Wednesday's Short Stories (and related fiction): Abbott Vacation Edition: 30 October 2024

thanks to John Boston and Sandra Kisner for spotting linking errors in earlier drafts!

Brad Bigelow: "Five Star Final", a play by Louis Weitzenkorn

John Boston: Amazing Stories, November 1969, edited by Ted White

Ben Boulden: "Battered Spouse" by Jeremiah Healy, The Armchair Detective, Fall 1990, edited by Allen J. Hubin; Eight Very Bad Nights edited by Tod Goldberg

Brian Busby: Barnabas, Quentin and the Crystal Coffin by "Marilyn" (W. E. D./Dan) Ross, and other Dark Shadows tie-in literature; "Woman-handled" by Arthur Stringer, The Saturday Evening Post, 2 May 1925, edited by George Horace Lorimer

Eric Compton/Tom Simon (Paperback Warrior): Killer Delivery by Calum France, e-chapbook

Will Errickson: Night Visions 1 aka In the Blood edited by Alan Ryan

Paul Fraser: "A Thing of Beauty" by Norman Spinrad, Analog Science Fiction/Science Fact, January 1973, edited by Ben Bova

Rich Horton: Miss Pickerell and the Geiger Counter by Ellen MacGregor (with a long comment by Jerry House)

Jerry House: Astounding Science Fiction, October 1949, edited by John W. Campbell, Jr. (a birthday post); Miss Pickerell short novels

Kate Jackson: The Shadowed Circle Compendium edited by Steve Donoso

JJ: Wicked Spirits edited by Tony Medawar

Kaggsy: El informe de Brodie/Doctor Brodie's Report by Jorge Luis Borges (translated by Andrew Hurley)

George Kelley: Murder Most Delectable edited by Martin Harry Greenberg; Final War and Other Fantasies and In the Pocket and Other Science Fiction Stories by Barry N. Malzberg

David Levinson: Venture Science Fiction, November 1969, edited by Edward Ferman

Evan Lewis: "The Unspeakable Affair" by "Robert Hart Davis" (apparently Dennis Lynds, in this case), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Magazine, April 1966, edited by Cylvia Kleinman and Alden H. Norton

Steve Lewis: "Fly Paper" by Dashiell Hammett, Black Mask, August 1929, edited by Joseph Shaw; The Big Knockover and Other Stories by Dashiell Hammett, edited by Lillian Hellman

Robert Lopresti: "Shakedown Street" by James D. F. Hannah, Friends of the Devil: Crime Fiction Inspired by the Songs of the Grateful Dead edited by Josh Pachter

Todd Mason: Swords and Deviltry by Fritz Leiber; Night's Black Agents by Fritz Leiber; The Aleph and Other Stories 1933-1969 by Jorge Luis Borges (translated by Borges and Norman Thomas diGiovanni)

Fiona Moore: New Worlds, November 1969, edited by Michael Moorcock

Neeru: 84 Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff (our token epistolary memoir)

John O'Neill: The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, Summer 2024, edited by Sheree Renée Thomas; Analog Science Fiction and Fact, September/October 2024, edited by Trevor Quachri; Asimov's Science Fiction, September/October 2024, edited by Sheila Williams

"MPorcius": World's Best Science Fiction: 1968 edited by Donald A. Wollheim and Terry Carr

James Reasoner: Battle Birds, February 1940, edited by Harry Steeger; Texas Rangers, February 1952, edited by Jim Hendryx; "Hero Stuff" by Frederick C. Davis, Wings, February 1928; Fighting Western, October 1946; Exciting Western, December 1944; Weasels Ripped My Flesh! The Illustrated Men's Adventure Anthology edited by Robert Deis, Wyatt Doyle and Josh Alan Friedman; Looking for Lost Streets and High Fliers, Middleweights and Lowlifes by Cullen Gallagher; "Lair of the Serpent Queen" (a novella) by James Reasoner

Jack Seabrook: "11 O'Clock Bulletin" by Robert Turner, Bluebook, February 1955, edited by André Fontaine; adapted for Alfred Hitchcock Presents: with a teleplay by Evan Hunter as "Appointment at Eleven"

Robert Silverberg: The Worlds of Robert F. Young (in review column "The Spectroscope")

Victoria Silverwolf: Fantastic Stories, October 1969, edited by Ted White

Kevin Tipple: Sex and Violins: An Erotic Crime Anthology edited by Sandra Murphy

"TomCat": "The Oblong Room" by Edward D. Hoch, The Saint Magazine July 1967, edited by Hans Stefan Santesson

*Performance: Joyce Carol Oates's "Pumpkin Head" performed by Bill Connington

*J. Kingston Pierce's report on the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest

Happy All Hallows!