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Fifty-to-One by Charles Ardai (Subterranean Press, December 2008, 978-1-59606-236-8, $45.00, hc, n., cover by Glen Orbik)     Novel celebrating “50 Years of Hard Case Crime”. Limited to 500 cloth bound copies signed by the author. Also available in a deluxe limited edition of 50 lavishly bound copies ($750), housed in a handmade traycase, with over twenty full-color signature pages for most of the Hard Case Crime Authors, each hand-tipped in front of the chapter that bears the title of one of their books.

Futurecrime: An Anthology of the Shape of Crime to Come ed. Charles Ardai & Cynthia Manson--- see under Cynthia Manson.

Great Tales of Crime & Detection ed. Charles Ardai (Galahad, June 1991, 0-88365-771-6, $9.98, 512pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 25 crime and detection stories from EQMM and AHMM, with an introduction by Robert Bloch and a foreword by John Lutz. An “instant remainder” book. xi · Introduction · Robert Bloch · in xiii · Foreword · John Lutz · fw 1 · Out the Window [Matt Scudder] · Lawrence Block · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1977 31 · Major Crimes [Amos Walker] · Loren D. Estleman · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1986 44 · Silent Warning · William J. Carroll, Jr. · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine September 1990 88 · The Third Man · Graham Greene · na The American Magazine March 1949 140 · The Cross of Lorraine [Black Widowers] · Isaac Asimov · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1976 156 · Nameless Enemy · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1966 171 · Tragedy of a Handkerchief [John Appleby] · Michael Innes · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #47, October 1947 184 · Unc Foils Show Foe [Uncle Pinkerton] · John W. Jakes · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1966 199 · Dangerous Widows [James Wickwire] · Mignon G. Eberhart · ss This Week January 18 1953 209 · Ride the Lightning [Alo Nudger] · John Lutz · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1985 229 · Till Tuesday [John Francis Cuddy] · Jeremiah Healy · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine April 1988 242 · The Day of the Losers · Dick Francis · ss Horse and Hound February 1977 253 · The Case of the Pietro Andromache [V.I. Warshawski] · Sara Paretsky · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1988 279 · SuSu and the 8:30 Ghost · Lilian Jackson Braun · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1964 286 · The Investigation of Things · Charles Ardai · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine February 1991 312 · The Trailor Murder Mystery · Abraham Lincoln · ts Quincy, Illinois Whig April 15 1846, as “A Remarkable Case of Arrest for Murder” 320 · The Importance of Trifles · Avram Davidson · na Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1969 357 · A Double-Barrelled Detective Story [Sherlock Holmes] · Mark Twain · na Harper’s Monthly Magazine January 1902 (+1) 404 · The Adventure of the Oval Window · John H. Dirckx · nv Ellery Queen’s Anthology #48, Winter 1983 433 · Your Appointment Is Cancelled [Jemima Shore] · Antonia Fraser · ss 1983 442 · Le Chateau de l’Arsenic [Dr. Jean Dollent] · Georges Simenon · ss The Strand Magazine October 1947 translated from the French (Le Petit Docteur, 1943). 456 · The Nine Mile Walk [Nicky Welt] · Harry Kemelman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #41, April 1947 465 · Crime in Rhyme · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1957 474 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 491 · The Man with the Twisted Lip [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1891

Great Tales of Madness and the Macabre ed. Charles Ardai (Galahad, May 1990, 0-88365-750-3, $9.98, 518pp, hc, an, cover by Karen Nelson)     Anthology of 29 horror stories. This is an instant remainder edition. 11 · Introduction · Lawrence Block · in 15 · Deathbinder · Alexander Jablokov · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine February 1988 36 · The Marked Man · David Ely · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine September 1979 47 · The Ones Who Turn Invisible · F. Gwynplaine MacIntyre · ss Weird Tales Winter 1988/1989 60 · Ever After · Susan Palwick · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November 1987 83 · The Living Dead · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1967 89 · Report on a Broken Bridge · Dennis O’Neil · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1971 103 · The Beast from One-Quarter Fathom · George Alec Effinger · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1985 122 · Was It a Dream? · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La morte”, Gil Blas, May 31, 1887). 127 · The Madonna of the Wolves · Somtow Sucharitkul · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine November 1988 173 · Placebo · Andrew Vachss · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1989 177 · The Man at the Window · Charles Gordon · ss 1988 184 · Yanqui Doodle · James Tiptree, Jr. · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine July 1987 219 · An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886 223 · Real Time · Lawrence Watt-Evans · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 1989 227 · Killer in the House · Jas. R. Petrin · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1988 248 · Sometimes They Bite · Lawrence Block · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1976 260 · Three Men in a Tub · Lemuel Cork · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1990 269 · The Wedding Gig · Stephen King · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1 1980 282 · Flicks · Bill Crenshaw · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine August 1988 305 · The Leopard Man’s Story · Jack London · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1903 309 · Something Evil in the House · Celia Fremlin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine December 1968 320 · How the Wind Spoke at Madaket · Lucius Shepard · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1985 380 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 389 · The Dive People · Avram Davidson · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1959 398 · Graffiti · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1983 409 · The Dim Rumble [Azazel] · Isaac Asimov · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1982 419 · The Leather Funnel · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss McClure’s Magazine November 1902 431 · Trinity · Nancy Kress · na Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1984 479 · Island Man · R. A. Wilson · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine January 19 1981

High Adventure ed. Charles Ardai & Cynthia Manson--- see under Cynthia Manson.

Kingpins: Tales from Inside the Mob ed. Charles Ardai & Cynthia Manson--- see under Cynthia Manson.

New England Crime Chowder ed. Charles Ardai & Cynthia Manson--- see under Cynthia Manson.

Why I Left Harry’s All Night Hamburgers and Other Stories ed. Charles Ardai & Sheila Williams--- see under Sheila Williams.

Ain’t Myth-Behaving by Marthe Arends--- see under Katie MacAlister.

Winter’s Knight by Richard Argent (Atom, September 2, 2010, 978-1-905654-54-3, £7.99, 521pp, tp, n., cover by Steve Stone)     Historical novel set during the Crusades with fantasy elements.

Far Out ed. Arthur Arkley (NEL, 1974, 0-17-432055-8, pb, an) 7 · The Secret · Arthur C. Clarke · ss This Week August 11 1963, as “The Secret of the Men on the Moon” 14 · Catch That Martian · Damon Knight · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1952 29 · The Wind · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales March 1943 41 · Small Lords · Frederik Pohl · nv Science Fiction Quarterly February 1957 65 · The Last Weapon · Robert Sheckley · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 75 · The Attic Express · Alex Hamilton · nv The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1963

In Fear and Dread ed. Arthur J. Arkley (Getaway, 1974, 0-17-432054-X, 92pp, pb, an) 9 · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959 20 · Close Behind Him · John Wyndham · ss Fantastic January/February 1953 36 · The Hated House · Celia Fremlin · ss Don’t Go to Sleep in the Dark by Celia Fremlin, Gollancz, 1970 45 · The Little Girl Eater · Septimus Dale · ss The Fourth Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Herbert van Thal, Pan, 1963 56 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 67 · The Quest for “Blank Claveringi” · Patricia Highsmith · ss The Snail-Watcher and Other Stories by Patricia Highsmith, Doubleday, 1970 revised from “The Snails” (The Saturday Evening Post, June 17, 1967). 84 · The Loaded Dog · Henry Lawson · ss Joe Wilson and His Mates by Henry Lawson, Blackwood, 1901

Ghost Stories by Michael Arlen (W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1927, 2/6d, 181pp, hc, co) 7 · The Prince of the Jews · Michael Arlen · nv Woman January 1925 36 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 60 · To Lamoir · Michael Arlen · ss May Fair by Michael Arlen, Collins, 1925 83 · The Ghoul of Golders Green [Capel (Beau) Maturin] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch Christmas 1923 128 · The Ancient Sin [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine May 1923 142 · The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler December 13 1922 150 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony”

May Fair by Michael Arlen (Collins, 1925, 7/6d, vii+320pp, hc, co) · Prologue · Michael Arlen · pr · A Romance in Old Brandy · Michael Arlen · ss (r) · The Ace of Cads [Capel (Beau) Maturin] · Michael Arlen · ss The Royal Magazine March 1924 · Where the Pigeons Go to Die · Michael Arlen · ss The Royal Magazine October 1924 · The Battle of Berkeley Square · Michael Arlen · ss The Red Book Magazine April 1925 · The Prince of the Jews · Michael Arlen · nv Woman January 1925 · The Three-Cornered Moon · Michael Arlen · ss · The Revolting Doom of a Gentleman Who Would Not Dance with His Wife · Michael Arlen · ss (r) · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 · To Lamoir · Michael Arlen · ss · The Ghoul of Golders Green [Capel (Beau) Maturin] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch Christmas 1923 · Farewell, Farewell, These Charming People · Michael Arlen · ss (r)

These Charming People by Michael Arlen (W. Collins Sons & Co. Ltd., 1923, 265pp, hc, co) 1 · Introducing a Lady of No Importance and a Gentleman of Even Less · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 15 · When the Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square · Michael Arlen · ss Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine February 1923 38 · The Hunter After Wild Beasts · Michael Arlen · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine May 1923 49 · The Man with the Broken Nose [Lord George Tarlyon; Michael Wagstaffe] · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine March 1923 74 · The Luck of Captain Fortune · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler January 3 1923 86 · The Ancient Sin [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss Pan: The Fiction Magazine May 1923 100 · The Cavalier of the Streets [Michael Wagstaffe] · Michael Arlen · ss Nash’s and Pall Mall Magazine May 1923 122 · Major Cypress Goes Off the Deep End [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 140 · Consuelo Brown · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 151 · The Irreproachable Conduct of a Gentleman Who Once Refused a Knighthood [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss (r) 172 · Salute the Cavalier [Michael Wagstaffe] · Michael Arlen · ss The Strand Magazine May 1923 193 · The Shameless Behaviour of a Lord · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler November 29 1922 204 · The Loquacious Lady of Lansdowne Passage [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler December 13 1922 212 · The Smell in the Library [Lord George Tarlyon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Sketch December 25 1922, as “Red Antony” 244 · The Real Reason Why Shelmerdene Was Late for Dinner · Michael Arlen · ss

About Time: The Forerunners of Time Travel and Temporal Anomalies in Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, July 2008, 978-1-930585-55-3, $19.95, 268pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon 21 · Peter Rugg, the Missing Man · William Austin · nv New England Galaxy September 10 1824, as “Some Account of Peter Rugg, the Missing Man, Late of Boston, New England in a Letter to Mr. Herman Krauff” by Jonathan Dunwell 31 · An Anachronism, or Missing One’s Coach · [uncredited] · ss Dublin University Magazine June 1838 50 · A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas [Christmas Carol] · Charles Dickens · na Chapman & Hall, December 19 1843 112 · A Tale of the Ragged Mountains · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book April 1844 121 · An Uncommon Sort of Spectre · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun March 30 1879 129 · The Clock That Went Backward · Edward Page Mitchell · ss The Sun September 18 1881 141 · Newton’s Brain · Jakub Arbes; translated by Josef Jiří Král · na Clever Tales ed. Helen A. Clarke & Charlotte Porter, Copeland and Day, 1897 translated from the Czech (“Newtonův mozek”, J. Otto, 1877). 180 · John Bartine’s Watch · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner January 22 1893 185 · The Hour-Glass · Robert Barr · ss The Strand Magazine December 1898 198 · The New Accelerator · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine December 1901 210 · “Wireless” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1902 226 · Phantas · Oliver Onions · ss Nash’s Magazine February 1910 239 · Accessory Before the Fact · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Westminster Gazette September 2 1911 245 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916

Anthropologica Incognita: Wild Men, Strange Apes, and Enigmatic Races in Classic Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, 2009, 978-1-61646-000-6, $14.95, 358pp, tp, an)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · Story of Tsoqélem · [uncredited] · ss (r) 10 · Two Nights in Southern Mexico · Karl Anton Postl · ex from Scenes and Adventures in Central America, William Blackwood & Sons, 1852 translated from the German (Süden und Norden by Charles Sealsfield, 1842). 34 · Hunting of the Soko · Phil Robinson · nv Under the Punkah by Phil Robinson, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1881 53 · Manmat’ha · Charles De Kay · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1876 69 · A Haunt of the Jinkarras · Ernest Favenc · ss The Last of Six by Ernest Favenc, Bulletin Newspaper Co., 1893 77 · From a Simian Point of View · H. Knight Horsfield · ss National Review October 1891 88 · Dankwarra, the Isle of Fear · Stevens Vail · ss 1893 96 · The Depths of Kyamo · J.-H. Rosny the Elder · ss (r) translated from the French (“Les profondeurs de Kyamo”, 1896). 107 · No-Man’s-Land · John Buchan · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1899 154 · The Harbour-Master [Bronx Park Zoological Society; Gilland the Zoologist] · Robert W. Chambers · ss Ainslee’s Magazine August 1899 179 · Found by the Missing Link · W. L. Alden · ss The London Magazine February 1902 188 · In the Lower Passage · Harle Oren Cummins · ss Welsh Rarebit Tales by Harle Oren Cummins, Mutual Book Co., 1902 194 · Beyond the Banyans · Epes Winthrop Sargent · nv The All-Story Magazine October 1909 235 · Back There in the Grass · Gouverneur Morris · ss Collier’s December 16 1911 250 · The Ape-Man · Arthur James Ogilvy · na The Daily Post 1913, as by A. J. O. 291 · The Missing Link · Marcel Roland; translated by Georges T. Dodds · ss Pulpdom #46, June 2006 translated from the French (“L’Echelon”, Journal des Voyages #909, 3 May 1914). 296 · Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Wolverine March 1921 (+1) 306 · Spirit Island · Captain Henry Toke Munn · nv Chambers’s Journal November 1922 333 · The Horror-Horn · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine September 1922 347 · The Tale of the Abu Laheeb [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1926, as “The Abu Laheeb”

Arboris Mysterius: Stories of the Uncanny and Undescribed from the Botanical Kingdom ed. Chad Arment (Coachwhip Publications, April 21, 2014, 978-1-61646-246-8, 316pp, tp, an)     Details supplied by Charles G. Waugh. 9 · The Giant Wistaria · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine June 1891 18 · Kasper Craig · Maud Howe · ss Two Tales May 7 1892 35 · The Gold Plant · George Griffith · ss Pearson’s Weekly May 11 1895 47 · The Story of the Grey House [Flaxman Low] · Kate & Hesketh Prichard · ss Pearson’s Magazine May 1898, as by E. & H. Heron 61 · The Flower of Death · A. V. Pankey · ss University of Virginia Magazine March 1916 66 · Lure of the Lavender Trees · Maryland Allen · ss The Cavalier January 18 1913 75 · The Warlock of Glororum · Howard Pease · ss Border Ghost Stories by Howard Pease, Erskine MacDonald, 1919 82 · An Orchid of Asia · Edna Worthley Underwood · nv Asia August 1920 (+1) 115 · “Glued” · H. de Vere Stacpoole · ss The Popular Magazine June 20 1921 130 · The Tree · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Tryout October 1921 135 · Through the Crater’s Rim · A. Hyatt Verrill · nv Amazing Stories December 1926 171 · The Blood-Flower [Jules de Grandin] · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales March 1927 197 · The Devils of Po Sung · Bassett Morgan · nv Weird Tales December 1927 219 · White Orchids · Gordon Philip England · ss Weird Tales December 1927 230 · Vine Terror · Howard Wandrei · nv Weird Tales September 1934 255 · The Devil Flower · Harl Vincent · ss Fantastic Adventures May 1939 269 · The Garden of Hell · Leroy Yerxa · nv Fantastic Adventures May 1943 298 · The Cactus · Mildred Johnson · ss Weird Tales January 1950