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Three Classics of Horror: Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde ed. Anon. (Penguin 0-14-023994-4, Dec ’94, £5.99, 664pp, tp); Reprint (Signet 1978 as Frankenstein, Dracula, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde) horror omnibus. Introduction by Stephen King. The books are separately paginated.


The Complete Stories: Volume One Isaac Asimov (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647647-3, Jul ’94, £5.99, 430pp, pb, cover by Christopher Brown); Reprint (Doubleday Foundation 1990 as Complete Stories: Volume I) SF/fantasy collection. A selection of 25 pieces from the original omnibus of 46. This version includes the complete contents of Earth is Room Enough (Doubleday 1957) and all-but-one of the stories in Nine Tomorrows (Doubleday 1957).


The Clan of the Cave Bear / The Valley of Horses Jean M. Auel (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-62337-3, Oct ’94 [Nov ’94], £5.99, 768pp, hc, cover by Mark Harrison) [Earth’s Children]; Omnibus of the first two “Earth’s Children” novels.


Green Shadows, White Whale Ray Bradbury (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647634-1, Jan ’94, £4.99, 266pp, pb); Reprint (Knopf 1992) autobiographical mainstream novel.


Fantastic Space Stories ed. Tony Bradman (Doubleday UK 0-385-41000-X, Jul ’94 [Nov ’94], £8.99, 185pp, hc, cover by George Smith); Young-adult SF anthology of 10 original stories.


Otherness David Brin (Orbit 1-85723-207-0, Jun ’94 [May ’94], £16.99, 387pp, hc, cover by Fred Gambino); SF collection.


The SF Collection ed. Edel Brosnan (Chancellor Press 1-85152-317-0, Aug ’94, £4.99, 501pp, hc); Sf anthology.


Future Imperfect Anthony Burgess (Vintage UK 0-09-922501-8, Dec ’94, £5.99, 518pp, pb); Omnibus of The Wanting Seed and 1985.


A Handful of Ghosts George H. Bushnell (St Andrews Preservation Trust 0-9502079-2-6, 1993 [Jan ’94], £3.50, 61pp, tp); Reprint (St Andrews University 1945) collection of five original ghost stories set in, and around, St Andrews. Order from 12 North Street, St. Andrews, KY16 9PW, including an additional 50p for postage.


A Darker Shade of Bale Sabine Büssing (The Book Guild 0-86332-895-4, Feb ’94, £11.95, 200pp, hc, cover by Inky Finger); Collection of macabre tales based on traditional horror motifs.


The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye A. S. Byatt (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6278-3, Nov ’94, £9.99, 280pp, hc); Five fairy tales, two original, aimed at adults. Two of the reprints are extracted from her novel Possession, 1980, while an excerpt from the title story was published as “The Scholar and the Djinn”.


American Ghosts & Old World Wonders Angela Carter (Vintage UK 0-09-913371-7, Mar ’94, £5.99, 146pp, pb); Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1993) fantasy collection.


The Cup and the Mask Gertrude Clancy (Pont 1-85902-028-3, May ’94, £3.50, 67pp, pb, cover by Suzanne Carpenter); Young-adult fantasy novella. Available from Pont Books, Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed SA44 4BQ.


Mad Monkton and Other Stories Wilkie Collins (World’s Classics 0-19-282260-8, Jan ’94, £5.99, xxxviii+383pp, tp, cover by Caspar David Friedrich); Collection containing some ghost stories, edited and introduced by Norman Page.


Fear Walks The Night: The Complete Ghost Stories of Frederick Cowles Frederick Cowles (Ghost Story Press 0-9520492-3-6, Dec ’93, £24.00, xvi+361pp, hc, cover by Andrew King); Omnibus of three collections: The Night Wind Howls (Muller, 1938), The Horror of Abbot’s Grange (Muller, 1936) and the previously announced but unpublished collection Fear Walks the Night. This is a limited edition of 250 copies.


Michael Crichton Omnibus Michael Crichton (Cresset 0-09-178585-5, Feb ’94, £6.99, 708pp, hc); Associational collection. Includes Rising Sun, Andromeda Strain (Knopf, 1969) and Binary (1972).


The Anthology of Ghost Stories ed. Richard Dalby (Tiger Books 1-85501-503-0, Apr ’94 [Jul ’94], £9.95, 528pp, hc); Reprint (Robinson 1990 as The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories.) ghost anthology. Abridged: the first 42 of the 52 stories in the original. An instant remainder edition.


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