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Death Trilogy Terry Pratchett (Gollancz 0-575-06584-2, Oct ’98, £15.99, 754pp, hc, cover by Josh Kirby) [Discworld]; Humorous fantasy omnibus of three “Discworld” novels: Mort (1987), Reaper Man (1991), and Soul Music (1994).

The Mysteries of Udolpho Ann Radcliffe (Oxford University Press 0-19-282523-2, Jun ’98, £7.99, 693pp, tp, cover by Carl Gustav Carus); Reprint (G.G. & J. Robinson 1794 as The Mysteries of Udolpho. A Romance; Interspersed with some Pieces of Poetry) classic gothic novel. Edited by Bonamy Dobrée, with a new introduction & notes by Terry Castle.

Somewhere Else Leon Rosselson (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-72264-9, Dec ’98, £3.99, 121pp, pb, cover by Kim Harley); Collection of two original young-adult ghost/time displacement stories.

Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden ed. Steve Savile (Tanjen 1-901530-14-0, Sep ’98 [Nov ’98], £6.99, 308pp, tp, cover by Chris Bullock); Original horror anthology of 20 stories, six reprints. Authors include Stephen Laws, Mark Chadbourn, and Kim Newman.

Edge of Light Robert Silverberg (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648038-1, Feb ’98 [Jan ’98], £9.99, 981pp, tp); Omnibus of five SF novels published between 1969 and 1972, Silverberg’s classic, award-winning period: A Time of Changes; Downward to the Earth; The Second Trip; Dying Inside; and Nightwings.

Nightworld: Two Books in One L. J. Smith (Hodder Children’s Books 0-340-72271-1, Feb ’98, £4.99, 228+228pp, pb, cover by Sam Hadley); Omnibus of Nightworld: Secret Vampire and Nightworld: Daughters of Darkness, both originally published by Pocket Archway in 1996. The books are paginated separately.

Kidnapped by Cannibals Dr. Gordon Stables (Pulp Fictions UK 1-902058-06-2, Nov ’98, £4.99, xvi+287pp, tp, cover by Tania Lomas); Reprint (1899) associational “Boys’ Own” pulp adventure novel, with a new introduction by David Pringle.

X-Files #9: Hungry Ghosts Ellen Steiber (HarperCollins/Voyager 0-00-648332-1, Jun ’98, £3.99, 118pp, pb, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [X-Files]; Reprint (HarperTrophy 1998) novelisation of an episode of the TV series. [First U.K. edition]

Fear Street: 3 Stories in 1: Dead of Night R. L. Stine (Archway UK 0-671-00489-1, Nov ’97 [Feb ’98], £4.99, 480pp, pb); Young-adult dark fantasy omnibus: Haunted, The Halloween Party and The Sleepwalker (all Pocket Archway, 1990). The books are separately paginated.

Roverandom J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10353-9, Jan ’98 [Nov ’97], £12.99, xxii+106pp, hc, cover by J. R. R. Tolkien); Previously unpublished juvenile fantasy story written in 1925, with illustrations by Tolkien. Edited, with an introduction and extensive notes, by Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond.

Roverandom J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10354-7, Oct ’98, £5.99, xxii+106pp, tp, cover by J. R. R. Tolkien); Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1998) juvenile fantasy story written in 1925, with 4 pages of colour illustrations by Tolkien. Edited, with an introduction and extensive notes by Christina Scull & Wayne G. Hammond.

Tales from the Perilous Realm J. R. R. Tolkien (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10343-1, Aug ’98 [Jul ’98], £5.99, 178pp, tp, cover by Sarah Gibb); Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1992 as Poems and Stories) fantasy omnibus of three long stories, and a poem.

The Venetian Chair And Other Stories Harry Turner (The Book Guild 1-85776-301-7, Oct ’98, £15.00, 281pp, hc, cover by Jane Turner); Dark fantasy collection of 22 stories, mainly originals.

Crossing the Border: Tales of Erotic Ambiguity ed. Lisa Tuttle (Gollancz 0-575-40117-6, Nov ’98, £7.99, 382pp, tp); Associational anthology of 22 stories, 10 original, including work by Angela Carter, Geoff Ryman, Neil Gaiman, and Tuttle herself.

Symmetries Luisa Valenzuela (Serpent’s Tail 1-85242-543-1, Aug ’98 [May ’98], £8.99, 167pp, tp); Collection of 19 original fantasy, mainstream and magic realism stories. Translated by Margaret Jull Costa from Simetrías (Editorial Sudamerica, Buenos Aires, 1993).

Waterstone’s Guide to Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror ed. Paul Wake, Steve Andrews & Ariel (Waterstone’s 0-9527405-8-3, Apr ’98, £3.99, 204pp, tp); Reference work, produced for sale in Waterstone’s Bookshops. A bio-bibliographic index to more than 200 authors, concentrating on more recent, available work.

The Complete Short Stories of H.G. Wells H. G. Wells (J.M. Dent 0-460-87964-2, Aug ’98, £30.00, 883pp, hc); Collection of 84 short stories and extracts, selected, edited and introduced by John Hammond. Includes The Stolen Bacillus and Other Incidents (1895); The Plattner Story and others (1897); Tales of Space and Time (1899); Twelve Stories and a Dream (1903); The Door in the Wall and other stories — all previously collected (with “The Time Machine”) as The (Complete) Short Stories of H.G. Wells (1927); plus a new section, ‘Uncollected Stories’, containing all of the small-press The Man with a Nose and Other Uncollected Short Stories (1984), adding two uncollected works, and two more only recently discovered.

The Red Room and other stories H. G. Wells (Phoenix 0-75380-453-0, May ’98, £3.99, viii+243pp, tp, cover by Janie Coath); Collection of 21 stories. selected and with an Introduction by John Hammond.

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