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The Norfolk Broads: The Golden Years by Philippa Miller ed. Peter Haining--- see under Philippa Miller.

The Orion Book of Murder ed. Peter Haining (Orion, October 1996, 0-75280-442-1, £9.99, 556pp, tp, an)     Crime/mystery anthology. A hardcover edition (-464-2, £15.99) was announced but not seen. 1 · Book One: Crime: Criminals and Killers 3 · Introduction · Peter Haining · si; this is credited to Nicholas Rhea in the paperback reprint, which seems unlikely. 5 · Man with a Hobby · Robert Bloch · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1957 14 · Accident · Agatha Christie · ss The Sunday Dispatch September 22 1929, as “The Uncrossed Path” 23 · Evidence in Camera · Margery Allingham · ss The Strand Magazine June 1949 36 · Round Trip · W. R. Burnett · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1929 46 · Morning Visit · James Hadley Chase · ss (r) 53 · Murder Comes Easy · Evan Hunter · ss Real March 1953 66 · The Flaw in the System · Jim Thompson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1956 75 · Blurred View · John D. MacDonald · vi This Week February 23 1964 80 · The Sweetest Man in the World · Donald E. Westlake · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1967 89 · Prediction · Chester Himes · ss Black on Black, Baby Sister and Selected Writings by Chester Himes, Doubleday, 1973 97 · Going Through the Motions · Lawrence Block · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 12 1981 110 · The Corder Figure · Peter Lovesey · nv Butchers and Other Stories of Crime by Peter Lovesey, Macmillan, 1985 128 · Gravy Train · James Ellroy · ss The Armchair Detective Winter 1990 143 · A Flash of White · Andrew Vachss · ss Crossroads Press, 1993 149 · Remain Nameless · Lynda La Plante · vi (r) 153 · Book Two: Detection: Police and Detectives 155 · Introduction · Peter Haining · si 157 · A Case of Christmas Spirit [Nicholas Rhea] · Nicholas Rhea · ss 166 · The Second Skin [Patrick Petrella] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) August 1957, as “The Oyster Catcher” 180 · Blood Brothers [Insp. Cockrill] · Christianna Brand · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1965 192 · Duello [Insp. (Chief Insp.) Poole] · Henry Wade · ss The London Magazine April 1930 207 · The Suitcase [Insp. Joseph French] · Freeman Wills Crofts · ss The Evening Standard August 9 1950 217 · Confirmation [Charlie Resnick] · John Harvey · nv 236 · Auld Lang Syne [Insp. John Rebus] · Ian Rankin · ss A Good Hanging and Other Stories by Ian Rankin, Century, 1992 248 · Sweating It Out with Dover [Insp. Wilfred Dover] · Joyce Porter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 18 1980 263 · Clutching at Straws [Chief Insp. Wexford] · Ruth Rendell · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1979 287 · The Burglar [Endeavour Morse & Robert “Robbie” Lewis] · Colin Dexter · ss You 1994 294 · Where the Snow Lay Dinted [Supt. Andrew Dalziel; Inspector Pascoe] · Reginald Hill · ss Northern Blood II ed. Martin Edwards, Flambard Press, 1995 308 · The Little Copplestone Mystery [Roderick Alleyn] · Ngaio Marsh · nv 1973 327 · Gideon and the Young Toughs [Commander George Gideon] · John Creasey · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1970, as by J. J. Marric 334 · Before Insulin [Clinton Driffield] · J. J. Connington · ss The Evening Standard September 1 1936, as “Beyond Insulin” 344 · The Memorial Service [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1973 361 · Book Three: Punishment: Private Eyes and Investigators 363 · Introduction · Peter Haining · si 365 · Somewhere in the City [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss The Armchair Detective Spring 1990 382 · A Classic Forgery [Fidelity Dove] · Roy Vickers · ss The Exploits of Fidelity Dove by David Durham, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924, as by David Durham 396 · The Adventure of the Abergavenny Murder [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · uw; outline for an unwritten Holmes story found among Doyle’s papers after his death. 400 · Raffles and the Dangerous Game [A.J. Raffles] · Barry Perowne · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1976 415 · The Smashing of Another Racket [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss Empire News November 12 1933 426 · They Can Only Hang You Once [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ss Collier’s November 19 1932 439 · Black Out [Slim Callaghan] · Peter Cheyney · ss (r) 448 · The Sleeping Dog [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Argosy April 1965 464 · Caribbean Clues [Selena Mead] · Patricia McGerr · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1984 474 · Virgil Tibbs and the Fallen Body [Virgil Tibbs] · John Ball · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1978 484 · Full Moon [Pharoah Love] · George Baxt · ss The Armchair Detective Winter 1994 494 · Willing to Kill [Mack Bolan (The Executioner)] · Don Pendleton · ss The Great American Detective ed. William Kittredge & Steven M. Krauzer, Mentor, 1978 513 · The Bottle Dungeon [Jemima Shore] · Antonia Fraser · nv Midwinter Mysteries 2 ed. Hilary Hale, Little, Brown UK, 1992 528 · The Takamoku Joseki [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1984 538 · She Didn’t Come Home [Kinsey Millhone] · Sue Grafton · ss Redbook April 1986

Paths to the River Bank by Kenneth Grahame ed. Peter Haining--- see under Kenneth Grahame.

The Penny Dreadful or, Strange, Horrid & Sensational Tales! ed. Peter Haining (Gollancz, January 1975, 0-575-01779-1, £3.60, 382pp, hc, an)     A selection of items from the Victorian “penny dreadful” publications. 13 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 23 · The Terrific Register · Peter Haining · si 25 · The Monster of Scotland · [uncredited] · ar The Terrific Register, Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825 [Ref. Sawney Bean] 30 · The Calendar of Horrors · Peter Haining · si 32 · The Dead Alive; or, The Mendicant Robber of Orleans · [uncredited] · ex The Calendar of Horrors 1836 36 · The Life of Dick Turpin · Peter Haining · si 38 · The Robbery of the Astrologer · [uncredited] · ex from The Life of Dick Turpin, 1841 50 · The Ambush of Death · Pierce Egan, Jr. · ex from Robin Hood and Little John, 1839 68 · Actor’s Tale · Renton Nicholson · ex from Dombey and Daughter, 1847 83 · The Body-Snatchers · G. W. M. Reynolds · ex from The Mysteries of London, 1845 95 · Sweeney Todd · Peter Haining · si 97 · The Last Batch of Pies · Thomas Peckett Prest · ex from The String of Pearls, 1846 121 · The Resuscitation of a Vampire · James Malcolm Rymer · ex from Varney the Vampire; or, The Feast of Blood, anonymously, E. Lloyd, 1847, uncredited. 134 · Buried Alive! · Percy B. St. John · ex from Jessie, the Mormon’s Daughter, 1848 146 · The Life of a Murderer · Hannah Maria Jones · ex from The Shipwrecked Stranger, 1848 162 · The Abduction · Thomas Frost · ex from Paul the Poacher, 1850 176 · The Episode of the Knights of the Round Table · James Lindridge · ex from The Merry Wives of London, Purkiss, 1850 195 · Sister Anne · Paul de Kock; translated by G. W. M. Reynolds · ex ca. 1830 212 · The Raft of Death · Eugène Sue · ss 1840 229 · The Mad Wolf · Peter Haining · si 232 · The Mad Wolf · Ned Buntline · ss (r) 244 · The League of “The Thirty” · J. H. Ingraham · ss (r) 264 · The People’s Periodical · Peter Haining · si 266 · Confessions of a Deformed Lunatic · E. P. Hingston · ss The People’s Periodical and Family Library April 17 1847 276 · Reynolds’ Miscellany · Peter Haining · si 278 · The Rosicrucian · Edwin F. Roberts · ss Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art #43, May 5 1849 293 · The London Journal · Peter Haining · si 296 · Stanfield Hall · J. F. Smith · ex The London Journal 1850 302 · Boys of England · Peter Haining · si 304 · Jack Rushton: or, Alone in the Pirates’ Lair · Charles Stevens · ex (r) 317 · The Arena of Blood · George Emmett & Harcourt Burrage · ex from Caractacus, Champion of the Arena, Hogarth House, 1885; the British Library catalog attributes this to Charles Stevens. 330 · The Vault of Death · George Augustus Sala · ex from Guy Fawkes or, Gunpowder, Treason and Plot (r) 341 · The Road to Adventure · Bracebridge Hemyng · ex from Jack Harkaway’s Schooldays, Boys of England 1871 357 · Penny Packets of Poison · James Greenwood · ar The Wilds of London by James Greenwood, Chatto & Windus, 1874 372 · Horrible Murder and Human Pie-Makers · [uncredited] · ar The Tell Tale 1825 376 · To My Readers · G. W. M. Reynolds · ar Reynolds’s Miscellany of Romance, General Literature, Science, and Art November 1848 380 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

Peter Cushing’s Tales of a Monster Hunter ed. Peter Haining--- see under Tales of a Monster Hunter ed. Peter Cushing, Arthur Barker, 1977.

Poltergeist: Tales of Deadly Ghosts ed. Peter Haining (Severn House, December 1987, 0-7278-1474-5, £9.95, 249pp, hc, an)     Anthology of stories about poltergeists. 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 15 · The Haunted and the Haunters · Sir Edward Bulwer-Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited.; original version. 56 · A Fruitless Assignment · Ambrose Bierce · ss Current Literature July 1889, as “An Assignment” 60 · Haunted Subalterns · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Civil and Military Gazette May 27 1887 66 · The Death Room · Edgar Wallace · ss Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #132, March 1923 81 · Phantom Fingers · Robert S. Carr · ss Weird Tales May 1927 93 · Thursday Evenings · E. F. Benson · ss Pears’ Annual 1920 106 · The Poltergeist [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales October 1927 133 · The Mystery of Beechcroft Farm · Elliott O’Donnell · ss Pearson’s Magazine 1932 145 · Parasite Mansion · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · nv Weird Tales January 1942 176 · Maggie’s Bite · Laurence Housman · ss Strange Ends and Discoveries by Laurence Housman, Cape, 1948 181 · Miss Cornelius · W. F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928 201 · The Beam · M. P. Dare · ss Unholy Relics and Other Uncanny Tales by M. P. Dare, Edward Arnold, 1947 209 · A Knocking in the Wall · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales July 1951 220 · The Haunted Bungalow · Charles Duff · ss Thrills, Associated Newspapers, 1936 227 · Minuke · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949 239 · Poltergeist! · Kurt Singer · ar (r)

Pulp Frictions: Hardboiled Stories ed. Peter Haining (Souvenir Press, 1996, 0-285-63331-7, £16.99, 331pp, hc, an)     “20 stories of private eyes, law officers and the criminal fraternity from writers old and new.” 7 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 11 · 1: Hardboiled Dicks: Cases of the Private Eyes 13 · Torch Number · James Ellroy · ss Justice for Hire ed. Robert J. Randisi, Mysterious Press, 1990 29 · The Egyptian Lure [Race Williams] · Carroll John Daly · nv Black Mask March 1928 63 · Arson Plus [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The Black Mask October 1 1923, as by Peter Collinson 81 · The Man Who Liked Dogs [Carmady] · Raymond Chandler · nv Black Mask March 1936 112 · Dead Man’s Head [Dan Turner] · Robert Leslie Bellem · ss Spicy Detective Stories August 1936 128 · The Singing Pigeon [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Manhunt February 1953, as “The Imaginary Blonde” by John Ross Macdonald 159 · 2: Cops and G-Men: Stories of the Law Officers 161 · The Hunting of Hemingway [Nick & Dave Glennan] · MacKinlay Kantor · ss Detective Fiction Weekly April 21 1934 183 · Dead on Her Feet · Cornell Woolrich · ss Dime Detective Magazine December 1935 202 · Nice Work [Lemmy Caution] · Peter Cheyney · ss The Evening Standard October 5 1936 210 · The Lady Says Die! [Inspector Early] · Mickey Spillane · nv Manhunt October 1953, as “The Girl Behind the Hedge” 221 · Accident Report · Ed McBain · ss Manhunt September 1953, as by Richard Marsten 236 · Freaky Deaky · Elmore Leonard · ex Arbor House, 1988 245 · 3: The Hoods: Tales of the Criminal Fraternity 247 · Travelling Light · W. R. Burnett · ss Collier’s December 7 1935 263 · Pastorale · James M. Cain · ss The American Mercury March 1928 272 · The Deadly Circle · Samuel Fuller · ss (r) 277 · Get a Load of This · James Hadley Chase · ss (r) 286 · It’s a Wise Cadaver · David Goodis · ss New Detective Magazine July 1946 293 · The Frightening Frammis [Mitch Allison] · Jim Thompson · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1957 315 · The Fifth Quarter · Stephen King · ss Cavalier April 1972, as by John Swithen 329 · The Watch · Quentin Tarantino · ss from Pulp Fiction, Faber and Faber, 1995

The Real Opera Ghost and Other Tales by Gaston Leroux ed. Peter Haining--- see under Gaston Leroux.

The Satanists ed. Peter Haining (Neville Spearman, August 1969, 0-85435-040-3, 25/-, 249pp, hc, an)     Mixture of fiction and non-fiction. Also in pb (Mayflower 1971). · Editor’s Note · Peter Haining · fw 11 · Black Mass in a Park Sparks Police Hunt · [uncredited] · ar The Sun 13 · Modern Satanism—The Facts · Peter Haining · in 19 · The Satanic Mass · Montague Summers · ex Witchcraft and Black Magic by Montague Summers, Rider, 1946, as “The Black Mass” 29 · The Sanctuary · E. F. Benson · nv More Spook Stories by E. F. Benson, Hutchinson, 1934 55 · Ancient Sorceries [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · nv John Silence by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1908 109 · The Festival [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales January 1925 121 · The Watcher from the Sky [Laban Shrewsbury] · August W. Derleth · nv Weird Tales July 1945 169 · The Black Magician · Dennis Wheatley · ex from To the Devil—A Daughter, Hutchinson, 1953 183 · The Initiation · Aleister Crowley · ss (r) 187 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · nv The London Mercury September 1930 207 · No News Today · Cleve Cartmill · ss Unknown Worlds October 1941 225 · Spawn of the Dark One · Robert Bloch · ss Fantastic May 1958 247 · Black Magic Battle in Church · [uncredited] · ar The Sun December 8 1968

Scary! Stories That Will Make You Scream! ed. Peter Haining (Souvenir Press, August 27, 1998, 0-285-63461-5, 223pp, hc, an, cover by Tony Cordoza & James Sarfati)     Young-adult anthology of 14 horror stories, each with a brief biography of the author. 11 · The Scaremongers · Peter Haining · in 15 · The Spell · R. L. Stine · nv Thirteen ed. Tonya Pines, Scholastic, 1991 36 · It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 63 · Drink My Red Blood · Richard Matheson · ss Imagination April 1951 75 · Something Nasty · William F. Nolan · ss The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd, Mead, 1983 88 · The Restless Ghost · Leon Garfield · ss Restless Ghost ed. Susan Dickinson, Collins, 1970 111 · The Thirteenth Day of Christmas [Larry] · Isaac Asimov · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1977 117 · Hush! · Zenna Henderson · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction November 1953 132 · Spotty Powder · Roald Dahl · ss originally written as part of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. 139 · A Baby Tramp · Ambrose Bierce · ss The Wave August 29 1891 147 · The Man Upstairs · Ray Bradbury · ss Harper’s Magazine March 1947 169 · Dead Language Master · Joan Aiken · ss The First Panther Book of Horror ed. Anthony Rampton, Panther, 1965 181 · Here There Be Tygers · Stephen King · ss Ubris Spring 1968 189 · The Trick · Ramsey Campbell · nv Weird Tales #2 ed. Lin Carter, Zebra, 1981, as “Trick or Treat” 213 · A Toy for Juliette · Robert Bloch · ss Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1967

Scary! 2: More Stories That Will Make You Scream! ed. Peter Haining (Souvenir Press, September 30, 2002, 0-285-63648-0, £6.99, 207pp, tp, an, cover by Darren Lock)     Young-adult anthology of 12 horror stories, each with a brief biography of the author. 9 · Return of the Scaremongers · Peter Haining · in 15 · Video Nasty · Philip Pullman · ss Cold Feet ed. Jean Richardson, Hodder & Stoughton, 1985 30 · The House of No Return · R. L. Stine · ss (r) 45 · Lost Hearts · M. R. James · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1895 62 · Finders Keepers · Anne McCaffrey · ss The Haunt of Horror August 1973 84 · The Black Dress · Alison Prince · ss A Haunting Refrain by Alison Prince, Methuen, 1988 104 · The Sussex Vampire [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine January 1924, as “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire” 130 · Cloud Cover · Robert Swindells · nv Mysterious Christmas Tales, Scholastic UK, 1993 152 · The Ghost Horse of Genghis Khan · Russell Hoban · ss The Listener 162 · How 7 Went Mad · Bram Stoker · ss Under the Sunset by Bram Stoker, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington, 1881 182 · Kittens · Dean Koontz · ss Strange Highways by Dean Koontz, Headline, 1995 an earlier version appeared as “Kittens” in The Reflector (1966). 192 · Horror Snap · Pete Johnson · ss (r) 198 · When We Went to See the End of the World by Dawnie Morningside, age 11¼ · Neil Gaiman · ss Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman, Avon, 1998