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- Savoy Dreams ed. David Britton & Michael Butterworth (Savoy 0-86130-068-8, Jul ’84, £13.95, 260pp, hc); The second Savoy miscellany, this one includes accounts of the owners’ bust for carrying “porn” (by sf authors) in their bookstores, plus excerpts from Savoy books, fiction, and reviews. Contributors include Michael Moorcock and M. John Harrison. (Also available in tp (-069-6, £7.95).
- The Scary Book ed. Joanna Cole & Stephanie Calmenson (New York: Morrow Junior Books 0-688-10654-4, 1991, $12.95, 127pp, hc); Collection of ghostly tales, poems, riddles and tricks intended for children. Heavily illustrated. Contents are predominantly poems and illustrated text, including a section on games. Only story of note is “Wait Till Martin Comes” by Maria Leach. Includes poems by Jane Yolen, Joan Ciardi, Rose Fyleman and e.e. cummings.
- 10 • Strange Bumps [from Owl at Home] • Arnold Lobel • ss, 1975
- 18 • Taily-po • Stephanie Calmenson • ss *
- 27 • Bony-Legs [from Bony-Legs] • Joanna Cole • ss, 1983
- 43 • Wait Till Martin Comes • Maria Leach • vi The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales, Cleveland: World, 1959
- 47 • The Rabbi and the Twenty-Nine Witches • Marilyn Hirsh • ss, 1976; Retold from a Talmudic legend.
- 69 • The Viper is Coming • Stephanie Calmenson • ss *
- Worlds in Small ed. John Robert Colombo (Cacanadadada Press 0-921870-14-0, Jun ’92, $12.95, 96pp, tp, cover by Alvin Jang); Anthology of 104 minimalist excerpts, stories, and poems (most under 100 words, many under 20) including many by sf writers including Bradbury, Clarke, and Heinlein.
- 1 • Preface • John Robert Colombo • pr
- 27 • An Old Story, Not True [from “Blowups Happen”] • Robert A. Heinlein • ex Astounding Sep ’40
- 27 • Mona Lisa Meets Buddha • Spencer Holst • vi The Language of Cats and Other Stories, Dutton, 1971
- 28 • Scare Tactics • F. J. Willett • vi Aphelion Sum ’86
- 28 • Logic Loop • Steven Paulsen • vi Aphelion Sum ’86
- 29 • So Passes an Ancient and Powerful Dynasty • Anon. • vi The Book of Mini-Sagas, Alan Sutton, 1985
- 29 • Crime in the City • Frederick Forsyth • vi The Book of Mini-Sagas, Alan Sutton, 1985
- 30 • Two Sides to Every Story • T. K. Dawber • vi The Book of Mini-Sagas, Alan Sutton, 1985
- 30 • Who Dares Win • N. M. Cooper • vi The Book of Mini-Sagas II, Alan Sutton, 1988
- 31 • Saturday Shopping • Diana Rigg • vi The Book of Mini-Sagas II, Alan Sutton, 1988
- 31 • Out of the Mouths of Babes? • Kathryn Clarke • vi The Book of Mini-Sagas II, Alan Sutton, 1988
- 32 • Seeing Nobody [from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland] • Lewis Carroll • ex, 1865
- 32 • Strange Dream • Samuel Taylor Coleridge • ms The Medium, the Mystic, and the Physicist, Lawrence LeShan, Viking, 1974
- 33 • Zen Koan • Traditional • vi Gödel, Escher, Bach, Douglas R. Hofstadter, Random House, 1980
- 33 • Bahaudin • Idries Shah • vi Thinkers of the East, Idries Shah, Penguin, 1974
- 34 • Intellects [from The War of the Worlds] • H. G. Wells • ex, 1898
- 34 • Shaggy Dog Story • Traditional • vi
- 35 • Circular Story • Traditional • vi The Hodgepodge Book, ed. Duncan Emrich, Four Winds Press, 1972
- 36 • What We Have Come To • Lord Dunsany • vi Fifty-One Tales, London: Elkin Mathews, 1915
- 37 • Rejection Slip • K. W. MacAnn • vi 100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories, ed. Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg & Joseph D. Olander, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978
- 38 • Minithriller • Nigel Morland • pm EQMM Oct ’82
- 39 • Very Well • Elizabeth Smart • vi The Assumption of the Rogues and Rascals, Cape/Polytantric, 1978
- 39 • Word Play • Traditional • pm Sally Go Round the Sun, Edith Fowke, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1969
- 40 • The Curious Incident [from “Silver Blaze”; Sherlock Holmes] • Arthur Conan Doyle • ex The Strand Dec, 1892
- 40 • Untitled (“Finding my wife’s address book...”) • Richard Kostelanetz • vi Openings, Ottawa: Ouroboros, 1989
- 41 • siseneG • Arthur C. Clarke • vi Analog May ’84
- 42 • My Account of How It Happened • Unknown • vi
- 42 • Through a Night [from The Voyage of the Space Beagle; Beagle] • A. E. van Vogt • ex New York: Simon & Schuster, 1950
- 43 • Relativity [“There Was a Young Lady Named Bright”] • A. H. Reginald Buller • pm Punch Dec 19 ’12
- 43 • The Shortest Ghost Story • Julia Briggs • vi The Times Literary Supplement Jan 2 ’81
- 44 • Dreaming • Chuang Tzu • ms
- 44 • A Woman Alone with Her Soul • Thomas Bailey Aldrich • vi, 1912; this is most likely by Jorge Luís Borges.
- 45 • Antigonish • Hughes Mearns • pm, 1899
- 45 • Atomyriades • Piet Hein • pm Grooks, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969
- 46 • Unfinished Tail • Traditional • pm Sally Go Round the Sun, Edith Fowke, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1969
- 46 • Observe, a Flea [from “On Poetry: A Rhapsody”] • Jonathan Swift • pm, 1733
- 47 • What Song the Syrens Sang [from “Urn-Burial”] • Sir Thomas Browne • ms, 1658
- 47 • The Battle of Gettysburg • Praxiteles Swan • ms Brothers in Arms, William Broyles, Knopf, 1986
- 48 • The Giant Rat of Sumatra [from “The Adventure of the Sussex Vampire”; Sherlock Holmes] • Arthur Conan Doyle • ex The Strand Jan ’24
- 48 • Ghost Story [1790] • Immanuel Kant; trans. by J. H. Bernard • vi Critique of Judgment, Immanuel Kant, 1892
- 49 • Novel in Three Lines • Félix Fénéon; trans. by Joan U. Halperin • vi Félix Fénéon, Aesthete and Anarchist, Yale University Press, 1988
- 50 • P.S. • Unknown • ms Vicious Circles and Infinity, Patrick Hughes & George Brecht, London: Cape, 1976
- 50 • I Thought You Were Writing • Spencer Holst • vi Stories, New York: Horizon Press, 1976
- 51 • Self-Referential Sentence • Douglas R. Hofstadter • ms Metamagical Themas, Basic Books, 1985
- 51 • Untitled (“0 1 2...”) • Richard Kostelanetz • ms, 1989
- 52 • Untitled (“Her bed had narrow wings...”) • Richard Kostelanetz • vi, 1989
- 52 • Space Travel [from The Martian Chronicles] • Ray Bradbury • ex Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1950
- 53 • The Exile • Tristan Bernard • pl, 1932
- 53 • Vietnam Story • Unknown • vi Dispatches, Michael Herr, Knopf, 1978
- 54 • Heraclitus’s Regret • Jorge Luís Borges • pm, 1960
- 54 • Knock • Fredric Brown • ex Thrilling Wonder Stories Dec ’48
- 56 • Epitaph for Sir Isaac Newton • Alexander Pope • pm ca., 1732
- 56 • The Taste of Space • A. J. M. Smith • pm Poems: New and Collected, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1967
- 57 • The Briefest of Hauntings • E. J. Bryant • vi The Times Literary Supplement Feb 6 ’81
- 57 • Belief in Ghosts [from “Dr. Van Helsing’s Handy Guide to Ghost Stories,” Part 3] • Unknown • vi Twilight Zone Oct ’81
- 58 • Clerihew [“Sir Humphry Davy”] • Edmund Clerihew Bentley • pm, 1891
- 58 • Untitled (“I looked up from where I was lying...”) • Richard Kostelanetz • vi, 1990
- 59 • Assiniboine Myth • Robert H. Lowie • vi, 1909
- 59 • He That Is Nothing • Russell Edson • vi The Very Thing That Happens, New York: New Directions, 1964
- 60 • Pot-Shot • Ashleigh Brilliant • ms
- 60 • A Perfect Sphere • Toby MacLennan • vi, 1972
- 61 • The Year 2150 A.D. • Ray Bradbury • vi Shangri-La, 1950
- 61 • Small Song • A. R. Ammons • pm
- 62 • Children’s Rhyme • Traditional • pm
- 62 • Cure for Hiccups • Anon. • ms
- 63 • A Challenge in the Papers • Ivan Adamovic • vi
- 63 • Stage Direction [from Waiting for Godot] • Samuel Beckett • pl, 1952
- 64 • The Spectator [from Don Juan Tenorio, 1844] • José Zorrilla; trans. by Anthony Kerrigan • pl Extraordinary Tales, ed. Jorge Luis Borges & Adolfo Bioy Casares, London: Souvenir, 1973
- 64 • Circle • Eugène Ionesco • ms Vicious Circles and Infinity, Patrick Hughes & George Brecht, London: Cape, 1976
- 65 • Sign at the End of the Universe • Duane Ackerson • vi Alternities, ed. David Gerrald, Dell, 1974
- 65 • Science Fiction for Telepaths • E. Michael Blake • vi, 1977
- 66 • After the Battle • William Gass • ms On Being Blue, Boston: David R. Godine, 1977
- 66 • The Shortest Science Fiction Love Story Ever Written • Jeffrey Renner • vi F&SF Mar ’64
- 67 • The Sun • Anthony Burgess • vi New York Times Book Review Feb 5 ’84
- 67 • Rhymes • Tony Augarde • pm The Oxford Guide to Word Games, Tony Augarde, London: Oxford University Press, 1984
- 68 • Antimatter • Martin Gardner • vi The Ambidexterous Universe, Martin Gardner, New York: Basic Books, 1964
- 68 • The Perfect Minimalist Short Story • Stephen Reid • vi, 1990
- 69 • Palindrome • Leigh Mercer • ms
- 71 • Shortest Weird Tale Ever Written [from “Dr. Van Helsing’s Handy Guide to Ghost Stories,” Part 3] • Unknown • vi Twilight Zone Oct ’81; attributed to E. Hoffmann Price.
- 71 • Dream • Miguel de Unamuno • ms
- 72 • Another Woman • Theodore Roethke • pm Straw for the Fire, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972
- 72 • Ships [from “The Sky Was Full of Ships”] • Theodore Sturgeon • ex Thrilling Wonder Stories Jun ’47
- 73 • Being Dead [from “Introduction: One from the Vault,” by Karl Edward Wagner] • Tamsin Campbell • ex The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series XI, ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW, 1983
- 73 • The Shadow’s Song • Yvor Winters • pm Collected Poems, Alan Swallow, 1952
- 74 • Telegram • Al Horowitz • ms
- 74 • The Cad • Arthur C. Clarke • ms Astounding Days, Arthur C. Clarke, Gollancz, 1990
- 75 • Atomigeddon 2419 A.D. • Forrest J Ackerman • vi Vertex Jun ’73
- 75 • Cosmic Report Card: Earth • Forrest J Ackerman • vi Vertex Jun ’73
- 77 • The Liar Paradox • Epimenides • ms
- 78 • Holocaust [from Across the Sea of Suns] • Gregory Benford • ex New York: Timescape Books, 1984
- 78 • Test [from “The Semiology of Silence”] • Samuel R. Delany • ex Science Fiction Studies Jul ’87
- 79 • The Shortest Science-Fiction Story Ever Told • Roger Deeley • vi Generation, ed. David Gerrold, Dell, 1972
- 79 • Palindrome • Traditional • vi
- 80 • Untitled (“Shortest stories...”) • Richard Kostelanetz • vi, 1990
- 80 • Lines Written on the Antiquity of Microbes • Strickland Gillilan • pm
- 81 • A Short Story in Two Chapters • Robert L. Ripley • pm, 1950
- 81 • One Question • Eli Siegel • pm, 1925
- 82 • Christmas Card • Traditional • ms
- 82 • Untitled • John Robert Colombo • pm *
- 83 • Eyeye • Aram Saroyan • ms Aram Saroyan, New York: Random House, 1968
- 83 • The Ultimate One-Word First-Contact Story • Ian Watson • vi Alien Encounters, ed. Jan Howard Finder, Taplinger, 1982
- 84 • One-Word Ghost Tale [from “Dr. Van Helsing’s Handy Guide to Ghost Stories,” Part 3] • Anon. • vi Twilight Zone Oct ’81
- 84 • If Eve Had Failed to Conceive • Edward Wellen • vi Orbit 15, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1974
- 85 • Why Booth Didn’t Kill Lincoln • Edward Wellen • vi Orbit 15, ed. Damon Knight, Harper & Row, 1974
- 86 • A Typical Terran’s Thought When Spoken to by an Alien from the Planet Quarn in its Native Language • Daryl F. Mallett & Forrest J Ackerman • vi The ISFA Newsletter Nov ’90
- 93 • Bibliography • Misc. Material • bi
- The Pan Book of Revenge Stories ed. W. H. Cozens (London: Pan Books 0-330-02771-9, 1971, 176pp, pb)
- Ghosts and Shadows ed. Dorothy Edwards (Guildford: Lutterworth Press, 1980, £4.95, 160pp, hc); Anthology of 46 stories, extracts, anecdotes and poems designed for the younger reader. Illustrated by Jane Walmsley.
- 9 • “Now It Is the Time of Night” [from A Midsummer Night’s Dream] • William Shakespeare • pm, 1593
- 10 • The Skeleton Who Smiled • Angela Pickering • ss *
- 17 • The Quick and the Dead • Dorothy Edwards • pm *
- 18 • The Wind of Heaven • Violet Bibby • ss *
- 25 • Three-Quarter Ghosts • Dorothy Edwards • nf *
- 26 • Sally Simpkin’s Lament • Thomas Hood • pm
- 28 • Bill’s Ghost • Catherine Storr • ss *
- 38 • I Am the Ghost of Old Tom Barrett! • Anon. • pm
- 38 • The Ghost That Got Into Our House [from “The Night the Ghost Got In”] • James Thurber • ex New Yorker, 1933
- 39 • The Dripping Ghost • Dorothy Edwards • nf *
- 41 • The Damp Spectre • Dorothy Edwards • ss *
- 43 • Night Terrors • Thomas Gay • pm
- 44 • Where’s Angelina? • Geraldine Kaye • ss *
- 49 • A Journey to Euston • Dorothy Edwards • nf *
- 51 • Beaky Brooks • Frank Charles • ss *
- 60 • The Only Ghost I Ever Saw • Gwen Raverat • nf
- 62 • The Farys’ Mist-Gate • Ruth Tongue • ss Forgotten Folk Tales of the English Counties, ed. Ruth Tongue, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
- 64 • The White Cat • Pamela Sykes • ss *
- 69 • The Fairies • William Allingham • pm The Music Master, 1855
- 71 • The Stolen Lady • Mary Webb • pm
- 72 • Friend Nimmy • Dorothy Edwards • ss *
- 77 • The Changeling • Shirley Toulson • pm
- 79 • Midsummer Ghost • Ruth McDonald • ss *
- 87 • Rycharde Herne • Anon. • pm
- 87 • Herne’s Horne • Ruth Tongue • ss Forgotten Folk Tales of the English Counties, ed. Ruth Tongue, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
- 89 • Candlemas Eve • Robert Herrick • pm
- 90 • Twelfth Night Till Candlemas • Ruth Paine • ss *
- 96 • Emperors of the Island • Dannie Abse • pm
- 98 • Lost and Found • Marjorie Darke • ss *
- 103 • The Shell • James Stephens • pm, 1916
- 105 • The Mill-Water • Edward Thomas • pm
- 106 • The Noontide Ghost • Ruth Tongue • ss Forgotten Folk Tales of the English Counties, ed. Ruth Tongue, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
- 107 • Woak Hill • William Barnes • pm
- 109 • Joanna’s Secret • Pauline Hill • ss *
- 116 • The Nine o’Clock Horses • Angela Pickering • pm
- 117 • Tom Pearse’s Old Mare • Anon. • pm
- 118 • There Used to Be Horses Everywhere • Dorothy Edwards • ss *
- 129 • Sea-Gulls • Norah Holland • pm
- 131 • The Shadow Man • Margaret Gore • ss *
- 135 • The Shadow Stealers • Dorothy Edwards • pm *
- 137 • Chime Children • Ruth Tongue • ex, 1968
- 139 • The Gabble-Ratchets • Kathleen Hersom • ss *
- 145 • The Ghost Who Couldn’t Frighten Anyone • Dorothy Edwards • ss *
- 150 • Song • George Macdonald • pm
- 150 • At Dead of Night • Ivy Russell • ss *
- 160 • The Way Through the Woods • Rudyard Kipling • pm
- Mists and Magic ed. Dorothy Edwards (Guildford: Lutterworth Press 0-7188-2537-3, 1983, £2.99, 160pp, tp); Supernatural stories for children, illustrated by Jill Bennett. Reprinted in pb by HarperCollins Young Lions, 1985.
- 9 • Now It Is the Time of Night [from A Midsummer Night’s Dream] • William Shakespeare • pm, 1593
- 10 • Midnight Wood • Raymond Wilson • pm *
- 11 • Night Walk [from The Witches and the Grinnygog] • Dorothy Edwards • ex
- 19 • The Moon Is Up • Alfred Noyes • pm
- 20 • Moon Magic • Margaret Gore • ss *
- 25 • The Moon It is Red • Ben Jonson • pm
- 27 • Witches’ Charm • Ben Jonson • pm
- 28 • Witch at Home • Dorothy Edwards • ss *
- 35 • Witch in Retirement • Irene Holness • pm *
- 36 • Witch at the Well • Kathleen Hersom • ss *
- 40 • Could You See the Wise Woman • W. Force Stead • pm
- 41 • The Old Stone Faces • Ann Pilling • ss *
- 52 • La Belle Dame Sans Merci • John Keats • pm Indicator May 10, 1820
- 55 • As a Huge Stone • William Wordsworth • pm
- 56 • The Mother Stone • Angela Pickering • ss *
- 64 • Tilly Witch in the Park • Pat Kremer • ss *
- 69 • Full Fathom Five [from The Tempest] • William Shakespeare • pm, 1613
- 70 • Something Rich and Strange • Irene Holness • ss *
- 74 • Overheard on a Saltmarsh • Harold Monro • pm The Silent Pool
- 75 • The Sea-Morgan’s Baby • Ruth L. Tongue • ss Forgotten Folk Tales of the English Counties, ed. Ruth Tongue, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
- 77 • The Moon-Child • Fiona Macleod • pm
- 79 • An Elfin Knight • Joseph Rodman Drake • pm
- 80 • The Travelling Tree • Ruth L. Tongue • ss Forgotten Folk Tales of the English Counties, ed. Ruth Tongue, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
- 81 • Robin Goodfellow • Anon. • pm
- 82 • The Grig’s Red Cap • Ruth L. Tongue • ss Forgotten Folk Tales of the English Counties, ed. Ruth Tongue, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
- 84 • Moon Light, Moon Bright • Anon. • pm
- 85 • Something in the Wind • Margaret Joy • ss *
- 90 • Fairy Godmother? • Pamela Sykes • ss *
- 94 • Christmas Crackers • Marjorie Darke • ss *
- 101 • Grey Goose and Gander • Anon. • pm
- 102 • Cuckoo Song • Rudyard Kipling • pm
- 103 • Cuckoo Fair • Ruth C. Paine • ss *
- 107 • Cure for a Stye [from The Diary of a Country Parson] • James Woodforde • ex
- 108 • Witchcat Watchcat • Ruth McDonald • ss *
- 112 • Salamander • Benvenuto Cellini; trans. by J. A. Symonds • ex
- 113 • Cities Drowned in Olden Times • Henry Newbolt • pm
- 114 • The Pirates and the Drowned Bells • Anne English • ss *
- 119 • Storm Children • Pauline Hill • ss *
- 126 • The Men of Black Tup • Frank Charles • ss *
- 137 • Matthew, Mark, Luke and John • Traditional • pm
- 138 • Four Eggs a Penny • Ruth L. Tongue • ss Forgotten Folk Tales of the English Counties, ed. Ruth Tongue, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1970
- 140 • Three Charms • Anon. • pm
- 141 • The Spunky • Anon. • pm
- 142 • The Girl Who Boxed an Angel • Dorothy Edwards • ss *
- 152 • Queen Mab [from Romeo and Juliet] • William Shakespeare • pm, 1596
- 153 • The Fairies • Anon. • pm
- 154 • Half a Loaf is Better than No Bread [from Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds] • Edward Thomas • ss
- 157 • Goblins’ Song • James Telfer • pm
- 157 • A Fairy Ring • John Aubrey • nf Miscellanies, John Aubrey, 1696
- 158 • Josey Linny • Mary Webb • ms
- 159 • The Fairies’ Farewell • Richard Corbet • pm
- 160 • I Fear That Puck is Dead • Eugene Lee Hamilton • pm
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