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The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 20 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, March 31, 2021, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [self-portrait] by Thomas Frank Heaphy from 1831)
This volume contains stories published in Britain, Ireland and America between 1838 and 1900.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_ · Conventional Ghost Stories · [uncredited] · ar The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal May 26 1894

· The Haunted House · Emma Whitehead · ss The Court Magazine March 1838

· Schalken the Painter [The Purcell Papers] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv Dublin University Magazine May 1839, as “Strange Event in the Life of Schalken the Painter”, uncredited.

· The Haunted Manor-House of Paddington · Charles Ollier · ss Bentley’s Miscellany November 1841

· The Ghost-Seer of Tresillion · Charles Wooley · ss Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine November 1851, as by C. A. M. W.

· Mr. H’s Own Narrative · Thomas Frank Heaphy · ss All the Year Round October 5 1861, uncredited.

· The Tread of Invisible Feet · Justin McCarthy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine February 1871, uncredited.

· The Haunted Rock · Charles F. F. Woods · ss Belgravia January 1871

· What Was Seen by Juan Valdez in Saltillo · Thomas Allibone Janvier · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1884

· The Dream House · Margaret Raine Hunt · ss Longman’s Magazine June 1887

· The Green Lady [Mr. Peregrine] · Walter Herries Pollock · ss Longman’s Magazine November 1887

· A Night at Ouseley Manor · Katharine Sarah Macquoid · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1890

· A Faded Scapular · Francis Davis Millet · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine December 1891

· The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891

· The White Priest · Helene Gingold · ss Seven Stories by Helene Gingold, 1893

· The Empty Picture Frame · Louisa Baldwin · ss The Shadow on the Blind and Other Ghost Stories by Mrs. Alfred Baldwin, Dent, 1895

· At the Dip of the Road · Mary Louisa Molesworth · ss Lloyd’s Weekly London Newspaper January 1895

· A White Blot: The Story of a Picture · Henry van Dyke · ss Scribner’s Magazine December 1895

· The Old House on Romney Marsh · Hezekiah Butterworth · ss The Hartford Courant June 1897

· Trooper Thompson’s Information · Bithia Mary Croker · ss Jason and Other Stories by B. M. Croker, Chatto & Windus, 1899

· The Ghost of Eugene Aram · Henry Augustus Hering · ss The Windsor Magazine February 1900

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 21 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, October 7, 2021, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Lady Margaret Maxwell Fletcher-Vane] by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Bauerle)
This volume contains stories published mostly in America between 1852 and 1899.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_ · An Apology for Ghosts · [uncredited] · ar The Evening Standard September 28 1899

· The Haunted Well · Margaret Casson · nv Ainsworth’s Magazine July 1852 (+2)

· The Phantom of the Bottomless Lake · Corolla Hiacynthia Criswell · vi Peterson’s Magazine March 1854

· The Legend of Starved Rock · Mary W. Janvrin · vi Peterson’s Magazine December 1856

· Willie Johnson’s Mother: A Ghost Story · Elizabeth Sheridan Carey · ss The Rose, the Shamrock, and the Thistle May 1862

· A Dead Vashti · Louise Stockton · ss The Galaxy April 1877

· The Haunted Chamber · Sarah Dorr · ss Frank Leslie’s Popular Monthly August 1878

· The Ghost of Morcar’s Tower · Mrs. McAlpine Leny · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine July 1879

· Miss Pringle’s Neighbors · Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson · ss Scribner’s Magazine June 1887

· Thrilling Experience · Manda L. Crocker · ss The Milwaukee Journal February 1888

· “As Haggards of the Rock” · Mary Tappan Wright · ss Scribner’s Magazine May 1890

· Duncan’s Ghost Story · Ada Marie Peck · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book August 1890

· The Soul of Marse Ralph · Mary A. P. Stansbury · ss New England Magazine November 1890

· Ignoto · Louise Clarkson Whitelock · ss A Mad Madonna and Other Stories by Louise Clarkson Whitelock, J. Knight Company, 1895

· The Creeping Shadow · R. Pardepp · ss Belgravia October 1896

· Marm Phœbe’s Fortune · Edith Robinson · ss Penhallow Tales by Edith Robinson, Copeland and Day, 1896

· A Message from Beyond · Genevieve Thorndike Clark · ss The Arena April 1898

· The Passing of Cesare · Helen Pitkin · ss The Black Cat October 1898

· The Haunted Wardrobe · Margaret Vane · ss The Lady’s Realm October 1899

· The Blue Man · Mary Hartwell Catherwood · ss Mackinac and Lake Stories by Mary Hartwell Catherwood, Harpers, 1899

· A South Carolina Ghost Story · Florence Howard Wingate · ss The New Zealand Graphic and Ladies’ Journal May 20 1899

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 22 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, August 5, 2022, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Rudyard Kipling] by John Collier)
This volume contains stories published in America and Britain between 1845 and 1899.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_ · Ghostdom · [uncredited] · ar St. James’s Magazine November 1863

· The Monomaniac · Elizabeth Fries Lummis Ellet · ss United States Magazine and Democratic Review October 1845

· Ghost Stories · George Washington Peck · ss American Review October 1848

· George Whitmore’s Great-Uncle · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal September 1850

· The Monktons of Wincot Abbey · Wilkie Collins · na Fraser’s Magazine November 1855 (+1)

· The Sheep Farmer’s Story · Catherine Ann Crowe · nv Ghosts and Family Legends by Mrs. Crowe, T.C. Newby, 1858

· Four Stories · Edward Bulwer-Lytton (in error) · ts All the Year Round September 1861

· D’Outre Mort · Harriet Prescott Spofford · ss The Galaxy November 15 1866

· Not a Doubt of It · William Morley Farrow · ss The Argosy (UK) January 1869

· Since I Died · Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward · ss Scribner’s Monthly February 1873, as by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps

· The Spectre of the Hemlock Gorge · Charles W. Jay · ss My New Home in Northern Michigan and Other Tales by Charles W. Jay, W.S. and E.W. Sharp, 1874

· Under the Sheer-Legs · Henry Tinson · ss St. James’s Christmas Annual 1875

· An Antiquary’s Ghost Story · Augustus Jessopp · vi The Athenaeum January 1880

· A Curious Experience [Johnny Ludlow] · Ellen Wood · ss The Argosy (UK) November 1883, as by Johnny Ludlow

· The Phantom ’Rickshaw · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885

· A Dead Man’s Vengeance · William John Butterworth Bird · ss Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine March 1888

· The Last of the Ghosts · Barrett Wendell · ss Scribner’s Magazine February 1888

· The Old House on the Cliff · William Wilthew Fenn · ss London Society December 1889

· Geordie Blair’s Luck · Birch Vye & Sydney Phelps · ss Belgravia April 1897

· The Piano Next Door · Elia Wilkinson Peattie · ss The Shape of Fear and Other Ghostly Tales by Elia Wilkinson Peattie, Macmillan, 1898

· Number 13 · M. R. James · ss Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 23 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, June 8, 2023, £2.40, ebook, an, cover: [portrait of Vernon Lee] by John Singer Sargent from 1881)
This volume contains stories by female authors published in America and Britain between 1842 and 1897.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_ · Book-Talk: Ghosts · Julian Hawthorne & H. C. Walsh · br Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine August 1890; given as by Hawthorne alone.

· The Necromancer, or, Ghost Versus Gramarye · Isabella Frances Romer · ss Bentley’s Miscellany January 1842

· The Haunted House · Mary Ann Bird · ss The London Journal July 1852

· The Man-in-the-Moon’s Ghost Story · Rosa Almeida Chawner · ss Hits and Bits by Rosa Almeida Chawner, F. C. Wesdey, 1861

· Grandmother’s Story · Julia Bachope Goddard · ss Once a Week August 25 1866

· The Ghost of Russian Hill · Margaret Kerr Hosmer · ss The Lady’s Friend December 1868

· How Georgette Kept Tryst · Mary E. Penn · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1879

· A Culture-Ghost; or, Winthrop’s Adventure · Vernon Lee · nv Fraser’s Magazine January 1881

· A Stray Reveler: The Picture Which Was a Prophesy · Emma Frances Dawson · ss The Wasp December 1882

· “That Awful Face!” · Florence Marryat · ss The Weekly News December 1882

· The Ghost of Manibere Court · Louisa Grice Hutchinson · ss Temple Bar December 1884

· Miss Tweed’s Ghost Story: A Tale for the People · Sarah Doudney · ss The Sunday Times September 8 1889

· John Charrington’s Wedding · Edith Nesbit · ss Temple Bar September 1891

· Caulfield’s Crime · Alice Perrin · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892

· The Missing Model · Lettice Galbraith · ss New Ghost Stories by Lettice Galbraith, Ward Lock, 1893

· The Stout Wooer and the Haunted Room · A. M. Stein · ss Haunted House of Ben’s Hollow and Other Ghostly Stories by A. M. Stein, J. Elliott & Co., 1894

· The Prayer · Violet Hunt · nv Chapman’s Magazine December 1895, as “The Story of a Ghost”

· Whither Thou Goest · Katharine Lee Bates · ss The Chap-Book April 1896

· The Villa Lucienne · Ella D’Arcy · ss The Yellow Book July 1896

· My Fellow Travellers · Mary Angela Dickens · ss The Gentlewoman December 19 1896

· There and Here · Alice Brown · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine October 1897

The Wimbourne Book of Victorian Ghost Stories: Volume 24 ed. Alastair Gunn (Wimbourne Books, January 3, 2024, £1.99, ebook, an, cover: Portrait of Thomas Hardy by Reginald G. Eves from 1924)
This volume contains stories published in America and Britain between 1861 and 1901.
Details taken from Table of Contents.

· Introduction · Alastair Gunn · in

_ · The Supernatural in Nineteenth Century Fiction · [uncredited] · ar Edinburgh Review April 1903

· The Ghost-Story of the Lady Who Kept a Secret · Frederick William Robinson · ex from Twelve O’Clock: A Christmas Story, Hurst & Blackett, 1861

· Poor Chips · Charles Henry Webb · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1861, uncredited.

· My Old Nurse’s Story · George MacDonald · ex from “The Portent”, anonymously, The Cornhill Magazine May 1860 (+2), uncredited.

· The Ghost of the State Cabin · Charles Rathbone Low · ss Routledge’s Christmas Annual 1870

· Eily’s Ghost · James Bowker · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1875

· A Debt of Honour · Charles Lawrence Young · ss London Society Christmas 1872; subtitled “A Ghost Story”.

· The Haunted Rock: A Legend of Port Guerron Cove · William Wilthew Fenn · ss The Illustrated London News Christmas 1881

· Nut Bush Farm · Charlotte Riddell · nv Weird Stories by Mrs. J. H. Riddell, J. Hogg, 1882

· A Ghost Story Without an End · Leslie Ethridge · ss The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1886

· The House on the Corner · George Downing Sparks · ss The Australian Journal January 1888

· The Ghost at the Proscenium · Gilbert Edward Campbell · ss Mysteries of the Unseen by Sir Gilbert Campbell, Bart., Ward Lock, 1889

· The Superstitious Man’s Story · Thomas Hardy · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine April 1891

· The Ghosts in My Tower · Frank Richard Stockton · ss The Philadelphia Inquirer December 16 1894

· The Roll Call of the Reef · Arthur Quiller-Couch · ss The Idler June 1895, as by Q

· The House of the Bronze Fox · Clinton Ross · ss Daily Witness June 27 1896

· The Friends of the Friends · Henry James · nv Chapman’s Magazine May 1896, as “The Way It Came”

· The Story of Baelbrow [Flaxman Low] · E. & H. Heron · ss Pearson’s Magazine April 1898

· The Corpse Light · J. E. P. Muddock · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899, as by Dick Donovan

· The Fifth-Mile Post · C. E. Jeffery · ss The Harmsworth Monthly Pictorial Magazine November 1899; subtitled “An Indian Ghost Story”.

· The Spirit of the Fjord · John Clark Shannon · ss Zylgrahof and Other Stories by John C. Shannon, Simpkin, Marshall, 1901

Questionable Practices by Eileen Gunn (Small Beer Press, March 11, 2014, 978-1-61873-075-6, $16.00, 276pp, tp, co, cover by Fu Wenchao)
Collection of one poem and 16 stories, two original; this includes four collaborations with Michael Swanwick and one with Rudy Rucker. E-book also available.
Details taken from online listing.

· Up the Fire Road · Eileen Gunn · nv Eclipse One ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2007

· “Chop Wood, Carry Water” · Eileen Gunn · nv

· No Place to Raise Kids · Eileen Gunn · ss Flurb #3, Spring/Summer 2007

· The Trains That Climb the Winter Tree · Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn · nv Tor.com December 21 2010

· To the Moon Alice · Eileen Gunn · pm Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #22, June 2008

· Speak, Geek · Eileen Gunn · vi Nature #7105, August 24 2006

· Hive Mind Man · Rudy Rucker & Eileen Gunn · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction February 2012

· Thought Experiment · Eileen Gunn · ss Eclipse Four ed. Jonathan Strahan, Night Shade Books, 2011

· “Shed That Guilt! Double Your Productivity Overnight!” · Michael Swanwick & Eileen Gunn · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction September 2008

· A Different Engine · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com October 28 2010 [Ref. William Gibson & Bruce Sterling]

· Day After the Cooters · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com October 29 2010 [Ref. Howard Waldrop]

· The Perdido Street Project · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com November 1 2010 [Ref. China Miéville]

· Internal Devices · Eileen Gunn · ss Tor.com November 2 2010 [Ref. K. W. Jeter]

· The Armies of Elfland · Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick · nv Asimov’s Science Fiction April/May 2009

· Michael Swanwick and Samuel R. Delany at the Joyce Kilmer Service Area, March 2005 · Eileen Gunn · ss Foundation Winter 2007

· Zeppelin City · Eileen Gunn & Michael Swanwick · nv Tor.com October 6 2009

· Phantom Pain · Eileen Gunn · ss

Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection (Vol. 1) ed. James E. Gunn--- see under Anon..

Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection (Vol. 2) ed. James E. Gunn--- see under Anon..

Astounding Stories: The 60th Anniversary Collection (Vol. 3) ed. James E. Gunn--- see under Anon..

The Best of Astounding: Classic Short Novels from the Golden Age of Science Fiction ed. James Gunn (Carroll & Graf, August 1992, 0-88184-808-5, $22.95, 438pp, hc, an)
Anthology of six short novels originally published in Astounding between 1932 and 1958, with an introduction by Poul Anderson. This volume was abridged from three anthologies published by Easton Press in 1990.

vii · Introduction · Poul Anderson · in

1 · Sucker Bait [Troas] · Isaac Asimov · na Astounding Science Fiction February 1954 (+1)

71 · The Stolen Dormouse · L. Sprague de Camp · na Astounding Science-Fiction April 1941 (+1)

139 · The Fifth-Dimension Tube [Tommy Reames] · Murray Leinster · na Astounding Stories of Super-Science January 1933

217 · The Shadow Out of Time [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · na Astounding Stories June 1936

287 · Bindlestiff [Cities in Flight] · James Blish · nv Astounding Science Fiction December 1950

331 · We Have Fed Our Sea [David Ryerson] · Poul Anderson · na Astounding Science Fiction August 1958 (+1)

Nebula Award Stories 10 ed. James Gunn (Gollancz, November 1975, 0-575-02059-8, £3.75, 255pp, hc, an)
Omits the two essays by Scholes and Dickson from the US edition.
Details taken from online listing.

· Introduction · James Gunn · in

· The Engine at Heartspring’s Center · Roger Zelazny · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact July 1974

· If the Stars Are Gods [Bradley Reynolds] · Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund · nv Universe 4 ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974

· Twilla · Tom Reamy · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1974

· After King Kong Fell [Wold Newton] · Philip José Farmer · nv Omega ed. Roger Elwood, Walker US, 1973

· The Day Before the Revolution [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Galaxy Science Fiction August 1974

· The Rest Is Silence · C. L. Grant · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1974

· Born with the Dead [Born with the Dead] · Robert Silverberg · na The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1974

· The Nebula Winners, 1965-1974 · [uncredited] · bi

· The Hugo Winners · [uncredited] · bi

Nebula Award Stories Ten ed. James Gunn (Harper & Row, December 1975, 0-06-011628-5, $7.95, xiv+254pp, hc, an)
This is an “enlarged edition” that adds two essays not in the Gollancz (1975 as Nebula Award Stories 10) edition.
Details taken from online listing.

ix · Introduction · James Gunn · in Nebula Award Stories 10 ed. James Gunn, Gollancz, 1975

3 · The Engine at Heartspring’s Center · Roger Zelazny · ss Analog Science Fiction—Science Fact July 1974

13 · If the Stars Are Gods [Bradley Reynolds] · Gregory Benford & Gordon Eklund · nv Universe 4 ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1974

57 · Twilla · Tom Reamy · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1974

97 · Ten Years of Nebula Awards · Gordon R. Dickson · ar

105 · As the Wall Crumbles · Robert Scholes · ar

113 · After King Kong Fell [Wold Newton] · Philip José Farmer · nv Omega ed. Roger Elwood, Walker US, 1973

129 · The Day Before the Revolution [Ekumen] · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss Galaxy Science Fiction August 1974

146 · The Rest Is Silence · C. L. Grant · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction September 1974

173 · Born with the Dead [Born with the Dead] · Robert Silverberg · na The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1974

249 · The Nebula Winners, 1965-1974 · [uncredited] · bi Nebula Award Stories 10 ed. James Gunn, Gollancz, 1975

252 · The Hugo Winners · [uncredited] · bi Nebula Award Stories 10 ed. James Gunn, Gollancz, 1975

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