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Tales of Mystery and Suspense ed. Theodore W. Hipple (Allyn & Bacon, 1977, ix+260pp, hc, an)     17 mystery and horror stories by well-known authors. Contents split 50:50 between fantastic and non-fantastic fiction. · Tales of Terror 1 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 13 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 27 · The Manuscript of Dr. Arness · Gahan Wilson · ss Playboy August 1966 35 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Stetson · ss New England Magazine January 1892, as by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 55 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891 · The Detective Story 63 · The Boscombe Valley Mystery [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine October 1891 91 · The Second Gong [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · nv Ladies’ Home Journal June 1932 117 · The President Regrets [The Puzzle Club] · Ellery Queen · ss The Diners Club Magazine September 1965 127 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant by Mark Twain, Webster, 1882 · Trials, Famous and Infamous 153 · Unreasonable Doubt · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1958 165 · The Lady, or the Tiger? · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine November 1882 175 · The Benefit of the Doubt · Jack London · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 12 1910 195 · The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 24 1936 · Crime with a Twist 215 · Suspicion · Dorothy Sayers · ss Mystery League October 1933 235 · The Ransom of Red Chief · O. Henry · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 6 1907 249 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William Fryer Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 257 · The Chaser · John Collier · ss The New Yorker December 28 1940

The Worlds of Science Fiction ed. Theodore W. Hipple & Robert G. Wright (Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 1979, LC:78-66719, 248pp, tp, an)     Textbook. 1 · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 11 · The Last of the Romany · Norman Spinrad · ss Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction May 1963 25 · New Apples in the Garden · Kris Neville · ss Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction July 1963 39 · A Scarab in the City of Time · Marta Randall · ss New Dimensions: Science Fiction: Number 5 ed. Robert Silverberg, Harper & Row, 1975 51 · The Shrines of Earth · Robert Silverberg · ss Astounding Science Fiction November 1957 67 · The Weapon · Fredric Brown · ss Astounding Science Fiction April 1951 73 · The Good Provider · Marion Gross · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1952 81 · The Walls [People] · Zenna Henderson · ss Holding Wonder by Zenna Henderson, Doubleday, 1971 93 · Summertime on Icarus · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Vogue June 1960, as “The Hottest Piece of Real Estate in the Solar System” 107 · Misbegotten Missionary · Isaac Asimov · ss Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950 127 · The Father-Thing · Philip K. Dick · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1954 143 · Deaf Listener · Rachel Cosgrove Payes · ss The Alien Condition ed. Stephen Goldin, Ballantine, 1973 153 · Minister Without Portfolio · Mildred Clingerman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1952 165 · The Fly · Arthur Porges · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1952 173 · Sweet Dreams, Melissa · Stephen Goldin · ss Galaxy Science Fiction December 1968 181 · I, Dreamer · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · ss Amazing Stories June/July 1953 197 · Final Exam · Chad Oliver · ss Fantastic November/December 1952 213 · Mariana · Fritz Leiber · ss Fantastic Science Fiction Stories February 1960 221 · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 231 · Usher II [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1950, as “Carnival of Madness”

The New Millennium Reader (3rd Edition) ed. Stuart & Terry Hirschberg (Prentice Hall, March 2002, 0130979910, $49.00, 716pp, tp, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Reading in the Various Genres · Stuart & Terry Hirschberg · in · 1. Reflections on Experience · Nonfiction · Number One! · Jill Nelson · ar (r) · Boyhood with Gurdjieff · Fritz Peters · ar (r) · West with the Night · Beryl Markham · ar (r) · Initiated Into an Iban Tribe · Douchan Gersi · ar (r) · Confessions of a Fast Woman · Lesley Hazelton · ex Addison-Wesley, 1992 · So, This Was Adolescence · Annie Dillard · ar (r) · The Myth of the Latin Woman · Judith Ortiz Cofer · ar (r) · Fiction · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 · The Miller’s Tale · Jerzy Kosinski · ss (r) · Poetry · The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock · T. S. Eliot · pm (r) · Sonnet 30: (“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought…”) · William Shakespeare · pm Shake-speares Sonnets by William Shakespeare, Thomas Thorpe, 1609 · The Solitary · Sara Teasdale · pm (r) · Funny · Anna Kamienska · pm (r) · 2. Influential People and Memorable Places · Nonfiction · Liked for Myself · Maya Angelou · ar (r) · My Father’s Life · Raymond Carver · ar Fires by Raymond Capra, Capra Press, 1983 · Antidisestablishmentarianism · Gayle Pemberton · ar (r) · My Brother, Gary Gilmore · Mikal Gilmore · ar (r) · The Taj Mahal · P. D. Ouspensky · ar (r) · Niagara Falls · William Zinsser · ar (r) · Reflections in Westminister Abbey · Joseph Addison · ar (r) · Moonlit Nights of Laughter · Fatima Mernissi · ar (r) · Fiction · Reunion · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker October 27 1962 · Looking for a Rain God · Bessie Head · ss (r) · Poetry · The Youngest Daughter · Cathy Song · pm (r) · Those Winter Sundays · Robert Hayden · pm (r) · Composed Upon Westminster Bridge · William Wordsworth · pm (r) · 3. The Value of Education · Nonfiction · Learning to Read and Write · Frederick Douglass · ar (r) · The Human Cost of an Illiterate Society · Jonathan Kozol · ar (r) · Civilize Them with a Stick · Mary Crow Dog · ar (r) · On Becoming a Chicano · Richard Rodriguez · ar (r) · In Defense of Elitism · William A. Henry, III · ex Doubleday, 1994 · How the Web Destroys the Quality of Students’ Research Papers · David Rothenberg · ar (r) · Areopagitica: Defense of Books · John Milton · ex 1644 · Speech Codes on Campus · Nat Hentoff · ar (r) · Fiction · The School · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker June 17 1974 · Poetry · Learning to Read · Frances E. W. Harper · pm (r) · Workday · Linda Hogan · pm (r) · 4. Perspectives on Language · Nonfiction · Language and Thought · Susanne K. Langer · ar (r) · The Day Language Came Into My Life · Helen Keller · ar (r) · Thinking in Pictures · Temple Grandin · ar (r) · The Language of Clothes · Alison Lurie · ar (r) · Sex, Lies, and Conversation · Deborah Tannen · ar (r) · The Rhetoric of Advertising · Stuart Hirschberg · ar (r) · Propaganda under a Dictatorship · Aldous Huxley · ar (r) · Pornography · Margaret Atwood · ar (r) · Fiction · What We Talk About When We Talk About Love · Raymond Carver · ss What We Talk About When We Talk About Love by Raymond Carver, Knopf, 1981 · Poetry · Crow Goes Hunting · Ted Hughes · ar (r) · Drama · Words, Words, Words · David Ives · pl (r) · 5. Issues in Popular Culture · Nonfiction · The Culture of Consumerism · Juliet B. Schor · ar (r) · On Bad Teeth · Slavenka Drakulíc · ar (r) · TV News as Entertainment · Neil Postman & Steve Powers · ar (r) · Urban Legends “The Boyfriend’s Death” · Jan Harold Brunvand · ar (r) · The Flesh and the Devil · Kim Chernin · ar (r) · Want Creation Fuels Americans’ Addictiveness · Philip Slater · ar (r) · The Burden of Race · Arthur Ashe · ar (r) · The Stealth Virus: AIDS & Latinos · Ann Louise Bardach · ar (r) · Fiction · Désirée’s Baby · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue January 1893 · An Old Man · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) · Poetry · Barbie Doll · Marge Piercy · pm (r) · Lisa’s Ritual, Age 10 · Grace Caroline Bridges · pm 1994 · Streets of Philadelphia · Bruce Springsteen · pm (r) · Drama · Tea Party · Betty Keller · pl (r) · 6. Our Place in Nature · Nonfiction · The Lowest Animal · Mark Twain · ar (r) · Am I Blue? · Alice Walker · ar (r) · A Very Warm Mountain · Ursula K. Le Guin · ar (r) · Big Mac and the Tropical Forests · Joseph K. Skinner · ar (r) · How to Kill an Ocean · Thor Heyerdahl · ar (r) · Waking Up the Rake · Linda Hogan · ar (r) · The Greenhouse Affect · P. J. O’Rourke · ar (r) · Fiction · I Am a Cat · Natsume Soseki · ss (r) · A River Ran Over Me · Lin Sutherland · ss (r) · Poetry · Sleeping in the Forest · Mary Oliver · pm (r) · The Sound of the Sea · Henry Wadsworth Longfellow · pm (r) · 7. History in the Making · Nonfiction · The Naked Source · Linda Simon · ar (r) · Finding the Tomb · Howard Carter · ar (r) · To Make Them Stand in Fear · Kenneth M. Stampp · ar (r) · From a Native Daughter · Haunani-Kay Trask · ar (r) · The San Francisco Earthquake · Jack London · ar (r) · R.M.S. Titanic · Hanson W. Baldwin · ar Harper’s Magazine January 1934 · A Noiseless Flash from Hiroshima · John Hersey · ar (r) · Fiction · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890 · Home Soil · Irene Zabytko · ss (r) · Poetry · A Worker Reads History · Bertolt Brecht · pm (r) · Child’s Memory · Eleni Fourtouni · pm (r) · Titanic · David R. Slavitt · pm (r) · 8. The Pursuit of Justice · Nonfiction · Rights of Man · Thomas Paine · ar (r) · Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl · Harriet Jacobs · ex Thayer & Eldridge, 1861, as by Linda Brent · I Have a Dream · Martin Luther King, Jr. · ar (r) · We Have Our State · Golda Meir · ar (r) · At the Center of the Storm · Rae Yang · ar (r) · Daisy · Luis Sepulveda · ar (r) · Fiction · The Guest · Albert Camus · ss (r) · The Censors · Luisa Valenzuela · ss (r) · Poetry · The Unknown Citizen · W. H. Auden · pm The Listener August 3 1939 · At First I Was Given Centuries · Margaret Atwood · pm (r) · Drama · Protest · Václav Havel · pl (r) · 9. The Impact of Technology · Nonfiction · A Clone Is Born · Gina Kolata · ar (r) · Sperm in a Jar · Anne Taylor Fleming · ar (r) · Identical Twins Reared Apart · Constance Holden · ar Science March 21 1980 · Monsters of the Brave New World · Carol Gruenwald · ar (r) · How Not to Use the Fax Machine and the Cellular Phone · Umberto Eco · ar (r) · The Haves and the Have-Nots · LynNell Hancock · ar (r) · The Road Ahead · Bill Gates · ar (r) · Fiction · The Enormous Radio · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker May 17 1947 · Poetry · When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer · Walt Whitman · pm Drum-Taps by Walt Whitman, Peter Eckler, 1865 · I’m Gonna Be an Engineer · Peggy Seeger · pm (r) · 10. The Artistic Impulse · Nonfiction · How to Write with Style · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ar (r) · Still Just Writing · Anne Tyler · ar (r) · What Is Real? · Alice Munro · ar Making It New ed. John Metcalf, Methuen, 1982 · The Exorcist Massage Parlor · Wilson Bryan Key · ar (r) · Mick Jagger, Sexuality, Style & Image · Sheila Whiteley · ar (r) · The Paradox of St. Mark’s · Mary McCarthy · ar (r) · Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle · Lance Morrow · ar (r) · General Nguyen Ngoc Loan (photo) · Eddie Adams · il (r) · Fiction · The Tatooer · Junichiro Tanizaki · ss (r) · Poetry · The Author to Her Book · Anne Bradstreet · pm Several Poems by Anne Bradstreet, John Foster, 1678 · Tell It Slant · Emily Dickinson · pm (r) · In Goya’s Greatest Scenes We Seem to See · Lawrence Ferlinghetti · pm (r) · The Third of May 1808 · Francisco Goya · il (r) · 11. Matters of Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion · Nonfiction · The Myth of Immortality · Clarence Darrow · ar (r) · Did a Barnyard Schism Lead to a Religious One? · Dinitia Smith · ar (r) · Slaughter of the Innocent · Hans Ruesch · ar (r) · Lifeboat Ethics · Garrett Hardin · ar (r) · The Prisoner’s Dilemma · Stephen Chapman · ar (r) · If I Die in a Combat Zone · Tim O’Brien · ar (r) · Salvation · Langston Hughes · ar (r) · Fiction · The Country of the Blind · H. G. Wells · nv The Strand Magazine April 1904 · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 · Parables · The Allegory of the Cave · Plato · ms (r) · Parables in the New Testament · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Parables of Buddha · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Islamic Folk Stories · Nasreddin Hodja · ar (r) · Poetry · The Road Not Taken · Robert Frost · pm The Atlantic Monthly August 1915 · Hope · Lisel Mueller · pm (r) · Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night · Dylan Thomas · pm Botteghe Oscure #8, 1951 · The Second Coming · W. B. Yeats · pm The Dial November 1920 · Credits · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Index of Authors and Titles · [uncredited] · ix (r)