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The Fantasy and Mystery Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald by F. Scott Fitzgerald ed. Peter Haining--- see under F. Scott Fitzgerald.

The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by A. Conan Doyle ed. Peter Haining--- see under A. Conan Doyle.

The Final Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (var. 1) by A. Conan Doyle ed. Peter Haining--- see under A. Conan Doyle.

The First Book of Unknown Tales of Horror ed. Peter Haining (Sidgwick & Jackson, June 1976, 0-283-98318-3, £3.95, 184pp, hc, an)     First of a series of anthologies reprinting stories never previously published in bookform (according to the editor). 7 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in (r) 13 · The Sepulchre of Jasper Sarasen · H. Russell Wakefield · ss Fantastic Universe August/September 1953 25 · The Crystal Cup · Abraham Stoker · ss London Society September 1872 36 · The Cosy Room · Arthur Machen · ss Shudders ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1929 42 · The Little People [Bran Mak Morn] · Robert E. Howard · ss Coven 13 #3, January 1970 48 · Scar-Tissue · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Amazing Stories July 1946 60 · The Hero of the Plague · W. C. Morrow · ss The Californian January 1880, as “The Man from Georgia” 72 · The Horror Undying · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales May 1936 81 · The Machine That Changed History · Robert Bloch · ss Science Fiction Stories July 1943 93 · The Candle · Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales November 1942 103 · Unholy Hybrid · William Bankier · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1963 111 · Ten Minutes on a June Morning · Francis Clifford · nv Argosy (UK) April 1970 127 · They’re Playing Our Song · Harry Harrison · vi Fantastic Stories of Imagination December 1964

The Flying Bomb War: Contemporary Eyewitness Accounts of the German V-1 and V-2 Raids on Britain ed. Peter Haining (Robson Books, November 2002, 1-86105-581-1, £16.95, 225pp, hc, an)     Anthology of articles about the flying bomb raids on Britain in World War II. 1 · Prelude · Mrs. Lil Charles · fw 3 · Genesis of the V-Weapons · Peter Haining · in 27 · Part I: The Flying Bomb · H. E. Bates · si (r) 29 · The Mystery V-l of Fareham · Peter Haining · ar (r) 37 · The Divers Are Coming! · Arthur Geering · ar (r) 41 · Things That Go Whump in the Night · A. P. Herbert · ar (r) 46 · A Nightmare of Mortar and Dust · [uncredited] · ar (r) 51 · Pilotless Warplanes Raided Britain · Herbert Morrison · ar The (London) Evening News June 16 1944 57 · The Propaganda War · [uncredited] · ar (r) 64 · The New Battle of Britain · Squadron Leader John Strachey · ar (r); given as a talk on the BBC Home Service, June 26, 1944. 70 · The Doodlebug Killer · Flight Sergeant Maurice Rose · ar Empire News July 20 1944 75 · Hunting the Flying Bombs by Night · Squadron Leader Joseph Berry · ar (r) 79 · The Guns Come to Bear · General Sir Frederick Pile · ar The Times June 19 1944 94 · Life in Doodlebug Alley · H. E. Bates · ar 110 · America and the Flying Bomb · Raymond Gram Swing · ar (r) 114 · London Fights the Robots · Ernest Hemingway · ar Collier’s August 19 1944 124 · Life in Underground City · George Orwell · cl Partisan Review Fall 1944, as “London Letter”; the text of the article has been rearranged somewhat. 129 · Death on a Monday Morning · Peter Haining · ar (r) 137 · It’s an Ill Wind · E. V. Knox · ar Punch August 28 1944 143 · A Lull Before the Storm · gp (r) _144 · The Story from the Launching Sites · Lawrence Fairhall · ar (r) _146 · Spanners in the Works · Frank Gillard · ar (r) 151 · Part II: The Rocket Weapon · Squadron Leader John Strachey · si (r) 153 · Like a Clap of Thunder · Peter Haining · ar (r) 162 · A Tale of Exploding Gas-Mains · A. P. Herbert · ar (r) 166 · V-2 Blitz of London · Basil Cardew · ar The Daily Express November 9 1944 175 · Spitfires Versus the Rockets · Hilary St. George Saunders · ar Life April 1945 182 · Christmas Mail by Flying Bomb! · [uncredited] · ar Daily Sketch December 27 1944 188 · Silencing the “Big Bens” · Air Chief Marshal Sir Roderic Hill · ar The London Gazette October 1945 198 · The Day I Survived a V-2 · Hazel Cooper · ar The Times March 16 1945 205 · The End of the Secret Ordeal · Basil Cardew · ar The Daily Express April 28 1945 213 · V-3: The German Super-Gun · Douglas Williams · ar (r) 218 · Guided Missiles Could Have Won the War · Joseph W. Angell · ar The Atlantic Monthly January 1952 223 · Envoi: Rocket to the Moon · Peter Haining · ar

The Flying Sorcerers: More Comic Tales of Fantasy ed. Peter Haining (Souvenir Press, August 1997, 0-285-63388-0, £16.99, 267pp, hc, an, cover by Josh Kirby)     Humorous fantasy anthology, with an overall introduction, and individual story introductions by Haining. 9 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 11 · 1. Hordes of the Things: Comic Fantasies 13 · Turntables of the Night · Terry Pratchett · ss Hidden Turnings ed. Diana Wynne Jones, Methuen, 1989 23 · A Slice of Life [Mr. Mulliner] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The Strand Magazine August 1926 37 · The Better Mousetrap [Gavagan’s Bar] · L. Sprague de Camp & Fletcher Pratt · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1950 47 · Sam Small’s Better Half [Sam Small] · Eric Knight · ss Maclean’s June 1 1940 62 · Danse Macabre · Mervyn Peake · ss Science Fantasy #61, 1963 72 · The Shoddy Lands · C. S. Lewis · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1956 80 · Harrison Bergeron · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction October 1961 87 · Possible to Rue · Piers Anthony · ss Fantastic Stories of Imagination April 1963 93 · 2. Deadly Nightshapes: Tales of the Supernatural 95 · The Right Side · John Collier · ss The Devil and All by John Collier, Nonesuch Press, 1934 100 · Nasty · Fredric Brown · vi Playboy April 1959 103 · The Gripes of Wraith [Squaredeal Sam McGhee] · Nelson S. Bond · ss The Blue Book Magazine August 1946 114 · The Roaches · Thomas M. Disch · ss Escapade October 1965 125 · The Lady of the House of Love · Angela Carter · nv The Iowa Review Summer/Fall 1979 142 · The Stone Thing: A Tale of Strange Parts · Michael Moorcock · ss Triode October 1974 146 · The Shrink and the Mink · Robert Bloch · ss Hustler December 1983, as “The Shrink and the Nympho” 159 · Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life · Roald Dahl · ss The New York Times September 14 1974 167 · 3. Vacant Space: Stories of Science Fiction 169 · The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future · Stephen Leacock · ss Nonsense Novels by Stephen Leacock, Lane, 1911 180 · Female of the Species · John Wyndham · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction January 1953, as “Perfect Creature” revised from “The Perfect Creature,” Tales of Wonder #1 ’37, as by John Beynon. 202 · A Good Shellacking · Stanislaw Lem · ss The Cyberiad by Stanislaw Lem, Seabury Press, 1974 208 · From Gustible’s Planet [Instrumentality] · Cordwainer Smith · ss If July 1962 215 · Specialist · Robert Sheckley · ss Galaxy Science Fiction May 1953 230 · The Adventure of the Martian Moons [Sam Space] · William F. Nolan · ss The Flying Sorcerers ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press, 1997 246 · The Golden Years of the Stainless Steel Rat [Slippery Jim (James Bolivar) diGriz] · Harry Harrison · ss Stainless Steel Visions by Harry Harrison, Tor, 1993 261 · No Morning After · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Time to Come ed. August Derleth, Farrar, Straus & Young, 1954

The Frankenstein File ed. Peter Haining (NEL, October 1977, 450-03305-8, £3.50, 127pp, lp, an)     A large-format glossy illustrated volume illustrating the Frankenstein factor in fiction. 6 · The World of Frankenstein · Peter Haining · in 8 · How I Created Frankenstein · Mary Shelley · ar 1831 introduction taken from the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. 15 · [letter] · Mary Shelley · lt (r) letter to Leigh Hunt on the stage production of Presumption; or, The Fate of Frankenstein in September 1823. 16 · The Old Tower of Frankenstein · [uncredited] · ss Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper 1847 translated from the German (c. 1812). 18 · Bringing the Dead Alive! · [uncredited] · ar The Terrific Register, Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825 20 · The Real Castle Frankenstein · Ron Haydock · ar (r) 24 · The Frankenstein Movies · [uncredited] · ar (r) 34 · Universal’s Classic Frankenstein · Forrest J Ackerman · nv (r) adapted by Ackerman from the original 1931 screenplay by Garrett Ford and Francis Faragoh. 52 · The Life of a Monster · Boris Karloff · ar 1968 58 · Boris Karloff—The King of Horror Films · Ron Haydock · ar (r) 66 · Demons of the Film Colony · Theodore Le Berthon · ts Weird Tales October 1932 72 · My Funny Frankenstein · Denis Gifford · ar (r) 76 · Peter Cushing—Dr. Frankenstein I Presume? · Donald Glut · ar (r) 82 · Dr. Frankenstein and I · Peter Cushing · ar (r) 86 · Frankenstein, Dracula and Me · Christopher Lee · ar (r) 94 · The Monster Maker · W. C. Morrow · nv The Argonaut October 15 1887, as “The Surgeon’s Experiment” 106 · Mannikins of Horror · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales December 1939 116 · At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein [Frankenstein] · Harry Harrison · ss Science Fantasy #76, September 1965 124 · Sixty Five Years of Frankenstein on the Screen · [uncredited] · bi

The Frankenstein Omnibus ed. Peter Haining (Orion, March 31, 1994, 1-85797-551-0, £9.99, viii+647pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 32 stories and articles tracing the development of the Frankenstein theme in fiction, with an introduction and notes to every story by Haining. A hardcover edition (-550-2, £15.99) was announced but not seen. 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in (r) 4 · The Creature Lives! · Mary W. Shelley · ex from Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, anonymously, Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818, uncredited. 9 · I: The Prototypes 11 · The Reanimated Man · Mary W. Shelley · ss Yesterday and To-day by Cyrus Redding, T. Cautley Newby, 1863, as “Story of Mr. Dodsworth”; written 1826. 21 · The Mummy · Jane Webb · ex from The Mummy! A Tale of the Twenty-Second Century, Henry Colburn, 1827 39 · The New Frankenstein · William Maginn · ss Fraser’s Magazine January 1837 55 · The Bell-Tower · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly August 1855, uncredited. 69 · The Vivisector · Sir Ronald Ross · ss 1881 83 · The Future Eve · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam; translated by Florence Crewe-Jones · n. Argosy Allstory Weekly December 18 1926 (+5); this translation is heavily edited and abridged. translated from the French (L’Eve Future, 1886). 197 · The Incubated Girl · Fred T. Jane · ex Tower, 1896 213 · The Surgeon’s Experiment · W. C. Morrow · nv The Argonaut October 15 1887 229 · Some Experiments with a Head · Dick Donovan · ss (r) 239 · The New Frankenstein · E. E. Kellett · nv A Corner in Sleep and Other Impossibilities by E. E. Kellett, Jarrold & Sons, 1900 262 · The Man Who Made a Man · Harle Oren Cummins · ss Minneapolis Journal March 25 1901 267 · Frankenstein II · Leonard Merrick · ss The Strand Magazine (US) November 1904 277 · The Composite Brain · Robert S. Carr · ss Weird Tales March 1925 287 · Demons of the Film Colony · Theodore Le Berthon · ts Weird Tales October 1932 295 · II: The Films 297 · Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster! · H. M. Milner · pl 1823; credited by Haining as the original 1823 stage adaptation, although that was called Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein and is not attributed to Milner. 320 · Frankenstein: The Man Who Made a Monster · Garrett Fort & Francis Faragoh · sa 1931; original scenario for the 1931 film adaptation. 340 · The Bride of Frankenstein · Guy Preston · nv Pearson’s Weekly September 28 1935 (+2); credited here to John L. Balderston & William Hurlbut who wrote the original screenplay. 368 · Heirs or the Workshop of Filthy Creation · Robert Muller; adapted by Brian Hayles · nv Supernatural ed. Robert Muller, Fontana, 1977; narrative version of an episode from the BBC TV ‘Supernatural’ series. 389 · The Dead Man · Fritz Leiber · nv Weird Tales November 1950 415 · The Curse of Frankenstein · Jimmy Sangster · sa 1957 adaptation of the script for the 1957 film. 476 · Herbert West—Reanimator · H. P. Lovecraft · gp (r), as “Grewsome Tales” _478 · From the Dark · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Home Brew February 1922 _482 · The Plague Demon · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Home Brew March 1922 _486 · Six Shots by Moonlight · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Home Brew April 1922 _491 · The Scream of the Dead · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Home Brew May 1922 _495 · The Horror from the Shadows · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Home Brew June 1922 _499 · The Tomb-Legions · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Home Brew July 1922 504 · Transformation · Mary W. Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1831, 1830 521 · III: The Archetypes 523 · The Golem · Gustav Meyrink; translated by Madge Pemberton · ex Houghton Mifflin, 1928 translated from the German (Der Golem, 1914). 535 · Death of a Professor · Michael Hervey · ss 1946 543 · Frankenstein—Unlimited · H. A. Highstone · ss Astounding Stories December 1936 555 · It · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Unknown August 1940 578 · Wednesday’s Child · William Tenn · ss Fantastic Universe January 1956 597 · Dial “F” for Frankenstein · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Playboy January 1965 605 · The Plot Is the Thing · Robert Bloch · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1966 612 · Fortitude · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · pl Playboy September 1968 629 · Summertime Was Nearly Over · Brian W. Aldiss · ss The Ultimate Frankenstein ed. Byron Preiss, David Keller, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt, Dell, 1991 640 · At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein [Frankenstein] · Harry Harrison · ss Science Fantasy #76, September 1965

The Freak Show ed. Peter Haining (Rapp & Whiting, March 19, 1970, 85391-146-0, £1.60, 256pp, hc, an)     Anthology about larger-than-life people or freakish happenings. 11 · The Truth about the Bearded Lady · Peter Haining · in (r) 15 · The Magician · Daniel Defoe · ss A System of Magic by Daniel Defoe, 1726 31 · Hop-Frog · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Flag of Our Union March 17 1849 41 · Spurs · Tod Robbins · nv Munsey’s Magazine February 1923 59 · The Ampoi Giant · Clark Ashton Smith · ss The Arkham Sampler Spring 1949, as “The Root of Ampoi” 75 · The Dwarf · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic January/February 1954 89 · The Gnarly Man · L. Sprague de Camp · nv Unknown June 1939 111 · The Gay Deceiver · Mildred Clingerman · ss A Cupful of Space by Mildred Clingerman, Ballantine, 1961 121 · The Rabbit Prince · Davis Grubb · ss Woman’s Home Companion June 1949 133 · Beidenbauer’s Flea · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine February 1960 143 · The Power of the Puppets · Fritz Leiber · nv Thrilling Mystery January 1942 165 · The Rising Man · Joseph Payne Brennan · ss Nine Horrors and a Dream by Joseph Payne Brennan, Arkham House, 1958, as “Levitation” 171 · Jizzle · John Wyndham · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1952 revised from Collier’s Jan 8 ’49, as by John Beynon. 183 · Carousel · August Derleth · ss Fantastic Adventures April 1945 193 · Heads You Win… [Aesop Abercrombie] · Esther Carlson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1953 203 · Girl from Mars · Robert Bloch · ss Fantastic Adventures March 1950 211 · At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein [Frankenstein] · Harry Harrison · ss Science Fantasy #76, September 1965 219 · Mutants for Sale · Eric Frank Russell · ss Nebula Science Fiction #4, Autumn 1953, as “This One’s on Me” 227 · Horrer Howce · Margaret St. Clair · ss Galaxy Science Fiction July 1956 239 · Big Sam Was My Friend · Harlan Ellison · ss Science Fiction Adventures March 1958 253 · After the Fair · Dylan Thomas · ss 1934