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The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories—1994 ed. Edward D. Hoch (Walker US, December 1994, 0-8027-3192-9, $21.95, 280pp, hc, an)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 12 stories plus an introduction by the editor and appendices listing recommended novels, a bibliography of anthologies and collections, an awards list, and a necrology. vii · Introduction · Edward D. Hoch · in 1 · The Ghost Show · Doug Allyn · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1993 28 · Keller’s Therapy [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · nv Playboy May 1993 56 · Dead Men · David Ely · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1993 69 · A Traffic in Webs [Susan Holt] · Edward D. Hoch · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1993 93 · Wicked Twist [Herbie Sawyer] · D. A. McGuire · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1993 129 · The Apprentice · Miriam Grace Monfredo · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1993 142 · Burgade’s Crossing [John Quincannon & Sabina Carpenter] · Bill Pronzini · nv Louis L’Amour Western Magazine March 1994 163 · Some Sunny Day · Julian Rathbone · nv Constable New Crimes 2 ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Constable, 1993 187 · Enduring as Dust · Bruce Holland Rogers · ss Danger in D.C. ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Donald I. Fine, 1993 206 · Murder by Miracle [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv Constable New Crimes 2 ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Constable, 1993 234 · Last-Minute Shopping · Donald E. Westlake · ss New York Times Book Review December 5 1993 239 · Reforming Ellie · Kate Wilhelm · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1993 257 · The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Novels · [uncredited] · bi 259 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 269 · Awards · [uncredited] · bi 272 · Necrology · [uncredited] · bg 277 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

The Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Stories—1995 ed. Edward D. Hoch (Walker US, October 1995, 0-8027-3266-6, $23.95, 289pp, hc, an)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 14 stories plus an introduction by the editor and appendices listing recommended novels, a bibliography of anthologies and collections, an awards list, and a necrology. vii · Introduction · Edward D. Hoch · in 1 · Dancing Bear · Doug Allyn · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1994 21 · The Gentleman in the Lake · Robert Barnard · nv Midwinter Mysteries 4 ed. Hilary Hale, Little, Brown UK, 1994 39 · The Tennis Court · Brenda Melton Burnham · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine July 1994 49 · The Eighth Wonder of the World; or, Golden Opinions [Bridget Mooney] · P. M. Carlson · nv Deadly Allies II ed. Robert J. Randisi & Susan Dunlap, Doubleday, 1994 74 · The Necessary Brother · Brendan DuBois · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1994 101 · Seasons of the Heart · Ed Gorman · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1994 132 · High Heels in the Headliner · Wendy Hornsby · ss Malice Domestic 3 ed. Nancy Pickard, Pocket, 1994 143 · Split Decisions [Sugar Rainey] · Clark Howard · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1994 172 · Forbidden Things · Marcia Muller · nv The Mysterious West ed. Tony Hillerman, HarperCollins, 1994 198 · Out of the Depths · Bill Pronzini · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1994 216 · A Deep Hole · Ian Rankin · ss London Noir ed. Maxim Jakubowski, Serpent's Tail, 1994 232 · An Eye for a Tooth · Justin Scott · ss Justice in Manhattan by The Adams Round Table, Longmeadow, 1994 248 · Undercover · Carolyn Wheat · ss Murder Is My Business ed. Mickey Spillane & Max Allan Collins, Dutton, 1994 261 · Me and Mr. Harry · Batya Swift Yasgur · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1994 266 · Twenty of the Year’s Best Mystery and Suspense Novels · [uncredited] · bi 268 · Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi 277 · Awards · [uncredited] · bi 281 · Necrology · [uncredited] · bg 286 · Honor Roll · [uncredited] · bi

A Mythos Grimmly ed. Jeremy Hochhalter (Wanderer’s Haven Publications, November 10, 2015, 978-0-9966938-2-0, $24.95, 406pp, hc, oa)     Details taken from online listing. · The Arkham Town Musicians · Christine Morgan · ss · The Magical Fruit · Jayaprakash Satyamurthy · ss · Ginger Snap · Michael Wentela · ss · A Wisdom That Is Woe, A Woe That Is Madness · E. Catherine Tobler · ss · I Am… · John Claude Smith · ss · The Apprentice, The Muse, and The Manser · Michael Griffin · ss · L2RH · B. A. H. Cameron · ss · The Lost Book of Grimm · Michael M. Hughes · ss · The Hound of K’n-Yan · Jeff C. Carter · ss · The Case of Virgin Mary Smith · L. K. Feuerstein · ss · The Lost Town · Nick Nafpliotis · ss · The Witch’s Library · Tracie McBride · ss · Boots of Curious Leather · David J. Fielding · ss · Donkeyskin · Brian Kaufman · ss · The Batrachian Prince · Robert M. Price · ss · The Orthometrists of Vhoorl · Pete Rawlik · ss · The Hundred Years’ Sleep · Mary SanGiovanni · ss · The Wonderful Musician · William Meikle · ss · When Light Returned to Karakossa · Joseph S. Pulver, Sr. & Tom Lynch · ss · The Sovereign of Fear · Richard Gavin · ss · The Boy Who Cried Bigfoot · Desmond Reddick · ss · Sticks and Stones, Skin and Bones · Morgan Griffith · ss · The House of the Sleeping Beauties · Jason Andrew · ss · The Piper in Yellow · Brett Talley · ss · In the Details · Silvia Moreno-Garcia · ss · Black Goat of the Hundred Acre Woods · James Pratt · ss · The Dunwich Ball · J. F. Gonzalez · ss

Dark Tomorrows by Amanda Hocking & J. L. Bryan--- see under J. L. Bryan.

Detroit Noir ed. John C. Hocking & E. J. Olsen--- see under E. J. Olsen.

Young Winter’s Tales 7 ed. M. R. Hodgkin (Macmillan UK, 1976, 0-333-18547-1, £3.25, 240pp, hc, oa, cover by Ann Dalton)     Anthology of 11 original stories and 11 poems for young people, including a piece by Tanith Lee. 7 · The Dreamer of Dreams · Adèle Geras · ss 24 · Riddle · Mary Rayner · pm 25 · How I Came to Be a Hero · Dick Cate · ss 41 · The Little Man in the Office versus… · Geoffrey Tomlinson · pm 42 · Four Tides · Jill Paton Walsh · nv 66 · White Horses · John Leigh Turner · pm 68 · A New Way with Old Transport · Marjorie Darke · nv 91 · Poor Jenny’s Song · James Reeves · pm 92 · On the Shelf · Elaine Eveleigh · ss 101 · The Conjuror · Ann Lawrence · pm 103 · The Digressor · Sarah Stafford Smith · ss 117 · Come Aboard · John Fuller · pm 118 · Cold Spell · Tanith Lee · ss 132 · Neighbours · William Mayne · pm 135 · Nanny Brand · Anne Syfret · nv 163 · The Sparrow Hawk · Ruth Mace · pm 166 · The Roman Wood · Dorothy Edwards · ss The London Mystery Magazine #5, 1950 185 · By the City Wall · Anthony Thwaite · pm 186 · The Nursing Chair · Winifred Froom · ss 204 · Gasper and Jerkins · Madeline Mayne · pm 205 · The Other Day, Upon the Stair · Priscilla Eckhard · nv 233 · No Good · Wyndham Goodden · pm 234 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction and Fantasy: Volume I ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Paper Road Press, October 31, 2019, 978-0-473-49126-0, NZ$30.00, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · Editorial · Marie Hodgkinson · ed 3 · We Feed the Bears of Fire and Ice · Octavia Cade · ss Strange Horizons May 7 2018 18 · Trees · Toni Wi · ss Breach November 2018 20 · The Garden · Isabelle McNeur · ss Wizards in Space #3, 2018 30 · Logistics · A. J. Fitzwater · ss Clarkesworld #139, April 2018 50 · The Billows of Sarto · Sean Monaghan · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction March/April 2018 74 · A Most Elegant Solution · M. Darusha Wehm · ss Terraform April 28 2018 82 · A Brighter Future [Cthulhu] · Grant Stone · ss Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud ed. Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, IFWG Publishing Australia, 2018 113 · The Glassblower’s Peace · James Rowland · ss Aurealis #114, September 2018 139 · Mirror, Mirror · Mark English · ss Abyss & Apex #68, 4th Quarter 2018 151 · Common Denominator · Melanie Harding-Shaw · ss Wild Musette Journal October 3 2018 155 · The People Between the Silences · Dave Moore · ss Landfall May 2018 162 · Te Ika [Cthulhu] · J. C. Hart · ss Cthulhu: Land of the Long White Cloud ed. Steve Proposch, Christopher Sequeira & Bryce Stevens, IFWG Publishing Australia, 2018 180 · Girls Who Do Not Drown · Andi C. Buchanan · ss Apex Magazine #115, December 2018

Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: V2 ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Paper Road Press, July 27, 2020, 978-0-9951355-6-7, $12.99, 155pp, tp, an, cover by Laya Rose)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · Introduction · Marie Hodgkinson · in 3 · Te Ara Poutini · Nic Low · nv Pūrākau ed. Witi Ihimaera & Whiti Hereaka, Penguin New Zealand, 2019 24 · A Shriek Across the Sky · Casey Lucas · ss Sponge #5, 2019 32 · Who Watches · Rem Wigmore · ss Sharp and Sugar Tooth ed. Octavia Cade, Upper Rubber Boot Books, 2019 38 · Fission · N. Tan · ss Anathema: Spec from the Margins #9, December 2019 49 · Proof of Concept · James Rowland · ss New Myths #49, December 2019 64 · The Fisher · Melanie Harding-Shaw · ss ReadingRoom October 5 2019 70 · Henrietta and the End of the Line · Andi C. Buchanan · ss Translunar Travelers Lounge #1, August 2019 85 · Spontaneous Applause · Zoë Meager · ss Turbine | Kapohau 2019 88 · Hearts Made Marble, Weapons Shaped from Bone · A. J. Fitzwater · ss Apparition Literary Magazine #5, January 2019 98 · First Dispatch from the Front · Zoë Meager · ss Landfall #238, 2020 100 · Moving House · Alisha Tyson · ss ReadingRoom December 7 2019 110 · Good Day, Alice! · Juliet Marillier · ss Wonderland ed. Paul Kane & Marie O'Regan, Titan, 2019 127 · Inside the Body of Relatives · Octavia Cade · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction November/December 2019

Year’s Best Aotearoa New Zealand Science Fiction & Fantasy: V3 ed. Marie Hodgkinson (Paper Road Press, October 31, 2021, 978-1-991150-30-1, $20.00, 262pp, tp, an, cover by Rebekah Tisch)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 1 · Introduction · Marie Hodgkinson · in 2 · New Zealand Gothic · Jack Remiel Cottrell · vi Ko Aotearoa Tātou: We Are New Zealand ed. Michelle Elvy, Paula Morris & James Norcliffe, Otago University Press, 2020 4 · Synaesthete · Melanie Harding-Shaw · ss Black Dogs, Black Tales ed. Tabatha Wood, Things in the Well, 2020 11 · Kōhuia · T. Te Tau · ss previously available as an audio download from Balamohan Shingade, April 28th, 2020. 24 · Death Confetti · Zoë Meager · ss Maudlin House November 10 2020 26 · For Want of Human Parts · Casey Lucas · ss Diabolical Plots #66, August 2020 39 · How to Get a Girlfriend (When You’re a Terrifying Monster) · Marie Cardno · nv Her Magical Pet ed. Rachel Manija Brown, Laurie French & Layla Lawlor, 2020 78 · Salt White, Rose Red · Emily Brill-Holland · ss F(r)iction November 27 2020, as by E. Celeste 81 · Florentina · Paul Veart · ss Turbine | Kapohau 2020 90 · Otto Hahn Speaks to the Dead · Octavia Cade · ss The Dark #59, April 2020 102 · The Waterfall · Renee Liang · ss Scorchers ed. Paul Mountfort & Rosslyn Prosser, Steam Press, 2020 114 · The Double-Cab Club · Tim Jones · ss Forever Project March 25 2020 126 · Wild Horses · Anthony Lapwood · ss The London Reader Autumn 2020 143 · You and Me at the End of the World · Dave Agnew · ss ThunderZine April 2020 147 · The Secrets She Eats · Nikky Lee · nv Libra ed. Austin P. Sheehan & Helena McAuley, Deadset Press, 2020 174 · How to Build a Unicorn · A. J. Fitzwater · ss Fireside Quarterly Spring 2020 180 · Even the Clearest Water · Andi C. Buchanan · ss Fireside Quarterly Spring 2020 186 · You Can’t Beat Wellington on a Good Day · Anna Kirtlan · ss Ghost Bus by Anna Kirtlan, 2020 198 · The Moamancer · Bing Turkby · ss self-published, 2020; subtitled “A Musomancer short story”. 215 · They Probably Play the Viola · Jack Remiel Cottrell · ss Flash Frontier October 6 2020 217 · Crater Island · P. K. Torrens · ss Kasma SF August 2020 232 · A Love Note · Melanie Harding-Shaw · ss Takahē #98, 2020 234 · The Turbine at the End of the World · James Rowland · ss Prairie Fire Fall 2020

In Between ed. Miriam Hodgson (Mammoth, January 23, 1997, 0-7497-2335-1, £3.99, 144pp, tp, oa, cover by Richard Jones)     Reprint (Methuen 1994) original anthology of young-adult stories. Most of the authors write genre fiction. 7 · Foreword · Miriam Hodgson · fw (r) 9 · SWALK · Sam McBratney · ss 20 · Cinderella Girl · Vivien Alcock · ss 30 · The Favourite · Jacqueline Wilson · ss 40 · Roz and the Smiling Knee · Rachel Anderson · ss 50 · The Scream · Elizabeth Laird · ss 59 · Down to Earth · Joanne Carey · ss 74 · What Does It Feel Like? · Michael Morpurgo · ss 89 · The Simple Truth · Ian Strachan · ss 101 · The Mahdi Sisters · Adèle Geras · ss 111 · The Facts of Life · Alick Rowe · ss 125 · The Women’s Hour · Robert Westall · ss 137 · The Authors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

Mixed Feelings: Stories of Mothers and Daughters ed. Miriam Hodgson (Mammoth, November 20, 1997, 0-7497-3283-0, £4.50, 140pp, tp, oa)     Reissue (Methuen Children’s Books 1992 as Mother’s Day) young-adult anthology of 10 original mainstream stories by associated authors. 7 · Foreword · Miriam Hodgson · fw (r) 9 · Very Different · Anne Fine · ss 18 · Shrove Tuesday · Berlie Doherty · ss 32 · The Pram Lady · Vivien Alcock · ss 1991 44 · Forbidden Clothes · Jamila Gavin · ss 59 · Kelly · Marjorie Darke · ss 71 · See the Pretty Star · Gwen Grant · ss 83 · A Werewolf in May · Annie Dalton · ss 97 · A Warm Safe Bed · Monica Hughes · ss 113 · Parents’ Day · Jean Ure · ss 128 · No One Else Will Do · Jacqueline Wilson · ss 136 · The Authors · [uncredited] · bg (r)

The Fellow Travellers & Other Ghost Stories by Sheila Hodgson (Ash-Tree Press, June 26, 1998, 1-899562-50-8, C$51.00, x+191pp, hc, oc, cover by Paul Lowe)     Collection of 12 stories in the style of M.R. James, most featuring James as a character. Eight stories were originally written as radio plays, three based on unused ideas by James. This edition is limited to 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $38.50 and in the UK for £24.00. ix · Introduction · Sheila Hodgson · in 3 · The Villa Martine · Sheila Hodgson · ss adapted by the author from her play of the same name. 17 · The Turning Point · Sheila Hodgson · ss Blackwood’s Magazine March 1978 adapted by the author from her radio script (“Turn, Turn, Turn”, BBC Radio 4, March 1977). 29 · The Lodestone · Sheila Hodgson · nv Ghosts & Scholars #13, 1991 adapted by the author from her play of the same name, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, on April 19th 1989. 47 · Childermass · Sheila Hodgson · ss 58 · The Backward Glance · Sheila Hodgson · ss 78 · The Boat Hook · Sheila Hodgson · ss Ghosts & Scholars #19, 1995 adapted by the author from her play of the same name, broadcast on BBC Radio 4, on April 15th 1992. 94 · The Fellow Travellers · Sheila Hodgson · nv 116 · The Hand of Gideon Chant · Sheila Hodgson · ss 128 · Echoes from the Abbey · Sheila Hodgson · nv Ghosts & Scholars #9, 1987 143 · Here Am I, Where Are You? · Sheila Hodgson · ss 160 · The Smile · Sheila Hodgson · ss 175 · “Come, Follow!” · Sheila Hodgson · ss Ghosts & Scholars #4, 1982 adapted by the author from her play of the same name.