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The Venging Greg Bear (Legend 0-7126-5051-2, Feb ’92 [Dec ’91], £8.99, 269pp, tp, cover by Nick Rodgers); Collection of eight sf stories. This reprints the contents of the 1983 collection The Wind from a Burning Woman (Arkham House) and adds two early stories, newly revised for this edition. A hardcover edition (-5050-4, £14.99) is also available.

The Collected Ghost Stories E. F. Benson (Robinson 1-85487-110-2, Nov ’92, £7.99, 624pp, tp); Collection of 54 ghost stories previously collected in four volumes - The Room in the Tower (1912), Visible and Invisible (1923), Spook Stories (1928), and More Spook Stories (1934). Edited and introduced by Richard Dalby, with a foreword by Joan Aiken. Despite the title this volume does not include the ghost stories published in The Flint Knife (Equation 1988). Simultaneous with the US edition from Carroll & Graf.

Uncanny Banquet ed. Ramsey Campbell (Little, Brown UK 0-316-90311-6, Nov ’92, £14.99, 338pp, hc); Anthology of ten supernatural horror stories, including an original novelette by Ramsey Campbell and Adrian Ross’ rare 1914 novel The Hole of the Pit.

Maps in a Mirror: Volume One: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (Legend 0-09-988470-4, May ’92, £4.99, 552pp, pb, cover by Nick Rodgers); Reprint (Tor 1990 as part of Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card) sf collection. This edition contains the 18 stories in the first two “books” of the original volume.

Maps in a Mirror: Volume Two: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card Orson Scott Card (Legend 0-09-988480-1, May ’92, £4.99, 552pp, pb, cover by Nick Rodgers); Reprint (Tor 1990 as part of Maps in a Mirror: The Short Fiction of Orson Scott Card) sf collection. This edition contains the 16 stories in the third and fourth “books” of the original volume.

The Monster Club Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes (Severn House 0-7278-4349-4, Jun ’92, £13.00, 186pp, hc); Reprint (NEL 1976) original collection of five humorous horror stories about hybrids of classic monsters. This is the first hardcover edition.

The Fantastic Muse Arthur C. Clarke (Hilltop Press 0-905262-05-0, Jul ’92, £1.00, 9pp, ph); Collection of an article by Clarke on sf poetry and an sf poem, both reprinted from fanzines in the 1930’s.

How the World Was One: Beyond the Global Village Arthur C. Clarke (Gollancz 0-575-05226-0, Jun ’92, £15.99, 289pp, hc, cover by Steven Hunt); Historical look at the development of transatlantic cables and satellite communications, based on the first 19 chapters of Voices Across the Sea (Harper 1958) and several other pieces, some previously uncollected. Simultaneous with the US (Bantam) edition.

Narrow Houses: Volume I ed. Peter Crowther (Little Brown UK 0-316-90395-7, Dec ’92, £15.99, 460pp, hc, cover by J. K. Potter) [Narrow Houses]; Anthology of 29 original horror stories on the subject of superstition, including pieces by Stephen Gallagher, Robert Holdstock and Ramsey Campbell. Recommended (PSP).

Horror for Christmas ed. Richard Dalby (Michael O’Mara 1-85479-141-9, Nov ’92, £13.99, 246pp, hc, cover by Graham Potts); Anthology of 13 horror stories with a Christmas theme, including an original novella by Basil Copper.

Vampire Stories ed. Richard Dalby (Michael O’Mara 1-85479-044-7, Sep ’92, £13.99, 246pp, hc, cover by Graham Potts); Anthology of 18 horror stories about vampires, three original, with a foreword by Peter Cushing.

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