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Last Rites Robert Bloch (Underwood-Miller 0-88733-055-X (Vol.3), Mar ’88, $80.00 set, 398pp, hc); The Selected Stories of Robert Bloch, Vol. III

The Book of Fantasy ed. Jorge Luís Borges, Adolfo Bioy Casares & Silvina Ocampo (Viking 0-670-82393-7, Jan ’89 [Dec ’88], $19.95, 384pp, hc); Fantasy anthology of 81 stories, story fragments, and anecdotes. This is its first English-language appearance (though many of the stories were written in English) and contains the contents of the second revised edition (Argentina 1976) plus a new introduction by Ursula K. Le Guin.

The Nightmare Collector Bruce Boston (2AM 0-937491-00-4, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $4.95, 34pp, ph); Collection of poetry, illustrated by Gregorio Montejo.

Skin Trades Bruce Boston (Chris Drumm 0-936055-39-1, Oct ’88 [Nov ’88], $3.50, 62pp, ph); Chapbook collection of 10 very short stories. Drumm Booklet #31.

Time [Titan Press Magazine #5] Bruce Boston (Titan, Apr ’88 [Sep ’88], $2.00, 20pp, ph); Collection of poems.

Catch and Other Stories Stephen Bowkett (Gollancz 0-575-04399-7, Oct ’88 [Dec ’88], £8.95, 123pp, hc); Young-adult collection of original sf and horror stories.

Spellbinder Stephen Bowkett (Piper 0-330-29682-5, Jan ’88, £1.75, 90pp, pb); Reprint (Gollancz 1985) young-adult occult novella.

The Toynbee Convector Ray Bradbury (Knopf 0-394-54703-9, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $17.95, 275pp, hc); Collection of 23 stories, sf, fantasy, horror, and mainstream. The sf is weak, but a number of these works are excellent. (FCM)

The Secret Life of Houses Scott Bradfield (Unwin Hyman 0-04-440241-4, Nov ’88 [Dec ’88], £11.95, 166pp, hc); Collection.

The Best of Marion Zimmer Bradley Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW 0-88677-268-0, Apr ’88 [Mar ’88], $3.95, 397pp, pb); Reprint (Academy Chicago 1985) collection of 15 stories, edited by Martin H. Greenberg. Omits story “The Jewel of Arwen”.

Four Moons of Darkover Marion Zimmer Bradley & The Friends of Darkover (DAW 0-88677-305-9, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $3.95, 284pp, pb) [Darkover]; Original anthology of 17 stories set on Darkover, including several by Marion Zimmer Bradley.

Sword and Sorceress V ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley (DAW 0-88677-288-5, Aug ’88, $3.95, 284pp, pb); Original anthology of 22 fantasy stories featuring women.

Down the Long Wind Gillian Bradshaw (Methuen 0-413-17610-X, Feb ’88, £4.50, 842pp, pb) [Down the Long Wind]; Omnibus of her Arthurian trilogy.

Nightmare in Darkness Fredric Brown (Dennis McMillan, Nov ’87, $30.00, 179pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello); Associational; collection of mysteries and one fantasy story, plus the unpublished fantasy ending to The Screaming Mimi. Dated 1987, but not seen until 1988. Volume 11 in the “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps” series.

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