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Once Upon a Crime: An Anthology of Murder, Mayhem and Suspense ed. Gary R. Bush & Chris Everheart (Nodin Press, 2009, 1932472851, $16.95, 246pp, tp, oa) 5 · Preface · Gary Bush · pr 9 · Introduction · Vince Flynn · in 11 · Perfectly Grimn [Joe Pickett] · C. J. Box · ss 22 · Time of the Green · Ken Bruen · ss Killer Year ed. Lee Child, St. Martin's Minotaur, 2008 27 · Last Laugh · David Housewright · ss 35 · Issue of Women and Money · Michael Stanley · ss 52 · Dumber Than Dirt · Libby Fischer Hellman · ss 68 · Snow Birds · Gary Phillips · ss 78 · Pinked Off · Maureen Fischer · ss 85 · Santa’s Little Helper · Anne Frasier · ss 88 · 17th Rule of Highly Effective Bank Robbers · Troy Cook · ss 97 · Puck · Pat Dennis · ss 106 · Why I Write Mysteries · Pete Hautman · ss 112 · Eddie’s Dungeon · Chris Everheart · ss 119 · Contender · William Kent Krueger · ss 129 · Den of Iniquity · Lori L. Lake · ss 139 · You Can Be Too Thin · Gary R. Bush · ss 151 · Jibber Jabber · Reed F. Coleman · ss 162 · Surrogate · Anthony Neil Smith · ss 181 · Cat’s Meow · Mary Logue · ss 185 · Uninvolved · Lois Greiman · ss 193 · Rage Against the Machines · Terri Persons · ss 202 · Flyover Country · Max Allan & Barbara Collins · nv Till Death Do Us Part ed. Jill M. Morgan & Martin H. Greenberg, Berkley, 1999; given as “Flyover Land” in the Table of Contents. 223 · Live Bait · Sujata Massey · ss 234 · Dumb Luck · Marilyn Victor · ss 243 · I Seen That · S. J. Rozan · ss 246 · About the Contributors · [uncredited] · bg

The Golden Stallion: An Anthology of Poems Concerning the Southwest and Written by Representative Southwestern Poets ed. D. Maitland Bushby (The Southwest Press, Inc., 1930, xxx+152pp, hc, an)     “Dedicated to all mothers of the southwest and especially to mine.” [RB] vii · Introduction · D. Maitland Bushby · in xi · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms xv · Biographical section · [uncredited] · ms 1 · The Golden Stallion · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 2 · A Desert Bird Bath · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 3 · Song (“I have seen the cloud of fire where the eagle’s eyes”) · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 4 · The Signs · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 5 · Shadows · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 6 · A Desert Garden · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 7 · Song (“The minnows were shuttles”) · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 8 · Pale Floss and Silver Threads · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 9 · Valley of Gold · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 10 · Dance in the Desert · Glenn Ward Dresbach · pm (r) 12 · Mesquite in Springtime · Walter R. Adams · pm (r) 13 · Cotton · Walter R. Adams · pm (r) 14 · Rio Abajo · Mary Austin · pm (r) 15 · Drouth · Mary Austin · pm (r) 21 · Caller of Buffalo · Mary Austin · pm (r) 22 · Dream Dust · S. Omar Barker · pm (r) 23 · The Ballad of Stephen the Black · S. Omar Barker · pm (r) 25 · Ride ’Em Clean! · S. Omar Barker · pm Western Story Magazine June 19 1926 26 · The Ballad of Cowboy Lou · S. Omar Barker · pm Lariat Story Magazine January 1927 28 · The Maverick · S. Omar Barker · pm (r) 29 · When Billy the Kid Rides Again · S. Omar Barker · pm Adventure July 23 1926 30 · Hopi Prayer · Charles Beghtol · pm (r) 31 · In Old Tucson · Charles Beghtol · pm (r) 32 · The Singing Sands · Charles Beghtol · pm (r) 34 · The Covered Wagon · Lena Whittaker Blakeney · pm (r) 36 · Sacred Heart Mission · Lena Whittaker Blakeney · pm (r); given as “Sacret Heart Mission” in the Table of Contents. 37 · The Pioneer · Henry Meade Bland · pm (r) 38 · At Montalvo · Henry Meade Bland · pm (r) 39 · When Autumn Comes · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 40 · Indian Side Show · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 41 · Last “Color” · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 42 · Theresa of San Luis Del Bac · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 43 · Yo-tan-e-ki · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 44 · Wood Carriers of the Tonto · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 45 · Cancion del Vaquero · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 46 · Charley Bill Moseys Out · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 47 · The Last Drummer · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 48 · Desert Monks · D. Maitland Bushby · pm (r) 49 · Chapala Midnight · Witter Bynner · pm (r) 50 · Impressions of the Desert · Grace Stone Coates · pm (r) 51 · Footnote on History · Grace Stone Coates · pm (r) 52 · Petals of Darkness · Grace Stone Coates · pm (r) 52 · Cavaliers · Grace Noll Crowell · pm (r) 55 · Red Earth · Grace Noll Crowell · pm (r) 57 · Presidio · Winifred Davidson · pm (r) 58 · At Sunset · Rhoda De Long · pm (r) 59 · Dreams…Dust · Rhoda De Long · pm (r) 60 · The Fight at Piedras Negras · Ben Field · pm (r) 62 · Poppy Gold · Ben Field · pm (r) 63 · Herb-Gatherer · Sara Bard Field · pm (r) 64 · Wild Flowers · Sara Bard Field · pm (r) 65 · But Beauty Endures · Sara Bard Field · pm (r) 66 · Pacific Winter · Hildegarde Flanner · pm (r) 67 · Superior People · Hildegarde Flanner · pm (r) 68 · Sky-Meeting · Hildegarde Flanner · pm (r) 70 · Valley Quail · Hildegarde Flanner · pm (r) 71 · Desert Death · Charles Henri Ford · pm (r) 72 · Desert · Whitley Gray · pm (r) 76 · Cactus Blooms · Hilton Ross Greer · pm (r) 77 · A Road of Midnight Pageants · Hilton Ross Greer · pm (r) 79 · In the Bracken · Sharlot M. Hall · pm (r) 80 · The Colorado River · Sharlot M. Hall · pm (r) 81 · Boats in a Fog · Robinson Jeffers · pm (r) 82 · Hands · Robinson Jeffers · pm (r) 83 · Hooded Night · Robinson Jeffers · pm (r) 84 · Evening Ebb · Robinson Jeffers · pm (r) 85 · Shore Road · Siddie Joe Johnson · pm (r) 86 · Heron Flight · Siddie Joe Johnson · pm (r) 87 · Buffalo-Gap · John H. Knox · pm (r) 88 · Grasshopper · John H. Knox · pm (r) 89 · Plains · John H. Knox · pm (r) 90 · Arrow-Head · John H. Knox · pm (r) 91 · The Grass · John H. Knox · pm (r) 92 · Deserted Kiva · John H. Knox · pm (r) 94 · Indian Blood · Lilith Lorraine · pm (r) 95 · Southwest · Lilith Lorraine · pm (r) 97 · The Ranger · Lilith Lorraine · pm (r) 99 · Sunset · Catherine Stuart MacLeod · pm (r) 100 · Yet Autumn Mournfully · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 101 · Coniferous · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 102 · Haunted Hogan · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 104 · Hotevilla · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 105 · Song for an Archaeologist: Aztec · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 106 · Snow on the Painted Desert · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 107 · Impression · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 108 · Cattle-Town · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 109 · Quatrains · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 110 · City in Taos · Norman MacLeod · pm (r) 111 · Year of Verbena · Arthur Truman Merrill · pm (r) 112 · Taos · Arthur Truman Merrill · pm (r) 113 · Eureka · Arthur Truman Merrill · pm (r) 114 · Midnight on the Prairies · Vaida Stewart Montgomery · pm (r) 115 · The Cotton Picker’s Song · Whitney Montgomery · pm (r) 117 · He-Man · Whitney Montgomery · pm (r) 118 · Sea-Wind on the Prairie · Berta Hart Nance · pm (r) 119 · Prairie Love · Berta Hart Nance · pm (r) 120 · In Praise of the Guadalupe · Berta Hart Nance · pm (r) 121 · March Plowing · Ted Olson · pm (r) 122 · Payment in Full · Ted Olson · pm (r) 123 · Forfeit · Ted Olson · pm (r) 124 · The General of Cerro Grande · Idella Purnell · pm (r) 125 · Squaw Butte · Lucy Reynolds · pm (r) 126 · Boomtown Drama · Lexie Dean Robertson · pm (r) 129 · Three Pueblos · W. W. Robinson · pm (r) 131 · Mesa and Foothill · Edna Davis Romig · pm (r) 133 · Phantom Oxcarts · Edna Davis Romig · pm (r) 134 · The Arapahoes · Edna Davis Romig · pm (r) 135 · The Desert · Virginia Spates · pm (r) 136 · The Flats · Virginia Spates · pm (r) 137 · Sunrise in Arizona · Virginia Spates · pm (r) 138 · Desert Phantasy · Henry George Weiss · pm (r); given as “Deesert Phantasy” in the Table of Contents. 139 · Mountain and the Desert · Henry George Weiss · pm (r) 141 · Summer · Charles Erskine Scott Wood · pm (r) 143 · Excerpts from The Poet in the Desert · Charles Erskine Scott Wood · pm (r) 148 · Mired · Charles Erskine Scott Wood · pm (r) 150 · Three Poems of the Southwest · Kathleen Tankersley Young · pm (r) 152 · Landscape in Spring · Kathleen Tankersley Young · pm (r)

Crawling Horror: Creeping Tales of the Insect Weird ed. Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf (The British Library, June 17, 2021, 978-0-7123-5349-6, £8.99, 317pp, tp, an, cover by Sandra Gómez) [British Library Tales of the Weird]     Horror anthology. Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Daisy Butcher & Janette Leaf · in 15 · The Sphinx · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Arthur’s Ladies’ Magazine January 1846 23 · The Blue Beetle: A Confession · A. G. Gray, Jun. · ss The Train January 1857 37 · The Mummy’s Soul · [uncredited] · ss The Knickerbocker May 1862 57 · After Three Thousand Years · Jane G. Austin · ss Putnam’s Magazine July 1868 79 · A Dream of Wild Bees · Olive Schreiner · ss Woman’s World November 1888 85 · The Moth · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Gazette March 28 1895, as “A Moth—Genus Novo” 99 · The Captivity of the Professor · A. Lincoln Green · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine February 1901 141 · The Dream of Akinosuke · Lafcadio Hearn · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1904 149 · Butterflies · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 155 · Caterpillars · E. F. Benson · ss The Room in the Tower and Other Stories by E. F. Benson, Mills Boon, 1912 167 · An Egyptian Hornet · Algernon Blackwood · ss Reedy’s Mirror March 19 1915 177 · The Blue Cockroach [University of Cosmopoli] · Christopher Blayre · ss The Purple Sapphire by Christopher Blayre, Philip Allan, 1921 187 · The Wicked Flea [Professor Zapt] · J. U. Giesy · nv Weird Tales October 1925 217 · The Miracle of the Lily · Clare Winger Harris · nv Amazing Stories April 1928 241 · Warning Wings · Arlton Eadie · ss Weird Tales September 1929 253 · Beyond the Star Curtain · Garth Bentley · nv Wonder Stories October 1931 291 · Leiningen Versus the Ants · Carl Stephenson · nv Esquire December 1938 translated from the German (“Leiningens Kampf mit den Ameisen”, 1937).

Evil Roots: Killer Tales of the Botanical Gothic ed. Daisy Butcher (The British Library, August 22, 2019, 978-0-7123-5229-1, £8.99, 285pp, tp, an, cover by Enrique Bernardou) [British Library Tales of the Weird]     Ghost/horror anthology. Details taken from online listing. 7 · Introduction · Daisy Butcher · in 11 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine” 49 · The American’s Tale · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss London Society Christmas 1880, uncredited. 61 · Carnivorine · Lucy H. Hooper · ss Peterson’s Magazine October 1889 77 · The Giant Wistaria · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine June 1891 89 · The Flowering of the Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 2 1894 101 · The Guardian of Mystery Island · Edmond Nolcini · ss The Black Cat September 1896 123 · The Ash Tree · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 141 · A Vine on a House · Ambrose Bierce · ss Cosmopolitan Magazine October 1905 147 · Professor Jonkin’s Cannibal Plant [Professor Jonkin] · Howard R. Garis · ss The Argosy August 1905 161 · The Voice in the Night · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Blue Book Magazine November 1907 179 · The Pavilion · Edith Nesbit · ss The Strand Magazine November 1915 199 · The Green Death · H. C. McNeile · nv The Strand Magazine August 1920 (+1) 237 · The Woman of the Wood · Abraham Merritt · nv Weird Tales August 1926 273 · The Moaning Lily · Emma Vane · ss Wonder Stories May 1935

Backup by Jim Butcher (Subterranean Press, October 2008, 978-1-59606-182-8, $20.00, 70pp, hc, nv, cover by Mike Mignola) [Harry Dresden]     Fantasy novelette in the Dresden Files series, following Harry’s vampire-incubus brother, Thomas. A leatherbound, signed limited edition of 500 ($45.00) and a lettered, traycased edition of 26 are also available.