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Wolfsong ed. Richard Pini, Lynn Abbey & Robert Lynn Asprin (Tor, February 1988, 0-812-53037-3, $7.95, 307pp, tp, oa) [Elfquest]     Original anthology of 9 shared-world “Elfquest” stories. 1 · Introduction · [uncredited] · in 7 · Colors [Elfquest] · Richard Pini · nv 35 · Love and Memory [Elfquest] · Lynn Abbey · na 83 · Songshaper [Elfquest] · Nancy Springer · ss 102 · The Search [Elfquest] · Christine Dewees & C. J. Cherryh · nv 129 · Genesis [Elfquest] · Richard Pini, Lynn Abbey & Marcus Leahy · na 176 · Dreamsinger’s Tale [Elfquest] · Janny Wurts · nv 198 · Summer Tag [Elfquest] · Allen L. Wold · na 257 · Stormlight’s Way [Elfquest] · Nancy Springer · ss 277 · A Very Good Year for Dreamberries [Elfquest] · Diana L. Paxson · nv 306 · Epilog · [uncredited] · aw

Survivor ed. J. J. Pionke & Mary Anne Mohanraj--- see under Mary Anne Mohanraj.

The Best American Short Stories 2008 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Salman Rushdie--- see under Salman Rushdie.

The Best American Short Stories 2009 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Alice Sebold--- see under Alice Sebold.

The Best American Short Stories 2011 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Geraldine Brooks--- see under Geraldine Brooks.

The Best American Short Stories 2012 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Tom Perotta--- see under Tom Perotta.

The Best American Short Stories 2013 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Elizabeth Strout--- see under Elizabeth Strout.

The Best American Short Stories 2014 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Jennifer Egan--- see under Jennifer Egan.

The Best American Short Stories 2015 ed. Heidi Pitlor & T. C. Boyle--- see under T. C. Boyle.

The Best American Short Stories 2016 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Junot Díaz--- see under Junot D^i'az.

The Best American Short Stories 2017 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Meg Wolitzer--- see under Meg Wolitzer.

The Best American Short Stories 2018 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Roxane Gay--- see under Roxane Gay.

The Best American Short Stories 2019 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Anthony Doerr--- see under Anthony Doerr.

The Best American Short Stories 2020 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Curtis Sittenfeld--- see under Curtis Sittenfeld.

The Best American Short Stories 2021 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Jesmyn Ward--- see under Jesmyn Ward.

The Best American Short Stories 2022 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Andrew Sean Greer--- see under Andrew Sean Greer.

The Best American Short Stories 2023 ed. Heidi Pitlor & Min Jin Lee--- see under Min Jin Lee.

And the Dying Is Easy All-New Tales of Summertime Suspense ed. Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle (Signet, June 2001, 978-0-451-20329-8, $6.99, x+387pp, pb, oa) ix · Introduction · Joseph Pittman & Annette Riffle · in 1 · Salt on the Rim [Whit Mosley] · Jeff Abbott · ss 22 · A Case of Feline Psychopathology [Alice Nestleton] · Lydia Adamson · ss 34 · Let Sleeping Dogs Lie [Annie O’Hara & Claudius] · Ann Campbell · ss 53 · The Chocolate Kidnapping Clue [Lee McKinney] · JoAnna Carl · ss 73 · Never Neck at Niagara [Leigh Koslow] · Edie Claire · ss 92 · Unreasonable Doubt [Nate Heller] · Max Allan Collins · nv 113 · Murder Can Hurt Your Ears [Desiree Shapiro] · Selma Eichler · ss 136 · Journey’s End [Sheila Malory] · Hazel Holt · ss 156 · The Body in the Bay [Jack London] · Peter King · ss 180 · The Jungle [Willie Cuesta] · John Lantigua · ss 197 · The Loch Ness Mystery [John Darnell] · Sam McCarver · ss 219 · Porridge and Bess [Magdalena Yoder] · Tamar Myers · ss 236 · Missing, Presumed… · Dana Stabenow · ss 255 · Call It Dead Time [Frank Pavlicek] · Andy Straka · ss 276 · Not a Monster of a Chance [Skye Denison] · Denise Swanson · ss 291 · Corpse on a Holy Day [Sister Fidelma] · Peter Tremayne · nv 311 · Lightning Strikes Twice [Claire Reynier] · Judith Van Gieson · ss 327 · Under the Big Black Sun [Filomena Buscarsela] · K. J. A. Wishnia · ss 345 · Serve and Volley [Jacob Burns] · Matt Witten · ss 369 · Sweet Rewards [Sherlock Holmes] · Wayne Worcester · ss

The Best of the Best ed. Joseph Pittman & Elaine Koster--- see under Elaine Koster.

Bravado’s House of Blues by J. A. Pitts (Fairwood Press, November 2013, 978-1-933846-41-5, $15.99, 236pp, tp, co, cover by Paul Swenson)     Collection of 14 stories, four original, with notes on each. Introduction by Ken Scholes. E-book also available. Details taken from online listing. · The Heart and Bones of Story and Life · Ken Scholes · in · Three Chords and the Truth · J. A. Pitts · ss Talebones #39, Winter 2009 · There Once Was a Girl from Nantucket (A Fortean Love Story) · J. A. Pitts · ss Fortean Bureau April 2006 · Towfish Blues · J. A. Pitts · ss Talebones #36, Spring 2008 · How Jack Got His Self a Wife · J. A. Pitts · ss The Trouble with Heroes ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2009 · The Harp · J. A. Pitts · ss 10Flash Quarterly October 2011 · Luck Muscle · J. A. Pitts · ss · The Hanging of the Greens · J. A. Pitts · nv Aeon #11, September 2007 · F*cking Napalm Bastard · J. A. Pitts · ss From the Trenches ed. Joseph Paul Haines & Samantha Henderson, Carnifex Press, 2007 · Mushroom Clouds and Fairy Rings · J. A. Pitts · ss Courts of the Fey ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Russell Davis, DAW, 2011 · Dead Poets · J. A. Pitts · ss Zombie Raccoons & Killer Bunnies ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Kerrie Hughes, DAW, 2009 · Black Blade Blues · J. A. Pitts · ss Swordplay ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2009 · Crow and Turtle · J. A. Pitts · ss · Howling · J. A. Pitts · ss · Bones of My Father · J. A. Pitts · ss

Bibliotheca Fantastica ed. Don Pizarro (Dagan Books, July 10, 2013, 978-0-9831373-8-2, $13.99, 306pp, tp, oa, cover by Galen Dara)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Don Pizarro · in 3 · The Secret Atlas · Garry Kilworth · ss 18 · The Crimson Codex · Andrew S. Fuller · nv 42 · The Philosopher’s Nectar · David Sklar · ss 49 · The Gallery of Vespasian Marat · Megan Arkenberg · ss 58 · The Book of Doors · Lydia S. Gray · ss 73 · Other Palimpsests · Michael J. DeLuca · ss 79 · The Go-Between · Ray Vukcevich · nv 108 · Lynx · Yarrow Paisley · ss 117 · The Typographer’s Folly · J. S. Bangs · ss 131 · The Book of Her · A. C. Wise · ss 137 · Where Love Is Written · Todd T. Castillo · nv 162 · Cathedral Rising · George S. Walker · ss 181 · The Dreams of Trees · Ursula Pflug · ss 191 · Pages Torn from “Eminent Phantasists: A New Edition” · S. J. Hirons · nv 227 · Read Me · Michael Skeet · ss 241 · The Fox and His Book · Trevor Shikaze · ss 250 · Egyptian Holiday · Amber Polo · ss 259 · Paperheart · Tina Connolly · ss 264 · The Book with No End · Colleen Anderson · ss 278 · The Rite · Gord Sellar · nv

Eve’s Daughters ed. Laurette Pizer (Graphic Giant, 1957, G-217, 35¢, 223pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 9 · I Knew What I Was Doing · Jerome Weidman · ss The American Mercury September 1936 28 · Pink May · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Demon Lover and Other Stories by Elizabeth Bowen, J. Cape, 1945 39 · The Man in the Brooks Brothers Shirt · Mary McCarthy · nv Partisan Review July/August 1941 90 · The Darling · Anton P. Chekhov; translated by Thomas Seltzer · ss Best Russian Short Stories ed. Thomas Seltzer, Boni & Liveright, 1917 107 · The Girl on the Bus · William Sansom · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1953 125 · Sun · D. H. Lawrence · nv New Coterie Autumn 1926 150 · On Time · John O’Hara · vi Collier’s April 8 1944 154 · Passion (or the Western Room) · Yuan Chen; adapted by Lin Yutang · nv Famous Chinese Short Stories by Lin Yutang, John Day, 1952 178 · Love Affair · Henrietta Weigel · nv The Kenyon Review Winter 1945 207 · The Little Girl and the Wolf · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker January 21 1939 208 · Poison · Katherine Mansfield · ss Collier’s November 24 1923 216 · The Husband’s Revenge · Luigi Pirandello; translated by Michael Pettinati · ss Medals and Other Stories, Dutton, 1939

Great Psychological Stories ed. Laurette Naomi Pizer (Panther, 1967, 2334, 3/6d, 155pp, pb, an) 9 · Mother and Daughter · D. H. Lawrence · ss The New Criterion April 1929 30 · Paul’s Case · Willa Cather · nv McClure’s Magazine May 1905 49 · The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black & White April 16 1892 74 · “That in Aleppo Once…” · Vladimir Nabokov · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1943 84 · The Handkerchief · Ryunosuke Akutagawa · ss (r) 94 · Sunstroke · Ivan Bunin; translated by John Cournos · ss Story #20, March 1934 101 · The Spinoza of Market Street · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Esquire October 1961 118 · The Kepi · Colette · nv (r)

More Stories Strange and Sinister ed. Laurette Naomi Pizer (Panther, September 1967, 233, 3/6d, 127pp, pb, an) 9 · The Wardrobe · Thomas Mann; translated by H. T. Lowe-Porter · ss Stories of Three Decades by Thomas Mann, Knopf, 1936 translated from the German (“Der Kleiderschrank”, 1899). 19 · Poison · Katherine Mansfield · ss Collier’s November 24 1923 26 · The Shout · Robert Graves · ss The Woburn Books #16, 1929 51 · The Expert · Nakajima · ss (r) 62 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 71 · The Dummy · Susan Sontag · ss I, Etcetera by Susan Sontag, Farraf, Straus & Giroux, 1963 82 · Esther Kreindel the Second · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 17 1964 103 · Spring in Fialta · Vladimir Nabokov · ss Nine Stories by Vladimir Nabokov, New Directions, 1947

Stories Strange and Sinister ed. Laurette Pizer (Panther, 1965, 1960, 3/6d, 173pp, pb, an) 9 · Miriam · Truman Capote · ss Mademoiselle June 1945 27 · Who Knows? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Qui sait?”, L’Echo de Paris, April 6, 1890). 46 · The Porcelain Doll · Leo Tolstoy; translated by Aylmer Maude · ss The Kreutzer Sonata and Other Tales by Leo Tolstoy, Oxford University Press, 1940 translated from the Russian. from a letter to Tolstoy’s wife’s sister dated Mar 23, 1863. 52 · “Autumn Mountain” · Ryunosuke Akutagawa; translated by Ivan Morris · ss (r) translated from the Japanese. 64 · Lappin and Lapinova · Virginia Woolf · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2722, April 1939 77 · The Ubiquitous Wife · Marcel Aymé; translated by Whit Burnett · nv Story Spring 1960 117 · The Zahir · Jorge Luís Borges · ss (r) 130 · Love · Yury Olesha · ss (r) 144 · The Young Man with the Carnation · Isak Dinesen · ss Winter’s Tales by Isak Dinesen, Putnam, 1942

The Man in the Moone and Other Lunar Fantasies ed. Faith K. Pizor & T. Allan Comp (Praeger, 1971, LC:73-136146, $8.95, xx+230pp, hc, an) xi · Reaching for the Moon · Isaac Asimov · in 3 · The Man in the Moone, or A Discourse of a Voyage Thither by Domingo Gonsales the Speedy Messenger · Francis Godwin · ex 1638 41 · The Discovery of a New World, …with a Discourse Concerning the Possibility of a Passage Thither · John Wilkins · ex 1640 59 · The Comical History of the States and Empires of the World of the Moon · Cyrano de Bergerac · ex 1657 translated from the French (Histoire comique, par Monsieur de Cyrano Bergerac, Contenant les Estats et Empires de la Lune, Charles de Sercy, 1657). 103 · A Voyage to Cacklogallinia · Capt. Samuel Brunt · ex 1727 126 · The Life and Astonishing Transactions of John Daniel… · Ralph Morris · ex 1751 146 · A Journey Lately Performed Through the Air, in an Aerostatic Globe…to the Newly Discovered Planet, Georgium Sidus · Vivenair · ss 1784 162 · Hans Pfaall—A Tale · Edgar Allan Poe · na Southern Literary Messenger June 1835 190 · Great Astronomical Discoveries Lately Made by Sir John Herschel…at the Cape of Good Hope · Richard Adams Locke · ex 1835 217 · The Great Steam-Duck · A Member of the L.L.B.B. · ss 1841

The Gas by Charles Platt (Savoy, September 1980, 0-86130-023-8, £1.50, 166pp, tp, n., cover by Harry Douthwaite)     Reprint (Ophelia Press 1970) erotic novel. This edition is revised. 3 · Foreword · Philip Jose Farmer · fw

Sweet Evil (unpublished) by Charles Platt (Savoy, n.d., 0-86130-064-5, tp, n.)     Reprint (Berkley 1977) erotic novel, intended to be the second volume in Savoy’s “Black Jacket Erotica”.

Who Writes Science Fiction? by Charles Platt (Savoy, January 19, 1981, 0-86130-048-3, £1.75, 313pp, tp, oc)     Reprint (Berkley 1980 as Dream Makers) collection of interviews with SF authors. 9 · What Kind of a Nut…? · Charles Platt · in Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 15 · Isaac Asimov · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Isaac Asimov] 22 · Thomas M. Disch · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Thomas M. Disch] 32 · Ben Bova · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Ben Bova] 42 · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.] 53 · Hank Stine · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Hank Stine] 63 · Norman Spinrad · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Norman Spinrad] 72 · Frederik Pohl · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Frederik Pohl] 84 · Samuel R. Delany · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Samuel R. Delany] 92 · Barry N. Malzberg · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Barry N. Malzberg] 102 · Edward Bryant · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Edward Bryant] 108 · Alfred Bester · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Alfred Bester] 119 · C.M. Kornbluth · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. C. M. Kornbluth] 126 · Algis Budrys · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Algis Budrys] 137 · Philip José Farmer · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Philip José Farmer] 149 · A.E. van Vogt · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. A. E. van Vogt] 162 · Philip K. Dick · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Philip K. Dick] 177 · Harlan Ellison · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Harlan Ellison] 189 · Ray Bradbury · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Ray Bradbury] 201 · Robert Sheckley · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Robert Sheckley] 209 · Frank Herbert · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Frank Herbert] 220 · Kate Wilhelm; Damon Knight · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Damon Knight & Kate Wilhelm] 233 · Michael Moorcock · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Michael Moorcock] 243 · J.G. Ballard · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. J. G. Ballard] 255 · E.C. Tubb · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. E. C. Tubb] 263 · Ian Watson · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Ian Watson] 271 · John Brunner · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. John Brunner] 279 · Gregory Benford · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Gregory Benford] 289 · Robert Silverberg · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Robert Silverberg] 297 · Brian W. Aldiss · Charles Platt · iv Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 [Ref. Brian W. Aldiss] 310 · Self-Profile · Charles Platt · bg Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980 312 · Appendix: Right of Reply · Charles Platt · ms Dream Makers by Charles Platt, Berkley, 1980