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Charles Keeping’s Book of Classic Ghost Stories ed. Charles Keeping (Blackie, September 1986, 0-216-92012-4, £8.95, 142pp, hc, an, cover by Charles Keeping)     Anthology of ghost stories selected and illustrated by Keeping. 7 · Introduction · Charles Keeping · in 9 · The Body-Snatcher · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv Pall Mall Gazette Christmas 1884 25 · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 36 · The Adventure of the German Student · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon, John Murray, 1824 44 · The Canterville Ghost · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review February 23 1887 (+1) 75 · Escort · Daphne du Maurier · ss Harper’s Bazaar #2737, May 1940 94 · Wailing Well · M. R. James · ss Mill House Press, 1928 107 · The Sweeper · A. M. Burrage · ss Someone in the Room by Ex-Private X, Jarrolds, 1931, as by Ex-Private X 121 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas 1866, as “No. 1 Branch Line. The Signalman”

Charles Keeping’s Classic Tales of the Macabre ed. Charles Keeping (Blackie, September 1987, 0-216-92147-3, £8.95, 172pp, hc, an, cover by Charles Keeping) 7 · Introduction · Charles Keeping · in 9 · The Judge’s House · Bram Stoker · nv Holly Leaves December 5 1891 27 · The Fall of the House of Usher · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Burton’s Gentlemen’s Magazine September 1839 46 · The Story of the Late Mr. Elvesham · H. G. Wells · ss The Idler May 1896 63 · Lot No. 249 · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine September 1892 95 · The Withered Arm · Thomas Hardy · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine January 1888 124 · “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” · M. R. James · nv Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. James, Edward Arnold, 1904 143 · The Statement of Randolph Carter [Randolph Carter] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Vagrant #13, May 1920 150 · Between the Minute and the Hour · A. M. Burrage · ss The Premier Magazine #154, November 28 1922 164 · Notes · [uncredited] · ms

Daughters of Darkness: Lesbian Vampire Stories ed. Pam Keesey (Cleis Press, October 1993, 0-939416-78-6, $24.95, 251pp, hc, an)     Anthology of six lesbian vampire stories and four novel excerpts, with an introduction by the editor and a bibliography/filmography. Also available as a trade paperback (-77-8, $9.95). 7 · Introduction · Pam Keesey · in 19 · Dracula Retold · zana · ss Lesbian Bedtime Stories ed. Terry Woodrow, Tough Dove Press, 1989 revised from earlier version in Feminary, Spr ’81, as by Marilyn Woodsea. 23 · I, Vampire · Jody Scott · ex Ace, 1984 27 · Carmilla [Martin Hesselius] · Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu · na The Dark Blue December 1871 (+3) 89 · Daughter of the Night · Elaine Bergstrom · ex Berkley, 1992 97 · Louisiana: 1850 [Gilda] · Jewelle Gomez · nv The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez, Firebrand Books, 1991 137 · Lilith · Robbi Sommers · ss Pleasures by Robbi Sommers, Naiad Press, 1989 149 · Virago · Karen Marie Christa Minns · ex Naiad Press, 1990 167 · The Vampire · Pat Califia · ss Macho Sluts: Erotic Fiction by Pat Califia, Alyson, 1988 185 · O Captain, My Captain · Katherine V. Forrest · nv Dreams and Swords by Katherine V. Forrest, Naiad, 1987 229 · Minimax · Anna Livia · ex Eighth Mountain Press, 1992 237 · Filmography/Bibliography · [uncredited] · bi (r)

Womanthology ed. Pam Keesey & Forrest J Ackerman--- see under Forrest J Ackerman.

Contact ed. David Noel Keightley & Sam Moskowitz--- see under Noel Keyes.

The Best American Short Stories 1998 ed. Garrison Keillor (Houghton Mifflin, October 1998, 0-395-87515-3, $27.50, 352pp, hc, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Foreword · Garrison Keillor · fw (r) · Introduction · Garrison Keillor · in (r) · Appetites · Kathryn Chetkovich · ss Zyzzyva 1997 · The Blue Devils of Blue River Avenue · Poe Ballantine · ss The Sun 1997 · Body Language · Diane Schoemperlen · ss Story Spring 1997 · Chance · Edith Pearlman · ss The Antioch Review 1997 · Cosmopolitan · Akhil Sharma · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1997 · Elvis Has Left the Building · Carol Anshaw · ss Story Spring 1997 · Every Night for a Thousand Years · Chris Adrian · ss The New Yorker October 6 1997; subtitled “A Story of the Civil War”. · Flower Children · Maxine Swann · ss Ploughshares Fall 1997 · Glory Goes and Gets Some · Emily Carter · ss Open City 1997 · The Half-Skinned Steer · E. Annie Proulx · ss The Atlantic Monthly November 1997 · Morphine · Doran Larson · ss The Virginia Quarterly Review 1997 · Mr. Sweetly Indecent · Bliss Broyard · ss Ploughshares Fall 1997 · My Father on the Verge of Disgrace · John Updike · ss The New Yorker March 10 1997 · Penance · Matthew Crain · ss Harper’s Magazine May 1997 · People Like That Are the Only People Here · Lorrie Moore · nv The New Yorker January 27 1997 · Tea at the House · Meg Wolitzer · ss Ploughshares Fall 1997 · Unified Front · Antonya Nelson · ss The Midwesterner 1997 · Wayne in Love · Padgett Powell · ss New England Review 1997 · Welding with Children · Tim Gautreaux · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1997 · Would You Know It Wasn’t Love · Hester Kaplan · ss Gulf Coast 1997 · Contributors’ Notes · [uncredited] · bg (r) · 100 Other Distinguished Stories of 1997 · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Editorial Addresses of American and Canadian Magazines Publishing Short Stories · [uncredited] · ms (r)

The Monster-Maker and Other Science Fiction Classics ed. Michael Kelahan (Fall River, July 2012, 978-1-4351-2507-0, $7.98, xi+417pp, hc, an, cover by Jason Chow)     Anthology of 18 classic SF stories, plus At the Earth’s Core by Edgar Rice Burroughs; other authors include Mary Shelley, H.G. Wells, and H.P. Lovecraft. This is an instant remainder edition. Details taken from online listing. ix · Introduction · Michael Kelahan · in 1 · The Mortal Immortal · Mary Shelley · ss The Keepsake 1834, 1833 13 · A Tale of the Ragged Mountains · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Godey’s Lady’s Book April 1844 22 · The Diamond Lens · Fitz-James O’Brien · nv The Atlantic Monthly January 1858, uncredited. 43 · Doctor Ox’s Experiment · Jules Verne · na 1874 translated from the French (“Une Fantaisie du Docteur Ox”, Musée des Familles March to May 1872). 89 · The Monster-Maker · W. C. Morrow · nv The Argonaut October 15 1887, as “The Surgeon’s Experiment” 104 · The Los Amigos Fiasco · Sir Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Idler December 1892 111 · The Sixth Sense, or Another World · J. H. Rosny · ss 1896 translated from the French (“Un autre monde”, 1895). 119 · The Crystal Egg · H. G. Wells · ss The New Review #96, May 1897 133 · Moxon’s Master · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner April 16 1899, as “A Night at Moxon’s” 142 · The Shadow and the Flash · Jack London · ss The Bookman June 1903 155 · The Ray of Displacement · Harriet Prescott Spofford · nv Metropolitan Magazine October 1903 168 · From Pole to Pole · George Griffith · nv The Windsor Magazine October 1904 189 · Space · John Buchan · nv Blackwood’s Magazine May 1911 203 · At the Earth’s Core [Pellucidar] · Edgar Rice Burroughs · n. McClurg, 1922 304 · The Moon Pool [Walter Goodwin] · A. Merritt · na All-Story Weekly June 22 1918 341 · Unseen, Unfeared · Francis Stevens · ss People’s Favorite Magazine February 10 1919 355 · In the Penal Colony · Franz Kafka; translated by Willa Muir & Edwin Muir · nv The Penal Colony by Franz Kafka, tr. Willa & Edwin Muir, Schocken, 1948 translated from the German (“In der Strafkolonie”, Kurt Wolff Verlag, 1919). 377 · The Thing from Outside · George Allan England · ss Science and Invention April 1923 394 · The Color Out of Space [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · nv Amazing Stories September 1927

The Ultimate Dracula ed. David Keller, Byron Preiss & Megan Miller--- see under Byron Preiss.

The Ultimate Frankenstein ed. David Keller, Byron Preiss, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt--- see under Byron Preiss.

The Ultimate Werewolf ed. David Keller, Byron Preiss, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt--- see under Byron Preiss.

Roots of Evil ed. M. Grant Kellermeyer, Timothy S. Miller, Jessie Chazin & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2023, 978-1-943022-90-8, $26.95, 407pp, tp, an) 1 · Introduction · M. Grant Kellermeyer · in 5 · Top Ten Plant Movies · [uncredited] · ms 11 · The Grey Weed · Owen Oliver · ss The Royal Magazine May 1905 28 · When Pan Was Dead · Laurence Housman · nv All-Fellows by Laurence Housman, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Co., 1896 35 · The Flowering of the Strange Orchid · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget August 2 1894 44 · The Dead Valley · Ralph Adams Cram · ss Black Spirits and White by Ralph Adams Cram, Stone & Kimball, 1895 52 · Flowering Evil · Margaret St. Clair · ss Planet Stories Summer 1950 60 · Sargasso · Ward Muir · ss Pearson’s Magazine October 1908 79 · The Marigold Goddess · [uncredited] · nv Macmillan’s Magazine April 1907 87 · The Grove of Ashtaroth · John Buchan · nv Blackwood’s Magazine June 1910 107 · The Adventure of the Devil’s Foot [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine December 1910 134 · The Other Side of the Hedge · E. M. Forster · ss The Independent November 1904 139 · The Facts of Life · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Comet May 1941 151 · The Tree of Death · Barry Pain · ss The Royal Magazine April 1920 171 · The Black Narcissus · Fred M. White · ss The Windsor Magazine December 1901 190 · El Mansor and Haïda · J. MacLaren Cobban · ss The Pall Mall Magazine March 1904 210 · The Lure of Atlantis · Joel Martin Nichols, Jr. · nv Weird Tales April 1925 237 · Rappaccini’s Daughter [Rappaccini] · Nathaniel Hawthorne · nv United States Magazine and Democratic Review December 1844, as “Writings of Aurépine” 262 · The Purple Terror · Fred M. White · ss The Strand Magazine September 1899 280 · The Bamboo Trap · Robert S. Lemmon · ss Short Stories April 25 1923 292 · Professor Jonkin’s Cannibal Plant [Professor Jonkin] · Howard R. Garis · ss The Argosy August 1905 300 · The Man Who Cursed the Lilies · Charles Tenney Jackson · ss Short Stories December 10 1921 314 · The Tree That Eats · Brew Molohan · ss Chambers’s Journal June 27 1908 324 · The Ivy War · David H. Keller · nv Amazing Stories May 1930 346 · Weak on Square Roots · Russell Burton · ss If July 1953 354 · Phalaenopsis Gloriosa · Edgar Wallace · ss The Monthly Story Magazine November 1905, as by John Jason Trent 368 · The Stalls of Barchester Cathedral · M. R. James · nv The Contemporary Review April 1910 387 · Afterward: Other Fictional Plant Anthologies · [uncredited] · bi 397 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg 406 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg

Trapped! Gripping Horror Tales of Peril & Escape ed. M. Grant Kellermeyer, M.A. & Charles G. Waugh, Ph.D.--- see under Charles G. Waugh, Ph.D..

A Corner in Sleep and Other Impossibilities by E. E. Kellett (Jarrold & Sons, 1900, 259pp, hc, oc)     Details taken from online listing. 7 · A Corner in Sleep · E. E. Kellett · ss 24 · Intimations of Immortality · E. E. Kellett · ss 43 · Self-Haunted · E. E. Kellett · ss 58 · The Tables Turned · E. E. Kellett · ss 75 · The New Frankenstein · E. E. Kellett · nv 114 · The Poet Malgré Lui · E. E. Kellett · nv 150 · Memoria Ponderosa · E. E. Kellett · nv 185 · Up a Tree · E. E. Kellett · ss 197 · A Feast of Reason · E. E. Kellett · ss 214 · Lex Talionis · E. E. Kellett · nv 246 · Pleasure and Pain · E. E. Kellett · ss

The Devil’s Food ed. Jim Kelley & L. B. Goddard--- see under L. B. Goddard.

Fantasy: The Literature of the Marvelous ed. Leo P. Kelley (McGraw-Hill, 1974, 0-07-033502-8, $3.96, 305pp, tp, an) vi · Preface · Leo P. Kelley · pr 1 · Hickory, Dickory, Kerouac · Richard Gehman · ss Playboy March 1958, as by Martin Scott 4 · Inflexible Logic · Russell Maloney · ss The New Yorker February 3 1940 11 · Or All the Seas with Oysters · Avram Davidson · ss Galaxy Science Fiction May 1958 20 · The Flower Kid Cashes In · George Malko · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction May 1969 27 · The Soul Cages · T. Crofton Croker · ss Fairy Legends and Traditions of the South of Ireland: Part II by T. Crofton Croker, John Murray, 1828, uncredited. 38 · Dreaming Is a Private Thing · Isaac Asimov · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1955 expanded from Saturday Review, May 28 ’55. 52 · Roads of Destiny · O. Henry · nv Ainslee’s Magazine April 1903 70 · The Test · Richard Matheson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1954 87 · The Sea Was Wet as Wet Could Be · Gahan Wilson · ss Playboy May 1967 98 · Evening Primrose · John Collier · ss Presenting Moonshine by John Collier, Viking, 1941 109 · The Manuscript of Dr. Arness · Gahan Wilson · ss Playboy August 1966 114 · The Ancestor · H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth · ss The Survivor and Others by H. P. Lovecraft & August Derleth, Arkham House, 1957 written by Derleth from a fragment by Lovecraft. 127 · Afternoon with a Dead Bus · David Gerrold · ss Protostars ed. David Gerrold & Stephen Goldin, Ballantine, 1971 133 · A Miracle of Rare Device · Ray Bradbury · ss Playboy January 1962 146 · The Wall · Josephine Saxton · ss Science Fantasy #78, November 1965 152 · “Repent, Harlequin!” Said the Ticktockman · Harlan Ellison · ss Galaxy Magazine December 1965 163 · Housing Problem · Henry Kuttner · ss Charm October 1944 176 · The Cheaters · Robert Bloch · nv Weird Tales November 1947 193 · The Graveyard Reader · Theodore Sturgeon · ss The Graveyard Reader ed. Groff Conklin, Ballantine, 1958 204 · The Academy · David Ely · ss Playboy June 1965 212 · Carcinoma Angels · Norman Spinrad · ss Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1967 220 · Something in Wood · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales March 1948 232 · O’Grady’s Girl · Leo P. Kelley · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction December 1965 242 · The Legend of Fin M’Coul · William Carleton · ss Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry, v1 by William Carleton, 1830 252 · Day at the Beach · Carol Emshwiller · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction August 1959 261 · The Doll-House · James Cross · nv Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1967 276 · Lord Randy, My Son · Joe L. Hensley · ss Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1967 287 · Auto-da-Fé · Roger Zelazny · ss Dangerous Visions ed. Harlan Ellison, Doubleday, 1967 293 · Of Missing Persons · Jack Finney · ss Good Housekeeping March 1955

The Supernatural in Fiction ed. Leo P. Kelley (McGraw-Hill, 1973, 0-07-033497-8, $3.96, 313pp, tp, an)     33 weird and fantastic stories in the series Patterns in Literary Art. · Witches, Werewolves and Vampires—The Terrible Tribe 3 · Medea · Euripides · ex (r) 4 · Share Alike · Jerome Bixby & Joe E. Dean · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction July 1953 15 · The Amulet · Gordon R. Dickson · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1959 30 · The Werewolf · Frederick Marryat · ex The New Monthly Magazine July 1839, as “Krantz’s Narrative”; erroneously credited to H. B. Marryat. 44 · The Mark of the Beast · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Pioneer July 12 1890 (+1) 56 · Homecoming [The Elliott Family] · Ray Bradbury · ss Mademoiselle October 1946 · Gods, Devils and Damnations—From the Darkness Next Door 71 · The Underworld · Virgil · ex from The Aeneid (r) 72 · The Jam · Henry Slesar · ss Playboy November 1958 93 · The Kings of the Sea [Brigadier Ffellowes] · Sterling E. Lanier · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction November 1968 93 · Flies · Isaac Asimov · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction June 1953 100 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion” 112 · None Before Me · Sidney Carroll · ss Cosmopolitan July 1949 122 · Burnt Toast · Mack Reynolds · ss Playboy November 1955 · Ghost Stories—The Haunted House of Man’s Mind 133 · The Nun’s Priest’s Tale · Geoffrey Chaucer · ex The Canterbury Tales by Geoffery Chaucer, William Caxton, 1478 134 · The Haunted Woodshed · Harold R. Daniels · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine August 1961 144 · The Furnished Room · O. Henry · ss The (New York) Sunday World August 14 1904 150 · Was It a Dream? · Guy de Maupassant · ss The Complete Writings of Guy de Maupassant by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“La morte”, Gil Blas, May 31, 1887). 155 · The Ghost Ship · Richard Middleton · ss The Century Magazine April 1912 164 · Hey, Look at Me! · Jack Finney · ss Playboy September 1962 176 · Running Wolf · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Century Magazine August 1920 · Spells and Sorcery—Odd Doings and Strange Dooms 194 · from “The Tempest” · William Shakespeare · ex Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies by William Shakespeare, Edward Blount and William and Isaac Jaggard, 1623 195 · It’s a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953 211 · The Canvas Bag · Alan E. Nourse · ss The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction April 1955 221 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine September 1902 231 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review December 1845 239 · The Dark Door · Leo P. Kelley · ss Witchcraft & Sorcery #5, January/February 1971 · Things—The Bizarre on the Human Horizon 254 · from The Book of Ezekiel · Ezekiel · ex (r) 255 · The Lonesome Place · August Derleth · ss Famous Fantastic Mysteries February 1948 262 · What Was It? [Harry Escott] · Fitz-James O’Brien · ss Harper’s New Monthly Magazine March 1859, uncredited. 273 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss Harper’s Bazar July 1926 287 · The Bagman’s Story · Charles Dickens · ss The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club by Charles Dickens, Chapman & Hall, 1837, as “The Ghosts of the Mail” 299 · Dr. Heidegger’s Experiment · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The Knickerbocker January 1837, as “The Fountain of Youth”, uncredited. 308 · The Outsider [Dream Cycle] · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales April 1926