The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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Sleep, Pale Sister Joanne Harris (Arrow 0-09-927051-X, Sep 94 [Aug 94], £4.99, 404pp, pb, cover by Thomas Cooper Gotch) Occult novel in which the very young wife of a puritanical Victorian artist is drawn into the criminal underworld, and towards a woman seeking to reincarnate her daughter.
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Galactic Dreams Harry Harrison (Legend 0-09-926341-6, Apr 94, £15.99, 188pp, hc, cover by Keith Parkinson) SF collection. Illustrated by Bryn Barnard. Also available in trade paperback edition -926151-0, £9.99. Simultaneous with US (Tor) edition.
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Galactic Dreams Harry Harrison (Legend 0-09-949811-1, Dec 94, £4.99, 188pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) Reprint (Legend; Tor 1994) collection of 12 stories, including a new Stainless Steel Rat story; illustrated by Bryn Barnard.
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The Stainless Steel Rat Sings the Blues Harry Harrison (Bantam UK 0-593-02620-9, Mar 94, £14.99, 229pp, hc, cover by Jean Pierre Targete) [Slippery Jim (James Bolivar) diGriz] Humorous sf novel. In the Stainless Steel Rat series.
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Stainless Steel Visions Harry Harrison (Legend 0-09-992560-5, Apr 94, £4.99, 254pp, pb, cover by Keith Parkinson) Reprint (Tor; Legend 1993) collection of 13 SF stories, including an original Stainless Steel Rat story.
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Bill, the Galactic Hero: The Final Incoherent Adventure Harry Harrison & David Harris (Gollancz 0-575-05717-3, Apr 94, £4.99, 215pp, hc, cover by Mark Pacella & Steve Fastner) [Bill the Galactic Hero] Reprint (AvoNova 1992) humorous SF novel. Volume seven in the series. This edition lacks the illustrations of the AvoNova original.
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The Hammer and the Cross Harry Harrison & John Holm (Legend 0-09-986820-2, Nov 94, £5.99, 430pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Hammer and the Cross] Reprint (Legend 1993) historical fantasy novel set in a 9th-century England that has been conquered by the Vikings. John Holm (whose name is not used on the cover) is a pseudonym for Tom Shippey.
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The Ascent of Wonder: The Evolution of Hard SF ed. David Hartwell & Kathryn Cramer (Orbit 1-85723-271-2, Oct 94, £25.00, 990pp, hc, cover by John Berkey) Reprint (Tor 1994) massive, anthology of more than 60 stories. [First U.K. edition]
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The Cat Who Walks Through Walls Robert A. Heinlein (NEL 0-450-39315-1, Dec 93, £5.99, 420pp, pb) Reissue (Putnam 1985) sf novel.
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The Ghosts of Sleath James Herbert (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224286-9, Nov 94, £14.99, 409pp, hc, cover by Bill Gregory) [David Ash] Horror novel. In this sequel to Haunted, the psychic investigator David Ash explores the quiet village of Sleathsite of increasingly bizarre and supernatural incidents.
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The City James Herbert & Ian Miller (Pan 0-330-32471-3, Mar 94 [Feb 94], £8.99, 64pp, tp, cover by Ian Miller) [Rats] Sf/horror book. Volume four in the Rats series.
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The Leafless Forest Douglas Hill (Pan 0-330-32960-X, Sep 94, £8.99, 294pp, tp, cover by Duncan Storr) [Apotheosis] Fantasy novel. Book two of the Apotheosis Trilogy.
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The Lightless Dome Douglas Hill (Pan 0-330-33166-3, Sep 94, £4.99, 304pp, pb, cover by Duncan Storr) [Apotheosis] Reprint (Pan 1993) fantasy novel. Book one of the Apotheosis Trilogy.
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World of the Stiks Douglas Hill (Bantam UK 0-553-40655-8, Jun 94 [Aug 94], £2.99, pb, cover by John Avon) Young-adult sf novel.
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The Mist in the Mirror Susan Hill (Mandarin 0-7493-1650-0, Oct 94, £5.99, 185pp, pb) Reissue (Sinclair-Stevenson 1992) ghost novel.
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The Woman in Black Susan Hill (Mandarin 0-7493-1424-9, Oct 94, £5.99, 160pp, tp) Reissue (Hamish Hamilton 1983) ghost novel.
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The Crystal Bucephalus Craig Hinton (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20429-8, Nov 94, £4.99, 296pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who: Missing Adventures] Novelization based on the Doctor Who TV series. Fourth of a new Missing Adventures series. This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
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Nightmare Hall: The Roommate Diane Hoh (Scholastic UK 0-590-55522-7, Oct 94, £2.99, 184pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel. Volume two in a new series. Copyrighted by Nola Thacker. [First U.K. edition]
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Nightmare Hall: The Silent Scream Diane Hoh (Scholastic UK 0-590-55461-1, Oct 94, £2.99, 229pp, pb) [Nightmare Hall] Reprint (Scholastic 1993) young-adult horror novel. Volume one in a new series. [First U.K. edition]
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The Hollowing Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21293-0, Sep 94, £4.99, 376pp, pb) [Mythago] Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) fantasy novel. Volume three in the Mythago Wood series.
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Merlins Wood Robert Holdstock (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224603-1, Sep 94 [Aug 94], £15.99, 234pp, hc, cover by Geoff Taylor) [Mythago] Fantasy novel, fourth in the Mythago Wood cycle, plus two reprinted short stories.
- 9 · Merlins Wood · Robert Holdstock · n. *
- 181 · Earth and Stone · Robert Holdstock · nv Interfaces, ed. Ursula K. Le Guin & Virginia Kidd, Ace, 1980; revised for this edition.
- 211 · The Silvering · Robert Holdstock · nv Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK, 1992
- 233 · Authors Note · Robert Holdstock · aw
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The Kingmaking Helen Hollick (Heinemann 0-434-00068-X, Jun 94, £9.99, 604pp, tp) [Pendragons Banner] Fantasy novel. Book One of the Pendragons Banner trilogy. A new version of the Arthurian myth cycle.
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Expecting Someone Taller Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-181-3, Jan 94, £4.99, 218pp, pb, cover by Steve Lee) Reissue (Macmillan UK 1987) humorous fantasy novel.
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Faust Among Equals Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-197-X, Jun 94 [May 94], £14.99, 292pp, hc, cover by Steve Lee) Humorous fantasy novel.
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Flying Dutch Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-017-5, Jan 94, £4.99, 252pp, pb, cover by Steve Lee) [Whos Afraid of Beowulf] Reissue (Orbit 1991) humorous fantasy novel.
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Grailblazers Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-192-9, Jan 94, £14.99, 298pp, hc, cover by Steve Lee) Humorous fantasy novel about the Grail knights.
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Grailblazers Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-191-0, Jun 94 [Apr 94], £4.99, 357pp, pb, cover by Steve Lee) Reprint (Orbit 1994) humorous fantasy novel.
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Here Comes the Sun Tom Holt (Orbit 1-85723-187-2, Jan 94, £4.99, 282pp, pb, cover by Steve Lee) Reprint (Orbit 1993) humorous fantasy novel.
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Outlaw Fantasy Saskia Hope (Black Lace 0-352-32920-3, May 94 [Aug 94], £4.99, 280pp, pb) [Wicked] Reprint (Nexus 1992 as Wild by Andrea Arven) erotic SF novel. Volume two in the Wicked series. This edition has been slightly bowdlerised.
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Outlaw Lover Saskia Hope (Black Lace 0-352-32909-2, Jan 94 [Feb 94], £4.99, 276pp, pb) [Wicked] Reprint (Nexus 1991 as Wicked as by Andrea Arven) erotic sf novel. Volume one in the Wicked series. Note that the text in this edition has been somewhat bowdlerised.
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The Puffin Book of Horror Stories ed. Anthony Horowitz (Viking UK 0-670-85382-8, Nov 94, £9.99, 160pp, hc, cover by Julian Lee) Young-adult collection of ten pieces, including King, Dahl, an extract from Dracula, and one original.
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MapHead Lesley Howarth (Walker 0-7445-2458-X, May 94 [Dec 94], £8.99, 160pp, hc, cover by Janet Woolley) [MapHead] Young-adult fantasy novel.
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Doctor Who: Timeframe: The Illustrated History David J. Howe (Doctor Who Books 0-83639-861-1, Aug 94, £9.99, 122pp, tp) [Doctor Who] Reprint (Doctor Who 1993) heavily illustrated media reference looking at the Doctor Who television series from its first episode through to the New Adventures books of 1993.
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Doctor Who: The Handbook: The First Doctor David J. Howe, Mark Stammers & Stephen James Walker (Doctor Who Books 0-426-20430-1, Dec 94, £4.99, 350pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Doctor Who] Reference book about the Doctor Who TV series. This is the third in a series of seven books looking at the series in considerable depth. Recommended (PSP). This is a world-wide edition and is available in the US for $5.95.
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Fear L. Ron Hubbard (New Era 1-870451-55-4, Sep 94, £4.99, 238pp, pb, cover by de Franck) Reprint (Gnome 1951 as part of Typewriter in the Sky & Fear) associational horror novel. This edition has the introduction and bonus short story, Borrowed Glory, from the 1991 Bridge edition.
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The Iron Woman Ted Hughes (Faber and Faber 0-571-17163-X, Sep 94 [Aug 94], £3.99, 87pp, pb, cover by Andrew Davison) [Iron Man] Reprint (Faber 1993) young-adult fantasy novel, illustrated by Andrew Davison. Sequel to The Iron Man.
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For the Crown & The Dragon Stephen Hunt (Green Nebula 0-9522885-0-8, Oct 94, £4.99, 353pp, pb, cover by Philip Rowlands) Fantasy novel. In the physically fragmented Europe of an alternate 18th century, Taliesen and his men battle human and inhuman foes on behalf of an aristocracy which despises them. A colourful, but tough and uncompromising first novel. First of the two-volume Triple-Realm science fantasy series. Available from P O Box 491, Coulsdon, Surrey CR5 2UJ.
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Deadhead Shaun Hutson (Warner UK 0-7515-0133-6, Mar 94, £4.99, 326pp, pb, cover by Mark Taylor) Reprint (Little, Brown UK 1993) horror novel.
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White Ghost Shaun Hutson (Little, Brown UK 0-316-90798-7, Mar 94, £14.99, 345pp, hc, cover by Mark Taylor) [Renegades] Thriller of associational interest. In the Renegades series.
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Ape and Essence Aldous Huxley (Flamingo 0-00-654740-0, Mar 94, £6.99, 138pp, pb, cover by Gary Powell) Reprint (Harper 1948) literary SF novel. Introduction by David Bradshaw.
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Ape and Essence Aldous Huxley (Flamingo 0-00-654740-0, Mar 94, £6.99, 138pp, pb, cover by Gary Powell) Reprint (Harper 1948) literary SF novel. Introduction by David Bradshaw.
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley (Flamingo 0-00-04434-5, Jan 94, £3.99, 237pp, pb, cover by George Snow) Reprint (Chatto & Windus 1932) literary sf novel. A trade paperback edition (-654579-3, £5.99) is also available.
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Brave New World Aldous Huxley (Chatto & Windus 0-7011-6141-8, Jul 94 [Aug 94], £9.99, 432pp, hc) Reissue (Chatto & Windus 1932) literary sf novel.
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Island Aldous Huxley (Flamingo 0-00-654734-6, Feb 94, £6.99, 330pp, tp, cover by Ian Whadcock) Reprint (Harper & Row 1962) utopian sf novel. Includes new Introduction by David Bradshaw.
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City of the Iron Fish Simon Ings (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647653-8, Jul 94 [Jun 94], £4.99, 314pp, pb) SF novel.
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Beautiful Soup Harvey Jacobs (Ringpull 1-898051-12-7, Sep 94 [Aug 94], £8.99, 263pp, tp, cover by David Crowe) Reprint (Celadon Press 1990) humorous sf novel set in a future where everyones forehead is stamped with a barcode at birth. James Wanders life is changed forever when his barcode is tranformed to the one on salt-free pea soup. [First U.K. edition]
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The Bellmaker Brian Jacques (Hutchinson 0-09-176622-2, Jun 94, £12.99, 336pp, hc, cover by Fangorn) [Redwall] Young-adult fantasy novel. Illustrated by Allan Curless. Volume seven in the Redwall series.
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Martin the Warrior Brian Jacques (Red Fox 0-09-928171-6, Jun 94 [May 94], £4.50, 375pp, pb, cover by Fangorn) [Redwall] Reprint (Hutchinson 1993) fantasy novel. Illustrated by Gary Chalk. Volume six in the Redwall series.
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Mossflower Brian Jacques (Legend 0-09-931921-7, Nov 94, £4.99, 431pp, pb, cover by John Barber) [Redwall] Reprint (Hutchinson 1988) fantasy novel. Volume two in the Redwall series.
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Redwall Brian Jacques (Legend 0-09-931911-X, Nov 94, £4.99, 416pp, pb, cover by John Barber) [Redwall] Reprint (Hutchinson 1986) fantasy novel. Volume one in the Redwall series.
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London Noir ed. Maxim Jakubowski (Serpents Tail 1-85242-308-0, Jun 94, £7.99, 264pp, tp, cover by Geoff Grandfield) Associational original anthology of bleak, violent crime stories by many well-known fantasy and sf writers.
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He, Transcendental Child Collins Jallim (The Book Guild 0-86332-946-2, Sep 94, £10.95, 111pp, hc, cover by Louise Gardner) Fantasy novel, in which the son of a goddess and a mortal father learns to use his powers.
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Science Fiction in the Twentieth Century Edward James (Oxford University Press 0-19-289244-4, Oct 94, £7.99, 250pp, tp, cover by Robert McCall) Critical book. A hardcover edition (-219263-9, £30.00) was announced but not seen. A new approach to the history of SF, by the editor of Foundation.
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The Turn of the Screw Henry James (Penguin Popular Classics 0-14-062061-3, Apr 94, £1.00, 121pp, pb, cover by Atkinson Grimshaw) [Turn of the Screw] Reprint (Heinemann 1898 in The Two Magics) horror novel. Thrift paperback edition of the classic.
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The Children of Men P. D. James (Penguin 0-14-017828-7, Mar 94, £4.99, 351pp, pb) Reprint (Faber 1992) sf novel.
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Host Peter James (Signet UK 0-45-117995-1, Nov 94, £4.99, 624pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1993) SF/horror novel about attempts to download a human consciousness into a computer.
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Prophecy Peter James (Signet UK 0-451-18440-8, Oct 94 [Dec 94], £4.99, 368pp, pb) Reprint (Gollancz 1992) fantasy novel. A tie-in to the Chiller TV series.
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Fission Impossible Phil Janes (Orion 1-85798-144-8, Nov 94 [Oct 94], £4.99, 250pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Pioneer] Reprint (Millennium 1993) humorous SF novel. Book 2 of the Pioneer series.
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The Galaxy Game Phil Janes (Millennium 1-85798-150-2, May 94, £4.99, 212pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Pioneer] Reprint (Millennium 1993) humorous SF novel. Volume one in the Pioneer series.
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The Final Reckoning Robin Jarvis (Simon & Schuster UK 0-7500-0272-7, Oct 94 [Nov 94], £4.99, 305pp, tp) [Deptford Mice] Reissue (Simon & Schuster UK 1990) young-adult fantasy novel. Book 3 of The Deptford Mice. Illustrated by Jarvis.
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The Whitby Child Robin Jarvis (Simon & Schuster UK 0-7500-1581-0, Nov 94, £4.99, 387pp, tp) [Whitby] Young-adult fantasy novelthe young heroes and their supernatural allies from The Whitby Witches and A Warlock in Whitby battle a rejected god. Book 3 of The Whitby Series, illustrated by Jarvis. A hardcover edition (-1580-2, £9.99) is also available.
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Children of the Flame Mike Jefferies (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21749-5, Nov 94 [Oct 94], £4.99, 374pp, pb) Fantasy novel. A young couple are reincarnated once again, and must unravel the secret that has cursed them through the centuriesbefore they are forever damned.
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Stone Angels Mike Jefferies (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21527-1, Jul 94, £4.99, 302pp, pb, cover by Geoff Taylor) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) fantasy novel about a statue with a terrible secret.
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Sophies Ghost Catherine Johnson (Pont Books 1-85902-163-8, Nov 94, £3.95, 113pp, pb, cover by Suzanne Carpenter) Young-adult fantasy novel. When a young girl has to move to Wales, she is made even unhappier by the appearance of a ghost...then she is whisked back in time. Available from Gomer Press, Llandysul, Dyfed SA44 4BQ Wales.
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Hexwood Diana Wynne Jones (Mammoth 0-7497-1848-X, Sep 94, £3.99, 288pp, pb) Reprint (Methuen 1993) young-adult fantasy novel.
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A Tale of Time City Diana Wynne Jones (Teens 0-7497-0440-3, May 94, £2.99, 285pp, pb, cover by Alan Fraser) Reissue (Greenwillow 1987) young-adult SF novel.
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Fantasy Stories ed. Diana Wynne Jones (Kingfisher 1-85697-233-X, Aug 94 [Sep 94], £10.99, 255pp, hc, cover by Wayne Anderson) Anthology of 18 young-adult stories and excerpts including an original novelette by the editor.
- 7 · The Peasant and the Devil · The Brothers Grimm · vi
- 9 · Boris Chernevskys Hands · Jane Yolen · ss Hecates Cauldron, ed. Susan M. Shwartz, DAW, 1982
- 20 · The Hobgoblins Hat [from Finn Family Moomintroll] · Tove Jansson · ex London: Ernest Benn, 1950
- 31 · Ully the Piper · Andre Norton · ss High Sorcery, Ace, 1970
- 45 · Milo Conducts the Dawn [from The Phantom Tollbooth] · Norton Juster · ex New York: Epstein & Carroll, 1961
- 52 · Who Goes Down This Dark Road? · Joan Aiken · ss A Touch of Chill, London: Gollancz, 1979
- 60 · The House of Harfang [from The Silver Chair] · C. S. Lewis · ex London: Geoffrey Bles, 1953
- 80 · Martha in the Witchs Power [from Hobberdy Dick] · K. M. Briggs · ex, 1955
- 96 · Prince Delightful and the Flameless Dragon · Isaac Asimov · ss Once Upon a Time, ed. Lester del Rey & Risa Kessler, Legend, 1991
- 116 · The Box of Delights [Kay Harker] · John Masefield · ex London: Heinemann, 1935
- 123 · The Amazing Flight of the Gump [from The Land of Oz] · L. Frank Baum · ex
- 137 · On The Great Wall · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Strand Jun 06
- 156 · The Waking of the Kraken [from Which Witch?] · Eva Ibbotson · ex London: Macmillan, 1979
- 166 · The Caves in the Hills [from Henriettas House] · Elizabeth Goudge · ex London: Duckworth, 1968
- 182 · Bigger than the Bakers Boy · E. Nesbit · ss The Strand Sep 02
- 202 · Jermain and the Sorceress [from The Seven Towers] · Patricia C. Wrede · ex New York: Ace, 1984
- 208 · Una and the Red Cross Knight · Andrew Lang · ss The Red Book of Romance; adapted by Mrs. Andrew Lang, based on The Faerie Queen.
- 230 · What the Cat Told Me · Diana Wynne Jones · nv *
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