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The Valley of Never-Come-Back by Beatrice Grimshaw (Hurst & Blackett, 1923, 287pp, hc, co) · The Valley of Never-Come-Back · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Blue Book Magazine June 1922 · Lost Wings · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Premier Magazine #107, February 11 1921 · The Island Grave · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Story-teller September 1921 · Isles of Peace · Beatrice Grimshaw · nv The Red Book Magazine October 1921 · Under the Shwe-Dagon · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss · A Woman in the Cage · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Chicago Tribune September 10 1922 · Peak of the Moon · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Grand Magazine August 1922 · Something Lost · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss The Red Book Magazine April 1922 · The Long, Long Day · Beatrice Grimshaw · ss Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #120, March 1922

Jesus Is Sending You This Message by Jim Grimsley (Alyson, October 2008, 978-1-59350-100-6, $14.95, 217pp, tp, co)     Associational collection of 16 stories, three original. At least three stories are fantasy or SF. Introduction by Dorothy Allison. ix · Introduction · Dorothy Allison · in 1 · The Virtual Maiden · Jim Grimsley · nv Atalanta May 2003 27 · House on the Edge · Jim Grimsley · ss 33 · Stanley Karenina · Jim Grimsley · ss The M Word: Writers on Same-Sex Marriage ed. Kathy Pories, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004 41 · New Jerusalem · Jim Grimsley · ss After O’Connor: Stories of Contemporary Georgia ed. Hugh Ruppersburg, University of Georgia Press, 2003 55 · Walk Through Birdland · Jim Grimsley · ss 59 · God Box · Jim Grimsley · vi 61 · Aqua Velva Man · Jim Grimsley · ss 77 · We Move in a Rigorous Line · Jim Grimsley · ss 85 · Jesus Is Sending You This Message · Jim Grimsley · ss (r) 99 · Peggy’s Plan · Jim Grimsley · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction October/November 2000 107 · Unbending Eye · Jim Grimsley · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2006 135 · Wendy · Jim Grimsley · ss Subterranean #5, 2006 153 · Silver Bullet · Jim Grimsley · ss 169 · City and Park · Jim Grimsley · ss 1982 181 · Silence Being Golden · Jim Grimsley · ss 187 · Appetite City · Jim Grimsley · nv

Empereur de L’Ouest by Jon Courtenay Grimwood (Birmingham Science Fiction Group, November 2003, no ISBN, 12pp, ph, ss, cover by David Hicks) [Novacon Booklets]     Short story published to commemorate Grimwood being Guest of Honour at Novacon 33, Nov-2003. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Volume 25 in the series.

Demons and Demons by Terry Grimwood--- see under Terry Gates-Grimwood.

The Monster Book for Girls ed. Terry Grimwood (theExaggeratedPress, December 14, 2011, 978-1-4710-0975-4, £8.99, 287pp, tp, oa, cover by Steven Upham)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Foreword · Terry Grimwood · fw 9 · Young Ladies, Beware! · Allen Ashley · ss 13 · Real Celebrity · Rachel Kendall · ss 22 · Escaping the Mirror · Farah Ghuznavi · ss 35 · Mother’s Pride · Gary Fry · ss 49 · A Story of Love · Marc Lyth · ss 56 · Dancing the Skies · Ian Sales · ss 69 · Frustrated Fran · Kat Fullerton · pm 71 · Take Me Home · Kat Fullerton · pm 72 · Turning · Shay Darrach · ss 85 · Sarah’s “to do” List · Samantha Porter · ss 89 · She Lives in the Deep · Rosanne Rabinowitz · ss 100 · Breaking the Spell · Stuart Young · ss 114 · Mighty Spite · Terry Martin · pm 115 · Razor Voices · Kelly Rose Pflug-Back · ss 131 · Botched · Lorraine Slater · ss 136 · Monster Girl · Andrew Hook · ss 144 · Monster · Nicole Papaioannou · pm 146 · My New Pony · Derek John · ss 158 · Getting Warm · Gary McMahon · ss 163 · Susannah · Jessica Lawrence · pm 169 · The Ides of December · Jessica Lawrence · pm 170 · A Study in Solitude · Jessica Lawrence · pm 172 · The Woman · Tony Lovell · ss 185 · Think Belsen · Terry Grimwood · ss 195 · The Trauma Book · Stephen Bacon · ss 207 · Don’t Give Me That Face · Sarah Hilary · pm 208 · The Spirit Level · Sarah Hilary · ss 210 · Rosemary · Mark Howard Jones · ss 217 · Young Woman, Menaced by Spider · Jamie Rosen · ss 218 · Tequila Mockingbird · John Travis · ss 233 · Alison, Alone · John Forth · ss 247 · Sacrament · Regina de Búrca · ss 254 · Spiral · David Rix · ss

Golden Derringers by J. E. Grinstead (Popular Publications, November 25, 2022, 978-1-61827-677-3, $19.95, 172pp, tp, n., cover by Paul Stahr)     Volume 114 in “The Argosy Library”. Details taken from publisher website.

The Best American Short Stories 2024 ed. Lauren Groff & Heidi Pitlor (Mariner, October 22, 2024, 978-0-06-327595-9, $19.99, 400pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Foreword · Heidi Pitlor · fw xvii · Introduction · Lauren Groff · in 1 · The Magic Bangle · Shastri Akella · ss Fairy Tale Review v19, 2023 8 · Jewel of the Gulf of Mexico · Selena Gambrell Anderson · ss McSweeney’s #72, 2023 24 · Viola in Midwinter · Marie-Helene Bertino · ss Bennington Review #12, 2022 38 · Blessed Deliverance · Jamel Brinkley · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Winter 2022/2023 54 · Phenotype · Alexandra Chang · ss Electric Literature July 24 2023 69 · Evensong · Laurie Colwin · ss The New Yorker April 17 2023 81 · The Happiest Day of Your Life · Katherine Damm · ss The Iowa Review Winter 2022/2023 100 · The Bed & Breakfast · Molly Dektar · ss Harvard Review #60, May 2 2023 119 · Dorchester · Steven Duong · ss The Drift #11, November 3 2023 130 · Seeing Through Maps · Madeline ffitch · ss Harper’s Magazine June 2023 146 · Democracy in America · Allegra Hyde · ss Massachusetts Review Spring 2023 168 · Engelond · Taisia Kitaiskaia · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2023 186 · P’s Parties · Jhumpa Lahiri · ss The New Yorker July 10/July 17 2023 211 · A Case Study · Daniel Mason · ss The Paris Review #243, Spring 2023 222 · Just Another Family · Lori Ostlund · na New England Review v44 #3, 2023 260 · Privilege · Jim Shepard · ss Ploughshares Fall 2023 281 · Baboons · Susan Shepherd · ss The Kenyon Review Spring 2023 298 · Extinction · Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi · ss Electric Literature October 2 2023 312 · Mall of America · Suzanne Wang · ss One Story #301, May 25 2023 334 · Valley of the Moon · Paul Yoon · ss The New Yorker July 3 2023 353 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg 367 · Other Distinguished Stories of 2023 · [uncredited] · bi 371 · American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · bi

Best Short Stories 2023: The O. Henry Prize Winners ed. Lauren Groff (Anchor Books, September 12, 2023, 978-0-593-47059-6, 432pp, tp, an) xi · Foreword · Jenny Minton Quigley · fw xv · Introduction · Lauren Groff · in 3 · Office Hours · Ling Ma · ss The Atlantic (online) May 16 2022 25 · Man Mountain · Catherine Lacey · ss Astra Magazine April 2022 34 · Me, Rory and Aurora · Jonas Eika; translated by Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg · ss Granta (online) July 30 2021 translated from the Danish. 55 · The Complete · Gabriel Smith · ss The Drift #6, January 31 2022 72 · The Haunting of Hajji Hotak · Jamil Jan Kochai · ss The New Yorker November 8 2021 84 · Wisconsin · Lisa Taddeo · ss The Sewanee Review Spring 2022 102 · Ira & the Whale · Rachel B. Glaser · ss The Paris Review #240, Summer 2022 116 · The Commander’s Teeth · Naomi Shuyama-Gómez · ss Michigan Quarterly Review Fall 2021 132 · The Mad People of Paris · Rodrigo Blanco Calderón; translated by Thomas Bunstead · ss Southwest Review Summer 2022 translated from the Spanish. 146 · Snake & Submarine · Shelby Kinney-Lang · ss Zyzzyva #122, Winter 2021 157 · The Mother · Jacob M’Hango · ss Disruption ed. Jason Mykl Snyman, Karina Szczurek & Rachel Zadok, Catalyst Press, 2021 172 · The Hollow · ’Pemi Aguda · ss Zoetrope: All-Story Winter 2021/2022 185 · Dream Man · Cristina Rivera Garza; translated by Francisca González-Arias · nv Freeman’s: Change ed. John Freeman, Grove Press, 2021 translated from the Spanish. 233 · The Locksmith · Grey Wolfe LaJoie · ss The Threepenny Review #170, Summer 2022 241 · After Hours at the Acacia Park Pool · Kirstin Valdez Quade · nv American Short Fiction #74, December 30 2021 273 · Happy Is a Doing Word · Arinze Ifeakandu · ss The Kenyon Review May/June 2022 294 · Elision · David Ryan · ss New England Review Spring 2022 304 · Xífù · K-Ming Chang · ss Electric Literature #529, July 6 2022 313 · Temporary Housing · Kathleen Alcott · nv Harper’s Magazine May 2022 344 · The Blackhills · Eamon McGuinness · ss The Stinging Fly v2 #45, Winter 2021/2022 363 · The O. Henry Prize Winners 2021: The Writers on Their Work · Various · ms 381 · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms 385 · How the Stories Are Chosen · [uncredited] · ms 389 · Publications Submitted · [uncredited] · ms

The Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories: Volume Two ed. Allen Grove (Valancourt, December 2017, 978-1-943910-88-5, $16.99, 230pp, tp, an, cover by Henry Petrides)     A -89-2 edition was announced but not seen. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 7 · Introduction · Allen Grove · in 17 · A Real Country Ghost Story · Albert Smith · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1846 26 · The Ghost of the Treasure-Chamber · Emily Arnold · nv Time December 1886 48 · Number Two, Melrose Square · Theo Gift · nv All the Year Round December 6 1879 (+1) 70 · The Weird Violin · [uncredited] · ss The Argosy (UK) December 1893 76 · Walsham Grange: A Real Ghost Story · E. Morant Cox · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1885 83 · Haunted! · Coulson Kernahan · ss Time November 1885 90 · The Steel Mirror: A Christmas Dream · W. W. Fenn · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867 101 · White Satin · [uncredited] · nv London Society Christmas 1875 124 · Nicodemus · Alfred Crowquill · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1867 131 · Wolverden Tower · Grant Allen · nv The Illustrated London News November 23 1896 161 · Christmas Eve in Beech House · Eliza Lynn Linton · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870 178 · The Necromancer, or, Ghost Versus Gramarye · Isabella F. Romer · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1842 194 · The Veiled Portrait · James Grant · ss London Society Christmas 1874 206 · The Ghost Chamber · [uncredited] · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine January 1853 211 · A Terrible Retribution; or, Squire Orton’s Ghost · A. S. · ss Bow Bells December 6 1871

Whispering Shadows by John Grover (Rainfall Books, May 2009, #089, £5.00, 40pp, ph, oc, cover by Steve Lines) · The Keswick Oddity · John Grover · ss · The Case · John Grover · ss · Sugar Shack · John Grover · ss

Tales of Science Fiction and the Supernatural by Ann Groves (The Book Guild, May 14, 1990, 0-86332-456-8, £8.50, 115pp, hc, oc, cover by Charlotte Matthews) 9 · The Stone Statue · Ann Groves · ss 14 · The Plague · Ann Groves · ss 20 · The Westerner · Ann Groves · ss 37 · The Animals · Ann Groves · ss 44 · An Arranged “Marriage” · Ann Groves · ss 52 · The Silent Partner · Ann Groves · ss 57 · The Last Chance · Ann Groves · ss 65 · The Perfect Companion · Ann Groves · ss 68 · The Friendly Ghost · Ann Groves · ss 79 · The Perfumed Rose Garden · Ann Groves · nv 108 · The Revenge of Armageddon · Ann Groves · ss

Twelve Tales of Suspense and the Supernatural by Davis Grubb (Scribner, 1964, $3.95, 175pp, hc, co)     Also in pb as One Foot in the Grave (Arrow 1967). · Busby’s Rat · Davis Grubb · ss Cavalier June 1953 · The Rabbit Prince · Davis Grubb · ss Woman’s Home Companion June 1949 · Radio · Davis Grubb · ss (r) · One Foot in the Grave · Davis Grubb · ss Weird Tales May 1948 · Moonshine · Davis Grubb · ss (r) · The Man Who Stole the Moon · Davis Grubb · ss (r) · Nobody’s Watching! · Davis Grubb · ss (r) · The Horsehair Trunk · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s May 25 1946 · The Blue Glass Bottle · Davis Grubb · ss (r) · Wynken, Blynken and Nod · Davis Grubb · ss Nero Wolfe Mystery Magazine June 1954 · Return of Verge Likens · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s July 15 1950 · Where the Woodbine Twineth · Davis Grubb · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1964, as “You Never Believe Me”

You Never Believe Me and Other Stories by Davis Grubb (St. Martin’s, August 1989, 0-312-02997-7, $16.95, 259pp, hc, co)     Collection of 18 stories set in West Virginia. Some of these stories are horror. vii · Davis Grubb, 1919—1980 · Louis Grubb · fw 1 · You Never Believe Me · Davis Grubb · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1964; dramatized for the tv series Alfred Hitchcock Presents as “Where the Woodbine Twineth.” 11 · Fifty of the Blue · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s December 3 1949 16 · Bitter Almonds · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 31 · The Stainless Steel Savior · Davis Grubb · ss Gallery December 1975 45 · And Presently He Died · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 51 · The Night Watchman’s Daughter · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 63 · Long Pants · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 70 · Every Road I Walked Along · Davis Grubb · nv (r) 91 · The Last of the Chiefs · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 105 · Return of Verge Likens · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s July 15 1950 116 · The Crest of ’36 · Davis Grubb · ss Dark Forces ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980 129 · The Last Days of Poncho Pete · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s October 15 1949 142 · Magenta Blue · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 158 · Picayune Pete and the Ninety-Proof Cow · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 173 · Green Thumb · Davis Grubb · ss (r) 189 · Checker-Playing Fool · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s June 23 1945 197 · The Horsehair Trunk · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s May 25 1946 207 · Tally Vengeance · Davis Grubb · na (r)