The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000
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Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing Stephen King (Book-of-the-Month Club 0-965-00643-9, 2000, no price, xxvi+431pp, hc, cover by Tony Vevers); Collection of King fiction and non-fiction, some previously uncollected.
- vii · Introduction · Peter Straub · in
- 1 · Jumper · ss Daves Rag, 1959
- 6 · Rush Call · ss Daves Rag, 1959
- 11 · The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears: A True Story · ar Writers Digest Nov 73
- 23 · Foreword to Night Shift · fw Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1996
- 39 · On Becoming a Brand Name · ar Adelina Feb 80
- 71 · Horror Fiction [from Danse Macabre] · ex Everest House, 1981
- 231 · An Evening at the Billerica [Massachusetts] Library · ar Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King, ed. Tim Underwood & Chuck Miller, Underwood-Miller, 1988
- 261 · The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet · na F&SF Jun 84
- 321 · How It Happened · ar Book-of-the-Month Club News Oct 86
- 325 · Banned Books and Other Concerns: The Virginia Beach Lecture · ar; lecture at Virginia Beach Public Library, 22-Sep-86
- 331 · Turning the Thumbscrews on the Reader · ar Book-of-the-Month Club News Jun 87
- 333 · Ever Et Raw Meat? and Other Weird Questions · ar New York Times Book Review Dec 6 87
- 339 · A New Introduction to John Fowless The Collector · in, 1989
- 353 · What Stephen King Does for Love · ar Seventeen Apr 90
- 361 · Two Past Midnight: A Note on Secret Window, Secret Garden · is New York: Viking, 1990
- 365 · Introduction to Jack Ketchums The Girl Next Door · in, 1995
- 373 · Great Hookers I Have Known · ar *
- 381 · A Night at the Royal Festival Hall · Muriel Gray · iv * [Stephen King]
- 387 · An Evening with Stephen King · ar *
- 403 · In the Deathroom · nv *; previously available only on the audio recording Blood and Smoke, 1999
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Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Eraserhead Press, 2000, $2.25, 20pp, ph)
- · Introduction · W. Gregory Stewart · in
- · Let Them Go · pm
- · A Winters Night · pm
- · Billy Never Noticed · pm
- · Valley of Years · pm *
- · Sky Whales · pm Dreams & Nightmares #41 93
- · Inside the Cloud · pm
- · The Fine Art of Recursion · pm
- · Shy Moon · pm *
- · Anniversary · pm
- · Some of the Windows of My House · pm Midnight Zoo calendar, 1993
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The 2000 Rhysling Anthology ed. David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Science Fiction Poetry Assiciation, Apr 2000, no price, 56pp, ph); Anthology of 23 poems. Subtitled The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Poetry of 1999, this serves as the ballot for the SFPAs Rhysling Awards. For information write M.B. Simon, SFPA President, 1412 NE 35th St, Ocala FL 34479.
- 4 · The Rhysling Awards · Misc. Material · in; adapted from Star*Line, 12/5-6, 1989.
- 5 · Voting Procedures · Misc. Material · ms
- 5 · Words from the Rhysling Chair · Deborah Shepard · pr
- · Short Poems first published in 1999
- 8 · umbilicle · Michael A. Arnzen · pm Frisson #14 99
- 9 · Silicon Trade Agreement · Ruth Berman · pm Tales of the Unanticipated #20 99
- 10 · Another Short Horror Story · Bruce Boston · pm Asimovs Oct/Nov 99
- 11 · What If the Aliens Have Come? · Bruce Boston · pm Handshake #38 99
- 12 · The Unfinished Map of the Sky · G. O. Clark · pm Fantasque #2 99
- 13 · Clark the Ripper · David C. Kopaska-Merkel · pm Dreams & Nightmares #53 99
- 14 · A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant · David Lunde · pm Asimovs May 99
- 15 · Grimoire · Rebecca Marjesdatter · pm Tales of the Unanticipated #20 99
- 16 · The Language of Rain · Wendy Rathbone · pm Dreams & Nightmares #54 99
- 17 · Badges of Eithers Woe · Michelle Scalise & Tom Piccirilli · pm Edgar: Digested Verse v4 99
- 18 · The Au Pair from Out There · Ann K. Schwader · pm Star*Line v22 #5 99
- 19 · song of a last duckbill · W. Gregory Stewart · pm Star*Line v22 #2 99
- 20 · Brigit · Peggy J. Taylor · pm Calyx Sum 99
- 22 · When an Alien Is Inhabiting Your Body · Laurel Winter · pm Asimovs Oct/Nov 99
- · Long Poems first published in 1999
- 24 · Renounce the Emerald Piety · Lee Ballentine · pm Talisman #19 99
- 28 · Salem Town · Corrine De Winter · pm Gathering Darkness Oct 99
- 30 · Impressions from Gigers Necronomicons · Charlee Jacob · pm Dreams & Nightmares #53 99
- 36 · The Whole Behold · Charlee Jacob · pm Star*Line v22 #4 99
- 38 · Christmas (after we all get time machines) · Geoffrey A. Landis · pm Asimovs Dec 99
- 41 · Handwork · Rebecca Marjesdatter · pm Women of Other Worlds, ed. Helen Merrick & Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press, 1999
- 44 · The VR Screen · Carol D. Page · pm Star*Line v22 #2 99
- 47 · Safeguard · Scott Urban · pm Skull Job, Hatchet Job Press, 1999
- 50 · Ode to My Screen Saver · Ian Watson · pm Weird Tales Spr 99
- 53 · The Rhysling Winners · Misc. Material · ms
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Dark Matters Terry Lamsley (Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-002-6, Mar 2000, C$56.00, xi+245pp, hc, cover by Douglas Walters); Collection of ghost and horror stories, by the World Fantasy Award winning writer. Evening with Harrod is new to this book. This is a limited edition of 600 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $41.50 and in the UK for £26.00.
- ix · Introduction · in (*), 2000
- 3 · Back in the Dunes · nv Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1996
- 25 · The Power of the Primitive · ss Cemetery Dance Spr 97
- 36 · The Lost Boy Found · nv Dark Terrors 3, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1997
- 68 · The Walls · ss Ghosts & Scholars #22 96
- 83 · Suburban Blight · nv Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1998
- 116 · An Evening with Harrod · nv *
- 147 · The Stunted House · ss Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press, 1999
- 159 · The Snug · ss Midnight Never Comes, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 1997
- 179 · Climbing Down from Heaven · nv *
- 208 · Volunteers · ss The Mammoth Book of Dracula, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997
- 223 · Getting a Life · nv White of the Moon, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999
- 245 · Sources · Misc. Material · bi (*), 2000
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After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror ed. Jeremy Lassen (Night Shade Books 0-9700097-0-4, 2000, $21.00, 221pp, hc); Original horror/magic realism anthology with all stories set in California.
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Midnight Man Stephen Laws (Silver Salamander Press, 2000, $35.00, 263pp, hc, cover by Fredrik King); Horror collection. Limited to 300 signed copies. Also available in a signed and numbered leatherbound edition of 50 copies for $65.00, and in a trade paperback edition of 500 copies for $15.00.
- · He Who Laughs · nv Dark Voices 3, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1991
- · Black Cab · ss Dark Asylum #1 95
- · Man Beast · ss Peeping Tom #17 95
- · The Song My Sister Sang · ss Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden, ed. Steve Savile, Tanjen, 1998
- · Yesterday I Flew with the Birds · vi Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction #1 95
- · The Fractured Man · ss Cold Cuts III, ed. Paul Lewis & Steve Lockley, Wales: Alun Books, 1995
- · The Crawl · nv Dark of the Night, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1997
- · Deep Blue · ss Kimota #1 94
- · Guilty Party · ss Fear! Sep/Oct 88
- · Gordys A-Okay · ss Dark Horizons #32 91
- · The Secret · ss British Fantasy Convention Souvenir Programme, 1989
- · Pot Luck · ss Voyages into Darkness, ed. Anon., Bump in the Night Books, 1993
- · Junk · nv Scare Care, ed. Graham Masterton, Tor, 1989
- · Bleeding Dry · nv Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK, 1992
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Dreams of a Diseased Mind Steve Lines (BJM Press, 2000, £3.50, 68pp, tp); Collection of 25 Cthulhu Mythos sonnets by the fictional poet Haydon Atwood Prescott. Details taken from Steve Lines website (which also includes the text of the poems). [Not seen]
- · The Gathering · pm *
- · The Comptonbury Horror · pm *
- · The Ghoul · pm *
- · The Feaster in the Tomb · pm *
- · Monolith · pm *
- · The Severnford Seals · pm *
- · Black Flame · pm *
- · The Mad Poet · pm *
- · Beyond · pm *
- · Strange Aeons · pm *
- · The Tindlosi Hounds · pm *
- · The Black Pharaoh · pm *
- · Nctosa and Nctolhu · pm *
- · Down to a Sunless Sea · pm Imelod #15 99
- · The Black Stone · pm *
- · Pickmans Painting · pm *
- · Innsmouth Jewellery · pm *
- · The Delirium of Nish · pm *
- · Flower Woman · pm *
- · Dreamhound · pm *
- · The Nightmares of Nebb · pm *
- · Shulnar Thak · pm *
- · The Silent Sea · pm *
- · Rlyeh Rising · pm *
- · When They Return · pm *
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Naughty Kids ed. Angela D. Manning (Italy: ELI 88-8148-468-4, 2000, 116pp, tp); Textbook anthology of four stories.
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index (1890-1999) Stephen T. Miller & William G. Contento (Locus Press, Apr 2000, $49.95, 2,752pp, CD-ROM); Non-fiction, reference. An index to magazines published from 1890 through 1999. Includes listings by author, title, cover artist, and issue.
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Technology in American Literature ed. Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan (University Press of America 0-7618-1709-3, 2000, hc)
- vii · Preface · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · pr
- · Chapter One -- The 1880s to the 1920s
- 1 · Introduction · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · si
- 4 · from The Great Stone of Sardis · Frank Stockton · ex Harpers Monthly Jun-Nov, 1897
- 9 · from Through the Earth · Clement Fezandié · ex The Century Company, 1898; first published in shorter form: S. Nicholas Magazine, Jan-Apr 1898.
- 18 · from The Causes of American Nervousness · George M. Beard · ex
- 25 · from Edisons Conquest of Mars · Garrett Serviss · ex New York Evening Journal Jan 12-Feb 11, 1898
- 45 · from Looking Backward and Equality · Edward Bellamy · ex
- 57 · from Colonel Sellers as a Scientist · Mark Twain & William Dean Howells · ex
- 85 · Mannahatta · Walt Whitman · pm
- 87 · As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days · Walt Whitman · pm
- 88 · Orange Buds by Mail from Florida · Walt Whitman · pm
- 89 · Years of the Modern · Walt Whitman · pm
- 91 · In the Sleeper · Walt Whitman · pm
- 92 · from The Octopus · Frank Norris · ex
- 98 · Factory Windows Are Always Broken · Vachel Lindsay · pm
- 99 · In the Station of the Metro · Ezra Pound · pm
- 100 · from The Man Who Ended War · Hollis Godfrey · ex
- 113 · The Dynamo and the Virgin · Henry Adams · ss
- · Chapter Two -- The 1920s to the 1960s
- 123 · Introduction · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · si
- 125 · Progress · E. B. White · ss
- 127 · Lift Up Thine Eyes · Sherwood Anderson · ar The Nation May 28 30
- 133 · Mr. Murphy of New York · Thomas McMorrow · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 22 30
- 148 · from Maza of the Moon · Otis Adelbert Kline · ex Argosy Dec 21 29 (+3)
- 152 · The Sunless Sea · Rachel Carson · ss
- 166 · pity this busy monster, manunkind · e. e. cummings · pm, 1944
- 167 · from The Illustrated Man · Ray Bradbury · ex The Illustrated Man, Doubleday, 1951
- 180 · Merritt Parkway · Denise Levertov · pm
- 182 · from Chicago Poem · Lew Welch · ex
- 184 · from Visit to a Small Planet · Gore Vidal · ex, 1956
- · Chapter Three -- The 1960s to 2000
- 205 · Introduction · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · si
- 208 · Beer Can · John Updike · pm
- 209 · The Mouth of the Hudson · Robert Lowell · pm
- 211 · Eco-Catastrophe! · Paul Ehrlich · ss Ramparts Sep 69
- 222 · The Filling Station · Elizabeth Bishop · ss
- 224 · from I, Robot · Isaac Asimov · ex Gnome Press, 1950
- 249 · Resisting Big Brother · Samuel Florman · ar
- 254 · from He, She and It · Marge Piercy · ex New York: Knopf, 1991
- 262 · Interstellar Tract · Bruce Boston · pm Nuclear Futures, Velocities Chapbook Series, 1987
- 265 · Anatomical Transparencies · Robert Frazier · pm Poly: New Speculative Writing, ed. Lee Ballentine, Ocean View Books, 1989
- 267 · Looking Back at Apollo · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm Poly: New Speculative Writing, ed. Lee Ballentine, Ocean View Books, 1989
- 269 · My Mother and the Wheel of Fire · Al Zolynas · pm Poly: New Speculative Writing, ed. Lee Ballentine, Ocean View Books, 1989
- 272 · A Clean Escape · John Kessel · ss IASFM May 85
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The Monster Maker and Other Stories W. C. Morrow (Seattle: Midnight House, 2000, $40.00, hc, cover by Allen Koszowski); Complete supernatural stories of this lesser known contemporary of Ambrose Bierce, edited with an introduction by S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz.
- · Introduction · S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemianowicz · in
- · The Monster-Maker [The Surgeons Experiment] · ss The Argonaut Oct 15, 1887
- · The Haunted Automaton · ss
- · The Resurrection of Little Wang Tai · ss
- · The Wrong Door · ss The San Francisco Argonaut
- · The Permanent Stiletto [A Peculiar Case of Surgery] · ss The Argonaut Feb 4, 1889
- · Over an Absinthe Bottle [The Pale Dice-Thrower] · ss The Argonaut Jan 2, 1893
- · The Red Strangler · ss
- · A Glimpse of the Unusual · ss
- · The Gloomy Shadow · ss
- · A Night with Death · ss
- · A Story Told By the Sea [A Cry For Help] · ss The Argonaut May 10, 1890
- · His Unconquerable Enemy [The Rajahs Nemesis] · ss The Argonaut Mar 11, 1889
- · Two Singular Men · ss
- · The Removal Company · ss
- · The Haunted Burglar · ss Lippincotts Jul, 1897
- · A Mystery of South Park · ss
- · The Faithful Amulet · ss
- · The Woman of the Inner Room · ss The San Francisco Argonaut
- · An Original Revenge · ss The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1897
- · In a Dark Room · ss
- · The Unfaithful Clock · ss
- · Some Queer Experiences · ss
- · Bibliography · S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemianowicz · bi
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In the Dark E. Nesbit (Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-005-0, Jun 2000, C$56.00, xv+223pp, hc, cover by Richard Lamb); Collection of ghost and horror fiction, edited by Hugh Lamb, adding a further seven stories to the previous collection of the same title (Equation Chillers, 1988). This is a limited edition of 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $41.50 and in the UK for £26.00.
- ix · Introduction · Hugh Lamb · in (*), 2000
- 3 · Man-Size in Marble [1886] · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 15 · Uncle Abrahams Romance · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 18 · From the Dead · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 30 · The Haunted Inheritance · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 17 00
- 44 · The Three Drugs [The Third Drug] · ss The Strand Feb 08
- 60 · The Letter in Brown Ink · ss The Windsor Magazine Aug, 1899
- 66 · The Violet Car · ss Fear, London: S. Paul, 1910
- 78 · John Charringtons Wedding · ss Temple Bar Sep, 1891
- 85 · No. 17 · ss The Strand Jun 10
- 92 · The Pavilion · ss The Strand Nov 15
- 106 · The House of Silence · ss The Windsor Magazine Mar 06
- 115 · The Mystery of the Semi-Detached · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 118 · In the Dark · ss Fear, London: S. Paul, 1910
- 128 · The Head · ss The Strand May 07
- 142 · The Ebony Frame · ss Longmans Oct, 1891
- 152 · Hurst of Hurstcote · ss Temple Bar Jun, 1893
- 162 · The Five Senses · ss The London Magazine Dec 09
- 177 · The Haunted House [as by E. Bland] · ss The Strand Dec 13
- 188 · The Shadow [The Portent of the Shadow] · ss Black and White Dec 23 05
- 197 · The Detective · ss The Christmas Spirit, ed. Anon., Toc. H Society, 1920
- 208 · The Power of Darkness · ss The Strand Apr 05
- 221 · Acknowledgements · Misc. Material · ms (*), 2000
- 222 · Bibliography · Anon. · bi (*), 2000
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Nemeton / A Fables Anthology ed. Megan Powell (Silver Lake Publishing, Oct 2000, vi+211pp, tp, cover by Megan Powell)
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The Song of the Book Christopher Priest (Birmingham Science Fiction Group, Nov 2000, no price, 17pp, ph, cover by David A. Hardy); Original short article, with foreword and afterword by Rog Peyton, issued in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, to coincide with Priests Guest of Honour appearance at Novacon 30.
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The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales Arthur Quiller-Couch (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-90-7, Feb 2000, C$58.00, xiii+263pp, hc, cover by Paul Lowe); Collection of the finest of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couchs weird tales, edited by S.T. Joshi. This is a limited edition of 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $42.50 and in the UK for £26.50.
- ix · Introduction · S. T. Joshi · in (*), 2000
- 3 · Psyche · ss The Speaker Oct 18, 1890
- 7 · Doubles and Quits [as by Q] · ss Noughts and Crosses, Cassell, 1891
- 10 · Old Aeson · ss The Speaker Oct 25, 1890
- 14 · A Dark Mirror · ss The Speaker Mar 29, 1890
- 17 · The Magic Shadow · ss The Speaker Jan 3, 1891
- 21 · The Haunted Dragoon [as by Q] · ss I Saw Three Ships and Other Winters Tales, Cassell, 1892
- 30 · A Blue Pantomime [The Haunted Glass] · ss The Speaker Nov 7, 1891 (+2)
- 42 · The Roll-Call of the Reef [as by Q] · ss The Idler Jun, 1895
- 54 · My Grandfather, Hendry Watty · ss The Speaker Dec 2, 1892
- 59 · Widdershins · ss The Speaker Sep 28, 1895
- 64 · The Legend of Sir Dinar · ss The Speaker Dec 19, 1891
- 68 · Oceanus · ss The Speaker Feb 13, 1897 (+1)
- 77 · The Seventh Man · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, Scribners, 1900
- 87 · The Room of Mirrors · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, Scribners, 1900
- 100 · A Pair of Hands · ss The Cornish Magazine Dec, 1898
- 110 · The Lady of the Ship · ss Cosmopolitan Jan 00
- 131 · The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem · ss The Cornish Magazine Jul, 1898
- 146 · The Lairds Luck · nv The Lairds Luck, London, 1901
- 174 · Phoebus on Halzaphron · ss Scribners Aug 01
- 186 · The Haunted Yacht [as by Q] · ss The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, Methuen, 1902
- 200 · John and the Ghosts [as by Q] · ss The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, Methuen, 1902
- 206 · The Talking Ships [as by Q] · ss The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, Methuen, 1902
- 213 · The Horror on the Stair · ss Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales, Arrowsmith, 1903
- 226 · The Bend of the Road [as by Q] · ss The Illustrated London News Nov 27 05
- 243 · Mutual Exchange, Limited [as by Q] · ss Corporal Sam and Other Stories, Smith Elder, 1910
- 254 · Not Here, O Apollo! · ss News from the Duchy, Arrowsmith, 1913
- 262 · Bibliography · Anon. · bi (*), 2000
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