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- Swords Masters Fritz Leiber (SFBC #15972, Apr 90, $11.98, 536pp, hc, cover by Dean Morrissey) [Fafhrd & Gray Mouser]; Omnibus of Swords Against Wizardry (Ace 1968), The Swords of Lankhmar (Ace 1968), and Swords and Ice Magic (Ace 1977).
- 1 · Swords Against Wizardry · co New York: Ace, 1968
- 5 · Authors Introduction · in
- 7 · In the Witchs Tent · ss Swords Against Wizardry, Ace, 1968
- 12 · Stardock · nv Fantastic Sep 65
- 68 · The Two Best Thieves in Lankhmar · ss Fantastic Aug 68
- 83 · The Lords of Quarmall · Fritz Leiber & Harry Fischer · na Fantastic Jan 64 (+1)
- 163 · The Swords of Lankhmar · n. New York: Ace, 1968
- 165 · Authors Note · in
- 379 · Swords and Ice Magic · co New York: Ace, 1977
- 383 · The Sadness of the Executioner · ss Flashing Swords! #1, ed. Lin Carter, Dell, 1973
- 392 · Beauty and the Beasts · vi The Book of Fritz Leiber, DAW, 1974
- 395 · Trapped in the Shadowland · ss Fantastic Nov 73
- 401 · The Bait · vi Whispers Dec 73
- 404 · Under the Thumbs of the Gods · ss Fantastic Apr 75
- 417 · Trapped in the Sea of Stars · ss The Second Book of Fritz Leiber, DAW, 1975
- 431 · The Frost Monstreme · nv Flashing Swords! #3, ed. Lin Carter, Dell, 1976
- 458 · Rime Isle · na Cosmos SF&F Magazine May 77 (+1)
- The Mirror Maker Primo Levi (Schocken 0-8052-0989-1, Oct 90 [Sep 90], $9.95, 176pp, tp, cover by Louise Fili); Reprint (Schocken 1989) collection of 13 stories and 22 essays. Most of the stories are sf and fantasy. Translated from the Italian by Raymond Rosenthal.
- ix · Preface: Primo Levis Muse: Curiosity · Lorenzo Mondo · pr
- 3 · Premise · in *
- 5 · To My Friends · pm *
- 9 · The Thaw · pm *
- 11 · The Interview · vi *
- 14 · They Were Made to Be Together · vi *
- 17 · The Great Mutation · ss *
- 23 · The Two Flags · ss *
- 28 · Five Intimate Interviews · ss *
- 47 · The Mirror Maker · ss *
- 52 · Through the Walls · ss *
- 57 · The Ants Wedding · ss *
- 62 · Force Majeure · ss *
- 66 · A Mystery in the Lager · ss *
- 71 · Time Checkmated · ss *
- 76 · The Tommy-Gun Under the Bed · ss *
- 83 · A Valley · pm *
- 85 · The Commander of Auschwitz · ar *
- 89 · The Moon and the Man · ar *
- 93 · Sic! · ar *
- 95 · Our Dreams · ar *
- 98 · The Struggle for Life · ar *
- 101 · Spears Become Shields · ar *
- 106 · Translating Kafka · ar *
- 110 · Rhyming on the Counterattack · ar *
- 115 · Dear Horace · ar *
- 120 · Bacteria Roulette · ar *
- 125 · Among the Peaks of Manhattan · ar *
- 130 · The Wine of the Borgias · ar *
- 135 · Reproducing Miracles · ar *
- 140 · The Man Who Flies · ar *
- 145 · About Gossip · ar *
- 149 · Jack Londons Buck · ar *
- 154 · Adams Clay · ar *
- 158 · The Spiders Secret · ar *
- 163 · The Dispute among German Historians · ar *
- 167 · Defiance in the Ghetto · ar *
- 172 · Hatching the Cobra · ar *
- The Sixth Day and Other Stories Primo Levi (Summit, May 90 [Jun 90], $19.95, hc); Collection of 23 literary fantasy stories. This is an omnibus of two collections originally published in Italian, Storie Natural (as by Damiano Malabaila) (1966) and Vizio di Forma (1977). Translated by Raymond Rosenthal.
- 11 · The Mnemogogues · ss *
- 19 · Angelic Butterfly · ss *
- 26 · Order on the Cheap · ss *
- 34 · Mans Friend · ss New Yorker Mar 26 90
- 38 · Some Applications of the Mimer · ss *
- 45 · Versamina · ss *
- 55 · The Sleeping Beauty in the Fridge: A Winters Tale · ss *
- 71 · The Measure of Beauty · ss *
- 80 · Full Employment · ss New Yorker Apr 23 90
- 90 · The Sixth Day · ss *
- 107 · Retirement Fund · ss *
- 126 · Westward · ss *
- 136 · Seen from Afar · ss *
- 145 · The Hard-Sellers · ss *
- 161 · Small Red Lights · vi *
- 164 · For a Good Purpose · ss *
- 174 · Psychophant · ss New Yorker Feb 12 90
- 182 · Recuenco: The Nurse · ss *
- 188 · Recuenco: The Rafter · ss *
- 195 · His Own Blacksmith: To Italo Calvino · ss *
- 203 · The Servant · ss *
- 211 · Mutiny: To Mario Rigoni Stern · ss *
- 218 · Excellent Is the Water · ss *
- The Cosmic Trilogy C. S. Lewis (The Bodley Head 0-370-31439-5, Mar 90, £13.95, 651pp, hc, cover by Brian Froud) [Cosmic]; Sf omnibus of Out of the Silent Planet, Perelandra and That Hideous Strength.
- 1 · Out of the Silent Planet · n. London: John Lane, 1938
- 127 · Perelandra · n. London: John Lane, 1943
- 303 · That Hideous Strength · n. London: John Lane, 1945
- Tales of Narnia: Prince Caspian & The Voyage of The Dawn Treader C. S. Lewis (W.H. Smith 0-00-184667-1, Oct 90, £4.99, 383pp, hc) [Narnia]; Young-adult fantasy omnibus of the fourth and fifth volumes in the Narnia series.
- 7 · Prince Caspian · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1951
- 195 · The Voyage of The Dawn Treader · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1952
- Tales of Narnia: The Silver Chair & The Last Battle C. S. Lewis (W.H. Smith 0-00-184669-8, Oct 90, £4.99, 366pp, hc) [Narnia]; Young-adult fantasy omnibus of the sixth and seventh volumes in the Narnia series.
- 7 · The Silver Chair · n. London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953
- 197 · The Last Battle · n. London: The Bodley Head, 1956
- Saccharin Cyanide Anna Livia (Onlywomen Press 0-906500-35-4, Jun 90 [May 90], £4.95, 146pp, tp); Collection of fourteen lesbian feminist short stories, mainly original, including some science fiction and fantasy.
- 1 · Differently Motivated · ss *
- 19 · The Getting of Wisdom · vi *
- 21 · Outrageous Fortune · ss *
- 33 · Many People in Little Houses · ss *
- 38 · Jennifer or The Secret of My Success · vi *
- 40 · Lust, and the Other Half · ss *
- 51 · Spaceship to the Good Planet · ss Sinister Wisdom #37 89
- 56 · In the Ruins of the World · vi *
- 58 · Marisol McQuarie II · ss *
- 76 · Players in the Oberlin · ss *
- 83 · The Promised Land Recedes into a Grey Horizon · ss *
- 93 · Car Spray · ss Lesbian Ethics v3 #3 89
- 106 · Saccharin Cyanide · ss *
- 125 · Angel Alice · nv The Pied Piper: Lesbian Feminist Fiction, ed. Anna Livia & Lilian Mohin, Onlywomen Press, 1989
- Crow and Weasel Barry Lopez (North Point Press 0-86547-439-7, Oct 90 [Sep 90], $16.95, 63pp, hc, cover by Tom Pohrt); Fantasy short story, an animal fable with full-color illustrations by Tom Pohrt.
- At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror H. P. Lovecraft (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-32945-7, Oct 90, $4.95, 184pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan); Reissue (Beagle 1971) collection of four stories; 17th printing.
- 1 · At the Mountains of Madness · n. Astounding Feb 36 (+2)
- 111 · The Shunned House · nv Weird Tales Oct 37
- 139 · The Dreams in the Witch-House · nv Weird Tales Jul 33
- 178 · The Statement of Randolph Carter [Randolph Carter] · ss The Vagrant May 20; Weird Tales Feb 25
- The Doom That Came to Sarnath and Other Stories H. P. Lovecraft (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-33105-2, Oct 90, $4.95, 208pp, pb, cover by Michael Whelan); Reissue (Ballantine 1971) collection; 15th printing.
- ix · Farewell to the Dreamlands · Lin Carter · in
- 2 · The Other Gods · ss The Fantasy Fan Nov 33
- 8 · The Tree · ss The Tryout Oct 21
- 13 · The Doom That Came to Sarnath [revised from The Slot Jun 20] · ss Weird Tales Jun 38
- 22 · The Tomb · ss The Vagrant Mar 22
- 34 · Polaris · ss The Philosopher Dec 20
- 39 · Beyond the Wall of Sleep · ss Pine Cones Oct 19
- 52 · A Memory · pm Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Arkham, 1943
- 54 · What the Moon Brings · pp The National Amateur May 23
- 57 · Nyarlathotep · pp The United Amateur Nov 20
- 61 · Ex Oblivione [as by Ward Phillips] · vi The United Amateur Mar 21
- 66 · The Cats of Ulthar · vi The Tryout Nov 20
- 72 · Hypnos · ss The National Amateur May-Jul 23
- 82 · Nathicana [as by Albert Frederick Willie] · pm The Vagrant Spr 27
- 86 · From Beyond · ss The Fantasy Fan Jun 34
- 95 · The Festival · ss Weird Tales Jan 25
- 106 · The Nameless City · ss The Wolverine Nov 21
- 122 · The Quest of Iranon · ss The Galleon Jul 35
- 132 · The Crawling Chaos [as by Lewis Theobald, Jnr. and Elizabeth Neville Berkeley] · H. P. Lovecraft & Elizabeth Berkeley · ss The United Co-Operative Apr 21
- 142 · In the Walls of Eryx · H. P. Lovecraft & Kenneth Sterling · nv Weird Tales Oct 39
- 176 · Imprisoned with the Pharaohs [as by Houdini] · nv Weird Tales May-Jul 24
- 206 · A Partial Chronology of Lovecrafts Early Work · Lin Carter · ms
- The Fantastic Poetry H. P. Lovecraft (Necronomicon Press, Jul 90 [Aug 90], $5.95, 63pp, ph, cover by Jason C. Eckhardt); Collection of Lovecrafts poetry, edited and with an introduction by S.T. Joshi and illustrations by Jason Eckhardt.
- 7 · Introduction · S. T. Joshi · in
- 13 · Unda · pm The Providence Amateur Feb 16
- 15 · To the Late John H. Fowler, Esq. · pm The Scot Mar 16
- 16 · The Poe-ets Nightmare · pm The Vagrant Jul 18
- 22 · The Rutted Road [as by Lewis Theobald, Jun.] · pm The Tryout Jan 17
- 22 · Nemesis · pm The Vagrant Jun 18
- 25 · Astrophobos [as by Ward Phillips] · pm The United Amateur Jan 18
- 26 · Psychopompos · pm The Vagrant Oct 19
- 33 · The Eidolon [as by Ward Phillips] · pm The Tryout Oct 18
- 35 · Despair · pm Pine Cones Jun 19
- 36 · Revelation · pm The Tryout Mar 19
- 37 · A Cycle of Verse [as by Ward Phillips] · gp The Tryout Jul 19; Oceanus, pm New England Magazine Mar 20 19; Clouds, pm New England Magazine Mar 20 19; Mother Earth, pm New England Magazine Mar 27 19
- 40 · The House [as by Ward Phillips] · pm The Philosopher Dec 20
- 41 · The City [as by Ward Phillips] · pm The Vagrant Oct 19
- 42 · To Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Eighteenth Baron Dunsany · pm The Tryout Nov 19
- 43 · Bells [as by Ward Phillips] · pm The Tryout Dec 19
- 45 · The Nightmare Lake · pm The Vagrant Dec 19
- 46 · On Reading Lord Dunsanys Book of Wonder · pm The Silver Clarion Mar 20
- 46 · To a Dreamer · pm The Coyote Jan 21
- 48 · With a Copy of Wildes Fairy Tales · pm, 1920
- 49 · To Zara · pm, 1922
- 50 · Nathicana [as by Albert Frederick Willie] · pm The Vagrant Spr 27
- 52 · The Cats · pm A Winter Wish, Whispers Press, 1977
- 52 · Primavera · pm The Brooklynite Apr 25
- 55 · Halloween in a Suburb [In a Suburb] · pm The National Amateur Mar 26
- 56 · The Festival · ss Weird Tales Jan 25
- 58 · The Wood [as by Lewis Theobald, Jun.] · pm The Tryout Jan 29
- 58 · The Outpost · pm Bacons Essays Spr 30
- 60 · The Messenger · pm Weird Tales Jul 38
- 60 · The Ancient Track · pm Weird Tales Mar 30
- 61 · Bouts Rimés · gp Crypt of Cthulhu #44 86; Beyond Zimbabwe, pm; The White Elephant, pm
- 62 · In a Sequesterd Providence Churchyard Where Once Poe Walkd · pm Science Fantasy Correspondent Mar/Apr 37
- 62 · To Mr. Finlay, Upon His Drawing for Mr. Blochs Tale, The Faceless God · pm The Phantagraph May 37
- 63 · To Clark Ashton Smith, Esq., Upon His Phantastick Tales, Verses, Pictures, and Sculptures · pm Weird Tales Apr 38
- Iced on Aran and Other Dreamquests Brian Lumley (Headline 0-7472-3510-4, Nov 90 [Oct 90], £3.50, 244pp, pb) [Dreamlands]; Collection of five stories, mainly original, about David Hero and Eldin the Wanderer in the Dreamlands.
- 1 · Iced on Aran · ss Weird Tales Win 89/90
- 25 · Augeren · na *
- 93 · A Day in the Life... · ss *
- 105 · A-mazed in Oriab · na *
- 233 · Tales Tail · ss *
- Starfield ed. Duncan Lunan (The Orkney Press 0-907618-21-9, Oct 89 [Jan 90], £10.95, 211pp, hc, cover by Sydney Jordan); Anthology of stories by Scottish authors, many of them previously uncollected.
- Authors Choice Monthly Issue 10: Tales from a Vanished Country Elizabeth A. Lynn (Pulphouse, Jul 90 [Aug 90], $4.95, 109pp, tp, cover by George Barr); Collection of three stories plus an introduction by the author. Also available in a signed hardcover edition ($25.00). A deluxe leatherbound edition ($50.00) was announced but not seen.
- 1 · Introduction · in
- 5 · Wizards Domain · nv Basilisk, ed. Ellen Kushner, Ace, 1980
- 49 · The Woman Who Loved the Moon · nv Amazons!, ed. Jessica Amanda Salmonson, DAW, 1979
- 71 · The Red Hawk · nv Cheap Street; New Castle, VA, 1983
- Strange Roads Arthur Machen (Green Round Press 0-9515774-0-9, Aug 90 [Nov 90], £11.50, 55pp, hc); Reprint (The Classic Press 1923) collection of two articles by Machen, together with the introduction by Machen to the 1924 reprint edition and a new preface by Rita Tait. This edition is limited to 350 copies.
- Obsessions Anthony S. Magistrale & Robert H. Knox (Niekas Publications 0-910619-05-0, Jan 90 [Mar 90], $3.95, 40pp, 4" x 11" pb); Collection of poetry by Magistrale with b/w illustrations by Knox. Niekas #41a.
- Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic ed. Alberto Manguel (Random House/Clarkson & Potter 0-517-57559-0, Jan 91 [Dec 90], $14.95, 941pp, tp, cover by George Tooker); Anthology of 65 stories and novel excerpts, primarily by literary and mainstream authors. First American edition (Lester & Orpen Dennys 1990).
- xviii · Foreword · Alberto Manguel · fw
- 1 · The Child Who Believed · Grace Amundson · ss The Saturday Evening Post Dec 16 50
- 17 · Its a Good Life · Jerome Bixby · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #2, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
- 36 · The Door · E. B. White · ss New Yorker, 1939
- 42 · Mysterious Kôr · Elizabeth Bowen · ss The Demon Lover and Other Stories, J. Cape, 1945
- 57 · Nights at Serampore · Mircea Eliade · na Two Tales of the Occult, Herder & Herder, 1970
- 99 · The Dead Fiddler · Isaac Bashevis Singer · nv, 1966
- 127 · The Phoenix · Sylvia Townsend Warner · ss The Cats Cradle Book, Viking, 1940
- 132 · The Spider · Hanns Heinz Ewers; trans. by Walter F. Kohn · nv The International Dec 15
- 155 · Changeling · Dorothy K. Haynes · ss Modern Scottish Short Stories, ed. Fred Urquhart & Giles Gordon, Hamish Hamilton, 1978
- 164 · The July Ghost · Antonia S. Byatt · ss Firebird #1 82
- 180 · Poor Girl · Elizabeth Taylor · ss The Third Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1955
- 200 · Where Their Fire Is Not Quenched · May Sinclair · nv The English Review Oct 22
- 222 · The Complete Gentleman · Amos Tutuola · ex The Palm-Wine Drinkard, London: Faber, 1952
- 231 · The Professor and the Mermaid · Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa; trans. by Archibald Colquhoun · nv Two Stories and a Memory, Pantheon, 1962
- 255 · The Sausage · Friedrich Dürrenmatt; trans. by Alberto Manguel · vi, 1989
- 258 · A Woman Seldom Found · William Sansom · ss A Conceit of Ladies and Other Stories, Hogarth Press, 1956
- 262 · Mummy to the Rescue · Angus Wilson · ss Such Darling Dodos and Other Stories, Secker & Warburg, 1950
- 269 · Aghwee the Sky Monster · Kenzaburõ Õe; trans. by John Nathan · nv Teach Us to Outgrow Our Madness, Grove Press, 1977
- 298 · Berkeley or Mariana of the Universe · Liliana Heker; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss, 1986
- 305 · The Saint · Antonia White · ss Life and Letters Nov 31
- 313 · The Ghost of Firozsha Baag · Rohinton Mistry · ss Quarry Spr 86
- 328 · The Miracle of Ash Wednesday [1926] · Yevgeny Zamyatin; trans. by Mirra Ginsburg · ss The Dragon, Random House, 1968
- 336 · Heartburn · Hortense Calisher · ss The American Mercury Jan 51
- 347 · The Accident · Ann Bridge · nv The Song in the House, 1936
- 370 · The Old Woman · Joyce Marshall · ss Canadian Short Stories, ed. Robert Weaver, Oxford, 1960
- 383 · A Short Trip Home · F. Scott Fitzgerald · nv The Saturday Evening Post Dec 17 27
- 405 · The Brute · Joseph Conrad · ss The Daily Chronicle Dec 5 06
- 426 · Mr. Sleepwalker · Ethel Wilson · ss Mrs. Golightly and Other Stories, Toronto: Macmillan, 1961
- 444 · A Self-Possessed Woman · Julian Barnes · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Anon., London: Cape, 1975
- 460 · The Woman Who Talked to Horses · Leon Rooke · ss Sing Me No Love Songs, Ill Say You No Prayers, Ecco Press, 1984
- 469 · The White Rooster · William Goyen · ss Mademoiselle Apr 47
- 484 · The Labrenas · Tommaso Landolfi; trans. by Kathrine Jason · nv Words in Commotion, and Other Stories, Viking, 1986
- 508 · The Dead Fish [1955] · Boris Vian; trans. by Damon Knight · ss 13 French Science-Fiction Stories, ed. Damon Knight, Bantam, 1965
- 521 · Major Arandas Hand [1955] · Alfonso Reyes; trans. by Mildred Johnson · ss The Eye of the Heart, ed. Barbara Howes, Bobbs-Merrill, 1973
- 528 · Giving Birth · Margaret Atwood · ss, 1977
- 543 · The Jewbird · Bernard Malamud · ss The Reporter Apr 11 63
- 553 · The Misanthrope · John D. Beresford · ss Nineteen Impressions, Sidgwick & Jackson, 1918
- 563 · Bartleby · Herman Melville · nv Putnams Monthly, 1853
- 600 · PrivateKeep Out! · Philip MacDonald · ss F&SF Fll 49
- 616 · Dreams · Timothy Findley · nv Stones, Penguin Books Canada, 1988
- 638 · Mr. Dombey, the Zombie · Geoffrey Drayton · vi, 1951
- 642 · Why I Changed into a Nightingale · Wolfgang Hildesheimer; trans. by Joachim Neugroschel · ss The Art of the Tale, ed. Daniel Halpern, Viking, 1986
- 648 · The Troll · T. H. White · ss Gone to Ground, 1935
- 660 · Two Words [1989] · Isabel Allende; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss Mother Jones Jan-Feb 91
- 668 · Chien-niang [from Taiping Kwangchi, ca. 900 a.d.] · Chen Xuanyou; trans. by Wayne Schlepp · vi, 1990
- 671 · The Visiting Star · Robert Aickman · nv Powers of Darkness, Collins, 1966
- 696 · Ratanbabu and the Man · Satyajit Ray · ss The Unicorn Expedition, Dutton, 1987
- 711 · How It Happened · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Sep 13
- 716 · Same Time, Same Place · Mervyn Peake · ss Science-Fantasy #60 63
- 726 · The Enigma of Arrival · V. S. Naipaul · ss New Yorker Aug 11 86
- 728 · Faithful Peter · Lion Feuchtwanger; trans. by Renatha Oppenheimer · ss Stories from Far and Near, Viking, 1945
- 736 · The Last Voyage of the Ghost Ship · Gabriel García Márquez; trans. by Gregory Rabassa · ss The Leaf Storm and Other Stories, London: Cape, 1972
- 742 · The House-Hunters · Peter Green · ss Habeas Corpus and Other Stories, World, 1963
- 762 · The Yellow Wallpaper · Charlotte Perkins Gilman · ss New England Magazine Jan, 1892
- 780 · Eckhardt at a Window · Eric McCormack · ss Inspecting the Vaults, Penguin Canada, 1987
- 792 · The Lefthanders · Günter Grass; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss, 1989
- 799 · Mr. Arcularis · Conrad Aiken · nv, 1922
- 819 · The Times My Father Died · Yehuda Amichai; trans. by Yosef Schachter · ss The World is a Room and Other Stories, Jewish Publication Society of America, 1984
- 830 · The Haunted House · Luigi Pirandello; trans. by Michele Pettinati · ss Medals, and Other Stories, Dutton, 1939
- 847 · The Finder · Elizabeth Spencer · ss New Yorker Jan 23 71
- 866 · Desire · James Stephens · ss The Dial Jun 20
- 874 · The Miraculous Revenge · George Bernard Shaw · ss Time Mar, 1885; ; as The Grave of Brimstone Billy, EQMM Oct 51
- 896 · Room of Blood · Brett Balon · ss, 1984
- 904 · The Shadow · Ben Hecht · ss Liberty Magazine Jan 30 26
- 920 · The Nine Billion Names of God · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Star Science Fiction Stories #1, ed. Frederik Pohl, Ballantine, 1953
- 928 · The Authors · Misc. Material · bg
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