The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2003

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Meanderings of the Emily Chesley Reading Circle: Volume One Mark A. Rayner, John Sloan, David B. Lurie & Malcolm Ruddock (London, Ontario, Canada: Dancing Men Press 1-4120-0493-4, 2003, C$16.95, 100pp, tp); Collection “by” and about Emily Chesley, “a long overlooked Canadian speculative fiction writer of the Victorian period”.

The Idol of the Flies and Other Stories Jane Rice (Midnight House 0-9740589-X, 2003, $40.00, 372pp, hc); Horror collection. Limited to 510 numbered copies.

The Relations and What They Related and Other Weird Tales G. M. Robins (Sarob Press 1-902309-29-4, 2003, £25.00, xii+173pp, hc); Revised and expanded edition of The Relations and What They Related, which first appeared as a ten-part series in The Lady’s Realm from February to November 1902. Limited to 225 copies. [Not seen]

"King of the Pulps": The Life & Writings of H. Bedford-Jones Peter Ruber, Darrell C. Richardson & Victor A. Berch (The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box 1-55246-464-4, Jan 2003, no price, 316pp, tp) [H. Bedford-Jones]

Deep Museum: Ghost Stories of a Melancholic Jessica Amanda Salmonson (Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-059-X, Dec 2003, C$60.00, xvii+267pp, hc, cover by Paul Lowe); World Fantasy Award-winning writer and editor Jessica Amanda Salmonson has collected together the majority of her ghostly tales and poems for this long-awaited volume. Limited to 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $47.50 and in the UK for £29.00.

Black Altars Mark Samuels (Rainfall Books 0-9540877-8-X, 2003, no price, 85pp, tp); Original horror collection.

The White Hands and Other Weird Tales Mark Samuels (Tartarus Press 1-872621-72-4, Jan 2003, £25.00, 193pp, hc); Collection of strange stories from a contemporary writer born in London in 1967. Limited to 350 copies. [Not seen]

Complications and Other Stories Brian Stableford (Cosmos Books 1-58715-412-9, Sep 2003, $15.00, 171pp, tp, cover by J. T. Lindroos); SF collection. A hardcover edition (-411-0) was announced but not seen.

Hadrosaur Tales Volume XVI ed. David Lee Summers (Hadrosaur Productions 1-885093-29-2, Jun 2003, $5.95, 120pp+, tp, cover by Tom Weighill)

Hadrosaur Tales Volume XVII ed. David Lee Summers (Hadrosaur Productions 1-885093-30-6, Nov 2003, $5.95, 10+108pp+, tp, cover by Marcia A. Borell)

Szumskyj, Ben!ed. Robert E. Howard: The Power of the Writing Mind (Mythos Books, $15.00, 76pp, an, cover by Rick Cortes); Collection of rare Howardiana and articles about Howard.

The Cold Blue Collection Peter Tennant (D-Press, Oct 2003, £2.00, 32pp, ph, cover by Carole Humphreys); Fantasy/horror collection.

Urbain Grandier Peter Valentine Timlett (Imagination Forum 0-9542638-4-7, 2003, £9.95, 345pp, tp); Associational historical novel, set in Franch in 1617. [Not seen]

Mirror of the Night E. C. Tubb (Sarob Press 1-902309-39-1, 2003, £25.00, xii+177pp, hc, cover by Richard Gray); Collection of ten of the very best of E.C. Tubb’s supernatural tales. Limited to 200 copies. Also available in a deluxe edition (-40-5, £50.00) limited to 35 numbered copies, and a paperback edition (£9.95).

Masques and Citadels: More Tales of the Connoisseur Mark Valentine (Tartarus Press 1-872621-76-7, Jun 2003, £27.50, 212pp, hc); Collection of 10 fantasy tales in a Victorian style & setting, centred on the sleuth who made his first appearance in In Violet Veils. Limited to 300 copies. [Not seen]

Owls Hoot in the Daytime and Other Omens Manly Wade Wellman (Night Shade Books 1-892389-23-1, Mar 2003, $35.00, 245pp, hc)

Tarnhelm, The Best Supernatural Stories of Hugh Walpole Hugh Walpole (Tartarus Press 1-872621-74-0, Mar 2003, £35.00, xiv+363pp, hc); Ghost/horror collection. Limited to 350 copies. [Not seen]

Strange Tales Mark West (Rainfall Books 0-9540877-9-8, 2003, £7.99, 84pp, tp); Collection of 11 horror stories, one original.

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