The FictionMags Index

Series List

Uncle Abner (continued)
• John F. Suter:
  • The Oldest Law (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1979
  • The Angel’s Hair (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 7 1980
  • The Fairy Ring (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 2 1980
  • The Desecration of the Temple (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 23 1980
  • The Axe of Elisha (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 10 1980
  • The Wise Men’s Gold (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 6 1980
  • The Shades of Death (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1 1980
  • Dead Man’s Honor (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 22 1981
  • Nine Strokes of the Bell (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 9 1981
  • The Power of the Tongue (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 2 1981
  • The Corpse Candle (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1982
  • The Unclean Spirit (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1983
  • The Eater of Dust (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1984
  • The Marked Man (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1986
  • A Place for Gold (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1986

Uncle Bill
• H. Bedford-Jones:
  • Uncle Bill and the H.G. (ss) People’s Favorite Magazine Jan 10 1918
  • Uncle Bill, Fixer (ss) People’s Favorite Magazine Jan 25 1918

Uncle Billy
• John D. Swain:
  • Uncle Billy Invades Boston (ss) Detective Story Magazine Apr 28 1923
  • Uncle Billy and Some Aggravatin’ Snowbirds (ss) Detective Story Magazine May 12 1923
  • Uncle Billy Holds the Bag (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jun 16 1923
  • Uncle Billy Gets Sociable (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jul 14 1923

Uncle Dan
• Andrew A. Caffrey:
  • High, Wide and Hazardous (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Nov 1946
  • Signs in the Sky (ss) The Blue Book Magazine Jan 1947

Uncle Dave
• Joe McCarthy:
  • Visit from Uncle Dave (ss) This Week Nov 29 1964
  • The Return of Uncle Dave (ss) This Week Dec 26 1965

Uncle Fiddeyment
• Reginald Bacchus & C. Ranger Gull:
  • The Trap of Belvedere Mansions (nv) The Ludgate Jul 1899
  • The Tame Epigrammatist (nv) The Ludgate Aug 1899
  • The Mechanical Roulette Wheel (ss) The Ludgate Sep 1899

Uncle Fred (about)
• P. G. Wodehouse:
  • Uncle Fred Flits By (nv) Redbook Magazine Jul 1935 [Pongo Twistleton]
  • Uncle Dynamite (n.) Herbert Jenkins 1948 [Pongo Twistleton]
  • Cocktail Time (n.) Ladies’ Home Journal Apr 1958 [Pongo Twistleton]
  • Service with a Smile (n.) Star Weekly Aug 26 1961, etc. [Pongo Twistleton]

Uncle Hamish
• Edward G. Ashton:
  • Cameron’s Cave (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1950

Uncle ’Lish
• Ralph Frye:
  • I Went to See a Queen (ss) The New Yorker May 6 1944
  • Uncle ’Lish, Supercargo (ss) The New Yorker Nov 11 1944
  • Uncle ’Lish, Beachcomber (ss) The New Yorker Dec 2 1944

Uncle Pete
• R. Ross Annett:
  • Uncle Pete Laid a Negg (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 6 1939
  • Crazy with the Heat (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 30 1939

Uncle Remus
• Joel Chandler Harris:
  • Uncle Remus’s Queer Vision (ss) Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Jul 1882, as by J. C. H..
  • Nights with Uncle Remus (nv) The Century Magazine Jul 1883, etc.
  • Brother Rabbit’s Laughing Place (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1905
  • When Brother Rabbit Was King (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1905
  • Brother Rabbit and Brother Bull-Frog (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1905
  • The Hard-Headed Woman (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Aug 1905
  • Impty-Umpty and the Blacksmith (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Dec 1905
  • Taily-Po (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jan 1906
  • Brother Rabbit, Brother Fox and Two Fat Pullets (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Mar 1906
  • Brother Rabbit’s Bear Hunt (ss) Metropolitan Magazine May 1906
  • How Brother Rabbit Brought Family Trouble on Brother Fox (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Jul 1906
  • The Most Beautiful Bird in the World (ss) Metropolitan Magazine Sep 1906
  • How Brer Rabbit Saved Brer B’ar’s Life (vi) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Jun 1907
  • Uncle Remus Addresses Brother Wind (pm) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Dec 1907
• Uncle Remus:
  • Uncle Remus Sings a Song (pm) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Jul 1907
  • The Story of the Doodang (vi) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Aug 1907
  • How Brer Rabbit Raised the Dust (pm) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Sep 1907
  • “Hello, House!” (pm) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Oct 1907
  • Brer Rabbit Has Trouble with the Moon (vi) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Nov 1907
  • Brer Rabbit Causes Brer Fox to Lose His Hide (vi) Uncle Remus’s Magazine Jan 1908

Uncle Silas
• H. E. Bates:
  • The Lily (ss) The Listener Feb 22 1933
  • The Wedding (ss) John o’ London’s Weekly Jun 24 1933
  • Death of Uncle Silas (ss) Story May 1934
  • The Revelation (ss) John o’ London’s Weekly Jun 23 1934
  • The Sow and Silas (ss) Something Short and Sweet, Jonathan Cape 1937; also as “Silas and the Sow”.
  • A Funny Thing (ss) The Daily Express Feb 28 1938
  • The Race (ss) My Uncle Silas, Jonathan Cape 1939; also as “My Uncle the Tortoise”.
  • A Silas Idyll (ss) My Uncle Silas, Jonathan Cape 1939
  • The Bedfordshire Clanger (ss) Argosy (UK) Sep 1949
  • Sugar for the Horse (ss) Argosy (UK) Feb 1951
  • The Foxes (ss) Lilliput Jan 1957
  • Queenie White (ss) Argosy (UK) Jan 1957
  • Shandy Lil (nv) Argosy (UK) Oct 1960
  • Silas on the Wagon (ss) Argosy (UK) Jan 1961

Uncle Tubby see under Blythe, Washington

Uncle Victor (about)
• Robert Lopresti:
  • Uncle Victor’s First Case (ss) Murderous Intent Spr 1996
  • Uncle Victor Boots Up (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1996
  • Uncle Victor on Watch (ss) Murderous Intent Fll 1997
  • Uncle Victor Takes a Lunch (ss) Murderous Intent Win 1998
  • Uncle Victor on a Roll (ss) Murderous Intent Sum/Fll 1998
  • Uncle Victor Gets Lost (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Spr 2004

Uncommon Justice
• Elizabeth Goddard:
  • Never Let Go (ex) Revell Feb 2019

Undercover Cop “Nick”
• Robert H. Brown:
  • I Walk the Tightrope (ss) Tightrope! May 1960
  • Swing That Tightrope (ss) Tightrope! Jun 1960
  • Death Is My Brother (ss) Tightrope! Aug 1960
• Robert Silverberg:
  • Bridegrooms Scare Easy (ss) Tightrope! Apr 1960, as by Robert H. Brown.

Underground
• Andrew H. Vachss:
  • Perp Walk (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1996
  • Goin’ Down Slow (vi) Esquire Jun 1999
  • Big Sister (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1999
  • Safe Sex (vi) Cyber-Psychos AOD #9 1999
  • Dope Fiend (ss) Everybody Pays, Vintage 1999
  • Escort Service (ss) Carpe Noctem #16 1999

Uniaty, Ben
• Richard S. Shaver:
  • The Masked World (na) Amazing Stories May 1946
  • Earth Slaves to Space (na) Amazing Stories Sep 1946

Union Club
• Isaac Asimov:
  • The Speck (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1983
  • Triply Unique (pm) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1984
  • The Year of the Feast (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1984
  • Upside Down (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1985
  • The Taunter (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1985
  • Straight Lines (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1985
  • Child’s Play (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1986
  • New England Equinox (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1986
  • Ten (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1986
  • The Common Name (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid-Dec 1986
  • The Teddy Bear (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1987
  • The Stamp (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1987
  • The Legacy (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1988
  • The Lost Dog (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1988
  • The Last Man (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1989
  • A Safe Place (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1991

United Planets
• Mack Reynolds:
  • Adaptation (na) Astounding/Analog Aug 1960
  • Fiesta Brava (na) Analog Sep 1967

Universal Space Lines
• N. J. Westwood:
  • The Glory of U.S.L. (ss) Thrilling Wonder Stories Jun 1942
  • Minnie of Mars (ss) Thrilling Wonder Stories Aug 1942
  • Aimless Asteroid (ss) Thrilling Wonder Stories Feb 1943

unlicensed P.I., calling himself “William Smith”
• John A. Miller:
  • Silicon Valley Serenade (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 2004

unnamed CIA agent
• Robert Edward Eckels:
  • The K’ang Sheng Memorandum (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1974

unnamed covert operative
• Dana Cameron:
  • One Soul at a Time (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 2012
  • Dialing In (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2013

unnamed inspector
• Mark Van Doren:
  • An Episode at the Honeypot (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1952
  • Testimony After Death (ss) 1954; also as “The Luminous Face”.
  • Only on Rainy Nights (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1956
  • This Other Honor (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1962
  • The Wild Thing (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1964
  • This Terrible Thing (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1968

unnamed jailhouse lawyer
• Edward Wellen:
  • The Corrector of Destinies (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1974
  • The Tipoff (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1975

unnamed journalist
• Jon L. Breen:
  • Silver Spectre (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 26 1980
  • The Straight and Narrow (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid-Dec 1986

unnamed narrator
• Brian Lumley:
  • The Thin People (ss) Whispers Oct 1987
  • The Nonesuch (na) The Nonesuch and Others, Subterranean Press 2009

unnamed Ozark deputy sheriff
• H. H. Morris:
  • Roadhouse Doll (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1988
  • Unfried Chickens (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jun 1988
  • Fender Bender (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1988
  • Born Again (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1989
  • Square Root (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep 1990

unnamed private eye
• Brian Muir:
  • Candles and Windows (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2009

Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead
• Theodore Roscoe:
  • The Grouch of Goree (na) Detective Fiction Weekly Feb 22 1941
  • Mary Had a Little Jam (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jun 7 1941
  • Terror at Marriner’s Tavern (nv) Detective Fiction Weekly Jul 19 1941

Until You Are Dead, Dead, Dead, [ref.]
• Theodore Roscoe:
  • Murder on the Palisades (ar) Detective Fiction Sep 17 1941

Unwin, Harriet
• H. R. F. Keating:
  • Miss Unwin Goes a-Hunting (ss) The Illustrated London News Christmas 1981
  • A Common Error (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1987
  • Caesar, I Am Here (ss) The Strand Magazine #4 2000
  • A Story for Christmas (ss) The Strand Magazine #9 2002
  • Miss Unwin Speaks in Riddles (ss) The Strand Magazine #12 2004

Unwithering Realm, The
• John C. Wright:
  • Nowither (sl) Astounding Frontiers Jul 2017, etc.

Up-and-Down-the-Earth
• Talbot Mundy:
  • Oakes Respects an Adversary (ss) Adventure Dec #1 1918
  • America Horns In (ss) Adventure Jan #1 1919
  • Jackson Tactics (nv) Adventure mid-Feb 1919
  • Heinie Horns Into the Game (nv) Adventure mid-Mar 1919
  • The End of the Bad Ship Bundesrath (nv) Adventure mid-Apr 1919
  • The Shriek of Dûm (nv) Adventure Sep #1 1919
  • Barabbas Island (na) Adventure mid-Oct 1919
  • In Aleppo Bazaar (na) Adventure mid-Jan 1920
  • The Eye of Zeitun (n.) Romance Feb 1920, etc.

Uplift
• David Brin:
  • Life in the Extreme (ss) Popular Science Aug 1998

Urban Monad
• Robert Silverberg:
  • The Throwbacks (nv) Galaxy Science Fiction Jul 1970
  • The World Outside (na) Galaxy Science Fiction Oct/Nov 1970
  • We Are Well Organized (nv) Galaxy Science Fiction Dec 1970
  • All the Way Up, All the Way Down (nv) Galaxy Science Fiction Jul/Aug 1971

Urban Nucleus
• Michael Bishop:
  • Allegiances (na) Galaxy Science Fiction Feb 1975

Urbille
• John R. Fultz:
  • Flesh of the City, Bones of the World (ss) Fungi Sum 2013
  • The Key to Your Heart Is Made of Brass (ss) Fungi Sum 2013
  • The Rude Mechanicals and the Highwayman (ss) Fungi Jul 2015

Urth, Wendell
• Isaac Asimov:
  • The Singing Bell (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jan 1955
  • The Talking Stone (ss) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct 1955
  • The Dying Night (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Jul 1956
  • The Key (nv) The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction Oct 1966

Usher, Godfrey
• Herman Landon:
  • Twin Shadows (ss) Detective Story Magazine Feb 5 1918
  • A Post-Mortem Appointment (ss) Detective Story Magazine Feb 12 1918
  • Soundless Melodies (ss) Detective Story Magazine Feb 26 1918
  • Whispers from the Dead (ss) Detective Story Magazine Mar 5 1918
  • The Purple Terror (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jul 16 1918
  • Told in Shadow (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jul 23 1918
  • Three Wishes (ss) Detective Story Magazine Jul 30 1918