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Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told (Odhams, 1937, 704pp, hc, an)     One of Odhams’s bumper volumes. This one contains mostly non-fiction. The only fiction of note is “Moonlight Sonata” Alexander Woollcott, “Si Urag of the Tail” and “When Glister Walked” by Oscar Cook and “The Night of Witchcraft” Rafael Sabatini, plus some interesting non-fiction by Achmed Abdullah, Margery Lawrence, Andrew Lang and S. Baring-Gould. 25 · Moonlight Sonata · Alexander Woollcott · ts The New Yorker October 3 1931 28 · The Terrible Story of the “Mary Russell” · J. G. Lockhart · ar (r) 45 · The Death Trap · Carla Jenssen · nv (r) 73 · The Corpse Conductor · Axel Munthe · ss (r) 85 · The Mountain of God · Roger Courtney · ar (r) 93 · The Story of Kaspar Hauser · Andrew Lang · ar (r) 101 · The Siren and the Sorceress · William Roughead · ar (r) 129 · Consolation · Mabel Smyth · ss (r) 142 · La Salpetriere · Axel Munthe · ss (r) 149 · Eight Days in an English Snowdrift · [uncredited] · ar (r) 156 · Mysteries of the Elephants · Charles Low · ar (r) 165 · The Moving Coffins · Sir Algernon E. Aspinall · ar (r) 171 · The Haunted Submarine · Hector C. Bywater · ar (r) 179 · The Thugs · Herron Lepper · ar (r) 186 · Marooned · J. G. Lockhart · ar (r) 191 · The Disappearance of Bathurst · S. Baring-Gould · ar The Cornhill Magazine March 1887, uncredited. 207 · Smuggling Hashish · Henry de Monfried · ar (r) 219 · The Celestial Fire · John V. Trevor · ss (r) 229 · The Snail-Telegraph · S. Baring-Gould · ar (r) 238 · A Caucasian Riding Lesson · Sergei Kournakoff · ar (r) 257 · Queer Happenings · Margery Lawrence · ar (r) 261 · The Tragedy of the Seven Hunters · J. G. Lockhart · ar (r) 268 · The Murder of the Countess Goerlitz · S. Baring-Gould · ar (r) 290 · Many Waters · Noel Martin · ss (r) 306 · On “Thirsty” Island · Jack McLaren · ar (r) 319 · Three Crusoes in Epping Forest · Daniel Defoe · ar (r) 344 · The Case of the Poisoned Bun · Morris Markey · ss (r) 348 · The Man in White · Andrew Lang · ts The Red True Story Book ed. Andrew Lang, Longmans, Green, and CO., 1895 351 · Gripped by an Iceberg · Francis K. Pease · ar (r) 357 · The Ordeal of Philip Stanfield · William Roughead · ar (r) 374 · Across the Australian Desert · Andrew Lang · ar (r) 392 · In the Shadow of Death · de Valda · ss (r) 399 · Queer Disappearances · Margery Lawrence · ar (r) 405 · The Phantom Schooner · Richard Huson · ss (r) 414 · Some English Eccentrics · John Timbs · ar (r) 456 · The Dark Age Killer · Edwin T. Woodhall · ar (r) 473 · Si Urag of the Tail · Oscar Cook · ss Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine January 1923 488 · The Night of Witchcraft · Rafael Sabatini · ts The Premier Magazine #33, January 1917 505 · The Hell-Fire Monks of Medmenham · Eric Bennett · ar (r) 518 · When Glister Walked · Oscar Cook · ss The Regent Magazine #11, October 1924, as “The Sacred Jars” 533 · Waltz Before Twilight · Nigel Straight · ss (r) 541 · Eastern Sorcery · Achmed Abdullah · ar (r) 563 · Man or Woman · Harold Dearden · ar (r) 574 · The Original Bluebeard · Harold Dearden · ar (r) 583 · A Murderer in the Force · Harold Dearden · ar (r) 592 · The Bogus Princess · [uncredited] · ss (r) 595 · The Musselburgh Miracle · John May · ar (r) 606 · The Mystery of the Floating Bodies · H. Ashton-Wolfe · ss (r) 627 · The Mystery of the Orly Highway · H. Ashton-Wolfe · ss (r) 644 · The Devil’s Hoofmarks · R. T. Gould · ar (r) 656 · Vampires in the Philippines · R. T. Gould · ar (r) 663 · Crime and the Supernatural · Edwin T. Woodhall · ar (r)

Fifty Thrilling Wild West Stories (Odhams Press, 1948, no ISBN, 704pp, hc, an)     Reissue (Odhams Press 1937) western anthology. 9 · Why the Wild West Was Wild · F. E. Sutton · ss (r) 19 · The Borrowed Brand · Paul Evan Lehman · ss Western Trails January 1932 32 · The Long Arm of the Mounted · Harry Sinclair Drago · ss Complete Northwest Novel Magazine September 1935 not the same as the story of a similar name in the January 16, 1943 issue of Street & Smith’s Western Story. 57 · Bully of the Town · Tom Roan · ss Ace-High Magazine August 1932 75 · Blue Eyes and Blue Steel · Charles H. Snow · nv Thrilling Ranch Stories March 1934 94 · Bill Latimer’s Tree · W. D. Hoffman · ss (r) 112 · In the Mexican Quarter · Tom Gill · ss Cosmopolitan June 1930 124 · Without Fear or Favour · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories November 25 1922 141 · Battle’s End · Max Brand · na Western Story Magazine May 10 1930 209 · Grub Delayed · Archie Joscelyn · ss Cowboy Stories April 1937 220 · Horseshoe Law in Misty Sink · William A. Todd (by Norman W. Hay) · ss Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly February 27 1937 234 · Thief! · Will Jenkins · ss People’s Story Magazine August 10 1922, as by Murray Leinster 247 · The Treasure of Iron Dome · Charles H. Snow · ss (r) 264 · The Sheriff Was a Runt · Will Jenkins · ss West April 27 1932, as by Murray Leinster 275 · Broken Courage · Charles Wesley Sanders · ss Argosy Allstory Weekly January 15 1927 292 · Reward for an Outlaw · Herbert Sullivan · ss (r) 306 · The Reverend “Chawles” · George Goodchild · nv The Great Alone by George Goodchild, Simpkin Marshall, 1919 332 · The Sheriff of Crevasse County · George Brydges Rodney · ss (r) 346 · Ghost of the Cimarron · Harry Sinclair Drago · nv Western Novelets August 1936 383 · The Killers · George Brydges Rodney · nv The Golden West Magazine November 1927 397 · He Belonged West · Christopher Culley · ss (r) 407 · The Schoolma’am of Selwood Flats · Paul Evan Lehman · ss (r) 423 · Fighting Fool · Tom Roan · ss Ace-High Magazine 1st November 1930 440 · A Reason for Wrath · Johnston McCulley · ss Cowboy Stories July 1926 455 · Three Little Calves · Frank C. Robertson · nv West May 29 1929 473 · Change of Name · George S. Surrey · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller #170, August 3 1912 482 · Death Badge · Lee Bond · ss Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly March 6 1937 495 · The Cave of Death · James Denson Sayers · nv The Underworld Magazine December 1933 528 · Singing Lead · Eugene Cunningham · ss Black Mask August 1930 544 · Texas Ranger · Lester Gregory · ss (r) 550 · Rustled Herd · Lester Gregory · ss (r) 556 · The Whip Hand · George Brydges Rodney · ss (r) 569 · The Marquis and Miss Sally · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine June 1903 578 · Kid Cyclone · Leo Grex · ss (r) 584 · This Worm Has Fangs · James Denson Sayers · ss The Underworld Magazine October 1933, as “The Worm Has Fangs” 599 · Six-Gun Justice · Louis Grey · ss (r) 606 · Million-Dollar Burros · H. C. Wire · ar Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine March 13 1937 611 · A Mountie’s Code · Conor Risdon · ss (r) 617 · Man of Ice · Claude Rister · ss Cowboy Stories April 1937 629 · When the Coach Was Held Up · George Thorne · ss (r) 635 · El Rodeo · R. B. Cunninghame Graham · ss (r) 644 · Warrior Woman · Frank Roland Conklin · ss (r) 650 · A Vengeance by Proxy · G. S. Wallington · ss (r) 656 · A Doubtful Experiment · Gerald Sussex · ss (r) 662 · Vigilante Vengeance · Joseph F. Hook · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine January 23 1937 668 · Two Snakes and a Man · Lloyd Eric Reeve · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine January 2 1937 672 · Maverick Water · David Lavender · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine January 2 1937 681 · Riding with the Mail · Clarence E. Mulford · ar The Frontier October 1925 687 · The Phantom of the Rio Grande [Bud Jones] · J. Allan Dunn · ss Street & Smith’s Wild West Weekly February 27 1937 695 · Gunsmoke in Raimondo · Denver Bardwell · nv Danger Trail November 1934, as by James Denson Sayers

52 Suspects (The Mitre Press, 1944, pb, an)     Contains two filler stories in addition to title novelet. · 52 Suspects · Maurice Grove · nv The 20-Story Magazine #203, May 1939 · Enemies in Harness · Francis H. Sibson · ss The (London) Evening News February 7 1940 · Predicament · Michael Hervey · ss

50 Years of Ghost Stories (Hutchinson, 1935, 2/6d, 702pp, hc, an)     Later expanded as A Century of Ghost Stories. 13 · The Familiar [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv In a Glass Darkly by J. S. Le Fanu, R. Bentley & Son, 1872 revised from “The Watcher”, Dublin University Magazine, November 1847. 53 · Green Tea [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · nv All the Year Round October 23 1869 (+3), uncredited. 89 · The Saint and the Vicar · Cecil Binney · ss 101 · The Tapestried Chamber · Sir Walter Scott · ss The Keepsake 1829, 1828 117 · Gibbet Lane · Anthony Gittins · ss 127 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited. 151 · The Residence at Whitminster · M. R. James · nv A Thin Ghost by M. R. James, Longmans, Green, 1919 175 · A Warning to the Curious · M. R. James · ss The London Mercury August 1925 195 · The Haunted and the Haunters; or, The House and the Brain · Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton, Lord Lytton · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1859, uncredited. 235 · The Green Room · Walter de la Mare · nv The Bookman September 1925 275 · Eveline’s Visitant · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · ss Belgravia January 1867 287 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910 319 · The Middle Toe of the Right Foot · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner August 17 1890 331 · Man Overboard! · F. Marion Crawford · nv The Strand Magazine June 1903 369 · As in a Glass Dimly · Shane Leslie · ss When Churchyards Yawn ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1931 381 · The Lord-in-Waiting · Shane Leslie · ss Shudders ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1929 401 · 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. 415 · Expiation · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine November 1923 433 · Pirates · E. F. Benson · nv Hutchinson’s Magazine October 1928 453 · The Woman’s Ghost Story · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Listener and Other Stories by Algernon Blackwood, Eveleigh Nash, 1907 465 · Thurnley Abbey · Perceval Landon · ss McClure’s Magazine October 1908 483 · The Rosewood Door · Oliver Onions · na The Painted Face by Oliver Onions, Heinemann, 1929 537 · The Virgin of the Seven Daggers · Vernon Lee · nv The English Review January 1909 (+1) first published in French (“La Madone aux sept glaives”, Feuilleton du journal des débats du Samedi, 1896). 565 · The Library Window · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1896 609 · The Song in the House · Ann Bridge · ss The Cornhill Magazine September 1933 629 · The Operation · Violet Hunt · nv Tales of the Uneasy by Violet Hunt, Heinemann, 1911 657 · The Sweeper · Ex-Private X · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931 673 · The Running Tide · Ex-Private X · ss The London Magazine September 1928, as by A. M. Burrage 689 · Perez · W. L. George · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1919, as “The Phantom Truth”

Finish This…End of Story (End of Story, 2004, 0-563-52196-1, 125pp, tp, oa)     Anthology of stories commissioned by the BBC Scotland program “End of Story”. The stories lacked endings; the program held a contest for viewers to finish them. The book was distributed free. Details supplied by Terry Zobeck. 7 · Billy Bone · Ian Rankin · ss 21 · Dryad · Joanne Harris · ss 33 · Imitating Katherine Walker · Alexei Sayle · ss 47 · The Angel · Sue Townsend · ss 59 · One Size Fits All · Fay Weldon · ss 73 · The Tunnel · Shaun Hutson · ss 87 · A Woman’s Right to Shoes · Marian Keys · ss 103 · Love or Money [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · ss

First Blood (Berkley, August 2008, 978-0-425-22400-7, $7.99, 330pp, pb, oa)     Original anthology of four vampire romance stories by Susan Sizemore, Erin McCarthy, Chris Marie Green, and Meljean Brook. 1 · Cave Canem · Susan Sizemore · na 67 · Russian Roulette · Erin McCarthy · na 143 · Double the Bite · Chris Marie Green · na 221 · Thicker Than Blood · Meljean Brook · na

First Fictions: Introduction 10 (Faber and Faber, 1989, 0-571-15201-5, x+179pp, tp, oa, cover by Brian Grimwood)     Original anthology providing a “showcase for new writing”. Tenth volume in the “Introduction” series. vii · Publisher’s Note · [uncredited] · ms ix · Biographical Notes · [uncredited] · bg 3 · Thin White Girls · Carole Morin · ss 16 · The Hotel Summer · Carole Morin · ss 27 · Practically Park Lane · Carole Morin · ss 35 · Green Winter · Matthew Francis · ss 44 · Demonland · Matthew Francis · ss 52 · American Fugue · Matthew Francis · ss 65 · On the Threshold · Kathy O’Shaughnessy · ss 73 · The Story · Kathy O’Shaughnessy · ss 78 · A Problematic Tale · Kathy O’Shaughnessy · ss 89 · A Rainy Day · Kathy O’Shaughnessy · vi 95 · The Last of Butch · Tom Harpole · ss 110 · Making a Moose Die · Tom Harpole · ss 121 · Smile · Anne Enright · vi 124 · Felix · Anne Enright · ss 136 · Thirst · Anne Enright · ss 141 · Seascape · Anne Enright · ss 151 · The Supremacy of Grief · Hugo Hamilton · ss 158 · The Compound Assembly of E. Richter · Hugo Hamilton · ss 174 · Above and Beyond · Hugo Hamilton · ss