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The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror 2008: Twenty-First Annual Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant (St. Martin’s, October 2008, 978-0-312-38047-2, $35.00, cxiii + 458pp, hc, an, cover by Thomas Canty)     Best-of-the-year anthology, 21st in the series, with 33 stories, seven poems, and 97 additional pages containing a necrology by James Frenkel, summations of 2007 fantasy and horror by the editors, and comments on media by Edward Bryant, comics by Jeff VanderMeer, and music by Charles de Lint. Also available as a St. Martin’s Griffin trade paperback (-38048-9, $21.95). Packaged and copyrighted by James Frenkel & Associates. xvii · Summation 2007: Fantasy · Kelly Link & Gavin J. Grant · ar xli · Summation 2007: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar lxxvii · The Year in Media of the Fantastic: 2007 · Edward Bryant · ar xciii · Fantasy in Comics and Graphic Novels: 2007 · Jeff VanderMeer · ar ci · Music of the Fantastic: 2007 · Charles de Lint · ar cix · Obituaries: 2007 · James Frenkel · ob 1 · The Cambist and Lord Iron: A Fairy Tale of Economics · Daniel Abraham · nv Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories ed. John Klima, Bantam Spectra, 2007 16 · Vampires in the Lemon Grove · Karen Russell · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Winter 2007 27 · Holiday · M. Rickert · ss Subterranean #7, 2007 35 · Hum Drum · Gary McMahon · ss The First Humdrumming Book of Horror Stories ed. Ian Alexander Martin, Humdrumming, 2007 44 · Scenes of Hell · Billy Collins · pm A Public Space #3, Spring 2007 45 · Splitfoot · Paul Walther · ss New Genre Spring 2007 54 · The House of Mechanical Pain · Chaz Brenchley · ss Phantoms at the Phil: The Third Proceedings, Side Real Press, 2007 69 · The Last Worders · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #20, June 2007 79 · The Monsters of Heaven · Nathan Ballingrud · ss Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2007 91 · The Fiddler of Bayou Teche · Delia Sherman · nv The Coyote Road ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2007 103 · Monkey · Eliza Griswold · pm The New Yorker February 5 2007 104 · Mr. Poo-Poo · Reggie Oliver · ss At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007 117 · Winter’s Wife · Elizabeth Hand · nv Wizards ed. Jack Dann & Gardner Dozois, Berkley, 2007 140 · Troll · Nathalie Anderson · pm The Journal of Mythic Arts Winter 2007 142 · The Tenth Muse · William Browning Spencer · nv Subterranean #6, 2007 158 · The Drowned Life · Jeffrey Ford · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007 171 · The Swing · Don Tumasonis · ss At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007 189 · Follow Me Home · Sonya Taaffe · pm Lone Star Stories #19, February 2007 191 · The Forest · Laird Barron · nv Inferno ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2007 212 · Fragrant Goddess · Paul Park · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2007 224 · Up the Fire Road · Eileen Gunn · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007 241 · The Gray Boy’s Work · M. T. Anderson · nv The Restless Dead ed. Deborah Noyes, Candlewick Press, 2007 256 · The Seven Devils of Central California · Catherynne M. Valente · pm Farrago’s Wainscot #3, July 2007 265 · The Merchant and the Alchemist’s Gate · Ted Chiang · nv Subterranean Press, July 2007 282 · Valentine, July Heat Wave · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March/April 2007 289 · A Thing Forbidden · Donald Mead · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction April 2007 300 · A Reversal of Fortune · Holly Black · ss The Coyote Road ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2007 309 · Village Smart · Maggie Smith · pm Mid-American Review v27 #2, 2007 310 · Rats · Veronica Schanoes · ss Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing ed. Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, Interstitial Arts Foundation, 2007 318 · A Perfect and Unmappable Grace · Jack M. Haringa · ss Bandersnatch ed. Paul Tremblay & Sean Wallace, Prime Books, 2007 325 · The Boulder · Lucy Kemnitzer · ss Fantasy Magazine #6, Spring 2007 334 · The Hill · Tanith Lee · nv The Mammoth Book of Monsters ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 2007 356 · Lovers: (Jaafar the Winged) · Khaled Mattawa · pm Mid-American Review v28 #1, 2007 358 · The Ape Man · Alexander MacBride · vi McSweeney’s #25, 2007 360 · The Hide · Liz Williams · ss Strange Horizons May 7 2007; illustrated by Liz Clarke 368 · England and Nowhere · Tim Nickels · ss Nemonymous #7, 2007, uncredited. 379 · Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz Go to War Again [Sir Hereward and Mister Fitz] · Garth Nix · nv Jim Baen’s Universe April 2007 399 · Toother [Dan Truswell] · Terry Dowling · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007 415 · Closet Dreams · Lisa Tuttle · ss Postscripts #10, Spring 2007; illustrated by David Kendall 423 · The Evolution of Trickster Stories Among the Dogs of North Park After the Change · Kij Johnson · nv The Coyote Road ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, Viking, 2007 439 · Honorable Mentions: 2007 · [uncredited] · bi

The Elemental: Tales of the Supernormal and the Inexplicable by Ulric Daubeny (Ash-Tree Press, July 28, 2006, 978-1-55310-090-4, C$50.00, xiv +166pp, hc, co)     Reprint (Routledge 1919) collection. This adds one story (“The Goblet”) that wasn’t in the original edition. This is a limited edition of 500. A world-wide edition available in the US for $46.00 and in the UK for £27.00. Details supplied by Denny Lien. ix · Introduction · Douglas A. Anderson · in 3 · The Elemental · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 5 · The Diary · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 21 · The Garden That Was Desolate · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 31 · The Sumach · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 41 · Winds of Memory · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 49 · The Hand of Glory · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 63 · Matheson’s Mummy · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 73 · ’H. F.’ · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 83 · The Broze Devil · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 93 · The People of the Hidden Room · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 103 · The Apostate · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 113 · A Lasting Legacy · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 123 · The Other Occupant · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 127 · As It Was Written · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 135 · Scarlet Poppies · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 139 · The Serpent · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Elemental by Ulric Daubeny, Routledge, 1919 147 · The Goblet · Ulric Daubeny · ss The Premier Magazine #60, April 1919 157 · Sources and Acknowledgments · Douglas A. Anderson · ms

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Deals with the Devil ed. Basil Davenport (ghost written by ed. Albert Paul Blaustein) (Dodd, Mead, September 4, 1958, $4.00, xvii+332pp, hc, an) xi · Introduction · Basil Davenport · in 1 · The Brazen Locked Room · Isaac Asimov · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1956 9 · Time Trammel · Miriam Allen deFord · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1956 16 · Impact with the Devil · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1956 27 · Doctor Faustus · [uncredited] · ss (r) 37 · The Devil and Mr. Chips · Charles Dickens · ss from The Uncommercial Traveller, Chapman & Hall, 1860; also known as “The Rat That Could Speak”. 43 · Sir Dominick’s Bargain · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round July 6 1872, uncredited. revised from “The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh”, Dublin University Magazine Mar 1838. 61 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916 95 · A Deal with the Devil [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Collier’s August 31 1946 117 · Satan and Sam Shay · Robert Arthur · ss The Elks Magazine August 1942 135 · The Legend of Mont St. Michel · Guy de Maupassant · ss 1888 translated from the French (“La légende du Mont Saint-Michel”, Gil Blas December 19, 1882 as by Maufrigneuse). 141 · The Tinker of Tamlacht · Seumas MacManus · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903 151 · The Devil and Simon Flagg · Arthur Porges · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1954 160 · The Devil and the Old Man · John Masefield · ss The Green Sheaf #6, 1903, as “A Deep Sea Yarn” 167 · Devil-Puzzlers · F. B. Perkins · ss Old and New August 1871 186 · Threshold · Henry Kuttner · ss Unknown December 1940 206 · The Three Wishes · Vance Randolph · ss (r) 209 · Nellthu · Anthony Boucher · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955 211 · Threesie · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1956 222 · A Bargain in Bodies · Moses Schere · ss Unknown Worlds June 1943 240 · Caveat Emptor [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss Weird Tales March 1953 250 · Hell-Bent · Ford McCormack · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1951 274 · The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 24 1936 292 · Countess Kathleen O’Shea · [uncredited] · vi (r) 297 · The Devil, George, and Rosie · John Collier · nv The Devil and All by John Collier, Nonesuch Press, 1934 321 · The Devil Was Sick · Bruce Elliott · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1951

Famous Monster Tales ed. Basil Davenport (ghost written by ed. Albert Paul Blaustein) (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1967, $4.75, 201pp, hc, an) 1 · Foreword · Clifton Fadiman · fw 4 · Smoke Ghost · Fritz Leiber · ss Unknown Worlds October 1941 23 · The Phantom Farmhouse · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales October 1923 48 · The Horror of the Heights · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine November 1913 65 · The Thing on Outer Shoal · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Astounding Science Fiction September 1947 78 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926 86 · Second Night Out · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales October 1933, as “The Black, Dead Thing” 97 · It · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Unknown August 1940 125 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ex from Novel Notes, Leadenhall Press, 1893 135 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 145 · Skeleton · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1945 164 · The Thing in the Pond · Paul Ernst · ss Astounding Stories June 1934 177 · Negotium Perambulans · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine November 1922, as “Visible and Invisible” 193 · The 51st Dragon · Heywood Broun · ss New-York Tribune April 13 1919

Ghostly Tales to Be Told: A Collection of Stories from the Great Masters ed. Basil Davenport (Dodd, Mead, 1950, $3.00, xvii+317pp, hc, an)     Stories are abridged for telling aloud. vii · On Story-Telling · Basil Davenport · in 1 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 62 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, Dent, 1910 70 · Count Magnus · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904 88 · “Where Angels Fear…” · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Unknown March 1939 99 · The House of the Nightmare · Edward Lucas White · ss Smith’s Magazine September 1906 111 · The Screaming Skull · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s July 11 1908 (+1) 150 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 164 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 187 · The White Powder [Mr. Dyson] · Arthur Machen · nv The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895, as “Novel of the White Powder” 208 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 237 · The Yellow Wall Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 259 · Johnson Looked Back · Thomas Burke · ss Night Pieces by Thomas Burke, Constable, 1935 266 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review October 1922 292 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 296 · Captain Murderer · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round September 8 1860 300 · The Refugee · Jane Rice · ss Unknown Worlds October 1943

Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark ed. Basil Davenport (Ballantine, 1960, 380K, 35¢, 159pp, pb, an)     Selection of 10 stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark (Dodd, Mead, 1953). 7 · On Telling Stories · Basil Davenport · in Tales to Be Told in the Dark ed. Basil Davenport, Dodd, Mead, 1953 9 · The Beast with Five Fingers · William F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey, Dent, 1928 revised from The New Decameron, Volume the First, B.H. Blackwell, 1919. 34 · By One, by Two, and by Three · Stephen Hall · nv Temple Bar December 1887, uncredited. 65 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 70 · The Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 82 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · ss The London Mercury September 1930 96 · Thus I Refute Beelzy · John Collier · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1940 101 · Mujina · Lafcadio Hearn · vi Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 103 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 107 · Two Anecdotes · [uncredited] · vi (r) 109 · The Closed Cabinet · [uncredited] · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1895

Invisible Men ed. Basil Davenport (ghost written by ed. Albert Paul Blaustein) (Ballantine, 1960, 401K, 35¢, 158pp, pb, an) 7 · The Weissenbroch Spectacles [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1954 15 · The Shadow and the Flash · Jack London · ss The Bookman June 1903 28 · The New Accelerator · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine December 1901 40 · Invisible Boy · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle November 1945 48 · The Invisible Prisoner [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · ss The New Magazine (UK) August 1912 translated from the French (“Le fetu de paille”, Je sais tout January 15, 1913). 60 · Love in the Dark [Gilroy] · Horace L. Gold · ss Suspense Magazine Fall 1951, as “Love Ethereal” 73 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. 84 · The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine by John Collier, Viking, 1941 90 · The Vanishing American · Charles Beaumont · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955 99 · Shottle Bop · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Unknown February 1941 124 · The Invisible Man Murder Case · Henry Slesar · nv Fantastic May 1958

Tales to Be Told in the Dark ed. Basil Davenport (Dodd, Mead, 1953, $3.00, 335pp, hc, an) vi · On Telling Stories · Basil Davenport · in 1 · The Beast with Five Fingers · William F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey, Dent, 1928 revised from The New Decameron, Volume the First, B.H. Blackwell, 1919. 35 · By One, by Two, and by Three · Stephen Hall · nv Temple Bar December 1887, uncredited. 78 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 85 · The Black Seal [Mr. Dyson] · Arthur Machen · na The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895, as “Novel of the Black Seal” 134 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 150 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · ss The London Mercury September 1930 170 · Thus I Refute Beelzy · John Collier · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1940 177 · The Whippoorwill · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker August 9 1941 188 · The White People · Arthur Machen · nv Horlick’s Magazine and Home Journal for Australia, India and the Colonies January 1904 236 · Mujina · Lafcadio Hearn · vi Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 239 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 244 · Two Anecdotes · [uncredited] · vi (r) 248 · The Closed Cabinet · [uncredited] · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1895 317 · The Closed Cabinet, Retold · Basil Davenport · ss

13 Ways to Dispose of a Body ed. Basil Davenport (Dodd, Mead, 1966, LC:66-16564, $4.00, 277pp, hc, an)     Has endnotes to each story by the editor. vii · Introduction · Basil Davenport · in 1 · Being a Murderer Myself · Arthur Williams · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #57, August 1948 18 · The Best of Everything · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #106, September 1952 40 · The Corpus Delicti [Randolph Mason] · Melville Davisson Post · nv The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason by Melville Davisson Post, Putnam, 1896 75 · De Mortuis · John Collier · ss The New Yorker July 18 1942 84 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 91 · The Duchess at Prayer · Edith Wharton · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1900 116 · The Hole in the Wall [Horne Fisher] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #114, September 1921 144 · The Man with Copper Fingers [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers” 168 · The Night I Died · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly August 8 1936, uncredited. 207 · The October Game · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales March 1948 217 · Out of This Nettle · Robert Twohy · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1962 232 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 249 · Love Lies Bleeding · Philip MacDonald · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #84, November 1950