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Dark Voices: The Best from the Pan Book of Horror Stories ed. Stephen Jones & Clarence Paget (Pan 0-330-31100-X, Apr ’90, £3.99, 348pp, pb, cover by Dave McKean); Anthology of thirteen stories taken from past volumes of The Pan Book of Horror Stories, most in turn reprinted from other sources, together with brief introductions by contemporary horror authors. Also available in hardcover (-31565-X, £13.95).

Fantasy Tales 5 ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton (Robinson 1-85487-054-8, Oct ’90, £2.95, 201pp, tp, cover by J. K. Potter); Original fantasy/horror anthology. With this issue Fantasy Tales completes the transition from small press magazine to (mainly) original anthology, with a doubling of page count and price and the removal of all non-fiction material.

No Return Alexander Kabakov (Morrow 0-688-09978-5, Oct ’90 [Sep ’90], $15.95, 94pp, hc, cover by Cathie Bleck); Soviet time-travel dystopian sf novella predicting the consequences for the USSR if Gorbachev’s reforms fail. This originally appeared in the Soviet publication Iskusstvo Kino in 1989, and is translated from the Russian by Thomas Whitney.

Franz Kafka: Stories 1904 - 1924 Franz Kafka (Cardinal 0-7474-0725-8, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], £4.99, 271pp, tp); Reprint (Macdonald 1981) collection of all of Kafka’s stories published in book form during his life time. This edition is translated by J.A. Underwood and contains an introduction by Jorge Luis Borges.

My Madness: The Selected Writings of Anna Kavan Anna Kavan (Picador 0-330-30532-8, Mar ’90, £6.99, 318pp, tp, cover by Louise Brierley); Literary sf collection, edited and with an introduction by Brian W. Aldiss.

More Tales from the Forbidden Planet ed. Roz Kaveney (Titan 1-85286-332-3, Aug ’90, £7.95, 268pp, tp, cover by Moebius); Anthology of 15 original sf/fantasy stories, each illustrated by a separate artist. Also available in hardcover (-331-5, £12.95), and in a limited edition of 250 numbered copies, in an embossed slip-case and signed by all the contributors (-330-7, £45).

13 Plays of Ghosts and the Supernatural ed. Marvin Kaye (SFBC #14355, Mar ’90, $7.98, 617pp, hc, cover by Edward Gorey); Anthology of 13 plays about the supernatural.

Witches and Warlocks: Tales of Black Magic, Old & New ed. Marvin Kaye (SFBC #14354, Apr ’90 [Feb ’90], $6.98, 529pp, hc, cover by Edward Gorey); Anthology of 41 stories from writers ranging from Hawthorne to Tanith Lee.

Author’s Choice Monthly Issue 9: Heroines James Patrick Kelly (Pulphouse, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $4.95, 119pp, tp, cover by George Barr); Collection of four stories and four poems, one poem original, with an introduction by the author. A signed hardcover edition ($25.00) is also available, and a deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen.

Dark Hills, Hollow Clocks: Stories from the Otherworld Garry Kilworth (Methuen 0-416-15632-0, Aug ’90 [Jul ’90], £8.95, 112pp, hc, cover by Frazer Shaw); Original young-adult collection of fantasy stories. Recommended. (PSP)

Four Past Midnight Stephen King (Viking 0-670-83538-2, Sep ’90 [Aug ’90], $22.95, 763pp, hc, cover by Rob Wood & Stansbury); Collection of four novellas with an introductory note by King.

The Events at Poroth Farm T. E. D. Klein (Necronomicon Press 0-940884-31-3, Jul ’90 [Aug ’90], $7.95, 40pp, ph, cover by Jason C. Eckhardt); Lovecraftian short story that eventually became The Ceremonies, originally published in From Beyond the Dark Gateway in 1972. Text revised for this edition.

The Sphinx at Dawn Madeleine L’Engle (Harper & Row San Francisco 0-06-250502-5, Dec ’89 [Jan ’90], $5.95, 46pp, tp, cover by Vivian Berger) [Sphinx]; Reprint (Seabury Press 1982) collection of two linked stories set in ancient Egypt, with wood engravings by Vivian Berger.

The Last Herald Mage Mercedes R. Lackey (SFBC #17756, Dec ’90, $14.98, 900pp, hc, cover by Dawn Wilson) [Valdemar: Last Herald Mage]; Fantasy omnibus of Magic’s Pawn (DAW 1989), Magic’s Promise (DAW 1990), and Magic’s Price (DAW 1990).

The Early Lafferty II R. A. Lafferty (United Mythologies Press 0-921322-14-3, Mar ’90, $4.00, 31pp, ph); Collection of six stories, one of them original, with an introduction by Darrell Schweitzer. This is a limited edition of 300 copies. A signed edition (-15-1, $7.00) was announced but not seen.

Episodes of the Argo R. A. Lafferty (United Mythologies Press 0-921322-20-8, Sep ’90, $14.00, 59pp, tp) [Argo]; Collection of three stories in Lafferty’s “Argo” world, with an introduction by Gene Wolfe. This is a numbered limited edition of 250 copies. A signed numbered edition of 70 copies (-21-6, $22.00 postpaid) is also available.

The Compleat Bolo Keith Laumer (Baen 0-671-69879-6, Jun ’90 [May ’90], $3.95, 314pp, pb, cover by Stephen Hickman) [Bolo]; Omnibus of the collections Bolo (Putnam 1976) and Rogue Bolo (Baen 1986).

Empyrion Stephen R. Lawhead (Lion 0-7459-1872-7, Feb ’90 [Jan ’90], £4.99, 900pp, pb, cover by Lee Gibbons) [Empyrion]; Sf omnibus of The Search for Fierra (1985) and The Siege of Dome (1986).

Extinction Is Forever and Other Stories Louise Lawrence (The Bodley Head 0-370-31348-8, Jul ’90, £5.99, 190pp, tp, cover by Janet Woolley); Collection of eight young-adult sf stories, five of them original.

Catwings Ursula K. Le Guin (Scholastic 0-590-42833-0, Mar ’90, $2.50, 40pp, tp, cover by S. D. Schindler) [Catwings]; Reprint (Orchard 1988) children’s fantasy story with illustrations by S.D. Schindler.

The Leiber Chronicles Fritz Leiber (Dark Harvest 0-913165-48-4, Apr ’90, $21.95, 601pp, hc, cover by Bob Eggleton); Collection of 44 stories arranged chronologically. The books starts with the Grey Mouser (1939) and ends with him (1983), but meanders all over the landscape in between with a fascinating number of classic stories. Highly recommended (CNB). A signed, slipcased, limited edition ($65.00) is also available.

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