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Northern Darkness: 19 Great Stories Set in the Northern Regions of the American Continent ed. Jon A. Schlenker, Jeffrey A. Linscott & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2024, $24.95, 353pp, tp, an)     Details taken from Table of Contents. 5 · Introduction · Charles G. Waugh · in 11 · The Chase of the Tide · Norman Duncan · ss McClure’s Magazine August 1901 25 · The Clasp of Rank · S. Carleton · ss The Thrill Book April 1 1919 41 · The Devil’s Muskeg · Herman Whitaker · ss Munsey’s Magazine November 1901 52 · The Ice-Dogs · James B. Connolly · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1907 68 · In the Shadow of the Pines · Arnold Andrews · ss Munsey’s Magazine August 1920 81 · The Lame Priest · S. Carleton · ss The Atlantic Monthly December 1901 94 · The Last Passenger · James B. Connolly · nv The Popular Magazine June 15 1913 134 · Lourdes · Herman Whitaker · ss Ainslee’s September 1909 150 · Love of Life · Jack London · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine December 1905 169 · Messengers at the Window · Henry van Dyke · ss The American Magazine October 1912 178 · Moss Island · Carl Jacobi · ss Amazing Stories Quarterly Winter 1932 revised from The Quest May ’30. 187 · On the Snow · Maximilian Foster · ss Everybody’s Magazine October 1901 200 · The People of the Pit · A. Merritt · nv All-Story Weekly January 5 1918 215 · Quiquern · Rudyard Kipling · nv Pall Mall Gazette October 24 1895 (+1) 233 · Spirit Island · Captain Henry Toke Munn · nv Chambers’s Journal November 1922 255 · The Thing from Outside · George Allan England · ss Science and Invention April 1923 273 · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 288 · The Valley of the Windigo · George T. Marsh · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1917 304 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 347 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg 352 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg

Off the Rails: Strange and Fantastic Train Tales ed. Jon A. Schlenker, Jeffrey A. Linscott & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2021, 978-1-943022-39-7, $24.95, 338pp, tp, an) 1 · Introduction · Charles G. Waugh · in 9 · The Black Quag · Arthur Mallory · nv Adventure mid June 1921 62 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Arnold, 1911 81 · The 4:15 Express · Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards · nv Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1867, 1866 104 · Ghost at Point of Rocks · Frank H. Spearman · ss Scribner’s Magazine August 1907 120 · A Ghost Train · W. L. Alden · ss The Idler January 1896 129 · The Ghost Whistle · Eugene K. Jones · ss Everybody’s October 1923 144 · The Headless Man · Henry W. Shoemaker · ss Susquehanna Legends by Henry W. Shoemaker, Bright Printing Company, 1913 151 · His First Penitent · James Oliver Curwood · ss Munsey’s Magazine August 1911 158 · The Invisible Force · Fred M. White · ss Pearson’s Magazine June 1903 177 · The Locomotive That Lost Herself · Cy Warman · ss McClure’s Magazine June 1896 189 · The Man at the Next Table · Robert W. Chambers · nv New York Press 1896 218 · The Mass for the Dead · Edith Nesbit · ss The Argosy (UK) April 1892 226 · Mr. Jones’s Dream · Edward Robins · ss The Black Cat September 1898 233 · The Mysterious Signal · Cy Warman · ss The Monthly Story Magazine June 1905 242 · The Signal Man · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman” 254 · The Toys of Fate · Tod Robbins · nv Munsey’s Magazine January 1921 280 · The Train Hunt at Loldos · E. C. Preston · ss The Black Cat August 1900 291 · The Trap · Richard Marsh · ss (r) revised from “The Secret of the Mask” (Ainslee’s Magazine, February 1899). 313 · A Wonderful Ghost Story · Thomas Heaphy · ss All the Year Round October 5 1861, as “Mr. H’s Own Narrative”, uncredited.; omits the initial framing narrative. 329 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg 338 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg

Pillars of Fire: 21 Classic Lighthouse Tales ed. Jon A. Schlenker & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2015, 978-1-935573-91-3, $16.95, x+318pp, tp, an, cover: [photo of Pemaquid Point Lighthouse] by Dennis Iasiello) 1 · Introduction · Jon A. Schlenker · in 1 · The Outcast · T. Jenkins Hains · ss The Strife of the Sea by T. Jenkins Hains, The Baker & Taylor Co., 1903 15 · The Lighthouse on Shivering Sand · J. S. Fletcher · ss The Red Magazine October 1 1911 25 · Cosima and Sunta: An Artist’s Story · [uncredited] · ss Appleton’s Journal May 13 1876 43 · The Haunted Lighthouse · Lischen Miller · ss The Pacific Monthly August 1899, as “The Haunted Light” 49 · Wrecked on Carr’s Reef · President Bates · ss The Outing Magazine June 1890 (+1) 66 · The Light That Failed Not · Henry van Dyke · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1900 84 · The Lighthouse · Alfred Noyes · ss The Bookman November 1918 96 · The Adventure of the Very Old Man · Temple Bailey · ss The Smart Set August 1906 106 · The Lighthouse on the Skeve Mhoil · [uncredited] · ss Chambers’s Journal June 3 1865 (+1) 123 · They Called Her Annie Laurie · Frances Hathaway · ss Scribner’s Magazine March 1919 138 · When the Light Failed at Carysfort [Bahama Bill] · T. Jenkins Hains · ss The Popular Magazine August 1906 145 · The Wrecker · Leavitt Ashley Knight · ss Everybody’s Magazine August 1912 161 · The Whistling Buoy · Ralph D. Paine · ss The Outing Magazine December 1907 181 · Ballast Island · Constance Fenimore Woolson · ss Appleton’s Journal June 28 1873 203 · Breathes There a Man— · George C. Hull · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1917 213 · Bulls and Bears on Skor Vhean · John Oxenham · ss The Strand Magazine September 1901 235 · Captain Joe · F. Hopkinson Smith · ss The Century Magazine December 1889 245 · The Bubble of Dreams · Will Irwin · ss The American Magazine July 1907 261 · The Sea-Dog · T. Jenkins Hains · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine October 1902 269 · The Builder of the Lighthouse · Molly Elliot Seawell · ss The Smart Set December 1902 291 · The Man with a Thousand Legs · Frank Belknap Long · nv Weird Tales August 1927 313 · Author Notes · [uncredited] · bg

Ride to Glory: 23 Classic Cavalry Tales ed. Jon A. Schlenker & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2017, 978-1-943022-07-6, $20.95, iv+363pp, tp, an) · Go West Young Man · Charles G. Waugh · in 1 · The Boy That Couldn’t Stand Fire · Major General Charles King · ss Lippincott’s Magazine December 1904 8 · Miss Royston’s Gloves · Colonel Richard Henry Savage · ss The Cosmopolitan January 1894; given as “Miss Royalston’s Gloves” in the Table of Contents. 18 · For the Honor of the Gray · General Charles King · ss The Saturday Evening Post April 29 1899 29 · Girl-Who-Laughs · Woodruff Clarke · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly February 1889 38 · A Sergeant of the Orphan Troop · Frederic Remington · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine August 1897 47 · Wilder’s Ride · Louis Dodge · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1917 66 · The Trumpeter of the Troop · Thomas H. Wilson · ss The Century Magazine January 1896 72 · Like Soldiers, All · Tom Hall · ss Munsey’s Magazine June 1898 79 · Texas · Ellen Mackubin · ss The Century Magazine December 1893 93 · Old Barnaby’s Bess · Tom Hall · ss Tales by Tom Hall, F. A. Stokes Company, 1899 100 · Well Won: Or from the Plains to the Point · Major General Charles King · nv Starlight Ranch, and Other Stories of Army Life on the Frontier by Capt. Charles King, J.B. Lippincott Company, 1890 147 · Chummie · D. H. Nourse · ss Overland Monthly January 1900; subtitled “A Tale of Two Friends”. 160 · The Mule Driver and the Garrulous Mute · Rex Beach · ss McClure’s Magazine November 1903 169 · Trooper Baptiste · Morley Roberts · ss The Great Jester by Morley Roberts, Mentz, Kenner and Gelberg, 1896; given as “Trooper Batiste”. 175 · An Indian Story of the Sierra Madre · William Wright · ss The Cosmopolitan June 1895, as by Dan de Quille 197 · Little Big Horn Medicine · Owen Wister · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine June 1894 219 · The Lame Coyote’s Lone War · Charles Michelson · ss The Cosmopolitan April 1901 229 · Ranson’s Folly · Richard Harding Davis · na Collier’s Weekly May 10 1902 (+3) 278 · Troop Horse Number One · Hugh Johnson · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1916 292 · Her Friend, Sergeant John · Wolcott LeClear Beard · ss Scribner’s Magazine April 1914 302 · The Mail-Order Cowboy · Hugh Johnson · ss Scribner’s Magazine November 1911 310 · Harlequin to the Rescue · Brig. Gen. Hugh Johnson · ss Scribner’s Magazine November 1915 323 · The Flag · James Francis Dwyer · ss Munsey’s Magazine September 1916 341 · A Scout with the Buffalo Soldiers · Frederic Remington · ar The Century Magazine April 1889 355 · Author Notes · [uncredited] · bg

The Rivals of Moby Dick ed. Jon A. Schlenker & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2022, 978-1-943022-69-4, $29.95, 484pp, tp, an, cover by Ted Closson) i · Whaling · Jon A. Schlenker · in ix · Top Whale Movies · [uncredited] · ms x · Top Whale Documentary Movies · [uncredited] · ms 15 · Part 1: Moby Dick 16 · The Book: Moby-Dick; or the Whale (1851) 17 · “The Best Sea Story Ever Written” · Archibald MacMechan · ar Queen’s Quarterly October 1899 27 · The Influences: 29 · “Mocha Dick” of the Pacific · J. N. Reynolds · ss Knickerbocker’s Magazine May 1839, as “Mocha Dick, or the White Whale of the Pacific” 50 · The Whale’s Revenge · William Comstock · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly October 1883 58 · The Author: Herman Melville 59 · Herman Melville · J. E. A. Smith; edited by Charles G. Waugh · ob (r) [Ref. Herman Melville]; contemporary obituary. 69 · The Rewrite: 70 · The Black Quag · Arthur Mallory · nv Adventure mid June 1921 123 · Part 2: The Rivals of Moby Dick 124 · The Right Whale’s Flukes · Ben Ames Williams · ss The Bellman #624, June 29 1918 140 · The Whaler · Frederick William Wallace · nv Adventure October 1915 180 · Captain Lovett’s Duel · J. S. Sleeper · ss Tales of the Ocean by Hawser Martingale, G.W. Cottrell, 1840, as by Hawser Martingale 185 · The Marriage March · F. St. Mars · ss The Red Magazine June 1 1919 196 · The Devil’s Nest · Dr. Theodore P. Cleveland · nv Sea Stories Magazine July 5 1923 236 · There She Blows! or, the Log of the Arethusa · William Hussey Macy · n. Lee & Shepard, 1877 412 · A Tragedy of the South Atlantic · T. Jenkins Hains · ss The Strife of the Sea by T. Jenkins Hains, The Baker & Taylor Co., 1903 425 · The Great Right Whale [The Triton] · George H. Coomer · ss Ballou’s Monthly Magazine May 1868 444 · The Old Whale’s Story · Frank T. Bullen · ss Leslie’s Monthly Magazine May 1904 462 · The Thousandth Whale · J. J. Bell · ss Chambers’s Journal December 1906 477 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg 484 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg

Tracked Down: 55 Years of Railroading Murders, Mysteries, and Mayhem ed. Jon A. Schlenker, Jeffrey A. Linscott & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2022, 978-1-943022-82-3, $29.95, vii+400pp, tp, an) i · Introduction · Charles G. Waugh · in iii · 13 Great Train Mystery and Crime Movies · [uncredited] · ms 1 · Going Through the Tunnel [Johnny Ludlow] · Johnny Ludlow · ss The Argosy (UK) February 1869 18 · The Denver Express · A. A. Hayes · ss Belgravia January 1884 38 · The Story of a Lost Car · John R. Spears · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1889 60 · The Mystery of the Felwyn Tunnel [John Bell (The Ghost Exposer)] · L. T. Meade & Robert Eustace · nv Cassell’s Family Magazine August 1897 77 · Mormon Joe, the Robber · John A. Hill · ss Everybody’s Magazine September 1899 92 · The Wizard of Wall Street · Robert Barr · ss Everybody’s Magazine November 1900 104 · The Mysterious Death on the Underground Railway [Old Man in the Corner] · Baroness Orczy · nv The Royal Magazine July 1901 121 · A Drummer’s Bride · Ernest S. Kirkpatrick · ss Tales of the St. John River and Other Stories by E. S. Kirkpatrick, William Briggs, 1904 132 · Sir Gilbert Murrell’s Picture [Thorpe Hazell] · Victor L. Whitechurch · ss The Royal Magazine October 1905 145 · The Man in Lower Ten · Mary Roberts Rinehart · n. The All-Story Magazine January 1906 (+3) 297 · The Case of Oscar Brodski [Dr. John Thorndyke] · R. Austin Freeman · nv Pearson’s Magazine December 1910 325 · The Guardian of the Devil’s Slide [Hill Division] · Frank L. Packard · ss The Popular Magazine January 1 1911 344 · The Riddle of the 5:28 [Hamilton Cleek] · Thomas W. Hanshew · nv Cassell’s Saturday Journal April 30 1910 365 · Queer Things Happen · Paul Tomlinson · ss Munsey’s Magazine October 1924 376 · The Girl in the Train · Agatha Christie · nv The Grand Magazine February 1924 393 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg 399 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg

The Ultimate Eerie Pennsylvania: 21 Strange Stories ed. Jon A. Schlenker, Jeffrey A. Linscott & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2023, 978-1-943022-92-2, $24.95, 371pp, tp, an) 1 · Why We Did This Book · Charles G. Waugh · in 9 · The Devil’s Turnip Patch · Henry W. Shoemaker · ss In the Seven Mountains by Henry W. Shoemaker, Bright Printing Company, 1913 18 · The Palatine · [uncredited] · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1832 35 · The Barred Acres: The Doctor’s Story · Rebecca Harding Davis · ss Peterson’s Magazine December 1871 49 · The Fate of the Laughing Pig · George Alfred Townsend · ss Pittsburg Bulletin 59 · Fearful Rock [Sgt. Jaeger] · Manly Wade Wellman · na Weird Tales February 1939 (+2) 120 · The Headless Man · Henry W. Shoemaker · ss Susquehanna Legends by Henry W. Shoemaker, Bright Printing Company, 1913 126 · The Mystery of Shaft Number 6 · John A. Foote · ss The Catholic World May 1901 135 · The White Feather Hex · Don Peterson · ss Weird Tales March 1951 147 · On the Battlefield · Brander Matthews · ss The Century Magazine July 1888 171 · The Story of a Lost Car · John R. Spears · ss Scribner’s Magazine July 1889 192 · The Ringing of the Bell · Richard F. Woods · ss McClure’s Magazine July 1904 205 · The Ghost of Washington · W. Bob Holland · ss Twenty-Five Ghost Stories ed. W. Bob Holland, J.S. Ogilvie, 1904, uncredited. 216 · An Adventure in Darkness · Lillian Stockton Allen · ss The Black Cat January 1916 225 · The Mind-Reader · S. Weir Mitchell, M.D. · nv The Century Magazine September 1907 262 · The Fetish of the Waxworks [Dr. Ivan Brodsky Surgeon of Souls] · Victor Rousseau · ss Stevens Point Daily Journal December 9 1910 273 · The Caller in the Night · Burton Kline · ss The Stratford Journal December 1917 286 · The Kidnapper’s Story · Walter G. Detrick · nv Weird Tales February 1926 299 · Weak on Square Roots · Russell Burton · ss If July 1953 307 · Time and Time Again · H. Beam Piper · ss Astounding Science Fiction April 1947 325 · The Ivy War · David H. Keller · nv Amazing Stories May 1930 347 · The Circuit Riders [Chuck Matesic] · R. C. FitzPatrick · ss Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction April 1962 363 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg 370 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg

Warriors of the Dawn by Charles G. D. Roberts ed. Jon A. Schlenker, Jeffrey A. Linscott & Charles G. Waugh--- see under Charles G. D. Roberts.

From Out of the Kitchen (Women’s Fight for Careers) ed. Lori B. Schlenker, Jennifer A. Schlenker, Jon A. Schlenker & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2021, 978-1-943022-59-5, $23.95, 344pp, tp, an) i · Introduction · Jon A. Schlenker · in vii · Men’s 19th Century Nightmare · [uncredited] · il xiii · Traditionally Accepted Careers (Famous Women Pioneers) · [uncredited] · bg xvi · Good Movies About Women’s Traditionally Accepted Careers · [uncredited] · ms 17 · Actress: Touring with Ellen · Earl Derr Biggers · nv The Saturday Evening Post April 8 1922, as “Trouping with Ellen” 52 · Artist: The Last Leaf · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World October 15 1905 58 · Author: Miss Grief · Constance Fenimore Woolson · nv Lippincott’s Magazine of Popular Literature and Science May 1880 79 · Dancer: Short Vamps · Walter DeLeon · ss Everybody’s March 1922 92 · Domestic Servant: Turned · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss The Forerunner September 1911 102 · Singer: A Gold Slipper · Willa Cather · ss Harper’s Magazine January 1917 118 · Teacher: The School-Room Dog · Mary E. Fitzgerald · ss St. Nicholas June 1903 131 · Blue Collar Careers (Famous Women Pioneers) · [uncredited] · bg 134 · Good Movies About Women’s Blue-Collar Careers · [uncredited] · ms 135 · Animal Trainer: The Princess and the Leopard · Ralph Bergengren · vi Munsey’s Magazine November 1908 140 · Cashier: Cashier 184 · H. Barrett Smith · ss Pearson’s Magazine (US) September 1904 150 · Detective: The Stir Outside the Café Royal · Clarence Rook · ss The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine September 1898; subtitled “A Story of Miss Van Snoop, Detective”. 156 · Factory Worker: A Paying Concern · Gertrude Roscoe · ts McClure’s Magazine December 1899 166 · Grave Digger: Delia Grimwet · Arlo Bates · ss Lippincott’s Magazine September 1883 181 · Professional Balloonist: St. Anthony’s Vision · Thomas Addison · ss Ainslee’s May 1911 205 · Telephone Operator: The Chief Operator · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine July 1909, as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps 218 · Professional/Managerial Careers · [uncredited] · bg 221 · Good Movies About Women’s Professional/Managerial Careers Careers · [uncredited] · ms 222 · CEO: Tom’s Husband · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1882 235 · Entrepreneur: In the Market · Rebecca Harding Davis · ss Peterson’s Magazine January 1868, as by The Author of “Margret Howth” 253 · Journalist: Ruth Herrick’s Assignment · Elizabeth Garver Jordan · ss The Cosmopolitan July 1894 265 · Lawyer: A Woman of Tomorrow · Ellen Glasgow · ss Short Stories August 1895 278 · Manager: The Three of Them · Edna Ferber · ss Collier’s August 17 1918 292 · Nurse: The Brothers · Louisa May Alcott · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1863, uncredited. 311 · Preacher: The Lady of Little Fishing · Constance Fenimore Woolson · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1874 333 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg 343 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg