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Saberhagen: My Best Fred Saberhagen (Baen 0-671-65645-7, May ’87 [Apr ’87], $2.95, 311pp, pb); Collection of 17 stories.

The Year’s Best Fantasy Stories: 13 ed. Arthur W. Saha (DAW 0-88677-233-8, Nov ’87 [Oct ’87], $2.95, 238pp, pb); Anthology of 11 stories from 1986 plus an introduction/summation of the year in fantasy.

Short & Shivery Robert D. San Souci (Doubleday 0-385-23886-X, Oct ’87, $10.95, 175pp, hc); Young-adult anthology of 30 short horror stories from folklore around the world, retold by San Souci.

The Best of Pamela Sargent Pamela Sargent (Academy Chicago 0-89733-242-3, Oct ’87, $15.95, 322pp, hc); Collection of 14 sf stories plus a foreword by Michael Bishop and an introduction by Pamela Sargent. Edited by Martin H. Greenberg.

Little Tours of Hell Josephine Saxton (Methuen/Pandora 0-86358-095-5, Dec ’86 [Aug ’87], $8.95, 146pp, tp); Collection of 14 stories with elements of horror and humor, “Tall Tales of Food and Holidays”. This is the 1986 British edition from Routledge & Kegan Paul/Pandora, now available in the U.S. through Methuen. A hardcover at $19.95 is also listed; not seen.

Songs from the Seashell Archives, Vol. 1 Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (Bantam Spectra 0-553-26957-7, Oct ’87, $4.95, 552pp, pb) [Argonia]; Omnibus edition of the first 2 books in the “Argonia” fantasy series, Song of Sorcery (Bantam 1982) and The Unicorn Creed (Bantam 1983).

Whispers VI ed. Stuart David Schiff (Doubleday 0-385-19927-9, Jul ’87, $12.95, 181pp, hc); Original anthology of 15 horror stories.

6 Decades: The Best of Analog ed. Stanley Schmidt (Davis, 1986, free to subscribers, 128pp, pb); Anthology of 6 science fiction stories sent free to new subscribers of Analog.

The Supernatural Short Stories of Sir Walter Scott Sir Walter Scott (Riverrun/Calder 0-7145-4086-2, Oct ’86 [Jan ’87], $8.95, 217pp, tp); Reprint (Calder 1977) collection of ghost stories edited by Michael Hayes. Published in 1986; missed. This is a universal edition, published in England with names of UK, US, and Canadian publishers; distributed in the US by Kampmann.

Rod Serling’s Night Gallery Reader ed. Carol Serling, Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Dembner 0-934878-93-5, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $15.95, 326pp, hc); Anthology of 18 stories that were made into Night Gallery tv episodes.

Fat Face Michael Shea (Axolotl Press 0-939879-13-1, May ’87, $30.00, 36pp, hc); A Chthulhu Mythos horror novelette, with an introduction by Karl Edward Wagner. Limited edition of 300, signed by Shea and Wagner. There are also 50 leatherbound copies, for $65.00.

Fat Face Michael Shea (Axolotl Press 0-939879-14-X, May ’87, $6.00, 36pp, ph); Trade paperback edition of the above. Limited to 500 copies, also signed.

Polyphemus Michael Shea (Arkham House 0-87054-155-2, Nov ’87, $16.95, 245pp, hc); Collection of 7 stories plus an introduction by Algis Budrys. Recommended. (FCM)

Common Body, Royal Bones Evelyn Shefner (Coffee House Press 0-918273-33-1, Dec ’87 [Nov ’87], $9.95, 119pp, tp); Collection of 3 literary stories, one about a woman who transmits her thoughts and another about a 7-foot-tall princess from a mythical European country.

The Jaguar Hunter Lucius Shepard (Arkham House 0-87054-154-4, May ’87 [Mar ’87], $21.95, 404pp, hc); Collection of 11 stories by the best of the new writers. Most of these were awards nominees. Highly recommended. (CNB)

Liavek: Wizard’s Row ed. Will Shetterly & Emma Bull (Ace 0-441-48190-6, Sep ’87 [Aug ’87], $2.95, 212pp, pb) [Liavek]; Shared-world original anthology, third in the series. 8 stories, plus appendices of songs and background material.

Robert Silverberg’s Worlds of Wonder ed. Robert Silverberg (Warner 0-446-51369-5, Oct ’87 [Sep ’87], $17.95, 352pp, hc); Anthology of 13 stories. Introduction and biographical essay by Silverberg.

Great Science Fiction of the 20th Century ed. Robert Silverberg & Martin H. Greenberg (Crown/Avenel 0-517-64124-0, 1987 [Nov ’87], $8.98, 726pp, hc); Anthology. This is an “instant remainder” of The Arbor House Treasury of Modern Science Fiction, omitting one story, “The Marching Morons” by C.M. Kornbluth.

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