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The World Around the Corner Maurice Gee (OUP 0-19-558061-3, Dec ’84 [Aug ’84], $9.95, 72pp, hc); Reprint (New Zealand 1980) juvenile fantasy novella, with illustrations.


The War Against the Chtorr: Invasion David Gerrold (SFBC #5607, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $8.50, 693pp, hc) [War Against the Chtorr]; Omnibus edition of the first sf novels in a continuing saga.


The Fire When It Comes Parke Godwin (Doubleday 0-385-18171-X, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $11.95, 171pp, hc); Collection of 9 tales; the title novella won a 1982 World Fantasy Award. Recommended. (FCM)


Shadows 7 ed. Charles L. Grant (Doubleday 0-385-18943-5, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $11.95, 181pp, hc); Original anthology of 14 tales of horror and dark fantasy by Ramsey Campbell, Tanith Lee, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, and others.


Tiger! Tiger! James E. Gunn (Chris Drumm, 1984, $2.25, 55pp, ph); Sf novella written in 1952. Drumm Booklet #17.


The Ghost of Sherlock Holmes: Seventeen Supernatural Stories Leslie Halliwell (Granada/Academy Chicago 0-586-05995-4, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $5.95, 254pp, tp); Collection of ghost stories; all seem to be originals.


Mouth Open, Story Jump Out Grace Hallworth (Methuen 0-416-23550-6, Oct ’84, £5.50, 128pp, hc); Original young-adult collection of supernatural stories based on Trinidadian folklore. Pagination from Magnet 1987 edition. [Not seen]


Viriconium Nights M. John Harrison (Ace 0-441-86570-4, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], $2.75, 182pp, pb) [Viriconium]; Collection of 8 stories set in the fantasy world Viriconium. Several seem to be originals.


Four Complete Novels Frank Herbert (Avenel, 1984, hc); Omnibus edition of four Herbert novels from an “instant remainder” publisher.


Venemous Tales of Villainy and Vengeance ed. Helen Hoke (Dutton/Lodestar 0-525-67158-7, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $11.95, 127pp, hc); Anthology of 8 horror stories by Ray Bradbury, Robert Silverberg, Joan Aiken, and others.


Isaac Asimov’s Tomorrow’s Voices ed. Editors of Isaac Asimov’s (Dial 0-385-27998-1, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $12.95, 287pp, hc); Original anthology of material from the magazine’s inventory. Mostly left over from the last editor, which is why there’s no name on it.


Justin Joanna Jacy (Vantage Press 0-533-05744-2, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $7.95, 45pp, hc); Horror novelette from a vanity press.


Beyond Lands of Never: A Further Anthology of Modern Fantasy ed. Maxim Jakubowski (Unicorn 0-04-823254-8, Aug ’84 [Jul ’84], £2.50, 166pp, tp); Original anthology of 10 fantasy stories by Tanith Lee, Robert Holdstock, and others. Recommended. (FCM)


The Adventures of Teebo Joe Johnston (Random House 0-394-86568-5, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $4.95, unpaginated, hc); Story-length juvenile adventure featuring the Ewoks from Return of the Jedi, illustrated by the author.


The Songbirds of Pain Garry Kilworth (Gollancz 0-575-03511-0, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], £8.95, 187pp, hc); Collection of 13 stories; the title story seems to be an original.


Watchers at the Strait Gate Russell Kirk (Arkham House 0-87054-098-X, Sep ’84 [Jul ’84], $14.95, 255pp, hc); An excellent collection of supernatural fantasy stories. Recommended. (FCM)


The Clarion Awards ed. Damon Knight (Doubleday 0-385-18383-6, Jun ’84 [Jul ’84], $11.95, 177pp, hc); Anthology of the best stories from the last six Clarion workshops for sf writers. The first-prize winner, “The Etheric Transmitter” by Lucius Shepard, is outstanding — one of the best novelettes of this year. (FCM)


The Man Who Made Models and Other Stories R. A. Lafferty (Chris Drumm, Sep ’84, $2.50, 51pp, ph); Original collection of five stories. Drumm Booklet #18.


Ringing Changes R. A. Lafferty (Ace 0-441-72607-0, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $2.95, 275pp, pb); This is the first English-language edition of a collection of 20 stories which first appeared in Holland as Days of Grass, Days of Straw. Recommended. (FCM)


Hiero Desteen Sterling E. Lanier (SFBC #3292, Mar ’84, $8.98, 532pp, hc) [Hiero Desteen]; Omnibus edition of Hiero’s Journey (Chilton 1973) and The Unforsaken Hiero (Del Rey 1983). Sf.


Chrestomathy Keith Laumer (Baen 0-671-55920-6, Nov ’84 [Oct ’84], $2.95, 254pp, pb); Collection of novel excerpts and a few stories with new forewords by the author.


Once There Was a Giant Keith Laumer (Tor 0-812-54371-8, Jul ’84 [Jun ’84], $2.50, 223pp, pb); Collection of two novellas (including the title one) plus a Laumer appreciation by Sandra Miesel. Tor continues to be a bibliographer’s nightmare. This book is not related to the 8-story 1971 Doubleday collection with the same name. The second story seems to be an original.


The Visionary: The Life Story of Flicker of the Serpentine/Wonders Hidden: Audubon’s Early Years Ursula K. Le Guin & Scott Russell Sanders (Capra Press 0-88496-219-9, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $7.50, 122pp, tp); Two novellas in Capra’s Back-to-Back series. The Le Guin is an excerpt from her upcoming sf novel Always Coming Home; the Sanders is non-sf/fantasy.


Tamastara, or the Indian Nights Tanith Lee (DAW 0-87997-915-1, Mar ’84 [Feb ’84], $2.50, 174pp, pb); Collection of 7 sf and fantasy tales set in India of the past, present, and future. This is some of Lee’s best work. Recommended. (FCM)


The Wars of Vis Tanith Lee (SFBC #2717, Jul ’84 [Aug ’84], $7.98, 697pp, hc) [Wars of Vis]; Omnibus edition of The Storm Lord (DAW 1976) and Anackire (DAW 1983), two fantasy novels set in the same world a generation apart.


The Ghost Light Fritz Leiber (Berkley 0-425-06812-9, Apr ’84 [Mar ’84], $7.95, 367pp, tp); Collection of 9 stories plus an autobiographical essay, illustrated by a number of different artists.


Imaginary Magnitude Stanislaw Lem (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-144118-9, Oct ’84 [Sep ’84], $15.95, 122pp, hc); Prefaces to non-existent books written in the future. Translated by Marc E. Heine.


The Illustrated ‘Fungi from Yuggoth’ H. P. Lovecraft (Dream House, Jan ’84 [Dec ’83], $5.00, unpaginated, pb); Lovecraft sonnet cycle with illustrations by Robert Kellough.


The Red Hawk Elizabeth A. Lynn (Cheap Street 0-941826-04-X, 1983 [Jan ’84], $65.00, 68pp, hc); Original fantasy novelette, illustrated by Alicia Austin. Edition of 128 copies. (“Publisher’s Edition” of 40 copies, in slipcase, announced for “around $140.”) Another of Lynn’s fine fantasy stories set in the imaginary country of Ryoka, this tale features a woman who, literally, takes on the mantle of a god — and the attendant problems, including the god’s irresponsible son. A beautiful production, but non-collectors, will probably want to wait for a less loving, less expensive version. (DN)


Black Water: The Anthology of Fantastic Literature ed. Alberto Manguel (Picador 0-330-28141-0, 1983 [Feb ’84], £4.95, 967pp, tp); Anthology of 72 stories and excerpts, from “literary” fantasists (including Bradbury and Le Guin as well as Poe, Kafka, Calvino, etc.) A 1983 book — not seen till 1984.
  • xvi · Foreword · Alberto Manguel · fw
  • 1 · House Taken Over · Julio Cortázar · ss End of the Game and Other Stories, Random House, 1967
  • 7 · How Love Came to Professor Guildea [“The Man Who Was Beloved”] · Robert S. Hichens · na Pearson’s Magazine Oct, 1897
  • 49 · Climax for a Ghost Story · I. A. Ireland · vi, 1919
  • 50 · The Mysteries of the Joy Rio · Tennessee Williams · ss, 1954
  • 62 · Pomegranate Seed · Edith Wharton · nv The Saturday Evening Post Apr 25 ’31
  • 92 · Venetian Masks · Adolfo Bioy Casares; trans. by Alberto Manguel · ss *
  • 110 · The Wish House · Rudyard Kipling · ss Maclean’s Oct 15 ’24
  • 127 · The Playground · Ray Bradbury · ss Esquire Oct ’53
  • 141 · Importance · Manuel Mujica Lainez · ss, 1978
  • 144 · Enoch Soames · Max Beerbohm · nv The Century May ’16
  • 171 · A Visitor from Down Under · L. P. Hartley · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
  • 188 · Laura · Saki · ss Beasts and Super-Beasts, John Lane, 1914
  • 193 · An Injustice Revealed · Anon. · ss
  • 198 · A Little Place Off the Edgware Road · Graham Greene · ss Nineteen Stories, Heinemann, 1947
  • 204 · From “A School Story” · M. R. James · ex More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold, 1911
  • 206 · The Signalman · Charles Dickens · ss All the Year Round Christmas, 1866
  • 219 · The Tall Woman · Pedro Antonio de Alarcón · nv
  • 235 · A Scent of Mimosa · Francis King · ss The Times Anthology of Ghost Stories, Anon., London: Cape, 1975
  • 249 · Death and the Gardener [from Le Grand Ecart] · Jean Cocteau · ex, 1923
  • 250 · Lord Mountdrago [“Doctor and Patient”] · W. Somerset Maugham · nv The International Feb ’39
  • 273 · The Sick Gentleman’s Last Visit · Giovanni Papini · ss The Blind Pilot, 1907
  • 279 · Insomnia [1956] · Virgilio Pinera · vi
  • 280 · The Storm [“Frritt-Flacc”] · Jules Verne · ss; Le Figaro Illustre December 1884.
  • 287 · A Dream (from The Arabian Nights Entertainments) · Anon. · vi
  • 289 · The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar · Edgar Allan Poe · ss American Whig Review Dec, 1845
  • 299 · Split Second · Daphne du Maurier · nv The Apple Tree, London: Gollancz, 1952
  • 345 · August 25, 1983 · Jorge Luís Borges · ss, 1982
  • 351 · How Wang-Fo Was Saved · Marguerite Yourcenar · ss; in Nouvelles Orientales, 1963.
  • 361 · From “Peter and Rosa” · Isak Dinesen · ex Winter’s Tales, Putnam, 1942
  • 363 · Tattoo · Junichiro Tanizaki · ss, 1910
  • 371 · John Duffy’s Brother · Flann O’Brien · ss Story Jul/Aug ’41
  • 377 · Lady into Fox · David Garnett · na New York: Knopf, 1923
  • 430 · Father’s Last Escape · Bruno Schulz · ss Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, 1937
  • 435 · A Man by the Name of Ziegler · Hermann Hesse · ss, 1954
  • 440 · The Argentine Ant [1952] · Italo Calvino; trans. by Archibald Colquhoun · nv Adam, One Afternoon, Colliro, 1957
  • 470 · The Lady on the Grey · John Collier · ss New Yorker Jun 16 ’51
  • 478 · The Queen of Spades [1834] · Alexander Sergeievitch Pushkin; trans. by Rosemary Edmonds · nv
  • 503 · Of a Promise Kept · Lafcadio Hearn · ss A Japanese Miscellany, Little, Brown, 1901
  • 507 · The Wizard Postponed [from The Book of Examples of Count Lucanor, adapt. 1935] · Juan Manuel, Jorge Luís Borges, adapt.; trans. by Norman Thomas di Giovanni · ss A Universal History of Infamy, Allen Lane, 1973
  • 511 · The Monkey’s Paw · W. W. Jacobs · ss Harper’s Monthly Sep ’02
  • 522 · The Bottle Imp · Robert Louis Stevenson · nv New York Herald Feb 8-Mar 1, 1891
  • 550 · The Rocking-Horse Winner · D. H. Lawrence · ss The Ghost-Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, London: Hutchinson, 1926
  • 565 · Certain Distant Suns · Joanne Greenburg · ss High Crimes and Misdemeanors, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1979
  • 582 · The Third Bank of the River · João Guimarães Rosa · ss, 1967
  • 588 · Home · Hilaire Belloc · ss
  • 596 · The Door in the Wall · H. G. Wells · ss The Daily Chronicle Jul 14 ’06
  • 612 · The Friends · Silvina Ocampo · ss, 1982
  • 619 · Et in Sempiternum Pereant · Charles Williams · ss The London Mercury Dec ’35
  • 629 · The Captives of Longjumeau · Léon Bloy · ss, 1967
  • 634 · The Visit to the Museum · Vladimir Nabokov · ss, 1958
  • 644 · “Autumn Mountain” · Ryunosuke Akutagawa · ss
  • 652 · The Sight · Brian Moore · ss Irish Ghost Stories, ed. Joseph Hone, Hamish Hamilton, 1977
  • 670 · Clorinda · André Pieyre de Mandiargues · ss, 1979
  • 675 · The Pagan Rabbi · Cynthia Ozick · nv The Hudson Review, 1966
  • 704 · The Fisherman and His Soul · Oscar Wilde · nv The House of Pomegranates, 1891
  • 735 · The Bureau d’Echange de Maux · Lord Dunsany · ss The Smart Set Jan ’15
  • 740 · The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas · Ursula K. Le Guin · ss New Dimensions 3, ed. Robert Silverberg, Nelson Doubleday, 1973
  • 748 · In the Penal Colony · Franz Kafka · nv; Kurt Wolff Verlag, May ’19.
  • 774 · A Dog in Durer’s Etching “The Knight, Death and The Devil” · Marco Denevi · ss, 1968
  • 782 · The Large Ant · Howard Fast · ss Fantastic Universe Feb ’60
  • 792 · The Lemmings · Alex Comfort · ss
  • 800 · The Grey Ones · J. B. Priestley · ss Lilliput Apr-May ’53
  • 816 · The Feather Pillow · Horacio Quiroga · ss, 1907
  • 820 · Seaton’s Aunt · Walter de la Mare · nv The London Mercury Apr ’22
  • 849 · The Friends of the Friends [“The Way It Came”] · Henry James · nv Chap Book May, 1896
  • 874 · The Travelling Companion · Hans Christian Andersen · ss, 1835
  • 891 · The Curfew Tolls · Stephen Vincent Benét · ss The Saturday Evening Post Oct 5 ’35
  • 907 · The State of Grace · Marcel Aymé · ss Across Paris and Other Stories, Paris, 1947; F&SF Dec ’59
  • 919 · The Story of a Panic · E. M. Forster · nv Independent Review Mar ’04
  • 940 · An Invitation to the Hunt · George Hitchcock · ss San Francisco Review Mar ’60
  • 950 · From the “American Notebooks” · Nathaniel Hawthorne · ex, 1868
  • 952 · The Dream · O. Henry · ss Cosmopolitan Sep ’10; completed by Cosmopolitan editor.
  • 956 · The Authors · Misc. Material · bg


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