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Thirteen Great Stories ed. Daniel Talbot (Dell Books First Edition, 1955, D99, 35¢, 256pp, pb, an)     Details supplied by Kenneth R. Johnson. 7 · The Beggar · Felipe Alfau · ex from Locos: a Comedy of Gestures, Farrar & Rinehart, 1936 19 · Looking for Mr. Green · Saul Bellow · nv Commentary March 1951 41 · The Jar · Luigi Pirandello; translated by Arthur Mayne & Henrie Mayne · ss The Evening Standard November 1 1932 translated from the Italian. 52 · Hook · Walter Van Tilburg Clark · nv The Atlantic Monthly August 1940 71 · The Downward Path to Wisdom · Katherine Anne Porter · nv Harper’s Bazaar #2731, December 1939 90 · The World’s Fair · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss The Kenyon Review Autumn 1948 101 · Two Gallants · James Joyce · ss The Dubliners by James Joyce, Cape, 1914 111 · The White Rooster · William Goyen · ss Mademoiselle April 1947 125 · The Bath of Death · Joaquín Arderíus; translated by Angel Flores · ss (r) 142 · “and I am black, but O! my soul is white” · Peggy Bennett · ss The Varmints, Knopf, 1946 158 · Benya Krik, the Gangster · Isaac Babel; translated by Avrahm Yarmolinsky · nv Benya Krik: the Gangster and Other Stories by Isaac Babel, Schocken Books, 1948 182 · The Eye · J. F. Powers · ss Prince of Darkness by J. F. Powers, John Lehmann, 1948 195 · The Morning Watch · James Agee · na Houghton Mifflin, 1951

Mystery Reader: Stories of Detection, Adventure, and Horror ed. Nancy Ellen Talburt & Lyna Lee Montgomery (Scribner’s, 1975, 0-684-14104-3, $4.75, 458pp, tp, an) ix · Introduction · Nancy Ellen Talburt & Lyna Lee Montgomery · in 1 · The Golden Age of Mystery Fiction · Nancy Ellen Talburt & Lyna Lee Montgomery · si 7 · The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart, 1844 29 · The Gentleman from Paris · John Dickson Carr · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #77, April 1950 59 · The Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892, as “The Adventure of the Speckled Band” 86 · Watson Was a Woman · Rex Stout · hu The Saturday Review of Literature March 1 1941 95 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 115 · The Dragon’s Head [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Pearson’s Magazine June 1926 138 · Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) 153 · A Passage to Benares [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure February 20 1926 185 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 204 · The Crime by the River · Edmund Crispin · ss The Evening Standard February 25 1953, as “The House by the River” 208 · The Guilty Vicarage · W. H. Auden · ar Harper’s Magazine May 1948 216 · New Developments: The Hardboiled School and After · Nancy Ellen Talburt & Lyna Lee Montgomery · is 221 · The Gutting of Couffignal [The Continental Op] · Dashiell Hammett · nv The Black Mask December 1925 255 · I’ll Be Waiting [Tony Reseck] · Raymond Chandler · ss The Saturday Evening Post October 14 1939 274 · The Simple Art of Murder · Raymond Chandler · ar The Atlantic Monthly December 1944 281 · Persons or Things Unknown · Carter Dickson · ss The Sketch Christmas 1938 300 · The Cheaters · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales November 1947 321 · Guilt-Edged Blonde [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Manhunt January 1954, as by John Ross Macdonald 338 · The Writer as Detective Hero · Ross Macdonald · ar Show 1948 349 · Sanctuary [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · nv This Week September 12 1954 (+1), as “Murder at the Vicarage” not the same as the Jane Marple novel The Murder at the Vicarage. 370 · The Demon Lover · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Listener November 26 1941 379 · Journey Backward Into Time [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Lawrence G. Blochman · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1956, as “Journey Into Time” translated from the French (“Les Larmes de Bougie”, Paris-Soir-Dimanche, November 22, 1936). 392 · Risico [James Bond] · Ian Fleming · nv The Daily Express April 11 1960 (+3), as “The Double Take” 428 · A Lump of Sugar [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss This Week July 9 1950, as “The Mystery of the 3 Dawn Riders” 433 · The Shape of Crimes to Come · Frank D. McSherry, Jr. · ar 1970 447 · Conclusion to “The Crime by the River” · [uncredited] · ms (r) 448 · Conclusion to “A Lump of Sugar” · [uncredited] · ms (r) 449 · For Further Reading · [uncredited] · bi

Ancient New ed. James Tallett (Deepwood Publishing, November 13, 2013, $6.99, ebook, oa, cover by Jared Dennis)     Details taken from online listing. · Introduction · [uncredited] · in · The Suns of Quetzalcoatl · Adam Perin · ss · The Journey Within · Gareth D. Jones · ss · The Haunting of Beethoven’s Fifth · Mark Rigney · ss · Delve · Shay Fabbro · ss · Triomphe on the High Frontier · Travis Knight · ss · Mecha Octo vs Iron Girl! · Billy Wong · ss · Handyman · Robert Santa · ss · The Anachronism · Frank Gallo · ss · Harnessed Lightning · Marilag Angway · ss · The Grand Facilitator · Aaron French · ss · Butterfly Hunt · Bo Balder · ss translated from the Dutch (“Op vlinderjacht”). · Made/Wild · T. D. Edge · ss · Escapement · Ken Lizzi · ss · Lady Chatterly’s Computer · Sarina Dorie · ss · The One Who Knows · Tom Howard · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #49, 2010

The Island Boy Detective Agency by Marcia Talley (Crippen & Landru, April 2025, ph, ss)     Short story published to recognize Marcia Talley as Guest of Honor, Malice Domestic 37, April 2025.

Manny and the Square Grouper by Marcia Talley (Crippen & Landru, March 2025, ph, ss)     Chapbook included with the hardback edition of With Love, Marjorie Ann.

With Love, Marjorie Ann: and Other Dangerous Stories by Marcia Talley (Crippen & Landru, March 2025, 978-1-932009-79-8, $22.00, 198pp, tp, co)     Collection of 18 short stories. Also available in a signed, numbered, hardback edition (-93-3, $47.00) with a bonus chapbook, Manny and the Square Grouper, limited to 100 copies 7 · Introduction · Elaine Viets · in 9 · With Love, Marjorie Ann · Marcia Talley · ss Murderous Intent Fall 1999 17 · For Sale by Owner · Marcia Talley · ss Murderous Intent Winter 1999 27 · Conventional Wisdom · Marcia Talley · ss Malice Domestic 9 ed. Beth Foxwell, Avon, 2000 37 · To Catch a Fish · Marcia Talley · ss (r) 49 · Too Many Cooks · Marcia Talley · ss Much Ado About Murder ed. Anne Perry, Berkley Prime Crime, 2002 67 · Safety First · Marcia Talley · ss Blood on Their Hands ed. Lawrence Block, Berkley, 2003 77 · Vital Signs · Marcia Talley · ss Chesapeake Crimes ed. Donna Andrews, Quiet Storm Books, 2004 85 · Miss Haversham Regrets · Marcia Talley · ss Death by Dickens ed. Anne Perry, Berkley, 2004 97 · Driven to Distraction · Marcia Talley · ss Chesapeake Crimes II ed. Donna Andrews & Maria Y. Lima, Quiet Storm Books, 2005 107 · The Queen Is Dead, Long Live the Queen · Marcia Talley · ss Thou Shalt Not Kill ed. Anne Perry, Carroll & Graf, 2005 115 · Home Movies · Marcia Talley · ss Baltimore Noir ed. Laura Lippman, Akashic Books, 2006 125 · Two Sisters · Marcia Talley · ss Chesapeake Crimes 3 ed. Donna Andrews & Marcia Talley, Wildside Press, 2008 137 · Can You Hear Me Now? · Marcia Talley · ss Two of the Deadliest ed. Elizabeth George, Harper, 2009 145 · Night and Fog · Marcia Talley · ss Malice Domestic 12: Mystery Most Historical ed. Verena Rose, Rita Owen & Shawn Reilly Simmons, Wildside Press, 2017 155 · Behind the Magic 8-Ball · Marcia Talley · ss Chesapeake Crimes: Magic Is Murder ed. Donna Andrews, Barb Goffman & Marcia Talley, Wildside Press, 2022 165 · The Island Boy Detective Agency · Marcia Talley · ss School of Hard Knox ed. Donna Andrews, Greg Herren & Art Taylor, Crippen & Landru, 2023 173 · A Fine New York Whine · Marcia Talley · ss Agatha and Derringer Get Cozy ed. Gay Toltl Kinman & Andrew McAleer, Down & Out Books, 2024 181 · Grandpa Minds the Baby · Marcia Talley · ss Shamus and Anthony Commit Capers ed. Gay Toltl Kinman & Andrew McAleer, Level Short, 2024

Chesapeake Crimes 3 ed. Marcia Talley & Donna Andrews--- see under Donna Andrews.

Chesapeake Crimes: Fur, Feathers, and Felonies ed. Marcia Talley, Donna Andrews & Barb Goffman--- see under Donna Andrews.

Chesapeake Crimes: Homicidal Holidays ed. Marcia Talley, Donna Andrews & Barb Goffman--- see under Donna Andrews.

Chesapeake Crimes: Invitation to Murder ed. Marcia Talley, Donna Andrews & Barb Goffman--- see under Donna Andrews.

Chesapeake Crimes: Magic Is Murder ed. Marcia Talley, Donna Andrews & Barb Goffman--- see under Donna Andrews.

Chesapeake Crimes: Storm Warning ed. Marcia Talley, Donna Andrews & Barb Goffman--- see under Donna Andrews.

Chesapeake Crimes: They Had It Comin’ ed. Marcia Talley, Donna Andrews & Barb Goffman--- see under Donna Andrews.

Chesapeake Crimes: This Job Is Murder ed. Marcia Talley, Donna Andrews & Barb Goffman--- see under Donna Andrews.

The Finest Ass in the Universe by Anna Tambour (Ticonderoga Publications, July 7, 2015, 978-1-925212-16-7, A$30.00, 367pp, tp, co)     Collection of 26 stories, six original, plus the rather lengthy “cover notes” about the plant on the cover. Introduction by Jeffrey Ford. A limited hardcover (-14-3) and trade hardcover (-15-0, A$50.00) are also available. Details taken from online listing. 15 · What I Don’t Know and Do About Anna Tambour · Jeffrey Ford · in 21 · The Oyster and Alice O. · Anna Tambour · ss Flurb #12, Fall/Winter 2011 31 · Lab Dancer · Anna Tambour · ss 51 · Strange Incidents in Foreign Parts · Anna Tambour · ss Electric Velocipede #9, Fall 2005 59 · Marks and Coconuts · Anna Tambour · ss Memoryville Blues ed. Peter Crowther & Nick Gevers, PS Publishing, 2013 69 · The Walking-Stick Forest · Anna Tambour · ss Tor.com May 21 2014 83 · The Jeweller of Second-Hand Roe · Anna Tambour · ss Subterranean #7, 2007 91 · High Life · Anna Tambour · nv 113 · Baad-hin’jan and the Chickpea · Anna Tambour · ss 127 · The Eye of Nostradamus Summit · Anna Tambour · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #44, 2010 141 · The Old Testacles · Anna Tambour · ss The Cascadia Subduction Zone October 2014 147 · Rocket Fantazyor · Anna Tambour · ss Jews vs Zombies ed. Rebecca Levene & Lavie Tidhar, Jurassic London, 2015, as “Wiseman’s Terror Tales” 157 · Sincerely, Petrified · Anna Tambour · nv Lovecraft Unbound ed. Ellen Datlow, Dark Horse, 2009 183 · The Dog Who Wished He’d Never Heard of Lovecraft · Anna Tambour · ss The Lovecraft eZine April 2012 199 · Bufo of Oahu: Ukulele Ululatress · Anna Tambour · ss 211 · How Galligaskins Sloughed the Scourge · Anna Tambour · ss Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine #46, 2010 227 · There Is No Rice Pudding in the Sea · Anna Tambour · ss Fantasy Magazine #3, 2006 235 · Dreadnought Neptune · Anna Tambour · ss Asimov’s Science Fiction June 2010 247 · The Shoe in SHOES’ Window · Anna Tambour · ss Interfictions: An Anthology of Interstitial Writing ed. Delia Sherman & Theodora Goss, Interstitial Arts Foundation, 2007 255 · The Emperor’s Backscratcher · Anna Tambour · ss infinity plus April 2005 265 · King Wolf · Anna Tambour · ss A Season in Carcosa ed. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., Miskatonic River Press, 2013 285 · Gladiolus Exposed · Anna Tambour · ss The Del Rey Book of Science Fiction and Fantasy ed. Ellen Datlow, Del Rey, 2008 295 · Adventures of Discovering the Ellemehnopee · Anna Tambour · ar Medlar Comfits January 21 2006 303 · Pococurante · Anna Tambour · ss Logorrhea: Good Words Make Good Stories ed. John Klima, Bantam Spectra, 2007 321 · The Age of Fish, Post-Flowers · Anna Tambour · ss Paper Cities ed. Ekaterina Sedia, Senses Five Press, 2008 335 · Tap · Anna Tambour · ss 345 · Bowfin Island · Anna Tambour · ss Caledonia Dreamin’ ed. Hal Duncan & Chris Kelso, Eibonvale Press, 2013 359 · Cover Notes · Anna Tambour · ms

The Road to Neozon by Anna Tambour (Obsidian Sky Books, June 9, 2018, 978-1-73229-800-2, $14.95, 203pp, tp, oc, cover by Nathaniel Hébert)     Details taken from online listing. 15 · A Drop in the Ocean · Anna Tambour · ss 23 · The Godchildren · Anna Tambour · ss Walk on the Weird Side ed. Joseph S. Pulver, Sr., LASC Press, 2017 43 · The Slime: A Love Story · Anna Tambour · ss Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet #19, Fall 2006 49 · Care and Sensibility · Anna Tambour · ss 55 · Cardoons! · Anna Tambour · nv Phantasmagorium October 2011 85 · I Killed for a Lucky Strike · Anna Tambour · ss 105 · None So Seeing As Those Who’ve Seen · Anna Tambour · nv 147 · Code of the New Fourth · Anna Tambour · ss 153 · Nudgulation Now! · Anna Tambour · ss 157 · The Beginnings, Endings, and Middles Ball · Anna Tambour · ss ParaSpheres ed. Ken Keegan & Rusty Morrison, Omnidawn Publishing, 2006 173 · Vedma · Anna Tambour · ss

Multispecies Cities: Solarpunk Urban Futures ed. Norie Tamura, Rajat Chaudhuri, Deborah Cleland, Christoph Rupprecht & Sarena Ulibarri--- see under Rajat Chaudhuri.

The Best American Short Stories 1999 ed. Amy Tan (Houghton Mifflin, 1999, 0-395-92683-1, $27.50, 320pp, hc, an) 1 · The Hermit’s Story · Rick Bass · ss The Paris Review 1998 15 · The Sun, the Moon, the Stars · Junot Diaz · ss The New Yorker February 2 1998 29 · Mrs. Dutta Writes a Letter · Chitra Divakaruni · ss The Atlantic Monthly April 1998 48 · Kansas · Stephen Dobyns · ss The Clackamas Literary Review 1998 55 · The Tumblers · Nathan Englander · nv American Short Fiction 1998 78 · The Piano Tuner · Tim Gautreaux · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1998 97 · The Uncharted Heart · Melissa Hardy · nv The Ontario Review 1998 120 · The 5:22 · George Harrar · ss Story Autumn 1998 129 · Islands · A. Hemon · ss Pegasus 1998 143 · The Best Girlfriend You Never Had · Pam Houston · nv Other Voices 1998 164 · In the Kindergarten · Ha Jin · ss Five Points 1998 173 · Marry the One Who Gets There First · Heidi Julavits · ss Esquire April 1998 189 · Live Life King-Sized · Hester Kaplan · nv Press 1998 216 · Africans · Sheila Kohler · ss Story Autumn 1998 223 · Interpreter of Maladies · Jhumpa Lahiri · nv Agni #47, 1998 244 · Real Estate · Lorrie Moore · nv The New Yorker August 17 1998 273 · Save the Reaper · Alice Munro · nv The New Yorker June 22/June 29 1998 294 · The Bunchgrass Edge of the World · Annie Proulx · nv The New Yorker November 30 1998 316 · The Robbers of Karnataka · James Spencer · ss The Gettysburg Review 1998 335 · The Good Shopkeeper · Samrat Upadhyay · ss Manoa 1998 351 · The Rest of Her Life · Steve Yarbrough · nv The Missouri Review Winter 1997

Best Erotic Fantasy & Science Fiction ed. Cecilia Tan & Bethany Zaiatz (Circlet Press, September 2010, 978-1-885865-61-8, $19.95, 281pp, tp, oa)     Original anthology of 17 erotic SF and fantasy stories (four reprints), chosen as part of a contest. Authors include Beth Bernobich, Maya Kaathryn Bonhoff, Grant Carrington, and contest winner Alison Lonsdale. 7 · Introduction · Cecilia Tan · in 9 · Vaster than Empires · Allison Lonsdale · ss 29 · Fulgurite · Vylar Kaftan · ss Sybil’s Garage #6, May 2009 37 · Now I Live on the Street of Women · Jason Rubis · ss 51 · Double Check · Pete Peters · ss 55 · Metamorphosis · Deb Atwood · ss 65 · The Heart of the Storm · Connie Wilkins · ss Time Well Bent: Queer Alternative Histories ed. Connie Wilkins, Lethe Press, 2009 85 · Alienated · Helen E. H. Madden · ss 101 · Younger Than Springtime · Grant Carrington · ss 105 · Make Work · Bryn Allen · nv 129 · The Digital O · Kal Cobalt · ss 147 · Taste · Jean Roberta · ss Cthulhu Sex v1 #24, 2002 155 · A Feast of Cousins · Beth Bernobich · ss Helix #1, Summer 2006 171 · The Boy Who Loved Clouds · Maya Kaathryn Bohnhoff · ss Amazing Stories April 1993 195 · Rainmusic · Eric Del Carlo · ss 211 · Passion Play · D. L. Keith · nv 233 · Caught · Paige E. Roberts · nv Bosslady ed. Justus Roux, Erotictales Publications, 2006 255 · Sybariote · Diane Kepler · ss 275 · Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · ms 277 · Contributors · [uncredited] · bg