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The Dragon Ray Bradbury (Footsteps Press, 1988, hc); Reprint short story. Published in a signed limited edition of 300 numbered copies plus 52 lettered copies.

Selling Death Short Fredric Brown (McMillan, Dennis, Nov ’88 [Dec ’91], $35.00, 189pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello); Collection of mystery stories. This edition is limited to 450 numbered copies, signed by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. Volume 14 in the “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps” series.

Three-Corpse Parlay Fredric Brown (McMillan, Dennis, Sep ’88 [Dec ’91], $35.00, 185pp, hc, cover by Joe Servello); Collection of mystery stories. This edition is limited to 450 numbered copies, signed by Max Allan Collins. Volume 13 in the “Fredric Brown in the Detective Pulps” series.

Would Could Should ed. Fraser Derrickson (A.S.F.A.E. Society, 1988, 55pp, ph); Pamphlet containing nine stories by members of The American Science Fiction Authors and Editors Society.

Lord John Ten ed. Dennis Etchison (Lord John Press 0-935716-43-2, 1988, $25.00, 240pp, hc); Associational original anthology of 35 stories, poems, articles, and other items.

Trivial Tales Garry Kilworth (Birmingham Science Fiction Group, Nov ’88 [Apr ’89], £4.95, 16pp, ph); Collection of three original short stories issued in a limited edition of 500 numbered copies, to coincide with Kilworth’s Guest of Honour appearance at Novacon 18.

My Pretty Pony Stephen King (Library Fellows of the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1988, $2200.00, unpaginated, hc); Short story by Stephen King accompanying a set of lithographs and full-color graphics in a deluxe limited edition of 250 copies.

Synchronicity, or Something Brian Lumley (Dagon Press No ISBN, Jun ’88, 48pp, ph); Humourous Cthulhu novelette. Signed edition, limited to 350 copies.

The Collected Arthur Machen Arthur Machen (Duckworth 0-7156-2120-3, Aug ’88, £19.95, 376pp, hc); Ghost/occult collection. Edited by Christopher Palmer. [Not seen]

Dixie Ghosts ed. Frank D. McSherry, Jr., Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg (Rutledge Hill 0-934395-73-X, 1988, $8.95, 220pp, tp); Anthology of 17 ghost stories from the American South, by authors including Madeleine L’Engle, Manly Wade Wellman, Jack Chalker, and Ambrose Bierce.

Doc Savage Omnibus # 5 Kenneth Robeson (Bantam, 1988, 407pp, pb) [Doc Savage]; Collection of five stories from the magazines.

The Ghost Garden Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Dark Dreams, Dec ’88 [1988], £1.75, 28pp, ph); Ghost/fantasy poetry collection, illustrated throughout by Jules Faye. Limited to 100 copies. [Not seen]

Best of Sfinx (1969-’84) ed. Neal Tringham (Oxford University Speculative Fiction Group, 1988); Anthology of stories published in Sfinx.

Shine [“The Green Book”] Jill Paton Walsh (Macdonald 0-356-13463-6, Feb ’88, £1.95, 96pp, pb); Reprint (Macmillan 1981, as The Green Book) young adult sf novella. Also available in hc (-13462-8) for £5.95.

Science Fiction: The Science Fiction Research Association Anthology ed. Patricia S. Warrick, Charles G. Waugh & Martin H. Greenberg (Harper & Row 0-06-046941-2, 1988, $16.50, 522pp, tp, cover by Maria Carella); Anthology of 26 stories.

14 Vicious Valentines ed. Rosalind M. & Martin H. Greenberg & Charles G. Waugh (Avon 0-380-75353-7, Feb ’88 [Jan ’88], $3.50, 192pp, pb); Original anthology of horror, fantasy, and mystery stories.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Book of Horror Stories: Book 7 ed. Eleanor Sullivan (London: Coronet 0-340-41897-4, Jan ’88, £1.95, 157pp, pb); Reprint (Davis 1981, as second half of Tales to Make Your Hair Stand on End) horror collection.

Alfred Hitchcock’s Book of Horror Stories: Book 8 ed. Eleanor Sullivan (London: Coronet 0-340-42647-0, Jul ’88, £2.95, 223pp, pb); Reprint (Davis 1976, as first half of Tales to Keep You Spellbound) thriller/horror anthology.

Ripper! ed. Gardner R. Dozois & Susan Casper (Tor 0-812-51700-8, Sep ’88, $3.95, 427pp, pb); Mostly original anthology of stories about Jack the Ripper, with reprints of the Bloch and Ellison classics, plus original stories by Lucius Shepard, John M. Ford, S.P. Somtow, Gene Wolfe, Lewis Shiner, and others. The simultaneous UK (Futura) edition is titled Jack the Ripper.

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