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Carrie/The Tommyknockers Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-62335-7, Jul ’94, £6.99, 791pp, hc); Omnibus. The page numbering is separate for each novel.

Miniature Magic Kelvin M. Knight (Kelvin M. Knight 1-899099-00-X, Apr ’94 [Aug ’94], £2.50, 50pp, ph); Original fantasy pamphlet collection.

More Miniature Magic Kelvin M. Knight (Kelvin M. Knight 1-899099-05-0, Apr ’94 [Aug ’94], £2.50, 54pp, ph); Original fantasy pamphlet collection.

Dean Koontz Omnibus Dean Koontz (Headline 0-7472-1031-4, Aug ’94, £6.99, 564pp, hc, cover by Graham Potts); Omnibus of Hideaway (1992) and The Vision (1977).

Under the Crust: Supernatural Tales of Buxton Terry Lamsley (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-22-2, Mar ’97, C$36.50, xi+142pp, hc, cover by Douglas Walters); Reprint (Wendigo 1993) collection of six original ghost/horror stories set in Buxton. This edition is limited to 500 copies, and adds a new introduction by the author. A world-wide edition available in the US for $36.50 and in the UK for £21.50.

Ruthenshaw James Lees-Milne (Robinson 1-85487-360-1, Oct ’94, £7.50, 31pp, ph, cover by Ian Stephens); A short-story booklet from a major publisher, printed in traditional, hot metal type, and illustrated with wood engravings by Ian Stephens.

The Real Opera Ghost and Other Tales Gaston Leroux (Alan Sutton 0-7509-0782-7, Oct ’94, £5.99, 200pp, pb, cover by Jean Beraud); Collection of ten macabre tales by the author of The Phantom of the Opera. Edited and with an introduction by Peter Haining.

Tales of the Grotesque L. A. Lewis (Ghost Story Press 0-9520492-5-2, Jul ’94 [1994], £16.50, x+130pp, hc, cover by Steven Stapleton); Reprint (Allan 1934) occult collection (with one story added) in a limited edition of 300 copies.

Noctuary Thomas Ligotti (Robinson 1-85487-233-8, Jan ’94, £14.99, xiii+194pp, hc, cover by David Wood); Collection of 27 supernatural stories and vignettes, most original.

Dagon’s Bell and Other Discords Brian Lumley (NEL 0-450-61836-1, Aug ’94, £4.99, 333pp, pb, cover by Les Edwards); Collection of 13 stories each introduced by Lumley.

Return of the Deep Ones and Other Mythos Tales Brian Lumley (Roc UK 0-14-017303-X, Feb ’94, £4.99, 387pp, pb); Collection of four Cthulhu Mythos stories, including the novels Beneath the Moors and The Return of the Deep Ones.

Women and Ghosts Alison Lurie (Heinemann 0-434-00073-6, Jun ’94, £12.99, 182pp, hc, cover by Spiros Politis); Collection of nine ghost and supernatural stories, four new.

Fortnight of Fear Graham Masterton (Severn House 0-7278-4438-5, Jul ’94, £15.99, 312pp, hc, cover by Derek Colligan); Collection of horror stories, each introduced by Masterton. A trade paperback edition (-9016-6) was announced but not seen.

The Opal (and other stories) Gustav Meyrink (Dedalus 1-873982-30-5, Apr ’94 [Mar ’94], £7.99, 222pp, tp, cover by Lise Weisgerber); Literary fantasy collection, selected from the 1913 German original, Des deutschen Spießers Wunderhorn, translated, and with an Introduction by Maurice Raraty.

Behold the Man and Other Stories Michael Moorcock (Phoenix House 1-897580-41-X, Jun ’94, £9.99, 409pp, tp); SF/fantasy omnibus of Behold the Man (1969), Constant Fire (W.H. Allen 1977 as The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming), and Breakfast in the Ruins (1972). The Transformation of Miss Mavis Ming was expanded from the short story “Constant Fire” and was reprinted in the US as A Messiah at the End of Time. This is the revised text from the 1993 Millennium omnibus Legends from the End of Time. A hardcover edition (-36-3, £15.99) is also available.

The Original Dr Shade and Other Stories Kim Newman (Pocket UK 0-671-71562-3, May ’94, £4.99, 351pp, pb); Collection of 15 SF, fantasy and horror stories, including one original, each with an afterword by Newman.

Poor Stainless Mary Norton (Viking UK 0-670-85427-1, Aug ’94, £8.99, 80pp, hc, cover by Justin Todd) [Borrowers]; Young-adult fantasy collection in “The Borrowers” series. Illustrated by Justin Todd. A paperback edition (Puffin 0-14-036897-3, £3.25) is also available.

The Printer’s Devil A Magazine of New Writing: Issue D ed. Sean O’Brien, Stephen Plaice & Eva Salzman (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-060-X, Aug ’94 [Sep ’94], £4.99, 126pp, pb, cover by Steve Xerri); Literary anthology of sf, fantasy, fiction, verse, and opinion.

The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories ed. Dennis Pepper (Oxford University Press 0-19-278126-X, Sep ’94, £12.99, 314pp, hc); Anthology of 40 YA ghost stories; several may be original. Illustrations by Nick Harris, Jonathan Heap, Ian Miller, Brian Pedley, Eric Stemp & Adam Stower.

Chained Together Christopher Pike (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-61674-1, Jul ’94, £5.99, 372pp, pb, cover by Paul Davies) [Chain Letter]; Omnibus of the two Chain Letter novels. The page numbering is separate for each novel.

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