The FictionMags Index

Book Contents Lists: Page 1151

Autobiography of a London Detective by W. Russell--- see under "Waters".

Autobiography of an English Detective Vol. I by W. Russell--- see under "Waters".

Autobiography of an English Detective Vol. II by W. Russell--- see under "Waters".

The Best American Short Stories 2010 ed. Richard Russo (Houghton Mifflin, 2010, hc, an)     Details taken from online listing. · Donkey Greedy, Donkey Gets Punched · Steve Almond · ss Tin House 2009 · Into Silence · Marlin Barton · ss The Sewanee Review Summer 2009 · The Cousins · Charles Baxter · ss Tin House 2009 · Safari · Jennifer Egan · ss The New Yorker January 11 2010 · Someone Ought to Tell Her There’s No Place to Go · Danielle Evans · ss A Public Space 2009 · The Valetudinarian · Joshua Ferris · ss The New Yorker August 3 2009 · Delicate Edible Birds · Lauren Groff · ss Glimmer Train #70, Spring 2009 · Least Resistance · Wayne Harrison · ss The Atlantic August 2009 · The Hollow · James Lasdun · ss The Paris Review #188, Spring 2009 · Painted Ship, Painted Ocean · Rebecca Makkai · ss Ploughshares 2009 · My Last Attempt to Explain What Happened to the Lion Tamer · Brendan Matthews · ss The Cincinnati Review 2009 · PS · Jill McCorkle · ss The Atlantic August 2009 · Further Interpretations of Real Life Events · Kevin Moffett · ss McSweeney’s 2009 · The Laugh · Tea Obreht · ss The Atlantic August 2009 · All Boy · Lori Ostlund · ss New England Review 2009 · The Ascent · Ron Rash · ss Tin House 2009 · The Seagull Army Descends on Strong Beach · Karen Russell · ss Tin House 2009 · The Netherlands Lives with Water · Jim Shepard · nv McSweeney’s #32, 2009 · Cowboy Tango · Maggie Shipstead · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review Fall 2009 · Raw Water · Wells Tower · ss McSweeney’s #32, 2009

Yellow Silk: Erotic Arts and Letters ed. Richard Russo & Lily Pond--- see under Lily Pond.

Speculations ed. Leo Ruth, Theodore Clymer, Evanechko & Julia Higgs--- see under Theodore Clymer.

Best Underworld Stories ed. Douglas Rutherford (Faber and Faber, 1968, 224pp, hc, an) 7 · Introduction · Douglas Rutherford · in 13 · Out for Christmas · Maurice Procter · ss (r) 22 · The Live One · Dan J. Marlowe · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine October 1966 27 · Anniversary · R. C. Hutchinson · ss Argosy (UK) December 1965 38 · Household God · John Salt · ss Argosy (UK) April 1967 52 · The Happy Crooks · J. J. Marric · ss (r) 57 · Foxer · Brian Cleeve · ss The Saturday Evening Post December 18 1965 74 · On Trust · Bernard Newman · ss The (London) Evening News December 15 1962 79 · Devil and the Deep · Douglas Rutherford · ss John Bull April 9 1955 97 · You Can’t Rely on People · Colin Robertson · ss 105 · The Assassins · Peter Ustinov · nv The Atlantic Monthly December 1959 131 · The Dumb Friend · Herbert Harris · ss The Saint Detective Magazine July 1955, as by Frank Bury 135 · Remember, Remember · Jeffry Scott · ss (r) 144 · The Man with the Face · Jack Griffith · ss John Creasey Mystery Magazine June 1959 152 · The Pencil · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard February 24 1953 157 · Take the Fence · Cyril Donson · ss (r) 170 · In Broad Daylight · Henry Cecil · ss Full Circle by Henry Cecil, Chapman and Hall, 1948 176 · Protection · James Pattinson · ss Argosy (UK) June 1968 183 · Head of the Family [Minerva Club] · Victor Canning · ss Today April 6 1963, as “With Love from the Boys” 193 · Three Card Trick · Miriam Sharman · ss (r) 209 · The Dark of the Moon · Olaf Ruhen · ss The Bulletin September 13 1950 220 · The Woman Who Waited · Granville Wilson · ss Birmingham Mail 231 · Ticker Batson’s Last Job [Insp. (Supt.) Hazlerigg] · Michael Gilbert · ss Sunday Chronicle May 7 1950

A Line of Cutting Women ed. Teri Mae Rutledge, Beverly McFarland, Margarita Donnelly & Micki Reaman, et al.--- see under Beverly McFarland.

The Back of Beyond: New Stories by Alan Peter Ryan (Cemetery Dance Publications, September 4, 2012, 978-1-58767-247-7, $35.00, 181pp, hc, oc, cover by Tomislav Tikulin)     Limited to 1000 signed copies. Also available in a traycased edition, limited to 26 lettered, signed, copies. Details taken from online listing. 9 · Sexual Exploration Is a Crime · Alan Peter Ryan · nv 45 · The Winter’s Tale · Alan Peter Ryan · nv 75 · Starvation Valley · Alan Peter Ryan · nv 117 · Mountain Man · Alan Peter Ryan · na

Halloween Horrors ed. Alan Ryan (Doubleday, September 19, 1986, 0-385-19558-3, $12.95, 178pp, hc, oa)     Original anthology of 13 horror stories. ix · “Halloween Night” · Alan Ryan · pm 1 · He’ll Come Knocking at Your Door · Robert R. McCammon · ss 18 · Eyes · Charles L. Grant · ss 29 · The Nixon Mask · Whitley Strieber · ss 40 · The Samhain Feis · Peter Tremayne · nv translated from the Irish (“Feis na Samhain”, Feasta, Nov ’84). 59 · Trickster · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 74 · Miss Mack · Michael McDowell · ss 91 · Hollow Eyes · Guy N. Smith · ss 101 · The Halloween House · Alan Ryan · ss 118 · Three Faces of the Night · Craig Shaw Gardner · nv 140 · Pumpkin · Bill Pronzini · ss 149 · Lover in the Wildwood · Frank Belknap Long · ss 157 · Apples · Ramsey Campbell · ss 167 · Pranks · Robert Bloch · ss

Halloween Horrors ed. Alan Ryan (Sphere, November 1987, 0-7221-7561-2, £2.75, 215pp, pb, oa, cover by Kevin Tweddell)     Reprint (Doubleday 1986) original anthology of horror stories with a Hallowe’en theme. This edition appears to have been “edited” unofficially and was withdrawn and pulped before distribution. Only a few copies appeared in shops.

Halloween Horrors ed. Alan Ryan (Severn House, September 1988, 0-7278-1618-7, £9.95, 245pp, hc, an, cover by John Costelloe)     Reprint (Doubleday 1986) original anthology of horror stories with a Hallowe’en theme. This is the first UK edition with the original text.

Night Visions 1 ed. Alan Ryan (Dark Harvest, November 1984, 0-913165-04-2, $45.00, 296pp, hc, oa)     Limited signed edition of original anthology with 7 stories by Charles L. Grant, 7 by Steve Rasnic Tem, and 4 by Tanith Lee, illustrated by Gregory Manchess. 11 · Introduction · Alan Ryan · in 19 · Friends in Dark Places · Charles L. Grant · ss 33 · Family · Charles L. Grant · ss 43 · What Are Deaths For · Charles L. Grant · ss 55 · Poor Thing · Charles L. Grant · ss 65 · To Laugh with You, Dear · Charles L. Grant · ss 75 · In the Blood · Charles L. Grant · ss 87 · And We’ll Be Jolly Friends · Charles L. Grant · ss 105 · The Men and Women of Rivendale · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 117 · Dark Shapes in the Road · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 127 · Spidertalk · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 135 · Punishment · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 149 · The Overcoat · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 159 · Rider · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 173 · Worms · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss 195 · The Tree: A Winter’s Tale · Tanith Lee · nv 221 · Simon’s Wife · Tanith Lee · ss 239 · The Vampire Lover · Tanith Lee · nv 255 · The Hunting of Death: The Unicorn · Tanith Lee · na

Night Visions: In the Blood ed. Alan Ryan (Berkley, April 1988, 0-425-10753-1, $3.95, 292pp, pb, oa)     Reprint (Dark Harvest 1984 as Night Visions 1) original anthology of 7 horror stories by Charles Grant, 7 by Steve Rasnic Tem, and 4 by Tanith Lee.

The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories ed. Alan Ryan (Penguin, October 17, 1988, 0-14-010987-0, £4.95, xvi+621pp, pb, an, cover by Edward Gorey)     Reprint (SFBC 1987 as Vampires) anthology of two centuries of vampire stories, with 32 stories in all plus a recommended list of vampire novels and films.

Perpetual Light ed. Alan Ryan (Warner Books, October 1982, 0-446-30013-6, $3.95, 490pp, pb, oa) 11 · Introduction · Alan Ryan · in 15 · The Pope of the Chimps · Robert Silverberg · nv 38 · Written in Water · Tanith Lee · ss 52 · The Meat Box · Daniel Gilbert · nv 76 · Ifrit · R. A. Lafferty · ss 88 · Contamination · Richard Bowker · ss 106 · Instant with Loud Voices · Alan Dean Foster · ss 118 · Firestorm · Steve Rasnic Tem · nv 140 · Be Fruitful and Multiply · F. Paul Wilson · ss 150 · The Emigrant · Joel Rosenberg · ss 156 · Angel of the Sixth Circle · Gregg Keizer · nv 182 · Judgment Day · Frank Ward · ss 198 · The Theology of Water · Hilbert Schenck · nv 219 · Hamburger Heaven · Nicholas Yermakov · ss 235 · A Green Hill Far Away · Michael P. Kube-McDowell · nv 272 · Small Miracles · Mel Gilden · ss 285 · Relativistic Effects · Gregory Benford · nv 308 · God’s Eyes · Craig Shaw Gardner · ss 326 · St. Joey the Action · Shariann Lewitt · ss 344 · The Magi · Damien Broderick · nv 391 · Lest Levitation Come Upon Us · Suzette Haden Elgin · nv 416 · The Rose of Knock · Alan Ryan · ss 427 · Confess the Seasons · Charles L. Grant · nv 460 · A Private Whale · Brian Aldiss · nv

Vampires ed. Alan Ryan (SFBC, April 1987, #10445, $6.98, 621pp, hc, an)     Anthology of two centuries of vampire stories, with 32 stories in all plus a recommended list of vampire novels and films. A regular trade edition has been announced, but is predated by the Book Club one. xiii · Introduction · Alan Ryan · in 1 · A Fragment of a Novel · George Gordon, Lord Byron · uw Mazeppa by Lord Byron, John Murray, 1819 7 · The Vampyre · Dr. John William Polidori · nv The New Monthly Magazine April 1 1819, as by Lord Byron 25 · Varney, the Vampyre; or, The Feast of Blood · James Malcolm Rymer · ex E. Lloyd, 1847, uncredited. 36 · The Mysterious Stranger · [uncredited] · nv Odds and Ends 1860 71 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue December 1871 (+3) 138 · Good Lady Ducayne · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · nv The Strand Magazine February 1896 163 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914 written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length. 175 · Luella Miller · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss Everybody’s Magazine December 1902, as by Mary E. Wilkins 188 · For the Blood Is the Life · F. Marion Crawford · ss Collier’s December 16 1905 203 · The Transfer · Algernon Blackwood · ss Country Life December 9 1911 213 · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912 225 · An Episode of Cathedral History · M. R. James · ss The Cambridge Review June 10 1914 241 · A Rendezvous in Averoigne [Averoigne] · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales April/May 1931 255 · Shambleau [Northwest Smith] · C. L. Moore · nv Weird Tales November 1933 282 · Revelations in Black · Carl Jacobi · nv Weird Tales April 1933 301 · School for the Unspeakable · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales September 1937 311 · The Drifting Snow · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales February 1939 322 · Over the River · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Unknown April 1941 334 · The Girl with the Hungry Eyes · Fritz Leiber · ss The Girl with the Hungry Eyes, Avon, 1949 349 · The Mindworm · C. M. Kornbluth · ss Worlds Beyond December 1950 362 · Drink My Blood · Richard Matheson · ss Imagination April 1951, as ““Drink My Red Blood…”” 371 · Place of Meeting · Charles Beaumont · ss Orbit v1 #2, 1953 376 · The Living Dead · Robert Bloch · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1967 382 · Pages from a Young Girl’s Journal · Robert Aickman · nv The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1973 415 · The Werewolf and the Vampire · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · nv The Monster Club by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, NEL, 1976 441 · Love-Starved · Charles L. Grant · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1979 451 · Cabin 33 [Comte de Saint Germain] · Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · na Shadows 3 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1980 505 · Unicorn Tapestry · Suzy McKee Charnas · na New Dimensions 11 ed. Robert Silverberg & Marta Randall, Pocket, 1980 562 · Following the Way · Alan Ryan · ss Shadows 5 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1982 574 · The Sunshine Club · Ramsey Campbell · ss The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd, Mead, 1983 579 · The Men and Women of Rivendale · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Night Visions 1 ed. Alan Ryan, Dark Harvest, 1984 588 · Bite-Me-Not or, Fleur de Feu · Tanith Lee · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine October 1984 613 · Appendix I: Vampire Novels · [uncredited] · bi 618 · Appendix II: Vampire Movies · [uncredited] · bi

Across the Sorrow Sea by Anthony Ryan (Subterranean Press, September 2023, 978-1-64524-155-3, $45.00, 120pp, hc, na, cover by Didier Graffet) [The Seven Swords]     Limited to 1000 signed, numbered, copies. Also available in a traycased edition, limited to 26 lettered, signed, copies ($300). Details taken from online listing.

City of Songs by Anthony Ryan (Subterranean Press, September 16, 2021, 978-1-64524-037-2, $40.00, 160pp, hc, n., cover by Didier Normand) [The Seven Swords]     Limited to 1000 signed, numbered, copies. Also available in a traycased edition, limited to 26 lettered, signed, copies ($275.00). Details taken from publisher website.