Miscellaneous Anthologies Index

Contents Lists

Favorite Fairy Tales to Read Aloud ed. Anon. (Wonder 2009, 1965, 79¢, 127pp, tp) 5 · The Golden Goose · Anon. · ss 14 · Rapunzel · Anon. · ss 22 · The Wild Swans · Hans Christian Andersen · ss; adapted and abridged. 44 · The Magic Fishbone [part of “Holiday Romance”] · Charles Dickens · ss Our Young Folks Jan-May 1868; adapted and abridged. 61 · The Nightingale · Hans Christian Andersen · ss Nye Eventyr, Denmark 1843; adapted and abridged. 79 · The Queen Bee · Anon. · ss 84 · Long, Broad, and Quick Eye · Anon. · ss 103 · Beauty and the Beast · Anon. · ss 122 · Spindle, Shuttle, and Needle · Anon. · ss

Fifty Strangest Stories Ever Told ed. Anon. (London: Odhams, 1937, 704pp, hc) 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 Oct 3 1931 28 · The Terrible Story of the “Mary Russell” · J. G. Lockhart · nf 45 · The Death Trap · Carla Jenssen · ss 73 · The Corpse Conductor · Axel Munthe · ss 85 · The Mountain of God · Roger Courtney · nf 93 · The Story of Kaspar Hauser · Andrew Lang · nf 101 · The Siren and the Sorceress · William Roughead · nf 129 · Consolation · Mabel Smyth · ss 142 · La Salpetriere · Axel Munthe · ss 149 · Eight Days in an English Snowdrift · Anon. · nf 156 · Mysteries of the Elephants · Charles Low · nf 165 · The Moving Coffins · Sir Algernon E. Aspinall · nf 171 · The Haunted Submarine · Hector C. Bywater · nf 179 · The Thugs · Herron Lepper · nf 186 · Marooned · J. G. Lockhart · nf 191 · The Disappearance of Bathurst · S. Baring-Gould · nf 207 · Smuggling Hashish · Henry de Monfried · nf 219 · The Celestial Fire · John V. Trevor · ss 229 · The Snail-Telegraph · S. Baring-Gould · nf 238 · A Caucasian Riding Lesson · Sergei Kournakoff · nf 257 · Queer Happenings · Margery Lawrence · nf 261 · The Tragedy of the Seven Hunters · J. G. Lockhart · nf 268 · The Murder of the Countess Goerlitz · S. Baring-Gould · nf 290 · Many Waters · Noel Martin · ss 306 · On “Thirsty” Island · Jack McLaren · nf 319 · Three Crusoes in Epping Forest · Daniel Defoe · nf 344 · The Case of the Poisoned Bun · Morris Markey · ss 348 · The Man in White · Andrew Lang · nf 351 · Gripped by an Iceberg · Francis K. Pease · nf 357 · The Ordeal of Philip Stanfield · William Roughead · nf 374 · Across the Australian Desert · Andrew Lang · nf 392 · In the Shadow of Death · De Valda · ss 399 · Queer Disappearances · Margery Lawrence · nf 405 · The Phantom Schooner · Richard Huson · ss 414 · Some English Eccentrics · John Timbs · nf 456 · The Dark Age Killer · Edwin T. Woodhall · nf 473 · Si Urag of the Tail · Oscar Cook · ss Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Jan 1923 488 · The Night of Witchcraft · Rafael Sabatini · ss 505 · The Hell-Fire Monks of Medmenham · Eric Bennett · nf 518 · When Glister Walked · Oscar Cook · ss Weird Tales Mar 1927 533 · Waltz Before Twilight · Nigel Straight · ss 541 · Eastern Sorcery · Achmed Abdullah · nf 563 · Man or Woman · Harold Dearden · nf 574 · The Original Bluebeard · Harold Dearden · nf 583 · A Murderer in the Force · Harold Dearden · nf 592 · The Bogus Princess · Anon. · ss 595 · The Musselburgh Miracle · John May · nf 606 · The Mystery of the Floating Bodies · H. Ashton-Wolfe · ss 627 · The Mystery of the Orly Highway · H. Ashton-Wolfe · ss 644 · The Devil’s Hoofmarks · R. T. Gould · nf 656 · Vampires in the Philippines · R. T. Gould · nf 663 · Crime and the Supernatural · Edwin T. Woodhall · nf

Fifty Thrilling Wild West Stories ed. Anon. (Odhams Press, 1948, no price, 704pp, hc) 9 · Why the Wild West was Wild · F. E. Sutton · ss 19 · The Borrowed Brand · Paul Evan Lehman · ss Western Trails Jan 1932 32 · The Long Arm of the Mounted · Harry Sinclair Drago · nv Street & Smith’s Western Story Jan 16 1943 57 · Bully of the Town · Tom Roan · ss Ace-High Magazine Aug 1932 75 · Blue Eyes and Blue Steel · Charles H. Snow · nv Thrilling Ranch Stories Mar 1934 94 · Bill Latimer’s Tree · W. D. Hoffman · ss 112 · In the Mexican Quarter · Tom Gill · ss Cosmopolitan Jun 1930 124 · Without Fear or Favour · William MacLeod Raine · ss Short Stories Nov 25 1922 141 · Battle’s End · Max Brand · na Western Story Magazine May 10 1930 209 · Grub Delayed · Archie Joscelyn · ss Cowboy Stories Apr 1937 220 · Horseshoe Law in Misty Sink · William A. Todd (by Norman W. Hay) · ss Wild West Weekly Feb 27 1937 234 · Thief! · Will Jenkins · ss 247 · The Treasure of Iron Dome · Charles H. Snow · ss 264 · The Sheriff Was a Runt · Will Jenkins · ss 275 · Broken Courage · Charles Wesley Sanders · ss Argosy All-Story Weekly Jan 15 1927 292 · Reward for an Outlaw · Herbert Sullivan · ss 306 · The Reverend “Chawles” · George Goodchild · nv 332 · The Sheriff of Crevasse County · George Brydges Rodney · ss 346 · Ghost of the Cimarron · Harry Sinclair Drago · nv Western Novelets Aug 1936 383 · The Killers · George Brydges Rodney · ss 397 · He Belonged West · Christopher Culley · ss 407 · The Schoolma’am of Selwood Flats · Paul Evan Lehman · ss 423 · Fighting Fool · Tom Roan · ss Ace-High Magazine Nov #1 1930 440 · A Reason for Wrath · Johnston McCulley · ss Cowboy Stories Jul 1926 455 · Three Little Calves · Frank C. Robertson · nv West May 29 1929 473 · Change of Name · George S. Surrey · ss 482 · Death Badge · Lee Bond · ss Wild West Weekly Mar 6 1937 495 · The Cave of Death · James Denson Sayers · nv The Underworld Magazine Dec 1933 528 · Singing Lead · Eugene Cunningham · ss Black Mask Aug 1930 544 · Texas Ranger · Lester Gregory · ss 550 · Rustled Herd · Lester Gregory · ss 556 · The Whip Hand · George Brydges Rodney · ss 569 · The Marquis and Miss Sally · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jun 1903 578 · Kid Cyclone · Leo Grex · ss 584 · This Worm Has Fangs · James Denson Sayers · ss The Underworld Magazine Oct 1933, as “The Worm Has Fangs” 599 · Six-Gun Justice · Louis Grey · ss 606 · Million-Dollar Burros · H. C. Wire · ar Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Mar 13 1937 611 · A Mountie’s Code · Conor Risdon · ss 617 · Man of Ice · Claude Rister · ss Cowboy Stories Apr 1937 629 · When the Coach was Held Up · George Thorne · ss 635 · El Rodeo · R. B. Cunninghame Graham · ss 644 · Warrior Woman · Frank Roland Conklin · ss 650 · A Vengeance by Proxy · G. S. Wallington · ss 656 · A Doubtful Experiment · Gerald Sussex · ss 662 · Vigilante Vengeance · Joseph F. Hook · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Jan 23 1937 668 · Two Snakes and a Man · Lloyd Eric Reeve · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Jan 2 1937 672 · Maverick Water · David Lavender · ss Street & Smith’s Western Story Magazine Jan 2 1937 681 · Riding with the Mail · Clarence E. Mulford · ar The Frontier Oct 1925 687 · The Phantom of the Rio Grande [Bud Jones] · J. Allan Dunn · ss Wild West Weekly Feb 27 1937 695 · Gunsmoke in Raimondo · Denver Bardwell · ss

Finnish Short Stories ed. Anon. (St. Paul, MN: Nordic Translators, 1982, vii, 238pp, hc) Translated by Inkeri Väänänen-Jensen with K. Börje Vähämäki. Each author is represented by a biographical entry (usually one to two pages long) preceding his/her story. Pages 236-238 comprise an appendix, “Sources for Short Stories,” listing the sources used for the original (Finnish language) texts translated here. [Denny Lien] Erika (Erika) · Aleksis Kivi · ss The Nursemaid (Lapsenpiika) · Minna Canth · ss The Watch (Kello) · Juhani Aho · ss A Summer Dream (Kesainen unelma) · Juhani Aho · ss Liars? (Valehtelijat?) · Teuvo Pakkala · ss The Bishop’s Pointer (Pilspantikku) · Teuvo Pakkala · ss The Gentleman and the Boor (Herra ja moukka) · Joel Lehtonen · ss First Love (Ensimmainen rakkaus) · Joel Lehtonen · ss The Hired Girl (Piika) · Frans Eemil Sillanpaa · ss Love (Rakkaus) · Maria Jotuni · ss When You Have Feelings (Kun on tunteet) · Maria Jotuni · ss Death (Kuolema) · Maria Jotuni · ss The Girl in the Rose Arbor (Tytto ruusutarhassa) · Maria Jotuni · ss Food for the winter (Ruokaa talveksi) · Toivo Pekkanen · ss Building a Bridge (Siltaa rakentamassa) · Toivo Pekkanen · ss Military Splendor (Sotilaallisen komeasti) · Pentti Haanpää · ss The Last Tree (Viimeinen puu) · Pentti Haanpää · ss The Unneeded Paradise (Joutavan jaljilla) · Pentti Haanpää · ss The Apple Trees (Omenapuut) · Mika Waltari · ss The Fur (Nahka) · Juha Mannerkorpi · ss The Monkey (Marakatti) · Juha Mannerkorpi · ss Long Ago (Kauan sitten) · Eila Pennanen · ss A Finnish Landscape (Suomalainen maisema) · Marja-Liisa Vartio · ss The Proposal (Kosinta) · Veijo Meri · ss Selecting a Play (Naytelman valinta) · Veijo Meri · ss The Frogman’s Day (Sammakkomiehen paiva) · Veikko Huovinen · ss Is My Hair Beautiful? (Onko tukka kaunlisti) · Veikko Huovinen · ss The Pigbitten (Sianpurema) · Antti Hyry · ss The Rock in the Sunshine (Kivi auringeon paisteessa) · Antti Hyry · ss The Drunkards (Juopot) · Hannu Salama · ss Aila (Aila) · Marja-Leena Mikkola · ss The Death of a Dog (Koiran kuolema) · Timo Mukka · ss

First Fictions: Introduction 10 ed. Anon. (Faber and Faber 0-571-15201-5, 1989, x+179pp, tp, cover by Brian Grimwood) Original anthology providing a “showcase for new writing”. Tenth volume in the “Introduction” series. [PSP] vii · Publisher’s Note · Anon. · fw * ix · Biographical Notes · Anon. · 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 *

Five Golden Rings ed. Anon. (Zebra Books 0-8217-7062-4, Oct 2000, $6.99, 461pp, pb) Details supplied by Ken Johnson. reprints from previous Christmas anthologies 7 · A Bright Red Ribbon · Fern Michaels · na A Gift of Joy, Zebra Books 1995 79 · Christmas Angel · Kat Martin · na ’Tis the Season, ed. Anon., Zebra Books 1997 173 · Twelfth Night · Jo Beverley · na 237 · Home for Christmas · Katherine Sutcliffe · n. ’Tis the Season, ed. Anon., Zebra Books 1997 349 · The Miracle [Delanza] · Brenda Joyce · n. A Gift of Joy, Zebra Books 1995; sequel to “After Innocence”.

Five Good Things from Everybody’s Magazine ed. Anon. (Ridgway-Thayer Company, The, 1904, 64pp, quarto) Promotional selection of recent items from Everybody’s Magazine. ifc · Foreword · [The Publishers] · fw 2 · A Letter from the West · Anon. · lt 3 · Everybody’s Babies · Juliet Wilbor Tompkins · ss Everybody’s Magazine Dec 1903, as “A Spoiled Child” 6 · The Reasons Why · [Misc.] · ms 11 · The Call of the Mountains · Albert Bigelow Paine · ss Everybody’s Magazine Oct 1903 20 · Inside Facts About Authors · Carolyn Wells · ms 21 · More Reasons Why · [Misc.] · ms 27 · Cæsar of Tobacco: The Great, Quiet, Confident Mr. Duke · Alfred Henry Lewis · ar Everybody’s Magazine Oct 1903 34 · Hitting the Bullseye · [Misc.] · ms 39 · The Lotus and the Cockleburrs · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine Oct 1903 46 · The Automobile · Simeon Ford · ms 47 · With Everybody’s Publishers · [The Publishers] · ms Everybody’s Magazine Jun 1903 52 · Successful Men Who Are Not Rich · Francis Bellamy · ar Everybody’s Magazine Nov 1903 59 · Proverbs up to Date · L. de V. Matthewman · ms 60 · Why Advertising Pays · [The Publishers] · ms 61 · Heroes of Every-Day Life: Mike Martin—Fire-Truck Driver · Theodore Waters · cl Everybody’s Magazine Feb 1903 64 · What Some Newsdealers Have Done · Anon. · ms

Flowers for Mama ed. Anon. (Zebra Books 0-8217-7283-X, Apr 2002, $4.99, 223pp, pb) Details supplied by Ken Johnson. 7 · A Match for Lady Verity · Mona Gedney · na * 69 · The Lady Does Not! · Cindy Holbrook · na * 149 · The Runaway Duchess · Mary Kingsley · na *

Four in One Westerns ed. Anon. (Garden City, 1924, hc) [Western] [CP] Don Quickshot of the Rio Grande [Don Quickshot] · Stephen Chalmers · na Short Stories Oct 25 1921 The Law of the Range · W. C. Tuttle · n. With Rope and Brand · William MacLeod Raine · n. Thunderhorse · Edison Marshall · n.

Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ed. Anon. (Signet Classic 0-451-51136-0, Dec ’78, $2.25, pb) v · Introduction · Stephen King · in v · Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus [Frankenstein] · Mary Shelley · ex Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones 1818 vii · Author’s Introduction · Mary Shelley · in xiii · Preface · Mary Shelley · pr 7 · Dracula [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · n. Constable 1897 Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde [The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde] · Robert Louis Stevenson · na George Munro 1886

From the Heart ed. Anon. (Signet Book 0-451-17854-8, Jan ’94, $4.99, 346pp, pb) Details supplied by Ken Johnson. “five Regency love stories” 7 · The Anniversary · Mary Balogh · na * 73 · The Wooing of Lord Walford · Anne Barbour · na * 138 · Cupid’s Dart · Melinda McRae · na * 204 · Devil’s Luck · Anita Mills · na * 270 · The Imposter · Sandra Heath · na *

A Frontier Christmas ed. Anon. (Leisure, 1992, pb) [Western] Loving Sarah · Madeline Baker · na * A Christmas Angel · Robin Lee Hatcher · na * The Homecoming · Norah Hess · na * The Greatest Gift of All · Connie Mason · na *

The Funeral of Tanner Moody ed. Anon. (Leisure, 2004, pb) [Western] Love and Bullets · Peter Brandvold · ss Liars Three · John Jakes · ss Straw Boss · Elmer Kelton · ss The Man Who Let the Devil Out · Kerry Newcomb · ss Poor Ole Moody · Marthayn Pelegrimas · ss Three-Handed Winter · Robert J. Randisi · ss Tanner Moody and the Prophet Mountains · James Reasoner · ss Tanner’s Diamond · Jory Sherman · ss Tanner Moody and the Bad Hombres · L. J. Washburn · ss

The Further Observations of Lady Whistledown ed. Anon. (Avon Books 0-06-051150-8, Feb 2003, $6.99, 392pp, pb) Details supplied by Ken Johnson. A set of loosely interconnected stories, with a character from one story walking through another, all linked by a gossip columnist named Lady Whistledown. Excerpts from her columns, written by Julia Quinn, are scattered through all four stories. 1 · One True Love · Suzanne Enoch · na * 95 · Two Hearts · Karen Hawkins · n. * 215 · A Dozen Kisses · Mia Ryan · na * 283 · Thirty-Six Valentines · Julia Quinn · n. *

The Gates of Paradise: The anthology of erotic short fiction ed. Anon. (Potter 0517880504, Oct ’93, 689pp, hc) Contents list from Yahoo Books. 1 · Wicked Girl · Isabel Allende · ss 17 · Just Above My Head · James Baldwin · ss 33 · A Passion in the Desert · Honoré de Balzac · ss The Strand Feb 1891 51 · The Dead Man · Georges Bataille · ss 71 · How Ishmael and Isaac Came to Be Born · Anne Billat · ss 83 · Innocence · Harold Brodkey · ss 131 · You Must Remember This · Robert Coover · ss Playboy Jan 1985 173 · Milk Is Very Good for You · Stephen Dixon · ss 191 · What Do You Do While I’m Gone? · Doris Dorrie · ss 197 · Jocasta · Liliana Heker · ss 205 · Dreams Involving Water · Gary Indiana · ss Conjunctions #14 1989 227 · The Student and the Woman · Lazlo Kamondy · ss 251 · Kassandra and the Wolf · Margarita Karapanou · ss 255 · One Arm · Yasunari Kawabata · ss 279 · The Hitchhiking Game · Milan Kundera · ss 305 · Once-! · D. H. Lawrence · ss 319 · Drought · Wendy Law-Yone · ss 337 · Each Other · Doris Lessing · ss 351 · Curvaceous Dolls · Li Ang · ss 375 · The Last Trace of Spinoza · Yuri Mamleyev · ss 389 · The Tide · André Pieyre de Mandiargues · ss 403 · Sea Lovers · Valerie Martin · ss The Consolation of Nature & Other Stories, Houghton Mifflen 1988 415 · Arousal · Richard Matheson · ss 423 · Birthday Present · Eric McCormack · ss 431 · Homemade · Ian McEwan · ss 455 · Lust · Susan Minot · ss The Paris Review 1984 469 · Raisin Bread · Yukio Mishima · ss 491 · Love in the Chinese Restaurant · Alberto Moravia · ss 515 · Grnndfather’s Little Pleasure · Adolf Muschg · ss 535 · Mandra · Anaïs Nin · ss 545 · Eros and Cupid · Stan Persky · ss 579 · Park Cinema · Elena Poniatowska · ss 589 · The Day I Sat with Jesus on the Sun Deck and a Wind Came Up and Blew My Kimono Open and He Saw My Breasts · Gloria Sawai · ss 609 · Eugenia · Sarah Sheard · ss 617 · Four Bare Legs in a Bed · Helen Simpson · ss 635 · The Fall · Armonía Somers · ss 1967 653 · Candaules, King of Lydia · Mario Vargas Llosa · ss 663 · Darlinghurst Portrait · Vicki Viidikas · ss 669 · The X-Rated Blanket · Eimi Yamada · ss 677 · Notes on the Contributors · [Misc.] · ss