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Year’s Best Weird Fiction, Volume Two ed. Michael Kelly & Kathe Koja (Undertow Publications, October 13, 2015, 978-0-9938951-1-1, $18.99, xiii+309pp, tp, an, cover by Tomasz Alen Kopera)     Best of the year anthology of 20 weird stories from 2014. Authors include Karen Joy Fowler, Caitlín R. Kiernan, and Nick Mamatas. Foreword by series editor Michael Kelly. Details taken from online listing. vii · Foreword · Michael Kelly · fw xi · At Home with the Weird · Kathe Koja · in 5 · The Atlas of Hell · Nathan Ballingrud · nv Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 27 · Wendigo Nights · Siobhan Carroll · ss Fearful Symmetries ed. Ellen Datlow, ChiZine Publications, 2014 43 · Headache · Julio Cortázar; translated by Michael Cisco · ss Tor.com September 3 2014 translated from the Spanish (“Cefalea”, Bestiario, 1951). 57 · Loving Armageddon · Amanda C. Davis · vi Crossed Genres Magazine #19, July 2014 65 · The Earth and Everything Under · K. M. Ferebee · ss Shimmer #19, May 2014 83 · Nanny Anne and the Christmas Story · Karen Joy Fowler · ss Subterranean (online) Winter 2014 95 · The Girls Who Go Below · Cat Hellisen · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction July/August 2014 113 · Nine · Kima Jones · ss Long Hidden ed. Daniel Jos^e' Older & Rose Fox, Crossed Genres Publications, 2014 131 · Bus Fare [Dancy Flammarion] · Caitlín R. Kiernan · ss Subterranean (online) Spring 2014 145 · The Air We Breathe Is Stormy, Stormy · Rich Larson · ss Strange Horizons August 11 2014 155 · The Husband Stitch · Carmen Maria Machado · nv Granta (online) Autumn 2014 179 · Observations About Eggs from the Man Sitting Next to Me on a Flight from Chicago, Illinois to Cedar Rapids, Iowa · Carmen Maria Machado · ss Lightspeed #47, April 2014 187 · Resurrection Points · Usman T. Malik · nv Strange Horizons August 4 2014 207 · Exit Through the Gift Shop · Nick Mamatas · ss Searchers After Horror ed. S. T. Joshi, Fedogan & Bremer, 2014 219 · So Sharp That Blood Must Flow · Sunny Moraine · ss Lightspeed #45, February 2014 231 · The Ghoul · Jean Muno; translated by Edward Gauvin · ss Weird Fiction Review (online) June 4 2014 translated from the French (“La goule”, Histoires singulières, Écrits du Nord, 1979). 241 · A Stretch of Highway Two Lanes Wide · Sarah Pinsker · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2014 255 · Migration · Karin Tidbeck · ss Fearsome Magics ed. Jonathan Strahan, Solaris, 2014 273 · Hidden in the Alphabet · Charles Wilkinson · ss Shadows & Tall Trees #6, Spring 2014 287 · A Cup of Salt Tears · Isabel Yap · ss Tor.com August 27 2014

Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume Three ed. Michael Kelly & Simon Strantzas (Undertow Publications, October 11, 2016, 978-0-9950949-1-8, $19.99, xiv+365pp, tp, an, cover by Beatriz Martin Vidal)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 19 weird stories from 2015. Authors include Brian Evenson, Robert Aickman, Ramsey Campbell, and Genevieve Valentine. Details taken from online listing. vii · Forward · Michael Kelly · fw xi · Introduction · Simon Strantzas · in 3 · Rabbit, Cat, Girl · Rebecca Kuder · ss Thirteen: Stories of Transformation ed. Mark Teppo, Underland Press, 2015 13 · Violet Is the Color of Your Energy · Nadia Bulkin · ss She Walks in Shadows ed. Silvia Moreno-Garcia & Paula R. Stiles, Innsmouth Free Press, 2015 27 · Blood · Robert Shearman · nv Seize the Night ed. Christopher Golden, Gallery Books, 2015 55 · Loveliness Like a Shadow · Christopher Slatsky · nv Alectryomancer and Other Weird Tales by Christopher Slatsky, Dynatox Ministries, 2015 73 · Orange Dogs · Marian Womack · ss Weird Fiction Review (online) October 19 2015 89 · Seaside Town · Brian Evenson · ss Aickman’s Heirs ed. Simon Strantzas, Undertow Publications, 2015 107 · Honey Moon · D. P. Watt · nv Soliloquy for Pan ed. Mark Beech, Egaeus Press, 2015 131 · The Marking · Kristi DeMeester · ss Three-Lobed Burning Eye #27, September 2015 139 · The Strangers · Robert Aickman · na The Strangers and Other Writings by Robert Aickman, Tartarus Press, 2015 189 · Guest · Brian Conn · ss The Bestiary ed. Ann VanderMeer, Centipede Press, 2015 197 · Julie · L. S. Johnson · nv Strange Tales V ed. Rosalie Parker, Tartarus Press, 2015 223 · The Devil Under the Maison Blue · Michael Wehunt · ss The Dark #10, November 2015 235 · Fetched · Ramsey Campbell · ss Horrorology ed. Stephen Jones, Jo Fletcher Books, 2015, as “Nightmare” 235 · The Seventh Wave · Lynda E. Rucker · ss Terror Tales of the Ocean ed. Paul Finch, Gray Friar Press, 2015 255 · Rangel · Matthew M. Bartlett · nv Dim Shores, July 31 2015 277 · Visit Lovely Cornwall on the Western Railway Line · Genevieve Valentine · ss The Doll Collection ed. Ellen Datlow, Tor, 2015 293 · The Rooms Are High · Reggie Oliver · ss The Sea of Blood by Reggie Oliver, Dark Renaissance Books, 2015 313 · Strange Currents · Tim Lebbon · nv Innsmouth Nightmares ed. Lois H. Gresh, PS Publishing, 2015 345 · Little Girls in Bone Museums · Sadie Bruce · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March/April 2015

Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume Four ed. Michael Kelly & Helen Marshall--- see under Helen Marshall.

Year’s Best Weird Fiction: Volume 5 ed. Michael Kelly & Robert Shearman (Undertow Publications, October 16, 2018, 978-1-988964-07-2, $28.99, 422pp, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Foreword · Michael Kelly · fw · Introduction · Robert Shearman · in · The Convexity of Our Youth · Kurt Fawver · ss Looming Low: Volume I ed. Justin Steele & Sam Cowan, Dim Shores, 2017 · The Rock Eater · Ben Loory · ss Taste Spring 2017 · Corzo · Brenna Gomez · ss Prairie Schooner Spring 2017 · You Will Always Have Family: A Triptych · Kathleen Kayembe · nv Nightmare #54, March 2017 · Flotsam · Daniel Carpenter · ss Tales from the Shadow Booth v1, 2017 · The Possession · Michael Mirolla · ss Transatlantic Review #46/47, Summer 1973 · Skins Smooth as Plantain, Hearts Soft as Mango · Ian Muneshwar · ss The Dark #27, August 2017 · The Unwish · Claire Massey · ss Nightjar Press, November 2017, as by Claire Dean · Worship Only What She Bleeds · Kristi DeMeester · ss Everything That’s Underneath by Kristi DeMeester, Apex Publications, 2017 · House of Abjection · David Peak · ss Nightscript III ed. C. M. Muller, Chthonic Matter, 2017 · The Way She Is with Strangers · Helen Marshall · ss Dark Cities ed. Christopher Golden, Titan, 2017 · The Anteater · Joshua King · ss Matador Review Fall 2017 · When Words Change the Molecular Composition of Water · Jenni Fagan · ss · The Entertainment Arrives · Alison Littlewood · ss Darker Companions ed. Scott David Aniolowski & Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., PS Publishing, 2017 · Take the Way Home That Leads Back to Sullivan Street · Chavisa Woods · nv Things to Do When You’re Goth in the Country and Other Stories by Chavisa Woods, Seven Stories Press, 2017 · Eight Bites · Carmen Maria Machado · ss Gulf Coast Summer/Fall 2017 · Red Hood · Eric Schaller · ss Nightmare #55, April 2017 · Curb Day · Rebecca Kuder · ss Shadows & Tall Trees v7, 2017 · The Narrow Escape of Zipper-Girl · Adam-Troy Castro · ss Nightmare #57, June 2017 · Disappearer · K. L. Pereira · ss A Dream Between Two Rivers by K. L. Pereira, Cutlass Press, 2017 · The Mouse Queen · Camilla Grudova · ss The Doll’s Alphabet by Camilla Grudova, Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017 · The Second Door · Brian Evenson · ss Looming Low: Volume I ed. Justin Steele & Sam Cowan, Dim Shores, 2017 · Live Through This · Nadia Bulkin · ss Looming Low: Volume I ed. Justin Steele & Sam Cowan, Dim Shores, 2017 · Something About Birds · Paul Tremblay · nv Black Feathers ed. Ellen Datlow, Pegasus Books, 2017

Erie Tales 666 ed. Nicole Castle Kelly, David C. Hayes & MontiLee Stormer--- see under David C. Hayes.

Blades of Damocles by Phil Kelly (Black Library, April 16, 2016, 978-1-78496-137-4, £18.00, 350pp, hc, n.) [Warhammer 40,000: Space Marines]     Details taken from online listing.

Crisis of Faith by Phil Kelly (Black Library, July 1, 2017, 978-1-78572-651-4, ebook, n.) [Warhammer 40,000]     Details taken from online listing.

Dreadfleet by Phil Kelly (Black Library, September 2011, 978-1-84970-123-5, 200pp, pb, n.) [Warhammer]     Details taken from online listing.

Farsight by Phil Kelly (Black Library, October 2015, 978-1-78496-026-1, £12.00, 124pp, hc, na) [Warhammer 40,000]     Details taken from online listing.

Sigmar’s Blood by Phil Kelly (Black Library, December 2013, 978-1-84970-570-7, 128pp, hc, na) [Warhammer: Time of Legends]     Details taken from online listing.

Midnight Grinding and Other Twilight Terrors by Ronald Kelly (CD Publications, May 2009, 978-1-58767-182-1, $40.00, 424pp, hc, co, cover by Alex McVey)     Collection of 32 Southern Horror stories, two original. Kelly provides comments on each story. This is a signed, limited edition of 1,250; a traycased, lettered edition of 26 ($175.00) is also available. 9 · Introduction · Ronald Kelly · in 13 · Breakfast Serial · Ronald Kelly · ss Terror Time Again 1988 19 · Miss Abigail’s Delicate Condition · Ronald Kelly · ss Nøctulpa #3, Fall 1988 29 · Forever Angels · Ronald Kelly · ss Cemetery Dance #1, December 1988 41 · Yea, Though I Drive · Ronald Kelly · ss Cold Blood ed. Richard T. Chizmar, Ziesing, 1991 51 · The Web of La Sanguinaire · Ronald Kelly · ss Deathrealm #6, Summer 1988 59 · The Cistern · Ronald Kelly · ss Cemetery Dance #4, Spring 1990 71 · Papa’s Exile · Ronald Kelly · vi Deathrealm #7, Fall/Winter 1988 75 · The Hatchling · Ronald Kelly · ss Tri-State Fantasist #2, Spring 1989 85 · Black Harvest · Ronald Kelly · ss After Hours Spring 1989 93 · Dead Skin · Ronald Kelly · ss Grue #12, Winter 1991 103 · Consumption · Ronald Kelly · ss Thin Ice #5, 1989 117 · Dust Devils · Ronald Kelly · ss 2AM Summer 1989 131 · The Boxcar · Ronald Kelly · ss After Hours Winter 1989 139 · The Dark Tribe · Ronald Kelly · ss Tri-State Fantasist #3, 1989 149 · Old Hacker · Ronald Kelly · ss New Blood #7, 1990 159 · The Winds Within · Ronald Kelly · ss Cemetery Dance #7, Winter 1991 179 · Oh, Sordid Shame! · Ronald Kelly · ss Deathrealm #13, Fall/Winter 1990 191 · The Cerebral Passion · Ronald Kelly · ss Eldritch Tales #26, Winter 1991 205 · Thinning the Herd · Ronald Kelly · ss 2AM Spring 1992 215 · Blood Suede Shoes · Ronald Kelly · ss Shock Rock ed. Jeff Gelb, Pocket, 1992 229 · Tyrophex-Fourteen · Ronald Kelly · ss The Earth Strikes Back ed. Richard Chizmar, Ziesing, 1994 249 · Scream Queen · Ronald Kelly · ss Seeds of Fear ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket, 1995 265 · Devil’s Creek · Ronald Kelly · ss (r) 283 · Impressions in Oak · Ronald Kelly · ss 297 · Bookmarks · Ronald Kelly · ss Gauntlet #2, 1991 309 · Romicide · Ronald Kelly · ss Cemetery Dance #25, Fall 1996 329 · Whorehouse Hollow · Ronald Kelly · ss Dark Seductions ed. Alice Alfonsi & John Scognamiglio, Zebra, 1993 349 · Depravity Road · Ronald Kelly · ss Deathrealm #15, Fall/Winter 1991 361 · Beneath Black Bayou · Ronald Kelly · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 377 · Exit 85 · Ronald Kelly · ss Cemetery Dance #24, Summer 1996 387 · Grandma’s Favorite Recipe · Ronald Kelly · ss Cemetery Dance 2008 403 · Midnight Grinding · Ronald Kelly · ss Borderlands 3 ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993 423 · Afterword · Ronald Kelly · aw

Happy Death Day by Toni L. P. Kelner (Crippen & Landru, January 2025, free, ph, ss)     Original short story published as a gift for friends of Crippen & Landru.

The Skeleton Rides a Horse and Other Stories by Toni L. P. Kelner (Crippen & Landru, July 2024, 978-1-936363-86-5, $22.00, 206pp, tp, co)     Also available in a signed, numbered, hardback edition (-85-8, $47.00) with a bonus chapbook, An Unmentionable Crime. · Introduction · Dana Cameron & Charlaine Harris · in · Murchison Solves a Mystery [Abram Murchison] · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Murderous Intent Spring 1995 · Where Does a Herd of Elephants Go? · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Midnight Louie’s Pet Detectives ed. Carole Nelson Douglas, Forge, 1998 · Security Blanket · Toni L. P. Kelner · nv Riptide ed. Skye Alexander, Kate Flora & Susan Oleksiw, Level Best Books, 2004 · Sleeping with the Plush · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 2006 · Skull and Cross-Examinations [William Cunningham Ward] · Toni L. P. Kelner · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 2008 · Kangaroo Court · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 2008 · Kids Today · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Damn Near Dead 2: Live Noir or Die Trying! ed. Bill Crider, Busted Flush Press, 2010 · Bell, Book, and Candlepin · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Games Creatures Play ed. Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris, Ace Books, 2014 · Now Hiring Nasty Girlz · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January/February 2020 · Rage Warehouse—Ire Proof · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May/June 2020 · Nasty · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Shattering Glass ed. Heather Graham, Nasty Woman Press, 2020 · The Skeleton Rides a Horse [Family Skeleton] · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September/October 2022, as by Leigh Perry

An Unmentionable Crime by Toni L. P. Kelner (Crippen & Landru, July 2024, ph, ss)     Chapbook included with the hardback edition of The Skeleton Rides a Horse and Other Stories.

An Apple for the Creature ed. Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris--- see under Charlaine Harris.

Dead but Not Forgotten: Stories from the World of Sookie Stackhouse ed. Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris--- see under Charlaine Harris.

Games Creatures Play ed. Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris (Ace Books, April 1, 2014, 978-0-425-25687-9, $26.95, 356pp, hc, oa, cover by Lisa Desimini)     Details taken from online listing. ix · Introduction · Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris · in 1 · In the Blue Hereafter · Charlaine Harris · nv 26 · Hide and Seek · William Kent Krueger · ss 40 · Stepping Into the Dead Zone · Jan Burke · nv 68 · Dead on the Bones · Joe R. Lansdale · nv 89 · The Devil Went Down to Boston · Caitlin Kittredge · nv 116 · On the Playing Fields of Blood · Brendan DuBois · nv 146 · The God’s Games · Dana Cameron · nv 173 · The Case of the Haunted Safeway [Hunter Hunterson & Sons] · Scott Sigler · nv 206 · Prise de Fer · Ellen Kushner · nv 234 · Dreamer · Brandon Sanderson · ss 247 · False Knight on the Road · Mercedes Lackey · ss 262 · Jammed [InCryptid] · Seanan McGuire · nv 289 · Hide and Shriek · Adam-Troy Castro · nv 317 · Ice · Laura Lippman · ss 332 · Bell, Book, and Candlepin · Toni L. P. Kelner · ss

Many Bloody Returns ed. Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris--- see under Charlaine Harris.

Wolfsbane and Mistletoe ed. Toni L. P. Kelner & Charlaine Harris--- see under Charlaine Harris.

Caledonia Dreamin’: Strange Fiction of Scottish Descent ed. Chris Kelso & Hal Duncan--- see under Hal Duncan.

Death’s Loving Arms & Other Terror Tales ed. Earl Kemp--- see under Jon Hanlon.

The House of Living Death & Other Terror Tales ed. Earl Kemp--- see under Jon Hanlon.

The Science Fiction Novel ed. Earl Kemp--- see under Anon..

Stories from Doctor Death & Other Terror Tales ed. Earl Kemp--- see under Jon Hanlon.

Consensual: A Collection of Meaty Erotic Stories ed. Elaine Kemp, Stephen Dedman & Cathy Cupitt--- see under Stephen Dedman.

Consensual: The Second Coming ed. Elaine Kemp, Stephen Dedman & Cathy Cupitt--- see under Stephen Dedman.

The Puffin Book of Ghosts and Ghouls ed. Gene Kemp (Viking UK, July 1992, 0-670-83849-7, £9.99, 254pp, hc, an, cover by Nick Harris) 9 · Introduction · Gene Kemp · in 13 · The Giant’s Necklace · Michael Morpurgo · nv The White Horse of Zennor by Michael Morpurgo, Kaye & Ward, 1982 37 · The Horn · Susan Price · ss Here Lies Price by Susan Price, Faber and Faber, 1987 47 · Hi! It’s Me · Marjorie Darke · nv Outsiders ed. Bryant Newman, Collins, 1985 71 · A Ghost of One’s Own · Ursula Moray Williams · nv The Cat Flap and the Apple Pie and Other Funny Stories ed. Lance Salway, W.H. Allen, 1979 93 · The Veldt · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saturday Evening Post September 23 1950, as “The World the Children Made” 115 · Goosey Goosey Gander · Ann Pilling · ss Streets Ahead ed. Valerie Bierman, Methuen, 1989 135 · The Shadow-Cage · Philippa Pearce · nv The Shadow Cage and Other Tales of the Supernatural by Philippa Pearce, Crowell, 1977 159 · Spring-Heeled Jack · Gwen Grant · ss The Methuen Book of Sinister Stories ed. Jean Russell, Methuen, 1982 171 · The Spring · Peter Dickinson · ss Beware! Beware! ed. Jean Richardson, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 187 · Almost a Ghost Story · Robert Westall · ss The Haunting of Chas McGill and Other Stories by Robert Westall, Macmillan, 1983 203 · The Passing of Puddy · Gene Kemp · ss The Methuen Book of Sinister Stories ed. Jean Russell, Methuen, 1982 219 · Humblepuppy · Joan Aiken · ss Puffin Post 231 · Bang, Bang—Who’s Dead? · Jane Gardam · ss Beware! Beware! ed. Jean Richardson, Hamish Hamilton, 1987 247 · Uninvited Ghosts · Penelope Lively · ss Frank and Polly Muir’s Big Dipper, Heinemann, 1981