The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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100 Tiny Tales of Terror ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble 0-76070-140-7, Sep 96, $7.98, 565pp, hc, cover by Cheryl Knippenburg) Anthology of 100 horror stories, one original. Authors include Ambrose Bierce, Joe R. Lansdale, Nancy A. Collins, and John Shirley. This is an instant remainder edition.
- ix · Introduction · Stefan Dziemianowicz · in
- 1 · Ashes of Circumstance · J. U. Giesy · ss Weird Tales Sep 25
- 7 · At the Bend of the Trail · Manly Wade Wellman · ss Weird Tales Oct 34
- 11 · August Heat · William Fryer Harvey · ss Midnight House and Other Tales, J.M. Dent, 1910
- 15 · Beside the Seaside · Ramsey Campbell · ss The Height of the Scream, Sauk City, WI: Arkham House, 1976
- 20 · Best of Luck · David Drake · ss The Years Best Horror Stories: Series VI, ed. Gerald W. Page, DAW, 1978
- 24 · The Boarded Window · Ambrose Bierce · ss San Francisco Examiner Jul 14, 1889
- 28 · Boo, Yourself · Joe R. Lansdale · vi Whispers Oct 87
- 31 · The Broken Thread · Kirk Mashburn · ss Weird Tales May 32
- 36 · The Bus-Conductor · E. F. Benson · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Dec 06
- 43 · The Chill · Dennis Etchison · ss Weirdbook #15 81
- 48 · The Cleaning Machine [Ronald Burke] · F. Paul Wilson · ss Startling Mystery Stories Mar 71
- 51 · The Coffin Merchant · Richard Middleton · ss The Ghost Ship, Unwin, 1912
- 56 · The Dancing Partner · Jerome K. Jerome · ss The Idler Mar, 1893
- 62 · The Desert Lich · Frank Belknap Long · ss Weird Tales Nov 24
- 68 · Dickon the Devil [Martin Hesselius] · J. Sheridan Le Fanu · ss London Society Dec, 1872
- 76 · The Dolls Ghost · F. Marion Crawford · ss Wandering Ghosts, Macmillan, 1911
- 85 · The Dreamclown · Nancy A. Collins · ss The Horror Show Fll 83
- 90 · Ember · Fred Chappell · ss Weird Tales Fll 90
- 98 · The Empty House · Maurice Level · ss Hearsts International Magazine Sep 20; La Maison vide, Le Journal 1909.
- 102 · The Epiphany of Death · Clark Ashton Smith · ss The Fantasy Fan Jul 34
- 106 · The Everlasting Club · Ingulphus · ss The Cambridge Review Oct 27 10
- 111 · Fair Trade · William F. Nolan · ss Whispers Mar 82
- 115 · The Family Underwater · Lucy Taylor · ss Close to the Bone, Silver Salamander Press, 1993
- 119 · Fear · Guy de Maupassant · ss, 1882
- 124 · Fluffy · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Weird Tales Mar 47
- 130 · Footprints in the Water · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Women of Darkness II, ed. Kathryn Ptacek, Tor, 1990
- 134 · The Frenzied Farmhouse · Stefan Grabinski; trans. by Miroslaw Lipinski · ss Crypt of Cthulhu #66 89
- 140 · Gobble, Gobble! · William F. Nolan · ss Weird Tales Win 90
- 145 · Graven Images · William Browning Spencer · ss The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories, Sag Harbor, NY: The Permanent Press, 1993
- 149 · The Greater Festival of Masks · Thomas Ligotti · ss Songs of a Dead Dreamer, Silver Scarab Press, 1985
- 155 · The Green Scarab · Willis Knapp Jones · ss Weird Tales Aug 25
- 161 · The Grim Passenger · Donald Edward Keyhoe · ss Weird Tales Apr 25
- 167 · Have You Seen Me? · Nancy Holder · ss Cemetery Dance Sum 91
- 175 · Heroes · Richard T. Chizmar · ss Predators, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc, 1993
- 181 · The Hollow · David B. Silva · ss Cemetery Dance Win 90
- 187 · The House of Shadows · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales Apr 33
- 193 · In Kropfsberg Keep · Ralph Adams Cram · ss Black Spirits and White, Stone & Kimball: Chicago, 1895
- 201 · In the Triangle · Howard Wandrei · ss Weird Tales Jan 34
- 204 · In the Vault · H. P. Lovecraft · ss The Tryout Nov 25
- 211 · Itself · Seabury Quinn · ss Weird Tales Sep 25
- 216 · Jason, Come Home · Darrell Schweitzer · ss Night Cry Win 86
- 223 · Johnny on the Spot · Frank Belknap Long · vi Unknown Dec 39
- 226 · Justice · Brian Stableford · ss Far Point #1 91
- 232 · The Law of the Hills · Grace M. Campbell · ss Weird Tales Aug 30
- 240 · Letter from Will Stotler, Dated October 32nd As Received by D. E. LeRoss · William R. Stotler & D. E. LeRoss · ss, 1995
- 246 · Lightning Rod · Melanie Tem · ss Skin of the Soul, ed. Lisa Tuttle, The Womens Press, 1990
- 254 · The Lions in the Desert · David Langford · ss Weerde: Book 2, ed. Mary Gentle & Roz Kaveney, Roc UK, 1993
- 262 · The Little Green Ones · Les Daniels · ss Dark Voices 4, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1992
- 266 · Miracles · Barry Pain · ss
- 273 · Morella · Edgar Allan Poe · ss Southern Literary Messenger Apr, 1835
- 277 · Moving Out · Nicholas Royle · ss Skeleton Crew Jan 91
- 282 · Mr. Lupescu · Anthony Boucher · ss Weird Tales Sep 45
- 285 · Mr. Templetons Toyshop [Selections from Mr. Templetons Toyshop] · Thomas Wiloch · ss All the Devils Are Here, ed. David D. Deyo, Jr., Unnameable Press, 1986
- 290 · Mrs. Bentleys Daughter · August Derleth · ss Weird Tales Oct 30
- 294 · Mrs. Edmonds Pantry · Tina L. Jens · ss *
- 301 · The Music on the Hill · Saki · ss The Chronicles of Clovis, John Lane, 1911
- 305 · The Mystery of the Semi-Detached · Edith Nesbit · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 308 · The Ninth Skeleton · Clark Ashton Smith · ss Weird Tales Sep 28
- 311 · No Eye-Witnesses · Henry S. Whitehead · ss Weird Tales Aug 32
- 318 · Old Clothes · Ramsey Campbell · ss Midnight, ed. Charles L. Grant, Tor, 1985
- 326 · One-Night Strand · Donald R. Burleson · ss Four Shadowings, Necronomicon Press, 1994
- 330 · One Size Eats All: A Campfire Tale for Children · T. E. D. Klein · ss Outside Kids Sum 93
- 334 · An Original Revenge · W. C. Morrow · ss The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1897
- 339 · The Outsider · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales Apr 26
- 344 · Over Times Threshold · Howard Wandrei · ss Weird Tales Sep 32
- 350 · The Palace of the Dead · Robert Peery · ss Weird Tales Oct 29
- 356 · Past Tense · Brian Hodge · ss Final Shadows, ed. Charles L. Grant, Doubleday Foundation, 1991
- 365 · People Who Love Life · Douglas Clegg · ss The Scream Factory #6 91
- 373 · Phantom Brass · Carl Jacobi · ss Railroad Stories Aug 34
- 379 · The Ponderer · Eric Frank Russell · ss Weird Tales Nov 48
- 386 · Preparations for the Game · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Whispers Aug 82
- 394 · Purification · Robert Barr · ss Revenge!, Chatto & Windus, 1896
- 400 · A Queer Cicerone · Bernard Capes · ss The Fabulists, Mills & Boon, 1915
- 405 · The Rag Thing [as by David Grinnell] · Donald A. Wollheim · ss F&SF Oct 51
- 409 · The Rajahs Gift · E. Hoffmann Price · ss Weird Tales Jan 25
- 414 · Roadside Pickup · Richard Laymon · ss EQMM Dec 74
- 418 · Schizo Jimmie · Fritz Leiber · ss The Saint Detective Magazine Feb 60
- 427 · Shrapnel · Karl Edward Wagner · ss Night Visions 2, ed. Charles L. Grant, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1985
- 433 · Silent Crickets · John Shirley · vi Fantastic Apr 75
- 436 · The Skeptic · Hugh B. Cave · ss The Urbanite #3 93
- 441 · The Striding Place · Gertrude Atherton · ss The Speaker, 1896
- 446 · The Sultans Jest · E. Hoffmann Price · ss Weird Tales Sep 25
- 452 · Talent · Theodore Sturgeon · ss Beyond Fantasy Fiction Sep 53
- 459 · The Tapestry Gate · Leigh Brackett · ss Strange Stories Aug 40
- 470 · The Terminus · Kim Newman · ss Fantasy Tales #15 86; an earlier version was in the fanzine Sheep Worrying, 1981.
- 473 · A Terrible Night · Fitz-James OBrien · ss Harpers Oct, 1856
- 478 · The Three · Louise Van De Verg · ss Weird Tales Feb 29
- 482 · The Three Marked Pennies · Mary Elizabeth Counselman · ss Weird Tales Aug 34
- 489 · The Three Sisters · W. W. Jacobs · ss Night Watches, London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1914
- 495 · Tom Toothacres Ghost Story · Harriet Beecher Stowe · ss Old Town Fireside Stories, Osgood, 1871
- 500 · Tombstone Moon · Norman Partridge · ss Souls in Pawn, ed. George Hatch, Horrors Head Press, 1992
- 507 · A Torture by Hope [from Contes Cruels, 1883] · Villiers de lIsle-Adam · ss The Strand Jun, 1891
- 511 · Two Doctors · M. R. James · ss A Thin Ghost, Longmans, Green, 1919
- 517 · The Visitor · John Bender · ss Dime Mystery Magazine Jun 48
- 523 · Wave Scars · Joel Lane · ss Sugar Sleep, ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1993
- 530 · A Wedding Chest · Vernon Lee · ss Pope Jacynth and Other Fantastic Tales, London: Grant Richards, 1904
- 538 · What Can a Child Do? · Chet Williamson · ss Weird Tales Spr 88
- 544 · What Say the Frogs Now, Jenny? · Hugh B. Cave · ss Whispers IV, ed. Stuart David Schiff, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1983
- 550 · Wild Grapes · August Derleth · vi Weird Tales Jul 34
- 554 · Will · Vincent OSullivan · ss The Green Window, Leonard Smithers, 1899
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Rivals of Dracula ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg (Barnes & Noble 0-7607-0175-X, Sep 96, $7.98, 377pp, hc) Anthology of 19 vampire stories. Authors include Kevin J. Anderson, F. Paul Wilson, Tanith Lee, and Dan Simmons. There is an introduction by Stefan R. Dziemianowicz. This is an instant remainder edition.
- ix · Introduction · Stefan R. Dziemianowicz · in
- 1 · Much at Stake · Kevin J. Anderson · ss The Ultimate Dracula, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor & Megan Miller, Dell, 1991
- 15 · The Yougoslaves · Robert Bloch · nv Night Cry Spr 86
- 35 · Voivode · Douglas Borton · nv Dracula: Prince of Darkness, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1992
- 51 · The Lady of the House of Love · Angela Carter · ss The Iowa Review Sum/Fll 75; revised
- 67 · Dracula on the Rocks [Irene Alder] · Carole Nelson Douglas · nv Celebrity Vampires, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1995
- 95 · The Wind Breathes Cold · P. N. Elrod · ss Dracula: Prince of Darkness, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1992
- 107 · Dracula 1944 · Edward D. Hoch · ss The Ultimate Dracula, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor & Megan Miller, Dell, 1991
- 121 · Like a Pilgrim to the Shrine · Brian Hodge · nv Dracula: Prince of Darkness, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1992
- 139 · Nunc Dimittis · Tanith Lee · nv The Dodd, Mead Gallery of Horror, ed. Charles L. Grant, Dodd Mead, 1983
- 159 · Cult · Warner Lee · nv Dracula: Prince of Darkness, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1992
- 177 · Drink My Blood [Drink My Red Blood] · Richard Matheson · ss Imagination Apr 51
- 185 · Red Reign · Kim Newman · na The Mammoth Book of Vampires, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1992
- 243 · Do Not Hasten to Bid Me Adieu · Norman Partridge · nv Love in Vein, ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism, 1994
- 261 · Night Cries · Daniel Ransom · nv Dracula: Prince of Darkness, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1992
- 287 · Cardulas Revenge [Cardula] · Jack Ritchie · ss AHMM Nov 78
- 297 · Last Call for the Sons of Shock · David J. Schow · ss The Ultimate Frankenstein, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt, Dell, 1991
- 311 · All Draculas Children · Dan Simmons · nv The Ultimate Dracula, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor & Megan Miller, Dell, 1991
- 335 · The Name of Fear · Lawrence Watt-Evans · ss The Ultimate Dracula, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor & Megan Miller, Dell, 1991
- 345 · The Lords Work · F. Paul Wilson · nv Dracula: Prince of Darkness, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW, 1992
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Lovecrafts Legacy ed. Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg (Tor 0-312-86140-0, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $13.95, 334pp, tp) Reprint (Tor 1990) original anthology of 13 stories in homage to Lovecraft.
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100 Graphic Novels for Public Libraries Stephen Weiner (Kitchen Sink Press 0-87816-415-4, Mar 96, $9.95, 48pp, ph, cover by various) Non-fiction associational reference, in comic-book format; a guide to graphic novels for librarians, including suggestions on cataloging and shelving. There is a foreword by Neil Gaiman, as well as short articles by Craig Shaw Gardner and Elizabeth B. Thomsen, and interviews with Scott McCloud and James Vance.
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DragonLance: Dragons of Summer Flame Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (TSR 0-7869-0523-9, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $7.99, 586pp, tp, cover by Larry Elmore) [DragonLance: Chronicles] Reprint (TSR 1995) fantasy novelization, based on the role-playing games, volume four of the original Chronicles series. Copyrighted by TSR.
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Starshield: Sentinels Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-39760-6, Nov 96, $24.00, 424pp, hc, cover by Stephen Youll) [Starshield] SF novel, first in the new series. Bewildered humans join a galactic quest for an ancient artifact.
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DragonLance: The Doom Brigade Margaret Weis & Don Perrin (TSR 0-7869-0526-3, Oct 96 [Sep 96], $23.99, 309pp, hc, cover by Larry Elmore & Tony Szczudlo) [DragonLance] Fantasy novelization, based on the role-playing games. Copyrighted by TSR.
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The Knights of the Black Earth Margaret Weis & Don Perrin (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45514-2, Mar 96 [Feb 96], $5.99, 398pp, pb, cover by Steve Youll) [Mag Force 7] Reprint (Roc 1995) SF novel, set in the same universe as Weiss Star of the Guardians series. Mercenaries led by a cyborg plot against the galactic king.
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Robot Blues Margaret Weis & Don Perrin (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45581-9, Dec 96 [Nov 96], $6.99, 405pp, pb, cover by Steve Youll) [Mag Force 7] SF novel, sequel to Knights of the Black Earth. First US edition (Gollancz 1996).
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DragonLance: The Dragons at War ed. Margaret Weis & Tracy Hickman (TSR 0-7869-0491-7, May 96, $5.99, 340pp, tp, cover by Paul Jaquays) [DragonLance] Anthology of 13 stories and a poem set in the DragonLance world, a follow up to DragonLance: The Dragons of Krynn. Copyrighted by TSR.
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Mood Shifts Dan Weiss (Black Plankton Press, Aug 96 [Sep 96], $12.00, 262pp, tp, cover by Rick Potts) SF novel. A man starts to question his world when his wife gets a personality change at the local Mood Shifts outlet. Available from Black Plankton Press, PO Box 1351, Cobb CA 95426; postage included in price.
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Snugglarea Dan Weiss (Black Plankton Press, Aug 96 [Oct 96], $12.00, 301pp, tp, cover by Rick Potts) SF novel. Earth controls overpopulation by putting all non-essential people in cold storage. Available from Black Plankton Press, PO Box 1351, Cobb CA 95426; postage included in price.
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Exiles Challenge Angus Wells (Bantam Spectra 0-553-37812-0, Dec 96 [Nov 96], $12.95, 481pp, tp, cover by Stephen Youll) [Exiles Saga] Fantasy novel. Part two of the Exiles Saga. First US edition. (Millennium 1996).
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Exiles Children Angus Wells (Bantam Spectra 0-553-29903-4, Nov 96 [Oct 96], $5.99, 660pp, pb, cover by Stephen Youll) [Exiles Saga] Reprint (Bantam Spectra; Millennium 1996) fantasy novel. Part one of the Exiles Saga.
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The Invisible Man H. G. Wells (Oxford University Press 0-19-283195-X, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $6.95, 160pp, tp) Reprint (Pearson 1897) classic SF novel, with a biographical preface, chronology, and select bibliography by Patrick Parrinder, and an introduction by John Sutherland. The text for this edition is primarily taken from the 1924 Atlantic edition; notes on the variant texts by editor David Lake are included. Part of the Oxford Worlds Classics series.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells (Penguin/Signet 0-451-19189-7, Aug 96 [Sep 96], $5.99, 218pp, pb) Reprint (Heinemann 1896) classic SF novel. This follows the 1988 Signet Classic edition. Movie tie-in edition.
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The Island of Dr. Moreau H. G. Wells (Tor 0-812-56707-2, Oct 96 [Sep 96], $2.99, 146pp, pb) Reprint (Heinemann 1896) classic SF novel. This is an unofficial movie tie-in edition.
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The Time Machine/The Island of Doctor Moreau H. G. Wells (Oxford University Press 0-19-282825-8, Apr 96 [Mar 96], $7.95, 229pp, tp) Omnibus of two classic SF novels, The Time Machine (Heinemann 1895) and The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann 1896), with a new biographical preface, chronology, and select bibliography by Patrick Parrinder. For The Time Machine (Heinemann 1895) the text primarily follows the Atlantic 1924 editions; notes on the variant texts are included. Part of the Oxford Worlds Classics series.
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City of Bones Martha Wells (Tor 0-812-56708-0, Jun 96 [May 96], $6.99, 442pp, pb, cover by Richard Bober) Reprint (Tor 1995) Arabian Nights/post-holocaust fantasy novel.
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The Tenant Charles West (Write Way 1-885173-12-1, 1996 [Sep 96], $21.95, 284pp, hc) SF medical thriller with echoes of Shelleys Frankenstein. A mans brain is transplanted into the body of a disfigured sociopath. A first novel. Order from Write Way Publishing, 3806 S Fraser, Aurora CO 80014.
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Hunters Death Michelle West (DAW 0-88677-706-2, Jun 96 [May 96], $6.99, 670pp, pb, cover by Jody Lee) [Hunters Oath] Fantasy novel, sequel to Hunters Oath. The battle against darkness is fought in a highly civilized city. West is a pen name for Michelle Sagara.
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Sporting with Amaryllis Paul West (Overlook Press 0-87951-666-6, Nov 96 [Dec 96], $19.95, 158pp, hc, cover by Michael Hornburg) Literary fantasy. Young John Milton encounters living myth in London, a woman who teaches him about sex and poetry.
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Christmas Spirit Robert Westall (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 0-374-41125-5, Oct 96, $4.95, 150pp, pb, cover by John Lawrence) Reprint (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994) omnibus of two young-adult Christmas stories, one a ghost story.
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Cosmic Engineers: A Study of Hard Science Fiction Gary Westfahl (Greenwood Press 0-313-29727-4, Feb 96, $49.95, 148pp, hc) Non-fiction, critical study of the roots and development of hard SF, with close examination of A Fall of Moondust by Arthur C. Clarke, Mission of Gravity by Hal Clement, and Between the Strokes of Night by Charles Sheffield. Order from Greenwood Press, 88 Post Road West, Box 5007, Westport CT 06881; credit card orders: 800-225-5800.
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Smoke Donald E. Westlake (Warner/Mysterious Press 0-446-40344-X, Oct 96 [Sep 96], $6.50, 439pp, pb, cover by Jeff Fitz Maurice) Reprint (Mysterious Press 1995) humorous SF mystery. A burglar breaks into a lab and ends up invisible.
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The Ghost Feeler Edith Wharton (Dufour/Peter Owen 0-7206-0996-8, Nov 96 [Aug 96], $28.95, 188pp, hc) Collection of nine Stories of Terror and the Supernatural, edited and with a critical and biographical introduction by Peter Haining. This is the Peter Owen UK 1996 edition with Dufour stickers. Order from Dufour Editions, Chester Springs PA 19425-0007; 1-610-458-5005.
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The Satanist Dennis Wheatley (Reed Trade Books/Mandarin 0-7493-2272-1, Oct 95 [May 96], $6.99, 512pp, pb) Reprint (Hutchinson 1960) occult thriller. This has an American cover, but is internally the same as the 1995 Mandarin UK reprint. Available from Reed Trade Books, 225 Wildwood Ave, Woburn MA 01801; orders: 1-800-366-2665, fax 1-800-446-6520.
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