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This Census-Taker by China Miéville (Subterranean Press, July 31, 2016, 978-1-59606-798-1, $45.00, 181pp, hc, na, cover by Vincent Chong)
Reprint (Del Rey 2016) novella. Limited to 740 numbered copies, signed by the author. Also available in a leatherbound edition, limited to 26 lettered copies, signed by the author, and housed in a custom traycase ($250).
Details taken from publisher’s website.

Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville (Macmillan UK, July 30, 2015, 978-0-230-77017-1, £18.99, 431pp, hc, co, cover by Crush Creative)
Collection of 28 stories, revised for this edition.

1 · Three Moments of an Explosion · China Miéville · ss Rejectamentalist Manifesto April 2012

3 · Polynia · China Miéville · nv Tor.com July 1 2014

24 · The Condition of New Death · China Miéville · ss
distributed by the Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies as a handout for their exhibition “New Death” (March 2014).

30 · The Dowager of Bees · China Miéville · ss

48 · In the Slopes · China Miéville · nv

87 · The Crawl—A Trailer · China Miéville · ss 2014

93 · Watching God · China Miéville · ss

109 · The 9th Technique · China Miéville · ss Apology Chapbook by China Miéville, 2013 World Fantasy Convention, 2013

120 · The Rope Is the World · China Miéville · ss iconeye.com February 2010

126 · The Buzzard’s Egg · China Miéville · ss Granta #131, Spring 2015

142 · Säcken · China Miéville · nv Subtropics Winter/Spring 2014

173 · Syllabus · China Miéville · ss
distributed by the Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies as a handout for their exhibition “New Death” (March 2014).

176 · Dreaded Outcome · China Miéville · ss

193 · After the Festival · China Miéville · nv

223 · The Dusty Hat · China Miéville · nv

248 · Escapee—A Trailer · China Miéville · ss

253 · The Bastard Prompt · China Miéville · nv

281 · Rules · China Miéville · ss
distributed by the Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies as a handout for their exhibition “New Death” (March 2014).

284 · Estate · China Miéville · ss The White Review #8, August 2013

294 · Keep · China Miéville · nv

333 · A Second Slice Manifesto · China Miéville · ss
distributed by the Foundation for Art and Creative Technologies as a handout for their exhibition “New Death” (March 2014).

337 · Covehithe · China Miéville · ss The Guardian (online) April 22 2011

352 · The Junket · China Miéville · ss

371 · Four Final Orpheuses · China Miéville · vi Rejectamentalist Manifesto April 2012

373 · The Rabbet · China Miéville · ss

392 · Listen the Birds—A Trailer · China Miéville · ss

396 · A Mount · China Miéville · ss

400 · The Design · China Miéville · nv McSweeney’s #45, 2013

Three Moments of an Explosion by China Miéville (Subterranean Press, August 2015, no ISBN, $80.00, 377pp, hc, co, cover by Dave McKean)
Reprint (Macmillan UK 2015) collection of 28 stories. A signed, limited edition of 400; a deluxe, lettered edition of 52 ($275.00) is also available.

Night Fears ed. Paul J. Mikol--- see under Anon..

Night Visions 4 ed. Paul J. Mikol--- see under Anon..

Night Visions 6 ed. Paul J. Mikol--- see under Anon..

Night Visions 8 ed. Paul J. Mikol--- see under Anon..

Night Visions 9 ed. Paul J. Mikol--- see under Anon..

Night Visions: Hardshell ed. Paul J. Mikol--- see under Anon..

Glory and Splendour: Tales of the Weird by Alex Miles (Karōshi Books, July 12, 2012, 978-1-4701-9085-9, $11.00, 166pp, tp, oc)
Details taken from online listing.

6 · Foreword · Michel Parry · fw

9 · Glory and Splendour · Alex Miles · ss

27 · The Judge · Alex Miles · nv

48 · Deep Stitches · Alex Miles · nv

72 · Hitting Targets · Alex Miles · nv

113 · Life Beggar · Alex Miles · ss

124 · The Lotus Device · Alex Miles · nv

146 · Willum’s Friend · Alex Miles · ss

154 · The City of Plenty · Alex Miles · ss

Sardonic Tales by Hamish Miles--- see under Villiers de l'Isle-Adam.

Great Stories of Suspense ed. Kenneth Millar--- see under Ross Macdonald.

Esquire’s Big Book of Fiction ed. Adrienne Miller (Context Books, May 2002, 1893956261, $21.95, 816pp, tp, an)

· The Plains of Abraham · Russell Banks · ss Esquire July 1999

· The Remobilization of Jacob Horner · John Barth · ss Esquire July 1958

· The Widow Ching, Lady Pirate · Jorge Luis Borges; translated by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss Esquire August 1972
translated from the Spanish (“La Viuda Ching, pirata”, Crítica, August 26, 1933).

· Heart of a Champion · T. C. Boyle · ss Esquire January 1975

· His Son, in His Arms, in Light, Aloft · Harold Brodkey · ss Esquire August 1975

· Verona: A Young Woman Speaks · Harold Brodkey · ss Esquire July 1977

· Among the Paths to Eden · Truman Capote · ss Esquire July 1960

· Towel Season · Ron Carlson · ss Esquire May 1998

· Neighbors · Raymond Carver · ss Esquire June 1971

· The Death of Justina · John Cheever · ss Esquire November 1960

· In the Men’s Room of the Sixteenth Century · Don DeLillo · ss Esquire December 1971

· The Jeweler · Pete Dexter · ss Esquire April 2002

· The Celebrity · John Dos Passos · ss Esquire August 1935

· Hardy in the Evening · Tony Earley · ss Esquire February 1998

· Morning in America · Tony Earley · ss Esquire July 1998

· I Look Out for Ed Wolfe · Stanley Elkin · nv Esquire September 1962

· Fleur · Louise Erdrich · ss Esquire August 1986

· A Man in the Way [Pat Hobby] · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire February 1940

· Rock Springs · Richard Ford · nv Esquire February 1982

· The Song of Grendel · John Gardner · ss Esquire October 1971

· Behold the Husband in His Perfect Agony · Barry Hannah · ss Esquire July 1976

· The Snows of Kilimanjaro · Ernest Hemingway · nv Esquire August 1936

· The Deep Sleep · Aleksandar Hemon · ss Esquire November 2000

· Marry the One Who Gets There First · Heidi Julavits · ss Esquire April 1998

· The Language of Men · Norman Mailer · ss Esquire April 1953

· All the Pretty Horses · Cormac McCarthy · ss Esquire March 1992

· Cutting Losses · Thomas McGuane · ss Esquire October 1992

· Lightning Man · David Means · ss Esquire April 2001

· The Misfits · Arthur Miller · nv Esquire October 1957

· The Visit to the Museum · Vladimir Nabokov; translated by Dmitri Nabokov · ss Nabokov’s Dozen by Vladimir Nabokov, Heinemann, 1959
translated from the Russian (“Poseshchenie muzeya”, Sovremennyye zapiski, March 1939, as by Sirin).

· Downstream · Antonya Nelson · ss Esquire May 1989

· Parker’s Back · Flannery O’Connor · nv Esquire April 1965

· The Things They Carried · Tim O’Brien · ss Esquire August 1986

· Bess · Jayne Anne Phillips · ss Esquire August 1984

· The Psychoanalytic Special · Philip Roth · ss Esquire November 1963

· Monhegan Light · Richard Russo · ss Esquire August 2001

· The Wish · Joanna Scott · ex Esquire February 2000

· The Eighty-Yard Run · Irwin Shaw · ss Esquire January 1941

· The Beggar Said So · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Esquire May 1961

· The Lonesome Vigilante · John Steinbeck · ss Esquire October 1936

· Under the Pitons · Robert Stone · ss Esquire July 1996

· After the Storm · John Updike · ss Esquire January 1963

· Adult World · David Foster Wallace · ss Esquire July 1998

· Incarnations of Burned Children · David Foster Wallace · ss Esquire November 2000

· The Last Generation · Joy Williams · ss Esquire April 1989

· Soldier’s Joy · Tobias Wolff · ss Esquire October 1985

· The B.A.R. Man · Richard Yates · ss Esquire December 1957

Mass. Hallucinations ed. Alex Miller & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2023, 978-1-943022-25-0, $28.95, 324pp, tp, an)

1 · Introduction · Charles G. Waugh · in

9 · Out of Exile · Wilbur Daniel Steele · nv Pictorial Review November 1919

31 · The Midnight Voyage of the Seagull · Mrs. Volney E. Howard · nv Godey’s Lady’s Book July 1842, as by Volney E. Howard

61 · Silence · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine July 1893, as by Mary E. Wilkins

91 · The Devil and Tom Walker · Washington Irving · ss Tales of a Traveller by Geoffrey Crayon, John Murray, 1824

102 · The Graveyard Rats · Henry Kuttner · ss Weird Tales March 1936

109 · The Wind Harp · Anna M. Carter · ss Ballou’s Dollar Monthly Magazine December 1857

118 · The Haunted Ship · Hawser Martingale · ss Tales of the Ocean by Hawser Martingale, G.W. Cottrell, 1840

127 · My Margaret · Anonymous · ss The Boston Globe

137 · The Ghost of a Live Man · Anonymous · ss (r), as by A Traveller

142 · The Tuberose · Arlo Bates · ss A Book o’ Nine Tales by Arlo Bates, Roberts Brothers, 1891

153 · The Rival Ghosts · Brander Matthews · nv Harper’s New Monthly Magazine May 1884

169 · Out of the Long Ago · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales January 1925

185 · Out of the Storm · Charles Boardman Hawes · ss The Open Road December 1921

199 · The Salem Wolf · Howard Pyle · ss Harper’s Monthly Magazine December 1909

212 · The Thing from Outside · George Allan England · ss Science and Invention April 1923

231 · Young Goodman Brown · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ss The New-England Magazine April 1835, as by The Author of “The Gray Champion”

243 · It All Came True in the Woods · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales July 1941

252 · The Shadow Over Innsmouth [Cthulhu] · H. P. Lovecraft · na Visionary Press, 1936

312 · The End to the Horror · Seabury Quinn · ar Weird Tales July 1925

317 · Author Bios · [uncredited] · bg

324 · Editor Bios · [uncredited] · bg

World’s Best Pirate Stories ed. Alex Miller & Charles G. Waugh (Sam Teddy Publishing, 2020, 978-1-935573-60-9, $29.95, xvi+519pp, tp, an)
Details taken from online listing.

v · The Ballad of Orasmus Nute · Holman F. Day · pm Ainslee’s Magazine August 1900

ix · Introduction · [uncredited] · in

19 · The History of the Spectre Ship · Wilhelm Hauff; translated by G. P. Quackenbos · ss Popular Tales from Fairy Land by Wilhelm Hauff, D. Appleton & Company, 1853
translated from the German (“Die Geschichte von dem Gespensterschiff”, Märchen-Almanach auf das Jahr 1826 für Söhne und Töchter gebildeter Stände, 1825).

31 · Snake and Hawk · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Ladies’ Home Journal March 1923

47 · The Perils of Certain English Prisoners · Charles Dickens & Wilkie Collins · gp (r)

_ · The Island of Silver-Store · Charles Dickens · ss Household Words Christmas 1857, uncredited.

_ · The Prison in the Woods · Wilkie Collins · ss Household Words Christmas 1857, uncredited.

_ · The Rafts on the River · Charles Dickens · ss Household Words Christmas 1857, uncredited.

127 · How the Governor of Saint Kitt’s Came Home [Captain John Sharkey] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Pearson’s Magazine January 1897, as “The Governor of St Kitt’s”

138 · The Dealings of Captain Sharkey with Stephen Craddock [Captain John Sharkey] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Pearson’s Magazine March 1897, as “The Two Barques”

149 · The Blighting of Sharkey [Captain John Sharkey] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Pearson’s Magazine April 1911

160 · How Copley Banks Slew Captain Sharkey [Captain John Sharkey] · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss Pearson’s Magazine May 1897, as “The Voyage of Copley Banks”

171 · The Marooner · J. Allan Dunn · nv Adventure 1st August 1918

207 · The Ghost of Captain Brand · Howard Pyle · na Harper’s Weekly December 19 1896

235 · The Keys of Mortallone · Arthur T. Quiller-Couch · n. The London Magazine December 1910, as by Q

291 · Captain Blood’s Dilemma [Captain Peter Blood] · Rafael Sabatini · nv The Premier Magazine #112, April 22 1921, as “Governor Blood”

347 · The Florida Pirate · John Howison, uncredited · nv Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine August 1821

375 · The Pirate’s Treasure · Dick Donovan · ss Tales of Terror by Dick Donovan, Chatto & Windus, 1899

393 · The Demon Pilot · W. H. G. Kingston, Esq. · ss Ainsworth’s Magazine January 1847

417 · A Game of Life and Death [Capt. Nichols] · Lincoln Colcord · ss The American Magazine February 1909

439 · Eight Years in a Rock · Julian Hawthorne · ss The Cosmopolitan May 1901

457 · The Whaler · Frederick William Wallace · nv Adventure October 1915

501 · The Devils of Fuatino · Jack London · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 29 1911, as “The Goat Man of Fuatino”

525 · Afterword · [uncredited] · aw

4 Classic Ghostly Tales ed. Anita Miller (Academy Chicago, October 1993, 0-89733-398-5, $10.00, 250pp, tp, an, cover by Julia Anderson-Miller)
Anthology of four classic ghost stories, two novellas and two novelettes, with a long introduction on Victorian and quasi-Victorian ghost stories by the editor.

7 · Introduction · Anita Miller · in

15 · The Beckoning Fair One · Oliver Onions · na Widdershins by Oliver Onions, Secker, 1911

125 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea · Robert Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine October 1897, as “The Man Who Was Beloved”

201 · The Old Nurse’s Story · Elizabeth Gaskell · nv Household Words Christmas 1852, uncredited.

239 · Couching at the Door · D. K. Broster · nv The Cornhill Magazine December 1933

Bare Bones: Conversations with Stephen King ed. Chuck Miller & Tim Underwood--- see under Tim Underwood.

The Book of the Sixth World Fantasy Convention ed. Chuck Miller & Tim Underwood--- see under Tim Underwood.

18 Wheels of Horror: A Trailer Full of Trucking Terrors ed. Eric Miller (Big Time Books, October 3, 2015, 978-0-9906866-1-3, $14.99, 304pp, tp, oa, cover by Keven Carter)
Details taken from online listing.

x · Foreword · Paul Carlson · fw

1 · A Dark Road · Ray Garton · ss

17 · Rising Fawn · Brad C. Hodson · ss

32 · Never Lost Again · Joseph Spencer · ss

46 · Big Water · R. B. Payne · nv

68 · Downshift · Daniel P. Coughlin · ss

74 · Siren · Eric Miller · ss

83 · Whistlin’ · Shane Bitterling · ss

98 · Lucky · Del Howison · ss

111 · Happy Joe’s Rest Stop · John Palisano · ss

127 · Pursuit · Hal Bodner · nv

150 · Beyond the Best Seasoning · Meghan Arcuri · ss

166 · Take This Night · Janet Joyce Holden · ss

182 · King Shits · Charles Austin Muir · nv

212 · Cargo · Tim Chizmar · ss

218 · Crocodile · Edward M. Erdelac · ss

236 · Sleeper · Ian Welke · ss

256 · The Iron Bulldogge · Michael Paul Gonzalez · ss

271 · Road Kill · Jeff Seeman · ss

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