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The 20th Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal (Pan, 1979, 0-330-25862-1, 75p, 191pp, pb, oa)

9 · The Leather Ottoman · Carolyn L. Bird · ss

17 · The Materialist · A. G. J. Rough · nv

37 · Round Every Corner · Edwin Brown · ss

56 · Hell on Both Sides of the Gate · Rosemary Timperley · ss 1962

70 · Don’t Go Down in the Woods · John Arthur · ss

82 · The Victorian Conservatory · Alan Temperley · nv

117 · The Lion’s Cradle · Harry E. Turner · nv

138 · School Crossing · Francis King · ss

151 · Contents · Norman P. Kaufman · ss

167 · The Law: Its Administrators · Sheryl Stuart · ss

173 · A Smell of Fresh Paint · Carl Schiffman · ss

184 · A Country Tale · Thomas Muirson · ss

The 25th Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal (Pan, 1984, 0-330-28206-9, £1.50, 157pp, pb, oa)
Series taken over by Clarence Paget.

7 · Baby’s Blood · Alan Ryan · ss Terrors ed. Charles L. Grant, Playboy, 1982

18 · Upon Reflection · Terry Jeeves · ss

23 · Josie Comes to Stay · J. I. Crown · ss

43 · Just One of the Family · Norman P. Kaufman · ss

59 · Job Centres Are Less Dangerous · Curt Pater · ss

71 · Let’s Do Something Naughty · Alan W. Lear · ss

83 · Grave Business · Christina Kiplinger · vi

85 · Onawa · Alan Ryan · ss Death ed. Stuart David Schiff, Playboy, 1982

93 · The Architect’s Story · Ian C. Strachan · ss

107 · The Boogeyman · Stephen King · ss Cavalier March 1973

119 · Tell Mommy What Happened · Alan Ryan · ss Shadows 3 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1980

129 · The Squatters · Carl Shiffman · ss

139 · The Woman in the Room · Stephen King · ss Night Shift by Stephen King, Doubleday, 1978

153 · Black Silk · Barbara-Jane Crossley · ss

The 21st Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal (Pan, 1980, 0-330-26192-4, 90p, 174pp, pb, oa)

9 · Throwback · Carl Schiffman · ss

20 · The Gibbet Inn · Thomas Muirson · ss

26 · The Incidents at Scanham · Ian C. Strachan · ss

37 · Slowly · Fay Woolf · ss

42 · Cynthia and Charles · Alex White · nv

69 · The Thug · Rosemary Timperley · ss

76 · Dolly · Ruth Cameron · ss

83 · Baby, Baby · Brian Mooney · ss

94 · Mumsy and Sonny · Ken Johns · ss Penthouse (UK) April 1979

104 · Graveyard Shift · Stephen King · ss Cavalier October 1970

122 · The Mangler · Stephen King · nv Cavalier December 1972

142 · God, It Was Fun · James McClure · ss

155 · Flayed · Harry E. Turner · ss

165 · The Black Bedroom · Carolyn L. Bird · ss

The 24th Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal (Pan, 1983, 0-330-28093-7, £1.50, 158pp, pb, oa)

7 · The Moment of Death · Ken Alden · ss

16 · Obsession · Miranda Seymour · ss

31 · Gypsy Candle · Alan Temperley · nv

54 · Woodrow Wilson’s Neck-tie · Patricia Highsmith · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1972

69 · The Golden Teddy Bear · Philip Sidney Jennings · ss

78 · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959

88 · Love on the Farm · Alan Temperley · na

145 · Twisted Ash · Tom Cunniff · ss

The 22nd Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal (Pan, 1981, 0-330-26509-1, £1.00, 189pp, pb, oa)

9 · The Girl with the Violet Eyes · Elsie Karbacz · ss

28 · Pond Weed · Roger Clarke · ss

33 · Child of Ice · Tony Richards · ss

43 · From the Depths of the Earth · Norman P. Kaufman · ss

51 · Sideshow · Fay Woolf · ss

59 · The Trump Card · Jane Louie · ss

76 · Incident in Cairo · Bessie Jay · ss

88 · Dante’s Bistro · Carolyn L. Bird · ss

96 · The Clock · Edwin Brown · ss

104 · The Singer Not the Throng · Gregory Alexander · ss

109 · Love Bites · Harry E. Turner · nv

131 · Pornography · Ian McEwan · ss The New Review February 1976

146 · Waste Nothing · Ken Johns · ss

154 · A Cross to Bear · David Case · nv

The 23rd Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal (Pan, 1982, 0-330-26815-5, £1.00, 158pp, pb, oa)

7 · The Sleeping Prince · Angus Gellatly · ss

20 · Dengué Fever · Paul Theroux · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Cape, 1975

31 · You Can’t Be Too Careful · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1976

45 · A Rhyme · Elizabeth Naden-Borland · vi

48 · Fat Old Women Who Wear Fur Coats · Harry E. Turner · vi

51 · Daughter of the House · Heather Vineham · ss

63 · Dr. Dichter and the Terminal Cosmetic · Jane Louie · ss

69 · Foster Parents · Gregory Alexander · ss

80 · A Backwards Shadow · Rosemary Timperley · ss

86 · Chance Governs All · W. S. Rearden · ss

100 · The Dogs · Alex White · ss

115 · Rightfully Mine · Norman P. Kaufman · ss

129 · Kowlongo Plaything · Alan Temperley · nv

Speculative Japan: Outstanding Tales of Japanese Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Gene Van Troyer & Grania Davis (Kurodahan Press, August 28, 2007, 978-4-902075-26-7, $20.00, viii+296pp, tp, oa, cover by Katō Naoyuki)
Details taken from online listing.

· Preface · David Brin · pr

· Judy-san: Judith Merril 1923-1997 · Grania Davis · ob The New York Review of Science Fiction #226, June 2007 [Ref. Judith Merril]

· Phase Shifting · Gene Van Troyer · in

· The Savage Mouth · Sakyo Komatsu · ss

· A Time for Revolution · Kazumasa Hirai · ss

· Hikari · Tensei Kōno · ss

· I’ll Get Rid of Your Discontent · Taku Mayumura · ss

· The Road to the Sea · Ishikawa Takashi · ss

· Where Do the Birds Fly Now? · Yamano Kōichi · nv Something Else #3, Spring 1984

· Another Prince of Wales · Toyota Aritsune · ss

· The Flower’s Life Is Short · Fukushima Masami · ss

· Girl · Ohara Mariko · ss

· Standing Woman · Yasutaka Tsutsui; translated by David Lewis · ss Omni February 1981
translated from the Japanese (“Tatazumu Hito”, 1974).

· Cardboard Box · Hanmura Ryō · ss

· The Legend of the Paper Spaceship · Tetsu Yano; translated by Gene Van Troyer & Tomoko Oshiro · nv Chrysalis 10 ed. Roy Torgeson, Doubleday, 1983
translated from the Japanese (“Origami Uchūsen no Densetsu”, 1978).

· Reiko’s Universe Box · Kajio Shinji · ss

· Mogera Wogura · Hiromi Kawakami · ss

· Adrenalin · Yoshimasu Gōzō · ss

· Collective Reason: A Proposal · Takumi Shibano · ar

· “From Vertical to Horizontal” · Hisashi Asakura · aw

· “Translator as Hero” · Grania Davis · ar The New York Review of Science Fiction #227, July 2007

The Best of A.E. van Vogt by A. E. van Vogt (Pocket, July 1976, 0-671-80546-0, $1.95, 256pp, pb, co)

5 · Ah, Careless, Rapturous van Vogt! · Barry N. Malzberg · in

11 · Introduction · A. E. van Vogt · in

15 · Don’t Hold Your Breath · A. E. van Vogt · ss Saving Worlds ed. Roger Elwood & Virginia Kidd, Doubleday, 1973

38 · All We Have on This Planet · A. E. van Vogt · ss Stopwatch ed. George Hay, NEL, 1974

47 · War of Nerves [Beagle] · A. E. van Vogt · nv Other Worlds Science Stories May 1950

72 · The Rull [Rulls] · A. E. van Vogt · nv Astounding Science Fiction May 1948

99 · The Semantics of Twenty-First Century Science · A. E. van Vogt · ar

120 · Future Perfect · A. E. van Vogt · nv Vertex August 1973

146 · Being an Examination of the Ponsian and Holmesian Secret Deductive Systems · A. E. van Vogt · ar The Pontine Dossier v1 #2, 1971
speech given at the annual banquet of the Praed Street Irregulars in 1971.

152 · Home of the Gods [Clane Linn] · A. E. van Vogt · nv Astounding Science Fiction April 1947

178 · The Violent Male · A. E. van Vogt · ar
last of a series of five talks given on radio station KPFK in 1964/65.

192 · Prologue to “The Silkie” [Silkie] · A. E. van Vogt · ex If July 1964

201 · The Proxy Intelligence [William Leigh] · A. E. van Vogt · na If October 1968

253 · Final Comment · A. E. van Vogt · aw

The Twisted Men by A. E. van Vogt (Ace, January 1964, F-253, 40¢, 130pp, pb, co, cover by Jack Gaughan)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with One of Our Asteroids Is Missing by Calvin M. Knox.

7 · The Twisted Men [Centaurus] · A. E. van Vogt · nv Super Science Stories March 1950, as “Rogue Ship”

63 · The Star-Saint · A. E. van Vogt · nv Planet Stories March 1951

93 · The Earth Killers · A. E. van Vogt · nv Super Science Stories April 1949

Golden Reflections ed. Robert E. Vardeman & Joan Spicci Saberhagen--- see under Joan Spicci Saberhagen.

Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe and Other Stories by John Varley (Subterranean Press, April 2013, 978-1-59606-528-4, $45.00, 338pp, hc, co, cover by Vincent Chong)
Collection of 11 stories. This is a signed, limited edition of 1,000. The stories all have a short (1 page), untitled introduction by the author.
Details taken from online listing.

9 · Introduction · John Varley · in

11 · The Funhouse Effect [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1976

37 · Retrograde Summer [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1975

59 · In the Bowl [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1975

93 · Blue Champagne [Anna-Louise Bach] · John Varley · na New Voices 4 ed. George R. R. Martin, Berkley, 1981

159 · Bagatelle [Anna-Louise Bach] · John Varley · nv Galaxy Science Fiction October 1976

185 · Equinoctial [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · na Ascents of Wonder ed. David Gerrold, Popular Library, 1977

235 · Good-Bye, Robinson Crusoe [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine Spring 1977

267 · Lollipop and the Tar Baby [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv Orbit 19 ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1977

291 · The Black Hole Passes [Eight Worlds] · John Varley · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1975

317 · The Unprocessed Word · John Varley · ss Blue Champagne by John Varley, Dark Harvest, 1986

333 · The Manhattan Phone Book (Abridged) · John Varley · ss Westercon Program Book #37, 1984

Press Enter ▮ by John Varley (Tor Double, October 1990, 0-812-55948-7, $3.50, 98pp, pb, na, cover by Peter Gudynas)
Bound in the tête-bêche style with Hawksbill Station by Robert Silverberg.

Voices from the Vaults ed. Devendra P. Varma (Key Porter Books, October 1987, 0-7704-2272-1, $19.95, 247pp, hc, an)
A selection of twenty vampire stories, both fictional and true. The book is subtitled, somewhat misleadingly, “Authentic Tales of Vampires and Ghosts”. Reprinted in paperback by Seal Books.

1 · Introduction · Devendra P. Varma · in

9 · The Count’s Soliloquy · Margaret L. Carter · pm

11 · Domdaniel · Peter Allan · nv The Vampire’s Bedside Companion ed. Peter Underwood, Leslie Frewin, 1975

31 · The Tomb of Sarah · F. G. Loring · ss The Pall Mall Magazine December 1900

41 · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912

51 · The Beautiful Vampire · Théophile Gautier · nv (r), as “Clarimonde”
translated from the French (“La Morte Amoureuse”, Chronique de Paris, June 23 & 26, 1836).

75 · Nellie’s Grave · Vlad Kinkoph · ss

81 · The Italian Count · Peter Underwood · ar

89 · The Hungry Stones · Rabindranath Tagore; translated by C. F. Andrews · ss The Hungry Stones and Other Stories by Rabindranath Tagore, The Macmillan Company, 1916
translated from the Bengali (1895).

99 · A Call in the Blood · Margaret L. Carter · ss

103 · The Cloak · Robert Bloch · ss Unknown May 1939

117 · The Painted Skin · P’u Sung-Ling · ss Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Herbert A. Giles, De La Rue, 1880
translated from the Chinese (Liao Chai, 1679).

121 · For the Blood Is the Life · F. Marion Crawford · ss Collier’s December 16 1905

133 · Schalken the Painter · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Ghost Stories and Tales of Mystery by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, James McGlashan, 1851
revised from “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter” (Dublin University Magazine May 1839).

151 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891

165 · Thurnley Abbey · Perceval Landon · ss McClure’s Magazine October 1908

177 · Count Magnus · M. R. James · ss Ghost-Stories of an Antiquary by Montague Rhodes James & Litt.D., Edward Arnold, 1904

187 · The Phantom Coach · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1864, as “Another Past Lodger Relates His Own Ghost Story”, uncredited.

199 · The Man on the Stairs · Montague Summers, uncredited · ss The Grimoire and Other Supernatural Stories ed. Montague Summers, Fortune Press, 1936

213 · The Family of the Vourdalak · Alexis Tolstoy · nv 1884; dated 1847.

235 · Varney the Vampire · Thomas Peckett Prest (error, actually by James Malcolm Rymer) · ex E. Lloyd, 1847, uncredited.

Science Fiction Stories ed. Claus Varrelmann & Ulrike Becker--- see under Ulrike Becker.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense ed. Henry Veit--- see under Alfred Hitchcock.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense (var. 1) ed. Henry Veit--- see under Anon..

Alfred Hitchcock’s Witch’s Brew ed. Henry Veit--- see under Alfred Hitchcock.

Supernatural Tales of Terror and Suspense ed. Henry Veit--- see under Alfred Hitchcock.

Witch’s Brew ed. Henry Veit--- see under Alfred Hitchcock.

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