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The Crafters ed. Christopher Stasheff & Bill Fawcett (Ace, December 1991, 0-441-12130-6, $4.50, 246pp, pb, oa, cover by Daniel R. Horne)     Original shared-world fantasy anthology of ten stories with a prologue by Fawcett. vii · Prologue · Bill Fawcett · lk 1 · The Alchemist and the Witch · Christopher Stasheff · nv 35 · Of Art and Science · Judith R. Conly · pm 37 · A Cup of Chaos · Wendy Wheeler · nv 61 · The Seal of Solomon · Robert Sheckley · nv 84 · The Seeing Stone · Jody Lynn Nye · ss 103 · Education · Anna O’Connell & Doug Houseman · nv 135 · A Little Learning · Esther M. Friesner · nv 160 · A Spell for Brass Buttons · Ru Emerson · na 210 · The Summoning · Katherine Kurtz · ss 224 · Unholy Alliance · Morgan Llywelyn · nv 245 · Epilogue · Bill Fawcett · aw

The Crafters Book 2: Blessings and Curses ed. Christopher Stasheff & Bill Fawcett (Ace, August 1992, 0-441-12131-4, $4.50, 275pp, pb, oa, cover by Daniel R. Horne)     Original shared-world anthology of ten stories and one poem, with a prologue by Bill Fawcett. ix · Prologue · Bill Fawcett · lk 1 · Belonging · Barbara Delaplace · ss 12 · Franklin’s Salamander · Wendy Wheeler · ss 32 · “…A Fortune in Ireland” · Morris G. McGee · nv 57 · Her American Cousin · Esther Friesner · nv 100 · Whose Ghost There? · Christopher Stasheff · na 153 · Ironsides and Cottonseed Oil · Ru Emerson · nv 191 · Miss Crafter’s School for Girls · Jody Lynn Nye · nv 225 · The Dream Country · Robert Sheckley · nv 256 · Oppression · Judith R. Conly · pm 257 · Remember the Almost · Morgan Llywelyn · ss 269 · A Cursed Booty · Brian M. Thomsen · ss

Dragon’s Eye ed. Christopher Stasheff (Baen, July 1994, 0-671-87609-0, $5.99, 279pp, pb, oa, cover by Darrell K. Sweet)     Original anthology of 12 fantasy stories about dragons. 1 · Constant Never · S. M. Stirling · nv 23 · To Kill a Dragon · Teresa Patterson · nv 55 · The Stuff of Legends · Jody Lynn Nye · nv 85 · Through the Dragon’s Eyes · Bill Fawcett · na 133 · The Power Within · Mickey Zucker Reichert · ss 149 · Birdie · Mike Resnick & Nicholas A. DiChario · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1994 171 · Fog of War · William R. Forstchen · nv 193 · In the Heavens and On the Earth · Christopher Stasheff · ss 209 · Call Him Meier · Roland J. Green · ss 229 · Saint Patrick’s Last Snake · Judith R. Conly · pm 231 · The Back Door · Diane Duane · nv 255 · The Art of Revolution · S. N. Lewitt · nv

The Enchanter Reborn ed. Christopher Stasheff & L. Sprague de Camp--- see under L. Sprague de Camp.

The Exotic Enchanter ed. Christopher Stasheff & L. Sprague de Camp--- see under L. Sprague de Camp.

Ghosts in Baker Street ed. Daniel Stashower, Martin H. Greenberg & Jon Lellenberg--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

Murder in Baker Street ed. Daniel Stashower, Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

Sherlock Holmes in America ed. Daniel Stashower, Martin H. Greenberg & Jon L. Lellenberg--- see under Martin H. Greenberg.

Futuristica: Volume 1 ed. Kathryn Stauber & Chester Hoster--- see under Chester Hoster.

Futuristica: Volume II ed. Katy Stauber & Chester W. Hoster--- see under Chester W. Hoster.

Boxing’s Best Short Stories ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, August 1999, 1556523645, $24.00, 336pp, hc, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Introduction · Paul D. Staudohar · in (r) · Rose Into Cauliflower · Mel Matison · ss Esquire January 1943 · The Last Blow · Octavus Roy Cohen · ss Collier’s October 2 1926 · The Croxley Master · A. Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine October 1899 (+2) · The Higher Pragmatism · O. Henry · ss Munsey’s Magazine March 1909 · Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine · Thom Jones · ss The New Yorker November 17 1997 · Twenty-Five Bucks · James T. Farrell · ss Pagany July/September 1932 · Bred for Battle · Damon Runyon · ss Cosmopolitan May 1934 · Heart · Neil McMahon · ss (r) · A Piece of Steak · Jack London · nv The Saturday Evening Post November 20 1909 · Thicker than Water · Paul Gallico · ss Collier’s July 8 1944 · Return to Kansas City · Irwin Shaw · ss The New Yorker July 15 1939 · Death of a Prize Fighter · Robert Switzer · ss Esquire June 1949 · A Matter of Seconds [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss The Evening Standard August 3 1953 · The Début of Battling Billson [Ukridge] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss Cosmopolitan June 1923 · He Swung and He Missed · Nelson Algren · ss The American Mercury July 1942 · The Legend of Pig-Eye · Rick Bass · ss The Paris Review #115, Summer 1990 · Everything in the Fifth · Maxence Van der Meersch · ss Esquire May 1939 · One-Thirty-Three—Ringside · Charles E. Van Loan · nv The Popular Magazine December 1 1913 · A Boxer: Old · Harry Sylvester · ss Story #18, January 1934 · The Chickasha Bone Crusher · H. C. Witwer · ss Collier’s January 15 1921 · Champion · Ring Lardner · nv Metropolitan October 1916 · Stop the Fight! · Norman Katkov · ss The Saturday Evening Post March 1 1952

Fishing’s Best Short Stories ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, June 2000, 155652403X, $24.00, hc, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Introduction · Paul D. Staudohar · in · The Man in the Black Suit · Stephen King · nv The New Yorker October 31 1994 · Opening Day · Jack Gilchrist · ss Georgia Review Spring 1964, as by John Shafter · Light Tackle [Crunch & Des] · Philip Wylie · ss The Saturday Evening Post June 1 1940 · The Big Brown Trout · Robert Travers · ss Argosy April 1966 · Squirrely’s Grouper · Bob Sacochis · ss (r) · The Intruder · Robert Traver · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 20 1960 · Fishing’s Just Luck · Elmer Ransom · ss (r) · The Dolphin Story · Joyce Renwick · ss Choice 1980 · The Fatal Success · Henry van Dyke · ss Fisherman’s Luck by Henry Van Dyke, C. Scribner's Sons, 1901 · Cowboys · Geoffrey Norman · ss (r) · A Wedding Gift · John Taintor Foote · ss The Saturday Evening Post January 13 1923 · The Big Buffalo Bass · Weldon Stone · ss (r) · The Wer-Trout · E. Annie Proulx · ss Esquire June 1982 · Old Croc · Jason Lucas · ss (r) · The Parmachene Belle · Edwin L. Peterson · ss Esquire August 1940 · Skelton’s Party · Thomas McGuane · ss (r) · The River God · Roland Pertwee · ss The Saturday Evening Post July 7 1928 · Daniel Webster and the Sea Serpent · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 22 1937 · Fly-Fishing · P. J. O’Rourke · ss (r) · The Fisherman and His Wife · Jacob & Wilhelm Grimm · ss (r) · John Monahan · Paul Hyde Bonner · ss (r) · Spare the Rod · Philip Wylie · nv The Saturday Evening Post September 28 1940 · The Girl at Thorp’s · Warren Gibson · ss Esquire November 1934 · A Fishing Excursion · Guy de Maupassant · ss Complete Works by Guy de Maupassant, The Dunstan Society, 1903 translated from the French (“Deux amis”, Gil Blas, February 5, 1883 as by Maufrigneuse). · Murder · Sparse Grey Hackle · ss (r)

Golf’s Best Short Stories ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, September 1997, 1-556-52321-1, $24.00, 400pp, hc, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Introduction · Paul D. Staudohar · in (r) · The Clicking of Cuthbert [The Oldest Member] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The Strand Magazine October 1921, as “The Unexpected Clicking of Cuthbert” · The Phantom Card · John Kendrick Bangs · ss (r) · The Pro · John Updike · ss The New Yorker September 17 1966 · Mr. Frisbie · Ring Lardner · ss Cosmopolitan June 1928 · The Ooley-Cow · Charles E. Van Loan · ss The Saturday Evening Post November 17 1917 · Pay As You Play · Everett Rhodes Castle · ss The American Magazine January 1932 · Lee and Me at the Open · Kevin Cook · ss Playboy June 1982 · Who Wants to Marry Money? · Glynn Harvey · ss Collier’s April 15 1955 · The Sweet Shot [Philip Trent] · E. C. Bentley · ss The Strand Magazine March 1937 · The Golfomaniac · Stephen Leacock · ss The Iron Man and the Tin Woman by Stephen Leacock, Dodd, 1929 · The Wooden Putter · Bernard Darwin · ss The London Magazine August 1923 · Archibald’s Benefit · P. G. Wodehouse · ss Pearson’s Magazine July 1909, as “Reginald’s Record Knock” · My Livelihood · Charles Dickinson · ss Esquire May 1982 · The Hong-Kong Medal · W. G. Van T. Sutphen · ss The Golficide and Other Tales of the Fair Green by Van Tassel Sutphen, Harper, 1898 · The Year of Getting to Know Us · Ethan Canin · ss The Atlantic Monthly March 1987 · Farrell’s Caddie · John Updike · ss The New Yorker February 25 1991 · A Mediaeval Hole in One · Stephen Leacock · ss (r) · Golf Is a Nice Friendly Game · Paul Gallico · ss The Saturday Evening Post May 30 1942 · Sundered Hearts [The Oldest Member] · P. G. Wodehouse · ss The Strand Magazine December 1920 · The Adventure of the Treacherous Traps · Merrell Noden · ss (r) · The Lady’s Proposition · Earlyne S. Browne · ss The Saturday Evening Post August 6 1955 · The Rivercliff Golf Killing · Don Marquis · ss Liberty July 2 1927 · Decision on the Fairway · William E. Pettit · ss (r) · The Haunted Major · Robert Marshall · ss (r)

Murder Short & Sweet ed. Paul D. Staudohar (Chicago Review Press, November 2008, 978-1556527975, $19.95, 384pp, hc, an) · The Black Cat · Edgar Allan Poe · ss United States Saturday Post and Chronicle August 19 1843 · Lamb to the Slaughter · Roald Dahl · ss Harper’s Magazine September 1953 · Philomel Cottage · Agatha Christie · nv The Grand Magazine November 1924 · The Adventure of the Speckled Band [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine February 1892 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole [Limehouse] · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929 · The Perfect Crime · Ben Ray Redman · ss Harper’s Magazine August 1928 · The Avenging Chance [Roger Sheringham] · Anthony Berkeley · ss Pearson’s Magazine September 1929 · The Dark Snow · Brendan DuBois · ss Playboy November 1996 · The Specialty of the House · Stanley Ellin · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #54, May 1948 · Suspicion · Dorothy L. Sayers · ss Mystery League October 1933 · The Adventure of the Needle’s Eye [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #93, August 1951 · Bech Noir · John Updike · nv The New Yorker June 8 1998 · Never Shake a Family Tree · Donald E. Westlake · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine March 1961 · Dark Journey · Francis Iles · ss News Chronicle April 30 1934 (+4) · The Fall of a Coin · Ruth Rendell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine June 1975 · The Two Bottles of Relish [Mr. Linley] · Lord Dunsany · ss Time and Tide November 12 1932 (+1) · The Eleventh Juror · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories August 1927 · The Inquisitive Butcher of Nice · James Holding · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine July 1963 · The Silver Mask · Hugh Walpole · ss Harper’s Bazaar March 1932 · Keller on the Spot [John Keller] · Lawrence Block · ss Playboy November 1997 · The Invisible Witness · Anthony Gilbert · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine January 1974 · Under Suspicion · Clark Howard · nv Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 2000 · The Turn of the Tide · C. S. Forester · ss The Story-teller May 1936 · H as in Homicide [Mitch Taylor; Bill Decker] · Lawrence Treat · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine March 1964 · The Adventure of the Abbey Grange [Sherlock Holmes] · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv The Strand Magazine September 1904

The Oxford Book of Jewish Stories ed. Ilan Stavans (Oxford University Press US, December 1998, 0-195-11019-6, $30.00, 576pp, hc, an)     Contents from Amazon.com. · Preface · Ilan Stavans · pr (r) · Language and Tradition · Ilan Stavans · in (r) · The Rabbi’s Son · Rabbi Nakhman of Bratzlav · ss (r) · The Calf · Sholem Jacob Abramovitsh · ss (r) · If Not Higher… · Isaac Leib Peretz · ss (r) · A Yom Kippur Scandal · Sholom Aleichem · ss (r) · The Mother · Italo Svevo · ss (r) · Tug of Love · Israel Zangwill · ss 10 Story Book November 1901 · The Kiss · Lamed Shapiro · ss (r) · America and I · Anzia Yezierska · ar Scribner’s Magazine February 1922 · Holy Land · Ludwig Lewisohn · ss Harper’s Magazine October 1925 · Before the Law · Franz Kafka · vi (r) · At Night · David Bergelson · ss (r) · Fool and the Forest Demon · Der Nister; translated by Joachim Neugroschel · ss Yenne Velt Volume I ed. Joachim Neugroschel, Stonehill, 1976 translated from the Yiddish (Gedakht, 1922). · Camacho’s Wedding Feast · Alberto Gerchunoff · ss (r) · A Whole Loaf · Shmuel Yosef Agnon · ss (r) · The Street of Crocodiles · Bruno Schulz; translated by Celina Wieniewska · ss The Street of Crocodiles by Bruno Schulz, Walker & Company, 1963 · The Story of My Dovecot · Isaac Babel · ss (r) · The Spinoza of Market Street · Isaac Bashevis Singer · ss Esquire October 1961 · The Sacrifice of the Prisoner · Elias Canetti · ss (r) · Prophet in Our Midst: A Story for Passover · A. M. Klein · ss (r) · In Dreams Begin Responsibilities · Delmore Schwartz · ss Partisan Review December 1937 · Angel Levine · Bernard Malamud · ss Commentary December 1955 · Looking for Mr. Green · Saul Bellow · nv Commentary March 1951 · House at the Sea · Natalia Ginzburg · ss (r) · The Hand That Fed Me · Isaac Rosenfeld · ss Partisan Review Winter 1944 · The Mirror Maker · Primo Levi · ss Mirror Maker by Primo Levi, Schocken, 1989 · The Key Game · Ida Fink · ss (r) · Midrash on Happiness · Grace Paley · vi TriQuarterly #65, Winter 1986 · Letter from His Father · Nadine Gordimer · ss The London Review of Books October 20 1983 · Family Ties · Clarice Lispector · ss (r) · The Shawl · Cynthia Ozick · ss The New Yorker May 26 1980 · The True Waiting · Elie Wiesel · ss (r) · The Zulu and the Zeide · Dan Jacobson · ss (r) · Criers and Kibitzers, Kibitzers and Criers · Stanley Elkin · nv Perspective Winter 1961 · Playing Ball on Hampstead Heath · Mordecai Richler · ss The Running Man July/August 1968 · Bertha · Aharon Appelfeld · ss (r) · The Conversion of the Jews · Philip Roth · ss The Paris Review #18, Spring 1958 · Dogs and Books · Danilo Kis · ss (r) · The Yatir Evening Express · A. B. Yehoshua · ss (r) · In the Name of His Name · Angelina Muñiz-Huberman · ss (r) · The Ballad of the False Messiah · Moacyr Scliar · ss (r) · Nomad and Viper · Amos Oz · ss Where the Jackals Howl and Other Stories by Amos Oz, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1981 translated from the Hebrew (“Navadim ve-Tzefa”, Be-Artzot ha-Tan, 1965). · The Conversion · Isaac Goldemberg · ss (r) · Useful Ceremonies · Francine Prose · ss (r) · Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven · Steve Stern · ss Lazar Malkin Enters Heaven by Steve Stern, Viking, 1986 · The Legacy of Raizel Kaidish: A Story · Rebecca Goldstein · ss New Traditions Spring 1985 · Postscript to a Dead Language · Melvin Jules Bukiet · ss (r) · Bottles · Alcina Lubitch Domecq; translated by Ilan Stavans · vi Albany Review Winter 1989 · Elvis, Axl, and Me · Janice Eidus · ss Mondo Elvis ed. Lucinda Ebersole & Richard Peabody, St. Martin's Press, 1994 · Cherries in the Icebox · David Grossman · ss (r) · Three Nightmares · Ilan Stavans · ss (r) · Endless Visibility · Jonathan Rosen · ss (r) · The Art Biz · Allegra Goodman · ss Commentary September 1996 · Chronology · [uncredited] · ms (r) · Contents by Theme · [uncredited] · ms (r)