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By Bizarre Hands Joe R. Lansdale (Mark V. Ziesing 0-929480-12-0, Dec ’89, $25.00, 246pp, hc, cover by J. K. Potter); Collection of 16 stories, with an introduction by Lewis Shiner. This first collection of Lansdale’s work contains his best known stories. Several have been revised, two are original and others have only appeared in small press sources. Also announced in a signed limited slipcased edition (-13-9, $65.00) but not seen.

The New Frontier ed. Joe R. Lansdale (Doubleday 0-385-24569-6, May ’89, $12.95, 180pp, hc); Associational; original western anthology of 18 stories and a poem with an introduction by Lansdale and an afterword to a “lost” Max Brand story by William F. Nolan. At least four of the stories are fantasy.

Razored Saddles ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Patrick LoBrutto (Dark Harvest 0-913165-49-2, Sep ’89 [Aug ’89], $19.95, 268pp, hc); Original anthology of 17 western horror and fantasy stories, illustrated by Rick Araluce. A slipcased deluxe limited edition of 600 copies signed by the editors and contributors ($59.00) is also available.

Catwings Return Ursula K. Le Guin (Franklin Watts/Orchard 0-531-05803-4, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $10.95, 49pp, hc) [Catwings]; Children’s talking animal fantasy short story, illustrated by S.D. Schindler.

A Visit from Dr. Katz Ursula K. Le Guin (Collins 0-00-195496-2, Dec ’88 [Jan ’89], £4.95, 28pp, hc); Reprint (Atheneum 1988) children’s picture book, illustrated by Ann Barrow. [First U.K. edition]

Fire and Stone Ursula K. Le Guin & Laura Marshall (Macmillan Atheneum 0-689-31408-6, Mar ’89, $13.95, 31pp, hc); Children’s fantasy about dragons, text by Le Guin, illustrations by Laura Marshall.

Forests of the Night Tanith Lee (Unwin Hyman 0-04-440402-6, Jun ’89, £12.95, 299pp, hc, cover by Max Schindler); Sf/fantasy collection, including eight original stories and a brief introduction by the author to each piece.

Women as Demons Tanith Lee (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4132-8, Mar ’89, £4.95, 272pp, tp, cover by Juliette Pearce); Marvellous collection of 16 sf, fantasy and horror tales, most previously uncollected and two previously unpublished, examining different facets of women. Recommended. (PSP)

The Three of Swords Fritz Leiber (SFBC #14707, 1989 [Mar ’89], $7.98, 496pp, hc) [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser]; Omnibus edition of Swords and Deviltry (Ace 1970), Swords Against Death (Ace 1970), and Swords in the Mist (Ace 1968). The first three volumes in the Fafhrd/Mouser series.

Doctor Who Classics: The Daemons and The Time Monster Barry Letts & Terrance Dicks (Target 0-352-32382-5, Mar ’89, £2.95, 325pp, pb) [Doctor Who]; Young-adult sf novelization. Volume 5 in the “Doctor Who Classics” series.

The Teeth of Angels: Stories Caitlin Levene (Hamish Hamilton 0-241-12766-1, Jul ’89 [Aug ’89], £11.95, 265pp, hc); Remarkable collection of 19 original ‘mainstream’ stories, most with a streak of fantasy running through them. Recommended. (PSP)

Prince Caspian & The Voyage of the Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis (Lions 0-00-673642-4, Oct ’89, £3.99, 381pp, pb) [Narnia]; Young-adult fantasy omnibus, volumes two and three in the “Narnia” series, containing photographs from the recent television series.

Songs of a Dead Dreamer Thomas Ligotti (Robinson 1-85487-022-X, Oct ’89, £5.99, 275pp, tp, cover by Pete Wigens); Collection of 20 horror stories, many revised for this edition, with an introduction by Ramsey Campbell. A somewhat different selection appeared in a limited edition of 300 copies, under the same title, from Silver Scarab Press, Albuquerque in 1986.

A Saga of the Reindeer People Megan Lindholm (SFBC #14813, May ’89, $8.98, hc) [Reindeer People]; Omnibus of The Reindeer People (Ace 1988) and Wolf’s Brother (Ace 1988); a prehistoric adventure series.

Enemy Mine/Another Orphan ed. Anon. (Tor 0-812-55963-0, Mar ’89 [Feb ’89], $2.95, 90 + 68pp, pb); Anthology of two Nebula-winning novellas.

The Total Devotion Machine Rosaleen Love (The Women’s Press 0-7043-4188-3, Aug ’89 [Jul ’89], £4.50, 167pp, tp); Collection of 17 stories, most of them original.

The Horror in the Museum and Other Revisions H. P. Lovecraft (Arkham House 0-87054-040-8, May ’89 [Mar ’89], $18.95, 450pp, hc); Collection; revised and corrected edition of the 1944 Arkham House book with corrected texts plus new stories added and previous ones removed. This should be considered a new book. Includes a note on the texts by S.T. Joshi and a foreword on Lovecraft’s revisions by August Derleth.

Somewhere in the Night Jeffrey N. McMahan (Alyson 1-55583-157-5, Oct ’89, $7.95, 182pp, tp); Collection of eight original horror stories with gay protagonists. These are good contemporary horror with two particularly excellent black comedies about a vampire boutique-worker who cuts his victims’ heads off to avoid the competition (SW).

Visions of Poe Simon Marsden & Edgar Allan Poe (Knopf 0-394-57427-3, Nov ’88 [Jan ’89], $24.95, 128pp, hc); Art book. Simon Marsden’s personal selection of Poe’s stories and poems illustrated by Marsden’s eerie photographs. First American edition (Webb and Bower 1988).

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