The FictionMags Index

Book Contents Lists: Page 91

Glimpses of the Unknown: Lost Ghost Stories ed. Mike Ashley (The British Library, September 20, 2018, 978-0-712-35266-6, £8.99, 331pp, tp, an, cover by Mauricio Villamayor) [British Library Tales of the Weird]     Fantasy/horror anthology. 7 · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in 11 · On the Embankment · Hugh E. Wright · ss The Blue Magazine #3, September 1919 31 · The Mystery of the Gables · Elsie Norris · ss Yes or No June 20 1908 41 · The Missing Word · Austin Philips · ss The Pall Mall Magazine November 1907 51 · Phantom Death · Huan Mee · ss Cassell’s Magazine March 1900 67 · The Wraith of the Rapier · Firth Scott · ss The Red Magazine January 15 1911 83 · The Soul of Maddalina Tonelli · James Barr · ss The Red Magazine December 1909 105 · Haunted! · Jack Edwards · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #83, December 3 1910 127 · Our Strange Traveller · Percy James Brebner · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #105, May 6 1911 145 · A Regent of Love Rhymes · Guy Thorne · ss The Lady’s Realm December 1905 157 · Amid the Trees · Francis Xavier · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #110, June 10 1911 169 · The River’s Edge · Mary Schultze · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #188, December 7 1912 179 · A Futile Ghost · Mary Reynolds · nv Crampton’s Magazine February 1899 201 · Ghosts [Sabinette] · Lumley Deakin · ss The New Magazine (UK) October 1914 223 · Kearney · Elizabeth Jordan · ss The Premier Magazine #36, April 1917 247 · When Spirits Steal [Peter Carwell] · Philippa Forest · ss Pearson’s Magazine May 1920, as “When Spirits Steal Our Dreaming Bodies” 265 · The House of the Black Evil · Eric Purves · ss Pearson’s Magazine May 1929 287 · The Woman in the Veil · E. F. Benson · ss The (London) Evening News June 26 1928 303 · The Treasure of the Tombs · F. Britten Austin · ss The Strand Magazine February 1921

Great American Ghost Stories: Chilling Tales by Poe, Bierce, Hawthorne and Others ed. Mike Ashley (Dover Publications, August 8, 2008, 978-0-486-46602-6, $10.95, xiv+300pp, tp, an, cover by Jeff A. Menges)     Ghost anthology. v · Introduction · Mike Ashley · in 1 · Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · nv American Museum September 18 1838 17 · The Gray Champion · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine January 1835, as by The Author of “The Gentle Boy” 25 · Grayling: or, “Murder Will Out” · William Gilmore Simms · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present, MDCCCXLIII, Carey & Hart, 1842 60 · The Real Right Thing · Henry James · ss Collier’s Weekly December 16 1899 74 · Lady Ferry · Sarah Orne Jewett · nv Old Friends and New by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton, 1879 101 · My Platonic Sweetheart · Mark Twain · uw Harper’s Monthly Magazine December 1912 originally entitled “The Lost Sweetheart”, written Jul-Aug 1898. 114 · The Philosophy of Relative Existences · Frank R. Stockton · ss The Century Magazine August 1892 121 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885 143 · An Itinerant House · Emma Frances Dawson · ss The Argonaut April 20 1878 161 · The Moonlit Road · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine January 1907 171 · The Conquering Will · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Smart Set June 1901 183 · The Shadows on the Wall · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss Everybody’s Magazine March 1903 199 · The Eyes [Tales of Men] · Edith Wharton · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1910 219 · Consequences · Willa Cather · ss McClure’s Magazine November 1915 240 · Call Me from the Valley [Silver John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1954 252 · The Fire When It Comes · Parke Godwin · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1981

A Haunting Beauty by Charles Birkin ed. Mike Ashley--- see under Charles Birkin.

Heroic Adventure Stories: From the Golden Age of Greece and Rome ed. Mike Ashley (Robinson, January 28, 1998, 1-85487-865-4, £6.99, xii+516pp, tp, an, cover by Lionel Noel Royer)     Reprint (Past Times 1996 as Classical Stories: Heroic Tales from Ancient Greece and Rome) associational anthology of stories. Includes stories by Darrell Schweitzer, Thomas Burnett Swann, E.C. Tubb, and L. Sprague de Camp. This edition adds stories and extracts by Herodotus, Lawrence, Day, Gautier, Bulwer-Lytton, Spero, Marchmont, and Benson; and an original story by Tom Holt. A simultaneous Magpie edition (export-only as Giant Book of Heroic Adventure Stories) was not seen. v · The Golden Age · Mike Ashley · in Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 vii · The Fiction of History · Mary Renault · ar The London Magazine March 1979 1 · Paris and Helen · Edward Lucas White · ex from Helen, Jonathan Cape, 1925 17 · No Place Like Home · Tom Holt · ss 25 · The Thread · Vera Chapman · ss The Phoenix Tree ed. Robert H. Boyer & Kenneth J. Zahorski, Avon, 1980 36 · Where Is the Bird of Fire? [Mellonia] · Thomas Burnett Swann · na Science Fantasy #52, 1962 81 · The Story of Gyges · Herodotus; translated by George Rawlinson · ex from The History of Herodotus, John Murray, 1858 translated from the Greek. 85 · The Slave of Marathon [Grey Maiden] · Arthur D. Howden Smith · nv Adventure July 23 1926 105 · The Kidnapping · Margery Lawrence · ex from The Gate of Yesterday, Robert Hale, 1960 124 · The Wearer of Purple · Pierre Louÿs · ss The Collected Works of Pierre Louÿs by Pierre Louÿs, Liveright, 1932 143 · The Gods Play for High Stakes · Langston Day · nv Magic Casements by Langston Day, Rider, 1951 167 · The Horse from Thessaly · Mary Renault · ss The Twelfth Man ed. Martin Boddey, Cassell, 1971 176 · The Banquet of Death · Peter Tremayne · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 195 · The Preparation · Naomi Mitchison · ex from The Conquered, Jonathan Cape, 1923 211 · The Mountain Wolves · John Maddox Roberts · nv Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 245 · The Rise of Augustus · Allan Massie · ex from Augustus, The Bodley Head, 1989 264 · One of Cleopatra’s Nights · Théophile Gautier; translated by Lafcadio Hearn · nv One of Cleopatra’s Nights by Théophile Gautier, B. Worthington, 1882 translated from the French (“Une Nuit de Cléopâtre”, La Presse, November 29 to December 6, 1838). 294 · The Chariot Race · Lew Wallace · ex from Ben-Hur, or The Days of the Messiah, 1880 313 · Caligula the God · Robert Graves · ex from I, Claudius, A. Barker, 1934 327 · Betrayed · Juliet Dymoke · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 adapted from Prisoner of Rome, 1975. 344 · Captain Leopard · L. Sprague de Camp · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 351 · Sword of Freedom · E. C. Tubb · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 revised extract from Atilus the Gladiator, Futura Books, 1975. 360 · The Last Letter · Derek Wilson · ss Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 379 · The Last Day of Pompeii · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · ex from The Last Days of Pompeii, Richard Bentley, 1834 405 · Marcellus Takes the Biscuit [Marcellus] · Leopold Spero · ss Chambers’s Journal May 1945 419 · Fortunatus · R. H. Stewart · nv Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 446 · The Walking Walls of Rome · Keith Taylor · nv Classical Stories ed. Mike Ashley, Past Times, 1996 467 · Æolf the Martyr · A. W. Marchmont · ss The Royal Magazine November 1898 473 · The Temple of Death · A. C. Benson · ss The Hill of Trouble by A. C. Benson, Isbister, 1903 487 · The Great World and the Small · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Fantasy Magazine Winter 1993 499 · The Crown of the Golden Chain [Lady Zoë] · Max Pemberton · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1901 514 · Sources and Acknowledgements · [uncredited] · ms (r)

The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 1: 1926-1935 ed. Mike Ashley (NEL, 1974, 0-450-02182-3, £2.95, 239pp, hc, an) 7 · Preface · Mike Ashley · pr 11 · An Amazing Experiment · Mike Ashley · in 52 · The Coming of the Ice · G. Peyton Wertenbaker · ss Amazing Stories June 1926 67 · The Machine Man of Ardathia [Ardathia] · Francis Flagg · ss Amazing Stories November 1927 82 · Out of the Sub-Universe · R. F. Starzl · ss Amazing Stories Quarterly Summer 1928 91 · The Eternal Man [Herbert Zulerich] · D. D. Sharp · ss Science Wonder Stories August 1929 99 · The Power and the Glory · Charles Willard Diffin · ss Astounding Stories of Super-Science July 1930 107 · The Voice from the Ether · Lloyd Arthur Eshbach · nv Amazing Stories May 1931 136 · The Asteroid of Gold · Clifford D. Simak · ss Wonder Stories November 1932 153 · The Island of Unreason · Edmond Hamilton · ss Wonder Stories May 1933 172 · One Prehistoric Night · Philip Barshofsky · ss Wonder Stories November 1934 187 · Davey Jones’ Ambassador · Raymond Z. Gallun · nv Astounding Stories December 1935 218 · Appendices _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Charles Willard Diffin] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Lloyd Arthur Eshbach] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Francis Flagg] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Raymond Z. Gallun] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Edmond Hamilton] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Maurice M. Kaplan] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Drury D. Sharp] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Clifford D. Simak] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. R. F. Starzl] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. G. Peyton Wertenbaker] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Miles J. Breuer, M.D.] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. John W. Campbell, Jr.] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Stanton A. Coblentz] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. David H. Keller] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Captain S. P. Meek] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. P. Schuyler Miller] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Nathan Schachner] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. E. E. Smith] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. A. Hyatt Verrill] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Donald Wandrei] _ · Summary of Magazine Issues, 1926-1935 · Mike Ashley · bi _ · Glossary of Magazine Editors · Mike Ashley · bi _ · Note on Key Illustrators · Mike Ashley · bi

The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 1: 1926-1935 ed. Mike Ashley (NEL, March 1977, 450-02484-9, £1.50, 239pp, pb, an, cover by Terry Griffiths)     Reprint (NEL 1974) SF anthology. This edition is revised and updated.

The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 2: 1936-1945 ed. Mike Ashley (NEL, 1975, 0-450-02574-8, £3.95, 298pp, hc, an) 8 · Preface · Mike Ashley · pr 11 · SF Bandwagon · Mike Ashley · in 77 · The Circle of Zero · Stanley G. Weinbaum · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories August 1936 95 · Seeker of Tomorrow · Eric Frank Russell & Leslie J. Johnson · na Astounding Stories July 1937 137 · The Dead Spot · Jack Williamson · nv Marvel Science Stories November 1938 158 · The Four-Sided Triangle · William F. Temple · nv Amazing Stories November 1939 181 · Hermit of Saturn’s Ring · Neil R. Jones · ss Planet Stories Fall 1940 201 · The Abyss [Cthulhu] · Robert A. W. Lowndes · ss Stirring Science Stories February 1941 210 · Up There · Donald A. Wollheim · ss Science Fiction Quarterly #7, Summer 1942, as by Martin Pearson 219 · Almost Human · Robert Bloch · ss Fantastic Adventures June 1943, as by Tarleton Fiske 238 · Wanderer of Time · John Russell Fearn · ss Startling Stories Summer 1944, as by Polton Cross 254 · The Power · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding Science Fiction September 1945 271 · Appendices _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Robert Bloch] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. John Russell Fearn] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Neil R. Jones] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Leslie J. Johnson] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Murray Leinster] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Robert A. W. Lowndes] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Eric Frank Russell] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. William F. Temple] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Stanley G. Weinbaum] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Jack Williamson] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1936-1945 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Donald A. Wollheim] _ · Summary of Magazine Issues · Mike Ashley · bi _ · Glossary of Magazine Editors · Mike Ashley · bi _ · Note on Key Cover Artists · Mike Ashley · bi 297 · Bibliography · Mike Ashley · bi

The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 2: 1936-1945 ed. Mike Ashley (NEL, April 1978, 450-03296-5, £1.50, 298pp, pb, an)     Reprint (NEL 1975) SF anthology.

The History of the Science Fiction Magazine: Part 3: 1946-1955 ed. Mike Ashley (NEL, 1976, 0-450-03051-2, 349pp, hc, an, cover by Bob Layzell) 11 · Preface · Mike Ashley · pr 13 · From Bomb to Boom · Mike Ashley · in 111 · Memorial · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Astounding Science Fiction April 1946 125 · The Fires Within · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Fantasy, The Magazine of Science Fiction August 1947, as by E. G. O’Brien 135 · Don’t Look Now · Henry Kuttner · ss Startling Stories March 1948 149 · Kaleidoscope · Ray Bradbury · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories October 1949 160 · To Serve Man · Damon Knight · ss Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950 169 · Earthman, Beware! · Poul Anderson · nv Super Science Stories June 1951 191 · They Fly So High · Ross Rocklynne · ss Amazing Stories June 1952 205 · The Last Day · Richard Matheson · ss Amazing Stories April/May 1953 221 · Hands Off · Robert Sheckley · nv Galaxy Science Fiction April 1954 245 · The Wager · E. C. Tubb · nv Science Fantasy #16, 1955 283 · Appendices _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Poul Anderson] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Ray Bradbury] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Arthur C. Clarke] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Damon Knight] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Henry Kuttner] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Richard Matheson] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Ross Rocklynne] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Robert Sheckley] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Theodore Sturgeon] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. E. C. Tubb] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. James Blish] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Leigh Brackett] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. John Christopher] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Lester del Rey] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Robert A. Heinlein] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Alan E. Nourse] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Frederik Pohl] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Eric Frank Russell] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. Richard S. Shaver] _ · Checklist of Author’s Works: 1946-1956 · Mike Ashley · bi [Ref. John Beynon Harris] _ · Summary of Magazine Issues 1946-55 · Mike Ashley · bi _ · Glossary of Magazine Editors · Mike Ashley · bi _ · Note on Key Cover Artists · Mike Ashley · bi 347 · Bibliography · Mike Ashley · bi