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Nightmares in Dixie: Thirteen Horror Tales From the American South ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (August House, April 1987, 0-87483-034-6, $19.95, 260pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 13 stories, one from each Southern state. 9 · Introduction · Frank D. McSherry, Jr. · in 12 · Ooze · Anthony M. Rud · nv Weird Tales March 1923 33 · Coven [Sgt. Jaeger] · Manly Wade Wellman · nv Weird Tales July 1942 62 · The Legend of Joe Lee · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan October 1964 74 · The Wait · Kit Reed · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1958 89 · Fast-Train Ike · Jesse Stuart · ss Esquire May 1937 105 · Dark Melody of Madness · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Mystery Magazine July 1935 141 · The Fireplace · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales January 1925 154 · Beyond the Cleft · Tom Reamy · nv Nova 4 ed. Harry Harrison, Walker US, 1974 177 · The Arm-Chair of Tustenuggee · William Gilmore Simms · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book February 1840 195 · Where the Summer Ends · Karl Edward Wagner · nv Dark Forces ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking, 1980 221 · The Night of the Piasa · J. C. Green & George W. Proctor · nv Nightmares ed. Charles L. Grant, Playboy, 1979 241 · Only Yesterday · Ted White · ss Amazing Stories July 1969 251 · Cry Havoc [Glory, West Virginia] · Davis Grubb · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1976

Pirate Ghosts of the American Coast: Stories of Hauntings at Sea ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (August House, November 1988, 0-87483-077-X, $8.95, 206pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 10 short stories of fantasy and horror. 9 · Introduction · Frank D. McSherry, Jr. · in 13 · No Ships Pass · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Story-teller May 1932 40 · Anty Bligh · John Masefield · ss The Manchester Guardian March 15 1905 45 · The Red Swimmer · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales April 1939 69 · The Terrible Old Man · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Tryout July 1921 73 · The Blue Spectacles · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales July 1949, as by Stephen Grendon 84 · Seven Turns in a Hangman’s Rope · Henry S. Whitehead · na Adventure July 15 1932 145 · Guests from Gibbet Island · Washington Irving · ss The Knickerbocker October 1839 158 · A Vintage from Atlantis [Poseidonis] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales September 1933 166 · The Digging at Pistol Key · Carl Jacobi · ss Weird Tales July 1947 182 · Before I Wake · Henry Kuttner · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries March 1945 201 · Authors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Red Jack ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

Spooky Sea Stories ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr. & Charles G. Waugh--- see under Charles G. Waugh.

Strange Maine ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg--- see under Charles G. Waugh.

Sunshine Crime ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Rutledge Hill Press, 1987, 0-934395-64-0, $8.95, 224pp, tp, an)     Murder and Mayhem in Dixie. vii · To Live or Die in Dixie · Frank D. McSherry, Jr. · in 1 · When the Lord Calls · Gloria Norris · ss The Sewanee Review Winter 1982 17 · The Homesick Buick · John D. MacDonald · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #82, September 1950 31 · Access to Power [Loren Swift] · Doug Hornig · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1986 47 · All the Heroes Are Dead · Clark Howard · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1982 63 · Thrown-Away Child · Thomas Adcock · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1986 79 · A Matter of Need · Wyc Toole · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1972 91 · The Corn Thief · Guy Owen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1976 105 · Hell’s Ace · Jesse Stuart · ss 1941 119 · The Doomdorf Mystery [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 18 1914 131 · The Turkey Buzzard Blues [Luther McGavock] · Merle Constiner · nv Black Mask July 1943 187 · The Ransom of Red Chief · O. Henry · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 6 1907 197 · The Virgin Cave · Bryce Walton · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1965 211 · The Lady-Killer · Wilbur Daniel Steele · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #80, July 1950

A Treasury of American Horror Stories ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Crown/Bonanza, 1985, 0-517-48075-1, $10.00, 670pp, hc, an)     Horror anthology of 51 stories, arranged by state. xi · The Monster Tour · Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh · in 1 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890 9 · Lost Face · Jack London · ss New York Herald December 13 1908 19 · Being · Richard Matheson · nv If August 1954 45 · One Happy Family · John S. McFarland · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine September/October 1983 53 · Return to the Sabbath · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales July 1938 65 · The Autopsy · Michael Shea · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1980 95 · The Believers · Robert Arthur · ss Weird Tales July 1941 109 · A Teacher’s Rewards · Robert S. Phillips · ss The Land of Lost Content by Robert Phillips, Vanguard, 1970 117 · Chico Lafleur Talks Funny · Suzette Haden Elgin · ss 133 · The Legend of Joe Lee · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan October 1964 143 · Seventh Sister · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · nv Weird Tales January 1943 157 · The Isle of Voices · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The National Observer February 4 1893 173 · One Man’s Harp · Babette Rosmond · ss Unknown Worlds August 1943 181 · Cannibalism in the Cars · Mark Twain · ss The Broadway November 1868 189 · The Smell of Cherries · Jeffrey Goddin · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine November 1982 201 · Away · Barry N. Malzberg · ss 205 · Twilla · Tom Reamy · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1974 235 · His Name Was Not Forgotten · Joel Townsley Rogers · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 28 1943 247 · Désirée’s Child · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue January 1893, as “Désirée’s Baby” 253 · The Children of Noah · Richard Matheson · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1957 267 · The Man Who Collected Poe · Robert Bloch · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries October 1951 279 · Pickman’s Model · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales October 1927 289 · The Screwfly Solution · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact June 1977, as by Raccoona Sheldon 307 · The Unpleasantness at Carver House · Carl Jacobi · ss Travellers by Night ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1967 319 · Mute Milton · Harry Harrison · ss Amazing Stories February 1966 325 · Dumb Supper · Henderson Starke · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Summer 1950 335 · Lonely Train a’ Comin’ · William F. Nolan · ss Gallery October 1981, as “The Train” 345 · Children of the Corn · Stephen King · nv Penthouse March 1977 369 · Legal Rites · Isaac Asimov & Frederik Pohl · nv Weird Tales September 1950, as by Isaac Asimov & James MacCreigh 391 · The Devil and Daniel Webster · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 24 1936 403 · The Master of the Hounds · Algis Budrys · nv The Saturday Evening Post August 27 1966 425 · The Devil of the Picuris · Edwin L. Sabin · nv The Blue Book Magazine November 1921 445 · The Garrison · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Magazine of Horror April 1965, as by David Grinnell 451 · The Desrick on Yandro [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1952 461 · Shaggy Vengeance · Robert Adams · nv Amazing Science Fiction Stories Combined with Fantastic July 1984 479 · The Horsehair Trunk · Davis Grubb · ss Collier’s May 25 1946 487 · The Curse of Yig · Zealia Brown Reed Bishop (with H. P. Lovecraft) · ss Weird Tales November 1929, as by Zealia Brown Reed written by Lovecraft based on a story idea and some notes by Bishop. 501 · Peekaboo · Bill Pronzini · ss Nightmares ed. Charles L. Grant, Playboy, 1979 507 · Bird of Prey · Nelson S. Bond · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1949 521 · The Haunter of the Dark [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales December 1936 539 · Song of the Slaves · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales March 1940 549 · The Eagle-Claw Rattle · Ardath Mayhar · ss Mummy! ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor House, 1980 555 · Our Town · Jerome Bixby · nv If February 1955 571 · Perverts · Whitley Strieber · ss Whispers October 1983 581 · The Goddess of Zion · David H. Keller, M.D. · ss Weird Tales January 1941 591 · Alannah · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales March 1945, as by Stephen Grendon 603 · His Coat So Gay [Brigadier Ffellowes] · Sterling E. Lanier · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1970 623 · Bigfish · Edward D. Hoch · ss 629 · Lonely Road · Richard Wilson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1956 639 · Beyond the Threshold [Cthulhu] · August Derleth · nv Weird Tales September 1941 659 · The Monster of Lake LaMetrie · Wardon Allan Curtis · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1899

Treasury of American Mystery Stories ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg (Avenel, 1989, 0-517-67657-5, $9.98, 557pp, hc, an) xiii · The Mystery Tour · Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg · in 1 · The Vital Element · Talmage Powell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1967 7 · The Sun-Dog Trail [Sitka Charley] · Jack London · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine December 1905 18 · Whippin’ Wildcats · Jane Bosworth · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1987 28 · A Retrieved Reformation · O. Henry · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1903, as “A Retrieved Reform” 34 · The Sleeping Dog [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Argosy April 1965 47 · Graveyard Shift · Steve Frazee · ss Manhunt May 1953 58 · The Old Barn on the Pond · Ursula Curtiss · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1965 71 · Tom Chist and the Treasure Box · Howard Pyle · ss Stolen Treasure by Howard Pyle, Harper & Brothers, 1907 90 · The Washington, D.C., Murders · Patricia McGerr · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1963 96 · Hijack · Robert L. Fish · ss Playboy August 1972 104 · The Sky Pirates · Donald Jordan · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1983 128 · Scrimshaw · Brian Garfield · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 17 1979 137 · Bull and Bear · R. L. Stevens · ss 141 · The Counsel Assigned · Mary Raymond Shipman Andrews · ss Scribner's, March 1912 151 · A Debt to Be Paid · Dick Stodghill · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 30 1980 160 · The Happy Days Club [Michael Dane James; Ted Bennett] · James Michael Ullman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1963 170 · Kansas in August · Edward D. Hoch · ss 176 · Hunter and the Widow [Adam Hunter] · D. L. Richardson · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1984 192 · Marjeva’s Black Cat · Edward Earl Sparling · ss (r) 198 · Colt .24 · Rick Hautala · ss Devils ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh, Signet, 1987 206 · Will You Always Be Helping Me? · Thomas Walsh · ss Woman’s Home Companion September 1940, as “Boy from Home” 216 · A Case of Innocent Eavesdropping [Dr. Basil Willing] · Helen McCloy · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1978 228 · Death Makes a Comeback · James O’Keefe · ss The New Black Mask No.3 ed. Matthew J. Bruccoli & Richard Layman, HBJ, 1985 238 · The State of the Art · A. Heyst · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1983 245 · Crime Wave in Pinhole · Julie Smith · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 21 1980 250 · The Very Best · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1972 258 · Wild Things · Clark Howard · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1983 272 · I Always Get the Cuties · John D. MacDonald · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1954 278 · Payoff on Double Zero · Warner Law · nv Playboy October 1971 294 · A Secret Place · Don Gilbert · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1984 300 · Scared in New Jersey · Ronnie Klaskin · vi Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1985 304 · Line of Fire · Helen Nielsen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1987 317 · The Adventure of the One-Penny Black [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Great Detective April 1933, as “The One-Penny Black” 332 · Brothers on the Beach [Ben Snow] · Edward D. Hoch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1984 345 · First Stand · Barry N. Malzberg · ss 349 · The Tomato Man’s Daughter · Joyce Harrington · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1975 363 · Missing Persons Case · Gary W. Campbell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1977 369 · Coyote and Quarter-Moon · Bill Pronzini & Jeffrey M. Wallmann · nv Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine October 1981 386 · The Gettysburg Bugle [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #90, May 1951, as “As Simple as ABC” 401 · The Rhode Island Lights [Captain Jeremy Cork] · S. S. Rafferty · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1975 421 · The Gold-Bug · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Dollar Newspaper June 21 1843 (+1) 447 · Mourner · Joseph Hansen · ss 1979 454 · The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street · Avram Davidson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1964 462 · The Conqueror · Richard Matheson · ss Bluebook May 1954 475 · Meek-As-a-Mouse McCabe · Thomas Walsh · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 27 1982 485 · The Jabberwocky Murders · Fredric Brown · nv Thrilling Mystery Summer 1944 514 · The Age of Miracles [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss Pictorial Review February 1916 523 · The Hunger · Charles Beaumont · ss Playboy April 1955 534 · Come Down from the Hills [Arlan Boley; Sheriff Warren McKee] · John F. Suter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1987 545 · The Fifth Grave [Henry Turnbuckle] · Jack Ritchie · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1982 553 · Counterplot · Francis M. Nevins, Jr. · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1 1981

Western Ghosts: Haunting, Spine-Chilling Stories from the American West ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg (Rutledge Hill Press, April 1990, 1-55853-069-X, $9.95, 215pp, tp, an, cover by Harriette Bateman)     Contrary to the cover copy, this collection does not have much of a Western flavor to it. It’s part of “The American Ghosts Series,” a series of geographical ghost story anthologies. Other entries are New England, The Midwest, etc.). While the stories are technically set in one of the western states, they’re often generic urban or suburban and wouldn’t even qualify as contemporary westerns. v · Gone West · Frank D. McSherry, Jr. · in 1 · Harry’s Ghost · Talmage Powell · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine November 1973 17 · Pretty Maggie Moneyeyes · Harlan Ellison · nv Knight May 1967 39 · In the Memory Room · Michael Bishop · ss The Architecture of Fear ed. Kathryn Cramer & Peter D. Pautz, Arbor House, 1987 51 · Resurrection · Jack Cady · ss Chariton Review 1989 63 · The Stranger · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine February 1909 69 · Custer’s Ghost · Clark Howard · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1983 89 · The Mountain-Mirage · Joaquin Miller · ss Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine February 1891 99 · The Resting Place · Oliver LaFarge · ss The New Yorker October 16 1954 113 · One of the Dead · William Wood · nv The Saturday Evening Post October 31 1964 143 · The Ghosts of Steamboat Coulee · Arthur J. Burks · nv Weird Tales May 1926 171 · That Which Hath Wings · Paul W. Gallico · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 8 1938 191 · In the Shade · Edward Bryant · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1982 209 · The Attic · Billy Wolfenbarger · ss Dark Horizons #26, Spring 1983

Yankee Witches ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg--- see under Charles G. Waugh.

Famous Detective Stories ed. Joseph Walker McSpadden (Crowell, May 1920, LC:20-15065, 323pp, hc, an) v · Introduction · Joseph Walker McSpadden · in 1 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 29 · An Interview with M. Lecoq · Emile Gaboriau · ex from File No. 113, 1867 57 · A Scandal in Bohemia [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine July 1891 93 · The Adventure of the Hansom Cab · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss London July 20 1878 (+1); an episode in “The Suicide Club”. 121 · The Adventure of the Toadstools [Fu Manchu; (Sir Denis) Nayland Smith] · Sax Rohmer · ex from “Spores of Death”, The Story-teller June 1913 139 · Gentlemen and Players [A.J. Raffles] · E. W. Hornung · ss Cassell’s Magazine August 1898 167 · The Black Hand [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · nv Cosmopolitan Magazine September 1911 199 · The Grotto Spectre [Violet Strange] · Anna Katharine Green · nv Cosmopolitan June 1913 233 · The Mystery of the Steel Disk · Broughton Brandenburg · nv Metropolitan Magazine April 1905 261 · The Sign of the Shadow [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc; translated by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos · nv The New Magazine (UK) July 1911 translated from the French (“Le signe de l’ombre”, Je sais tout June 15, 1911). 293 · The Mystery of the Steel Room [Hamilton Cleek] · Thomas W. Hanshew · nv The Man of the Forty Faces by Thomas W. Hanshew, Cassell, 1910