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“Number Ninety” and Other Ghost Stories by B. M. Croker (Swan River Press, August 2019, 978-1-78380-028-5, €35.00, xvi+200pp, hc, co, cover by Alan Corbett)     Reprint (Sarob Press 2000) collection of 15 stories, edited and introduced by Richard Dalby. Limited to 300 copies. Details taken from publisher website.

Scratching the Surface: An Anthology of Diverse Fiction ed. Christina Crooks (Wordbeams, September 2000, 1-58785-077-X, ebook, an) · Her Sharp Little Straw · Christina Crooks · ss (r) · Rupert, the Devil-Dog from Hell · Daisy Dexter Dobbs · ss (r) · The First King · Aaron Emmel · ss (r) · Murder on the Emerald Deck · Marianna Heusler · ss (r) · Reunion · Tracy Jones · ss (r) · It’s Friday, but Sunday’s Coming · Celia Ann Leaman · ss (r) · Gossip · Leronia Rawls · ss (r) · More Than an Orphan · Ross Richdale · ss (r) · Wreckage Point · Carolyn Scott · ss (r) · Search for a Sanctum · Lori Shimer · ss (r) · Everything Has a Purpose · Jeff Strand · ss (r) · Wasting Grandpa · Jeff Strand · ss (r) · The Bottom Line · Drew Williams · ss (r)

West Country Tales ed. Kevin Crooks--- see under Anon..

Bonechillers: 13 Twisted Tales of Terror by D. W. Cropper (Llewellyn, August 2005, 0-7387-0758-9, $8.95, 256pp, tp, oc)     Young-adult original collection of 13 horror stories. 1 · The Imaginary Friend · D. W. Cropper · ss 17 · Snowbound · D. W. Cropper · ss 33 · Running with the Pack · D. W. Cropper · nv 57 · The Unfortunate Invitation · D. W. Cropper · ss 65 · Devil from the Sky · D. W. Cropper · ss 81 · Vengeance and Wrath · D. W. Cropper · nv 105 · The Switch · D. W. Cropper · ss 121 · Billy-Don’t-Do-It · D. W. Cropper · nv 147 · Witch-Baby · D. W. Cropper · ss 163 · The Parade of Night · D. W. Cropper · ss 181 · Down, Down, Down · D. W. Cropper · ss 197 · Orphan Asylum · D. W. Cropper · nv 225 · In Shadows · D. W. Cropper · nv

Interstellar Patrol by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

Interstellar Patrol II: The Federation of Humanity by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

The Power of Illusion by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

Rx for Chaos by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

Strangers in Paradise by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

The Trouble with Aliens by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

The Trouble with Humans by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

War Games by Harry C. Crosby--- see under Christopher Anvil.

Down the Badger Hole: R. Lionel Fanthorpe: The Badger Years by Debbie Cross (Wrigley-Cross Books, June 1995, no ISBN, $12.50, 163pp, tp, co, cover: [photo] by James W. Fiscus) [Ref. R. Lionel Fanthorpe]     Collection of extracts by, and pieces on, R. Lionel Fanthorpe. 1 · Albatross Pie · Lionel & Patricia Fanthorpe · in 7 · The Badger Game · David Langford · in 13 · Introduction · Debbie Cross · in 19 · March of the Robots · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ex Badger Books, 1961, as by Leo Brett 23 · Short but Meaningful · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 27 · Rodent Mutation · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ex Badger Books, 1961, as by Bron Fane 31 · Is There a Thesaurus in the House? · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 35 · Alien from the Stars · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ex Badger Books, 1959 41 · Amazing Analogies and Marvelous Metaphors · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 47 · Hygiene 101 · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 51 · Colourful Prose · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 57 · Philosophically Speaking · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 61 · Mental Olympics · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 65 · Fanthorpe by Any Other Name · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 67 · A Miscellany · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ms (r) 75 · Galaxy 666 · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · ex Badger Books, 1963, as by Pel Torro 85 · Curse of the Khan · R. Lionel Fanthorpe · nv Supernatural Stories #105, 1966 131 · R. Lionel Fanthorpe: A Bibliography · Debbie Cross · bi (r)

The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross (John Westhouse, December 1944, 12/6d, 274pp, hc, co) 10 · The Glass Eye · John Keir Cross · ss 27 · Petronella Pan · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 36 · The Last of the Romantics · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 44 · Clair de Lune · John Keir Cross · nv (r) 70 · Absence of Mind · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 79 · Hands · John Keir Cross · ss 97 · Another Planet · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 100 · Liebestraum · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 116 · Miss Thing and the Surrealist · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 132 · Valdemosa · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 151 · Amateur Gardening · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 163 · The Little House · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 177 · Esmeralda · John Keir Cross · ss 196 · Music When Soft Voices Die… · John Keir Cross · nv 214 · Cyclamen Brown · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 233 · Couleur de Rose · John Keir Cross · ss (r) 239 · The Lovers · John Keir Cross · ss 247 · The Other Passenger · John Keir Cross · nv

Best Black Magic Stories ed. John Keir Cross (Faber and Faber, 1960, 16/-, 269pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · John Keir Cross · in 17 · The Earlier Service · Margaret Irwin · ss Madame Fears the Dark by Margaret Irwin, A.D. Peters, 1935 33 · The Lady on the Grey · John Collier · ss The New Yorker June 16 1951 42 · A Room in Leyden · Richard Harris Barham · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine April 1831, as “A Singular Passage in the Life of the Late Henry Harris, D.D.” 66 · Mothering Sunday · John Keir Cross · ss 81 · The Snake · Dennis Wheatley · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine January 1933 96 · The Hill · R. Ellis Roberts · ss The Other End by R. Ellis Roberts, Palmer, 1923 110 · Casting the Runes · M. R. James · nv More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Arnold, 1911 133 · More Spinned Against · John Wyndham · ss Fantasy Fiction June 1953 146 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Lord Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited. 185 · Homecoming [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle October 1946 200 · Couching at the Door · Dorothy K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 225 · A Way of Thinking · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Amazing Stories October/November 1953 256 · The Black Mass · Joris Karl Huysmans; translated by Keene Wallis · ex from Down There, Albert & Charles Boni, 1924; chapter XIX from Là-Bas, Echo de Paris 1891. translated from the French (Là-Bas, Tresse & Stock, 1891). 266 · Envoi · John Keir Cross · aw

Best Horror Stories ed. John Keir Cross (Faber and Faber, 1956, 15/-, 300pp, hc, an) 9 · Introduction · John Keir Cross · in 17 · Skeleton · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1945 36 · A Watcher by the Dead · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner December 29 1889 49 · Raspberry Jam · Angus Wilson · ss The Wrong Set by Angus Wilson, Secker, 1949 69 · Berenice · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger March 1835 78 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 85 · Lot No. 249 · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1892 125 · The Lovers · John Keir Cross · ss The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross, John Westhouse, 1944 135 · The Mark of the Beast · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Pioneer July 12 1890 (+1) 151 · The End of the Party · Graham Greene · ss The London Mercury January 1932 162 · Heartburn · Hortense Calisher · ss The American Mercury January 1951 175 · Bartleby · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly November 1853 (+1), as “Bartleby, the Scrivener: A Story of Wall Street”, uncredited. 219 · Our Feathered Friends · Philip MacDonald · ss When Churchyards Yawn ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1931 231 · Thrawn Janet · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss The Cornhill Magazine October 1881, as by R. L. S. 243 · Mars Is Heaven! [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Planet Stories Fall 1948 263 · “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 287 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum April 1930

Best Horror Stories 2 ed. John Keir Cross (Faber and Faber, 1965, 18/-, 270pp, hc, an) 7 · Introduction · John Keir Cross · in 17 · The Professor’s Teddy-Bear · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Weird Tales March 1948 30 · The Last Chukka · Alec Waugh · nv Nash’s Magazine September 1927 62 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 12 1891 68 · The Flowers of the Forest · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Science Fantasy #24, 1957 81 · The Thing on the Doorstep [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Weird Tales January 1937 113 · How to Make a Foon · Spike Milligan · ss (r) 116 · Brown God in the Beginning · Angus Stewart · ss Introduction 2: Stories by New Writers, Faber and Faber, 1964 132 · Akin to Love · Christianna Brand · ss Rogue April 1963 140 · The Glass Eye · John Keir Cross · ss The Other Passenger by John Keir Cross, John Westhouse, 1944 158 · The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 180 · Evening Primrose · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine by John Collier, Viking, 1941 194 · The House of Desolation · Alan Griff · ss The Cornhill Magazine January 1934 210 · Making Sure of a Little One · Derek Ingrey · ss (r) 220 · The Derelict · William Hope Hodgson · nv The Red Magazine December 1 1912 250 · Thurnley Abbey · Perceval Landon · ss McClure’s Magazine October 1908

Adventures in Tomorrow ed. Kendell F. Crossen (Greenberg, April 1951, $3.50, x+278pp, hc, an) vii · Editor’s Note · Kendell F. Crossen · ms 1 · Houyhnhnms & Company · Kendell F. Crossen · in 19 · Atomic Age—1960 A.D.-2100 A.D. · Kendell F. Crossen · si 21 · Flying Dutchman · Ward Moore · ss 26 · There Will Come Soft Rains [Mars] · Ray Bradbury · ss Collier’s May 6 1950 32 · The Mute Question · Forrest J Ackerman · vi Other Worlds Science Stories September 1950 34 · The Portable Phonograph · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · ss The Yale Review Spring 1941 41 · Galactic Age—2100 A.D.-3000 A.D. · Kendell F. Crossen · si 43 · Automaton · A. E. van Vogt · ss Other Worlds Science Stories September 1950 57 · Restricted Clientele · Kendell F. Crossen · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1951 78 · Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales November 1933 110 · Christmas on Ganymede · Isaac Asimov · ss Startling Stories January 1942 127 · Stellar Age—3000 A.D.-10,000 A.D. · Kendell F. Crossen · si 129 · Memory · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories August 1948 154 · Exiled from Earth · Sam Merwin, Jr. · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories December 1940 171 · Retreat to the Stars · Leigh Brackett · ss Astonishing Stories November 1941 191 · The Voice of the Lobster · Henry Kuttner · nv Thrilling Wonder Stories February 1950 227 · Delphic Age—10,000 A.D.-1,000,000 A.D. · Kendell F. Crossen · si 229 · Evolution’s End · Robert Arthur · ss Thrilling Wonder Stories April 1941 246 · Transfer Point · Anthony Boucher · nv Galaxy Science Fiction November 1950 269 · The Devil Was Sick · Bruce Elliott · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1951

Future Tense ed. Kendell Foster Crossen (Greenberg, March 1952, LC:52-9282, $3.50, 364pp, hc, an, cover by Ric Binkley) xiii · Tomorrow Is Here to Stay · Kendell Foster Crossen · in 3 · Plagiarist · Peter Phillips · nv New Worlds #7, Summer 1950 45 · The Ambassadors · Anthony Boucher · ss Startling Stories June 1952 50 · Dream’s End · Henry Kuttner · ss Startling Stories July 1947 68 · We the People · Ward Moore · ss Science Fiction Quarterly May 1952 77 · Throwback · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Startling Stories October 1952 94 · Things of Distinction [Jerry Ransom] · Kendell Foster Crossen · nv Startling Stories March 1952 148 · Scarlet Dream [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales May 1934 179 · Cyclops · H. F. Heard · ss 200 · The Battle of the S…s · Bruce Elliott · ss 210 · The Island of the Five Colors · Martin Gardner · ss 229 · Baby Killers · Rose B. Elliott · ss 237 · Beanstalk · James Blish · na 342 · Incubation · John D. MacDonald · ss 352 · Love Story · Christopher Monig · ss

Future Tense (var. 1) ed. Kendell F. Crossen (The Bodley Head, 1954, 10/6d, 216pp, hc, an)     Reprints 8 of the stories from the US edition (Greenberg 1952). · Tomorrow Is Here to Stay · Kendell F. Crossen · in Future Tense ed. Kendell Foster Crossen, Greenberg, 1952 9 · Plagiarist · Peter Phillips · nv New Worlds #7, Summer 1950 44 · The Ambassadors · Anthony Boucher · ss Startling Stories June 1952 48 · Dream’s End · Henry Kuttner · ss Startling Stories July 1947 63 · Throwback · Miriam Allen deFord · ss Startling Stories October 1952 77 · Things of Distinction [Jerry Ransom] · Kendell F. Crossen · nv Startling Stories March 1952 122 · Beanstalk · James Blish · na Future Tense ed. Kendell Foster Crossen, Greenberg, 1952 209 · Incubation · John D. MacDonald · ss Future Tense ed. Kendell Foster Crossen, Greenberg, 1952