The FictionMags Index

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Uskglass, John
• Susanna Clarke:
  • John Uskglass and the Cumbrian Charcoal Burner (ss) The Ladies of Grace Adieu and other stories, Bloomsbury 2006

USSA
• Eugene Byrne & Kim Newman:
  • In the Air (nv) Interzone Jan 1991
  • Ten Days That Shook the World (nv) Interzone Jun 1991
  • Tom Joad (nv) Interzone Nov 1992
  • Abdication Street (na) Interzone Mar 1996
  • Citizen Ed (nv) Interzone Nov 1996
  • Teddy Bears’ Picnic (na) Interzone Aug 1997, etc.

Usurpers
• Geoffrey St. Reynard:
  • The Usurpers (nv) Fantastic Adventures Jan 1950
  • Beware, the Usurpers! (na) Imagination Nov 1951

V, Captain
• Ralph Oppenheim:
  • Victory Wings (na) Battle Birds Aug 1942
  • Wings of the Panzer Patrol (na) Battle Birds Oct 1942
  • The Sky Is for Vengeance! (na) Battle Birds Dec 1942
  • Next Stop—Tokyo (na) Battle Birds Mar 1943
  • Raiders Fly Alone! (na) Battle Birds May 1943
  • Wings for the Flame Blitz (nv) Battle Birds Jul 1943
  • Wings of the Ghost Patrol (nv) Battle Birds Sep 1943

Vachell, Supt.
• Elspeth Huxley:
  • Murder on Safari (n.) Methuen 1938
  • Death of an Aryan (n.) Methuen 1939; also as “The African Poison Murders”.

Vail, Karen
• Alan Jacobson:
  • Fatal Twist (ss) The Strand Magazine #36 2012

Vaiti
• Beatrice Grimshaw:
  • Vaiti of the Islands: The Tale of the Pearl Lagoon (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 18 1906; also as “The Pearl Lagoon”.
  • Vaiti of the Islands: The Tale of the Black Viri (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 8 1906
  • Vaiti of the Islands: The Tale of the Marooners (sl) The Saturday Evening Post Sep 22 1906, etc.
  • Vaiti of the Islands: The Tale of Coral Bay (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 13 1906
  • Vaiti of the Islands: The Wooing of Te Paea III (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Oct 27 1906
  • The House in the Lagoon (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Feb 22 1908
  • The Tale of the Dead Ship (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 4 1908
  • The Lonely Island (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 25 1908
  • The Tale of the Pearl Pirates (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 13 1908

Valari, Jake
• D. A. McGuire:
  • The Clammer (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1996 [Herbie Sawyer]
  • The Jet Stone (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1998 [Carrie Drew]
  • The Black Stain (nv) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1999 [Carrie Drew]

Valcour, Lt.
• Rufus King:
  • Double Murder (sl) The Red Book Magazine Jan 1929, etc.
  • The Murder in the Storm (sl) The Red Book Magazine Jul 1929, etc.
  • The Murders on the Ship (sl) Redbook Magazine Feb 1930, etc.
  • The Case of the Constant God (na) Cosmopolitan Apr 1936
  • Crime of Violence (n.) Cosmopolitan Jun 1937

Valdes, Pepito
• Peter Paige:
  • The Friends of Pepito Valdes (nv) Black Mask Apr 1940 [Gabby Grant]
  • Bomb Heat (nv) Black Mask Jan 1941 [Gabby Grant]

Valentina
• Joseph H. Delaney & Marc Stiegler:
  • Valentina (na) Analog May 1984
  • The Crystal Ball (na) Analog Aug 1984
  • The Light in the Looking Glass (nv) Analog Sep 1984

Valentine, Braxton
• Jordan Dane:
  • Valentine & the Lotus Circle (ex) Kindle Worlds Feb 2018

Valentine, Captain
• C. S. Montanye:
  • The Three Candlesticks (ss) The Black Mask Jul 15 1923
  • The Suite on the Seventh Floor (ss) The Black Mask Sep 1 1923
  • Outwitted (ss) The Black Mask Sep 15 1923
  • A Bag of Diamonds (ss) The Detective Magazine Nov 23 1923
  • The Pursuing Shadow (ss) The Black Mask Jan 15 1924
  • The Sandalwood Box (ss) The Black Mask Feb 1 1924
  • The Lady in Handcuffs (ss) The Black Mask Feb 15 1924
  • The Seven Gold Figures (ss) The Black Mask Apr 15 1924
  • An Adventure in Diamonds (ss) The Black Mask Nov 1924
  • The Creeping Black (ss) The Black Mask May 1925
  • The Dice of Destiny (ss) The Black Mask Jul 1925

Valentine, Duke
• Bob Shields:
  • Drive the Knife Deep! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Jul 1960
  • Frame Me in Satin (ss) Off Beat Detective Stories Sep 1960
  • Bribe Me with Lust! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Nov 1960
  • Mistress of Madness! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Jan 1961
  • Blond Bombshell! (nv) Off Beat Detective Stories Mar 1961

Valentine, Finney
• Frederic Reddale:
  • The Trouble Maker (ss) Salt Lake Tribune Oct 30 1910
  • The Filigree Hat Pin (ss) Globe & Commercial Advertiser Nov 19 1910
  • The Deuce of Diamonds (ss) Globe & Commercial Advertiser Nov 26 1910
  • The Ten Thousand Dollar Bill (ss) Globe & Commercial Advertiser Dec 3 1910
  • The Taxicab Murders (ss) Globe & Commercial Advertiser Dec 10 1910
  • The Society Buccaneer (ss) Globe & Commercial Advertiser Dec 17 1910
  • The Anonymous Letters (ss) Sunday Oregonian Dec 25 1910
  • The Firefly (ss) Globe & Commercial Advertiser Dec 31 1910

Valentine, Frances & Lucy
• John M. Floyd:
  • A Thief in the Night (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Spr 2003
  • Eddie’s Motel (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Sum 2003
  • Hartmann’s Case (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Fll 2003
  • Oversight (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Win 2003
  • Law and Daughter (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Sum 2004
  • Law and Daughter (ss) Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine Fll 2004
  • A Green Thumb (ss) Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine Sep/Oct 2006
  • Burglar Proof (ss) Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine Nov/Dec 2006
  • Sneaky Pete (ss) Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine Jan/Feb 2007 (unpublished)
  • Mugging Mrs. Jones (ss) Futures Mystery Anthology Magazine Mar/Apr 2007 (unpublished)
  • Traveling Light (ss) Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine Fll 2012
  • Valentine’s Day (ss) Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2013
  • Country Cooking (ss) Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2014
  • Lost in Translation (ss) Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine Jul/Aug 2014
  • A King’s Ransom (ss) Sherlock Holmes Mystery Magazine Feb 2016

Valentino (about)
• Loren D. Estleman:
  • Dark Lady Down (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1998
  • The Frankenstein Footage (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1998
  • Director’s Cut (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1998
  • The Man in the White Hat (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1999
  • Picture Palace (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 2000
  • The Day Hollywood Stood Still (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 2001
  • Greed (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 2002
  • Bombshell (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 2003
  • Shooting Big Ed (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 2005
  • Garbo Writes (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 2007
  • The Profane Angel (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Sep/Oct 2007
  • Wild Walls (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 2007
  • Preminger’s Gold (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 2009
  • The List (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 2010
  • Admit One (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 2014

Valhalla
• Doug Allyn:
  • The Valhalla Verdict (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar/Apr 2009
  • Big Blue Marble (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May/Jun 2018

Valiant Razalia
• Michael Wyndham Thomas:
  • Valiant Razalia: Prologue (ss) Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #8 2005
  • Valiant Razalia: The Stealthy Craving (nv) Theaker’s Quarterly Fiction #14 2007

Valley of Romance, The
• Ethel Le Compte:
  • The Trail of True Love (nv) All-Story Jan 10 1931

Valmai Tronsdaughter
• Dorothy J. Heydt:
  • The Master of Kanthuri (ss) Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine Fll 1992
  • The Little Pink Worm (ss) Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine Sum 1996

Valmont, Eugène
• Robert Barr:
  • The Clew of the Silver Spoons (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Aug 27 1904
  • Lord Chizelrigg’s Missing Fortune (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Apr 29 1905
  • The Absent-Minded Coterie (nv) The Saturday Evening Post May 13 1905
  • The Ghost with the Clubfoot (ss) The Saturday Evening Post May 27 1905
  • The Liberation of Wyoming Ed (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jun 10 1905
  • The Fate of the Picric Bomb (nv) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 1 1905
  • Lady Alicia’s Emeralds (ss) The Saturday Evening Post Jul 8 1905

Vampire Chronicles
• Anne Rice:
  • The Vampire Lestat (ex) Knopf 1985
  • The Queen of the Damned (ex) Rolling Stone Oct 6 1988
  • The Tale of the Body Thief (ex) Knopf 1992
  • Memnoch the Devil (ex) Rolling Stone Jul 13 1995
  • Blackwood Farm (ex) The Spook Jul 2002

Vampire Legacy
• Karen E. Taylor:
  • Bitter Blood (ex) Dead of Night Win 1995

Vampire Saga
• K. A. Williams:
  • Forced Alliance (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Win 1998
  • Day of Reckoning (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Spr 1998
  • Endless Night (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Fll 1998
  • Never Coming Back Again (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Win 1999
  • Seven: Chapter VII (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Spr 1999
  • Trial: Chapter VIII (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Sum 1999
  • The Plan: Chapter IX (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Fll 1999
  • New Beginnings (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Spr 2000
  • Forget Me Not (ss) The Ultimate Unknown Sum 2000
  • Forget Me Not (ss) The Ultimate Unknown #20 2000
  • Friends and Enemies (ss) The Ultimate Unknown #21 2001
  • Secrets and Lies (ss) The Ultimate Unknown #22 2001
  • Back from the Dead (ss) The Ultimate Unknown #23 2001

Vampyrrhic
• Simon Clark:
  • A Vampyrrhic Samhain (ss) Cemetery Dance #63 2010

Van Bibber
• Richard Harding Davis:
  • A Walk up the Avenue (ss) Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Aug 1890
  • Her First Appearance (ss) Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Dec 1891
  • Van Bibber’s Burglar (ss) Gallegher, and other stories, Scribner 1891
  • Eleanore Cuyler (ss) Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Apr 1892
  • An Anonymous Letter (ss) Harper’s New Monthly Magazine Feb 1894
  • Cinderella (ss) Scribner’s Magazine Apr 1896

Van Bronck, Jan Pieter
• Charles S. Strong:
  • Karoo Killer (ss) Thrilling Detective Apr 1941
  • Sheep Are Sheep (ss) Thrilling Detective Jul 1941
  • Murder at Paardeberg (ss) Thrilling Detective Aug 1941
  • Bechuana Blood (ss) Thrilling Detective Oct 1941
  • Safari Slayer (ss) Thrilling Adventures Feb 1943
  • Crime at Capetown (ss) Popular Detective Aug 1945
  • War at Willowmore (ss) Popular Detective Feb 1946

Vance, Aylmer
• Alice & Claude Askew:
  • Aylmer Vance—Investigator (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Jul 4 1914
  • The Stranger (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Jul 11 1914
  • Lady Green-Sleeves (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Jul 18 1914
  • The Fire Unquenchable (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Jul 25 1914
  • The Vampire (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Aug 1 1914
  • The Boy of Blackstock (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Aug 8 1914
  • An Indissoluble Bond (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Aug 15 1914
  • The Fear (ss) The Weekly Tale-Teller Aug 22 1914

Vance, Jeff
• C. S. Montanye:
  • Double Face (nv) Complete Stories Nov #1 1930
  • Double Face Takes an Encore (nv) Complete Stories Nov #2 1930
  • The Death Trail (nv) Complete Stories Dec #2 1930

Vance, Philo (about)
• Jon L. Breen:
  • The Austin Murder Case (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1967
  • The Vanity Murder Case (nv) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jul 1970
  • The Circle Murder Case (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Oct 1972
• Terence Faherty:
  • The Hawaii Murder Case (ss) Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Jan/Feb 2017
• S. S. Van Dine:
  • The Bishop Murder Case (n.) The American Magazine Oct 1928, etc.
  • The Greene Murder Case (n.) Scribner’s 1928
  • The Scarab Murder Case (sl) The American Magazine Dec 1929, etc.
  • The Clyde Mystery (ss) The Illustrated Detective Magazine Jul 1932
  • The Kennel Murder Case (n.) Cosmopolitan Nov 1932, etc.
  • The Dragon Murder Case (sl) Pictorial Review Jun 1933, etc.
  • The Casino Murder Case (sl) Cosmopolitan Jul 1934, etc.
  • The Garden Murder Case (sl) Cosmopolitan Jul 1935, etc.
  • The Kidnap Murder Case (sl) Cosmopolitan Jul 1936, etc.

Vance, Philo, [ref.]
• S. S. Van Dine:
  • Philo Vance on the Case (ms) The Illustrated Detective Magazine Jun 1932

Van Dam
• Elmer Brown Mason:
  • The White Gorilla (ss) All-Story Weekly Jun 5 1915
  • The Albino Otter (ss) All-Story Weekly Jul 31 1915

Van Der Pool, Paul
• Bertram Atkey:
  • On Time, but Too Late (ss) Top-Notch Magazine Sep 15 1915
• Robert Carlton Brown:
  • When Rogue Meets Rogue (ss) Top-Notch Jul 1 1912
  • The Chaldean Necklet (ss) Top-Notch Aug 1 1912
  • The Horn of Plenty (ss) Top-Notch Magazine May 1 1914

Van der Valk
• Nicolas Freeling:
  • The Beach Bag (vi) The (London) Evening News Jan 26 1967; also as “The Beach Murder”.
  • Citizen of Nowhere (vi) The (London) Evening News Jan 28 1967; also as “Van der Valk and the Man from Nowhere”.
  • Van der Valk and the False Caesar (vi) 1967
  • Van der Valk and the Old Seaman (vi) 1967
  • Van der Valk and the Spanish Galleon (vi) 1967
  • Van der Valk and the Train Watcher (vi) 1967
  • Van der Valk and the Four Mice (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Nov 1969
  • Van der Valk and the Young Man (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec 1969
  • Van der Valk and the High School Riot (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Mar 1970
  • Van der Valk and the Great Pot Problem (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Apr 1970
  • Van der Valk and the Wolfpack (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Aug 1970
  • Van der Valk and the Two Pigeons (ss) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Feb 1971
  • Van der Valk and the Cavalier (vi) Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Jan 1974