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The Only One ed. Anon. (Leisure 0-8439-5170-2, May 2003, $6.99, 366pp, pb); [BG]

1 • Dark Descent • Christine Feehan • na *
135 • The Star Queen • Susan Grant • na *
235 • Sacrilege • Susan Squires • na *
Playboy’s Short-Shorts ed. Anon. (Playboy Press BA0117, 1970, 95¢, 192pp, pb)

6 • Preface • Anon. • pr
8 • In a Season of Calm Weather • Ray Bradbury • ss Playboy Jan ’57
16 • 23 Pat O’Brien Movies • Bruce Jay Friedman • ss Playboy Dec ’60
23 • Stylish Stout • P. G. Wodehouse • ss Playboy Apr ’65
30 • The Shooting of Judge Price • Erskine Caldwell • ss Playboy May ’56
37 • Tea Party • Harold Pinter • ss Playboy Jan ’65
43 • A Corking Evening • Lawrence Durrell • ss Playboy Dec ’63
48 • No Mac, It Just Wouldn’t Work • Robert Graves • ss Playboy Jan ’67
54 • The Good Doctor • Allan Seager • ss Playboy Mar ’66
60 • Proposition • Garson Kanin • ss Playboy Jan ’62
66 • Quarrel • John D. MacDonald • ss Playboy May ’67
73 • The Rumbling, Rambling Blues • Jack Kerouac • ss Playboy Jan ’58
78 • A Fine Son • Roald Dahl • ss Playboy Dec ’59
87 • A Valentine • William Saroyan • ss Playboy Feb ’66
92 • Papa’s Planet • William F. Nolan • ss Playboy Apr ’68
98 • The Actor [as by Brian Rencelaw] • Ray Russell • vi Playboy Mar ’60
100 • Big Daddy Says Yes, Big Daddy Says No • Ken W. Purdy • vi Playboy Dec ’68
104 • Mating Season • Charles Lee Robinson • ss Playboy Sep ’55
112 • Deathwatch • Norman Spinrad • ss Playboy Nov ’65
118 • It • Donald E. Westlake • ss Playboy Sep ’68
123 • All the Weed in the World • Fritz Leiber • ss Playboy Jan ’61
131 • The Monster Show • Charles Beaumont • ss Playboy May ’56
139 • All to Scale • Lawrence Durrell • ss Playboy Sep ’66
145 • The Invasion • Avram Davidson • ss Playboy Jul ’65
151 • The Firing Line • Henry Slesar • ss Playboy Sep ’61
158 • The Doll • Hugh G. Foster • ss Playboy Sep ’56
165 • Change of Plan • Ken W. Purdy • ss Atlantic Monthly Sep ’52
170 • The First Night of Lent • Ray Bradbury • ss Playboy Mar ’56
178 • The Master Copy • Frank Dobinson • ss Playboy May ’66
184 • Something on His Mind [“Strong Greek Wine”] • Gerald Kersh • ss Lilliput Apr ’41; Playboy Dec ’57
189 • The Very Acme of Romantic Love • Wolf Mankowitz • vi Playboy Jan ’64
Playboy’s Short-Shorts 2 ed. Anon. (Playboy Press 16170, 1972, 95¢, 191pp, pb)

5 • Preface • Anon. • pr
9 • This One Will Kill You • Bill Cosby • ss Playboy Jan ’71
16 • The Change • Don Carpenter • ss Playboy Jun ’71
20 • The Cure • Robert Bloch • ss Playboy Oct ’57
27 • Last Will and Testament [“Will for Nero”, as by Rex Fabian] • Ray Russell • ss Playboy Jan ’56
31 • The Morning After • Wade Miller • ss Playboy Aug ’62
40 • The Supermen • William M. Clark • ss Playboy Oct ’60
46 • Playback • Arthur C. Clarke • ss Playboy Dec ’66
51 • Solo for Violin • Henry Slesar • ss Playboy Mar ’62
57 • The Brass Telephone • Ken W. Purdy • ss Playboy Oct ’64
64 • The Darendinger Build-Up • William F. Nolan • ss Playboy Jun ’56
74 • Hard Bargain • Alan E. Nourse • ss Playboy May ’58
81 • A Very Human Story • Harvey Swados • ss Playboy Jul ’57
88 • Ad Lib Exit • Willard Marsh • ss Playboy Aug ’56
95 • The Best Job in Television • Frederick Wieting • ss Playboy Jan ’58
103 • Walk to the Station • Stanley Cooperman • ss Playboy Aug ’56
109 • Everybody Hates David Starbuck • Steve Allen • ss Playboy Dec ’58
116 • Sorcerer’s Moon • Charles Beaumont • ss Playboy Jul ’59
121 • Hobbyist • Fredric Brown • vi Playboy May ’61
124 • Ellen’s Dreams • Alexander Dumbarton • ss Playboy Jul ’71
131 • The Hundred-Dollar Suicide • Henry Gregor Felsen • ss Playboy Dec ’56
136 • A Sock in the Jaw • Ken W. Purdy • ss Playboy Nov ’58
142 • The Perfect Alibi • Mike McGrady & Joe Hickey • vi Playboy Feb ’63
145 • The Raffle • E. J. Kahn, Jr. • ss Playboy Feb ’67
151 • No More Gifts • Willard Marsh • ss Playboy Apr ’56
160 • Blood Brother • Charles Beaumont • ss Playboy Apr ’61
166 • A Very Rare Disease • Henry Slesar • vi Playboy Aug ’58
169 • The Traveling Salesman • Robert Bloch • ss Playboy Feb ’57
174 • The New Deal • Charles Einstein • ss Playboy Feb ’63
181 • The Wise Guy • Ken W. Purdy • ss Playboy Jun ’59
189 • Don’t Think • Ray Russell • ss Playboy Jul ’61
Polish Short Stories ed. Anon. (Warsaw: Polonia Publishing House, 1960, 324pp, hc); Tan cloth. No ills. [RB]

7 • Foreword • Anon. • fw
13 • Ad Leones • Cyprian Kamil Norwid • ss
31 • The Lighthouse Keeper • Henryk Sienkiewicz • ss
55 • Chava Ruby • Aleksander Swietochowski • ss
87 • The Waistcoat • Boleslaw Prus • ss
105 • Miss Antonina • Eliza Orzeszkowa • ss
149 • Community Welfare Service • Maria Konopnicka • ss
181 • For a Coffin • Adolf Dygasinski • ss
189 • The Bitch • Wladyslaw Stanislaw Reymont • ss
213 • The Dowry • Zygmunt Niedzwiecki • ss
221 • Her Kitten • Gabriela Zapolska • ss
245 • A Question of Influence • Wlodzimierz Perzynski • ss
257 • A Sacrifice to the Gods • Waclaw Sieroszewski • ss
289 • Forest Echoes • Stefan Zeromski • ss
309 • At the Station • Andrzej Strug • ss
320 • Bibliography of Translations • Misc. Material • bi
Post Stories of 1935 ed. Anon. (Little, Brown, 1936, 476pp, hc)

• To Mary with Love • Richard Sherman • nv The Saturday Evening Post Dec 14 ’35 (+1)
• The Sergeant and the Spy • John W. Thomason, Jr. • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 23 ’35
• Three Lovesick Swains of Gibraltar [Colin Glencannon] • Guy Gilpatric • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 27 ’35
• Julie • John Taintor Foote • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 27 ’35
• The Grampus and the Weasel • Stewart Edward White • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 4 ’35
• Singing in His Cell • George S. Brooks • ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 23 ’35
• Judge • Walter D. Edmonds • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 3 ’35
• The Heart of Guinevere—London, 1935 • James Warner Bellah • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 14 ’35
• Smoke Over the Prairie • Conrad Richter • nv The Saturday Evening Post Jun 1 ’35
• Darling Bill— • Dalton Trumbo • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 20 ’35
• You Can’t Do That • J. P. Marquand • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 22 ’35
• Off the Set • Eleanor Kinsella McDonnell • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 28 ’35
• Conservation Corps • Thomas Beer • ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 2 ’35
• Conquest • Leonard Lee • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 9 ’35
• N. Ah. A. • T. S. Stribling • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 26 ’35
• Expense Account • Paul Gallico • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 16 ’35
• The Curfew Tolls • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 5 ’35
• Girls Are Like Boats • Charles Rawlings • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 13 ’35
• A Horse of a Different Color • Norman Reilly Raine • ss The Saturday Evening Post, 1935
• Poloniase • Eleanor Mercein • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 22 ’35
• Just the Old Fire Horse in Him • Everett Rhodes Castle • ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 9 ’35
Post Stories of 1936 ed. Anon. (Little, Brown, 1937, 482pp, hc)

• The Devil and Daniel Webster • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 24 ’36
• Some Ways Like Washington • Booth Tarkington • ss The Saturday Evening Post, 1936
• You All Want Something • Richard Sherman • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 17 ’36
• Tightwad • Paul Gallico • ss The Saturday Evening Post, 1936
• Escape from the Mine • Walter D. Edmonds • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 11 ’36
• Swing Business • Henry Anton Steig • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 19 ’36
• Gone to Texas • John W. Thomason, Jr. • ss The Saturday Evening Post, 1936
• Captain Snooty-Off-the-Yacht [Colin Glencannon] • Guy Gilpatric • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 17 ’36
• Total Stranger • James Gould Cozzens • ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 15 ’36
• The Baron Loved His Wife • William C. White • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 4 ’36
• Put Those Things Away • J. P. Marquand • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 20 ’36
• Wheelbarrow • Eddy Orcutt • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 27 ’36
• The Third Day • I. A. R. Wylie • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 18 ’36
• Cowboy Boots • H. L. Davis • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 1 ’36
• Broadway Angler • John Taintor Foote • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 12 ’36
• McTurk • Everett Rhodes Castle • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 19 ’36
• Early Americana • Conrad Richter • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 25 ’36
• Jarge Makes In • Charles Rawlings • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 3 ’36
• Night Operations • George S. Brooks • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 24 ’36
• Lightning Never Strikes Twice • Mary Roberts Rinehart • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 6 ’36
• Hot February • George Bradshaw • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 23 ’36
• New Model • Harold Titus • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 14 ’36
• Past Speaking • Dorothy Thomas • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 26 ’36
Post Stories of 1938 ed. Anon. (Little, Brown, 1939, 424pp, hc)

3 • Up Periscope! • Alec Hudson • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 31 ’38
25 • Oh, Once in My Saddle • David Lamson • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 30 ’38
43 • The Roman Kid • Paul Gallico • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 11 ’38
67 • From the Mother of the Groom • Martin Storm • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 19 ’38
83 • Valedictory • MacKinlay Kantor • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 28 ’38
104 • The Yogi of West Ninth Street [Colin Glencannon] • Guy Gilpatric • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 24 ’38
123 • It’s Gotta Rain Sometime • R. Ross Annett • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 9 ’38
142 • The Tin Bridge • Almet Jenks • ss The Saturday Evening Post, 1938
164 • Mr. Chinnus and the Plat-Eye • Glenn Allan • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 20 ’38
181 • The Car • Dorothy Thomas • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 25 ’38
195 • Young Ames Goes Down the River • Walter D. Edmonds • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 30 ’38
224 • Doc Mellhorn and the Pearly Gates • Stephen Vincent Benét • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 24 ’38
245 • Gone Away! • Robert Murphy • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 15 ’38
258 • Groper in the Dark • Joseph Harrington • ss The Saturday Evening Post Sep 10 ’38
278 • Tugboat Annie Sails Again [Tugboat Annie] • Norman Reilly Raine • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 1 ’38
301 • May the Dew Be Heavy • George Sessions Perry • ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 12 ’38
315 • A Letter Home • Charles Rawlings • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 10 ’38
338 • A Preacher Goes to Texas • John W. Thomason, Jr. • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 23 ’38
357 • Traffic Trick • Leland Jamieson • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 8 ’38
378 • Trail’s End • Holmes Alexander • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 23 ’38
388 • One Hour to Wait • Charles L. Clifford • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 6 ’38
404 • Showman • Patterson McNutt • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 16 ’38
Post Stories of 1939 ed. Anon. (Little, Brown, 1940, hc)

3 • Battle Stations! • Alec Hudson • na The Saturday Evening Post Oct 28 ’39 (+1)
59 • Brag Dog • Vereen Bell • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 18 ’39
79 • Night in Havana • Burnham Carter • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 6 ’39
107 • Tell Me a Love Story • Paul Gallico • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 27 ’39
129 • Spring Over Brooklyn • Zachary Gold • ss The Saturday Evening Post Aug 19 ’39
142 • Sergeant Bridoon of the Horse Marines • John W. Thomason, Jr. • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 23 ’39
164 • The Hero • Margaret Weymouth Jackson • ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 18 ’39
180 • Now, Ripley, Please! • Booth Tarkington • ss The Saturday Evening Post Apr 1 ’39
198 • Cocks Must Crow • Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 25 ’39
221 • This Business Needs a Fool • Joel Sayre • ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 7 ’39
239 • The Mountains of the Axis • James Ramsey Ullman • ar The Saturday Evening Post Dec 30 ’39
261 • Uncle Pete Laid a Negg • R. Ross Annett • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 6 ’39
278 • “Soldier from the Wars Returning...” • Alec Waugh • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 6 ’39
295 • Jeff Raleigh’s Piano Solo • Edmund Ware • ss The Saturday Evening Post May 27 ’39
312 • The Road That Led Afar • Lula Vollmer • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 14 ’39
331 • The Visiting Fire-Eater • Philip Wylie • ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 23 ’39
353 • Won’t You Walk a Little Faster • Richard Sherman • ss The Saturday Evening Post Nov 18 ’39
379 • Subway Fire • Joseph Harrington • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 21 ’39
397 • The Man Who Was Grateful • David Lamson • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 21 ’39
416 • The Hunting of the Haggis [Colin Glencannon] • Guy Gilpatric • ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 14 ’39
Regency Christmas Spirits ed. Anon. (Signet 0-451-20438-7, Oct 2001, $6.99, 353pp, pb); [BG]

1 • The Merry Wanderer • Nancy Butler • na *
88 • The Wexford Carol • Emma Jensen • na *
160 • High Spirits • Edith Layton • na *
214 • The Christmas Curse • Barbara Metzger • na *
282 • A Gathering of Gifts • Andrea Pickens • na *
Romance Album 1944 ed. Anon. (Swan, 1944, 128pp, hc); [SH]

• Your Heart in Memory • Dudley Bruce • ss *
• Chasing Shadows • Elizabeth Anne Cross • ss *; [as by Elizabeth Ann Cross on ToC]
• Always My Love • Evelyne Mell • ss *; [as by Evelyn Mell on ToC]
• The Girl on the Bus • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• Lion’s Paw • Shelagh Navarre • ss *
• Spring Comes to Ann Street • Maud Morin • ss *
• The Girl at the Corner • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• Pop-Corn • Masie Mary Moore • ss *
• Chief Bridesmaid • Nora Cassera • ss *
• “Music” • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• Break a Mirror for Luck • Iris Leigh • ss *
• From Dusk Till Dawn • Nora Burke • ss *
• Letters for my Love! • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• Our Baby • H. V. Green • ss *
• Reverie • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• “It’s a Beautiful Evening” • Ann Singleton • ss *
• The Lovers • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• Can This Be Love? • Marjorie Norton • ss *
• [untitled) • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• No Gilt on the Gingerbread • Florence Speed • ss *
• Do Not Disturb! • Margaret Sands • ss *
• She Met Mr. Clairvoyant • F. W. Murray • ss *
• The Quality of Mercy • John Marsh • ss *
• The Out-of-Work • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• Vanity’s a Crime! • Rex Ransley • ss *
• Kisses by Request • Patricia Westley • ss *
• The Three Graces • W. J. Elliott • pm *
• Pedler’s Pack • Mary Moore • ss *
• “Salut d’Amour!” • W. J. Elliott • pm *
Romances Album 1945 ed. Anon. (Swan, 1945, 128pp, hc); [SH]

• Fidelity • Stella Dene • ss *
• Taming Clem • H. V. Green • ss *
• Returning • P. K. S. • pm *
• “There Is a Lady” • Evelyne Mell • ss *; as by Evelyn Mell in ToC and Evelynne Mell on story.
• Remember • Anon. • pm *
• Pals and a Palette • Peter Larcombe • ss *
• Reverie • Anon. • pm *
• Lucky Dream • Patricia Westley • ss *
• In Half an Hour • Dorothy Raynor • ss *
• The Chase • Anon. • vi *
• Brave Music • Anne Singleton • ss *
• Unity • P. K. S. • pm *
• Across the Years • John Marsh • ss *
• The Request • W. E. Sanders • pm *
• Merle Gets Her Valentine • Florence Speed • ss *
• She Cheated for Love • Marjorie Norton • ss *
• After So Long • Muriel Hargreaves • ss *
• True Love • Denis Ashurst • vi *
• So This Is Love • Norah Cassera • ss *
• September Afternoon • Dora Garnett • ss *
• Living • P. K. S. • pm *
• Endeavour • P. K. S. • pm *
• A Woman’s Place • James A. Wordingham • ss *
• The String Vibrates • Joseph Hepworth • ss *
• Crash in the Mountains • B. M. Parsons • ss *
• Soliloquy • P. K. S. • pm *
• By Distance Divided • Dudley Bruce • ss *
• Scandal in Her Family • Anne Landell • ss *
• Cheap Jack Esq. - Gentleman • L. G. Horsefield • ss *
• Duty • Howard Humphreys • ss *
• Jealous of His Pal • B. Eliot • ss *
• Back to the Land • Bruce Waugh • vi *
• Meet My Brother • Dorothy Raynor • ss *
Romances Album 1947 ed. Anon. (Swan, 1947, 3/6, 128pp, hc); [SH]

• Incident at ‘San Marino’ • Leslie Bussey • ss *
• Marriage in May • Anon. • pm *
• Recollection • Anon. • pm *
• Happy Accident • Carol Raymond • ss *
• The Cycle • Anon. • pm *
• Presence • Anon. • pm *
• Music • Anon. • pm *
• All in Twenty-Four Hours • Margaret Cole • ss *
• Faith • Joan Storey • ss *
• Another’s Shoes • Margaret Sands • ss *
• Lover’s Return • Anon. • pm *
• The Turn of the Mill • Denis Richmond • ss *
• Mr. Yedesdale • Muriel Hargreaves • ss *
• Lucky! • Anon. • pm *
• Struts His Brief Hour • G. M. Byrne • ss *
• Chines Recipe • Patrick S. Selby • ss *
• My Thoughts • L. G. • pm *
• A Sound in the Doorway • N. Wesley Firth • ss *
• Jig-Saw for Cupid • Vicki Thompson • ss *
• The Scuttlers • Ernest L. McKeag • ss Hutchinson’s Adventure-Story Magazine Mar ’23
• When the Gipsy Violin Played • Fiona Fraser • ss *
• Melinda Ran Away • Mari Matson • ss *
• The Plunger • Ian Avon • ss *
• The Price of Doubt • Elizabeth Reid • ss *
• In Love • Anon. • pm *
• In Your Absence • Anon. • pm *
• “Tasha” • Iris House • ss *
• Quiet Holiday • Vangey Mason • ss *
• Lucky Dip • Dorothy Raynor • ss *
• Mistletoe Madness • Pauline Silver • ss *
• Fiancees Get Acquainted! • G. Eliot • ss *
• The Sculptor and the Angel • Douglas Dainton • ss *
• Husband Gets a Look In • Alice E. Rowe • ss *
• Half-a-Holiday • Margaret St. John Bathe • ss *
• Doubtless • James Green • ss *

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