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The Defective Detective in the Pulps ed. Gary Hoppenstand & Ray B. Browne (Bowling Green State Univ. Popular Press, 1983, 0-87972-235-5, $15.95, 119pp, hc, an)
The acknowledgements list “Rhapsody in Blood” by Day Keene, Dime Mystery Magazine Jan ’43, which is not included in the book. “Dead Man—Killer” by Edith and Ejler Jacobson is not listed. Also available in tp (-236-3, $7.95).

1 · “I’d Kiss You Sweetheart, But My Lips Are Missing”: The Defective Detective in the Pulps · Gary Hoppenstand & Ray B. Browne · in (r)

8 · Madam Murder—and the Corpse Brigade [Seekay] · Paul Ernst · nv Strange Detective Mysteries October 1937

25 · The Brain Murders [Peter Quest] · John Kobler · nv Dime Mystery Magazine December 1938

46 · The Devil Beats Death’s Drums · Warren Lucas · nv Dime Mystery Magazine December 1938

67 · The Brothers from Hell · Grendon Alzee · ss Dime Mystery Magazine October 1938

76 · The Flowering Corpses [Nicholas Street] · Nat Schachner · nv Dime Mystery Magazine October 1938

98 · The River Styx · [uncredited] · ed (r)

99 · Dead Man—Killer [Nathaniel Perry (The Bleeder)] · Edith & Ejler Jacobson · nv Dime Mystery Magazine February 1939

The Dime Novel Detective ed. Gary Hoppenstand (Bowling Green Univ. Popular Press, 1982, 0-87972-213-4, $18.95, 254pp, hc, an)

1 · Preface · Edward T. LeBlanc · pr

3 · The Missing Detective · Gary Hoppenstand · in

5 · Chapter 1: New York Detective Library 1882-1899, Old King Brady · Gary Hoppenstand · si

7 · The Haunted Churchyard: or, Old King Brady the Detective and the Mystery of the Iron Vault [James (“Old King”) Brady; Harry (“Young King”) Brady] · A New York Detective · na The New York Detective Library January 4 1890

35 · New York Detective Library · [uncredited] · bi

70 · Chapter 2: Old Cap Collier Library 1883-1899, Old Cap Collier · Gary Hoppenstand · si

71 · The Thugs of the Tenderloin; or, Old Cap. Collier Tracking a Daring Band of Thieves · The Author of “Old Cap. Collier” · na Old Cap Collier Library #686, 1897

99 · Old Cap Collier Library · [uncredited] · bi

136 · Chapter 3: Old Sleuth Library 1885-1905, Old Sleuth · Gary Hoppenstand · si

138 · Old Sleuth, Badger & Co. · Old Sleuth · na Old Sleuth Library December 17 1891

161 · Old Sleuth Library · [uncredited] · bi

166 · Old Sleuth Weekly · [uncredited] · bi

175 · Young Sleuth Library · [uncredited] · bi

182 · Chapter 4: Bob Brooks Library 1893, Bob Brooks (with an addendum on Nick Carter) · Gary Hoppenstand · si

183 · Train Wreckers Betrayed; or, Bob Brooks in Kansas · The Author of “Bob Brooks” · na Bob Brooks Library #27, 1893

197 · Bob Brooks Library · [uncredited] · bi

200 · Chapter 5: Secret Service 1899-1912, Old and Young King Brady · Gary Hoppenstand · si

201 · The Bradys After the Tong Kings [James (“Old King”) Brady; Harry (“Young King”) Brady] · [uncredited] · na Secret Service November 19 1909

227 · Secret Service · [uncredited] · bi

Popular Fiction: An Anthology ed. Gary Hoppenstand (Addison-Wesley, January 1998, 0-321-01164-3, $51.00, 800pp, tp, an)
Contents from Amazon.com.

· Foreword · Gary Hoppenstand · fw (r)

· Introduction · Charles I. Schuster · in

· 1 HORROR FICTION

· Introduction · [uncredited] · si (r)

· The King and His Three Daughters · Horace Walpole · ss Hieroglyphic Tales by Horace Walpole, self published, 1785

· The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer January 1843

· The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited.

· Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited.

· The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893

· 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.

· Introduction to “Supernatural Horror in Literature” · H. P. Lovecraft · ex The Fantasy Fan October 1933 (+16)
revised from its original appearance in The Recluse, 1927.

· The Call of Cthulhu [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales February 1928

· Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears · Stephen King · ar (r)

· Graveyard Shift · Stephen King · ss Cavalier October 1970

· Nunc Dimittis · Tanith Lee · nv The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd, Mead, 1983

· Down, Satan! · Clive Barker · ss Clive Barker’s Books of Blood, Vol. IV by Clive Barker, Sphere, 1985

· Critical Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

· 2 ROMANCE FICTION

· Introduction · [uncredited] · si (r)

· The Sisters’ Trial · Louisa May Alcott · ss (r)

· Jane · Mary Roberts Rinehart · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 25 1912

· Introduction to Love Stories · Rosamunde Pilcher · ar (r)

· Lalla · Rosamunde Pilcher · ss (r)

· Trying to Tame the Romance: Critics and Correctness · Jayne Ann Krentz · ar (r)

· Connecting Rooms · Jayne Ann Krentz · na Everlasting Love, Pocket, 1995

· The Kiss · Kathleen E. Woodiwiss · nv Three Weddings and a Kiss, Avon, 1995

· The Healing Touch · Janet Dailey · n. (r)

· Critical Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

· 3 SCIENCE FICTION

· Introduction · [uncredited] · si (r)

· The Mortal Immortal · Mary Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1834, 1833

· An Express of the Future · Jules Verne (error, actually by Michel Verne) · ss The Strand Magazine December 1895
translated from the French (“Un express de l’avenir”, Les Annales Politiques et Littéraires, 27 August 1895).

· The Star · H. G. Wells · ss The Graphic Christmas 1897

· Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales November 1933

· Robbie [Robots] · Isaac Asimov · ss Super Science Stories September 1940, as “Strange Playfellow”

· Space Jockey · Robert A. Heinlein · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 26 1947

· Coda · Ray Bradbury · ar 1979
originally “Author’s Afterword” in Fahrenheit 451, Ballantine 1979.

· Usher II [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1950, as “Carnival of Madness”

· “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman · Harlan Ellison · ss Galaxy Magazine December 1965

· Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones · Samuel R. Delany · nv New Worlds #185, December 1968

· Myth and Archetype in Science Fiction · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar (r)

· Vaster Than Empires and More Slow [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · nv New Dimensions 1 ed. Robert Silverberg, Doubleday, 1971

· Johnny Mnemonic [Molly Millions] · William Gibson · nv Omni May 1981

· Speech Sounds · Octavia E. Butler · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine mid December 1983

· Critical Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

· 4 DETECTIVE FICTION

· Introduction · [uncredited] · si (r)

· The Murders in the Rue Morgue [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Graham’s Lady’s and Gentleman’s Magazine April 1841

· The Musgrave Ritual [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine May 1893, as “The Adventure of the Musgrave Ritual”

· The Tuesday Night Club [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss The Royal Magazine December 1927

· Too Many Have Lived [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The American Magazine October 1932

· The Simple Art of Murder · Raymond Chandler · ar The Atlantic Monthly December 1944

· Blackmailers Don’t Shoot [Mallory] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask December 1933

· Absolutely Elsewhere [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss The Strand Magazine February 1934

· Chee’s Witch [Jim Chee] · Tony Hillerman · ss The New Black Mask No.7 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1986

· Creating a Female Sleuth · Marcia Muller · ar (r)

· The Place That Time Forgot [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss Sisters in Crime 2 ed. Marilyn Wallace, Berkley, 1990

· The Watts Lions [Easy Rawlins] · Walter Mosley · ss The New Mystery ed. Jerome Charyn, Dutton, 1993

· Critical Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

· 5 ADVENTURE FICTION

· Introduction · [uncredited] · si (r)

· About Fiction · H. Rider Haggard · ar The Contemporary Review February 1887

· Long Odds [Allan Quatermain] · H. Rider Haggard · ss Macmillan’s Magazine February 1886

· Literature · Rudyard Kipling · ar (r)

· The Man Who Would Be King · Rudyard Kipling · nv The Phantom Rickshaw by Rudyard Kipling, Wheeler, 1888

· The Taste of the Meat [Christopher “Smoke” Bellew] · Jack London · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine June 1911

· The Battle for Teeka [Tarzan] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · ss The Blue Book Magazine June 1917

· The Good Patriots · Baroness Orczy · ss (r)

· The Ghost · Max Brand · ss All-Story Weekly May 3 1919

· From Missouri · Zane Grey · nv McCall’s August 1926

· The Treasure Ship [Captain Peter Blood] · Rafael Sabatini · ss Pearson’s Magazine February 1930

· The Gift of Cochise · Louis L’Amour · ss Collier’s July 5 1952

· From a View to a Kill [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv The Daily Mail September 21 1959 (+4), as “James Bond and the Murder Before Breakfast”

· Critical Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

· Appendix · [uncredited] · ms (r)

· CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES ON POPULAR FICTION

· Introduction · [uncredited] · si (r)

· Popular Culture—New Notes Toward a Definition · Ray B. Browne · ss (r)

· The Concept of Formula in the Study of Popular Literature · John G. Cawelti · ss (r)

· Frankenstein: The New Prometheus · Arthur Asa Berger · ss (r)

· Beneath the Surface: The Hidden Codes of Romance · Linda Barlow & Jayne Ann Krentz · ss (r)

· Science Fiction: The Rebirth of Mythology · Gail Landsman · ss (r)

· A Marxist Interpretation of the Crime Story · Ernest Mandel · ss (r)

· Women and the Language of Men · Jane Tompkins · ss (r)

· Critical Readings Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

· Filmography · [uncredited] · ms (r)

The Traitor by Sydney Horler (Collins, 1936, 251pp, hc, n.)
Thriller novel.

The Traitor by Sydney Horler (The British Library, September 2015, 978-0-712-35614-5, £8.99, 256pp, tp, n.) [British Library Classic Thrillers; British Library Spy Classics]
Reprint (Collins 1936) classic spy thriller.

December Tales ed. J. D. Horn (Curious Blue Press, September 28, 2021, 978-1-73662-071-7, $19.95, 468pp, tp, oa)
Details taken from online listing.

i · Foreword · Colin Dickey · fw

1 · Grey Glass · Reggie Oliver · ss

20 · Whessoe · Nugent Barker · ss Life and Letters December 1928

34 · Cold Reflections · Sybil Ward · ss

53 · The White and the Black · Erckmann-Chatrian · nv Stories of the Rhine by Mm. Erckmann-Chatrian, Ward, Lock, and Tyler, 1875, as “Black and White”
translated from the French (“Le blanc et le noir”, Le Monde illustré, January 15, 1862).

74 · Jetty Sara · Glen Hirshberg · ss

87 · Oh, Whistle and I’ll Come to You, My Lad · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904

111 · Ours · P. J. Manney · ss

130 · The Queen of Spades · Alexander Pushkin · nv (r)
translated from the Russian (“Pouschkine”, Biblioteka dlya chteniya, March 1834).

160 · A Plague on the House · Lisa Morton · ss

175 · The Doll’s Ghost · F. Marion Crawford · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1896

192 · The Shadow of the Dream · J. Lincoln Fenn · nv

221 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited.

249 · Two Alices · Kate Maruyama · ss

268 · Aunt Joanna · Sabine Baring-Gould · ss A Book of Ghosts by Sabine Baring-Gould, Methuen, 1904

283 · A Blacksmith’s Gift · Eddie Generous · ss

299 · The Spectral Rout · Frances Power Cobbe · nv Shilling Magazine December 1865

326 · Fairytale of New York · Tonya Hurley · ss

347 · The Red Room · H. G. Wells · nv The Idler March 1896

360 · Epiphany · Nicole D. Sconiers · ss

370 · Véra · Auguste Villiers de l’Isle-Adam · ss (r)
translated from the French (“Vera”, 1874).

385 · Incident at the Red Hawk Road Stop · Eric J. Guignard · ss

410 · Above the World · Ramsey Campbell · ss Whispers II ed. Stuart David Schiff, Doubleday, 1979

424 · Last Night at the Dairy Bar · Tod Goldberg · ss

The Methods of Sergeant Cluff by Geoffrey Horne--- see under Gil North.

Sergeant Cluff Stands Firm by Geoffrey Horne--- see under Gil North.

Murder by the Dozen ed. Durbin Lee Horner (Dingwall-Rock, 1935, LC:35-15310, 515pp, hc, an)
The Cream of the “Mystery” Crop.

v · Preface · Durbin Lee Horner · pr

3 · The Merry Go-Round of Murder · Joseph F. Dinneen · na Mystery 1935

101 · The House That Jack Built · Colver Harris · na Mystery August 1935

313 · The Man in the Mirror · Louis Golding · ss Mystery April 1934

329 · The Woman in Scarlet Stockings · Norman Matson · ss The Evening Standard June 12 1934, as “The House on Big Faraway”

339 · The Black Cats Vanished [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Mystery October 1934

369 · The Woman He Had to Kill · Francis Beeding · nv Mystery June 1934

401 · The Lisping Man [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · nv Mystery November 1934

427 · “I Must Live Till Wednesday” · John Ewing · ss Mystery May 1933

439 · Thirty Hours with a Corpse · Maurice Level · ss Mystery September 1934

463 · What Can a Dead Man Want? · Guy Endore · ss Mystery December 1934

491 · Poisoned Letters · Georges Surdez · ar Mystery 1934

503 · Exceptional Murderer · Georges Surdez · ts Mystery March 1934

Fantastical Visions ed. W. H. Horner (Fantasist Enterprises, December 2001, 0-9713608-0-4, $9.99, 186pp, tp, oa)
Details taken from online listing.

· Why Fantasy? · W. H. Horner · in

· Wraithsong · Jean Graham · ss

· Jathen Longblade · Christine E. Ricketts · ss

· Death and the Maiden · Trent M. Walters · ss

· Vigil · Magee Gilks · ss

· Life · Colin Roberts · ss

· Prescient Witness · Tracy Whelan · ss

· The Dream Shop · David A. Hart · ss

· Of Savage Blood · Travis J. Koll · ss

· The Mad Queen of the Sky · D. K. Latta · ss

· The Farmer’s Daughter · Tanya Michna · ss

· It’s Better in Brooklyn · Michael Penncavage · ss

· 7:58 · Matthew Wolfe · ss

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