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Here There Be Dragons Jane Yolen (Harcourt Brace 0-15-209888-7, Nov ’93 [Oct ’93], $16.95, 149pp, hc, cover by David Wilgus); Young-adult collection of five stories (one apparently original) plus poems and vignettes, with illustrations by David Wilgus.

Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul Douglas Adams (Pan 0-330-33431-X, Oct ’93, £4.99, 494pp, pb) [Dirk Gently]; Omnibus of the two novels in the “Dirk Gently” series.

A Creepy Company Joan Aiken (Gollancz 0-575-05544-8, Jun ’93, £9.99, 156pp, hc, cover by Alan Fraser); Young-adult collection of 11 ghost/horror stories, six original.

A Tupolev Too Far Brian Aldiss (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224033-5, Jul ’93 [Jun ’93], £14.99, 200pp, hc, cover by Sergeí Sharov); Collection of 12 sf and fantasy stories, mainly from the last five years. Recommended (PSP).

Mysterious Christmas Tales: Horror Stories for the Festive Season ed. Anon. (Scholastic UK 0-590-54127-7, Oct ’93 [Nov ’93], £9.99, 272pp, hc); Original anthology of nine young-adult horror stories, including pieces by Robert Swindells and Garry Kilworth.

Tales of Horror and Mystery ed. Anon. (Dean 0-603-55222-6, Oct ’93 [Nov ’93], £2.99, 378pp, hc); Omnibus volume of Horror Stories (1980) and Mystery Stories (1981), issued as a bargain book.

Horror by Lamplight ed. Anon. (Chancellor Press 1-85152-315-4, Aug ’93, £4.99, 504pp, hc); Anthology of 42 classic horror stories from Sir Walter Scott to Anne Rice.

The Complete Stories: Volume I Isaac Asimov (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224139-0, Mar ’93 [Feb ’93], £15.99, 614pp, hc, cover by Christopher Brown); Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990) omnibus collection of 46 stories, comprising the complete contents of Earth Is Room Enough (Doubleday 1957), Nine Tomorrows (Doubleday 1957), and Nightfall and Other Stories (Doubleday 1959). [First U.K. edition]

Weaveworld & Cabal Clive Barker (Diamond Books 1-858-13298-3, Oct ’93, £4.99, 768pp, hc); Horror omnibus. This is an “Instant Remainder” edition.

Suspended Tales Michael Henry Birch (Elf Publishing 1-872900-11-9, Nov ’93, £7.99, 247pp, tp, cover by Michael Henry Birch); Original sf/fantasy collection. Available from Langton Villa, Langton Green, Tunbridge Wells, TN3 0BB. The ISBN on the cover is 1-879-20009-7.

A Work of Art and Other Stories James Blish (Severn House 0-7278-4464-4, May ’93, £13.99, 184pp, hc); Collection of eight sf stories, two previously uncollected, and a short humorous article, edited by Francis Lyall. Recommended (PSP).

Senso (and Other Stories) Camille Boito (Dedalus 0-946626-83-9, Sep ’93 [Aug ’93], £6.99, 207pp, tp); First English translation by Christine Donougher of a literary fantasy collection, edited, and with a new introduction, by Roderick Conway Morris.

Greetings from Earth: New and Collected Stories Scott Bradfield (Picador 0-330-32251-6, Feb ’93, £14.99, 296pp, hc, cover by Anita Kunz); Literary collection of 21 stories, many sf or fantasy. This is an expansion of the 1988 collection The Secret Life of Houses (Unwin Hyman), which was previously expanded as Dream of the Wolf (Knopf 1990).

Angels and Insects A. S. Byatt (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-3717-7, Oct ’92 [Feb ’93], £14.99, 290pp, hc); Collection of two original literary fantasy short novels.

Cold Print Ramsey Campbell (Headline 0-7472-4059-0, May ’93 [Apr ’93], £5.99, 500pp, pb, cover by Simon Dewey); Collection of 21 horror stories related to the Cthulhu Mythos, first published in an abridged form by Scream/Press in 1985. This edition adds a further six stories, and now contains the entirety of Campbell’s first book, The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants (Arkham House 1964).

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