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Who Was That Blonde I Saw You Kill Last Night? Fredric Brown (Dennis McMillan, Mar ’88 [Apr ’88], $30.00, 216pp, hc); Associational. Collection of mystery and western stories, plus at least one sf tale. Introduction by Alan E. Nourse. Limited to 300 copies. Part of the excellent series reprinting the uncollected pulp fiction of an early master. Recommended. (CNB)

The Best of John Brunner John Brunner (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-35307-2, Nov ’88 [Oct ’88], $3.95, 288pp, pb); Collection of 17 short stories, with introductions by Joe Haldeman.

L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future, Vol. IV ed. Algis Budrys (Bridge 0-88404-314-2, Jun ’88 [May ’88], $4.95, 425pp, pb); Original anthology with 16 stories by new writers, plus essays by Budrys and others.

A Wish at the Baby’s Grave Angela Bull (Hippo 0-590-85860-2, Dec ’88, £1.95, 94pp, pb); Young-adult ghost novella. Volume 5 in the “Hauntings” series.

About the Body Christopher Burns (Secker & Warburg 0-436-09784-2, Aug ’88, £10.95, 193pp, hc); Literary sf collection.

Warning Whispers A. M. Burrage (Equation 1-85336-083-X, Oct ’88, £3.50, 187pp, tp); Outstanding collection of rare, and generally uncollected, ghost stories, edited and introduced by Jack Adrian.

Tarzan of the Apes: Four Volumes in One Edgar Rice Burroughs (Crown/Avenel 0-517-65957-3, Jul ’88, $9.98, 848pp, hc) [Tarzan]; Omnibus of Tarzan of the Apes, The Son of Tarzan, Tarzan at the Earth’s Core, and Tarzan Triumphant. The first volume has new illustrations by Esteban Maroto; the others have the original drawings by St. John and others. There is a new introduction by Stefan Dziemianowicz.

Under the Jaguar Sun Italo Calvino (HBJ Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 0-15-192820-7, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $12.95, 86pp, hc); Collection of three literary stories with strange and fantastic elements. First published in Italian in 1986.

Fine Frights: Stories that Scared Me ed. Ramsey Campbell (Tor 0-812-51670-2, Aug ’88 [Jul ’88], $3.95, 309pp, pb); Anthology of 12 horror stories.

The Corpse Maker Hugh B. Cave (Starmont 1-55742-016-5, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $9.95, 156pp, tp); Collection of early pulp stories, edited by Sheldon R. Jaffery.

Dance Band on the Titanic Jack L. Chalker (Ballantine Del Rey 0-345-34858-3, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $3.95, 339pp, pb); Collection of 8 stories plus an introduction, afterword, Chalker bibliography, and biographical notes.

A Haunt of Ghosts ed. Aidan Chambers (Harper & Row 0-06-021206-3, Nov ’87 [Jan ’88], $12.95, 177pp, hc); Young-adult anthology of ghost stories, five by Chambers, five by other authors, compiled from previous Chambers collections and anthologies. Dated 1987 — not seen until 1988.

Merovingen Nights #3: Troubled Waters ed. C. J. Cherryh (DAW 0-88677-271-0, May ’88 [Apr ’88], $3.50, 302pp, pb) [Merovingen Nights]; Original shared world anthology; aside from the numbered pages, there are several maps.

Merovingen Nights #4: Smuggler’s Gold ed. C. J. Cherryh (DAW 0-88677-299-0, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $3.50, 290pp, pb) [Merovingen Nights]; Shared world original anthology of 7 stories plus connective passages by Cherryh.

The Other Side R. Chetwynd-Hayes (Tor 0-812-51628-1, Sep ’88 [Aug ’88], $3.95, 273pp, pb); Collection of 4 stories set in a haunted house. The stories are set in 1850, 1969, 1980, and 2000! More ghost story than horror, despite the packaging. First American edition (Kimber 1972).

Tales of the Hidden World R. Chetwynd-Hayes (Kimber 0-7183-0673-2, Jul ’88, £9.50, 206pp, hc) [Clavering Grange]; Original ghost collection. Volume 6 in the “Tales of Clavering Grange” series.

Tales of the Dark #3 ed. Lincoln Child (St. Martin’s 0-312-90539-4, Feb ’88, $3.50, 179pp, pb); Anthology of 9 horror stories.

Mystique: Tales of Wonder ed. Mike Chinn (The British Fantasy Society, Jan ’88 [Apr ’88], £1.00, 34pp, ph); Original anthology of horror stories “in the style” of the old horror pulps. Volume 13 in the “BFS Booklet” series.

Loose Connections Sybil Claiborne (Academy Chicago 0-89733-301-2, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $16.95, 171pp, hc); Collection of 16 literary stories with elements of sf, fantasy, and the surreal.

A Meeting with Medusa/Green Mars ed. Anon. (Tor 0-812-53362-3, Oct ’88 [Sep ’88], $2.95, 67 + 103pp, pb); Anthology of two novellas, published back-to-back in Ace Double fashion. Unlike the Ace books, the price is only on one side and the OCR characters on the other.

Gruesome John Frederick: A Tale of Christmas Jack Clemons (Aegina 0-916383-30-X, 1988 [Oct ’88], $6.00, 73pp, tp); Young-adult fantasy Christmas tale about a boy who is kidnapped by a dwarf by accident.

Interzone: The 3rd Anthology ed. John Clute, David Pringle & Simon Ounsley (Simon & Schuster UK 0-671-69944-X, Sep ’88 [Oct ’88], £10.95, 181pp, hc); Anthology of 14 more stories from the UK’s only professional sf magazine.

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