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Tales of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl (Michael Joseph, February 1979, 0-7181-1751-4, £5.95, 256pp, hc, co) · Taste · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker December 8 1951 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” · My Lady Love, My Dove · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker June 21 1952 · Dip in the Pool · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker January 19 1952 · Galloping Foxley · Roald Dahl · ss Town & Country November 1953 · Skin · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker May 17 1952 · Neck · Roald Dahl · ss Someone Like You by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1953 · Nunc Dimittis · Roald Dahl · nv Collier’s September 4 1953, as “The Devious Bachelor” · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959 · William and Mary · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 · The Way Up to Heaven · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker February 27 1954 · Parson’s Pleasure · Roald Dahl · nv Esquire April 1958 · Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat · Roald Dahl · ss Nugget December 1959 · Royal Jelly · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 · Edward the Conqueror · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker October 31 1953

Tales of the Unexpected (var. 1) by Roald Dahl (Vintage Books, September 1979, 0-394-74081-5, $2.95, 471pp, tp, co)     Details taken from online listing. 3 · Taste · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker December 8 1951 21 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 34 · Man from the South · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s September 4 1948, as “Collector’s Item” 48 · My Lady Love, My Dove · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker June 21 1952 67 · Dip in the Pool · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker January 19 1952 82 · Galloping Foxley · Roald Dahl · ss Town & Country November 1953 101 · Skin · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker May 17 1952 122 · Neck · Roald Dahl · ss Someone Like You by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1953 145 · Nunc Dimittis · Roald Dahl · nv Collier’s September 4 1953, as “The Devious Bachelor” 173 · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959 185 · William and Mary · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 219 · The Way Up to Heaven · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker February 27 1954 236 · Parson’s Pleasure · Roald Dahl · nv Esquire April 1958 267 · Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel’s Coat · Roald Dahl · ss Nugget December 1959 288 · Royal Jelly · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 322 · Edward the Conqueror · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker October 31 1953 346 · The Sound Machine · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker September 17 1949 364 · Georgy Porgy · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 395 · The Hitch-Hiker · Roald Dahl · ss The Atlantic Monthly July 1977 411 · Poison · Roald Dahl · ss Collier’s June 3 1950 426 · The Boy Who Talked with Animals · Roald Dahl · nv The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar & Six More by Roald Dahl, Jonathan Cape, 1977 449 · The Umbrella Man · Roald Dahl · ss 458 · Genesis and Catastrophe · Roald Dahl · ss Playboy December 1959, as “A Fine Son” 467 · The Butler · Roald Dahl · ss Travel and Leisure May 1974, as “The Butler Did It”

A Taste of the Unexpected by Roald Dahl (Penguin, May 5, 2005, 0-141-02298-1, £1.50, 56pp, tp, co)     Collection of 3 stories selected from Completely Unexpected Tales (Penguin, 1986). One of the “Penguin 70s”. 1 · Taste · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker December 8 1951 22 · The Way Up to Heaven · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker February 27 1954 43 · The Landlady · Roald Dahl · ss The New Yorker November 28 1959

Roald Dahl’s Book of Ghost Stories ed. Roald Dahl (Jonathan Cape, October 1983, 0-224-02149-4, £7.95, 235pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 14 ghost stories selected by Dahl in 1958 for adaptation in a projected TV series (which was never made). 11 · Introduction · Roald Dahl · in 21 · W.S. · L. P. Hartley · ss World Review January 1952 33 · Harry · Rosemary Timperley · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 47 · The Corner Shop · Cynthia Asquith · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine September 1926 63 · In the Tube · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Magazine December 1922 78 · Christmas Meeting · Rosemary Timperley · vi Truth 1952 81 · Elias and the Draug · Jonas Lie · ss Weird Tales from Northern Seas by Jonas Lie, Kegan Paul, Trence, Truebner, 1893 90 · Playmates · A. M. Burrage · nv Some Ghost Stories by A. M. Burrage, Cecil Palmer, 1927 115 · Ringing the Changes · Robert Aickman · nv The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 146 · The Telephone · Mary Treadgold · ss The Third Ghost Book ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955 154 · The Ghost of a Hand · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ex from The House by the Church-Yard, Tinsley, 1863; originally published as Chapter 12, titled “Some Odd Facts About the Tiled House—Being an Authentic Narrative of the Ghost of a Hand”. 162 · The Sweeper · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 179 · Afterward · Edith Wharton · nv The Century Magazine January 1910 210 · On the Brighton Road · Richard Middleton · ss The Ghost Ship by Richard Middleton, Unwin, 1912 214 · The Upper Berth · F. Marion Crawford · nv Unwin’s Annual 1886, 1885

The Chemickal Marriage by G. W. Dahlquist (Penguin Viking, July 5, 2012, 978-0-670-92163-8, £20.00, 516pp, hc, no) [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]     Fantasy novel. Book 3 of “Dream Eaters” after The Glass Book of Dream Eaters and The Dark Volume.

The Dark Volume by G. W. Dahlquist (Penguin Viking, May 1, 2008, 978-0-670-91653-5, £18.99, 516pp, hc, no, cover by grey519) [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]     Fantasy novel. The sequel to The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters.

The Dark Volume by Gordon Dahlquist (Subterranean Press, August 2009, 978-1-59606-268-9, $75.00, 433pp, hc, n., cover by Dave McKean) [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]     Reprint (Viking 2008) fantasy novel. Signed edition of 500 numbered and 26 lettered copies. Details taken from online listing.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist (Bantam, August 2006, 0-385-34035-4, $26.00, 760pp, hc, n., cover by Shasti O’Leary Soudant) [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]     Fantasy novel. A woman dumped by her fiancé seeks answers and uncovers a conspiracy out to rule the world through sex and dreams.

The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters by Gordon Dahlquist (Subterranean Press, May 2007, 978-1-59606-105-7, $75.00, 637pp, hc, n., cover by Dave McKean) [The Glass Books of the Dream Eaters]     Reprint (Bantam 2006) fantasy novel. This is a signed, limited edition of 500; a traycased, lettered edition of 15 ($250.00) is also available.

The Short Story: Plot Thickens ed. Arthur Daigon & Mimi Schmitt (Prentice Hall, 1977, 0-13-809764-X, 186pp, tp, an)     There is an Activities page after each story. 1 · Beginnings and Endings 2 · The Father · Björnstjerne Björnson · ss The Union Jack August 24 1882 translated from the Norwegian. 6 · Thank You, M’am · Langston Hughes · ss The Langston Hughes Reader by Langston Hughes, G. Braziller, 1958 10 · The Unuttered Warning · Eric Bengston · ss (r) 14 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 20 · The Handsomest Drowned Man in the World · Gabriel García Márquez · ss (r) translated from the Spanish (“El ahogado más hermoso del mundo”). 27 · Yesterdays 28 · 1692 Cotton Mather Newsreel · Richard Brautigan · ss (r) 32 · A Visit to Grandmother · William Melvin Kelley · ss (r) 39 · How Grandpa Came Into the Money · Elsa Zantner · ss 75 Short Masterpieces ed. Roger Goodman, Bantam Books, 1961 42 · Ancient Gentility · William Carlos Williams · ss (r) 44 · Time in Thy Flight · Ray Bradbury · ss Fantastic Universe June/July 1953 50 · Live and Learn 51 · Señor Payroll · William E. Barrett · ss Southwest Review Autumn 1943 55 · Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Knickerbocker January 1837, as “The Fountain of Youth”, uncredited. 63 · Coyote 13 · Arturo Souto Alabarce; translated by Harriet de Onis · ss (r) 67 · The Richer, the Poorer · Dorothy West · ss (r) 71 · Our Best and Our Worst 72 · Epitaph for a Heel · William Fay · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 20 1962 80 · The Apple Tree · Katherine Mansfield · ss Woman’s Home Companion May 1927 84 · The Enemy · Pearl Buck · nv Harper’s Magazine November 1942 94 · Four Men and a Box · Leslie Gordon Barnard · ss This Week 1947 99 · Insiders and Outsiders 100 · The Lost Soul · Ben Hecht · ss A Book of Miracles by Ben Hecht, Viking Press, 1939 104 · The Walls [People] · Zenna Henderson · ss Holding Wonder by Zenna Henderson, Doubleday, 1971 111 · Give Us This Day · Alice Reid · ss (r) 114 · Caged · Lloyd Eric Reeve · ss (r) 117 · Zoo · Edward D. Hoch · vi Fantastic Universe June 1958 120 · Love Me/Love Me Not 121 · The Lover and His Lass · James Thurber · vi The New Yorker May 26 1956 123 · The Wooing of Ariadne · Harry Mark Petrakis · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 20 1960 133 · The Gift of the Magi · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World December 10 1905, as “Gifts of the Magi” 137 · Feels Like Spring · Milton Kaplan · ss (r) 142 · Out of This World 143 · The Boy Who Drew Cats · Lafcadio Hearn · ss Hasegawa, 1898 146 · Tularecito · John Steinbeck · ss (r) 153 · Where Angels Fear · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Unknown March 1939 159 · Sredni Vashtar · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 28 1910 164 · Tomorrows 165 · The Business As Usual · Mack Reynolds · vi The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1952 168 · The Wheel · John Wyndham · ss Startling Stories January 1952 174 · Virtuoso · Herbert Goldstone · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1953 179 · Who Can Replace a Man? · Brian W. Aldiss · ss Infinity Science Fiction June 1958, as “But Who Can Replace a Man?”

The Anthology of Ghost Stories ed. Richard Dalby (Tiger Books, April 31, 1994, 1-85501-503-X, £9.95, 528pp, hc, an)     Bargain book reissue of The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories (Robinson, 1990) excluding the last ten stories. xi · Preface · Richard Dalby · pr 1 · The Unsettled Dust · Robert Aickman · nv Sub Rosa by Robert Aickman, Gollancz, 1968 40 · How He Left the Hotel · Louisa Baldwin · ss The Argosy (UK) October 1894, uncredited. 45 · Whessoe · Nugent Barker · ss Life and Letters December 1928 55 · The Shuttered Room · E. F. Benson · ss Hutchinson’s Story-Magazine August 1929 68 · An Inhabitant of Carcosa · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Newsletter December 25 1886 72 · Is There Anybody There? · Charles Birkin · ss The Smell of Evil by Charles Birkin, Library 33, 1964 88 · The Whisperers · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Eye-Witness May 23 1912 94 · Curfew · L. M. Boston · ss The House of the Nightmare ed. Kathleen Lines, The Bodley Head, 1967 103 · I’m Sure It Was No. 31 [Did It Happen?] · A. M. Burrage · ar The Evening Standard May 10 1955 108 · The Guide · Ramsey Campbell · ss Post Mortem ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva, St. Martin's, 1989; in this version the lullaby verse has been revised. 120 · The Limping Ghost · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss The Night Ghouls by R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Fontana, 1975, as “The Ghost Who Limped” 136 · Mrs. Zant and the Ghost · Wilkie Collins · nv My Lady’s Money by Wilkie Collins, Tauchnitz, 1879, as “The Ghost’s Touch” 169 · The House by the Tarn · Basil Copper · ss Dark Things ed. August Derleth, Arkham House, 1971 182 · In Kropfsberg Keep · Ralph Adams Cram · ss Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895 191 · The Ghost in All the Rooms · Daniel Defoe · ss The Secrets of the Invisible World Disclos’d by Daniel Defoe, 1727 200 · The Story of the Bagman’s Uncle · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837, as “The Ghosts of the Mail” 217 · The Bully of Brocas Court · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Magazine November 1921 229 · In the Confessional · Amelia B. Edwards · ss All the Year Round December 4 1871 244 · The Tune in Dan’s Café · Shamus Frazer · ss Lie Ten Nights Awake ed. Herbert van Thal, Hodder, 1967 254 · Beyond the Bourne · John S. Glasby · ss The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories ed. Richard Dalby, Robinson, 1990 267 · The Valley of the Lost Children · William Hope Hodgson · ss The Cornhill Magazine February 1906 278 · The Sand-Walker · Fergus Hume · ss The Dancer in Red by Fergus Hume, Digby, Long, 1906 293 · The Real Right Thing · Henry James · ss Collier’s Weekly December 16 1899 306 · The Haunted Dolls’ House · M. R. James · ss The Empire Review February 1923; written to fill a miniature book in the library of Queen Mary’s doll house. 317 · The Wall-Painting · Roger Johnson · ss Saints and Relics ed. Rosemary Pardoe, Haunted Library, 1983 331 · “They” · Rudyard Kipling · nv Scribner’s Magazine August 1904 352 · The Last Laugh · D. H. Lawrence · ss The New Decameron IV, Blackwell, 1925 369 · Robin’s Rath · Margery Lawrence · nv Hutchinson’s Magazine November 1923 387 · The Dream · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine August 1838, as “The Drunkard’s Dream”, uncredited. 399 · The Sundial · R. H. Malden · ss Nine Ghosts by R. H. Malden, E. Arnold, 1943 409 · The Fifteenth Man [Augustus Champnell] · Richard Marsh · ss The Seen and the Unseen by Richard Marsh, Methuen, 1900 420 · Brenner’s Boy · John Metcalfe · ss White Owl Press, 1932 436 · Uncle Abraham’s Romance · E. Nesbit · ss Grim Tales by E. Nesbit, Innes, 1893 440 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. 452 · The Next Room · Vincent O’Sullivan · ss The Dublin Magazine October 1928 (+2) 461 · The Footsteps of the Aventine · Roger Pater · ss Mystic Voices by Roger Pater, Oates & Washbourne, 1923 472 · William Wilson · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1840, Carey & Hart, 1839 491 · Courage · Forrest Reid · ss A Garden by the Sea by Forrest Reid, 1918 498 · The Last of Squire Ennismore · Mrs. J. H. Riddell · ss The Penny Illustrated Paper Christmas 1886 505 · The Garside Fell Disaster · L. T. C. Rolt · ss Sleep No More by L. T. C. Rolt, Constable, 1948 513 · The Tears of Saint Agathé [Father O’Connor] · David G. Rowlands · ss Saints and Relics ed. Rosemary Pardoe, Haunted Library, 1983 524 · The Soul of Laploshka · Saki · ss The Westminster Gazette May 8 1909

Chillers for Christmas ed. Richard Dalby (Michael O’Mara, October 19, 1989, 0-948397-62-4, £12.95, 311pp, hc, an, cover by Clifford Harper)     Anthology of thriller/horror stories, seven of which seem to be original. · Foreword · Richard Dalby · fw 1 · The Strange Ride of Morrowbie Jukes · Rudyard Kipling · nv Quartette Christmas 1885 21 · Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk · Frank Cowper · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1889 40 · The Phantom Riders · Ernest R. Suffling · ss The Story Hunter; or, Tales of the Weird and Wild by Ernest R. Suffling, Jarrold, 1896 50 · The Guard-Ship at the Aire · Amelia B. Edwards · ss Miss Carew by Amelia B. Edwards, Hurst & Blackett, 1865 64 · Horror: A True Tale · John Berwick Harwood, uncredited · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1861 83 · A Pipe of Mystery · G. A. Henty · ss The Union Jack December 23 1880 97 · On the Down Line · George Manville Fenn · ss Christmas Penny Readings by George Manville Fenn, Routledge, 1867 106 · An Exciting Christmas Eve · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Boy’s Own Paper Christmas 1883 121 · Remorseless Vengeance · Guy Boothby · ss Uncle Joe’s Legacy by Guy Boothby, F.V. White, 1902 129 · The Vanishing House · Bernard Capes · ss The Sketch January 5 1898 134 · The White Raven · Dick Donovan · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899 145 · The Strange Story of Northavon Priory · Frank Frankfort Moore · ss The Other World by F. Frankfort Moore, Eveleigh Nash, 1904 156 · The Black Cat · William J. Wintle · ss Ghost Gleams by W. J. Wintle, Heath Cranton, 1921 164 · Back for Christmas · John Collier · ss The New Yorker October 7 1939 170 · A Christmas Story · Sarban · ss Ringstones and Other Stories by Sarban, Davies, 1951 185 · The Waits · L. P. Hartley · ss Two for the River and Other Stories by L. P. Hartley, Hamish Hamilton, 1961 191 · Florinda · Shamus Frazer · ss The London Mystery Magazine #29, June 1956 200 · The Hanging Tree · R. Chetwynd-Hayes · ss The Fifteenth Fontana Book of Great Ghost Stories ed. R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Fontana, 1979 215 · The Grotto · Alexander Welch · ss Time Out December 1988 220 · Just Before Dawn · Eugene Johnson · ss 226 · Buggane · Peter Tremayne · ss 240 · The Uninvited · John Glasby · ss 255 · A Present for Christmas · A. J. Merak · ss 269 · The Deliverer · Simon MacCulloch · ss 279 · The Night Before Christmas · Roger Johnson · ss 297 · On Wings of Song · David G. Rowlands · ss 306 · The Santa · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · vi Weirdbook #23/24, 1988