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The Jewel of Seven Stars Bram Stoker (Oxford University Press 0-19-283219-0, May ’96, £4.99, xxiv+214pp, pb, cover by Paul Slater); Reprint (Heinemann 1903) dark fantasy novel. This edition adds an Introduction by David Glover, and the alternative ending of the 1912 revised edition as an Appendix.

Horror Collection Robert Swindells (Corgi Yearling 0-440-86364-3, Nov ’96 [Dec ’96], £4.99, 348pp, pb) [Fliss]; Young-adult horror omnibus of Room 13 and Inside the Worm. The books are separately paginated.

Sir Gawain/Pearl/Sir Orfeo J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10259-1, Jan ’96 [Apr ’96], £5.99, viii+158pp, tp, cover by John Howe); Reprint (Allen & Unwin 1975) collection of 3 epic poems, translated by Tolkien from mediaeval English. Edited and with an Introduction by Christopher Tolkien.

Old Man’s Beard: Fifteen Disturbing Tales H. R. Wakefield (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-12-5, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], £19.00, xxi+146pp, hc, cover by Paul Lowe); Reprint (Appleton 1929 as Others Who Returned) collection of ghost / supernatural stories, with a new Introduction by Barbara Roden. Limited to 400 numbered copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $31.00.

They Return at Evening 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 ghost stories, with a new introduction by Barbara Roden. Limited to 300 numbered copies. Available from Ashcroft, 2 Abbottsford Drive, Penyfford, Chester CH4 0JG. Issued in 1995, but not seen until now.

The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story Horace Walpole (Oxford University Press 0-19-282351-5, Sep ’96 [Oct ’96], £3.99, xxxviii+125pp, tp, cover by John Singleton Copley); Reprint (Thos. Lownds 1764 as The Castle of Otranto, A Story) gothic fantasy novel. Edited by W.S. Lewis, with an introduction and notes by E.J. Clery, this is the 1798 text of a seminal novel first published as a translation “by William Marshall from the original Italian by Onuphrio Muralto”.

Wonder Tales ed. Marina Warner (Vintage UK 0-09-973591-1, Aug ’96 [Jul ’96], £7.99, 244pp, tp, cover by Paula Rego); Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1994) fantasy anthology of six adult French fairy tales from the classic period, newly translated. Edited and with an Introduction by Warner.

The Science Fiction: Volume 2 H. G. Wells (J.M. Dent 0-460-87767-4, May ’96 [Jul ’96], £20.00, 673pp, hc, cover by Andrea Purdie); SF omnibus.

Science Fiction: Volume 2 H. G. Wells (Phoenix Giant 1-85799-434-5, Aug ’96 [Jun ’96], £12.99, 673pp, tp, cover by Cyril Power); Reprint (Dent 1996) SF omnibus of The Invisible Man, When the Sleeper Wakes and The Shape of Things To Come.

The Ghost Stories of Edith Wharton Edith Wharton (Virago 1-86049-122-7, Jan ’96 [Mar ’96], £6.99, 270pp, tp, cover by John Atkinson Grimshaw); Reprint (Scribner’s 1973) collection of 11 ghost stories, plus an introduction and postscript by the author. [First U.K. edition]

The Ghost-Feeler: Stories of Terror and the Supernatural Edith Wharton (Peter Owen 0-7206-0996-8, Aug ’96, £16.50, 188pp, hc, cover by Thomi Wroblewski); Collection of nine stories, many appearing for the first time since their original magazine publication. Edited and with an introduction by Peter Haining.

The Once and Future King T. H. White (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648301-1, Dec ’96 [Nov ’96], £7.99, 825pp, tp, cover by John Howe) [Once and Future King]; Fantasy omnibus of the 5 Arthur books. The first edition to include The Book of Merlyn. Adds an Afterword by Sylvia Townsend Warner.

Discoveries: The First Focus Science Fiction Anthology ed. Anon. (Gollancz 0-575-06258-4, Oct ’95 [Aug ’96], free, 190pp, pb, cover by Julian Baum); Anthology of six stories and two novel extracts, all from recent or forthcoming Gollancz volumes. Distributed free with the October 1995 issue of Focus, but only just seen.

L.A. con III Programme Book ed. Anon. (L.A. con, Sep ’96, no price, 200pp, quarto)

A Book of Ghosts Sabine Baring-Gould (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-19-2, Nov ’96, C$51.00, xxii+305pp, hc, cover by Douglas Walters); Reprint (Methuen 1904) collection of stories, revised from the original edition by the inclusion of 2 further stories, “A Dead Man’s Teeth” and “The Old Woman of Wesel”. There is a new Introduction by Richard Dalby, and illustrations by D. Murray Smith. A world-wide edition available in the US for $38.50 and in the UK for £23.50.

The 1995 SPGA Showcase ed. David G. Barnett & Bobbi Sinha-Morey (Concord, CA: SPGA, 1996, 124pp, ph, cover by R. M. Copley)

The Occult Files of Francis Chard: Some Ghost Stories A. M. Burrage (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-20-6, Dec ’96, £23.50, xvi+278pp, hc, cover by Douglas Walters) [Francis Chard]; Collection of 26 stories, including 13 from Some Ghost Stories (1927). Edited and with an Introduction by Jack Adrian. A world-wide edition available in the US for $38.50.

Bruce Coville’s Book of Aliens II: More Tales to Warp Your Mind ed. Bruce Coville (Scholastic/Apple 0-590-85293-0, Nov ’96, $3.95, 183pp, tp, cover by Steve Fastner); Young-adult original collection of 12 sf stories, three reprints. Packaged and copyrighted by General Licensing Company, a Byron Preiss subsidiary. Individual story copyrights are in the authors’ names.

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