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Dallas Noir ed. David Hale Smith (Akashic Books, November 5, 2013, 978-1-61775-190-5, $19.95, 256pp, tp, oa) [Akashic Noir]     Details taken from ebook. · A Permanent Black Scar · David Hale Smith · in · Part I: Cowboys · Hole-Man · Matt Bondurant · ss; set in White Rock. · The Realtor · Ben Fountain · ss; set in Swiss Avenue. · In the Air · Daniel J. Hale · ss; set in Deep Ellum. · The Clearing · Emma Rathbone · ss; set in Plano. · En la Calle Doce (Flaco’s Blues) · Oscar C. Peña · ss; set in Oak Cliff. · Part II: Rangers · The Private Room · Merritt Tierce · ss; set in Uptown. · Night Work · Clay Reynolds · ss; set in Old East Dallas. · Full Moon · Lauren Davis · ss; set in Pleasant Grove. · Like Kissing Your Sister · James Hime · ss; set in Irving. · An Angel from Heaven · Fran Hillyer · ss; set in Northpark. · Part III: Mavericks · Coincidences Can Kill You · Kathleen Kent · ss; set in Cleburne. · Big Things Happening Here · David Haynes · ss; set in Oak Lawn. · The Stickup Girl · Harry Hunsicker · ss; set in South Dallas. · Dog Sitter · Catherine Cuellar · ss; set in Love Field. · Miss Direction · J. Suzanne Frank · ss; set in Downtown. · Swingers Anonymous · Jonathan Woods · ss; set in M Streets.

A Case for Aliens by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, October 26, 2021, 978-1-56146-593-4, $6.99, 142pp, tp, co, cover by grandfailure)     Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · If Sex Is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the Mess? · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #5, February 2014 27 · Who’s Holding Donna Now? · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #12, September 2014 47 · In Case of Emergency · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #8, May 2014 67 · The Last Man [Buckey the Space Pirate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #43, April 2017 85 · Squatter’s Rights on the Street of Broken Men · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, July 13 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 109 · My Socks Rolled Down · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 13 2011

Christmas Guests by Dean Wesley Smith & Nina Kiriki Hoffman (Writer’s Ink Press, December 2002, 68pp, octavo, oc, cover by Paul Perez)     limited to 50, Christmas gift chapbooks for 2002 from Dean Wesley Smith and Nina Kiriki Hoffman, the 6th of these chapbooks done by the duo. Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction to Christmas Guests · Dean Wesley Smith · in 4 · The Old Girlfriend of Doom [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 17 · Dead Even [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 28 · Gods Aren’t Funny [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 41 · To Grandmother’s House · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss 48 · Cookies for Mr. Carson · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss 54 · Foreign Exchange · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss 61 · A Soul Cake · Nina Kiriki Hoffman · ss

Five from the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, January 9, 2011, 978-1-4580-0886-2, $4.99, ebook, co)     Details taken from online listing. · Jukebox Gifts [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 1994 · A Golden Dream [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Black Cats and Broken Mirrors ed. Martin H. Greenberg & John Helfers, DAW, 1998, as “The Song of a Gift Horse” · Black Betsy [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Alternate Outlaws ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1994 · Our Slaying Song Tonight [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Five from the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2011 · Ghosts of the Garden Lounge [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Time After Time ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2005

Luck Be Ladies by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, August 18, 2019, 978-1-56146-096-0, $6.99, 166pp, tp, co)     Details taken from Table of Contents. ix · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · For the Balance of a Heart [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, August 17 2012 55 · That Lost Riddle [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Fiction River #1, Unnatural Worlds, April 2013 79 · Luck Be a Lady [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Intelligent Design ed. Denise Little, DAW, 2009 115 · You Forgive the Night’s Scream [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #6, March 2014 133 · The Rules of the Game [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Chicks and Balances ed. Esther Friesner & John Helfers, Baen, 2015

Playing a Hunch by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, July 28, 2020, 978-1-56146-355-8, $6.99, 124pp, tp, co, cover by Allyson Longueira)     Details taken from online listing. xi · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Leaking Away a Life [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2015 31 · A Reason to Play a Hunch [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #40, January 2017 49 · The Rude Improbable Presumptive [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2015 67 · The Library of Atlantis [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #34, July 2016 89 · Gods Have History [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2015

Stories from July by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, April 11, 2016, 978-1-56146-649-8, $19.99, 348pp, tp, oc)     Reprint (WMG Publishing 2015) original collection of 32 short stories written, one each day (plus one extra), in July 2015 together with 32 articles about the writing of each story. Subtitled “32 Original Stories Written in July 2015”. 5 · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 9 · The Case of the Dead Lady Blues [Pilgrim Hugh] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 21 · A Bad Patch of Humanity [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 31 · They Were Divided by Cold Debt [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 43 · The Problem of Grapevine Springs [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 55 · Best Eaten on a Slow Tuesday · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 63 · A Matter for a Future Year [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 73 · Roses Around the Moment [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 87 · For the Delusion That Waited · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 91 · Here to Stay on the Edge · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 101 · The Great Alien Vibration · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 111 · A Great First Day [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 123 · The Face in the Fullness of Time · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 129 · Why Delay? Just Rub [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 139 · The Stone Slept Here · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 147 · An Obscene Crime Against Passion [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 159 · Make Myself Just One More [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 169 · Gods Have History [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 181 · Idanha Hotel [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 193 · Something Wasted On · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 201 · Nobody Slept Here [Ghost of a Chance] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 213 · Leaking Away a Life [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv 227 · Coffee Shop Comedy [Danny and Dora] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 237 · The Cavern [Thunder Mountain] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 251 · A Bad Day for the Dream [Cold Poker Gang] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 261 · The Remodeling of a Life [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 269 · Dreaming Large [Seeders Universe] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 281 · To Remember a Single Minute · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 289 · The Case of the Lost Treasure [Pilgrim Hugh] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 301 · A Study of an Accident [Bryant Street] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 311 · The Lady of Whispering Valley [Buckey the Space Pirate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 321 · The Rude Improbable Presumptive [Poker Boy] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss 331 · Start with a Coffin [Captain Brian Saber] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss

Through the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, September 28, 2017, 978-1-56146-783-9, $6.99, 140pp, tp, co)     Details taken from online listing. 1 · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 4 · Jukebox Gifts [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction January 1994 44 · The Songs of Memory [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, January 20 2011 66 · The Wages of the Moment [Thunder Mountain; Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 26 2013 82 · Our Slaying Song Tonight [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Five from the Jukebox by Dean Wesley Smith, WMG Publishing, 2011 106 · Black Betsy [Jukebox] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Alternate Outlaws ed. Mike Resnick & Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1994

Too Strange for the Name by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, November 4, 2021, 978-1-56146-596-5, $6.99, 140pp, tp, co)     Subtitled “Six Really, Really, Really Whacked Out Stories with Sex”. Details taken from Table of Contents. vi · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · Don’t Rust on Me Now · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, March 4 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 21 · Iron Eyebrows · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, January 7 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield; subtitled “A Romance with Too Much Hair”. 37 · Mated from the Morgue · Dean Wesley Smith · ss WMG Publishing, April 7 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 53 · The Romance Novel Challenge · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, June 10 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield; given as “The Romance Novel Challenge” in the Table of Contents. 75 · Squatter’s Rights on the Street of Broken Men · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, July 13 2011, as by Dee W. Schofield 101 · If Sex Is All a Dream, Then Who Cleans Up the Mess? · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #5, February 2014

Weird Crime by Dean Wesley Smith (WMG Publishing, October 26, 2021, 978-1-56146-592-7, $6.99, 138pp, tp, co, cover by Paulfleet & Depositphotos)     Details taken from online listing. vii · Introduction · Dean Wesley Smith · in 1 · After the Dance · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #18, March 2015 17 · Death in the Morning [Mary Jo Assassin] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Smith’s Monthly #37, October 2016 45 · Center Drives [Sky Tate] · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #49, May 2021 59 · Cheerleader Revelation · Dean Wesley Smith · nv WMG Publishing, May 13 2013 81 · Eyes on My Cards [Doc Hill] · Dean Wesley Smith · nv Fiction River Special #1, Crime 2014 103 · I Killed Adam Chaser · Dean Wesley Smith · ss Smith’s Monthly #3, December 2013

Eating Our Way Through Christmas ed. Dean Wesley Smith & Nina Kiriki Hoffman--- see under Nina Kiriki Hoffman.

Satan’s Circus by Lady Eleanor Smith (Ash-Tree Press, November 5, 2004, 1-55310-074-3, C$59.00, xxviii+xxviii+223pp, hc, co, cover by Paul Lowe)     Collection supernatural fiction. This edition includes all of the stories from the first American edition (Bobbs-Merrill 1934), which added one story (’Whittington’s Cat’) to the original British publication (Gollancz 1932), as well as two further, uncollected stories - ’The Little Mermaid’ and ’No Ships Pass’. This is a limited edition of 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $47.50 and in the UK for £28.00. ix · Introduction · Christopher Roden · in 3 · Satan’s Circus · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv Britannia and Eve June 1930 28 · Mrs. Raeburn’s Waxwork · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss The London Mercury March 1931 31 · Candlelight · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss The Story-teller March 1931 47 · Portrait of a Strong Man · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine November 1930 63 · The Brothers · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss The Strand Magazine October 1930 81 · The Hurdy-Gurdy · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss Nash’s—Pall Mall Magazine June 1930 101 · Sweet Spanish Ladies · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss The Delineator December 1931 119 · One O’Clock · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss Satan’s Circus and Other Stories by Eleanor Smith, Gollancz, 1932 133 · Lyceum · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv Satan’s Circus and Other Stories by Eleanor Smith, Gollancz, 1932 155 · Whittington’s Cat · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Radio Times December 22 1933 173 · Tamar · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss Satan’s Circus and Other Stories by Eleanor Smith, Gollancz, 1932 185 · The Little Mermaid · Lady Eleanor Smith · ss The Fairies Return, Peter Davies, 1934 199 · No Ships Pass · Lady Eleanor Smith · nv The Story-teller May 1932 222 · Sources and Acknowledgments · [uncredited] · bi

Eyes of Terror and Other Dark Adventures by Elizabeth Thomasina Meade Smith--- see under L. T. Meade.

Meditations and Mesmerism: Tales Inspired by E.T.A. Hoffmann ed. Farah Rose Smith (Ulthar Press, 2019, 978-0-359-48240-5, $24.95, 264pp, tp, oa, cover by Sabinaka)     Details supplied by Denny Lien. 5 · Introduction · Farah Rose Smith · in 7 · Professor Homonculus · Michael Cisco · nv 31 · Dr. Ligetti’s Dream · Ian Delacroix · ss 41 · Alpha and Iota · Jayaprakash Satyamurthy · ss 54 · Heirloom · L. C. von Hessen · ss 73 · The Face and the Flame · M. Lopes da Silva · ss 85 · Where the Sky Is Silver and the Earth Is Brass · Sonya Taaffe · ss 92 · Deadhead · Jennifer Quail · ss 105 · Unheimlich · K. H. Vaughan · nv 126 · A Woman from the Dark · Aydan Hasanli · ss 145 · No Half Measures · Rhys Hughes · ss 162 · Awake in the Hands of Solitude · Kurt Newton & John Boden · nv 184 · The Polished Scope of Dragon Hide · Michelle F. Goddard · ss 201 · Ladali · Sandy Parsons · ss 213 · Spinollio · D. J. Moore · ss 229 · Fruit of the Earth · Nidhi Singh · ss 246 · Notes Toward a Philosophy of Sleep · Michael Uhall · ss 256 · About the Authors · [uncredited] · bg

The Cadaver by Guy N. Smith (Black Hill Books, November 21, 1991, £10.50, 24pp, ph, oc, cover by Tara Smith)     Collection of two stories published to commemorate the 100th issue of Black Hill Collector. Details supplied by Steve Holland. 4 · The Cadaver · Guy N. Smith · ss; illustrated by Tara Smith; later expanded into the novel of the same name (Severn House, 2008). 12 · The Crabs’ Armada · Guy N. Smith · ss; illustrated by Tara Smith