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Tales of Dungeons and Dragons ed. Peter Haining (Century, November 1986, 0-7126-9542-7, £11.95, xx+406pp, hc, an)     Anthology of 30 stories of horror and fantasy having nothing to do with “Dungeons and Dragons”. There is a 4-page introduction by Ray Bradbury. xv · Editor’s Foreword · Peter Haining · fw (r) xvii · Introduction · Ray Bradbury · in (r) 1 · I. The Sealed Section: Tales of Horror 3 · The Dualitists · Bram Stoker · ss The Theatre Annual Christmas 1887 18 · The Mysterious Mummy · Sax Rohmer · ss Pearson’s Weekly Christmas Extra November 26 1903, as by A. Sarsfield Ward 30 · The Lighthouse · Edgar Allan Poe & Robert Bloch · ss Fantastic January/February 1953 completed by Bloch from a Poe fragment. 45 · The Eighty-Third · Katharine Fullerton Gerould · ss Harper’s Magazine February 1916 61 · The Kid Learns · William Faulkner · ss New Orleans Times-Picayune May 31 1925 66 · The Monster of the Deep · John Collier · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine April 1935 78 · The Grip of Death · Robert Bloch (with Henry Kuttner) · ss Strange Stories December 1939 90 · The Great Stone Death · John D. MacDonald · ss Weird Tales January 1949 100 · Vengeance by Proxy · John Wyndham · ss Strange Stories February 1940, as by John Beynon 112 · The Mangler · Stephen King · nv Cavalier December 1972 133 · II. The Ghost Section: Tales of the Supernatural 135 · The Malice of Inanimate Objects · M. R. James · ss The Masquerade June 1933 141 · Borrhomeo the Astrologer · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · ss Dublin University Magazine January 1862, uncredited. 155 · Three Wishes · F. Anstey & Brander Matthews · nv With My Friends by co, Longmans, Green and Co., 1891; given as by Anstey alone. 183 · The Haunted “Pampero” · William Hope Hodgson · ss Short Stories February 1918 200 · The Magic Mirror · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Bystander March 16 1938 210 · The Overman · Upton Sinclair · nv The Windsor Magazine December 1906 233 · The House Party at Smoky Island · L. M. Montgomery · ss Weird Tales August 1935 243 · Shining Hat at Tarring Neville · T. H. White · ex from Gone to Ground, Collins, 1935 250 · A Modern Magician · Olaf Stapledon · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction July 1979 261 · The Glove · Fritz Leiber · ss Whispers June 1975 275 · III. The Wonder Section: Tales of Fantasy 277 · The Hollow Land · William Morris · nv Oxford and Cambridge Magazine September 1856 (+1) 314 · The Mystery of the Ultimate Hills · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner March 18 1888, as “For the Ahkoond” 324 · The Field Where the Satyrs Danced · Lord Dunsany · ss The Atlantic Monthly June 1928 328 · The Ageing Faun · Arthur Ransome · ss The Hoofmarks of the Faun by Arthur Ransome, Martin Secker, 1911 337 · Biddulph · W. Heath Robinson · ss Pearson’s Magazine December 1915 343 · The Bat King · James Hilton · ss Collier’s July 3 1937 355 · The Challenge from Beyond [Part 3 of 5; Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · rr Fantasy Magazine September 1935 363 · People of the Black Coast · Robert E. Howard · ss Spaceway September/October 1969 373 · The Ravages of Spring · John Gardner · nv Fantastic Stories April 1973 399 · Bright Phoenix · Ray Bradbury · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1963; written in 1947, basis for Fahrenheit 451.

Tales of a Monster Hunter ed. Peter Haining & Peter Cushing--- see under Peter Cushing.

The Television Crimebusters Omnibus ed. Peter Haining (Orion, November 1995, 1-85797-736-X, £5.99, 638pp, pb, an)     Reprint (Orion 1994) crime anthology. 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 6 · The Kidnapping of Inspector Mander · Edgar Wallace · ss (r) 20 · Boston Blackie’s Mary [Boston Blackie] · Jack Boyle · nv The Red Book Magazine November 1917 65 · A Man Called Falcon [Gay Stanhope Falcon] · Michael Arlen · nv The Strand Magazine January 1940, as “Gay Falcon” 93 · The Man Who Swallowed a Horse [John J. Malone] · Craig Rice · ss Verdict August 1953, as “The Dead Mr. Duck” 98 · The Stranger in Church · Jack Webb (ghost written by Peter Haining ,[?]) · ss (r) 117 · The Traffic in Damnation · Robert Fabian · ss (r) 128 · PC Crawford’s First Pinch · Ted Willis · nv (r) 152 · A Little Push from Cappy Fleers · Gilbert Ralston · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine December 1961 167 · The Flushing of Al Capone · Eliot Ness · ar (r) 185 · Dressing-Up · W. R. Burnett · ss Harper’s Magazine November 1929 199 · Mobile Commandos · Troy Kennedy Martin · nv (r) 237 · What’s a Ghoul Like You Doing in a Place Like This? · Peter Leslie · ss 1969 252 · Sadie When She Died [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · nv Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine January 1973 291 · Man in the Dark · Roy Huggins (ghost written by Howard Browne) · nv Fantastic Fall 1952 332 · Footprints [Jasper Shrig] · Jeffery Farnol · ss Britannia and Eve May 1929 352 · Dover Does Some Spadework [Insp. Wilfred Dover] · Joyce Porter · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine October 1976 371 · The Man in the Lobby · Richard Levinson & William Link · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1966 383 · The Man in the Inverness Cape [Lady Molly de Mazareen] · Baroness Orczy · nv Cassell’s Magazine February 1910 406 · Hildegarde Withers Is Back [Hildegarde Withers] · Stuart Palmer · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine April 1968 444 · Poor, Poor Ophelia · Carolyn Weston · ex Random House, 1972 451 · The Way of a Cop · Abby Mann · ss (r) 463 · Regan and the Stripper · Joe Balham · nv 1977 499 · One of Those Days · William Blinn · nv (r) 520 · The Christmas Killer · Dennis Spooner · ss Daily Mirror December 24 1981 528 · One Good Turn · Leon Griffiths · ss Christmas 1982 535 · The John Detail · Serita Stevens · nv (r) adapted from the screenplay by Barbara Avedon & Barbara Corday. 579 · Taggart and a Bit of Skullduggery · Peter Cave · ss (r) based on “Nest of Vipers”. 590 · All a Matter of Balance · Jimmy Nail · ss (r) 599 · I Can Find My Way Out [Roderick Alleyn] · Ngaio Marsh · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #33, August 1946 629 · The Keeper of Souls · Lynda La Plante · ex from Prime Suspect III (r)

The Television Detectives’ Omnibus: Great Tales of Crime and Detection ed. Peter Haining (Artus, July 1994, 1-898799-02-4, £4.99, 567pp, tp, an)     Reprint (Orion 1992) anthology of 32 short stories about detectives who have appeared in television series, each introduced by Haining. This is an “instant remainder” edition of the 1992 Orion trade paperback. 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 5 · The Adventure of the Three Garridebs [Sherlock Holmes] · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Collier’s October 25 1924 20 · The Death Cry [Craig Kennedy] · Arthur B. Reeve · nv Weird Tales May 1935 60 · The Footprint in the Sky [Colonel March] · John Dickson Carr · ss The Strand Magazine January 1940, as “Clue in the Snow” by Carter Dickson 75 · The Adventure of the Emperor’s Dice [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #89, April 1951, as “The Emperor’s Dice” 89 · Too Many Have Lived [Sam Spade] · Dashiell Hammett · ss The American Magazine October 1932 105 · The Case of the Irate Witness [Perry Mason] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Collier’s January 17 1953 121 · Walk Softly, Strangler [Charlie Chan] · Robert Hart Davis · na Charlie Chan Mystery Magazine November 1973 183 · Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate [Philip Marlowe] · Raymond Chandler · nv The Daily Mail April 6 1959 202 · Not—Tonight—Danger [Mike Shayne] · Brett Halliday (ghost written by Helen McCloy) · ss This Week November 28 1954, as “Dead Man’s Code” 212 · It’s in the Bag [Harry Lime] · Orson Welles · ss The Lives of Harry Lime ed. Orson Welles, News of the World, 1952 219 · The Smart Detective [Simon Templar (The Saint)] · Leslie Charteris · ss The American Magazine June 1936, as “The Saint and the Siren” 237 · Gideon and the Chestnut Vendor [Commander George Gideon] · John Creasey · ss 1971, as by J. J. Marric 244 · Light-Fingers [Paul Temple] · Francis Durbridge · ss The Daily Mail Annual for Boys and Girls 1950 ed. Susan French, Daily Mail, 1950 252 · The All-Bad Hat [Insp. Ganesh Ghote] · H. R. F. Keating · ss The Saint Magazine June 1984 269 · Stan the Killer [Insp. Jules Maigret] · Georges Simenon; translated by Anthony Boucher · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #70, September 1949 translated from the French (“Stan Le Tueur”, Police-Roman, December 23, 1938). 292 · The Treasure Hunt [J. G. Reeder] · Edgar Wallace · ss Flynn’s November 22 1924 308 · Van der Valk and the False Caesar [Van der Valk] · Nicolas Freeling · vi 1967 312 · The Footsteps That Ran [Lord Peter Wimsey] · Dorothy L. Sayers · nv Lord Peter Views the Body by Dorothy L. Sayers, Gollancz, 1928, as “The Vindictive Story of the Footsteps That Ran” 328 · The Eye of Apollo [Father Brown] · G. K. Chesterton · ss The Saturday Evening Post February 25 1911 343 · Guilt-Edged Blonde [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · ss Manhunt January 1954, as by John Ross Macdonald 357 · The World Series Murder [Nero Wolfe & Archie Goodwin] · Rex Stout · nv The American Magazine September 1952, as “This Will Kill You” 394 · The Man Who Was Hammered · Jack Trevor Story · ss (r) 412 · The Garage Racketeers [Dick Barton] · Geoffrey Webb & Edward J. Mason · ss Dick Barton, Special Agent by Geoffrey Webb & Edward J. Mason, Contact, 1950 432 · Hazell and the Patriot [James Hazell] · P. B. Yuill · ss Winter’s Crimes 9 ed. George Hardinge, Macmillan UK, 1977 444 · Rumpole and the Hanging Judge [Horace Rumpole] · John Mortimer · ss (r) 454 · Great-Aunt Allie’s Flypapers [Adam Dalgliesh] · P. D. James · nv Verdict of 13 ed. Julian Symons, Faber and Faber, 1978 473 · Jemima Shore at the Sunny Grave [Jemima Shore] · Antonia Fraser · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1988 503 · The Case of the Perfect Maid [Miss Marple] · Agatha Christie · ss The Strand Magazine April 1942, as “The Perfect Maid” 515 · The Snapdragon and the C.I.D. [Albert Campion] · Margery Allingham · ss The Sunday Telegraph December 24 1961 526 · The Adventure of the Clapham Cook [Hercule Poirot] · Agatha Christie · ss The Sketch November 14 1923 539 · When the Wedding Was Over [Chief Insp. Wexford] · Ruth Rendell · nv Means of Evil by Ruth Rendell, Hutchinson, 1979 562 · Morse’s Greatest Mystery [Endeavour Morse & Robert “Robbie” Lewis] · Colin Dexter · ss TV Times

The Television Late Night Horror Omnibus ed. Peter Haining (Orion, September 1993, 1-85797-092-6, £8.99, 578pp, tp, an)     Anthology of 32 stories used as a basis for late-night horror shows on television. 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 5 · Vampire Tower · John Dickson Carr · nv Detective Tales October 1935, as “Terror’s Dark Tower” 27 · The Corpse and the Kid · Cornell Woolrich · nv Dime Detective Magazine September 1935 50 · The Hollow Man · Thomas Burke · ss Collier’s October 14 1933 63 · What Price Murder? · Steve Fisher · ss Detective Tales September 1936 74 · The Crystal Egg · H. G. Wells · ss The New Review #96, May 1897 90 · Back for Christmas · John Collier · ss The New Yorker October 7 1939 97 · The Hand · Larry Marcus · ss (r) 115 · Where Is Everybody? · Rod Serling · sa Stories from the Twilight Zone by Rod Serling, Bantam, 1960 138 · The Incredible Dr Markesan · August Derleth & Mark Schorer · ss Weird Tales June 1934, as “Colonel Markesan”; given as by August Derleth. 153 · The Machine Stops · E. M. Forster · nv Oxford and Cambridge Review November 1909 182 · Farewell Performance · H. Russell Wakefield · ss The Clock Strikes Twelve by H. Russell Wakefield, Herbert Jenkins, 1940 189 · The Terror of the Twins · Algernon Blackwood · ss The Westminster Gazette November 6 1909 196 · William and Mary · Roald Dahl · nv Kiss, Kiss by Roald Dahl, Knopf, 1960 221 · William Wilson · Edgar Allan Poe · nv The Gift: a Christmas and New Year’s Present for 1840, Carey & Hart, 1839 239 · The Duplicate Man · Clifford D. Simak · nv Galaxy Science Fiction March 1951, as “Good Night, Mr. James” 257 · Random Quest · John Wyndham · nv Consider Her Ways and Others by John Wyndham, Joseph, 1961 292 · The Open Door · Margaret Oliphant · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1882 329 · The Kiss of Blood · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Idler November 1893, as “The Case of Lady Sannox” 339 · The Killing-Bottle · L. P. Hartley · nv The Black Cap ed. Cynthia Asquith, Hutchinson, 1927 374 · Pickman’s Model · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales October 1927 387 · The Treasure of Abbot Thomas · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 404 · The Summer House · A. M. Burrage · ss The London Magazine September 1922 417 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 428 · The Ferryman · Kingsley Amis · ss Playboy December 1972, as “Who or What Was It?” 439 · The Tarroo-Ushtey · Nigel Kneale · ss Tomato Cain by Nigel Kneale, Collins, 1949 448 · Countess Ilona · Robert Muller; adapted by Roger Malisson · nv Supernatural ed. Robert Muller, Fontana, 1977 477 · Death Can Add · Philip Ketchum · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1963 491 · The Partnership · William F. Nolan · ss Shadows 3 ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday, 1980 502 · Gramma [Castle Rock] · Stephen King · nv Weirdbook #19, Spring 1984 531 · The Doll · Richard Matheson · pl Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine June 1982 adapted from “The Doll That Does Everything” (Fantastic Universe, December 1954). 539 · Distant Signals · Andrew Weiner · ss Rod Serling’s The Twilight Zone Magazine May/June 1984 554 · The Coffin · Ray Bradbury · ss Dime Mystery Magazine September 1947, as “Wake for the Living” 563 · The Legacy · Robert Bloch · ss (r)

The Third Book of Unknown Tales of Horror ed. Peter Haining (Sidgwick & Jackson, January 1980, 0-283-98584-4, £5.95, 175pp, hc, an)     Hardback edition of More Tales of Unknown Horror (Nel, 1979), but with revised contents. 9 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in 13 · Gothic: Some Experiments with a Head · Dick Donovan · ss (r) 25 · Weird: The Last of the Vampires · Phil Robinson · ss The Contemporary Review March 1893 33 · Macabre: Morning on the Wissahiccon · Edgar Allan Poe · vi Opal 1844 37 · Uncanny: The Spider’s Eye · Fitz-James O’Brien (error, actually by Lucretia P. Hale) · ss Putnam’s Monthly July 1856 55 · Fantasy: A Shot at the Sun · M. P. Shiel · ss The Pictorial Magazine October 24 1903 63 · Supernatural: Legal Rites · Isaac Asimov & James MacCreigh · nv Weird Tales September 1950; given as by Isaac Asimov & James MacCreagh. 95 · Bizarre: The Undead Die · E. Everett Evans & Ray Bradbury · ss Weird Tales July 1948, as by E. Everett Evans 111 · Outré: Delenda Est · Robert E. Howard · ss Worlds of Fantasy v1 #1, 1968; given as “Delendra Est”. 119 · Fear: Between Eight and Eight · C. S. Forester · ss Short Story Magazine (Australia) #32, 1947 135 · Sinister: Rosemary for Remembrance · Denis Noble · ss London Mystery Selection #110, September 1976 143 · Terror: Spring Violets · Robert Haining · ss 161 · Spine-Chiller: The Night of the Tiger · Stephen King · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction February 1978

This Day’s Evil and Other Tales of Suspense ed. Peter Haining--- see under Alfred Hitchcock.

This One Will Kill You ed. Peter Haining--- see under Alfred Hitchcock.

A Thousand Afternoons: An Anthology of Bullfighting ed. Peter Haining (Peter Owen, May 7, 1970, 7206-0460-5, £2.25, 254pp, hc, an, cover by Zette Braithwaite) 11 · Preface · Peter Haining · pr 15 · Bullfighting: An Explanation · Leslie Charteris · in · Part One—Fact 31 · The Spanish Bullfight · Richard Ford · ex from Gatherings from Spain, John Murray, 1851 40 · A Shocking Spectacle · James Russell Lowell · ar Complete Writings by James Russell Lowell, Houghton Mifflin, 1904 42 · The Spanish Temper · V. S. Pritchett · ex Chatto & Windus, December 1954 47 · The Greatest Bullfight Ever · Barnaby Conrad · ar Esquire April 1948 53 · I Even Saw Manolete… · John Steinbeck · ar Sports Illustrated December 20 1965, as “Then My Arm Glassed Up”; condensed. 56 · El Ingles · Vincent Hitchcock · ex from Suit of Lights, Frederick Muller, 1956 71 · A Man Called Hemingway · Sidney Franklin · ex from Bullfighter from Brooklyn, Prentice Hall, 1952 82 · The Crazy One · Norman Mailer · ar Playboy October 1967 98 · El Cordobés—and Tremendismo · Kenneth Tynan · ex from Bull Fever, Longmans, Green, 1955 109 · The Aficionados · James A. Michener · ex from Iberia, Random House, April 1968 115 · The Decline of Bullfighting · Robert Graves · ex from “Enter, the Leaden Age of Bullfighting”, The New York Times September 13 1959 · Part Two—Fiction 121 · The Dangerous Game · Lord Byron · ex from Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, John Murray, 1812 124 · The Bullfight · Leigh Hunt · ss A Day by the Fire by Leigh Hunt, Sampson Low, Son & Marston, 1860 131 · A Motor in the Bullring · R. B. Townshend · ss The Strand Magazine November 1903 140 · Montes the Matador · Frank Harris · nv Montes the Matador & Other Stories by Frank Harris, Grant Richards, 1900 174 · None of That · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Woman Who Rode Away by D. H. Lawrence, Martin Secker, 1928 194 · The Undefeated · Ernest Hemingway · nv This Quarter Autumn/Winter 1925 222 · The Test · Marguerite Steen · ex from Matador, Gollancz, 1934 233 · The Visitors · John Masters · ex from Fandango Rock, Michael Joseph, 1959 247 · Olé La Senorita Americana! · Robert Ruark · ex from The Honey Badger, Hamish Hamilton, 1965 253 · Bibliography · Peter Haining · bi