uncredited.

· An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890

· The Return of a Private · Hamlin Garland · nv The Arena July 1890

· A New England Nun · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss A New England Nun and Other Stories by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman, Harper & Brothers, 1891

· The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892

· The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892

· The Flight of Betsey Lane · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1893

· La Grande Demoiselle · Grace Elizabeth King · ss The Century Magazine January 1893

· The War Widow · Harold Frederic · ss (r)

· Madame Célestin’s Divorce · Kate Chopin · ss Bayou Folk by Kate Chopin, Houghton, 1894

· The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898

· A Journey · Edith Wharton · ss Greater Inclination by Edith Wharton, Scribner, 1899

· The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg · Mark Twain · na Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1899

· All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine November 1905

· The Rajah of Bungpore · F. Hopkinson Smith · ss Collier’s Weekly September 19 1903

· Nobody Sick, Nobody Poor · Zona Gale · ss The Delineator November 1907

· One Thousand Dollars · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World June 5 1904

· “Queer” · Sherwood Anderson · ss Seven Arts December 1916

· Up in Michigan · Ernest Hemingway · ss Three Stories and Ten Poems by Ernest Hemingway, McAlman's Contract Publishing Co., 1923

· Great Lady on a White Horse · John Dos Passos · ss (r)

· The King of the Cats · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss Harper’s Bazar February 1929

· Neighbor Rosicky · Willa Cather · nv Woman’s Home Companion April 1930 (+1)

· Turnabout · William Faulkner · nv The Saturday Evening Post March 5 1932

· The Evening’s at Seven · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker October 22 1932

· The Long Way Out · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire September 1937

· Ever Fall in Love with a Midget? · William Saroyan · ss The Evening Standard October 19 1937

Deadly Nightshade by Jacie Ragan (Flesh & Blood Press, June 2001, no ISBN, $5.00, 17pp, ph, co, cover by Keith Minnion)
Chapbook poetry collection of 13 poems of the weird and dark fantastic. This is a limited edition of 150.

5 · On the Wings of Shadows · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

6 · Scant Remains · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

7 · Moonfrost · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

8 · Ghost of Pain · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

9 · Firmaments · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

10 · Pinions · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

11 · El Arco Iris · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

12 · Gospel of Rain · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

13 · Masquerade · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

14 · Insect Eyes · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

15 · Secret Echos · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

16 · Beguilement · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

17 · Vodyanoi · Jacie Ragan · pm (r)

The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. Philip Rahv & William Phillips--- see under William Phillips.

The Avon Book of Modern Writing No. 2 ed. Philip Rahv & William Phillips--- see under William Phillips.

The Berkley Book of Modern Writing No. 3 ed. Philip Rahv & William Phillips--- see under William Phillips.

Aladdin and the Flying Dutchman by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

Aladdin Relighted by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

Aladdin Sins Bad by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

Dolfin Tayle by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

Dragon Assassin by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

Jack and the Giants by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

The Journey by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

Lavabull by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

Samantha Moon Rising by J. R. Rain (BenBella Books, May 21, 2013, 978-1-937856-82-3, $14.95, 404pp, tp, om, cover by Cliff Nielsen)
Omnibus of volumes 5-7 in the Vampire for Hire series, previously published as e-books, all 2012: Vampire Dawn, Vampire Games, and Moon Island, plus a short story.
Details taken from online listing.

1 · Vampire Dawn [Vampire for Hire] · J. R. Rain · n. J.R. Rain Press, 2012

125 · Vampire Games [Vampire for Hire] · J. R. Rain · n. J.R. Rain Press, 2012

249 · Moon Island [Vampire for Hire] · J. R. Rain · n. J.R. Rain Press, 2012

387 · Teeth [Vampire for Hire] · J. R. Rain · nv Teeth and Other Stories by J. R. Rain, Crop Circle Books, 2009

Teeth and Other Stories by J. R. Rain (Crop Circle Books, 2009, tp, oc)
Details taken from online listing.

1 · Teeth [Vampire for Hire] · J. R. Rain · nv

27 · My Father Eyes · J. R. Rain · ss

36 · The Fridge · J. R. Rain · ss

55 · Die Spy · J. R. Rain · ss

63 · Step on a Crack · J. R. Rain · ss

74 · Two Ghosts · J. R. Rain · ss

The Worm Returns by J. R. Rain & Piers Anthony--- see under Piers Anthony.

The Mystical Cat ed. Dusty Rainbolt (Sky Warrior Book Publishing, January 2013, 978-1-5336-5116-7, 198pp, tp, oa, cover by Peter Bradley)
Details taken from online listing.

1 · Keeping the Tradition · Dana Bell · ss

10 · A Spoiled Rotten Cat Lives Here · Dusty Rainbolt · ss

22 · The Dagger, the Boy and the Cat · Livia Finucci · ss

37 · The Fixer · S. A. Bolich · ss

47 · A Cat Out of Time · Bev Freed · ss

65 · Shreddy and the Zomb-Dogs [Shreddy] · Mary E. Lowd · ss self-published, August 6 2012
previously available as an audio download from Anthropomorphic Dreams Publishing, November 4, 2011.

78 · Safe House · Alma Alexander · ss Cat Tales by Alma Alexander, Kos Books, 2011

90 · The Last Shaman · Esther & Frog Jones · ss

102 · The Curious Court of Miss Sassy · Robert D. Brewer · ss

109 · B & B · Karen Commings · ss Outer Darkness #31, 2005, as by C. S. Watts

124 · Protocol · Sam S. Kepfield · ss

136 · Feeding the Cat · Cynthia Ward · vi Keen Science Fiction! September 1996

138 · Elra · Patricia Sachs · ss

154 · The Promise · Janiss Garza · ss Summer’s Fabulous Cat Life October 31 2011, as “The Ghost Cat”

158 · Gone, Gone, Gone · Karen Pullen · ss Brea’s Tale and Other Stories by Karen Pullen, Luna Moth Press, 2012

165 · The Sewing Room Witch and Uncle Kitty · C. J. Ruby · ss

173 · Her Infinite Variety · Connie Wilkins · ss

185 · Opener of Doors · Lyn McConchie · ss Hazard Cat August 2010

Western Stories ed. William MacLeod Raine (Dell, 1949, pb, an)
Cover with woman whipping guy’s face. A Dell mapback.

· “The Feel of the West” · William MacLeod Raine · in

· “They’ve Shot Jug Murphy” · S. Omar Barker · ss Adventure May 1936

· “By Gollies, Yes!” · B. M. Bower · ss The Popular Magazine October 20 1919

· Grove Girl · Eugene Cunningham · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine December 1947

· The Wrong Side of the Fence · Harry Sinclair Drago · ss Short Stories August 10 1941

· The Makings · Norman A. Fox · ss Collier’s June 19 1948

· A Young Man’s Fancy · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s July 18 1942

· Road Runner · Henry Herbert Knibbs · ss Adventure August 15 1935

· Not a Redeeming Trait · Caroline Lockhart · ss The Popular Magazine 2nd January 1930

· A Lamb and Some Slaughtering · William Byron Mowery · ss Adventure February 10 1926

· Off the Trail · George Pattullo · ss McClure’s Magazine March 1912

· Water · Ross Santee · ss Collier’s April 27 1935

· Ranger Camp Cook · Raymond S. Spears · ss Zane Grey’s Western Magazine March 1948

Fugue Devil and Other Weird Horrors by Stephen M. Rainey (Macabre, Inc., 1992, no ISBN, $5.95, 86pp, tp, co, cover by Phillip Reynolds)
Small press collection of five horror stories, with an introduction by Robert M. Price and illustrations by Augie Wiedemann.

i · Homecoming to Horror · Robert M. Price · in

9 · Fugue Devil · Stephen M. Rainey · nv Fugue Devil and Other Weird Horrors by Stephen M. Rainey, Macabre, Inc., 1992

33 · Charon’s Wings · Stephen M. Rainey · ss 1990

51 · The Weird Violet · Stephen M. Rainey · ss 1991

67 · Return of the Navigator · Stephen M. Rainey · ss 1989

81 · Festival of the Jackal (Off Broadway) · Stephen M. Rainey · ss Grue #11, Winter 1990

Other Gods by Stephen Mark Rainey (Dark Regions Press, May 2008, 978-1-888993-56-1, $19.95, 292pp, tp, co, cover by M. Wayne Miller)
Collection of 16 stories, one original. Introduction by Elizabeth Massie. This is a signed edition; a signed hardcover edition of 100 ($45.00) and a lettered edition of 26 ($150.00) are also available.

7 · Rips in the Tent · Elizabeth Massie · in

11 · Fugue Devil · Stephen Mark Rainey · nv Fugue Devil and Other Weird Horrors by Stephen M. Rainey, Macabre, Inc., 1992

45 · Rapture in Black · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Crypt of Cthulhu #57, Roodmas 1988

57 · Sky of Thunder, Island of Blood · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Amazon Shorts 2005

73 · Other Gods · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Cemetery Dance #56, 2006

85 · Antidotes · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss

105 · Circus Bizarre · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Bizarre Bazaar #3, March 1994

121 · The Lake of Shadows · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Dark Wisdom #10, Spring 2006

133 · The Jack-o’-Lantern Memoirs · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Octoberland ed. William P. Simmins, Flesh & Blood Press, 2002

141 · Silhouette · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Cemetery Dance #24, Summer 1996

161 · The Violet Princess · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Eldritch Blue: Love & Sex in the Cthulhu Mythos ed. Kevin L. O'Brien, Lindisfarne Press/Cairnsford Tome, 2004

185 · Elegy · Stephen Mark Rainey · vi The Year in Darkness #2 ed. Bucky Montgomery, Montgomery Publishing, 1991

189 · Epiphany: A Flying Tiger’s Story · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Dead But Dreaming ed. Kevin Ross & Keith Herber, DarkTales Publications, 2002

211 · Signals [Cthulhu] · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss High Seas Cthulhu ed. William Jones, Elder Signs Press, 2007

223 · The Fire Dogs of Balustrade [Cthulhu] · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss New Mythos Legends ed. Bruce Gehweiler, Marietta Publishing, 1999

241 · The Transformer of Worlds · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Daikaiju! Giant Monster Tales ed. Robin Pen & Robert Hood, Agog! Press, 2005

265 · The Devil’s Eye · Stephen Mark Rainey · ss Tales of Lovecraftian Horror #4, 1996

Deathrealm: Spirits ed. Stephen Mark Rainey (Shortwave Media, October 17, 2023, 978-1-959565-17-8, 336pp, tp, oa, cover by J. Edward Neill)
Details taken from ebook Table of Contents.

· Introduction · Stephen Mark Rainey · in

· Ghosts in the Cells · Joe R. Lansdale · ss

· As Below, So Above · Linda D. Addison · ss

· To Fear and to Rage · Timothy G. Huguenin · ss

· Fort Lonely · Meghan Arcuri · ss

· Even if Our Wounds Never Close · Eric LaRocca · ss

· The Camosite · Elizabeth Massie · ss

· The Murder Wagon · Larry Blamire · ss

· A Shadow, Slowly Shifting · Heather D. Daughrity · ss

· I Was Going to Tell You Tonight · David Niall Wilson · ss

· The Ivory Bed · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · ss

· Bloody Roots · Brian Keene · ss

· The Running People · Maurice Broaddus · ss

· The Disappeared · Kasey Lansdale · ss

· Driving James Cole · Errick Nunnally · ss

· Dying River · Bridgett Nelson · ss

· Roadblock · Tony Tremblay · ss

· Nothing Bad Can Ever Happen to You Here · Patricia Lee Macomber · ss

· Ripples in a Pond · Richard Thomas · ss

· The Devil’s Bounty Hunter · Jeff Oliver · ss

· Prayers from the Mouth of Hell · Ronald Kelly · ss

Stranded: Stories from the Edge of Infinity… by Kimberly Raiser (Outskirts Press, April 2008, 978-1-4327-0601-2, $11.95, 157pp, tp, co, cover by Thomas Broadfoot)
Collection of 21 stories and pieces of flash fiction, many previously published online.

1 · Furious Thunder of Silence · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

7 · Stranded on Infinity · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

13 · The Machine of Humanity · Kimberly Raiser · ss Outercast #5, Winter 2006/2007

19 · One Minute · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

25 · Pits of Antholon · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

31 · Man Upon a Rock · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

37 · Hell of an Accident · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

45 · Invasion Prologue · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

53 · Edge of Sanity · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

59 · Sacrificial Lamb · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

71 · Man Upon a Rock Part II · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

75 · Eye Within · Kimberly Raiser · nv (r)

101 · Truth or Consequences · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

111 · Confessions of an Imaginary Friend · Kimberly Raiser · vi Twisted Tongue #7, August 2007

117 · Dream Numeric · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

125 · It Comes in Your Sleep · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

131 · Simple Rules for the Proper Execution of a Suicide (no pun intended) · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

133 · Porch of Some Concern · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

137 · Felonious Fruit · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

141 · Little Town Called Plink · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

155 · Empty Time of Virgil Marz · Kimberly Raiser · ss (r)

Obsessions ed. Gary Raisor (Dark Harvest, May 1991, 0-913165-55-7, $21.95, 317pp, hc, oa, cover by Rodger Gerberding)
Original anthology of 30 horror stories.

11 · The Interrogation · Dean R. Koontz · nv The Horror Show Summer 1987

33 · In the Cold, Dark Time · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Dark Harvest Summer/Fall Preview: 1990, Dark Harvest, 1990

37 · The Pleasure of Her Company · Thomas F. Monteleone · ss Dark Voices 2 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1990

45 · Woodgrains · John Shirley · ss

61 · Crispy Notes · Nicholas Royle · ss

67 · Somebody to Love · Scott A. Cupp · ss

71 · Topsy · F. Paul Wilson · ss Dark Harvest Summer/Fall Preview: 1990, Dark Harvest, 1990

79 · Franklin and the Can of Whup-Ass · Bill Crider · ss

97 · Killing Kate · Ed Gorman · ss

103 · Close Call · Stanley Wiater · ss

109 · Region of the Flesh · Richard Christian Matheson · ss

115 · The Cut · L. Bradley Law · pm

117 · Lady Madonna · Nancy Holder · ss

125 · Whose Turn Is It? · C. J. Henderson · ss

131 · Empathy · Glen Vasey · ss

141 · Vampire Dreamers · Lori Perkins · ss

147 · The Bookman · Chet Williamson · ss

159 · Girl of My Dreams · Charles L. Grant · ss

171 · She Would Have Been My Wife Had I Not Died · Dean Wesley Smith · ss

181 · Richard’s Head · Al Sarrantonio · ss

195 · The Man Who Looked Like Murphy · Rick Hautala · ss

209 · Short and Nasty · Darrell Schweitzer · ss

219 · Down Home · Edward Bryant · ss

225 · Hunter’s Moon [Tucker’s Grove] · Kevin J. Anderson · ss

239 · Heart of Gold · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss

247 · Self-Protection · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · vi

249 · Sanctuary of the Shrinking Soul · Elizabeth Massie · ss

263 · The Second Most Beautiful Woman in the World · A. R. Morlan · ss

277 · Alone of His Kind · David B. Silva · ss

293 · The Counselor · Dan Simmons · nv

Focus One ed. B. Rajan & Andrew Pearse (Dennis Dobson, 1945, 8/6d, hc, oa, cover by John Kashdan)
Details supplied by Richard Bleiler.

6 · Editorial · [uncredited] · ed; “Serial miscellany.” “We hope to average two a year.”

· Symposium on Kafka and Rex Warner

7 · Kafka—A Comparison with Rex Warner · B. Rajan · ar

14 · Franz Kafka: Faith and Vocation · D. S. Savage · ar

26 · The New Allegory · G. W. Stonier · ar

30 · A Note on Franz Kafka · Walter Allen · ar

33 · On Rex Warner · John Atkins · ar

38 · The Use of Misuse of Symbolism · D. J. Enright · ar

39 · Rex Warner’s Writing · Tom Harrisson · ar

41 · A Note on Allegory · Norman Nicholson · ar

43 · A Comment · Julian Symons · ar

44 · A Comment on Kafka · Kathleen Raine · ar

45 · An Analytical Note on the Allegory · R. Friedmann · ar

48 · The Hero Myth in Kafka’s Writing · Louis Adeane · ar

57 · The Unveiling of Kafka · L. Montano · ar

59 · Kafka and Rex Warner · George Woodcock · ar

· Poetry

66 · Two Poems · George Barker · pm

68 · Death of Ernest Toller · J. Bronowski · pm

69 · Welsh Hill · John Atkins · pm

70 · At Her Beck and Miracle · W. S. Graham · pm

71 · Two Poems · H. B. Mallalieu · pm

72 · The Ghost in the Cellerage · John Heath-Stubbs · pm

73 · St. James’ Park · Louis Adeane · pm

74 · Reality · Louis Adeane · pm

75 · Broadjump · Don Roscher · pm

76 · First Joy · Vernon Watkins · pm

77 · Ballad of the Two Tapsters · Vernon Watkins · pm

79 · Sonnet · George Woodcock · pm

79 · Tree Felling · George Woodcock · pm

80 · The Pattern · Peter Yates · pm

81 · The Adversary · Peter Yates · pm

· Prose

82 · Nine Men Upsidedown · Reginald Drake · ss

· Criticism

86 · The Muse in Confusion · D. J. Enright · ar

90 · Of Crisis and Dismay · Julian Symons · ar; a Study of Writing in the ’Thirties.

112 · The Self-consciousness of Modern Painting · Harold Osborn · ar

115 · Dos Passos and the American Theme · Andrew Pearse · ar

126 · Freedom and Restraint in Poetry and Criticism · R. G. Lienhardt · ar

133 · Arnold Schonberg—A Study in Evolution · Philip Harris · ar

139 · Fifty Years of English Music · Philip Radcliffe · ar

Words of Birth and Death by Hannu Rajaniemi (Bloc Press, Writers’ Bloc, 2006, £4.00, 44pp, pb, oc)
Published in a signed, numbered limited edition of 250 copies.
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · Johanna Sinisalo · in

· The Viper Blanket · Hannu Rajaniemi · ss

· Barley Child · Hannu Rajaniemi · ss

· Fisher of Men · Hannu Rajaniemi · ss

In Our Lovely Deseret: Mormon Fictions ed. Robert Raleigh (Signature Books, April 1998, 1-560-85119-8, $17.95, 300pp, hc, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Editor’s Preface · Robert Raleigh · pr

· Staying Away from Blake · Robert Hodgson Van Wagoner · ss (r)

· The Six-Buck Fortune · Helen Walker Jones · ss (r)

· Durfey Renews an Interest in Rodeo · Levi S. Peterson · ss (r)

· Almond Milk · Johnny Townsend · ss (r)

· My Father Waltzing Home · Jan Stucki · ss (r)

· Throwing the Bread · Ron Carlson · ss (r)

· Beyond a Certain Point · David Brandt Cooper · ss (r)

· Fidelity · Kristen Rogers · ss (r)

· Pure · Dawn Houghton · ss (r)

· The Prophets · Brian Evenson · ss (r)

· Something in the Shape of Something · Pauline Mortensen · ss (r)

· Sleuths · Derek Gullino · ss (r)

· Not Quite Peru · Lee Ann Mortensen · ss (r)

· Badlands · Joanna Brooks · ss (r)

· Spirit Babies · Phyllis Barber · ss (r)

· Red Moon Rising · Dorothy Solomon · ss (r)

· Love, Mormon Style · Bob Bringhurst · ss (r)

· Brainwaves · Kathryn S. Egan · ss (r)

· Twinkie · Thomas Burgess · ss (r)

· Mormon Eden · Walter Kirn · ss The New Yorker June 9 1997

· Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Art of Warhammer 40,000 by Matthew Ralphs & Marc Gascoigne--- see under Marc Gascoigne.

The Life of Sigmar by Matthew Ralphs & Gavin Thorpe (Black Library, October 20, 2005, 1-84416-250-8, £12.00, 96pp, hc, nv) [Warhammer: Age of Sigmar]
Subtitled “Being the Epic Tale of the Warrior-God Sigmar, and the Founding of The Empire”.
Details taken from online listing.

Songs of Childhood by Walter Ramal (Longmans, Green, and Co., January 1902, 106pp, hc, oc)
Details taken from online listing.

1 · The Gnomies · Walter Ramal · pm

3 · Bluebells · Walter Ramal · pm

4 · Lovelocks · Walter Ramal · pm

5 · O Dear Me! · Walter Ramal · pm

6 · Tartary · Walter Ramal · pm

8 · The Buckle · Walter Ramal · pm

9 · The Hare · Walter Ramal · pm

10 · Bunches of Grapes · Walter Ramal · pm

11 · John Mouldy · Walter Ramal · pm

12 · The Fly · Walter Ramal · pm

13 · Song (“O for a Moon to Light Me Home!”) · Walter Ramal · pm

14 · I Saw Three Witches · Walter Ramal · pm

16 · The Silver Penny · Walter Ramal · pm

18 · The Night-Swans · Walter Ramal · pm

20 · The Fairies Dancing · Walter Ramal · pm

22 · Reverie · Walter Ramal · pm

24 · The Three Beggars · Walter Ramal · pm

27 · The Dwarf · Walter Ramal · pm

30 · Alulvan · Walter Ramal · pm

32 · The Pedlar · Walter Ramal · pm

36 · The Grey Wolf · Walter Ramal · pm

37 · The Ogre · Walter Ramal · pm

41 · Dame Hickory · Walter Ramal · pm

43 · The Pilgrim · Walter Ramal · pm

48 · The Gage · Walter Ramal · pm

53 · As Lucy Went A-Walking · Walter Ramal · pm

58 · The Englishman · Walter Ramal · pm

62 · The Phantom · Walter Ramal · pm

68 · The Miller and His Son · Walter Ramal · pm

71 · Down-Adown-Derry · Walter Ramal · pm

75 · The Supper · Walter Ramal · pm

78 · The Isle of Lone · Walter Ramal · pm

83 · The Sleeping Beauty · Walter Ramal · pm

84 · The Horn · Walter Ramal · pm

85 · Captain Lean · Walter Ramal · pm

87 · The Portrait of a Warrior · Walter Ramal · pm

88 · Haunted · Walter Ramal · pm

90 · The Raven’s Tomb · Walter Ramal · pm

91 · The Christening · Walter Ramal · pm

93 · The Mother Bird · Walter Ramal · pm

94 · The Child in the Story Goes to Bed · Walter Ramal · pm

96 · The Child in the Story Awakes · Walter Ramal · pm

98 · The Lamplighter · Walter Ramal · pm

100 · Cecil · Walter Ramal · pm

102 · I Met at Eve · Walter Ramal · pm

104 · Lullaby · Walter Ramal · pm

106 · Envoy · Walter Ramal · pm

Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight by Cat Rambo (Paper Golem, August 2009, 978-0-9795349-5-9, $14.00, 177pp, tp, oc, cover by Carrie Ann Baade) [edited by Michael Livingston & Lawrence M. Schoen]
Collection of 20 stories, six original. Introduction by Michael Livingston.
Details taken from online listing.

9 · Eight Letters of Wonder · Michael Livingston · in

11 · Her Eyes Like Sky, and Coal, and Moonlight · Cat Rambo · ss

21 · The Accordion · Cat Rambo · vi The Cafe Irreal #14, May 2005

25 · I’ll Gnaw Your Bones, the Manticore Said [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #10, July 2007

37 · Heart in a Box · Cat Rambo · ss

45 · In the Lesser Southern Isles [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss

57 · Up the Chimney · Cat Rambo · ss Postcards from… March 7 2008

59 · The Silent Familiar · Cat Rambo · ss

69 · Events at Fort Plentitude [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Weird Tales January/February 2008

77 · Dew Drop Coffee Lounge · Cat Rambo · ss Clockwork Phoenix ed. Mike Allen, Norilana Books, 2008

85 · Narrative of a Beast’s Life [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Realms of Fantasy December 2009

101 · Eagle-Haunted Lake Sammamish · Cat Rambo · ss Shimmer v2 #2, 2007

111 · Sugar [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy ed. Sean Wallace & Paul G. Tremblay, Prime Books, 2007

119 · A Key Decides Its Destiny [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Say… #6, 2007

123 · The Towering Monarch of His Mighty Race · Cat Rambo · ss Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show #6, October 2007

137 · In Order to Conserve · Cat Rambo · ss

141 · Rare Pears and Greengages [Altered America] · Cat Rambo · ss

151 · A Twine of Flame [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss

161 · The Dead Girl’s Wedding March [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy Magazine #5, Winter 2006/2007

165 · Worm Within · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #24, September 2008

169 · Magnificent Pigs · Cat Rambo · ss Strange Horizons November 27 2006

177 · A Chronology of Tabat · [uncredited] · bi

Near + Far by Cat Rambo (Hydra House, September 19, 2012, 978-0-9848301-4-5, $14.95, 157+145pp, tp, co, cover by Sean Counley)
Collection, or omnibus of two collections published Ace Double style: Near with 12 near-future stories and Far with 12 far-future stories (three original).
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · Cat Rambo · in

· Near · Cat Rambo · co

· The Mermaids Singing, Each to Each · Cat Rambo · ss Clarkesworld #38, November 2009

· Peaches of Immortality · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy Magazine (online) #51, June 2011, as “The Immortality Game”

· Close Your Eyes · Cat Rambo · ss Apex Magazine #21, February 2011

· Therapy Buddha · Cat Rambo · ss 2020 Visions ed. Rick Novy, M-Brane Press, 2010

· Ms. Liberty Gets a Haircut · Cat Rambo · ss Strange Horizons October 26 2009

· 10 New Metaphors for Cyberspace · Cat Rambo · ss Abyss & Apex #21, 1st Quarter 2007

· Memories of Moments, Bright as Falling Stars · Cat Rambo · ss Talebones #34, Winter 2006

· RealFur · Cat Rambo · ss Serpentarius v1 #1, 2008

· Not Waving, but Drowning · Cat Rambo · ss Redstone Science Fiction #6, November 2010

· Vocobox · Cat Rambo · ss

· Long Enough and Just So Long · Cat Rambo · ss Lightspeed #9, February 2011

· Legends of the Gone · Cat Rambo · ss Talebones #39, Winter 2009

· Far · Cat Rambo · co

· Futures · Cat Rambo · ss The Dream People November 2011

· Kallakak’s Cousins · Cat Rambo · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction March 2008

· Amid the Words of War · Cat Rambo · ss Lightspeed #4, September 2010

· Timesnip · Cat Rambo · ss Basement Stories August 2011

· Angry Rose’s Lament · Cat Rambo · ss Abyss & Apex #28, 4th Quarter 2008

· Seeking Nothing · Cat Rambo · ss Daily Science Fiction September 10 2010

· A Querulous Flute of Bone · Cat Rambo · ss Tales from the Fathomless Abyss ed. Philip Athans, Athans & Associates Creative Consulting, 2011

· Zeppelin Follies · Cat Rambo · ss Crossed Genres Magazine #36, December 2011

· Space Elevator Music · Cat Rambo · ss

· Surrogates · Cat Rambo · ss Clockwork Phoenix 3 ed. Mike Allen, Norilana Books, 2010

· Five Ways to Fall in Love on Planet Porcelain · Cat Rambo · ss

· Bus Ride to Mars · Cat Rambo · ss Daily Science Fiction February 24 2012

The Surgeon’s Tale and Other Stories by Cat Rambo & Jeff VanderMeer (Two Free Lancers Press, December 2007, 978-0-8095-7268-7, $9.99, 90pp, tp, co, cover by James Owen)
Collection of six fantasy stories, one collaborative, three solo stories by Rambo, one solo by VanderMeer, and one a collaboration between VanderMeer, M.F. Korn, & D.F. Lewis. Illustrated by Kris Dikeman.

9 · The Surgeon’s Tale · Jeff VanderMeer & Cat Rambo · nv Subterranean (online) Winter 2007

49 · The Dead Girl’s Wedding March [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Fantasy Magazine #5, Winter 2006/2007

55 · The Farmer’s Cat · Jeff VanderMeer · ss Polyphony, Volume 5 ed. Deborah Layne & Jay Lake, Wheatland Press, 2005

63 · A Key Decides Its Destiny [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Say… #6, 2007

71 · Three Sons · Cat Rambo · ss 2001

75 · The Strange Case of the Lovecraft Café · M. F. Korn, Des Lewis & Jeff VanderMeer · ss Scattered, Covered, Smothered ed. Jason Erik Lundberg, Two Cranes Press, 2004

If This Goes On ed. Cat Rambo (Parvus Press, 2019, 978-0-9997842-1-1, $19.99, 296pp, tp, oa, cover by Bernard Lee)
Kickstarter edition.
Details taken from online listing.

1 · Green Glass: A Love Story · E. Lily Yu · ss

11 · Twelve Histories Scrawled in the Sky · Aimee Ogden · ss

15 · Dead Wings · Rachel Chimits · ss

27 · Welcome to Gray · Cyd Athens · ss

43 · The Stranded Time Traveler Embraces the Inevitable · Scott Edelman · ss

51 · Good Pupils · Jack Lothian · ss

59 · All the Good Dogs Have Been Eaten · Gregory Jeffers · ss

71 · The Sinking Tide · Conor Powers-Smith · ss

75 · Mustard Seeds and the Elephant’s Foot · Priya Sridhar · ss

85 · Mr. Percy’s Shortcut · Andy Duncan · ss

95 · A Gardener’s Guide to the Apocalypse · Lynette Mejía · ss

109 · But for Grace · Hal Y. Zhang · ss

125 · Hurrah! Another Year, Surely This One Will Be Better Than the Last; The Inexorable March of Progress Will Lead Us All to Happiness · Nick Mamatas · ss

129 · The Last Adventure of Jack Laff: The Dayveil Gambit · Steven Barnes · ss

147 · Three Data Units · Kitty-Lydia Dye · ss

161 · One Shot · Tiffany E. Wilson · ss

173 · King Harvest (Will Surely Come) · Nisi Shawl · ss

181 · Counting the Days · Kathy Schilbach · ss

189 · Making Happy · Zandra Renwick · ss

201 · The Machine · Chris Kluwe · ss

209 · That Our Flag Was Still There · Sarah Pinsker · ss

223 · The Editor’s Eyes · Calie Voorhis · ss

229 · Free WiFi · Marie Vibbert · ss

241 · Discobolos · James Wood · ss

249 · Fine · Jamie Lackey · ss

253 · Bulletproof Tattoos · Paul Crenshaw · ss

267 · Call and Answer · Langley Hyde · ss

273 · A Pocketful of Dolphins · Judy Helfrich · ss

285 · Tasting Bleach and Decay in the City of Dust · Beth Dawkins · ss

289 · The Choices You Make · Sylvia Spruck Wrigley · ss

Nebula Awards Showcase 56: Outstanding Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Cat Rambo (Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America, January 6, 2025, 978-1-958243-00-8, $18.95, 487pp, tp, an, cover by Lauren Raye Snow)
Details supplied by John Boston.

1 · Introduction · Cat Rambo · in

5 · Part One: Essay

7 · Cerberus Is the Family Dog: Adapting Greek Myth in Hades · Greg Kasavin · ar

15 · The Good Place: Life, Death, and the Meaning of Everything · Kelly Robson · ar

23 · Part Two: Short Story

25 · Advanced Word Problems in Portal Math · Aimee Picchi · vi Daily Science Fiction January 3 2020

29 · Badass Moms in the Zombie Apocalypse · Rae Carson · ss Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020

47 · The Eight-Thousanders · Jason Sanford · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction September/October 2020

69 · A Guide for Working Breeds · Vina Jie-Min Prasad · nv Made to Order ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris US, 2020

97 · My Country Is a Ghost · Eugenia Triantafyllou · ss Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020

111 · Open House on Haunted Hill · John Wiswell · ss Diabolical Plots #64, June 2020

121 · Part Three: Novelette

123 · Burn or The Episodic Life of Sam Wells as a Super · A. T. Greenblatt · nv Uncanny Magazine #34, May/June 2020

155 · The Pill · Meg Elison · nv Big Girl Plus… by Meg Elison, PM Press, 2020

187 · Shadow Prisons · Caroline M. Yoachim · gp (r)

_187 · Part 1: The Shadow Prison Experiment [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Ignorance Is Strength ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020

_203 · Part 2: Shadow Prisons of the Mind [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Burn the Ashes ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020

_220 · Part 3: The Shadow Prisoner’s Dilemma [Vivian Watanabe] · Caroline M. Yoachim · ss Or Else the Light ed. John Joseph Adams, Hugh Howey & Christie Yant, Broad Reach Publishing, 2020

239 · Stepsister · Leah Cypess · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May/June 2020

279 · Two Truths and a Lie · Sarah Pinsker · nv Tor.com June 17 2020

313 · Where You Linger · Bonnie Jo Stufflebeam · nv Uncanny Magazine #32, January/February 2020

345 · Part Four: Novella

347 · Finna · Nino Cipri · ex Tor.com, February 25 2020

369 · The Four Profound Weaves · R. B. Lemberg · ex Tachyon, September 1 2020

391 · Ife-Iyoku, The Tale of Imadeyunuagbon · Oghenechovwe Donald Ekpeki · ex Selene Quarterly Magazine August 2019

405 · Ring Shout · P. Djèlí Clark · ex Tor.com, October 13 2020

419 · Riot Baby · Tochi Onyebuchi · ex Tor.com, January 21 2020

425 · Tower of Mud and Straw · Yaroslav Barsukov · ex Metaphorosis November 2020, as “The Tulips”

441 · Part Five: Novel

443 · Network Effect [Murderbot Diaries] · Martha Wells · ex Tor.com, May 5 2020

459 · Part Six: Middle Grade and Young Adult Fiction

461 · A Wizard’s Guide to Defensive Baking · T. Kingfisher · ex Argyll Productions, July 2020

477 · Contributor Biographies · [uncredited] · bg

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, and Other Novelettes by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Cecil Castlemaine’s Gage, and Other Novelettes (var. 1) by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

A Leaf in the Storm; A Dog of Flanders and Other Stories by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Madame la Marquise and Other Novelettes by Maria Louise Ramé--- see under Ouida.

Triangulation: Last Contact ed. Steve Ramey & Jamie Lackey--- see under Jamie Lackey.

Triangulation: Morning After ed. Stephen V. Ramey (PARSEC Ink, July 27, 2012, 978-0-9828606-2-5, $15.00, 210pp, tp, oa, cover by Susan Urbanek Linville)
Original anthology of 24 stories, four reprints; part of an annual series. Authors include Camille Alexa, Ken Chiacchia, and Madhvi Ramani.
Details taken from online listing.

· How the Caterpillar Cheated Death · H. M. McInnes · ss

· The Blue of Distance · Erich William Bergmeier · ss

· Scar Tissue Wings · Aaron Polson · ss

· After the Pipers · Camille Alexa · ss

· Nocte Finem · Henry Tjernlund · ss

· A Late Wind · Tami Harris · ss

· The Zombie Reader · Bruce Memblatt · ss

· After-Spin · Kylie Bullivant · ss

· The Slap of the Plow · Gordon A. Graves · ss

· While She Sleeps, Mountains Tremble · Milo James Fowler · ss

· Orbium · Kalisa Lessnau · ss

· Colliding · Alex Gorman · ss

· The Beast · Jacques Barbéri · ss

· That Goldurned Hole · Gary Cuba · ss

· Nyabinghi’s Sacred Drum · Susan Urbanek Linville · ss

· Protection from Darkness · Jamie Lackey · ss

· The House, the Garden, and Occupants · Amanda C. Davis · ss

· Lilith · Madhvi Ramani · ss

· Course Correction · Kenneth B. Chiacchia · ss

· The Passing-Bell · Lydia S. Gray · ss

· What Now, Callisthenes · Christine Lucas · ss

· The Blue Testament · Marshall Payne · ss Kaleidotrope #5, October 2008

· All Unlooked For · Nathaniel Lee · ss

· The Third Portal · DeAnna Knippling · ss

Bewitched, Bothered & BeVampyred ed. Terey Daly Ramin & Gail Northman--- see under Gail Northman.

Vacation Stories by Santiago Ramon y Cajal (University of Illinois Press, June 2001, 0-252-02655-1, $19.95, xxiii+245pp, hc, co, cover by Glen C. Davies)
Collection of five early SF tales, with an introduction and translation by Laura Otis from (Cuentos de vacaciones: Narraciones seudocientificas 1905 as by “Dr. Bacteria”). This is the first English translation.

vii · Introduction · Laura Otis · in

xxi · Preface · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · pr

1 · For a Secret Offense, Secret Revenge · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

38 · The Fabricator of Honor · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

69 · The Accursed House · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

122 · The Corrected Pessimist · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

169 · The Natural Man and the Artificial Man · Santiago Ramon y Cajal; translated by Laura Otis · nv

243 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi

Smoke Signals by Octavio Ramos, Jr. (Delirium Books, November 2000, $6.00, 72pp, ph, co, cover by Jason Just)
Details taken from online listing.

· Chico’s Hand · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · in

· A Disciple of the Wolf · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ar

· Iselda · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · vi Black Lotus v1 #2, 1993

· The Call · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss Red Eft Fall 1994

· Faith · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss The Silver Web #7, Fall/Winter 1991

· The Sound of Chicharones · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Chant for Sonya Wolf · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Punk Bitch · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss After Hours Winter 1990

· Abigail’s Hand Mirror · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss Whispers from the Shattered Forum #3, Summer 2000

· Jack’s Lantern · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· The Eyes of Eretica · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Passchendaele · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

· Children of the Sun · Octavio Ramos, Jr. · ss

The First Panther Book of Horror ed. Anthony Rampton (Panther, December 1965, 1956, 5/-, 268pp, pb, an)
No further volumes in the series appeared.

7 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item”

19 · The Premature Burial · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Dollar Newspaper July 31 1844

33 · Sombrero · Martin Armstrong · ss The London Mercury February 1929

51 · Dead Language Master · Joan Aiken · ss

59 · Someone in the Lift · L. P. Hartley · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955

65 · The Insanity of Jones · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907

92 · A Drive in the Country · Graham Greene · ss The Passing Show March 21 1936, as “Crazy Elopement”

107 · Decay · J. C. Moore · ss King Carnival by John C. Moore, Dent, 1933

117 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914
written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length.

130 · The Silver Mask · Hugh Walpole · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1932

145 · The Trial for Murder · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1865, as “To Be Taken with a Grain of Salt”, uncredited.

157 · A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest · Amelia B. Edwards · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1872, as by The Author of “Barbara’s History”, “Debenham’s Vow”, etc.

182 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924

202 · The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde · Robert Louis Stevenson · na Longmans, Green, January 5 1886

The Panther Book of Horror ed. Anthony Rampton (Panther, 1968, 268pp, pb, an)
Reprint (Panther 1965 as The First Panther Book of Horror) ghost/horror anthology.

The Gods Perspire by Ken Rand (Fairwood Press, November 2008, 978-0-9789078-9-1, $18.99, 302pp, tp, co)
Collection of 38 stories, nine original. Foreword by Ken Rand. Introduction by Dean Wesley Smith. Volume Two in “The Collected Short Fiction”.

· Foreword · Ken Rand · fw

· Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in

· Doubles · Ken Rand · ss Scavenger’s Newsletter #100, 1992

· The Nine Billion Names of Arthur C. Clarke · Ken Rand · ss VB Tech Journal July 1996

· The Gods Perspire · Ken Rand · ss L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIII ed. Dave Wolverton, Bridge, 1997

· Bridge Over Troubled Waters · Ken Rand · ss Talebones #3, Spring 1996

· With Forked Tongue · Ken Rand · ss Talebones #4, Summer 1996

· Brass Bottle · Ken Rand · ss Zone 9 Magazine August 1996

· The Waiting Game · Ken Rand · ss Quantum Speculative Fiction ed. Kurt Roth, Obscura Press, 1999

· Murphy’s Luck · Ken Rand · ss Here & Now #4, Autumn 2004

· Bell of Santa Ysobel · Ken Rand · ss Millennium Science Fiction & Fantasy Magazine July 1996

· Adventures of Afterlife Al, the Dead Detective · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· Don’t Touch · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· Read Directions Carefully · Ken Rand · ss The Q Review 1997

· Side Effects · Ken Rand · ss

· An ICBM for Stephanie · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· How I Saved Elvis’ Butt—and Freddie’s Too · Ken Rand · ss The Fifth Di… June 1998

· The Geezers · Ken Rand · ss Murderous Intent Winter 1996

· Good Neighbors · Ken Rand · ss Electric Wine 2001

· Thing in Eddie Draper’s Backyard · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· A Tail · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· Good Vibrations · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· Hide and Seek · Ken Rand · ss The Tale Spinner v1 #2, 1995

· Rise Above It All · Ken Rand · ss The Sixth Sense Magazine April 1997

· As We Know It · Ken Rand · ss Maelstrom Speculative Fiction #2, 1998

· Acing Anthro 201 · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· Snowflakes, One by One · Ken Rand · ss Little Green Men #3, Winter 1997

· Scratch, at the Door · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· To See Clearly · Ken Rand · ss Next Phase #14, 1995

· Plan 9 from Planet Hollywood · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· Patient Are the Scavengers · Ken Rand · ss (r)

· Charlie’s in the Bottle [Lucky Nickel] · Ken Rand · ss Tales of the Lucky Nickel by Ken Rand, Yard Dog Press, 2002

· Queen o’ the Dragons [Lucky Nickel] · Ken Rand · ss Faeries Spring 2000

· The Problem with Mermaids [Lucky Nickel] · Ken Rand · ss Extremes 3: Terror on the High Seas ed. Brian A. Hopkins, Cemetery Dance, 2001
originally published in Frence in Faeries #3, Winter, 2000.

· The Grim Reaper Drops By [Lucky Nickel] · Ken Rand · ss Gothic.Net website January 2001

· A Spider Poor Cowboy Rapt and Wide Lemon [Lucky Nickel] · Ken Rand · ss Faeries Fall 2000

· The Vampire Who Doted on His Chicken · Ken Rand · ss Challenging Destiny #23, November 2006

· Mr. Gibber Saves the Day · Ken Rand · ss Through Wyoming Eyes by Ken Rand, Yard Dog Press, 2006

· The Clockwork Sheriff · Ken Rand · ss Through Wyoming Eyes by Ken Rand, Yard Dog Press, 2006
first published in French (“Le shérif mécanique”, Science et sortilèges ed. Nicolas Cluzeau, Fractales/Fantasy, 2002).

· Calamity Djinn · Ken Rand · ss Through Wyoming Eyes by Ken Rand, Yard Dog Press, 2006

Human Visions: The Talebones Interviews by Ken Rand (Fairwood Press, November 2006, 978-0-9746573-9-4, $17.99, 240pp, tp, nf, cover by Patrick Swenson)
Non-fiction collection of 31 interviews originally done for Talebones Magazine. Foreword by Patrick Swenson; introduction by Rand. Authors interviewed include Lois McMaster Bujold, Jonathan Lethem, Peter Straub, and Roger Zelazny.
Details taken from online listing.

10 · Foreword · Patrick Swenson · fw

12 · Introduction · Ken Rand · in

16 · The Talebones Interview: Kevin J. Anderson · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #27, Winter 2003 [Ref. Kevin J. Anderson]

23 · The Talebones Interview: Greg Bear · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #19, Spring 2000 [Ref. Greg Bear]

31 · The Talebones Interview: Ben Bova · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #30, Summer 2005 [Ref. Ben Bova]

37 · Talebones Interview: Ed Bryant · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #16, Summer 1999 [Ref. Edward Bryant]

45 · The Talebones Interview: Lois McMaster Bujold · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #6, Winter 1997 [Ref. Lois McMaster Bujold]

53 · Talebones Interview: Jack Cady · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #12, Summer 1998 [Ref. Jack Cady]

60 · The Talebones Interview: C.J. Cherryh · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #5, Fall 1996 [Ref. C. J. Cherryh]

68 · The Talebones Interview: Charles de Lint · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #23, Winter 2001 [Ref. Charles de Lint]

75 · The Talebones Interview: Michael & Kathleen Gear · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #4, Summer 1996 [Ref. Kathleen O’Neal & W. Michael Gear]

81 · The Talebones Interview: Joe Haldeman · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #26, Summer 2003 [Ref. Joe W. Haldeman]

87 · The Talebones Interview: James P. Hogan · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #25, Fall 2002 [Ref. James P. Hogan]

94 · The Talebones Interview: K.W. Jeter · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #13, October 1998 [Ref. K. W. Jeter]

102 · The Talebones Interview: Kay Kenyon · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #28, Summer 2004 [Ref. Kay Kenyon]

107 · The Talebones Interview: Sharon Lee & Steve Miller · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #31, Winter 2005 [Ref. Sharon Lee & Steve Miller]

113 · The Talebones Interview: Jonathan Lethem · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #15, Spring 1999 [Ref. Jonathan Lethem]

120 · The Talebones Interview: Louise Marley · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #32, Spring 2006 [Ref. Louise Marley]

125 · Talebones Interview: Vonda N. McIntyre · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #17, Fall 1999 [Ref. Vonda N. McIntyre]

132 · The Talebones Interview: Eric Nylund · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #18, Winter 2000 [Ref. Eric S. Nylund]

139 · The Talebones Interview: Tom Piccirilli · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #29, Winter 2004 [Ref. Tom Piccirilli]

144 · The Talebones Interview: Tim Powers · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #9, Fall 1997 [Ref. Tim Powers]

152 · Talebones Interview: Bill Ransom · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #11, Spring 1998 [Ref. Bill Ransom]

159 · The Talebones Interview: Spider Robinson · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #10, Winter 1998 [Ref. Spider Robinson]

167 · The Talebones Interview: Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #8, Summer 1997 [Ref. Dean Wesley Smith & Kristine Kathryn Rusch]

175 · The Talebones Interview: Fred Saberhagen · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #7, Spring 1997 [Ref. Fred Saberhagen]

183 · The Talebones Interview: Dan Simmons · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #22, Fall 2001 [Ref. Dan Simmons]

191 · The Talebones Interview: Peter Straub · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #21, Spring 2001 [Ref. Peter Straub]

199 · The Talebones Interview: Amy Thomson · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #20, Fall 2000 [Ref. Amy Thomson]

207 · The Talebones Interview: Harry Turtledove · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #24, Spring 2002 [Ref. Harry Turtledove]

214 · The Talebones Interview: Connie Willis · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #14, Winter 1999 [Ref. Connie Willis]

222 · Talebones Interview: Roger Zelazny · Ken Rand · iv Talebones #3, Spring 1996 [Ref. Roger Zelazny]

230 · Interviewing the Interviewer · Ken Scholes & Jen West · iv [Ref. Ken Rand]

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