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The Haunted House and Other Spooky Poems and Tales ed. Vic Crume & Gladys Schwarcz (Scholastic TX 1786, Oct ’70, 50¢, 80pp, tp)

7 • Old Cornish Litany • Anon. • pm
8 • The Haunted House • Vic Crume • pm
10 • A Skeleton Once in Khartoum • Author Unknown • pm
10 • In Memory of Anna Hopewell • Author Unknown • pm
11 • The Devil’s Pocket • George Mendoza • ss The Crack in the Wall & Other Terribly Weird Tales, Dial, 1968
17 • The Old Wife and the Ghost • James Reeves • pm
19 • Mother Goose • Irene Sekula • pm Fantastic Story Magazine Spr ’54
19 • The Superstitious Ghost • Arthur Guitterman • pm
21 • The Flattered Flying Fish (The Shark and the Flying Fish) • E. V. Rieu • pm
23 • Ruth and Johnnie • Author Unknown • pm
23 • It Isn’t the Cough • Author Unknown • pm
24 • Adventures of Isabel • Ogden Nash • pm
26 • The Velvet Ribbon • Ann McGovern • vi
28 • Little Willie • Author Unknown • pm
28 • Jerry Jones • Author Unknown • pm
29 • The Cradle That Rocked by Itself • Maria Leach, as told by • vi
32 • The Wreck of the Hesperus • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow • pm
38 • The Yarn of the “Nancy Bell” • William Schwenck Gilbert • sg Current Literature Oct ’01
42 • A Sea Dirge [from The Tempest] • William Shakespeare • pm, 1613
43 • The Ghost Catcher • E. B. Chance, retold by • ss; a tale from India.
48 • The Great Auk’s Ghost • Ralph Hodgson • pm Collected Poems, Macmillan
48 • Any Day Now • David McCord • pm
49 • from The Witch of Willowby Wood • Rowena Bennett • pm
49 • A Young Lady from Glitch • Tamara Kitt • pm
50 • The Purist • Ogden Nash • pm, 1935
50 • The Kilkenny Cats • Author Unknown • pm
51 • Dust • Sydney King Russell • pm
53 • Windy Nights • Robert Louis Stevenson • pm
54 • Voices • Felice Holman • pm
55 • Winter Moon • Langston Hughes • pm
55 • November Night • Adelaide Crapsey • pm
56 • The Erl-King • Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; trans. by Louis Untermeyer • pm
58 • Shadows Before Dawn from A Song of Sherwood • Alfred Noyes • pm
59 • from Sir Roderic’s Song • William Schwenck Gilbert • pm
60 • The Bat • Theodore Roethke • pm
61 • The Listeners • Walter de la Mare • pm The Living Age Apr 29 ’11
63 • The Red Room • H. G. Wells • ss The Idler Mar, 1896; edited and abridged.
77 • The Two Old Women of Mumbling Hill • James Reeves • pm
79 • Spooks • Nathalia Crane • pm
The Short Story: Plot Thickens ed. Arthur Daigon & Mimi Schmitt (Prentice-Hall 0-13-809764-X, 1977, 186pp, tp); There is an Activities page after each story.

1 • Beginnings and Endings
2 • The Father • Björnstjerne Björnson • ss Union Jack Aug 24, 1882
6 • Thank You, M’am • Langston Hughes • ss, 1958
10 • The Unuttered Warning • Eric Bengston • ss
14 • The Nine Billion Names of God • Arthur C. Clarke • ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
20 • The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World • Gabriel García Márquez • ss Playboy Nov ’71
27 • Yesterdays
28 • 1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel • Richard Brautigan • ss
32 • A Visit to Grandmother • William Melvin Kelley • ss
39 • How Grandpa Came Into the Money • Elsa Zantner • ss
42 • Ancient Gentility • William Carlos Williams • ss
44 • Time in Thy Flight • Ray Bradbury • ss Fantastic Universe Jun/Jul ’53
50 • Live and Learn
51 • Señor Payroll • William E. Barrett • ss The Southwest Review Aut ’43
55 • Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment [“The Fountain of Youth”] • Nathaniel Hawthorne • ss The Knickerbocker Jan, 1837
63 • Coyote 13 • Arturo Souto Alabarce; trans. by Harriet de Onis • ss
67 • The Richer, the Poorer • Dorothy West • ss
71 • Our Best and Our Worst
72 • Epitaph for a Heel • William Fay • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 20 ’62
80 • The Apple Tree • Katherine Mansfield • ss Woman’s Home Companion
84 • The Enemy • Pearl Buck • ss Harper’s, 1943
94 • Four Men and a Box • Leslie Gordon Barnard • ss This Week, 1947
99 • Insiders and Outsiders
100 • The Lost Soul • Ben Hecht • ss
104 • The Walls [People] • Zenna Henderson • ss Holding Wonder, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1971
111 • Give Us This Day • Alice Reid • ss
114 • Caged • Lloyd Eric Reeve • ss
117 • Zoo • Edward D. Hoch • vi Fantastic Universe Jun ’58
120 • Love Me/Love Me Not
121 • The Lover and His Lass • James Thurber • ss
123 • The Wooing of Ariadne • Harry Mark Petrakis • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 20 ’60
133 • The Gift of the Magi • O. Henry • ss The Four Million, Doubleday, 1906
137 • Feels Like Spring • Milton Kaplan • ss
142 • Out of This World
143 • The Boy Who Drew Cats • Lafcadio Hearn • ss, 1898
146 • Tularecito • John Steinbeck • ss
153 • Where Angels Fear • Manly Wade Wellman • ss Unknown Mar ’39
159 • Sredni Vashtar • Saki • ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 ’10
164 • Tomorrows
165 • The Business As Usual • Mack Reynolds • vi F&SF Jun ’52
168 • The Wheel • John Wyndham • ss Startling Stories Jan ’52
174 • Virtuoso • Herbert Goldstone • ss F&SF Feb ’53
179 • Who Can Replace a Man? [“But Who Can Replace a Man?”] • Brian W. Aldiss • ss Infinity Science Fiction Jun ’58
Tall Short Stories ed. Eric Duthie (Ace Star K-113, 1960, 50¢, 352pp, pb); Reprint (Simon & Schuster 1959) anthology.

9 • Introduction • Eric Duthie • in
• I. The Natural Liar
17 • A.V. Laider • Max Beerbohm • ss The Century Jun ’16
37 • A Funny Thing [Uncle Silas] • H. E. Bates • ss
42 • The Open Window • Saki • ss The Westminster Gazette Nov 18 ’11
• II. The Air of Truth
46 • Mrs. Jorkens [“The Mermaid’s Husband”; Joseph Jorkens] • Lord Dunsany • ss Cosmopolitan Oct ’30
62 • The Misadventures of a Matrimonial Swindler • Karel Capek • ss Tales from Two Pockets, London: Faber, 1932
69 • Entrance Fee [“Histoire de France, or Entrance Fee”] • Alexander Woollcott • ss New Yorker Mar 1 ’30
72 • Flurry at the Sheep Dog Trial • Eric Knight • ss
77 • Astonished Father • Bernard Glemser • ss
88 • The Woman in the Case • Anton Chekhov • ss
94 • The Contraption • Rhys Davies • ss
103 • Song at Twilight • Wolcott Gibbs • ss
108 • The Window • Guy de Maupassant • ss
114 • Idle Tears [Joseph Jorkens] • Lord Dunsany • ss London Evening News Feb 6 ’51
118 • The B.B.I. • A. J. Alan • ss
• III. The Wolf Strain: A Ferocious Pack
129 • The Troll • T. H. White • ss Gone To Ground, 1935
140 • The Unicorn in the Garden • James Thurber • vi New Yorker Oct 21 ’39
141 • Fallen Star • John Collier • ss
153 • Another American Tragedy • John Collier • ss New Yorker Jun 1 ’40
160 • Earth to Earth • Robert Graves • ss Punch Feb ’55
165 • On Guard • Evelyn Waugh • ss
175 • Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] • Lord Dunsany • ss Time & Tide Nov 12 ’32 (+1)
• IV. The Hyperbolist
188 • The Great French Duel • Mark Twain • ss
195 • Guest of the Redshields • Christina Stead • ss
199 • The Background • Saki • ss
202 • Pigs Is Pigs • Ellis Parker Butler • ss The American Magazine Sep ’05
211 • A Cross Action [Albert Haddock] • A. P. Herbert • ss
216 • How the Brigadier Slew the Fox [Brigadier Gerard] • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle • ss
229 • The Awful Fate of Melpomenus Jones • Stephen Leacock • ss
231 • Maxim’s at Fifty Thousand Feet • Art Buchwald • ss
235 • The Golden Scilens • Sir John Squire • ss
• V. Science Fiction Surpassed
247 • The Vanishing Man • Richard Hughes • ss A Moment of Time, Chatto & Windus, 1926
250 • No Strings Attached [“Marionettes, Inc.”] • Ray Bradbury • ss Startling Stories Mar ’49
258 • Elixir of Love • C. S. Forester • ss
266 • Do Insects Think? • Robert Benchley • ss
267 • The Truth About Pyecraft • H. G. Wells • ss The Strand Apr ’03
277 • God and the Machine • Nigel Balchin • ss, 1951
• VI. Life the Great Tall Story
288 • I’ll Always Call You Schnorrer, My African Explorer • S. J. Perelman • ss
296 • The Extraordinary Cabman • G. K. Chesterton • ss
299 • The Perfect Game • G. K. Chesterton • ss The Daily News Aug 11 ’06
303 • The Rightful Heir • Archibald Marshall • ss
306 • The Bus • Archibald Marshall • ss
309 • The Man with the Heart in the Highlands • William Saroyan • ss
• VII. Upside Down-Inside Out
317 • The Carmanship of Godfrey Plaste • Stephen Potter • ss
322 • Quigley 873 [from The Night the Old Nostalgia Burned Down] • Frank Sullivan • ss London: J.M. Dent
328 • The Honest Man and the Devil • Hilaire Belloc • ss
333 • Mr. Havlena’s Verdict • Karel Capek • ss Tales from Two Pockets, London: Faber, 1932
339 • If Grant Had Been Drinking at Appomattox • James Thurber • vi New Yorker Dec 6 ’30
342 • Love Is a Fallacy • Max Shulman • ss
Mondo Elvis ed. Lucinda Ebersole & Richard Peabody (St. Martin’s Press 0-312-10505-3, Jan ’94, $12.95, 228pp, tp)

xi • Introduction • Lucinda Ebersole & Richard Peabody • in
1 • Tupelo • Nick Cave • pm
4 • From Tender • Mark Childress • ex
16 • Young Elvis • Cornelius Eady • pm
17 • From Elvis Presley Calls His Mother After the Ed Sullivan Show • Samuel Charters • ex
22 • Words and Pictures • Rachel Salazar • ss
30 • Elvis Cuts Loose • Eleanor Earle Crockett • ss
39 • Blue Suede Shoes • Diane Wakoski • pm
42 • Jungle Music: The All-Time All-Star 1950s Rock ‘n’ Roll Movie • Greil Marcus • ss
49 • Ike at the Mike • Howard Waldrop • ss Omni Jun ’82
64 • From Cousins • Judy Vernon • ex
72 • W.C.W. Watching Presley’s Second Appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”: Mercy Hospital, Newark, 1956 • David Wojahn • pm
74 • The Assassination of Robert Goulet, As Performed by Elvis Presley: Memphis , 1968 • David Wojahn • pm
75 • Nixon Names Elvis Honorary Federal Narcotics Agent At Oval Office Ceremony, 1973 • David Wojahn • pm
76 • Elvis Moving a Small Cloud: The Desert Near Las Vegas, 1976 • David Wojahn • pm
77 • At Graceland with a Six Year Old, 1985 • David Wojahn • pm
78 • Pharaoh’s Palace (Memphis, 1988) • David Wojahn • pm
81 • From Stark Raving Elvis • William McCranor Henderson • ex
84 • From The Girl Who Loved Elvis • Susie Mee • ex
94 • Elvis, Axl, and Me • Janice Eidus • ss
101 • Elvis P. and Emma B. • Elizabeth Ash • pm
102 • From Elvis Presley Boulevard • Mark Winegardner • ex
113 • From Graced Land • Laura Kalpakian • ex
135 • Sproing! [1987] • Eri Makino • ss Monkey Brain Sushi, ed. Alfred Birnbaum, Kodansha, 1991
152 • An Elvis for the Ages • Lynne McMahon • pm
154 • Elvis’s Bathroom • Pagan Kennedy • ss The Village Voice, 1989
170 • The Annunciation • Rafael Alvarez • ss
189 • The Resurrection of Elvis Presley • Ai • pm
192 • The Elvis Cults • Michael Wilkerson • ss
203 • Elvis • Brian Gilmore • pm
208 • Elvis in Perspective • Cathryn Hankla • ss
224 • Contributors • Misc. Material • bg
The Ghostly Bell Ringer and Other Mysteries ed. Editors of Highlights for Children (Boyds Mills Press 1-878093-39-8, 1992, 96pp, tp)

7 • The Ghostly Bell Ringer • Jeanette Brown • ss
13 • Riddle of the Missing Piece • Kathleen Stevens • ss
19 • The Secret Hiding Place • June Swanson • ss
25 • Super Sleuth Samantha • Jennifer Schulze • ss
31 • The Mystery of the Lost Voice • Pauline Watson • ss
37 • The Mail-Slot Mystery • Jeffie Ross Gordon • ss
43 • The Key in the Heart Mystery • Marilyn Kratz • ss
49 • The Secret of the Summer Clock • Linda Stankard-Green • ss
57 • The Mystery Prize • Edith Gilmore • ss
63 • The Mystery of the Clanging Buoy • Janet Poling • ss
69 • Smart Art and the Wheeler Dealers • Sally Kellogg • ss
75 • The Case of the Missing Science Book • Jeanne Iacono Martin • ss
83 • Mystery of the Missing Mouse • Tina Tibbitts • ss
91 • The Hayride Mystery • Rosalie Maggio • ss
QSFx2: Queer Science Fiction Lars Eighner & Clay Caldwell (Badboy 1-56333-278-7, Sep ’95, $5.95, 172pp, pb)

7 • Introduction: Blast Off! • Aaron Travis • in
13 • Great State • Clay Caldwell • ss
45 • A Dort Called Tiger • Clay Caldwell • ss
55 • Pro vs. Con • Clay Caldwell • ss
67 • Renegade • Clay Caldwell • ss
77 • Galac 19 • Clay Caldwell • ss
91 • Starhauler • Lars Eighner • ss
111 • October Moon • Lars Eighner • ss
123 • Midnight Oil • Lars Eighner • ss Inches, 1993
135 • The Desert Inn • Lars Eighner • ss Stallion, 1992
155 • The Trade • Lars Eighner • ss
The Future of Being Human: Psychology and Science Fiction ed. Jackie & Dave Estrada (Canfield Press 0-06-382637-2, 1977, 172pp, tp)

ix • Preface • Jackie & Dave Estrada • pr
xi • Introduction: Psychology and Science Fiction • Theodore Sturgeon • in
1 • The Science of Psychology • Anon. • si
2 • No Fire Burns • Avram Davidson • ss Playboy Jul ’59
11 • John Sze’s Future • J. R. Pierce • ss Great Science Fiction By Scientists, ed. Groff Conklin, Collier, 1962
17 • Experiencing the World • Anon. • si
18 • Corona • Samuel R. Delany • ss F&SF Oct ’67
29 • Dreaming Is a Private Thing • Isaac Asimov • ss F&SF Dec ’55
38 • The Secret Songs • Fritz Leiber • ss F&SF Aug ’62
45 • Learning and Thinking • Anon. • si
46 • Brain Wipe • Katherine MacLean • ss The New Mind, Frontiers 2, ed. Roger Elwood, Macmillan, 1973
51 • Prolog • John P. McKnight • vi F&SF Aug ’51
54 • Flowers for Algernon • Daniel Keyes • nv F&SF Apr ’59
70 • Built Down Logically • Howard Schoenfeld • vi F&SF Dec ’51
73 • Motivation and Emotion • Anon. • si
74 • Extrapolation [“Beware the Fury”] • Theodore Sturgeon • nv Fantastic Apr ’54
89 • The Circuit Riders [Chuck Matesic] • R. C. FitzPatrick • ss Analog Apr ’62
99 • The Span of Life • Anon. • si
100 • From the Government Printing Office • Kris Neville • ss Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967
105 • Poppa Needs Shorts • Walt & Leigh Richmond • ss Analog Jan ’64
109 • The Man Who Went to the Moon—Twice • Howard Rodman • ss Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1967
113 • Human Differences and Similarities • Anon. • si
114 • The Humours [“Join Now”] • Robert Sheckley • na Galaxy Dec ’58
137 • When It Changed • Joanna Russ • ss Again, Dangerous Visions, ed. Harlan Ellison, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1972
143 • Disorder and Therapy • Anon. • si
144 • The Insane Ones • J. G. Ballard • ss Amazing Jan ’62
150 • They • Robert A. Heinlein • ss Unknown Apr ’41
159 • Relating to One Another • Anon. • si
160 • Bride Ninety-One • Robert Silverberg • ss If Sep ’67
171 • Appendix: Guide to Using the Stories • Misc. Material • ms
Frontier of Going ed. John Fairfax (Panther 586-02688-6-2, 1973, 35p, 124pp, pb)

11 • Introduction • John Fairfax • in
19 • In Memory of Yuri Gagarin • George Barker • pm
23 • Overture 58 (In memoriam Grissom, White, Chaffee 27th January 1967) • John Moat • pm
24 • Lt-Col. Alexei Leonov 19th March 1965 • Peter Godwin • pm
25 • Man (Part IV, Canto 3) • Ronald Duncan • pm
30 • ‘A Star Harvest I Gather’ • Peter Godwin • pm
31 • Space Miner (for Robert Morgan) • Leslie Norris • pm
32 • Space Walk • John Fairfax • pm
34 • From: Nine Beatitudes to Denver (iii) • George Baker • pm
35 • Mare Tranquillitatis (for John Moat) • John Fairfax • pm
38 • Moondust (for Victor Neep in Rhosgadfan) • John Wain • pm
45 • ‘Rouse him from sleep’ • John Moat • pm
46 • The Satellite • Nathaniel Tarn • pm
47 • All Adam Again • John Fairfax • pm Beyond This Horizon, ed. Christopher Carrell, Ceolfrith, 1973
49 • For the ‘International Poetry Incarnation’ Royal Albert Hall, 11th June 1965 • Edwin Morgan • pm
51 • Columbus of the Sky • John Fairfax • pm
52 • Limbo • D. M. Thomas • pm Penguin Modern Poets #2
53 • Spacepoem 3: Off Course • Edwin Morgan • pm, 1967
54 • The Astronaut • James Kirkup • pm Spaceways, ed. John Foster, Oxford Univ. Press, 1986
55 • Unknown Shores (after Theophile Gautier) • D. M. Thomas • pm, 1969
57 • The Mission • Leslie Norris • pm Frontier of Going, ed. John Fairfax, Granada
58 • Overture I • John Moat • pm
59 • The Ages • Edwin Morgan • pm
62 • Towards the Stars • Paul Lazard • pm
63 • Cosmic Poem • John Heath-Stubbs • pm
67 • Home, Home on the Range • Thomas Blackburn • pm
68 • The Retreating God • Paul Lazard • pm
69 • Inner Space • Paul Roche • pm
70 • Overture 52 • John Moat • pm
71 • The Expanding Universe • Norman Nicholson • pm The Pot Geranium, Faber & Faber
72 • Orbiting Ark • John Fairfax • pm
74 • Overture 53 • John Moat • pm Frontier of Going, ed. John Fairfax, Granada
75 • Afterwards • Edward Lucie-Smith • pm, 1964
76 • Ranger Spacecraft • Nathaniel Tarn • pm
78 • Oration for a Space Shot • John Fairfax • pm
83 • Moon Ashes • Ted Walker • pm
84 • Head with Helmet • Nathaniel Tarn • pm
85 • The Haunted Armchair • Peter Redgrove • pm
87 • Poem written after sighting an Unidentified Flying Object • James Kirkup • pm
90 • Turtle Turn • Ben Dunk • pm
91 • The Youthful Scientist Remembers • Peter Redgrove • pm
93 • Windscale • Norman Nicholson • pm
94 • The Landing in Deucalion • Robert Conquest • pm
96 • Solar Travel • Maurice Carpenter • pm
99 • Far Out (Exoskeltonics) • Robert Conquest • pm Holding Your Eight Hands, ed. Edward Lucie-Smith, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969
104 • Tea in a Space-Ship • James Kirkup • pm
106 • Mars Bars Mars Bars • David Wright • pm
108 • Love in a Spaceship (news item) • Anon. • pm
109 • Love in a Space Suit • James Kirkup • pm
111 • The Choice • Robert Morgan • pm
113 • From an Ecclesiastical Chronicle • John Heath-Stubbs • pm Holding Your Eight Hands, ed. Edward Lucie-Smith, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1969
115 • Contributors • Misc. Material • bg

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