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Famous Monster Tales ed. Basil Davenport (ghost written by ed. Albert Paul Blaustein) (Van Nostrand Rinehold, 1967, $4.75, 201pp, hc, an) 1 · Foreword · Clifton Fadiman · fw 4 · Smoke Ghost · Fritz Leiber · ss Unknown Worlds October 1941 23 · The Phantom Farmhouse · Seabury Quinn · nv Weird Tales October 1923 48 · The Horror of the Heights · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine November 1913 65 · The Thing on Outer Shoal · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Astounding Science Fiction September 1947 78 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926 86 · Second Night Out · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales October 1933, as “The Black, Dead Thing” 97 · It · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Unknown August 1940 125 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ex from Novel Notes, Leadenhall Press, 1893 135 · The Damned Thing · Ambrose Bierce · ss Tales from New York Town Topics December 7 1893 145 · Skeleton · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales September 1945 164 · The Thing in the Pond · Paul Ernst · ss Astounding Stories June 1934 177 · Negotium Perambulans · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine November 1922, as “Visible and Invisible” 193 · The 51st Dragon · Heywood Broun · ss New-York Tribune April 13 1919

Ghostly Tales to be Told: A Collection of Stories from the Great Masters ed. Basil Davenport (Dodd, Mead, 1950, $3.00, xvii+317pp, hc, an)     Stories are abridged for telling aloud. vii · On Story-Telling · Basil Davenport · in 1 · The Wendigo · Algernon Blackwood · na The Lost Valley and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1910 62 · August Heat · William F. Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1910 70 · Count Magnus · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 88 · “Where Angels Fear…” · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Unknown March 1939 99 · The House of the Nightmare · Edward Lucas White · ss Smith’s Magazine September 1906 111 · The Screaming Skull · F. Marion Crawford · nv Collier’s July 11 1908 (+1) 150 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 164 · The Gentleman from America · Michael Arlen · ss The Tatler Christmas 1924 187 · The White Powder · Arthur Machen · nv The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895, as “The Novel of the White Powder” 208 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933 237 · The Yellow Wall Paper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine January 1892 259 · Johnson Looked Back · Thomas Burke · ss Night Pieces by Thomas Burke, Constable, 1935 266 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review October 1922 292 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 296 · Captain Murderer · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round September 8 1860 300 · The Refugee · Jane Rice · ss Unknown Worlds October 1943

Horror Stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark ed. Basil Davenport (Ballantine, 1960, 380K, 35¢, 159pp, pb, an)     Selection of 10 stories from Tales to Be Told in the Dark (Dodd, Mead, 1953). 7 · On Telling Stories · Basil Davenport · in Tales to Be Told in the Dark ed. Basil Davenport, Dodd, Mead, 1953 9 · The Beast with Five Fingers · William F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928 revised from The New Decameron, Volume the First, B.H. Blackwell, 1919. 34 · By One, by Two, and by Three · Stephen Hall · nv Temple Bar December 1887, uncredited. 65 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 70 · The Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 82 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · nv The London Mercury September 1930 96 · Thus I Refute Beelzy · John Collier · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1940 101 · Mujina · Lafcadio Hearn · vi Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 103 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 107 · Two Anecdotes · [uncredited] · vi (r) 109 · The Closed Cabinet · [uncredited] · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1895

Invisible Men ed. Basil Davenport (ghost written by ed. Albert Paul Blaustein) (Ballantine, 1960, 401K, 35¢, 158pp, pb, an) 7 · The Weissenbroch Spectacles [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1954 15 · The Shadow and the Flash · Jack London · ss The Bookman June 1903 28 · The New Accelerator · H. G. Wells · ss The Strand Magazine December 1901 40 · Invisible Boy · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle November 1945 48 · The Invisible Prisoner [Arsène Lupin] · Maurice Leblanc · ss The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Maurice Leblanc, Mills, 1912 60 · Love in the Dark [Gilroy] · Horace L. Gold · ss Suspense Magazine Fall 1951, as “Love Ethereal” 73 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. 84 · The Invisible Dove Dancer of Strathpheen Island · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine by John Collier, Viking, 1941 90 · The Vanishing American · Charles Beaumont · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955 99 · Shottle Bop · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Unknown February 1941 124 · The Invisible Man Murder Case · Henry Slesar · nv Fantastic May 1958

Tales to Be Told in the Dark ed. Basil Davenport (Dodd, Mead, 1953, $3.00, 335pp, hc, an) vi · On Telling Stories · Basil Davenport · in 1 · The Beast with Five Fingers · William F. Harvey · nv The Beast with Five Fingers by William F. Harvey, J.M. Dent, 1928 revised from The New Decameron, Volume the First, B.H. Blackwell, 1919. 35 · By One, by Two, and by Three · Stephen Hall · nv Temple Bar December 1887, uncredited. 78 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 85 · The Black Seal · Arthur Machen · na The Three Impostors by Arthur Machen, John Lane, 1895, as “Novel of the Black Seal” 134 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 150 · The Book · Margaret Irwin · nv The London Mercury September 1930 170 · Thus I Refute Beelzy · John Collier · ss The Atlantic Monthly October 1940 177 · The Whippoorwill · James Thurber · ss The New Yorker August 9 1941 188 · The White People · Arthur Machen · nv Horlick’s Magazine and Home Journal for Australia, India and the Colonies January 1904 236 · Mujina · Lafcadio Hearn · vi Kwaidan by Lafcadio Hearn, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 239 · The Open Window · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette November 18 1911 244 · Two Anecdotes · [uncredited] · vi (r) 248 · The Closed Cabinet · [uncredited] · na Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1895 317 · The Closed Cabinet, Retold · Basil Davenport · ss

13 Ways to Dispose of a Body ed. Basil Davenport (Dodd, Mead, 1966, LC:66-16564, $4.00, 277pp, hc, an)     Has endnotes to each story by the editor. vii · Introduction · Basil Davenport · in 1 · Being a Murderer Myself · Arthur Williams · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #57, August 1948 18 · The Best of Everything · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #106, September 1952 40 · The Corpus Delicti [Randolph Mason] · Melville Davisson Post · nv The Strange Schemes of Randolph Mason by Melville Davisson Post, Putnam's, 1896 75 · De Mortuis · John Collier · ss The New Yorker July 18 1942 84 · Earth to Earth · Robert Graves · ss Punch February 1955 91 · The Duchess at Prayer · Edith Wharton · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1900 116 · The Hole in the Wall [Horne Fisher] · G. K. Chesterton · nv Cassell’s Magazine of Fiction #114, September 1921 144 · The Man with Copper Fingers [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Abominable History of the Man with Copper Fingers” 168 · The Night I Died · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly August 8 1936, uncredited. 207 · The October Game · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales March 1948 217 · Out of This Nettle · Robert Twohy · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1962 232 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 249 · Love Lies Bleeding · Philip MacDonald · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #84, November 1950

13 Ways to Kill a Man ed. Basil Davenport (Dodd, Mead, 1965, LC:65-16822, $4.00, 232pp, hc, an) xi · Introduction · Basil Davenport · in 1 · The Candidate · Henry Slesar · ss Rogue August 1961 13 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 29 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 49 · The Tea-Leaf · Edgar Jepson & Robert Eustace · nv The Strand Magazine October 1925 77 · The Adopted Daughter [Uncle Abner] · Melville Davisson Post · ss The Red Book Magazine June 1916 97 · The Liqueur Glass · Phyllis Bottome · ss The Smart Set March 1915 111 · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849 125 · Solved by Inspection [Miles Bredon] · Ronald A. Knox · ss 1925 143 · The Kennel · Maurice Level · ss (r) translated from the French (“Le Chenil”, Le Journal, 1906). 155 · The Policeman Only Taps Once · Anthony Berkeley · nv The Daily Mail May 25 1936 - May 29 1936 195 · Weapon, Motive, Method · Robert Arthur · ss Bluebook June 1953 211 · The Question My Son Asked · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine November 1962 225 · Back for Christmas · John Collier · ss The New Yorker October 7 1939

Twelve Stories from Deals with the Devil ed. Basil Davenport (ghost written by ed. Albert Paul Blaustein) (Ballantine, 1959, 326K, 35¢, 160pp, pb, an)     12 stories from the hardcover edition. Given as “Deals with the Devil (abridged)” on the cover. 6 · Introduction · Basil Davenport · in Deals with the Devil ed. Basil Davenport, Dodd, Mead, 1958 11 · Sir Dominick’s Bargain · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss All the Year Round July 6 1872, uncredited. revised from “The Fortunes of Sir Robert Ardagh”, Dublin University Magazine Mar 1838. 24 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century Magazine May 1916 49 · A Deal with the Devil [Joseph Jorkens] · Lord Dunsany · ss Collier’s August 31 1946 66 · Satan and Sam Shay · Robert Arthur · ss The Elks Magazine August 1942 79 · The Devil and Simon Flagg · Arthur Porges · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1954 86 · The Devil and the Old Man · John Masefield · ss The Green Sheaf #6, 1903, as “A Deep Sea Yarn” 91 · Threshold · Henry Kuttner · ss Unknown December 1940 106 · Nellthu · Anthony Boucher · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1955 108 · Threesie · Theodore R. Cogswell · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1956 116 · Hell-Bent · Ford McCormack · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1951 134 · The Devil, George, and Rosie · John Collier · nv The Devil and All by John Collier, Nonesuch Press, 1934 152 · The Devil Was Sick · Bruce Elliott · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1951

Into the Media Web by Michael Moorcock ed. John Davey--- see under Michael Moorcock.

Moorcock@60.com ed. John Davey (Jayde Design, December 18, 1999, 0-9520074-5-2, 110pp, lp, oa, cover by Mark Reeve) [Ref. Michael Moorcock]     Collection of 60 congratulatory/reminiscent pieces, including poems and art, celebrating Michael Moorcock’s 60th birthday. Contributors include Brian Aldiss, Jonathan Carroll, Terry Pratchett, and Howard Waldrop. Free to members of The Nomads Of The Time Streams, the International Michael Moorcock Appreciation Society. 4 · [letter] · Peter Ackroyd · lt 5 · Apogee Again · Brian Aldiss · ss 10 · [letter] · Brian Alford · lt 11 · Michael Moorcock: An Appreciation · Nick Austin · ms 12 · Mike’s Birthday · Neal Barrett, Jr. · ms 13 · [letter] · Christian Baudissin · lt 14 · Where Do You Get Your Ideas From? · [uncredited] · ms 16 · [letter] · Eric Bloom · lt 17 · Old Age Is a · David Britton · pm 18 · In Case of Michael Moorcock in Your Area · Dave Brock · ms 19 · Mike Moorcock · Ken Bulmer · ms 20 · untitled (“Hello, Mike. As you read this…”) · Michael Butterworth · vi 22 · [untitled tribute] · Jonathan Carroll · ms 23 · [cartoon] · James Cawthorn · ct 24 · Andy Goes to Lost Pines · Graham Charnock · ss 28 · [letter] · Storm Constantine · lt 29 · [untitled tribute] · John Coulthart · ms 30 · Happy Birthday, Pard · John & Maureen Davey · ms 32 · Mike Remembered · Thomas M. Disch · ms 33 · [untitled tribute] · Andrea Dworkin · ms 34 · Photographs from an Old Trunk (Blurred Pictures of MM and Me) · Jean-Luc Fromental · ms 35 · [letter] · Neil Gaiman · lt 36 · Michael Moorcock: Behold the Myth Behind the Man · David Garnett · ms 38 · London Calling · William Gibson · ms 39 · The Revellers · Colin Greenland · vi 41 · A Brief Encounter · David Hill · ms 43 · Taking a Walk Thru the Old Sketchbook: Ladbroke Grove, 1964 · Libby Houston · pm 44 · [letter] · Maxim Jakubowski · lt 45 · Young Queer’s Salvation: A Tale of the White Wolf · Roz Kaveney · ms 48 · Michael Moorcock · Robert Kirby · ms 49 · Memories, Fictional or Otherwise · Rick Klaw · ms 51 · A Few Words About Moorcock · David Langford · ms 52 · The Synthesis Quest · Lapis · pm 53 · Michael Moorcock—A Man for All Seasonings! · Lemmy · ms 54 · Ambush at the Cactus Critic, by One of the Old Brigade · Phil Meadley · vi 57 · [untitled tribute] · Helen Mullens · ms 58 · [untitled tribute] · Kim Newman · ms 59 · Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Dumpbin · Stan Nicholls · ms 61 · [untitled tribute] · Ben Ostrander · ms 62 · Several Poorly Fashioned Quatrains to Mark a Singular Event · Charles Partington · pm 63 · Michael Moorcock’s Manuscript · Peter Pavli · vi 65 · [untitled tribute] · Clare Peake · ms 67 · Westerns · Fabian Peake · pm 68 · Michael Moorcock: Consistent and Loyal Friend to the Peake Family · Sebastian Peake · ms 69 · Elric · John Picacio · il 70 · [illustration] · Joe Piggott & David Shapiro · il 73 · [untitled tribute] · Terry Pratchett · ms 74 · [illustration] · Mark Reeve · il 77 · [untitled tribute] · D. J. Rowe · ms 78 · Pre-Titles · Nicholas Royle · ms 80 · Babe the Blue Ox, and Mike · James Sallis · ms 82 · [cartoon] · Walter Simonson · ct 84 · Creeping Westward · Iain Sinclair · ex extract from Landor’s Tower forthcoming from Granta (2001). 87 · [untitled tribute] · Norman Spinrad · ms 88 · A Light on the Horizon · Lee Story · vi 89 · [letter] · Brian Tawn · lt 91 · [letter] · Nik Turner · lt 91 · The Enchanter Pt. 2 · Nik Turner · pm 91 · The Sea King · Nik Turner · pm 92 · Yrkoon’s Treachery · Nik Turner · pm 93 · Arioch · Nik Turner · pm 94 · Continental Drift: A Fictional Personal History · Lisa Tuttle · ss 97 · Clean ’Round the Oojar · Howard Waldrop · ss 100 · The Author at the End of Time · Tad Williams · ss