tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post1258228541448740025..comments2024-03-27T22:39:08.396-04:00Comments on Sweet Freedom: FFB: Instant Remainders: THE BEST FANTASY STORIES FROM THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION edited by Edward Ferman (Octopus, 1985); TALES OF TERROR edited by Eleanor Sullivan (attributed to Alfred Hitchcock)(Galahad, 1986)Todd Masonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-63365274928465993732016-06-11T22:54:08.827-04:002016-06-11T22:54:08.827-04:00Yes, Chris, I've had a copy of BEST HORROR FRO...Yes, Chris, I've had a copy of BEST HORROR FROM F&SF since it was relatively new...but since this earlier one was published only as a remainder, it took me a while to relatively recently discover its existence...and I'd agree that is is the better book, in part because this one isn't afraid to mix chestnuts with some relative rarities (it seems almost as if they went out of their way to ignore some of the actually best horror in the magazine's backfiles with the later anthology). Anne Jordan had an interesting career. (The spell-checker tried to anticipate my distracted pause and offered "carpet"...something a gentleman should refrain from discussing outside one's tryst. I see it also, without my noting it at first, decided "backfiles" should be "backfield"--clearly, Apple is hoping to get me to turn to one of their dating apps tout suite)) Tuttle is certainly still a big deal among those who actually know fantastic fiction, much as is, say, Dennis Etchison, but neither of them have had the kind of galumphing success that puts them to the front of the memory of causal readers of horror, alas. <br /><br />The Best Horror Stories from The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction ed. Anne Devereaux Jordan & Edward L. Ferman (St. Martin’s 0-312-01894-0, Jul ’88 [Jun ’88], $22.95, 403pp, hc) Anthology of horror stories.<br />ix · Introduction · Anne Devereaux Jordan · in<br />3 · Window · Bob Leman · ss F&SF May ’80<br />19 · Insects in Amber · Tom Reamy · na F&SF Jan ’78<br />64 · Free Dirt · Charles Beaumont · ss F&SF May ’55<br />73 · Rising Waters · Patricia Ferrara · ss F&SF Jul ’87<br />81 · The Night of the Tiger · Stephen King · ss F&SF Feb ’78<br />94 · Poor Little Warrior! · Brian W. Aldiss · ss F&SF Apr ’58<br />100 · Nina · Robert Bloch · ss F&SF Jun ’77<br />110 · Werewind · J. Michael Reaves · nv F&SF Jul ’81<br />132 · Dress of White Silk · Richard Matheson · ss F&SF Oct ’51<br />137 · Gladys’s Gregory · John Anthony West · ss F&SF Feb ’63<br />144 · By the River, Fontainebleau · Stephen Gallagher · ss F&SF Aug ’86<br />158 · Pride [Oxrun Station] · Charles L. Grant · ss F&SF May ’82<br />171 · Longtooth · Edgar Pangborn · nv F&SF Jan ’70<br />203 · Glory · Ron Goulart · ss F&SF Dec ’86<br />219 · Bug House · Lisa Tuttle · nv F&SF Jun ’80<br />237 · Hand in Glove · Robert Aickman · nv F&SF Jan ’79<br />259 · Stillborn · Michael Conner · ss F&SF Mar ’82<br />278 · Balgrummo’s Hell · Russell Kirk · ss F&SF Jul ’67<br />294 · The Old Darkness · Pamela Sargent · ss F&SF Jul ’83<br />308 · The Night of White Bhairab · Lucius Shepard · nv F&SF Oct ’84<br />339 · Salvage Rites · Ian Watson · ss F&SF Jan ’87<br />351 · Test · Theodore L. Thomas · ss F&SF Apr ’62<br />355 · The Little Black Train [John] · Manly Wade Wellman · ss F&SF Aug ’54<br />370 · The Autopsy · Michael Shea · nv F&SF Dec ’80<br /><br />...and then for the first paperback edition, St. Martin's pulled a Dell and broke the anthology into two volumes...with a new intro by Ferman in V. 2 to require completists to have that one, at least...<br /><br />Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-35513285986468819832016-06-11T17:47:25.340-04:002016-06-11T17:47:25.340-04:00Ferman (along with Anne Jordan) also edited THE BE...Ferman (along with Anne Jordan) also edited THE BEST HORROR STORIES FROM THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SCIENCE FICTION for St. Martin's in 1988. Although not as good (or as thick) as the fantasy volume, there was a ton of great stuff in it by the likes of Lucius Shepard, Michael Shea, Robert Aickman, Charles Beaumont and Tom Reamy. Women were again underrepresented, but the book did have stories by Patricia Ferrara, Pamela Sargent and Lisa Tuttle's "Bug House", which may well be my favorite horror story of its era, though it seems to be less well-remembered than contemporaneous stories by the likes of Barker, King, etc.Chris Dodsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04167015591100739877noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-74441125188977003572016-06-10T20:22:29.256-04:002016-06-10T20:22:29.256-04:00It really does compare favorably with any of the o...It really does compare favorably with any of the other long-term retrospectives of F&SF and is, because of its publishers, rather obscure in comparison. I'd say the AHMM isn't the best retrospective of AHMM but it's better than good, and while better-distributed still hasn't gotten the treatment it deserves. Packaging hasn't helped with the Sullivan.Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-49662747711208495492016-06-10T20:01:51.688-04:002016-06-10T20:01:51.688-04:00I own the TALES OF TERROR collection but I haven&#...I own the TALES OF TERROR collection but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet. I've never seen THE BEST FANTASY STORIES FORM THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY AND SCIENCE FICTION so I'll have to track down a copy. Looks good! Georgehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04546161337366365635noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-91354810208379096792016-06-10T12:52:26.485-04:002016-06-10T12:52:26.485-04:00Well, there are some temporary remainder store sit...Well, there are some temporary remainder store sites in the US (and on FaceBook, Brian Arnold recalled that Encore Books started as a chain of permanently placed remainder stores), but most remainders in the US are sold through full-service bookstores and, increasingly, though the likes of supermarkets and and other broad-spectrum retailers. The biggest instant remainder publisher these days, over here at least, is Barnes & Noble itself, if I'm not mistaken. And, thanks, gents!<br /><br />Elgin--look out...they retitled a few of them over the years (if you're basically collecting them to read).Todd Masonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01815516018079824802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-77976302808325287942016-06-10T12:01:03.323-04:002016-06-10T12:01:03.323-04:00I will definitely be using the Amazon button for t...I will definitely be using the Amazon button for the fantasy collection - thanks for that, does seem amazing to print deliberately for remainder stores. I think I always knew it happened but never really thought about it (sic).Sergio (Tipping My Fedora)https://bloodymurder.wordpress.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8525415828746712027.post-4348224425723903102016-06-10T11:07:54.410-04:002016-06-10T11:07:54.410-04:00Thanks for this post, Todd. I buy every Dell AH an...Thanks for this post, Todd. I buy every Dell AH anthology I can find.Elgin Bleeckerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08417587392887691664noreply@blogger.com