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Bestread Short Stories ed. Max Levin (Bobley Book B3, 1946, 25¢, 127pp, digest, cover by Chris)
Details supplied by Ken Johnson.

3 · Ace of Spades · Frank Bennett · vi *
5 · College for Taje · Roman Lapica · vi *
8 · Chocolate in the Rain · Barbara Leigh · vi *
12 · Lucy’s Love Letters · Maude M. Welch · vi *
15 · Saving the Prof · Gladys B. Perry · vi *
19 · Secret Rendezvous · Jane Collins Durant · vi *
21 · Death Drops a Tear · Virginia Bowes · vi *
24 · Living with Egbert · R. L. Aalholm · vi *
27 · Government Agent · Harry Fielo · vi *
30 · Dead Man’s Auction · Frank Bennett · vi *
32 · Target for Tonight · Yetta Karney · vi *
35 · The Big Shot · Janet Matter · vi *
38 · Midnight Caller · Jean Collins · vi *
40 · Jukebox Serenade · Wilfred Weiss · vi *
43 · Maternity Ward · Corey Ellis · vi *
46 · Grease Paint · Stephen Corbett · vi *
48 · Secret of Her Own · Kenneth Greene · vi *
51 · Ma Goes Hollywood · Gladys B. Perry · vi *
54 · Fenced Straw · M. J. Collins · vi *
56 · A Gun for Julie · Thelma Gardner · vi *
59 · To a Boogie Beat · Ral Resnick · vi *
62 · John’s Magic Charm · G. K. Heintzman · vi *
64 · Till We Meet Again · Sylvia Endler · vi *
66 · Rehabilitated · George Conrad Ebbert · vi *
69 · Guardian of the Law · George C. Chernish · vi *
72 · Expectant Father · Margaret Elsom · vi *
75 · Doctor’s Dilemma · Emily Herbert · vi *
78 · When the Fire Falls · George Kauffman · vi *
80 · Good-By, Cornelius · Billie Longwell · vi *
84 · Tale of a Mouse · M. J. Collins · vi *
87 · First Mortgage · Wilfred Brown · vi *
90 · Luke-Warm to Hot · Ernest Miles · vi *
92 · Mrs. Manners Runs Amok · Leonard Dee · vi *
95 · Sentence of Death · Phil Glanzer · vi *
98 · Blue Is for Boys · Marion Bailey · vi *
101 · Strange Choice · Ral Resnick · vi *
104 · Sweet Sorrow · Jean Craig · vi *
107 · Light of Dawn · M. F. Christopher · vi *
110 · . And She Be Fair · Day Russell · vi *
113 · Alcatraz Escape · Jack Carroll · vi *
116 · Hunter’s Moon · Don Cameron Shafer · ss Munsey’s Magazine May 1927
119 · Daffodils for Isabelle · Marcus Van Sleen · vi *
122 · Red Paint · Kathleen Gilchrist · vi *
125 · Thunder in the Hills · Phil Shackleton · vi *

The Mammoth Book of the Western: An Anthology of Classic Stories of the American Frontier ed. Jon E. Lewis (Carroll & Graf, 1991, hc) [Western]

Command · James Warner Bellah · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jun 8 1946
Burn Him Out · Frank Bonham · ss Argosy Sep 1949
Bad Penny [Flying U Ranch] · B. M. Bower · ss Argosy Dec 2 1933
Wine on the Desert · Max Brand · ss This Week Jun 7 1936
On the Divide · Willa Cather · ss
The Blue Hotel · Stephen Crane · nv Collier’s Nov 26 1898
The Bandit · Loren D. Estleman · ss Best of the West, ed. Joe R. Lansdale, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1986
Great Medicine · Steve Frazee · nv Gunsmoke Jun 1953
The Ranger · Zane Grey · na Ladies Home Journal Oct 1929 (+2)
The Outcasts of Poker Flat · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Jan 1869
When You Carry the Star · Ernest Haycox · ss Collier’s Dec 5 1931
The Caballero’s Way [The Cisco Kid] · O. Henry · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1907
A Man Called Horse · Dorothy M. Johnson · ss Collier’s Jan 7 1950
Desert Command · Elmer Kelton · ex 1980; from The Wolf and the Buffalo, 1980.
The Young Warrior · Oliver La Farge · ss Esquire Dec 1938
The Tall T · Elmore Leonard · nv Argosy Feb 1955, as “The Captives”
All Gold Canyon · Jack London · nv The Century Magazine Nov 1905
The Last Thunder Song · John G. Neihardt · ss 1904
Soldier Blue · T. V. Olsen · ss 1969
Beecher Island · Wayne D. Overholser · ss 1970
The Bird in the Bush · Eugene Manlove Rhodes · ss
Early Americana · Conrad Richter · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 25 1936
Emmet Dutrow · Jack Schaefer · ss Collier’s 1951
Blood on the Sun · Thomas Thompson · ss The American Magazine Jun 1954
The Way West · Mark Twain · ss
The Honk-Honk Breed · Stewart Edward White · ss Everybody’s Magazine Jul 1907
At the Sign of the Last Chance · Owen Wister · ss Cosmopolitan Feb 1928
The Hundred Best Western Novels · Anon. · ms
The Hundred Best Western Short Stories · Anon. · ms

Commander Story Annual for Boys ed. Eric Leyland (Sampson Low, 195?, 509pp, hc)

9 · Muskum Pete, Backwoodsman · Rowland Walker · na
69 · Totty - The Tale of Ten Exciting Terms · Bertram Smith · ss
129 · Birds of a Feather · W. E. Johns · ss
133 · Get Your Man · Bob Dyker · nv
179 · Kalaan’s Last Flight · F. G. Turnbull · ss
183 · They Flew to Adventure · John Davies · na
239 · Tiger of the Frontier · A. A. Shah · nv
279 · The Propagandist · Murray Leinster · ss Astounding Aug 1947
291 · At the Sign of the Wolf’s Head · Bernard Masters · ss
347 · Gold Rush · Joseph Crad · ss
355 · Tony Beats the Band · Anton Lind · na
431 · Kalang · F. G. Turnbull · ss Zoo Apr 1937
436 · That Bit of Chenille · F. G. Turnbull · vi The (London) Evening News Apr 9 1942
439 · Forest Patrol · Jim Kjelgaard · na

Major American Short Stories ed. A. Walton Litz (Oxford University Press 0-195-07899-3, Feb ’94, $39.95, tp)
Third edition. Contents from Amazon.com.

The Search for Form: Irving, Hawthorne, Poe, Melville and James
Rip Van Winkle · Washington Irving · nv The Sketch Book 1819
The Adventure of the German Student · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller, John Murray 1824
Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Apr 1835
Wakefield · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss New England Magazine Jun 1835
Rappaccini’s Daughter · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review Dec 1844
Ligeia · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Museum Sep 1838
The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine Sep 1839
The Purloined Letter [C. Auguste Dupin] · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1845, Carey & Hart 1844
Bartleby the Scrivener · Herman Melville · nv Putnam’s Monthly 1853
The Real Thing · Henry James · ss Black and White Apr 16 1892
The Jolly Corner · Henry James · nv The English Review Dec 1908
Regionalism and Realism
The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County · Mark Twain · ss 1867
How to Tell a Story · Mark Twain · ss
The Outcasts of Poker Flat · Bret Harte · ss Overland Monthly Jan 1869
Editha · William Dean Howells · ss Harper’s Jan 1905
The Courting of Sister Wisby · Sarah Orne Jewett · ss Atlantic Monthly May 1887
Désirée’s Baby · Kate Chopin · ss 1893
The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan 1892
Neighbor Rosicky · Willa Cather · nv
A National Art Form
The Open Boat · Stephen Crane · nv Scribner’s Jun 1897
Stephen Crane’s Own Story · Stephen Crane · ar
I Want to Know Why · Sherwood Anderson · ss The Smart Set Nov 1919
Babylon Revisited · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Feb 21 1931
Big Two-Hearted River · Ernest Hemingway · ss This Quarter Spr 1925
The Gilded Six-Bits · Zora Neale Hurston · ss Story Aug 1933
Red Leaves · William Faulkner · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 25 1930
That Evening Sun · William Faulkner · ss The American Mercury Mar 1931
Flowering Judas · Katherine Anne Porter · ss
Petrified Man · Eudora Welty · ss The Southern Review 1939
Blackberry Winter · Robert Penn Warren · ss 1931
The Man Who Was Almost a Man · Richard Wright · ss
Looking for Mr. Green · Saul Bellow · nv Commentary Mar 1951
A Good Man Is Hard to Find · Flannery O’Connor · ss The Avon Book of Modern Writing, ed. William Phillips & Philip Rahv, Avon 1953
The Magic Barrel · Bernard Malamud · ss The Paris Review Nov/Dec 1954
Venus, Cupid, Folly and Time · Peter Taylor · nv The Kenyon Review Spr 1958
Sonny’s Blues · James Baldwin · nv The Partisan Review 1957
Defender of the Faith · Philip Roth · nv The New Yorker Mar 14 1959
The Doctor’s Wife · John Updike · ss The New Yorker Feb 11 1961
The World of Apples · John Cheever · ss Esquire Dec 1966
The Short Story Today
Lost in the Funhouse · John Barth · ss Atlantic Monthly Nov 1967
The Indian Uprising · Donald Barthelme · ss The New Yorker Mar 6 1965
The Magic Poker · Robert Coover · ss Esquire Jul 1969
The Long-Distance Runner · Grace Paley · ss Esquire Mar 1974
Daisy · Joyce Carol Oates · ss
Helping · Robert Stone · ss The New Yorker Jun 8 1987
Errand · Raymond Carver · ss The New Yorker Jun 1 1987
Everyday Use · Alice Walker · ss Harper’s Apr 1973
Storyteller · Leslie Marmon Silko · ss
Snares · Louise Erdrich · ss Harper’s May 1987
Biographical and Bibliographical Notes · [Misc.] · bg
The American Short Story: A General Bibliography · [Misc.] · bi

Witches ed. Carolyn Lloyd (London: Armada C566, 1977, 78, 20p, pb)
Anthology for young readers.

The Witch! the Witch! · Eleanor Farjeon · pm Poems for Children, New York: Lippincott 1926
The Old Witch · Joseph Jacobs · ss More English Fairy Tales, London 1894
Dorothy and the Wicked Witch of the West [from The Wizard of Oz] · L. Frank Baum · ex 1900
Hay-How for Hallowe’en · Anon. · ??
Which Was Witch? · Eleanore M. Jewett · ss Which Was Witch?, New York: Viking Press 1953
The Little Fox · Ruth Manning-Sanders · ss
Hinx Minx the Old Witch Winks · Anon. · pm
A Witch’s Journey · Beverley Nichols · ss
Hallowe’en · John Ciardi · ss
Hansel and Gretel · Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss German Popular Stories, trans. by Edgar Taylor 1824

The Ocean: 100th Anniversary Collection ed. John Locke (Off-Trail Publications 978-1-935031-03-1, 2008, 234pp, tp, cover by John Locke)

5 · Lost at Sea: The Story of The Ocean · John Locke · in
14 · Bibliography · [Misc.] · bi
15 · Authors and Others · John Locke · bg
39 · When His Chance Came · Clarence Budington Kelland · ss The Ocean Mar 1907
46 · Devereux’s Last Smoke · Izola Forrester · ss The Ocean Mar 1907
53 · Teche’s Canoe · Raymond S. Spears · ss The Ocean Apr 1907
60 · The Terror of the Doomed · William Greener · ss The Ocean May 1907
69 · When All Were Equal · T. Jenkins Hains · ss The Ocean May 1907
75 · A Son of Trouble · John Barton Oxford · ss The Ocean May 1907
81 · “Don’t Give Up the Ship” · W. Hanson Durham · ss The Ocean Jun 1907
86 · A Crusoe of the Antarctic · Herbert E. Hamblen · ss The Ocean Jun 1907
97 · The Lone Mutineer · Charles Francis Bourke · ss The Ocean Jul 1907
107 · The Passing of the Waters · Edwin C. Dickinson · ss The Ocean Aug 1907
111 · The End of the Iron Monarch · Charles Doran · ss The Ocean Aug 1907
121 · At the Spur of Danger · L. Frank Tooker · ss The Ocean Aug 1907
131 · A Treasure in Turtle · E. A. Suverkrop · ss The Ocean Aug 1907
140 · When Famine Drives · George Homer Meyer · ss The Ocean Sep 1907
147 · The Guardian of the Gold · Maitland LeRoy Osborne · ss The Ocean Oct 1907
156 · Under the Black Flag · Burke Jenkins · ss The Ocean Nov 1907
161 · The Backslider · Gifford Hall · ss The Ocean Dec 1907
165 · Nemesis on the High Seas · Herbert Pennell · ss The Ocean Dec 1907
178 · In the Land of To-Morrow · Epes Winthrop Sargent · ss The Ocean Dec 1907 (+1); illus. T. Victor Hall
219 · Till Russia Shall Be Free · Charles Stephens · ss The Ocean Jan 1908
227 · To the Readers of The Ocean · Frank A. Munsey · ed The Ocean Jan 1908
229 · Just a Word or Two by Mr. Munsey About This New Magazine · Frank A. Munsey · ed The Live Wire Feb 1908

Campfire Legends ed. John Long (ICS Books 0-934802-16-5, 1993, $14.95, 181pp, tp)

v · Introduction · John Long · in
1 · Tough · John Lutz · ss Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Nov 1980
14 · On Board the Derelict · Young E. Allison · pm
17 · The Gospel According to Mark · Jorge Luís Borges · ss The New Yorker Oct 23 1971
24 · A letter by Judge Roy “Tall” Cotton to his brother · Roy Cotton · lt
25 · Ultimate Journey · Bruce Bonney · ss
32 · Full Fathom Five [from The Tempest] · William Shakespeare · pm 1613
33 · Under the Glass Bubble · John Long · ss
37 · To the World!! · James W. Nesmith · ss
38 · Without Anything to Eat But The Dead" · Virginia Reed · ss
45 · from The Humor of the American Cowboy · [Misc.] · ex
46 · The Adventures of Sidi-Nouman from The Arabian Nights Entertainment · Anon. · ex
56 · Birds · Jorge Luís Borges · ss
57 · The Tell-Tale Heart · Edgar Allan Poe · ss The Pioneer Jan 1843
63 · from The Humor of the American Cowboy · [Misc.] · ex
64 · The Woman at the Store · Katherine Mansfield · ss Rhythm Spr 1911
76 · Teotihuacan · John Long · ss
81 · Where There’s a Will · Richard & Richard Christian Matheson · ss Dark Forces, ed. Kirby McCauley, Viking 1980
89 · “The Dirty Nincompoop Who Edits That Journal” · Anon. · vi
92 · The End of the Duel · Jorge Luís Borges · ss
97 · The Shark’s Parlor · James Dickey · pm
101 · Becoming Nothing · John Long · ss
113 · Annabel Lee · Edgar Allan Poe · pm Tribune Oct 9 1849
115 · Quite Discouraged and Impatient for His Death · George Yount · ss
120 · A Horseman in the Sky · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Apr 14 1889
127 · The Great Sphinx · Jorge Luís Borges · ss
128 · Lucero · Oscar Castro Z. · ss
136 · Bridge of Sighs · Thomas Hood · pm
140 · Ninth Tale of The Decameron · Boccaccio · ss
147 · Enemies · Tim O’Brien · ss
149 · A Rose for Emily · William Faulkner · ss The Forum Apr 1930
160 · From My Antonia · Willa Cather · ss
163 · An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 13 1890
173 · The Diamond Necklace · Guy de Maupassant · ss 1898, as “The Necklace”

Holsters and Heroes ed. Noel M. Loomis (Macmillan, 1954, hc) [Western]
Also: Lion (pb) 1956 as Gunman’s Land; Hammond (hc) (UK) 1959; Transworld / Corgi (pb) (UK) 1960. WWA #2.

The Genius of Strap Buckner · Brent Ashabranner · ss The American Mercury 1953
The Man in the Hard Hat · S. Omar Barker · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 19 1946
I’ll Take the High Road · Frank Bonham · ss The Blue Book Magazine Aug 1948
The Bad Year · Giff Cheshire · nv The Blue Book Magazine Feb 1949
The Iron Rose · John Cunningham · ss Argosy Sep 1954, as “Breaking Point”
Only the Dead Ride Proudly · Norman A. Fox · ss The Blue Book Magazine Jun 1948
The Luck of Riley · Steve Frazee · ss Dime Western Magazine Jan 1953
The Waters of Manitou · Bill Gulick · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jan 27 1951, as “One More Scalp”
Homecoming · Nelson Nye · ss Gunsmoke Aug 1953
The Patriarch of Gunsight Flat · Wayne D. Overholser · ss The Blue Book Magazine Jun 1950
The Winter of His Life · Lewis B. Patten · ss The Colorado Quarterly 1953
The Killer and the Pit · John L. Sinclair · ss The Saturday Evening Post Jul 15 1950

The Last Celt: A Bio-Bibliography of Robert Ervin Howard ed. Glenn Lord (Berkley Windhover 425-03630-8, Nov ’77, $5.95, 416pp, tp)
Reprint (Donald M. Grant 1976) reference bibliography. [Robert E. Howard]

9 · Introduction · E. Hoffmann Price · in 1971
17 · Foreword · Glenn Lord · fw *
21 · Autobiography
23 · The Wandering Years · Robert E. Howard · bg The Ghost May 1945
29 · An Autobiography · Robert E. Howard · bg *
31 · A Touch of Trivia · Robert E. Howard · bg *
37 · Letter to Farnsworth Wright, ca. June-July 1931 (“In your last letter you asked me to give you...”) · Robert E. Howard · lt The Ghost May 1945 [Farnsworth Wright]
41 · On Reading—and Writing · Robert E. Howard · bg *
61 · Biography
63 · Facts of Biography · Anon. · bg; from Who’s Who Among North American Authors, Vol VI, 1933-34-35, ed. Alberta Lawrence, Golden Syndicate Publishing Company, Los Angeles
65 · A Biographical Sketch of Robert E. Howard · Alvin Earl Perry · bg Fantasy Magazine Jul 1935
_66 · Letter to Alvin Earl Perry, ca. early 1935 (“The first character I ever created...”) · Robert E. Howard · lt Fantasy Magazine Jul 1935 [Alvin Earl Perry]
67 · Robert Ervin Howard: A Memoriam · H. P. Lovecraft · bg Fantasy Magazine Sep 1936
71 · Lone Star Fictioneer · Glenn Lord · bg *
81 · A Memory of R.E. Howard · E. Hoffmann Price · bg Skull-Face Omnibus, Arkham House 1946; a slightly different version appeared in The Ghost for May 1945 under the title “The Book of the Dead, Chapter 2, Robert Ervin Howard”
93 · The Last Celt · Harold Preece · bg The Howard Collector #10 1968
103 · Bibliography
105 · The Bibliography · Glenn Lord · bi *
355 · The Hand of Nergal (fragment) [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · uw *; originally published in a somewhat different version in Conan (Lancer, 1967).
359 · The Battle That Ended the Century · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Acolyte Fll 1944
362 · Letter to Francis T. Laney, 30th July 1934 · August Derleth · ex [Francis T. Laney]
362 · Letter to Duane W. Rimel, 13th September 1934 · Clark Ashton Smith · ex [Duane W. Rimel]
362 · Letter to Charles D. Hornig, August 10, 1934 (“Glad you liked the verses...”) · Robert E. Howard · lt Robert E. Howard in The Fantasy Fan, Robert E. Howard, Roehm’s Room Press 2006 [Charles D. Hornig]; extract only
363 · Letter to Duane W. Rimel, 10th August 1934 · H. P. Lovecraft · ex [Duane W. Rimel]
365 · Pictures in the Fire · Robert E. Howard · vi The “New” Howard Reader #7, Joe & Mona Marek 2000; extract only; first appeared in French in Le Manoir de Terreur (1987)
367 · The Hall of the Dead (synopsis) [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · uw Fantasy Crossroads #1 1974; originally published in a somewhat different version in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, February 1967
369 · Library of Late Robert E. Howard Is Given to Howard Payne College · Anon. · ms Brownwood Bulletin Jun 29 1936
369 · Letter to Farnsworth Wright, 19th December 1936 · Dr. I. M. Howard · ex [Farnsworth Wright]
370 · Letter to Otis Adelbert Kline, 19th February 1937 · Dr. I. M. Howard · ex [Otis Adelbert Kline]
371 · Iron Shadows in the Moon [Conan] · Robert E. Howard · ex Weird Tales Apr 1934, as “Shadows in the Moonlight”; first page only
372 · Letter to Denis Archer, May 20, 1934 (“As you doubtless remember...”) · Robert E. Howard · lt Xenophile Oct 1975 [Denis Archer]
373 · Letter to Robert E. Howard, January 20, 1926 · Farnsworth Wright · lt [Robert E. Howard]
374 · Letter to Robert E. Howard, March 10, 1932 · Farnsworth Wright · lt [Robert E. Howard]
375 · Letter to Robert E. Howard, October 4, 1932 · Harry Bates · lt [Robert E. Howard]
376 · The Golden Caliph [ca. 1922/3] · Robert E. Howard · mg The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
376 · When Wolf Meets Wolf · Robert E. Howard · pm The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
376 · untitled (“A Cossack and a Turk”) · Robert E. Howard · vi The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
376 · Kublai Khan · Robert E. Howard · pm The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
376 · Jazz Music · Robert E. Howard · ar The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
377 · The Department of Weapons: The Sword · Robert E. Howard · ar The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
378 · The Follower · Robert E. Howard · pm The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
378 · Young Lockanbars · Robert E. Howard · pm The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923
379 · Spears of the East · Robert E. Howard · uw The Golden Caliph v1 #1 1923

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