Sinister Gambits ed. Richard Peyton (Souvenir Press, 1991, 0-285-63052-0, £14.99, 318pp, hc, an)
Anthology of 18 chess stories of murder and mystery.
- 7 · Introduction · Richard Peyton · in (r)
- · I: Grandplayer’s Nightmares
- 17 · The Dreams of Albert Moreland · Fritz Leiber · nv Acolyte Spring 1945
- 33 · The Three Sailors’ Gambit · Lord Dunsany · ss The Smart Set August 1916
- 41 · The Devil That Troubled the Chessboard · Gerald Kersh · ss John o’ London’s Weekly January 11 1936
- 50 · Pawn to King’s Four · Stephen Leacock · ss Happy Stories Just to Laugh At by Stephen Leacock, Dodd, Mead, 1943
- 58 · The Royal Game · Stefan Zweig · nv Woman’s Home Companion March 1944
- 102 · End-Game · J. G. Ballard · nv New Worlds Science Fiction #131, June 1963
- · II: Bizarre Chessmen
- 124 · The Queen of the Red Chessmen · Lucretia P. Hale · nv The Atlantic Monthly February 1858, uncredited.
- 151 · A Game of Chess · Robert Barr · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1900
- 163 · A Set of Chessmen · Richard Marsh · ss The Cornhill Magazine April 1890, uncredited.
- 180 · The Haunted Chessmen · E. R. Punshon · ss The Novel Magazine March 1916
- 193 · Bishop’s Gambit · August Derleth · ss Avon Fantasy Reader 3 ed. Donald A. Wollheim, Avon Book Co., 1947, as by Stephen Grendon
- 205 · The Immortal Game · Poul Anderson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1954
- · III: Blood Chess
- 222 · A Chess Problem [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch February 13 1924
- 234 · Checkmate · Alfred Noyes · ss The Hidden Player by Alfred Noyes, Hodder & Stoughton, 1924
- 248 · Professor Pownall’s Oversight · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Royal Magazine March 1928, as “The Unseen Player”
- 260 · The Cat from Siam · Fredric Brown · nv Popular Detective September 1949
- 291 · Fool’s Mate · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #96, November 1951
- 306 · A Better Chess-Player · Kenneth Gavrell · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine November 1989
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