The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2005
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Back to the Divide Elizabeth Kay (Chicken House, The 1-904442-47-1, Mar 2005, £5.99, 384pp, tp) [Divide] Reprint (The Chicken House 2004) young-adult fantasy novel, sequel to The Divide.
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The Jinx on the Divide Elizabeth Kay (Chicken House, The 1-90444-270-6, Jul 2005, £11.99, 373pp, hc, cover by Ted Dewan & Ian Butterworth) [Divide] Fantasy novel. Third in the series after The Divide and Back to the Divide.
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The Last Light of the Sun Guy Gavriel Kay (Simon & Schuster/Pocket UK 0-7434-8423-1, Jul 2005, £7.99, 497pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) Reprint (Viking Canada; Roc 2004) fantasy novel.
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The Mark of Ran Paul Kearney (Transworld/Corgi 0-553-81374-9, Sep 2005, £6.99, 400pp, pb, cover by Steve Stone) [Sea Beggars] Reprint (Bantam UK 2004) fantasy novel. First in the Sea Beggars series.
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Dance with the Devil Sherrilyn Kenyon (Piatkus 0-7499-3610-X, Jul 2005, £6.99, 343pp, pb) [Dark-Hunter] Reprint (St. Martin’s 2003) dark fantasy novel. Book three in the Dark-Hunter series. Includes the short story, “A Dark-Hunter Christmas”.
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Night Embrace Sherrilyn Kenyon (Piatkus 0-7499-3609-6, Jun 2005, £6.99, 424pp, pb) [Dark-Hunter] Reprint (St. Martin’s 2003) fantasy novel, the first in the Dark-Hunter series.
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Night Pleasures Sherrilyn Kenyon (Piatkus 0-7499-3608-8, Apr 2005, £6.99, 356pp, pb) [Dark-Hunter] Reprint (St. Martin’s 2004) dark fantasy novel, second in the Dark Hunter series.
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Seize the Night Sherrilyn Kenyon (Piatkus 0-7499-3587-1, Mar 2005, £6.99, 339pp, pb) [Dark-Hunter] Reprint (St. Martin’s 2005) fantasy novel. Book six in the Dark Hunter series.
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Sins of the Night Sherrilyn Kenyon (Piatkus 0-7499-3592-8, Jul 2005, £6.99, 331pp, pb) [Dark-Hunter] Reprint (Piatkus 2005) fantasy novel, seventh in the Dark-Hunter series. Includes the reprint short story, “The Beginning”.
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Children of the Lamp: The Akhenaten Adventure P. B. Kerr (Scholastic UK 0-439-95951-9, Sep 2005, £4.99, 392pp, tp) [Children of the Lamp] Reprint (Scholastic UK 2004) young-adult fantasy novel, the first in a series about young djinn twins. This is a pen name for Philip Kerr.
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Children of the Lamp: The Blue Djinn of Babylon P. B. Kerr (Scholastic UK 0-439-95950-0, Sep 2005, £9.99, 350pp, hc) [Children of the Lamp] Young-adult fantasy novel, second in a series. This is a pen name for Philip Kerr.
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Empire of Unreason Greg Keyes (Macmillan/Tor UK 0-330-41999-4, Jul 2005, £7.99, 395pp, pb) [Age of Unreason] Reprint (Ballantine Del Rey 2000) historical fantasy novel. Book Three of The Age of Unreason. [First U.K. edition]
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The Silver Claw Garry Kilworth (Transworld/Corgi 0-552-55187-2, Apr 2005, £5.99, 280pp, tp) Young-adult animal fantasy novel. Investigative otter Udolphus Beck is summoned to Vequince to expose a conspiracy.
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The Dark Tower II: The Drawing of the Three Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-89622-1, Nov 2005, £10.99, 454pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) [Roland (Gunslinger)] Reprint (Grant 1987) fantasy novel.
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The Dark Tower IV: Wizard and Glass Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-89624-8, Nov 2005, £12.99, 672pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) [Roland (Gunslinger)] Reprint (Grant 1997) fantasy novel.
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The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-82716-5, Jan 2005, £14.99, 616pp, tp) [Roland (Gunslinger)] Reprint (Grant/Scribner 2003) dark fantasy novel.
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The Dark Tower V: Wolves of the Calla Stephen King (Hodder 0-340-82717-3, Aug 2005, £6.99, xix+616pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Roland (Gunslinger)] Reprint (Donald M. Grant 2003) fantasy novel. This edition is not available for sale in the UK, but is for sale in Europe at a price of €9.50.
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The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-82719-X, Apr 2005, £14.99, 430pp, tp) Reprint (Donald M. Grant; Hodder & Stoughton 2004) fantasy novel.
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The Dark Tower VI: Song of Susannah Stephen King (Hodder 0-340-82720-3, Aug 2005, £6.99, xviii+436pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Roland (Gunslinger)] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 2004) fantasy novel. This edition is not available for sale in the UK, but is for sale in Europe at a price of €9.50.
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The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower Stephen King (Hodder & Stoughton 0-340-82722-X, Nov 2005, £14.99, 686pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) [Roland (Gunslinger)] Reprint (Hodder & Stoughton 2004) fantasy novel.
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The Green Mile Stephen King (Orion 0-7528-6433-5, Mar 2005, £6.99, 453pp, tp) Reprint (Signet 1996 in six parts) associational novel.
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The Rainbow Opera Elizabeth Knox (Faber and Faber 0-571-22455-5, May 2005, £9.99, 398pp, hc, cover by Lee Gibbons) [Dreamhunter Duet] Reprint (HarperCollins Australia 2005) young-adult fantasy novel, the first book of The Dreamhunter Duet. [First U.K. edition]
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The Bad Place Dean Koontz (Hodder Headline 0-7472-3444-2, Dec 2005, £6.99, 500pp, pb, cover by blacksheep) Reissue (Putnam 1990) fantasy novel; 10th printing.
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Cold Fire Dean Koontz (Hodder Headline 0-7472-3605-4, Dec 2005, £7.99, 506pp, pb, cover by blacksheep) Reissue (Putnam; Headline 1991) fantasy novel; 22nd printing.
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Forever Odd Dean Koontz (HarperCollins UK 0-00-719698-9, Dec 2005, £17.99, 335pp, hc) [Odd Thomas] Reprint (Bantam 2005) suspense novel/thriller about a man who can talk to the dead, sequel to Odd Thomas. [First U.K. edition]
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Life Expectancy Dean Koontz (HarperCollins UK 0-00-719694-6, Jan 2005, £17.99, 401pp, hc) Reprint (Bantam 2004) horror novel. Jimmy Tock’s dying grandfather prophesies five crucial days in newly-born Jimmy’s life. A trade paperback (OME) edition (-719700-4, £10.99) was announced but not seen. [First U.K. edition]
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Life Expectancy Dean Koontz (HarperCollins UK 0-00-719695-4, Aug 2005, £6.99, 531pp, pb) Reprint (Bantam 2004) horror novel.
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Strangers Dean Koontz (Hodder Headline 0-7472-3516-3, Sep 2005, £7.99, 710pp, pb) Reissue (W.H. Allen 1986) fantasy novel; 17th printing.
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The Taking Dean Koontz (HarperCollins UK 0-00-713077-5, Jan 2005, £6.99, 410pp, pb) Reprint (Random House 2004) SF horror novel of other-worldly intervention and apocalyptic urban change.
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Velocity Dean Koontz (HarperCollins UK 0-00-719696-2, Aug 2005, £17.99, 400pp, hc) Reprint (Bantam 2005) associational horror novel. A trade paperback (OME) edition (-719701-2, £10.99) was announced but not seen. [First U.K. edition]
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Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book One: Prodigal Son Dean Koontz & Kevin J. Anderson (HarperCollins UK 0-00-720313-6, Apr 2005, £5.99, vii+469pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Bantam 2005) novelization based on the teleplay by Koontz, who provides the introduction. [First U.K. edition]
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Dean Koontz’s Frankenstein: Book Two: City of Night Dean Koontz & Ed Gorman (HarperCollins UK 0-00-720312-8, Oct 2005, £6.99, 455pp, pb) [Frankenstein] Reprint (Bantam 2005) horror novel. [First U.K. edition]
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Bloody Harvest Richard Kunzmann (Macmillan UK 1-4050-4101-3, Feb 2005, £10.99, 403pp, tp) Detective thriller with black magic elements. A first novel. Children are being murdered to provide sorcerous potions.
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The Dedalus Occult Reader: The Garden of Hermetic Dreams ed. Gary Lachman (Dedalus 1-903517-32-X, Jan 2005, £9.99, 368pp, tp) Anthology of 19 fantastic stories and novel excerpts, including two original translations.
- 7 · Introduction: Foraging in Atlantis · Gary Lachman · in *
- 17 · from Vathek [from Vathek] · William Beckford · ex London: Richard Bentley, 1786
- 36 · from The Devil in Love [from The Devil in Love] · Jacques Cazotte; trans. by Judith Landry · ex Dedalus, 1991
- 50 · from The Manuscript found in Saragossa [from The Manuscript found in Saragossa] · Jan Potocki; trans. by Christine Donougher · ex Dedalus, 1990
- 78 · The Fairy Tale of the Green Snake and the Beautiful Lily · Johann Wolfgang von Goethe; trans. by Mike Mitchell · nv *; New translation from Conversations of German Emigrants (1795).
- 109 · from The Golden Flower Pot [from The Golden Flower Pot] · E. T. A. Hoffmann; trans. by Mike Mitchell · ex *
- 136 · from Séraphita [from Séraphita] · Honoré de Balzac; trans. by Clara Bell · ex Dedalus, 1995
- 165 · from Journey to the Orient [from Journey to the Orient] · Gérard de Nerval; trans. by Norman Glass · ex
- 175 · from Zanoni [from Zanoni] · Edward Bulwer-Lytton · ex, 1842
- 178 · Occult Memories · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam; trans. by Hamish Miles · ss Contes Cruels, Calmann Levy, 1883
- 185 · from Là-Bas [from Là-Bas, 1891] · Joris-Karl Huysmans; trans. by Brendan King · ex Dedalus, 2001
- 195 · from The Fiery Angel [from The Fiery Angel] · Valery Briusov, Ivor Montagu; trans. by Sergei Nalbandov · ex, 1930
- 233 · The Story of Davidson’s Eyes [“The Remarkable Case of Davidson’s Eyes”] · H. G. Wells · ss Pall Mall Budget Mar 28, 1895; The original title is unclear.
- 242 · A Victim of Higher Space [John Silence] · Algernon Blackwood · nv The Occult Review Dec ’14
- 265 · The Hashish Man · Lord Dunsany · ss A Dreamer’s Tales, J.W. Luce, 1910
- 271 · from The Hill of Dreams · Arthur Machen · ex London: Grant Richards, 1907
- 292 · The Horla [1887] · Guy de Maupassant; trans. by unknown · nv, 1944
- 317 · from The Golem · Gustav Meyrink; trans. by Mike Mitchell · ex Dedalus, 1995
- 332 · from Petersburg · Andrei Bely; trans. by David McDuff · ex, 1995
- 340 · from Satan Wants Me · Robert Irwin · ex, 1999
- 353 · Biographies · Gary Lachman · bg *
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Waking Merlin Tanya Landman (Walker UK 1-84428-964-8, Apr 2005, £4.99, 163pp, tp, cover by Thomas Taylor) Young-adult fantasy novel.
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The Unseen University Challenge: Terry Pratchett’s Discworld Quizbook David Langford (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07703-4, Jul 2005, £6.99, 250pp, hc, cover by David Wyatt) Reprint (Vista 1996) reference book. A mini-hardcover edition. Slightly revised and updated. [Terry Pratchett]
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Troll Fell Katherine Langrish (HarperCollins UK Children’s Books 0-00-717072-6, Jul 2005, £5.99, 318pp, tp, cover by Larry Rostant) [Troll] Reprint (HarperCollins UK Children’s Books 2004) young-adult fantasy novel. First in a series.
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Troll Hill Katherine Langrish (HarperCollins UK Children’s Books 0-00-717074-2, Jul 2005, £10.99, 328pp, hc, cover by Larry Rostant) [Troll] Young-adult fantasy novel. The sequel to Troll Fell.
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Shadowland Rhiannon Lassiter (Oxford University Press 0-19-275239-1, Jan 2005, £4.99, 200pp, tp) [Rights of Passage] Young-adult fantasy novel. Third in the Rights of Passage series.
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Warhammer 40,000: Liar’s Peak Robin D. Laws (BL Publishing/Black Library 1-8441-6233-8, Aug 2005, £5.99, 408pp, pb, cover by David Gallagher) [Warhammer 40,000: Angelika Fleisher] Novelization based on the SF roleplaying game, part of the Angelika Fleisher series.
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The Beast House and After Midnight Richard Laymon (Hodder Headline 0-7553-2660-1, 2005, £7.99, vi+780pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Omnibus of two novels: Beast House (1986) and After Midnight (1997). The novels are separately paginated.
- i · The Beast House [Beast House] · n. Sevenoaks: New English Library, 1986
- 375 · After Midnight · n. Headline Books, 1997
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The Glory Bus Richard Laymon (Hodder Headline 0-7472-6934-3, Apr 2005, £18.99, 342pp, hc, cover by Steve Crisp) Associational non-supernatural horror novel.
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The Lake Richard Laymon (Hodder Headline 0-7472-6732-4, Dec 2004, £6.99, 442pp, pb, cover by Steve Crisp) Reprint (Headline 2004) associational novel.
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Changing Planes Ursula K. Le Guin (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07623-2, Jan 2005, £6.99, i+214pp, pb) Reprint (Harcourt 2003) collection of 16 SF stories (ten original).
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Gifts Ursula K. Le Guin (Orion 1-84255-498-0, Oct 2005, £5.99, 274pp, tp, cover by David Wyatt & Stephen Raw) [Annals of the Western Shore] Reprint (Harcourt 2004) young-adult fantasy novel. First in a series.
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Lobster Guillaume Lecasble (Dedalus 1-903517-34-6, Jul 2005, £6.99, 110pp, tp, cover by David Smith) Literary fantasy novel, translated by Polly McLean from the French original (Éditions du Seuil, 2003).
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The Lord of the Rings Sketchbook Alan Lee (HarperCollins UK 0-261-10383-0, Sep 2005, £20.00, 192pp, hc, cover by Alan Lee) [Middle-Earth] Art book showing the development of the paintings for the centenary edition of The Lord of the Rings, from concepts and sketches to some of the final works. Includes concept art for the Peter Jackson movie trilogy, plus new work produced specially for this book.
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Cast a Bright Shadow Tanith Lee (Macmillan/Tor UK 0-330-41309-0, May 2005, £6.99, 510pp, pb, cover by Dominic Harman) [Lionwolf] Reprint (Tor UK 2004) fantasy novel. Book one of The Lionwolf Trilogy.
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Here in Cold Hell Tanith Lee (Macmillan/Tor UK 1-4050-0635-8, Aug 2005, £10.99, 418pp, tp, cover by Dominic Harman) [Lionwolf] Fantasy novel, second in the Lionwolf trilogy after Cast a Bright Shadow.
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Doctor Who: Island of Death Barry Letts (BBC Books 0-563-48631-7, Jul 2005, £5.99, 281pp, pb) [Doctor Who] Novelization based on the TV series.
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The Chronicles of Narnia C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins Children’s Books UK 0-00-721502-9, Oct 2005, £16.99, 767pp, tp) [Narnia] Reprint (Collins 1998 as The Complete Chronicles of Narnia) young-adult fantasy omnibus. A film tie-in edition.
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The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins Children’s Books UK 0-00-720228-8, Oct 2005, £5.99, 243pp, tp, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Narnia] Reprint (Geoffrey Bles 1950) young-adult fantasy novel, the first in the Narnia series. Film tie-in edition.
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Out of the Silent Planet C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins UK 0-00-715715-0, Dec 2005, £6.99, 224pp, tp, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Cosmic] Reprint (John Lane 1938) SF novel. Book one of the Cosmic Trilogy.
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Perelandra C. S. Lewis (HarperCollins UK 0-00-715716-9, Dec 2005, £6.99, 314pp, tp, cover by Cliff Nielsen) [Cosmic] Reprint (John Lane 1943) SF novel. Book two of the Cosmic Trilogy.
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The Face of the Shadow Erik L’Homme (Chicken House, The 1-904442-43-9, Aug 2005, £5.99, 287pp, tp, cover by David Wyatt) [Book of Stars] Young-adult fantasy novel. The third volume in The Book of Stars, after Quadehar the Sorcerer and The Mystery of Lord Sha. Translated by Ros Schwartz from the French, Le Visage de l’Ombre (Gallimard 2002).
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The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories H. P. Lovecraft (Penguin UK 0-141-18789-1, Apr 2005, £9.99, 453pp, tp) Reprint (Penguin Classics 2004) collection of 21 weird stories, with introduction and notes by editor S.T. Joshi. [First U.K. edition] [S. T. Joshi]
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Provender Gleed James Lovegrove (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07684-4, Sep 2005, £14.99, 330pp, tp, cover by Laura Brett) SF novel of an alternate 20th-century Britain, ruled by The Families. A hardcover edition (-07683-6, £18.99) is also available.
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Worldstorm James Lovegrove (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07656-9, Sep 2005, £7.99, 452pp, tp, cover by Laura Brett) Reprint (Gollancz 2004) SF novel.
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King Kong Delos W. Lovelace (Orion/Gollancz 0-575-07876-6, Dec 2005, £6.99, 201pp, hc) [King Kong] Reprint (Grosset & Dunlap 1932) movie novelization. This is a tie-in to the new Peter Jackson film.
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Star Wars: Labyrinth of Evil James Luceno (Random House UK/Century/Lucasbooks 1-8441-3871-2, Jan 2005, £17.99, 339pp, hc, cover by Steven D. Anderson) [Star Wars] Novelization based on the world of the films. Simultaneous with the US (Del Rey) edition.
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Science Fiction Roger Luckhurst (Polity Press 0-7456-2893-1, Feb 2005, £16.99, 305pp, tp) [Paolozzi, Eduardo] Non-fiction, a critical cultural history of SF. Includes notes, selected bibliography, and index. Part of the Cultural History of Literature series. A hardcover edition (-2892-3, £55.00) was announced but not seen.
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Late Victorian Gothic Tales ed. Roger Luckhurst (Oxford University Press 0-19-280480-4, Jun 2005, £8.99, xliv+256pp, tp, cover by Edvard Munch) Collection of 12 gothic stories, edited and with an extensive introduction and notes by Luckhurst. In the Oxford World’s Classics series.
- ix · Introduction · Roger Luckhurst · in (*), 2005
- xxxii · Note on Sources · Misc. · ms
- xxxiii · Note on Illustrations · Misc. · ms
- xxxiv · Select Bibliography · Misc. · bi (*), 2005
- xl · Chronology of the 1890s · Roger Luckhurst · ar (*), 2005
- 1 · Dionea · Vernon Lee · nv Hauntings, Fantastic Stories, London: Heinemann, 1890
- 27 · Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime: A study of duty · Oscar Wilde · nv Court and Society Review May 11, 1887
- 57 · Sir Edmund Orme · Henry James · nv Black and White Nov 25, 1891
- 84 · The Mark of the Beast · Rudyard Kipling · ss The Pioneer Jul 12&14, 1890
- 96 · The Dâk Bungalow at Dakor · B. M. Croker · ss To Let, Chatto & Windus, 1893
- 109 · Lot No. 249 · Arthur Conan Doyle · nv Harper’s Sep, 1892
- 141 · The Case of Lady Sannox · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Idler Nov, 1893
- 151 · Pallinghurst Barrow · Grant Allen · ss The Illustrated London News Nov 28, 1892
- 171 · Magic Lantern · Jean Lorrain; trans. by Brian Stableford · ss Nightmares of an Ether-Drinker, Tartarus Press, 2002
- 177 · The Spectral Hand [as translated by Francis Amery] · Jean Lorrain; trans. by Brian Stableford · ss All Hallows #4 ’93
- 183 · The Great God Pan · Arthur Machen · na The Great God Pan, London: John Lane, 1894
- 234 · Vaila · M. P. Shiel · nv Shapes in the Fire, London: John Lane, 1896; Rewritten as ‘The House of Sounds’ (1911).
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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend Alan Lupack (Oxford University Press 0-19-280287-9, Jul 2005, £50.00, 496pp, hc, cover by Sir Edward Burne-Jones) Reference book, a wide-ranging guide covering all details, characters, and places of the Arthurian tales, tracing them to their most likely first appearances in history or literature, with discussion of many modern fictional interpretations.
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The Highest Tide Jim Lynch (Bloomsbury 0-7475-7844-3, Oct 2005, £10.99, 246pp, tp) Reprint (Bloomsbury USA 2005) young-adult fantasy novel. [First U.K. edition]
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Dragon’s Treasure Elizabeth Lynn (Macmillan/Tor UK 0-330-35558-9, Apr 2005, £6.99, 407pp, pb, cover by Steve Stone) [Dragon] Reprint (Tor UK 2003) fantasy novel. The sequel to Dragon’s Winter.
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The House of Storms Ian R. MacLeod (Simon & Schuster UK 0-7432-5672-7, Feb 2005, £12.99, 457pp, hc, cover by Larry Rostant) [Light Ages] Fantasy novel set in an industrial England powered by magic, the sequel to The Light Ages. A trade paperback edition (-5673-5, £10.99) was announced but not seen.
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Learning the World Ken MacLeod (Time Warner UK/Orbit 1-84149-343-0, Aug 2005, £16.99, 338pp, hc, cover by Lee Gibbons) SF novel of first contact.
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Newton’s Wake Ken MacLeod (Time Warner UK/Orbit 1-84149-224-8, Jan 2005, £6.99, 369pp, pb, cover by Lee Gibbons) Reprint (Orbit 2004) SF novel.
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