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Shipbuilding: New SF from Scotland ed. Anon. (Taverna Press, Aug ’95, free, 156pp, tp, cover by Robert Jeffrey); Anthology of 11 stories, six new, by Scotish authors published for the 53rd World Science Fiction Convention in Glasgow.

Death Trap at La Puente Hermester Barrington (Brea CA: Viva la Lucha Publications 0-9649280-0-0, 1995, $5.00, 18pp, ph, cover by Steve Gerber); Science fiction story starring the masked wrestler El Físco Nuclear and the agents of Cal-International Pro Wrestling, Inc.

Fine Feathers and Other Stories E. F. Benson (Oxford University Press 0-19-282416-3, Jun ’95 [Jul ’95], £5.99, 302pp, tp, cover by William Strang); Reprint (Oxford 1994) collection of 31 stories, the last 3 of which are supernatural. Selected and introduced by Jack Adrian.

Classic Stories 1 (3rd printing) Ray Bradbury (Bantam Spectra 0-553-28637-4, 1995, $3.95, 342pp, pb, cover by Barclay Shaw); Reissue collection of 32 stories that originally appeared in The Golden Apples of the Sun and R Is for Rocket. This is a semi-omnibus volume, lacking three stories from The Golden Apples of the Sun and one from R Is for Rocket, four appear in Classic Stories 2. “The Golden Apples of the Sun” has been added to this edition.

Supernatural Steam J. A. Brooks (Jarrold 0-7117-0593-3, Feb ’95 [Aug ’98], £4.95, 127pp, tp, cover by Peter Owen Jones); Collection of 12 original ghost stories about railways.

The Tale of the Next Great War, 1871-1914: Fiction of Future Warfare and of Battles Still-to-Come ed. I. F. Clarke (Liverpool University Press 0-85323-459-0, Sep ’95, £32.00, 382pp, hc, cover by Michael Mattingley); SF anthology of 16 stories and excerpts about the war-to-come at the end of the 19th century. Includes a long Introduction by Clarke on the plethora of such tales.

Strange Fruit: Tales of the Unexpected ed. Paul Collins (Penguin Australia 0-14-024805-6, 1995, A$14.95, 235pp, tp); Anthology of 17 stories, four new and two revised.

Systems of Romance Paul Evenblij & Paul Harland (Babel Publications; The Netherlands 90-73730-27-9, Aug ’95, £599/$7.99/NL ƒ16, 294pp, pb, cover by Juraj Maxon); English language collection of seven stories, three by each author and one collaboration.

Bone Meal: Seven More Tales of Terror ed. A. Finnis (Scholastic 0-590-50982-9, Dec ’95, $3.99, 243pp, pb); Anthology of seven storles, the second half of Point Horror: Thirteen More Tales of Horror (Scholastic UK 1994).

Something Haunts Us All Brian A. Hopkins (Macabre, Inc., Aug ’95, $5.95, ph, cover by Donald Schank); Collection of seven horror short stories.

Annabelle Says ed. David Howe (The British Fantasy Society, Dec ’95, £2.50, 25pp, octavo, cover by Brian Aldrich); British Fantasy Society Booklet #20.

Colonel Halifax’s Ghost Story ed. David Howe (The British Fantasy Society, Dec ’95, £2.80, 10pp, octavo, cover by Janet Morris); British Fantasy Society Booklet #21.

Worming the Harpy and Other Bitter Pills Rhys Hughes (Tartarus Press 1-872621-20-X, 1995, £14.95, 203pp, hc); Original ghost/horror collection. Limited to 200 numbered copies, plus 26 which were lettered A-Z and signed by the author. [Not seen]

Supernatural Stories ed. William Mayne (Kingfisher 1-85697-322-0, Nov ’95, £8.99, 256pp, hc, cover by Jason Cockcroft); Anthology of 29 supernatural stories and legends, illustrated by Martin Salisbury. Also available in tp (-211-9, £4.99).

Hadrosaur Tales Volume One ed. David L. Summers (Hadrosaur Productions 1-885093-08-X, 1995, $5.95, 102pp+, tp)

Overload ed. Martin Tudor (Birmingham Science Fiction Group, Nov ’95, no price, 31pp, ph, cover by David A. Hardy); Anthology of pieces by the four Guests of Honour at Novacon 25 - original stories by Brian Aldiss & Harry Harrison; a reprint story by Bob Shaw and two poems by Iain Banks. Limited to 500 numbered copies.

They Return at Evening: A Book of Ghost Stories H. R. Wakefield (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-06-0, Oct ’95 [Jul ’96], £18.50, xvi+156pp, hc, cover by Paul Lowe); Reprint (Appleton 1928) collection of ten stories, with a new Introduction by Barbara Roden. Limited to 300 numbered copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $31.00.

Three Tales Howard Wandrei (Fedogan & Bremer, 1995, 48pp, ph, cover by Howard Wandrei); Collection of three stories selected from Time Burial, a forthcoming Wandrei collection, presented as an advance reading copy.

Aberrations [#26, February 1995] ed. Richard Blair (Sirius Fiction; San Francisco, CA, $3.50, 64pp+, octavo, cover by Eric Turowski)

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