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The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2015 Edition ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, August 6, 2015, 978-1-60701-455-3, $19.95, 573pp, tp, an, cover by Julie Dillon)     Year’s Best anthology with nine novellas from 2014. Authors include Nancy Kress, Patrick Rothfuss, Genevieve Valentine, and K.J. Parker. Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Paula Guran · in 11 · Yesterday’s Kin [Yesterday’s Kin] · Nancy Kress · na Tachyon, 2014 101 · The Lightning Tree [Kingkiller Chronicle] · Patrick Rothfuss · nv Rogues ed. Gardner Dozois & George R. R. Martin, Bantam Spectra, 2014 149 · Dream Houses · Genevieve Valentine · na WSFA Press, 2014 217 · The Mothers of Voorhisville · Mary Rickert · na Tor.com April 30 2014 299 · Claudius Rex · John P. Murphy · na Alembical 3 ed. Lawrence M. Schoen & Arthur Dorrance, Paper Golem, 2014 385 · In Her Eyes · Seth Chambers · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January/February 2014 429 · The Churn [The Expanse] · James S. A. Corey · na Orbit, 2014 471 · The Things We Do for Love · K. J. Parker · na Subterranean (online) Summer 2014 523 · Where the Trains Turn · Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen; translated by Liisa Rantalaiho · na Tor.com November 19 2014 translated from the Finnish (“Missä junat kääntyvät”, 2000).

The Year’s Best Science Fiction & Fantasy Novellas: 2016 Edition ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, August 2, 2016, 978-1-60701-472-0, $19.95, 527pp, tp, an, cover by Julie Dillon)     Year’s Best anthology with nine novellas from 2015. Authors include Aliette de Bodard, Nnedi Okorafor, and K.J. Parker. Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Paula Guran · in 13 · Binti [Binti] · Nnedi Okorafor · na Tor.com, 2015 53 · The Citadel of Weeping Pearls [Xuya] · Aliette de Bodard · na Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 2015 129 · Gypsy · Carter Scholz · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction November/December 2015 186 · The Pauper Prince and the Eucalyptus Jinn · Usman T. Malik · na Tor.com April 22 2015 237 · What Has Passed Shall in Kinder Light Appear · Bao Shu; translated by Ken Liu · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2015 translated from the Chinese (“Dà shídài”). 291 · The Last Witness · K. J. Parker · na Tor.com, 2015 354 · Inhuman Garbage [Miles Flint (Retrieval Artist)] · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · na Asimov’s Science Fiction March 2015 409 · The Bone Swans of Amandale · C. S. E. Cooney · na Bone Swans by C. S. E. Cooney, Mythic Delirium Books, 2015 471 · Johnny Rev [Jack Shade] · Rachel Pollack · na The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2015 523 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg 527 · Appendix: Some Notable Speculative Fiction Novellas 1843-1980 · [uncredited] · ms

Zombies: More Recent Dead ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, September 2, 2014, 978-1-60701-433-1, $16.95, 475pp, tp, an, cover by Balazs Szabo)     Zombie anthology of 3 poems and 33 stories from the last decade. Authors include Mike Carey, Caitlín R. Kiernan, Neil Gaiman (poem), and Charles Stross. Details taken from online listing. · Trail of Dead · Joanne Anderton · ss Zombies ed. Robert N. Stephenson, Altair Australia Books, 2007 · Rigormarole · Michael Arnzen · pm (r) · What Still Abides · Marie Brennan · ss Clockwork Phoenix 4 ed. Mike Allen, Mythic Delirium Books, 2013 · Iphigenia in Aulis [The Hungry Plague] · Mike Carey · nv An Apple for the Creature ed. Charlaine Harris & Toni L. P. Kelner, Ace, 2012 · Those Beneath the Bog · Jacques L. Condor · ss (r) · The Day the Saucers Came · Neil Gaiman · pm SpiderWords.com v1 #2, 2006 · There Is No “E” in Zombi Which Means There Can Be No You or We · Roxane Gay · ss Guernica October 1 2010 · I Waltzed with a Zombie · Ron Goulart · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 2009 · The Harrowers · Eric Gregory · ss Lightspeed #12, May 2011 · The Death and Life of Bob · William Jablonsky · ss Shimmer #16, 2013 · Til Death Do Us Part · Shaun Jeffrey · ss (r) · The Afflicted · Matthew Johnson · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2012 · Rocket Man · Stephen Graham Jones · ss Stymie Spring/Summer 2011 · Aftermath · Joy Kennedy-O’Neill · ss Strange Horizons February 6 2012 (+1) · In the Dreamtime of Lady Resurrection · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Sirenia Digest July 2007 · Present · Nicole Kornher-Stace · ss Mythic Delirium (online) January/March 2014 · The Hunt: Before, and the Aftermath · Joe R. Lansdale · ss Trapped in the Saturday Matinee by Joe R. Lansdale, PS Publishing, 2012 · Becca at the End of the World · Shira Lipkin · ss Apex Magazine #53, October 2013 · What Maisie Knew · David Liss · na The New Dead ed. Christopher Golden, St. Martin's Griffin, 2010 · Jack and Jill [Rot & Ruin] · Jonathan Maberry · nv 21st Century Dead ed. Christopher Golden, St. Martin's Griffin, 2012 · Selected Sources for the Babylonian Plague of the Dead (572-571 BCE) · Alex Dally MacFarlane · ss Zombies: Shambling Through the Ages ed. Steve Berman, Prime Books, 2013 · The Naturalist · Maureen McHugh · nv Subterranean (online) Spring 2010 · Resurgam · Lisa Mannetti · ss Dead Set ed. Michelle McCrary & Joe McKinney, 23 House Pub., 2010 · The Day the Music Died · Joe McKinney · ss (r) · Chew · Tamsyn Muir · ss Nightmare #4, January 2013 · Delice · Holly Newstein · ss The New Dead ed. Christopher Golden, St. Martin's Griffin, 2010 · Love, Resurrected [Tabat] · Cat Rambo · ss Beneath Ceaseless Skies #65, March 24 2011 · What We Once Feared · Carrie Ryan · ss (r) · The Children’s Hour · Marge Simon · pm (r) · A Shepherd of the Valley · Maggie Slater · nv The Zombie Feed Volume 1 ed. Jason Sizemore, TZF Press, 2011 · Stemming the Tide · Simon Strantzas · ss Dead North ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Exile Editions, 2013 · Bit Rot [Saturn’s Children] · Charles Stross · nv Engineering Infinity ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, 2011 · The Gravedigger of Konstan Spring · Genevieve Valentine · ss Lightspeed #21, February 2012 · Kitty’s Zombie New Year [Kitty the werewolf] · Carrie Vaughn · ss Weird Tales June/July 2007 · Pollution · Don Webb · ss Analog Science Fiction and Fact April 2014 · Dead Song · Jay Wilburn · ss Zombies for a Cure ed. Angela Charmaine Craig, Elektrik Milk Bath Press, 2012

Zombies: The Recent Dead ed. Paula Guran (Prime Books, October 19, 2010, 978-1-60701-234-4, $14.95, xxvii+473pp, tp, an, cover by Balazs Szabo)     Anthology of 22 zombie stories. Introduction by David J. Schow; Guran provides front material and comments on each story. Details taken from online listing. ix · Preshamble · Paula Guran · in xii · The Meat of the Matter · David J. Schow · in Zombie Jam by David J. Schow, Subterranean Press, 2005 xxii · Deaditorial Note · Paula Guran · ms 29 · Twisted · Kevin Veale · nv Weird Tales Fall 2009 54 · The Things He Said · Michael Marshall Smith · ss Travellers in Darkness ed. Stephen Jones, World Horror Convention 2007, 2007 64 · Naming of Parts [The Apocalypse Trilogy] · Tim Lebbon · na PS Publishing, 2000 128 · Dating Secrets of the Dead · David Prill · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 2002 142 · Lie Still, Sleep Becalmed · Steve Duffy · nv At Ease with the Dead ed. Barbara & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 2007 171 · The Great Wall: A Story from the Zombie War · Max Brooks · ss Dark Delicacies II: Fear ed. Del Howison & Jeff Gelb, Carroll & Graf, 2007 178 · First Kisses from Beyond the Grave · Nik Houser · na Gargoyle 51, Paycock Press, 2006 218 · Zora and the Zombie · Andy Duncan · nv Sci Fiction February 4 2004 239 · Obsequy · David J. Schow · nv Subterranean #3, 2006 267 · Deadman’s Road [Reverend Jebediah Mercer (aka Rains)] · Joe R. Lansdale · nv Weird Tales February/March 2007 293 · Bitter Grounds · Neil Gaiman · nv Mojo: Conjure Stories ed. Nalo Hopkinson, Warner Aspect, 2003 334 · Glorietta · Gary A. Braunbeck · ss The World Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2009 334 · Beautiful White Bodies · Alice Sola Kim · nv Strange Horizons December 7 2009 (+1) 342 · Farewell, My Zombie · Francesca Lia Block · ss Black Clock #10, Spring/Summer 2009 354 · Trinkets · Tobias Buckell · ss The Book of All Flesh ed. James Lowder, Eden Studios, 2001 362 · Dead Man’s Land · David Wellington · ss The World Is Dead ed. Kim Paffenroth, Permuted Press, 2009 378 · Disarmed and Dangerous [Matt Richter] · Tim Waggoner · nv Spells of the City ed. Jean Rabe & Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 2009 395 · The Zombie Prince · Kit Reed · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction June 2004 409 · Three Scenes from the End of the World · Brian Keene · gp 2009 _ · Ties That Bind · Brian Keene · ss Unhappy Endings by Brian Keene, Delirium Books, 2009 _ · The Viking Plays Patty Cake · Brian Keene · ss The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World by Brian Keene, Delirium Books, 2008 _ · Family Reunion · Brian Keene · ss The Rising: Selected Scenes from the End of the World by Brian Keene, Delirium Books, 2008 420 · The Hortlak · Kelly Link · nv The Dark ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2003 445 · Dead to the World · Gary McMahon · ss The Dead That Walk ed. Stephen Jones, Ulysses Press, 2009 458 · The Last Supper · Scott Edelman · ss The Book of Final Flesh ed. James Lowder, Eden Studios, 2003

Those Who Fight Monsters: Tales of Occult Detectives ed. Justin Gustainis (Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy Publishing, March 1, 2011, 978-1-894063-48-7, $14.95, 221pp, tp, oa, cover by Robert Nixon)     Original anthology of 14 stories of occult detectives. Authors include Tanya Huff, Tim Pratt, and Laura Anne Gilman. Details taken from online listing. · Little Better Than a Beast [Marla Mason] · T. A. Pratt · ss · Under the Hill and Far Away [Black London] · Caitlin Kittredge · ss · Defining Shadows [Kitty the werewolf] · Carrie Vaughn · ss · Deal Breaker [Quincey Morris] · Justin Gustainis · ss · Running Wild [Weather Warden] · Rachel Caine · ss · Soul Stains [Vampire Babylon] · Chris Marie Green · ss · The Spirit of the Thing [Nightside] · Simon R. Green · ss · Dusted [The Cosa Nostradamus] · Laura Anne Gilman · ss Stories of the Cosa Nostradamus by Laura Anne Gilman, Book View Café, 2010 · The Demon You Know [Kate Connor] · Julie Kenner · ss · Holding the Line [Jill Kismet] · Lilith Saintcrow · ss · See Me [Tony Foster] · Tanya Huff · ss · An Ace in the Hole [Tales of the Sazi] · C. T. Adams & Cathy Clamp · ss · Impossible Love [Piers Knight] · C. J. Henderson · ss · Hell Bound [Hell’s Belles] · Jackie Kessler · ss

Best New Noir ed. Allan Guthrie (Wildside Press, September 2006, 0809556634, $12.95, 248pp, tp, oa)

Tales of the Covenanters by Ellen Jane Emma Guthrie (Hamilton Adams, 1888, 303pp, hc, co) · A Tale of Bothwell Bridge · Ellen Jane Emma Guthrie · ss (r) · The Laird of Culzean · Ellen Jane Emma Guthrie · ss (r) · Peden’s Stone · Ellen Jane Emma Guthrie · ss (r) · The Murder of Inchdarnie · Ellen Jane Emma Guthrie · ss (r) · The Laird of Lag · Ellen Jane Emma Guthrie · ss (r) · The Suitor’s Seat · Ellen Jane Emma Guthrie · ss (r)

The Black Poodle and Other Tales by Thomas Anstey Guthrie--- see under F. Anstey.

Humour and Fantasy by Thomas Anstey Guthrie--- see under F. Anstey.

Salted Almonds by Thomas Anstey Guthrie--- see under F. Anstey.

The Talking Horse by Thomas Anstey Guthrie--- see under F. Anstey.

Bear Eater by David Guymer (Black Library, December 11, 2016, ebook, ss) [Warhammer: Age of Sigmar]     Details taken from online listing.

City of the Damned by David Guymer (Black Library, September 2013, 978-1-84970-528-8, £8.99, 413pp, tp, no, cover by Phroilan Gardner) [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix]     Fantasy novelization.

Deliverance Detail by David Guymer (Black Library, December 16, 2012, ebook, ss) [Warhammer 40,000: Imperial Guard]     Details taken from online listing.

Echoes of the Long War by David Guymer (Black Library, May 2016, 978-1-78496-145-9, £12.99, 255pp, hc, no) [Warhammer 40,000: The Beast Arises]     SF novelization. Issued without a dustjacket, in illustrated boards. A Warhammer 40,000 book.

The Eye of Medusa by David Guymer (Black Library, November 16, 2017, 978-1-78496-613-3, £8.99, 421pp, tp, n., cover by David Alvarez) [Warhammer 40,000]     Details taken from online listing.

Ferrus Manus: The Gorgon of Medusa by David Guymer (Black Library, February 2018, 978-1-78496-599-0, £40.00, 203pp, hc, n.) [Warhammer 40,000: The Horus Heresy]     Limited to 2,500 numbered copies. Details taken from online listing.

Godless by David Guymer (Black Library, December 20, 2015, ebook, ss) [Warhammer: Age of Sigmar]     Details taken from online listing.

Gods’ Gift by David Guymer (Black Library, December 6, 2017, ebook, ss) [Warhammer: Age of Sigmar]     Details taken from online listing.

The Hardest Word by David Guymer (Black Library, August 20, 2017, £2.49, 18pp, ebook, ss) [Warhammer: Age of Sigmar]     Details taken from online listing.

Headtaker by David Guymer (Black Library, May 2013, 978-1-84970-403-8, £8.99, 411pp, tp, no, cover by Cheol Joo Lee) [Warhammer Heroes]     Fantasy novelization.

The Karag Durak Grudge by David Guymer (Black Library, May 13, 2013, 978-0-85787-797-0, £2.49, 48pp, ebook, nv) [Warhammer Heroes]     Details taken from online listing.

Kinslayer by David Guymer (Black Library, September 11, 2014, 978-1-84970-729-9, £17.99, 415pp, hc, no) [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix]     Fantasy novelization. Book 1 of “The Doom of Gotrek Gurnisson”, set in the “Warhammer: The End Times” series.

A Last Sniff of Glory by David Guymer (Black Library, March 27, 2017, £2.49, 29pp, ebook, nv) [Warhammer: Blood Bowl]     Details taken from online listing.

The Last Son of Dorn by David Guymer (Black Library, October 4, 2016, 978-1-78496-210-4, £12.99, 247pp, hc, no) [Warhammer 40,000: The Beast Arises]     SF novelization. Issued without a dustjacket, in illustrated boards. A Warhammer 40,000 book.

Mortarch of Night by David Guymer & Josh Reynolds--- see under Josh Reynolds.

Rememberers by David Guymer (Black Library, February 26, 2015, 978-1-78251-814-3, 99p, ebook, ss) [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix]     Details taken from online listing.

Slayer by David Guymer (Black Library, April 9, 2015, 978-1-84970-840-1, £20.00, 390pp, hc, no) [Warhammer: Gotrek & Felix]     Fantasy novelization. Book 2 of “The Doom of Gotrek Gurnisson”, set in the “Warhammer: The End Times” series. Issued without a dustjacket in illustrated boards.

Thorgrim by David Guymer (Black Library, February 8, 2014, 978-1-84970-584-4, 128pp, ebook, na) [Warhammer Heroes]     Details taken from online listing.

Unseen by David Guymer (Black Library, March 25, 2013, 978-1-78251-015-4, £1.99, 21pp, ebook, nv) [Warhammer]     Details taken from online listing.

Fiction: A Longman Pocket Anthology ed. R. S. Gwynn (Addison-Wesley, September 1998, 0-321-01148-1, $19.80, 350pp, tp, an)     Reprint (HarperCollins 1993) anthology. Second edition, contents from Amazon.com. · Alphabetical List of Authors · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Foreword · R. S. Gwynn · fw (r) · Introduction · R. S. Gwynn · in (r) · The Telling of the Tale · [uncredited] · ar (r) · The Short Story Genre · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Reading and Analyzing Short Fiction · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Reunion · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker October 27 1962 · Plot · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Characterization · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Point of View · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Theme · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Setting · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Style Fiction · [uncredited] · ar (r) · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant; translated by Marjorie Laurie · ss The House of Madame Tellier by Guy de Maupassant, Everyman's Library, 1934 translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884). · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” · An Upheaval · Anton Chekhov; translated by Constance Garnett · ss The Lady with the Dog and Other Stories by Anton Chekhov, Chatto & Windus, 1917 · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905 · Eveline · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926 · The Jilting of Granny Weatherall · Katherine Anne Porter · ss Transition February 1929 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 · A Clean, Well-Lighted Place · Ernest Hemingway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1933 · The Library of Babel · Jorge Luís Borges; translated by Anthony Kerrigan · ss Ficciones by Jorge Luís Borges, Grove Press, 1962 translated from the Spanish (“La biblioteca de Babel”, El jardín de senderos que se bifurcan, 1941). · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r) · Livvie · Eudora Welty · ss (r) · Flying Home · Ralph Ellison · ss Cross Section 1944 ed. Edward Seaver, L.B. Fischer, 1944 · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 · A Woman on a Roof · Doris Lessing · ss (r) · Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19 ed. Stewart Richardson & Corlies M. Smith, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1961 · A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings · Gabriel Garcia Marquez; translated by Gregory Rabassa · ss New American Review #13, 1971 · Marriage Is a Private Affair · Chinua Achebe · ss (r) · Wild Swans · Alice Munro · ss Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro, The Macmillan Co. of Canada, 1978 · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 · Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss (r) · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980 · Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Magazine April 1973 · Look on the Bright Side · Dagoberto Gilb · ss (r) · Two Kinds · Amy Tan · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1989 · Barbie-Q · Sandra Cisneros · ss Woman Hollering Creek by Sandra Cisneros, Random House, 1991 · The Red Convertible · Louise Erdrich · ss Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1984 · Index of Critical Terms · [uncredited] · ix (r)