Short Story Wednesday: the links to 5 March and further reviews

Douglas Anderson: J. R. R. Tolkien on Swords and Sorcery edited by L. Sprague de Camp; Jorge Luis Borges on Tolkien's fantasies

Joachim Boaz: "Explorers We" by Philip K. Dick, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction (F&SF), January 1959, edited by Robert P. Mills; "Painwise" by "James Tiptree, Jr."/Alice Sheldon, F&SF, February 1972, edited by Edward L. Ferman

Brian Busby: The Contrast and Other Stories by Elinor Glyn

Brian Collins: Nova 1, edited by Harry Harrison (and most memorable from my early youth for being the first publication site of Donald Westlake's 'The Winner"-TM)

Jose Ignacio Escribano García-Bosque: "Too Many Motives" by James Ronald, 20-Story Magazine, April 1930, edited by F. C. Mackenzie

Aubrey Nye Hamilton: Blackout and Other Tales of Suspense by Ethel Lina White

Rich Horton: 4 novellas (considering for Hugo Award nominations): "A Mourning Coat" by Alex Jeffers; "The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain" by Sofia Samatar; "The Tusks of Extinction" by Ray Nayler; Haunt Sweet Home by Sarah Pinsker

Jerry House: "Wanderers in Time" by John Benyon Harris (John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris, best known for his later work signed John Wyndham), Wonder Stories, March 1933, edited by David Lasser (this issue online)

Kate Jackson: 12 Collections and Anthologies: The Animal-Lover’s Book of Beastly Murder (1975) by Patricia Highsmith; Inspector Colbeck’s Casebook (2014) by Edward Marston; The Problemist: The Complete Adventures of Thornley Colton, Blind Detective (1915-1916; 2010) by Clinton H. Stagg; Guilty Creatures: A Menagerie of Mysteries (2021) ed. by Martin Edwards; Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries (2022) ed. by Otto Penzler; Byomkesh Bakshi: Stories by Saradindu Bandopadhyay (2003) (Trans. Monimala Dhar); Crimes of Cymru: Classic Mystery Tales of Wales (2023) ed. by Martin Edwards; Bodies from the Library 5 (2022) ed. by Tony Medawar; Final Acts: Theatrical Mysteries (2022) ed. by Martin Edwards; Who Killed Father Christmas? And Other Seasonal Mysteries (2023) ed. by Martin Edwards; Golden Age Bibliomysteries (2023) ed. by Otto Penzler; The Edinburgh Mystery and Other Tales of Scottish Crime (2022) ed. by Martin Edwards

Tracy K: Not to Be Taken at Bed-Time and Other Strange Stories by Rosa Mulholland; Bending to Earth: Strange Stories by Irish Women, edited by Maria Giakaniki and Brian J. Showers; Ghosts of the Chit-Chat, edited by Robert Lloyd Parry

George Kelley: The Wild Adventures of Cthulhu, Volume 3, by Will Murray

David Levinson: Worlds of If: Science Fiction April 1970, edited by Ejler Jakobsson

S. E. Lindberg: New Edge Sword & Sorcery Magazine, edited by Oliver Brackenbury

Todd Mason: new stories by Bill Pronzini: "The Back End of Nowhere" Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, March/April 2025, edited by Linda Landrigan; "Tangled Web" Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, edited by Janet Hutchings and Jackie Sherbow; citations of the revivals of Worlds of If and Galaxy sf magazines, and the fantasist-in-chief

Jessica Dylan Miele: Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, edited by Gavin Grant and Kelly Link; Joyland Magazine, edited by Devin Kawailani Barricklow and Walker Caplan (et al.); The Ekphrastic Review, edited by Kare Copeland, Lorette C. Luzajic and Sandi Stromberg; Black Fox Literary Magazine, edited by Racquel  Henry, Elizabeth Sheets, et al.; Weird Lit Magazine, edited by September Herrin, et al.; Baffling Magazine, edited by dave ring and Aun-Juli Riddle, et al.; CALYX, edited by Brenna Crotty, et al.; Del Soul Review, edited by Kara De Folo, et al.; NewMyths.com edited by Scott T. Barnes and Susan Shell Winston, et al.

MWA: Ballots for Edgar and other Awards

J. F. Norris: The Half-Pint Flask by DuBose Heyward

Jim Noy: Banner Deadlines: The Impossible Files of Senator Brooks U. Banner by Joseph Commings [ed. Robert Adey]

John O'Neill: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopoids!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends, conducted by Richard A. Lupoff and Richard Wolinsky

James Reasoner: West, January 1949, edited by ?Morris Ogden Jones; Variety Detective, August 1938, edited by ?A. A. Wyn

Christopher Rowe: Sword and sorcery short fiction published/reprinted in English in 1963-65

Jack Seabrook: "The Children of Alda Nuova" by Robert Wallsten, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, edited by Frederic Dannay, August 1961; adapted by Wallsten for Alfred Hitchcock Presents: (first broadcast 5 June 1961)  the episode (free with ads) on Roku

Victoria Silverwolf: High Sorcery (a collection) by (Ms.) Andre Norton

Kevin Tipple: Shaken: Stories for Japan edited by Timothy Hallinan

TomCat:"The Problem of the Pink Post Office" by Edward D. Hoch, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1981, edited by Frederic Dannay

Morgan Wallace: Short Stories, 25 April 1933, edited by ?Harry Maule (featuring a world map indicating where each story in the issue is set).