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The Body in the Dumb River by Harold Blundell--- see under George Bellairs.

The Dead Shall Be Raised and Murder of a Quack by Harold Blundell--- see under George Bellairs.

Death of a Busybody by Harold Blundell--- see under George Bellairs.

Surfeit of Suspects by Harold Blundell--- see under George Bellairs.

An ABC of Science Fiction ed. Tom Boardman, Jr. (Four Square, November 1966, 1652, 3/6d, 205pp, pb, an, cover by Barry Evans)     SF anthology. 7 · Introduction · Tom Boardman, Jr. · in 9 · Let’s Be Frank · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Science Fantasy #23, 1957 17 · Pattern · Fredric Brown · vi Angels and Spaceships by Fredric Brown, E.P. Dutton, 1954 18 · The Awakening · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Zenith #4, February 1942 22 · I Do Not Hear You, Sir · Avram Davidson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1958 32 · Day at the Beach · Carol Emshwiller · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1959 41 · The King of the Beasts · Philip José Farmer · vi Galaxy Magazine June 1964 42 · Homey Atmosphere · Daniel F. Galouye · ss Galaxy Magazine April 1961 56 · Mute Milton · Harry Harrison · ss Amazing Stories February 1966 63 · The Conquest of the Moon · Washington Irving · ss History of New York by "D. Knickerbocker", 1809 70 · In the Bag · Laurence M. Janifer · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1964 71 · Maid to Measure · Damon Knight · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1964 74 · X Marks the Pedwalk · Fritz Leiber · ss Worlds of Tomorrow April 1963 79 · No Moon for Me · Walter M. Miller, Jr. · ss Astounding Science Fiction September 1952 95 · Family Resemblance · Alan E. Nourse · ss Astounding Science Fiction April 1953 105 · Final Exam · Chad Oliver · ss Fantastic November/December 1952 116 · The Bitterest Pill · Frederik Pohl · ss Galaxy Magazine April 1959 126 · He Had a Big Heart · Frank Quattrocchi · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1955 139 · Love Story · Eric Frank Russell · ss Astounding Science Fiction August 1957 143 · The Fence · Clifford D. Simak · ss Space Science Fiction September 1952 155 · Project Hush · William Tenn · ss Galaxy Science Fiction February 1954 161 · The Finer Breed · Helen M. Urban · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1956 165 · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 171 · Close Behind Him · John Wyndham · ss Fantastic January/February 1953 183 · Three Limericks · B. T. H. Xerxes · gp (r) _183 · untitled (“On Saturn the sexes are three”) · B. T. H. Xerxes · pm Proceedings of the Institute for Twenty-First Century Studies December 1960, as “Saturn” by Brian Aldiss; revised. _183 · untitled (“A psi-gifted girl from Laputer”) · B. T. H. Xerxes · pm _183 · untitled (“A Thing from Proxima Centauri”) · B. T. H. Xerxes · pm 184 · Thirty Days Had September · Robert F. Young · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1957 199 · The Great Slow Kings · Roger Zelazny · ss Worlds of Tomorrow December 1963

An ABC of Science Fiction ed. Tom Boardman, Jr. (Avon, December 1968, V2249, 75¢, 223pp, pb, an)     Reprint (Four Square 1966) SF anthology, first US edition.

Connoisseur’s Science Fiction ed. Tom Boardman (Penguin, 1964, 2223, 3/6d, 234pp, pb, an)     SF anthology. 9 · Introduction · Tom Boardman · in 13 · Disappearing Act · Alfred Bester · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 33 · The Wizards of Pung’s Corners [Jack Tighe] · Frederik Pohl · nv Galaxy Magazine October 1958 64 · Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss Galaxy Science Fiction January 1954, as “The Big Trip Up Yonder” 79 · Mr. Costello, Hero [Mr. Costello] · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Galaxy Science Fiction December 1953 107 · Quit Zoomin’ Those Hands Through the Air · Jack Finney · ss Collier’s August 4 1951 124 · Build-Up · J. G. Ballard · ss New Worlds Science Fiction #55, January 1957 146 · The Fun They Had · Isaac Asimov · ss The Boys and Girls Page December 1 1951 150 · Diabologic · Eric Frank Russell · ss Astounding Science Fiction March 1955 174 · Made in U.S.A. · J. T. McIntosh · nv Galaxy Science Fiction April 1953 210 · The Waveries · Fredric Brown · ss Astounding Science Fiction January 1945

S F Horizons—One ed. Tom Boardman, Jr. (Dobson, 1968, 0-234-77797-4, 21/-, 189pp, hc, an)     SF anthology. Title given as SF Horizons 1 on the cover. Details supplied by Denny Lien. 9 · Foreword · Tom Boardman, Jr. · fw 11 · Subversive · Mack Reynolds · ss Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction December 1962 33 · Game for Motel Room · Fritz Leiber · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction March 1963 44 · Comic Inferno · Brian W. Aldiss · nv Galaxy Magazine February 1963 90 · After a Few Words · Seaton McKettrig · ss Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction October 1962 100 · Period of Gestation · Thom Keyes · ss Science Fantasy #67, September/October 1964 110 · My Son the Physicist · Isaac Asimov · vi Scientific American February 1962 115 · The Shipwrecked Hotel [Tritons] · James Blish & Norman L. Knight · nv Galaxy Magazine August 1965 157 · Not Me, Not Amos Cabot! · Harry Harrison · ss Science Fantasy #68, December 1964/January 1965 167 · The Transfinite Choice · David I. Masson · ss New Worlds SF #165, August 1966 182 · The Big Cow-Pat Boom · Damon Knight · ss Galaxy Magazine December 1963, as “The Big Pat Boom”

Science Fiction Stories ed. Tom Boardman, Jr. (Octopus Books, October 1979, 0-7064-0999-X, £1.99, 350pp, hc, an, cover by Terry Oakes)     SF anthology. 7 · First Contact · Murray Leinster · nv Astounding Science Fiction May 1945 40 · Pictures Don’t Lie · Katherine MacLean · ss Galaxy Science Fiction August 1951 60 · Knock · Fredric Brown · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1948 72 · Romp · Mack Reynolds · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact October 1966 91 · Flying Dutchman · Ward Moore · ss Adventures in Tomorrow ed. Kendell F. Crossen, Greenberg, 1951 97 · Who Can Replace a Man? · Brian Aldiss · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1958, as “But Who Can Replace a Man?” 108 · What Thin Partitions [Ralph Kennedy] · Mark Clifton & Alex Apostolides · nv Astounding Science Fiction September 1953 140 · In the Abyss · H. G. Wells · ss Pearson’s Magazine August 1896 157 · The Fun They Had · Isaac Asimov · ss The Boys and Girls Page December 1 1951 162 · Crossfire · James White · ss New Worlds Science Fiction #21, June 1953 182 · Allamagoosa · Eric Frank Russell · ss Astounding Science Fiction May 1955 198 · The Drop · John Christopher · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1953 215 · It Could Be You · Frank Roberts · ss Coast to Coast by Frank Roberts, Sydney, Australia, 1964 225 · I’m a Stranger Here Myself · Mack Reynolds · ss Amazing Stories December 1960 232 · The Luckiest Man in Denv · Cyril Kornbluth · ss Galaxy Science Fiction June 1952, as by Simon Eisner 246 · Obedience · Fredric Brown · ss Super Science Stories September 1950, as “The Undying Ones” 257 · Not for an Age · Brian W. Aldiss · ss The Observer January 9 1955, as by Arch Mendicant 267 · The Astronaut · Valentina Zhuravleva; translated by Leonid Kolesnikov · nv Destination: Amaltheia ed. Richard Dixon, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1963 translated from the Russian (“Astronavt”, 1960). 285 · Manners of the Age · H. B. Fyfe · ss Galaxy Science Fiction March 1952; given as “Manners of an Age” on the story itself. 301 · Christmas Tree · Christopher Youd · ss Astounding Science Fiction February 1949 311 · The Stainless Steel Rat [Slippery Jim (James Bolivar) diGriz] · Harry Harrison · nv Astounding Science Fiction August 1957 333 · Spectator Sport · John D. MacDonald · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1950 340 · The Hypnoglyph · John Anthony · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1953

The Unfriendly Future ed. Tom Boardman, Jr. (Four Square Books, 1965, 1347, 3/6d, 173pp, pb, an, cover by Gino D’Achille)     SF anthology. 7 · Introduction · Tom Boardman, Jr. · in 9 · Russkies Go Home! · Mack Reynolds · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1960 53 · The Food Goes in the Top · Will Worthington · ss Science Fantasy #48, 1961 65 · Danger: Religion! · Brian W. Aldiss · na Science Fantasy #55, 1962, as “Matrix” 103 · Rescue Operation · Harry Harrison · ss Analog Science Fact—Science Fiction December 1964 119 · The Hades Business · Terry Pratchett · ss Science Fantasy #60, 1963 131 · The Seed of Violence · Jay Williams · nv Fantastic Universe November 1958

The Mysterious Force and Other Anomalous Phenomena by J. H. H. Boëx--- see under J.-H. Rosny, A^i^n^e'.

The Navigators of Space and Other Alien Encounters by J. H. H. Boëx--- see under J.-H. Rosny, A^i^n^e'.

Short Fiction ed. Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty (Prentice Hall, 1999, 0-13-460049-5, 1264pp, tp, an)     Contents from publisher’s catalog. · Introduction · Charles H. Bohner & Dean Dougherty · in · Dead Men’s Path · Chinua Achebe · ss (r) · Roses, Rhododendron · Alice Adams · ss The New Yorker January 27 1975 · A Bicycle · Iqbal Ahmad · ss (r) · I’m Working on My Charm · Dorothy Allison · ss (r) · I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set November 1919 · Seeing Mrs. Landers · Thea Astley · ss (r) · Rape Fantasies · Margaret Atwood · ss (r) · Hairball · Margaret Atwood · ss (r) · Gertrude Talks Back · Margaret Atwood · vi (r) · The Little Red Hen Tells All · Margaret Atwood · vi (r) · Awakening · Isaac Babel · ss (r) · Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv Partisan Review 1957 · The Lesson · Toni Cade Bambara · ss Redbook January 1973 · My Mother’s Memoirs, My Father’s Lie, and Other True Stories · Russell Banks · ss Vanity Fair (US) 1987 · ‘III’ from Three Simple Stories · Julian Barnes · ss (r) · Lost in the Funhouse · John Barth · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1967 · A City of Churches · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker April 22 1972 · The Chosen Vessel · Barbara Baynton · ss The Bulletin December 12 1896, as “The Tramp” · What Was Mine · Ann Beattie · ss Esquire November 1989 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner July 13 1890 · The End of the Duel · Jorge Luis Borges · ss (r) · The Werewolf · Angela Carter · vi The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter, Gollancz, 1979 revised from South-West Arts Review, #2, Oct ’77. · Cathedral · Raymond Carver · ss The Atlantic Monthly September 1981 · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905 · The Swimmer · John Cheever · ss The New Yorker July 18 1964 · The Darling · Anton Chekhov · ss 1925 · Gooseberries · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) · The Lady with the Dog · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) · The Death of a Civil Servant · Anton Chekhov · ss (r) · The Story of an Hour · Kate Chopin · ss Vogue December 6 1894, as “The Dream of an Hour” · Regret · Kate Chopin · ss The Century Magazine May 1895 · A Respectable Woman · Kate Chopin · ss (r) · The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Samuel Clemens · ss The Californian December 16 1865, as by Mark Twain revised from “Jim Smiley and His Jumping Frog” (The New York Saturday Press, November 18, 1865). · The Other Wife · Colette · ss (r) · The Secret Sharer · Joseph Conrad · nv Harper’s Monthly Magazine August 1910 (+1) · The Magic Poker · Robert Coover · ss Esquire July 1969 · The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Weekly November 26 1898 · The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Magazine June 1897 · The Lover and the Tell-Tale [Whilomville] · Stephen Crane · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1899 · The Blue Jar · Isak Dinesen · ss (r) · The Red-Headed League [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine August 1891 · The Doctor · Andre Dubus · ss The New Yorker April 26 1969 · King of the Bingo Game · Ralph Ellison · ss Tomorrow November 1944 · Dry September · William Faulkner · ss Scribner’s Magazine January 1931 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930 · A Scrap of Time · Ida Fink · ss The New Yorker May 25 1987 · Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post February 21 1931 · Silence Dogood, No. 1 · Benjamin Franklin · ss (r) · April Fish · Mavis Gallant · ss The New Yorker February 10 1968 · Tuesday Siesta · Gabriel Garcia Marquez · ss (r) · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 · The Overcoat · Nikolai Gogol · na (r) translated from the Russian (“Shinel”, Sochineniia, 1842). · The Life of the Imagination · Nadine Gordimer · ss The New Yorker November 9 1968 · Two Gentle People · Graham Greene · ss May We Borrow Your Husband? by Graham Greene, Bodley Head, 1967 · Argument and Persuasion · Donald Hall · ss (r) · The Birthmark · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Pioneer March 1843 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” · Looking for a Rain God · Bessie Head · ss (r) · A Vermont Tale · Mark Helprin · ss The New Yorker March 3 1980 · Hills Like White Elephants · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transition August 1927 · Indian Camp [Nick Adams] · Ernest Hemingway · ss Transatlantic Review April 1924, as “One Night Last Summer” · Who’s Passing for Who? · Langston Hughes · ss Laughing to Keep from Crying by Langston Hughes, Henry Holt and Company, 1952 · Spunk · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Opportunity: A Journal of Negro Life #30, June 1925 · Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent #1, June 23 1819, as by Geoffrey Crayon · The Lottery · Shirley Jackson · ss The New Yorker June 26 1948 · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892 · A White Heron · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss A White Heron by Sarah Orne Jewett, Houghton Mifflin, 1886 · Araby · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 · The Metamorphosis [Gregor Samsa] · Franz Kafka · nv Parton Press, 1937 translated from the German (“Die Verwandlung”, Weisse Blätter Oct ’15). · Search and Destroy · Wayne Karlin · ss (r) · The Circling Hand · Jamaica Kincaid · ss The New Yorker November 21 1983 · Girl · Jamaica Kincaid · vi The New Yorker June 26 1978 · Not a Good Girl · Perri Klass · ss Mademoiselle July 1983 · Haircut · Ring Lardner · ss Liberty March 28 1925 · My Vocation · Mary Lavin · ss (r) · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926 · A Place of Safety · Halldór Laxness · ss (r) · The Professor’s Houses · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss The New Yorker November 1 1982 · A Sunrise on the Veld · Doris Lessing · ss African Stories by Doris Lessing, Michael Joseph, 1964 · Small Causes · Primo Levi · ss (r) · To Build a Fire · Jack London · ss The Youth’s Companion May 29 1902 · Half a Day · Naguib Mahfouz · ss (r) · The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss Partisan Review November/December 1954 · A Dill Pickle · Katherine Mansfield · ss The New Age October 4 1917, as “An Album Leaf” · Miss Brill · Katherine Mansfield · ss The Athenaeum November 26 1920 · Shiloh · Bobbie Ann Mason · ss The New Yorker October 20 1980 · The Outstation · W. Somerset Maugham · nv Hearst’s International June 1924 · The Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss (r) translated from the French (“La Parure”, Le Gaulois, Feb 17, 1884). · Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), uncredited. · Patriotism · Yukio Mishima · ss Esquire April 1966 · A Father · Bharati Mukherjee · ss Charlie Chan Is Dead ed. Jessica Hagedorn, Viking Penguin, 1993 · Friend of My Youth · Alice Munro · ss The New Yorker January 22 1990 · Boys and Girls · Alice Munro · ss (r) · The Passenger · Vladimir Nabokov · ss (r) · Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Epoch Fall 1966 · Shopping · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Ms. March 1987 · The Creature · Edna O’Brien · ss (r) · The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986 · Everything That Rises Must Converge · Flannery O’Connor · ss New World Writing #19, NAL, 1961 · A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon, 1953 · Guests of the Nation · Frank O’Connor · ss The Atlantic Monthly January 1931 · Do You Like It Here? · John O’Hara · ss The New Yorker February 18 1939 · I Stand Here Ironing · Tillie Olsen · ss The Pacific Spectator Winter 1956, as “Help Her to Believe” · A Conversation with My Father · Grace Paley · ss New American Review #13, 1971 · War · Luigi Pirandello · ss (r) · The Cask of Amontillado [Fortunato] · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book November 1846 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849 · The Grave · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review April 1935 · Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss The Hound and Horn April/June 1930 · The Valiant Woman · J. F. Powers · ss Accent Spring 1947 · The Diver · V. S. Pritchett · ss Nova December 1970 · The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958 · I-80 Nebraska, M. 490-M. 205 · John Sayles · ss The Atlantic Monthly May 1975 · Gimpel the Fool · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss (r) · The Chrysanthemums · John Steinbeck · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1937 · No One’s a Mystery · Elizabeth Tallent · ss (r) story syndicated to newspapers and published by Cincinnati Enquirer and Newsday. · A Pair of Tickets · Amy Tan · ss (r) · Souvenir · John Tavela · ss (r) · The Catbird Seat · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker November 14 1942 · The Death of Ivan Ilych · Leo Tolstoy · na (r) · The Tryst · Ivan Turgenev · ss (r) · A & P · John Updike · ss The New Yorker July 22 1961 · The Verb to Kill · Luisa Valenzuela · ss (r) · The Moths · Helena María Viramontes · ss The Moths and Other Stories by Helena María Viramontes, Arte Publico Press, 1985 · Roselily · Alice Walker · ss In Love and Trouble by Alice Walker, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973 · To Hell with Dying · Alice Walker · ss (r) · The Welcome Table · Alice Walker · ss (r) · Blackberry Winter · Robert Penn Warren · nv Cummington Press, 1946 · Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review Spring 1939 · A Worn Path · Eudora Welty · ss The Atlantic Monthly February 1941 · Roman Fever · Edith Wharton · ss Liberty November 10 1934 · Damballah · John Edgar Wideman · ss Damballah by John Edgar Wideman, Avon, 1981 · The Use of Force · William Carlos Williams · ss Blast: A Magazine of Proletarian Short Stories November/December 1933 · Smokers · Tobias Wolff · ss (r) · Kew Gardens · Virginia Woolf · ss May 12 1919 · The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss (r) · Writers on Writing · From an Interview by Graeme Gibson · Margaret Atwood · iv (r) · Interview by Joyce Carol Oates · Margaret Atwood · iv (r) · From Survival · Margaret Atwood · ar (r) · “Witches,” from Second Words · Margaret Atwood · ar (r) · Three Excerpts from His Letters · Anton Chekhov · lt (r) · On Stephen Crane and “The Blue Hotel” · Alfred Kazin · ar (r) [Ref. Stephen Crane] · Crane on His Life · Stephen Crane · ar (r) · Crane’s Letter to John Hilliard · Stephen Crane · lt (r) · Stephen Crane’s Own Story · Stephen Crane · ar (r) · Let Me Tell a Story Now… · Bessie Head · ar (r) · Biography of a Story · Shirley Jackson · ar (r) · To a Young Reader · Primo Levi · ar (r) · A Letter to Richard Murray · Katherine Mansfield · lt (r) · On Her Own Work · Flannery O’Connor · ar (r) · The Brief Prose Tale · Edgar Allan Poe · ar (r) · The Writing of “Flowering Judas” · Katherine Anne Porter · ar (r) · The Old Artist: Notes on Mr. Sweet · Alice Walker · ar (r) · Interview with Eudora Welty · Eudora Welty · iv (r) · From “Beyond the Peacock,” In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens · Eudora Welty · ar (r) · “Blackberry Winter”: A Recollection · Robert Penn Warren · ar (r) · Is Phoenix Jackson’s Grandson Really Dead? · Eudora Welty · ar Critical Inquiry September 1974 · Writing About Fiction · Glossary · [uncredited] · ms · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg · Chronological List of Authors and Titles · [uncredited] · ms · Index of Titles · [uncredited] · ix