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Magical: An Anthology of Fantasy, Fairy Tales, and Other Magical Fiction ed. Kelly Ann Jacobson (Kelly Ann Jacobson, November 7, 2014, 978-1-5010-9003-5, $14.99, 204pp, pb, oa, cover by Lorien Williams)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · The Clockwork Girl · T. A. Noonan · ss 7 · Blues · Oliver Gray · ss 14 · One Foggy Thieving · Jake Teeny · ss 22 · The Blind Woman and Her Spiders · Christina Marie Keller · ss 25 · Aye, ’Twas Me · Tara Campbell · ss 32 · The Big Bad Wolf Is a Lie · Susan Bianculli · ss 40 · What Goes Around · Arthur M. Doweyko · ss 45 · Looking for the Gods · Stefen Styrsky · ss 53 · Residents of the Inn · Jessica Knauss · ss 60 · Changelings · Elizabeth Nellums · ss 69 · The Chambers of the Cannibal Queen · Constance Renfrow · ss 75 · George’s Dragon · Clint Wastling · ss 83 · Child of the River · Anne E. Johnson · ss 88 · Cinderella Afterwards · Misha Herwin · ss 93 · When the Sky Bowed and Named the Sea · Chris Blocker · ss 98 · The White Shadow and the Dragon That Wasn’t There · David Perlmutter · ss 105 · The Time Merchant · Tim Tobin · nv 141 · Bawming the Thorn · Vonnie Winslow Crist · ss

The Internet Is Where the Robots Live Now ed. Nicole B. Jacobson (Paper Dog Books, November 2018, 978-1-73286-370-5, $12.99, 228pp, tp, oa, cover by Nicole Jacobson)     Details taken from online listing. · Purchases · Mari Ness · ss · Of All Stars, the Most Beautiful · Aimee Ogden · ss · A Fistful of Circuits · Sharon Diane King · ss · Congrats, You’re Truth · Matt Fuchs · ss · The Dreaded Name · Vajra Chandrasekera · ss · The Maker · Maria Haskins · ss · Messages · David Rogers · ss · Poetry Support Group · Priya Sridhar · ss · The Toymaker’s Daughters · Marie Vibbert · ss · Written in Sand · Deepak Bharathan · ss · The Last Policeman · Claudio J. A. Espinal · ss · What Machines Don’t Know Won’t Hurt · S. H. Mansouri · ss · Shutterbugs · Rhoads Brazos · ss · Jack vs. the Bloody Carpet · Nikki Macahon · ss · Farming Dirt · Krishan Coupland · ss · Not Our Place · Premee Mohamed · ss · As Squids Fall, October Wanes · Kevin Daniel Lonano · ss · Elegy of Carbon · Benjamin C. Kinney · ss · San Cibernético · Monica Louzon · ss · In Absentia · Conor Powers-Smith · ss

The House of Madame Jacqueminet, with Other Stories by B. L. Jacot (Frederick Muller, 1944, hc, co)     Collection with some crime. · And So to Glory · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Ausweg · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Fine Feathers · B. L. Jacot · ss The Royal Magazine September 1929 · Fool’s Paradise · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Genius Buds at Chipping Worsley · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Higher Than Courage · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Ho Lung Passes By · B. L. Jacot · ss · The House of Madame Jacqueminet · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · The Innkeeper · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Journey’s End · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Marrying Them Is Different · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Mrs. Sparrow Carries On · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Old Soldier · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Practically Painless · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Rain · B. L. Jacot · ss (r) · Salt Is the Sea · B. L. Jacot · ss Britannia and Eve April 1943 · Youth Marches on at Chipping Worsley · B. L. Jacot · ss (r)

The Man with Six Senses by M. Jaeger (The Hogarth Press, 1927, 272pp, hc, n.)     SF novel.

The Man with Six Senses by Muriel Jaeger (The British Library, February 21, 2020, 978-0-7123-5366-3, £8.99, 219pp, tp, n.) [British Library Science Fiction Classics]     Reprint (The Hogarth Press 1927) SF novel. Details taken from online listing.

The Question Mark by M. Jaeger (The Hogarth Press, 1926, 252pp, hc, n.)     SF novel.

The Question Mark by Muriel Jaeger (The British Library, July 18, 2019, 978-0-7123-5298-7, £8.99, 288pp, tp, n.) [British Library Science Fiction Classics]     Reprint (The Hogarth Press 1926) SF novel. Details taken from online listing.

The Evil Image: Two Centuries of Gothic Short Fiction and Poetry ed. Nora Crow Jaffe & Patricia L. Skarda--- see under Patricia L. Skarda.

The Corpse Maker ed. Sheldon R. Jaffery--- see under The Corpse Maker by Hugh B. Cave, Starmont, 1988.

Selected Tales of Grim and Grue from the Horror Pulps ed. Sheldon R. Jaffery (Bowling Green Popular Press, August 1987, 0-87972-392-0, $15.95, 195pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 8 stories from the horror pulps, offset from the magazines — including illos and ads. There is also an index to Weird Menace pulps and an article about them. xiii · Preface · Sheldon R. Jaffery · pr 1 · Popular’s Weird Menace Pulps · Robert Kenneth Jones · ar The Weird Menace by John H. Knox, Opar Press, 1972 9 · Index to Weird Menace Pulps · Robert Kenneth Jones · ix The Weird Menace by John H. Knox, Opar Press, 1972 35 · Issue by issue index to Ace Mystery, Eerie Mysteries, Eerie Stories and Uncanny Tales · [uncredited] · ix (r) 40 · Arms of the Flame Goddess · Francis James · nv Dime Mystery Magazine April 1938 64 · Death Tolls the Bell · Hugh B. Cave · na Terror Tales July 1935 96 · The Buyer of Souls · John H. Knox · nv Horror Stories August/September 1936 116 · The Tongueless Horror · Wyatt Blassingame · nv Dime Mystery Magazine April 1934 134 · Sleep with Me—and Death · Wayne Rogers · nv Horror Stories April/May 1938 153 · Moulder of Monsters · G. T. Fleming-Roberts · ss Terror Tales July/August 1937 164 · Dance of the Damned · Arthur J. Burks · nv Horror Stories August/September 1936 180 · Corpses on Parade · Edith & Ejler Jacobson · nv Dime Mystery Magazine April 1938

Sensuous Science Fiction from the Weird and Spicy Pulps ed. Sheldon Jaffery (Bowling Green University Popular Press, January 1985, 0-87972-305-X, $19.95, 164pp, hc, an)     Anthology of reproductions (complete with ads) from the pulps, plus introduction and supplementary material. The editor keeps apologizing about how bad they are. 1 · Introduction · Sheldon R. Jaffery · in 5 · Test-Tube Frankenstein · W. Wayne Robbins · nv Terror Tales May 1940 24 · Zenith Rand, Planet Vigilante [Zenith Rand, Planet Vigilante] · Richard Tooker · nv Mystery Adventure Magazine June 1936 47 · The Angel from Hell · Nils O. Sonderlund · na Marvel Tales December 1939 98 · World Without Sex · Robert Wentworth · ss Marvel Tales May 1940 114 · The Robot Awakes · Lew Merrill · ss Spicy-Adventure Stories October 1940 132 · Shawm of the Stars · Hugh Speer · ss Spicy-Adventure Stories September 1940 150 · Planet of Peril · Henri St. Maur · ss Spicy-Adventure Stories September 1940

The Weirds ed. Sheldon R. Jaffery (Starmont House, April 1987, 0-930261-92-5, $9.95, 173pp, tp, an)     Anthology of facsimiles of stories, illustrations, and some ads from “the era of the shudder-pulps.” These have all been taken from Terror Stories and Horror Stories. There is a historical introduction on the era. 7 · The Weirds · Sheldon R. Jaffery · in 15 · The Mole Men Want Your Eyes · Frederick C. Davis · nv Horror Stories April/May 1938 45 · Beauty for Sale · J. O. Quinliven · nv Horror Stories October/November 1936 66 · Dance of the Bloodless Ones · Francis James · nv Terror Tales July/August 1937 91 · Mistress of the Blood-Drinkers · Ralston Shields · nv Horror Stories March 1940 117 · A Beast Is Born · W. Wayne Robbins · nv Horror Stories October 1940 133 · White Mother of Shadows · George Vandegrift · nv Terror Tales January 1941 152 · The Horror at His Heels · Wyatt Blassingame · ss Horror Stories August/September 1936 161 · Guest-Room in Hell · Leon Byrne · ss Horror Stories October/November 1936 171 · Chamber of Horrors · The Readers · lt Horror Stories

The Best Western Stories of John Jakes by John Jakes (Ohio University Press, March 1991, 0-8214-0983-2, xvi+273pp, hc, co) [edited by Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg] ix · A Tophand Author: John Jakes · Dale L. Walker · in 1 · The Western; and How We Got It · John Jakes · in Great Tales of the West ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Galahad Books, 1982, as “Introduction”; revised. 14 · Shootout at White Pass · John Jakes · ss 37 · The Woman at Apache Wells · John Jakes · ss Max Brand’s Western Magazine September 1952, as “Lobo Loot” 48 · Hell on the High Iron · John Jakes · nv Big-Book Western Magazine March 1953, as “The High-Iron Killer!” 91 · A Duel of Magicians · John Jakes · ex from Heaven and Hell, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1987 110 · Death Rides Here! · John Jakes · nv 10 Story Western Magazine October 1953 141 · The Winning of Poker Alice · John Jakes · ss Complete Western Book Magazine February 1953 151 · To the Last Bullet · John Jakes · nv New Western Magazine May 1953 184 · Little Phil and the Daughter of Joy · John Jakes · ss New Frontiers, Volume I ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Bill Pronzini, Tor, 1990, as by John Lee Gray 201 · The Tinhorn Fills His Hand! · John Jakes · nv 10 Story Western Magazine June 1953 235 · The Naked Gun · John Jakes · ss Short Stories January 1957 249 · Dutchman · John Jakes · ss 269 · A Bibliography of Books by John Jakes · [uncredited] · bi

A Century of Great Western Stories ed. John Jakes (Forge Press, April 2000, 0-312-86986-X, $27.95, 525pp, hc, an)     Details supplied by Mike Holliday. 11 · Introduction · John Jakes · in (r) 18 · Preface · John Jakes · pr (r) 23 · The Gift of Cochise · Louis L’Amour · ss Collier’s July 5 1952 35 · The Tin Star · John M. Cunningham · nv Collier’s December 6 1947 49 · Killers’ Country! · Dan Cushman · na Dime Western Magazine November 1950 79 · Timberline · Owen Wister · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 7 1908 89 · All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine November 1905 105 · The Lamb of the Flying U [Flying U Ranch] · B. M. Bower · ss The Popular Magazine July 1906 116 · Gun Job · Thomas Thompson · nv Collier’s February 28 1953 132 · The Burial of Letty Strayhorn · Elmer Kelton · ss New Trails ed. John Jakes & Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday, 1994 141 · Hell on the Draw · Loren D. Estleman · ss The New Frontier ed. Joe R. Lansdale, Doubleday, 1989 152 · The Attack on the Mountain · Glendon Swarthout · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 4 1959 162 · Fear · Bill Pronzini · ss Louis L’Amour Western Magazine March 1995 170 · Geranium House · Peggy Simson Curry · ss Frontiers West ed. S. Omar Barker, Doubleday, 1959 179 · The Trouble Man · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 20 1909 194 · The Weight of Obligation · Rex Beach · ss Crimson Gardenia, and Other Tales of Adventure by Rex Beach, Harper & Brothers, 1916 211 · Top Hand · Luke Short · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 30 1943 222 · Sergeant Houck · Jack Schaefer · nv Collier’s July 14 1951 239 · Manitow and Ironhand · John Jakes · ss New Trails ed. John Jakes & Martin H. Greenberg, Doubleday, 1994 258 · The Killing at Triple Tree · Evan Hunter · ss Gunsmoke June 1953 270 · Sweet Cactus Wine · Marcia Muller · ss Arbor House Treasury of Great Western Stories ed. Bill Pronzini & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House, 1982 279 · Peace Officer · Brian Garfield · ss Iron Men and Silver Stars ed. Donald Hamilton, Fawcett, 1967 291 · Wolf Moon · Ed Gorman · n. Fawcett Gold Medal, April 1993 381 · Gamblin’ Man · Dwight V. Swain · ss Dime Western Magazine August 1947, as “Sentimental Gentleman of Death” 391 · Candles in the Bottom of the Pool · Max Evans · nv South Dakota Review Autumn 1973 413 · Stage to Lordsburg · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s April 10 1937 426 · King of the Buckskin Breed · Les Savage, Jr. · nv .44 Western Magazine November 1951 447 · Burn Him Out · Frank Bonham · ss Argosy September 1949 459 · The Shaming of Broken Horn · Bill Gulick · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 13 1960 472 · The Guns of William Longley · Donald Hamilton · ss Iron Men and Silver Stars ed. Donald Hamilton, Fawcett, 1967 484 · Wine on the Desert · Max Brand · ss This Week June 7 1936 491 · Tappan’s Burro · Zane Grey · nv The Ladies’ Home Journal June 1923

New Trails: Twenty-Three Original Stories of the West from Western Writers of America ed. John Jakes & Martin H. Greenberg (Doubleday, November 1994, 0-385-46990-X, $22.95, 306pp, hc, oa, cover by Whitney G. Cookman)     Also: Bantam (pb) 1995. vii · Introduction · John Jakes · in (r) 1 · “Hurrah for Capt. Early” · Elmore Leonard · ss 13 · To Challenge a Legend · Albert Butler · ss 23 · Wildfire · Marianne Willman · ss 39 · The Death(s) of Billy the Kid · Arthur Winfield Knight · ss 49 · The Burial of Letty Strayhorn · Elmer Kelton · ss 61 · The Day of the Rain · Teddy Keller · ss 77 · Sweet Revenge · Judy Alter · ss 85 · Yearlings · Jim Marion Etter · ss 99 · Bloody Badge, Bloody Gun · Robert Gleason · ss 105 · Half a Day from Water · Gordon D. Shirreffs · nv 135 · We’ll Kill the Old Red Rooster When She Comes · R. C. House · ss 153 · From Our Special Correspondent · Dale L. Walker · ss 161 · The Wedding Dress · Win Blevins · ss 179 · More Silent Than the Male · Riley Froh · ss 187 · The Leave-Taking · Ruth Willett Lanza · ss 199 · A Two-Gun Man · Joyce Roach · ss 215 · Reunion · Lenore Carroll · ss 223 · Spring Comes to the Widow · John D. Nesbitt · ss 235 · Iron Heart’s Story · Loren D. Estleman · ss 241 · Frontier Birds · Linda Sparks · ss 261 · Long Ride Back · Ed Gorman · ss 265 · Making History · Sally Zanjani · ss 278 · Manitow and Ironhand · John Jakes · ss 297 · Afterword · John Jakes · aw (r) 301 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · ms (r)