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Thank You for the Flowers by Scott Nicholson (Parkway Publishers, September 2000, 1-887905-24-3, $14.95, 190pp, tp, co, cover by John Shamburger)
Collection of 13 stories of horror and suspense, including the 1998 L. Ron Hubbard Writers of the Future Gold Award winner. The author’s afterword tells how the stories came to be written.

vii · Introduction · Scott Nicholson · in

3 · Haunted · Scott Nicholson · ss More Monsters from Memphis ed. Beecher Smith, Zapizdat Publications, 1998

17 · The Vampire Shortstop · Scott Nicholson · nv L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XV ed. Algis Budrys, Bridge, 1999

41 · Skin · Scott Nicholson · ss Northern Horror, Canada, 2000

55 · Dead Air · Scott Nicholson · ss Blue Murder #3, 1997

73 · In the Heart of November · Scott Nicholson · ss Be Afraid! ed. Edo van Belkom, Tundra Books, 2000

85 · The Three-Dollar Corpse · Scott Nicholson · ss Dead Promises ed. Jane Hubbard, Chameleon Publishing, 1999

99 · Thirst · Scott Nicholson · ss
first published in German on the website Storisende and in the anthology Die Drachen Von Morgan.

111 · Do You Know Me Yet? · Scott Nicholson · ss The Asylum, Vol. 1: The Psycho Ward ed. Victor Heck, DarkTales Publications, 1999

121 · Homecoming · Scott Nicholson · ss Maelstrom Speculative Fiction 1998

133 · Kill Your Darlings · Scott Nicholson · ss Blue Murder #5, 1997

145 · Metabolism · Scott Nicholson · ss L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume XIV ed. Dave Wolverton, Bridge, 1998

157 · The Boy Who Saw Fire · Scott Nicholson · ss The Leading Edge #36, September 1998

173 · Constitution · Scott Nicholson · vi Carpe Noctem #16, 1999

185 · Afterwords · Scott Nicholson · aw

Walking Water/After All This by Thom Nickels (Banned Books, September 1989, 0-934411-22-0, $8.95, 168pp, tp, oc)
Collection of two novellas, one sf and one fantasy, both with gay protagonists.

1 · Walking Water · Thom Nickels · na

91 · After All This · Thom Nickels · na

The English Soil Society by Tim Nickels (Elastic Press, October 2005, 0-9548812-4-9, £5.99, 260pp, tp, co, cover by Dean Harkness)
Details taken from online listing.

· maybe · Tim Nickels · vi Substance Spring 1995

· Airbabies · Tim Nickels · ss The Third Alternative #7, Summer 1995

· Colder Still · Tim Nickels · ss Back Brain Recluse #16, Summer 1990

· Hearing Colour · Tim Nickels · vi The Third Alternative #3, Summer 1994

· A Million Toledo Blades · Tim Nickels · ss

· S · Tim Nickels · ss

· The Dressing Floors · Tim Nickels · ss Neonlit: Time Out Book of New Writing Vol. 1 ed. Nicholas Royle, Quartet, 1998

· Redapple · Tim Nickels · ss Substance Autumn 1996

· In the South · Tim Nickels · vi

· Backalong in Bollockland · Tim Nickels · ss Scheherazade #7, April 1993

· The Hungry Shine · Tim Nickels · ss

· Mizzlesoft · Tim Nickels · ss

· Boo · Tim Nickels · ss

· The English Soil Society · Tim Nickels · ss Roadworks #12, Summer 2001

· Tooley’s Root · Tim Nickels · ss Back Brain Recluse #22, 1994

· Lusheart · Tim Nickels · ss Midnight Street #5, Summer 2005

· Another Summer · Tim Nickels · ss

· The Last of the Dandini Sisters · Tim Nickels · ss The Third Alternative #12, 1997

· The Science of Sadness · Tim Nickels · ss The Science of Sadness ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1994

· Born in the Forest · Tim Nickels · ss BBR #21, 1992

· Nest · Tim Nickels · ss

License Expired: The Unauthorized James Bond ed. David Nickle & Madeline Ashby--- see under Madeline Ashby.

Gaelic Ghosts: Tales of the Supernatural from Scotland by Sorche Nic Leodhas (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, May 18, 1964, $3.50, 110pp, hc, oc, cover by Nonny Hogrogian)

7 · Introduction · Sorche Nic Leodhas · in

17 · Sandy MacNeil and His Dog · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

30 · The Giant Bones · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

39 · The Gambling Ghosts · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

46 · The Grateful Old Cailleach · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

58 · The Walking Boundary Stone · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

68 · The Lady’s Loaf-field · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

76 · The Holy Relic of Bannockburn · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

81 · Man o’ the Clan · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

91 · The Old Laird and His Dogs · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

100 · The House That Lacked a Bogle · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

Ghosts Go Haunting by Sorche Nic Leodhas (Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1965, LC:65-10349, 128pp, hc, oc, cover by Nonny Hogrogian)

7 · Introduction · Sorche Nic Leodhas · in

13 · The Wicked House of Duncan MacBain · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

24 · The Man Who Didn’t Believe in Ghosts · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

35 · The Man Who Walked Widdershins Round the Kirk · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

43 · The Tale the Crofter Told · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

54 · The Wild Ride in the Tilt Cart · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

65 · The Man Who Helped Carry the Coffin · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

79 · The Ghost That Didn’t Want to Be a Ghost · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

91 · The Lads Who Met the Highwayman · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

103 · How Tammas MacIvar MacMurdo MacLennan Met His Match · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

113 · The Young Irish Lad from the Hiring Fair · Sorche Nic Leodhas · ss

Cruise of Shadows by Scott Nicolay--- see under Jean Ray.

Whiskey Tales by Scott Nicolay--- see under Jean Ray.

Alternate Skiffy ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden & Mike Resnick--- see under Mike Resnick.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2011 Edition ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden & Liz Gorinsky--- see under Liz Gorinsky.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2012 Edition ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Liz Gorinsky & David G. Hartwell--- see under Liz Gorinsky.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2013 Edition ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ellen Datlow, Claire Eddy, Melissa Frain, Liz Gorinsky, George R. R. Martin, Ann VanderMeer & Noa Wheeler--- see under Ellen Datlow.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2014 Edition ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Liz Gorinsky, David G. Hartwell, Peter Joseph, Marco Palmieri, Paul Stevens & Ann VanderMeer--- see under Ellen Datlow.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2015 Edition ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ellen Datlow, Claire Eddy, Carl Engle-Laird, David G. Hartwell, Beth Meacham, Marco Palmieri & Ann VanderMeer--- see under Ellen Datlow.

Some of the Best from Tor.com: 2016 Edition ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden, Ellen Datlow, Carl Engle-Laird, Liz Gorinsky, Justin Landon, Diana Pho, Ann VanderMeer & Miriam Weinberg--- see under Ellen Datlow.

Twenty-First Century Science Fiction ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden & David G. Hartwell--- see under David G. Hartwell.

The Year’s Best Science Fiction and Fantasy for Teens ed. Patrick Nielsen Hayden & Jane Yolen--- see under Jane Yolen.

Visions of the Vampire: Two Centuries of Immortal Tales ed. Sorcha Ní Fhlainn & Xavier Aldana Reyes (British Library Publishing, October 22, 2020, 978-0-7123-5392-2, £16.99, 304pp, hc, an) [British Library Hardback Classics]
Details taken from Table of Contents.

vii · Introduction · Sorcha Ní Fhlainn & Xavier Aldana Reyes · in

1 · The Vampyre · John William Polidori · nv The New Monthly Magazine April 1 1819, as by Lord Byron

23 · Wake Not the Dead! · Ernst Raupach · nv Popular Tales and Romances of the Northern Nations, Vol. 1, Simpkin, Marshall, 1823, uncredited.
translated from the German (“Lasst die Todten Ruhen: Ein Mährchen”, Minerva: Taschenbuch für das Jahr 1823, Leipzig, 1822).

51 · The White Maniac · Waif Wander · ss The Australian Journal July 13 1867

73 · The Family of the Vourdalak · Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy · nv 1884

103 · Good Lady Ducayne · Mary Elizabeth Braddon · nv The Strand Magazine February 1896

133 · Luella Miller · Mary E. Wilkins Freeman · ss Everybody’s Magazine December 1902, as by Mary E. Wilkins

149 · The Room in the Tower · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine January 1912

163 · Dracula’s Guest [Dracula] · Bram Stoker · ss Dracula’s Guest by Bram Stoker, Routledge, 1914
written in 1897 as part of Dracula, this chapter was omitted from the published book for reasons of length.

177 · The Cloak · Robert Bloch · ss Unknown May 1939

195 · Over the River · P. Schuyler Miller · ss Unknown April 1941

209 · The Lady of the House of Love · Angela Carter · nv The Iowa Review Summer/Fall 1979

229 · The Master of Rampling Gate · Anne Rice · nv The Ultimate Dracula ed. Byron Preiss, David Keller & Megan Miller, Dell, 1991
expanded from Redbook Feb ’84.

247 · Advocates [Comte de Saint Germain] · Suzy McKee Charnas & Chelsea Quinn Yarbro · nv Under the Fang ed. Robert R. McCammon, Pocket, 1991

279 · Let the Old Dreams Die · John Ajvide Lindqvist; translated by Marlaine Delargy · ss Let the Old Dreams Die and Other Stories by John Ajvide Lindqvist, Quercus, 2012
translated from the Swedish (“Låt de gamla drömmarna dö”, 2011).

Triangulation: Dark Skies ed. Chloe Nightingale & Diane Turnshek (PARSEC Ink, July 23, 2019, 978-1-08-209443-9, $17.00, 199pp, tp, oa)
Details taken from online listing.

iv · Introduction · Diane Turnshek · in

1 · Meirythro Brevis · Blake Jessop · ss

10 · The Second Star Is Missing · Kate Ruegger · ss

17 · How to Glimpse the Icarus Star · Mary Soon Lee · ss

22 · Why We Endured the Darkness · Maddy Dietz · ss

30 · A Weave of Europa · Manny Frishberg & Edd Vick · ss

34 · Eleven Tips for Hikers · Jamie Lackey · ss

39 · The Girl Who Stole the Sun · J. A. Prentice · ss

49 · Reaching Out · Estelle Rodgers · ss

59 · Maggie Matrix · James Edward O’Brien · ss

68 · Rattlesnake Song · Josh Rountree · ss

81 · Catch a Falling Star · Stephanie Gildart · ss

99 · Venus and the Milky Way · Rhea Rose · ss

110 · What Price the Sky? · Mike Brotherton · ss

122 · Seven Sisters · Jennifer Lee Rossman · ss

128 · Moon Cakes · Salinda Tyson · ss

137 · Blow the Stars Away · Andrew Leon Hudson · ss

151 · Equal in Darkness · Alexandra Balasa · ss

164 · Betting on Starlight · Isaac Payne · ss

176 · Stars · Liam Hogan · ss Happy Ending Not Guaranteed by Liam Hogan, Arachne Press, 2017

180 · The Valley of the Stars · Laura Jane Swanson · ss

187 · Earth Epitaph · R. Jean Mathieu · ss

Captain Empirical by Shirley Nikolaisen--- see under Sam Nicholson.

Words Without Pictures ed. Steve Niles (Eclipse Books, October 1990, 1-56060-031-4, $8.95, 180pp, tp, oa, cover by Mark Cox)
Original anthology of six stories and four poems by writers who work primarily in comics.

iii · A Special Introduction · Matt Feazell · cs

1 · The Hypothetical Lizard [Liavek] · Alan Moore · nv Liavek: Wizard’s Row ed. Will Shetterly & Emma Bull, Ace, 1987

73 · Foreign Parts · Neil Gaiman · nv

105 · The Storm · Jon J Muth · pm

107 · Faces · Jon J Muth · pm

109 · Winter · Jon J Muth · pm

111 · In the Ghost’s House · Jon J Muth · pm

117 · A Shot of Damns and a Pack of Hells · Ann Nocenti · ss

129 · A Creature Most Dreadful · Mark Evanier · ss

151 · A Short Tale of a Young Man Who Would Have Been a Priest · Charles Vess · ss

161 · Jiz and Blood: Everything Merges with the Night · Stephen R. Bissette · ss

The Haunted Station, and Other Stories by Hume Nisbet (F.V. White & Co., 1894, ii+314pp, hc, co)

i · Preface · Hume Nisbet · pr

1 · The Haunted Station · Hume Nisbet · nv The Belgravia Annual Christmas 1892

34 · The Odic Touch · Hume Nisbet · ss Phil May’s Annual #3, Winter 1893

49 · An Ocean Dream · Hume Nisbet · ss (r)

69 · A Queensland Iliad · Hume Nisbet · ss

89 · The Demon Spell · Hume Nisbet · ss

99 · The Face at the Window · Hume Nisbet · ss (r)

112 · The Phantom Model · Hume Nisbet · ss

131 · Marie St. Pierre · Hume Nisbet · ss

137 · Through the Gap · Hume Nisbet · nv (r); subtitled “A New Guinea Adventure”.

182 · A Deadly Voyage · Hume Nisbet · nv (r)

227 · Delphine · Hume Nisbet · nv (r)

280 · Humphrey Bolin’s Account of the Spanish Armada Invasion · Hume Nisbet · nv (r)

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