Showing posts with label Martin H Greenberg. Show all posts
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Wednesday, July 17, 2024

SSW: DARK AT HEART edited by Karen and Joe R. Lansdale (Dark Harvest 1992); LORD JOHN TEN edited by Dennis Etchison (Lord John Press 1988); STALKERS edited by Ed Gorman and Martin H. Greenberg (Roc/New American Library 1993)




Two gray books. Or, at least, two 
gray jackets. 


Lord John Ten ed. Dennis Etchison (Lord John Press 0-935716-43-2, 1988, $25.00, 240pp, hc) Largely original anthology of 35 stories, poems, articles, and other items, celebrating the publisher's tenth anniversary.

Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale (Dark Harvest 0-913165-64-6, Apr ’92 [Mar ’92], $21.95, 307pp, hc, cover by Peter Scanlan) An original anthology of 20 crime and suspense stories, many by writers also of fantasy and horror fiction.

And another in mostly darker tones:

Stalkers ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg (Penguin/Roc 0-451-45048-5, Dec ’90 [Nov ’90], $9.95, 386pp, tp) Reprint (Dark Harvest 1989) original anthology of 19 horror stories. This edition adds a story by Barry N. Malzberg.
  • 1 · Introduction · Ed Gorman · in Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 2 · Trapped · Dean R. Koontz · na Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 59 · Flight · John Coyne · nv Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 99 · A Day in the Life · F. Paul Wilson · nv Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 145 · Lizardman · Robert R. McCammon · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 158 · Pilots · Joe R. Lansdale & Dan Lowry · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 175 · Stalker · Ed Gorman · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 193 · Getting the Job Done · Rick Hautala · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 209 · Children of Cain · Al Sarrantonio · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 229 · A Matter of Principal [Quarry] · Max Allan Collins · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 242 · Miss December · Rex Miller · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 264 · A Matter of Firing · John Maclay · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 271 · The Sacred Fire [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 285 · The Stalker of Souls · Edward D. Hoch · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 306 · Darwinian Facts · Barry N. Malzberg · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Penguin/Roc, 1990
  • 321 · The Hunt · Richard Laymon · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 340 · Mother Tucker · James Kisner · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 350 · Jezebel · J. N. Williamson · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 361 · What Chelsea Said · Michael Seidman · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
  • 375 · Rivereños · Trish Janeshutz · ss Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1989
































This is a trio of impressive volumes that I've been meaning to review in depth for several years, now, and perhaps with this posting, I will compel myself to get off the starting point. I hope that you're already familiar with all three, but suspect that's least likely in the case of Etchison's Lord John Ten...but they are all worth the effort to find. (I have a number of relatively ambitious multi-item reviews as yet unfinished, but several of them are at least a bit further along than this one...but not yet enough to justify the posting.)

For more of today's short-story posts, please see Patti Abbott's blog.



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Friday, March 8, 2024

SSW/FFB: HITCHCOCK IN PRIME TIME edited by Francis M. Nevins, Jr. and Martin H. Greenberg (Avon 1985)


(Avon Books, August 1985, 0-380-89673-7, $9.95, 356pp, trade pb, anthology)    Can be read here.

1  Introduction ·  Henry Slesar  · in

The 1955-56 Season 
8 · And So Died Riabouchinska · Ray Bradbury · ss The Saint Detective Magazine June/July 1953
23 · The Orderly World of Mr. Appleby · Stanley Ellin · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine #78, May 1950
44 · Momentum · Cornell Woolrich · nv Detective Fiction Weekly December 14 1940, as “Murder Always Gathers Momentum”

The 1956-57 Season
77 · The Better Bargain · Richard Deming · ss Manhunt April 1956
88 · The Hands of Mr. Ottermole · Thomas Burke · nv The Story-teller February 1929
109 · The Dangerous People · Fredric Brown · ss Dime Mystery Magazine March 1945, as “No Sanctuary”
121 · Enough Rope for Two · Clark Howard · ss Manhunt February 1957
152 · The Day of the Execution · Henry Slesar · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1957

The 1957-58 Season
163 · The $2,000,000 Defense · Harold Q. Masur · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1958
181 · The Dusty Drawer · Harry Muheim · ss Collier’s May 3 1952

The 1959-60 Season

The 1962-63 Season
225 · Hangover · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan July 1956
238 · Hangover · Charles W. Runyon · ss Manhunt December 1960 

The 1963-64 Season
254 · A Home Away from Home · Robert Bloch · ss Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine June 1961
264 · Terror Town · Ellery Queen · nv Argosy August 1956

The 1964-65 Season
310 · One of the Family · James Yaffe · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine May 1956

For whatever reason, this rather obvious project (an anthology of stories adapted by Alfred Hitchcock Presents: and The Alfred Hitchcock Hour) saw only one trade paperback edition from Avon, in 1985, toward the earlier years of the mass influx of Martin Greenberg anthologies, and coinciding with the 1985 latter-day revival of Alfred Hitchcock Presents: (one season broadcast on NBC, then three more seasons cablecast on the USA Network channel); the acknowledgements pages are misleading, and verge on useless, but, happily, along with Henry Slesar's introduction to the volume, the living and game writers (for some reason, Ray Bradbury chose not to) supplied brief but useful or at least interesting notes about the fiction and its adaptation, even when (as with Stanley Ellin), the writer in question has no clear firsthand memory of the adaptation (or, in his case, even seeing it). Co-editor Francis Nevins supplies afterwords for those writers who were already gone or unwilling (even John D. MacDonald, still ticked in 1985 that Shamley Productions had the odd idea of flanging together his story with one of the same title by Charles Runyon for that script, is game to let us know about this; Runyon not much less puzzled, but happy enough to get the check).

At least two of these stories had also made their way into "Hitchcock" anthologies I'd read in the '70s, Robert Bloch's 1961 story "A Home Away from Home" (Bloch notes that he enjoyed expanding the brief short story, an Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Poe-inspired-contest-winner, when adapting it for the AH Hour adaptation; Bloch would also employ a version of the story as the framing device for his later anthology film-script for Asylum), in Alfred Hitchcock's Noose Report (1966), one of the Dell paperbacks which were essentially best-ofs from AHMM, and Harry Muheim's "The Dusty Drawer", which leads off Robert Arthur's brilliant 1969 anthology for Random House, Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month of Mystery (online here), as well as the Dell paperback first-volume (of 2) reprint, AHP: Dates with Death. 

A book well worth having, as well as reading, even given the odd skipping through the seasons of the original television series. One wonders if there was some intention on the part of the editors to make a more comprehensive survey of the stories adapted for the program. Additionally, it's not the worst survey of the sorts of crime fiction one could find in magazines in the (for the most part) 1950s and '60s.

Jack Seabrook corrects Muheim's memory of the previous television adaptation of his "The Dusty Drawer" in his review of the AHP: episode and, in passing, this anthology in this Bare Bones post.
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Wednesday, May 31, 2023

Short Story Wednesday: Three Items (Arguably) in Three Books and a Magazine: Ethel Rosenberg's "So Take Your Diamonds With You", George Woodcock's "Raven, the Prometheus of the Indians" and A CENTURY OF HORROR (1970-1979) edited by Dennis Etchison and M. H. Greenberg

As almost always, but with more purpose than usual, I am sifting through the chaotic collection of reading material in the house, of late to help create a new office for my cohabitant's private practice. So, some old (inanimate, literary) friends are uncovered, and I am reminded of them, or look at them again. And at other items they remind me of.

First up today is not exactly a short story, but it can be read as one, as it's a gracefully-lifted excerpt from "a sort of novel" as the author or her publisher tagged it, on the cover at left, below. And has any writer used her legal name at a worse time than Ethel Rosenberg, with her first novel Go Fight City Hall (1949) and a sequel of sorts, carrying over a major character from the first book, Julius Pasternak, and his family and social circles, Uncle Julius and the Angel with Heartburn (1951).

What it is, is rather expertly-detailed mild kvetching and noodging between the Pasternaks, their sister/in-law and the adult kids involved as the elders attempt to leave for a wedding in Philadelphia from their 
apartment building in Brooklyn, only to find a number of small distractions and annoyances in the way of getting to the train station on time, not least that the landlord, that goniff, has sent in a painter to finally give the apartment a new coat, and a sensitive painter who complains of distraction no less, and the Pasternaks' niece has actually engaged a taxi for them, with the meter running and all, yet the cabbie comes up and asks for a glass of water, while offering advice, as he's a psychologist, as well. '"You know what that means, don't you?" "Yes," Julius says patiently. "It means you took a course once."' As one might expect, this is rather familiar ground all these decades later, from no end of dramatic as well as literary variations since, but amiable and well-recomplicated and still worth the look. Rosenberg signed most of her subsequent work, apparently all aimed at younger readers, Eth Clifford (the latter a middle or maiden name). That was the byline on her 1995 MWA Edgar Award shortlister, for "juvenile novel", Harvey's Mystifying Raccoon Mix Up. Best Humor Annual editors Louis Untermeyer and Ralph Shikes had their own fun in the McCarthyite tenor of the early '50s, as well.

A different sort of Raven than MWA's or Poe's comes into play with Canadian poet and anarchist scholar George Woodcock's essay/ recounting of how the Raven trickster/creator myths are embedded in the religious traditions northwestern North American nations,  in the fifth, June 1988 issue of The Raven (a link to where the issue can be read), a quarterly journal that was for some years the stablemate of the venerable UK-based anarchist newspaper Freedom.  "Raven, the Prometheus of the Indians" notes in summation "How much of all this makes Raven an appropriate mascot for an anarchist magazine? He is always, in his own way, Lucifer, concerned with bringing the light and dispelling the darkness. Whatever his motives, he is never seen on the side of the powers that be, whatever they are, but carries on a perpetual trickster's war against their pretensions." As one who loved the origin myths that Woodcock deals with in the essay when reading and hearing them in my youth, his take is elegant and a bit nostalgic.

Nostalgia of various sorts brought me, while pining a bit for my copy of Ramsey Campbell's first anthology Superhorror, and its perhaps most brilliant story and probably the most criminally overlooked in the career of its author, R. A. Lafferty, "Fog in My Throat" (also a consideration of the place of religion in our lives...and deaths)--only one relatively rare, limited-edition collection among Lafferty's includes it, and no other reprints have occurred so far I'm aware of...I managed to land on Dennis Etchison and Martin Harry Greenberg's A Century of Horror: 1970-1979, clearly meant to be the first volume of a ten-volume series, but, as with a lot of the later Greenberg projects, plagued with certain obstacles, and the only volume that appeared. Terrible cover illustration, as well. Here's the contents as detailed by ISFDB, which (like myself) tends to segregate more or less "realistic" suspense fiction from horror fiction, but inconsistently, and does so with the clumsy tag "non-genre":
--where, for example, Bradbury's "Gotcha!" (probably his best late-published story though apparently one he'd written and put aside some years before) is no more horror per se than is the Matheson or the Lumley--the Lumley being one of his best stories, far from the clumsy melding of boy's adventure and Cthulhu mythos fiction that afflicts much of his other work.  But, then, Greenberg was a good (if not always attentive) editor, and Etchison was an even better one...though "Sticks" is perhaps more Karl Edward Wagner's most popular horror novelet than his best one (some of his "Kane"-series short fiction, straddling sword and sorcery and horror better than anyone else who comes to mind except for Fritz Leiber, and more consistently, probably would've been my choice here), and the Card story is a clumsy diatribe in the form of a not particularly good story on any level, though it does succeed in being as disgusting as Card wants it to be. Most of the rest of the choices are at least reasonably arguable, if not always the best of the decade as promised. Certainly the Lafferty story cited above, from the same source anthology of originals as the Lumley, should be present...

For more of today's SSW reviews, please see Patti Abbott's blog (and Pennsylvanians and others in the Philadelphia area can see Megan Abbott tonight at 7p at the Phoenixville bookstore Reads and Company).


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Wednesday, December 21, 2022

The best crime fiction of the year annuals of Ed Gorman, Robert Randisi, Martin H. Greenberg & company, revised


In 1990, Mystery Scene founders Ed Gorman and Robert Randisi took on Martin H. Greenberg as a partner in the magazine, and in that year they produced their first would-be annual edition of the year's best crime fiction, one volume only with New American Library in hardcover and paperback. 

still looking for a full index...ToC provided by Cindy Zeising 22 Dec 2022



In 1991, Randisi sold his stake in the magazine to Greenberg. In that year, Gorman and Greenberg began putting together a new Best of the Year annual, published by Carroll & Graf, which would run for seven volumes, till the 1998 offer, eventually with some credited co-editors. There was no 1999 volume (though in 1997, St. Martin's released an abridged mass-market paperback version of the 1996 C&G hardcover); in 2000, Gorman and Greenberg's annual took on a new format with a new publisher, as The World's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories , which would see five fatter annual volumes from the St. Martin's/Tor/Forge complex of imprints, and thus joined the established Gardner Dozois sf and Ellen Datlow and Terri Windling fantasy and horror annuals there. The Gorman/Greenberg series took on a similar attempt to the other annuals to be even more thoroughly a yearbook for the crime fiction field as well as a BOTY anthology, with hefty nonfictional summations as prefatory matter to the fiction. After the fifth volume in this sequence, the project returned to Carroll & Graf for two volumes (and two volumes of a companion anthology devoted to novellas), with a changed title format (featuring the title of one of the included stories), a format it would retain for the rest of the series' run. Apparently, though I'm still looking into it when not fighting the Blogspot typesetting. there was a phantom announcement of  a 20-story rather than 22-story version of The Deadly Bride volume, which was to appear from Da Capo Press, which would publish the 2007 edition and, subsequently, Pegasus Crime, Bleak House Books and finally Tyrus Books would get one each of the remainder...unfortunately, by the final volumes' appearance, the editors' health and other matters were affecting the production of the annual (perhaps their formatting software was as rebellious as Blogspot's, and jumping from division to division and then to another publisher almost certainly didn't help), with proofreading sliding downhill and a most remarkable clunker, the listing of Patti Abbott's short story in the contents and back-cover blurb for the penultimate volume, but omitting of the text of her story altogether in the book, in some sort of paperwork error. But the Gorman and Greenberg annuals provided a useful and often impressive alternative as successors and competitors to the Best Mystery and Suspense Stories of the Year (wrapping up its long run with the 1995 volume, extending back through the volumes of the Best Detective Stories of the Year), with long-term Best Mystery editor Edward Hoch contributing nonfiction as well as fiction to the Gorman/Greenberg volumes, and as successors the two-volume Jon L. Breen iBooks annual (2001-2002; Breen, too, would join the Gorman/Greenberg effort), Maxim Jakubowski's Best British Mysteries annual, and the two current survivors in the field, successors to  Otto Penzler's Best American Mystery Stories, beginning with its 1997 volume (which B. V. Lawson reviews this week [at time of this post's first publication]), Steph Cha's Best American Mystery and Suspense (HM Harcourt) and Penzler's The Best Mystery Stories of the Year (Mysterious Press) .

1992:
* Challenge the Widow-Maker by Clark Howard
* Stakeout by Bill Pronzini
* Malibu Dog by Faye Kellerman
* Decoy by Michael Gilbert
* White Alligator by Andrew Henry Vachss
* The Detective’s Wife by Edward D. Hoch
* The Fish-Sitter by Ruth Rendell
* Elvis Lives by Lynne Barrett
* Mother Tucker by James Kisner
* The Mandrake Forgeries by William Bankier
* The Nick of Time by Robert Barnard
* Hanged for a Sheep by Henry Slesar
* Incident On and Off a Mountain Road by Joe R. Lansdale
* Batman’s Helpers by Lawrence Block
* The Valuation by Peter Lovesey
* A Matter of Principal by Max Allan Collins
* Final Resting Place by Marcia Muller
* The Maltese Cat by Sara Paretsky
* Another Room by Joan Hess
* Button in the Bag by Charlotte MacLeod
* The Three Musketeers by Jeremiah Healy
* A Poison That Leaves No Trace by Sue Grafton
* Someone Else by John Lutz
* The Dead Past by Nancy Pickard
* A Time for Every Purpose by Kristine Kathryn Rusch 
1993:
* Introduction: The Mystery in 1992 by Jon L. Breen
* Someday I'll Plant More Walnut Trees by Lawrence Block
* The Winfield Trade by Jeremiah Healy
* Liar's Dice by Bill Pronzini
* Long Live the Queen by Ruth Rendell
* Lazy Susan by Nancy Pickard
* A Hotel in Bucharest by Robert Barnard
* The Crime of Miss Oyster Brown by Peter Lovesey
* Secrets by June Thomson
* Whatever Has To Be Done by Jan Grape
* Stop, Thief! by Barbara D'Amato
* While She Was Out by Edward Bryant
* True Faces by Pat Cadigan
* The Perplexing Puzzle of the Perfidious Pigeon Poisoner by Charlotte MacLeod
* Cat Got Your Tongue by Barbara Collins and Max Allan Collins
* The Last to Know by Joan Hess
* The Man Who Loved Noir by Loren D. Estleman
* Johnny Halloween by Norman Partridge
* The Maltese Double Cross by Carole Nelson Douglas
* Benny's Space by Marcia Muller
* Settled Score by Sara Paretsky
* The Theft of the Barking Dog by Edward D. Hoch
* A Predatory Woman by Sharyn McCrumb
* Wedding Bells by Michael Z. Lewin
* Proxime Accessit by Reginald Hill
* The Wind from Midnight by Ed Gorman

1994:
* Introduction: The Mystery in 1993 by Jon L. Breen
* Slasher by F. Paul Wilson
* Keller’s Therapy by Lawrence Block
* The Mouse in the Corner by Ruth Rendell
* That Bells May Ring and Whistles Safely Blow by Margaret Maron
* That Damn Cat by Barbara Collins
* Parris Green by Carole Nelson Douglas
* The Man in the Red-Flannel Suit by Jan Grape
* Checkout by Susan Dunlap
* Goodbye, Sue Ellen by Gillian Roberts
* The Ghost Show by Doug Allyn
* McIntyre’s Donald by Joseph Hansen
* Some Sunny Day by Julian Rathbone
* The Wall by Marcia Muller
* History Repeats Itself, and It Doesn’t Even Say Pardon by Mat Coward
* Strays by Kristine Kathryn Rusch
* The Lesson by Billie Sue Mosiman
* Spin-a-Rama by Jeremiah Healy
* The Mood Cuckoo by Jonathan Gash
* The Ugly Earthling Murder Case by George Alec Effinger
* Sweetheart of the Rodeo by Mark Timlin
* A Vacance en Campagne by Tim Heald
* It Takes One to Know One by Robert Bloch
* Shade Work by Bill Pronzini
* First Lead Gasser by Tony Hillerman
* Enduring as Dust by Bruce Holland Rogers


1995:
Introduction : the mystery in 1994 / Jon L. Breen -- The gentleman in the lake / Robert Barnard -- 
High heels in the headliner / Wendy Hornsby -- 
Coyote peyote / Carole Nelson Douglas -- 
The lost coast / Marcia Muller 
Sign of the times / Nancy Pickard -
Unkindest cut / Lary Segriff -- 
A deep hole / Ian Rankin -- 
And she laughed / Liz Holliday -- 
Last of kin / Jo Bannister -- 
One of those days, one of those nights / Ed Gorman -- Pork pie hat / Peter Straub -- 
Old rattler / Sharyn McCrumb -- 
Oil and water / J.A. Jance -- 
No simpel solution / Jan Grape -- 
Nooses give / Dana Stabenow -- 
His father's ghost / Max Allan Collins -- 
The man who hated television / Julian Symons -- With anchovies / John Lutz -- 
The ten lives of Talbert / Barbara Collins -- 
The necessary brother / Brendan DuBois -- 
The tennis court / Brenda Melton Burnham -- 
An eye for a tooth / Justin Scott -- 
The dancing bear / Doug Allyn -- 
Keller on horseback / Lawrence Block -- 
Out of the depths / Bill Pronzini.
1996:
* Introduction by Jon L. Breen
* She Rote by John Harvey
* Valentine's Night by Nancy Pickard
* The Matchmaker by Sharyn McCrumb
* The Judge's Boy by Jean B. Cooper
* One Night At Dolores Park by Bill Pronzini
* When Your Breath Freezes by Kathleen Dougherty
* Principles of Accounts by Ian Rankin
* Mommy by Max Allan Collins
* Beasts in Buildings, Turning 'Round by J.N. Williamson
* The Best Sort of Husband by Susan B. Kelly
* An Act of Violence by William F. Nolan
* The End Of It All by Ed Gorman
* The Hudson Chain by Edward D. Hoch
* The Holes in the System by Marcia Muller
* Double Take by L.J. Washburn
* Grace Notes by Sara Paretsky
* Keepsakes by Peter Crowther
* Dirty Dancing by Carole Nelson Douglas
* Of Mice, Men and Two Women by Julian Rathbone
* The Silence of Sorrow by Richard T. Chizmar
* All That Glitters by Joan Hess
* The Pushover by Peter Lovesey
* Keller in Shining Armor by Lawrence Block
* Midnight Sun by Barbara Paul
* The Blackmailer by Anne Perry 

 1997 abridged mass-market paperback edition of the 1996 hardcover:
She rote / John Harvey --
Valentine's night / Nancy Pickard --
The matchmaker / Sharyn McCrumb --
The judge's boy / Jean B. Cooper --
One night at Dolores Park / Bill Pronzini --
When your breath freezes / Kathleen Dougherty --
Principles of accounts / Ian Rankin --
Mommy / Max Allan Collins --
The end of it all / Ed Gorman --
The holes in the system / Marcia Muller
Grace notes / Sara Paretsky --
Dirty dancing / Carole Nelson Douglas --
All that glitters / Joan Hess --
The pushover / Peter Lovesey --
Keller in shining armor/ Lawrence Block --
The blackmailer / Anne Perry.
1997:
The dark snow / Brendan Du Bois
The escape / Anne Perry -- 
Clothes / Ruth Rendell -- 
The cracks in the sidewalk / Marcia Muller -- 
Dead drunk / Lia Matera -- 
Running from legs / Ed McBain -- 
The cassoulet / Walter Satterthwait -- 
Toad crossing / John Lutz and David August -- 
Wild horses / Sam Pizzo -- 
The last word -- Maude Miller
My murder / David Corn -- 
The narrow house / Edward D. Hoch -- 
Married to a murderer / Alan Russell -- 
The perfect murder club / Reginald Hill -
Kiss the sky / James Grady -- 
Intent to kill / Monica Quill -- 
The girl who talked to horses / Robert J. Randisi -- Stalking horse / Susan B. Kelly
A good thing / Simon Brett -- 
Hoops / S.J. Rozan -- 
Real life / Sarah Shankman -- 
A rock and a hard place / Nancy Pickard -- 
The burglar and the whatsit / Donald E. Westlake -- 
Publicity stunts / Sara Paretsky -- 
The monster / Bill Pronzini.

 1998:
Contents:
The kneeling soldier/Jeffrey Deaver -- 
Speak no evil/Nancy Pickard -
Solo/Marcia Muller -- 
Psychofemmes/Melissa Mia Hall -- 
Blood brothers/Richard T. Chizmar -- 
Ways to kill a cat/Simon Brett
The horseshoe nail/Bill Pronzini -- 
Bird of paradise/John Harvey 
A front row seat/Jan Grape -- 
A long and happy life/DeLoris Stanton Forbes -- Nightcrawlers/John Lutz -- 
Remembrance/Carolny G. Hart -- 
Tea for two/M.D. Lake -- 
On the psychiatrist's couch/Reginald Hill 
The Easter cat/Bill Crider -- 
Call me Walt/Jerry Sykes. 
Cold turkey/Carole Nelson Douglas -- 
Death cup/Joyce Carol Oates -- 
Love me for my yellow hair alone: 32 short films about Marilyn Monroe/Carolyn Wheat -- 
The clock that counts the dead/Edward Bryant -- 
Take it away/Donald E. Westlake. 
The man who beat the system/Stuart Kaminsky -- 
Keller on the spot/Lawrence Block -- 
The house on the edge/D.A. McGuire -- 
Crimson shadow/Walter Mosely.

2000:
The year in mystery and crime fiction : 1999 / Jon L. Breen --
A 1999 yearbook of mystery and crime / Edward D. Hoch --
Heroes / Anne Perry --
Rio Grande gothic / David Morrell --
The hanged man / Ian Rankin --
Spooked / Carolyn G. Hart --
Show me the bones / Carolyn Wheat --
A flash of chrysanthemum / J.A. Jance --
The man in the white hat / Loren D. Estleman --
'53 Buick / Gary Phillips --
Crack / James W. Hall --
Paleta man / Laurie R. King --
Snow / Stuart M. Kaminsky --
The canasta club / Eleanor Taylor Bland --
Unchained melody / Doug Allyn --
Something simple / Rob Kantner --
The circle of ink / Edward D. Hoch --
The death cat of Hester Street / Carol Gorman --
Dark times / Peter Crowther --
Those that trespass / Peter Tremayne --
Blitzed / Phil Lovesey --
For services rendered / Jeffery Deaver --
The tinder box / Minette Walters --
Symptoms of loss / Jerry Sykes --
Taking care of Frank / Antony Mann --
Styx and bones / Edward Bryant --
Not long now / Carol Anne Davis --
The shortest distance / Mat Coward --
I love everything about you / Marthayn Pelegrimas and Robert J. Randisi --
The case of the headless witness / Lloyd Biggle, Jr. --
The mummy case / Carole Nelson Douglas --
Recycle / Marcia Muller --
Now what? / Donald E. Westlake --
Barking at butterflies / Ed McBain --
The dark prince / Joyce Carol Oates --
Rappin' dog / Dick Lochte --
Dream lawyer / Lia Matera --
Flood / Bill Pronzini --
The ice shelf / Clark Howard --
In for a penny / Lawrence Block.

2oo1:
Spinning / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -
The summer people / Brendan DuBois --
Afraid of the dark / Nancy Pickard --
For all the saints / Gillian Linscott --
Let's get lost / Lawrence Block --
Under suspicion / Clark Howard --
Childhood / S.J. Rozan --
Art & craft / Donald E. Westlake --
The allotment / Peter Crowther --
Twelve of the little buggers / Mat Coward --
Missing in action / Peter Robinson --
The Haggard Society / Edward D. Hoch --
Scorpion's kiss / Stuart M. Kaminsky --
Noble causes / Bob Mendes --
The sleeping detective / Gary Phillips --
A night in the Manchester store / Stanley Cohen --
What Mr. McGregor saw / Dorothy Cannell --
Delta double-deal / Noreen Ayres --
Three nil / Mat Coward --
The man in the civil suit / Jan Burke --
Black and white memories / Robert J. Randisi --
Nothing to lose / Robert Barnard --
Widower's walk / Joseph Hansen --
Character flaw / Christine Matthews --
Golden Gate Bridge--A view from below / Jürgen Ehlers --
Boo / Richard Laymon --
Veterans / John Lutz --
The abbey ghosts / Jan Burke --
The country of the blind / Doug Allyn --
Happiness / Joyce Carol Oates --
The confession / Ian Rankin --
The perfectionist / Peter Lovesey --
A wall too high / Edward D. Hoch --
The silence / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
The big bite / Bill Pronzini --
The gathering of the klan / Les Roberts --
When the black shadows die / Clark Howard --
Rebirth (Cain and Abel) / Miguel Agustí --
Helena and the babies / Denise Mina --
Old soldiers / Brendan DuBois --
The victim / Ed McBain --
The poet of pulp / Pete Hamill
2002:
The world's finest mystery and crime stories : third annual collection The year in mystery and crime fiction: 2001 / Jon L. Breen A 2001 yearbook of crime and mystery / Edward D. Hoch World mystery report: Great Britain / Maxim Jakubowski World mystery report: Australia / David Honeybone World mystery report: Canada / Edo van Belkom World mystery report: Germany / Thomas Woertche Year 2001 in mystery fandom / George A. Easter Double-crossing Delancey / S.J. Rozan -- Activity in the flood plain / Ed McBain -- The only good judge / Carolyn Wheat -- Speaking of greed / Lawrence Block -- The California contact / Clark Howard -- Tell me you forgive me? / Joyce Carol Oates -- Beautiful / Jeffery Deaver -- Unreasonable doubt / Max Allan Collins -- Lucky devil / Nancy Pickard -- The star thief / Brendan DuBois -- Chip / Bill Pronzini -- Come again? / Donald E. Westlake -- Dark mirror / Lauren Henderson -- The adventure of the Cheshire cheese / Jon L. Breen -- Dry whiskey / David B. Silva -- Countdown / Wolfgang Burger -- Old dog, new tricks / Robert Barnard -- The wink / Ruth Rendell -- Fire works / Paul Lascaux -- Juggernaut / Nancy Springer -- Star struck / Peter Lovesey -- Known unto God / Jac. Toes -- The eye of the beholder / Lillian Stewart Carl -- Blind alley / Mary Jane Maffini -- Canon / John Vermeulen -- A well-respected man / Margaret Coel -- The girl who killed Santa Claus / Val McDermid -- The Trebuchet murder / Susanna Gregory -- Turnaround / Carolyn Hart -- Out like a lion / Bill Crider -- The perfect man / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -- Conscience / Stephan Rykena -- Living next door to malice / Billie Rubin -- The good old German way / Tatjana Kruse -- The case of the bloodless sock / Anne Perry -- Blood, snow, and classic cars / Joseph Hansen -- The impostor / Marcia Muller -- The problem of the yellow wallpaper / Edward D. Hoch -- In the city of angels / Dick Lochte -- Honorable mentions / Angela Zeman.
2003:
The year in mystery and crime fiction, 2002 / Jon L. Breen
A 2002 yearbook of crime and mystery / Edward D. Hoch
World mystery report, Great Britain / Maxim Jakubowski
World mystery report, Canada / Edo Van Belkom
World mystery report, Germany / Thomas Wörtche
To live and die in Midland, Texas / Clark Howard
Rules of the game / Kate Wilhelm --
The wagon mound / Val McDermid --
Ghost writer / Janice Law --
My cousin Rachel's Uncle Murray / Susan Isaacs 
Top of the world / Bill Crider --
Ere I killed thee / Anne Perry --
The Panama hen / Gesine Schultz --
Gracious silence / Gillian Linscott --
Cold-blooded / Stephan Rykena --
Lead ... follow / Jac. Toes --
Two sisters / Frauke Schuster --
Barefoot / Chris Rippen --
Those are pearls that were his eyes / Carole Nelson Douglas
A mimicry of mockingbirds / Lillian Stewart Carl
The twin / Brad Reynolds --
The vampire theme / Edward D. Hoch --
The devil that walks at noonday / Ralph McInerny
The murder ballads / Doug Allyn --
The vale of the white horse / Sharyn McCrumb --
A girl named Charlie / Stanley Cohen --
The adventure of the mooning sentry / Jon L. Breen
Second story sunlight / John Lutz --
A moment of wrong thinking / Lawrence Block --
Too many cooks / Marcia Talley --
The path to the shroud / Robert Barnard
Closer to the flame / Jerry Sykes --
Chalele / John Vermeulen --
Wrong place, wrong time / Bill Pronzini
Fleeting fashion / Bob Mendes --
Flying fast / Piet Teigeler --
The best time for planting / Ina Coelen --
The money to feed them / Martin Spiegelberg --
Mexican Gatsby / Raymond Steiber --
Three killings and a favor / Joan Waites
War can be murder / Mike Doogan --
The adventure of the agitated actress / Daniel Stashower --
Two in the same boat / Anke Gebert --
Aftermath / Jeremiah Healy --
Whispers of the dead / Peter Tremayne --
An empire's reach / Brendan DuBois --
Surveillance / Jeffery Deaver -
The 2002 Edgar Allan Poe mystery fiction short-list.
2004:
The year in mystery and crime fiction, 2003 / Jon L. Breen
A 2003 yearbook of crime and mystery / Edward D. Hoch --
World mystery report, Great Britain / Maxim Jakubowski -
World mystery report, Canada / Edo van Belkom --
World mystery report, Germany / Thomas Wörtche
The year 2003 in mystery fandom / George A. Easter
Cowboy Grace / Kristine Kathryn Rusch -
Palace in the pines / Doug Allyn --
Offenders / Mat Coward --
Bet on Red / Jeff Abbott --
Doctor's orders / Judith Cutler --
Esther Gordon Framlingham / Antony Mann --
Nighthawks / John Lutz --
Starting over / Carol Anne Davis -- 
Dreams of Jeannie / Catherine Dain -- 
The face of Ali Baba / Edward D. Hoch -- 
Take my word for it and you don't have to answer / Robert S. Levinson 
The maids / G. Miki Hayden -- 
Black Heart and Cabin Girl / Shelley Costa -- 
Dollface / Marion Arnott 
Doppelganger / Rhys Bowen --
No man's land / Elizabeth Foxwell --
Safety first / Marcia Talley -- 
Red meat / Elaine Viets -- 
Sex and bingo / Elaine Viets -- 
Aces & eights / David Edgerly Gates --
Proportionate response / Jeremiah Healy -- 
The hunter / Joyce Carol Oates -- 
The Cherub affair / Peter Robinson -- 
The corpse that lost its head / John Vermeulen - 
The best / Chris Rippen -- The rival / Helga Anderle -
African Christmas / Frauke Schuster -- 
The gallows necklace / Sharyn McCrumb 
One shot difference / Brendan DuBois -- 
Woke up this morning / Liza Cody -- 
The leper colony / Clark Howard -- 
Honorable mentions -- 
About the editors

Sixth: 2005
2005:
The year in mystery and crime fiction: 2004 / Jon L. Breen --
A 2004 yearbook of crime and mystery / Edward D. Hoch --
The mystery in Great Britain/Maxim Jakubowski --
The newest four-letter word in mystery / Sarah Weinman --
The adventure of the missing detective / Gary Lovisi 
The Westphalian ring / Jeffery Deaver --
The hit / Robert S. Levinson --
The last case of Hilly Palmer / Duane Swierczynski --
Everybody's girl / Robert Barnard --
Imitate the sun / Luke Sholer --
Father Diodorus / Charlie Stella --
A nightcap of hemlock / Francis M. Nevins --
The best in online mystery fiction in 2004 / Sarah Weinman --
Just pretend / Martyn Waites --
Geoffrey says / Aliya Whiteley --
God's dice / David White --
The consolation blond / Val McDermid --
The shoeshine man's regrets / Laura Lippman --
For benefit of Mr. Means / Christine Matthews --
East side, west side / Max Allan Collins and Matthew V. Clemens --
The promotion / Larry D. Sewazy --
Me and Mitch / Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg -
The necromancer's apprentice / Lillian Stewart Carl 
The banshee / Joyce Carol Oates --
Sounds of silence / Dennis Richard Murphy.

The novellas volume from 2004 publications:
2005:
The Gin Mill / Doug Allyn --
Wreck Rights / Dana Stabenow --
Deep Lock / Clark Howard Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v124 #6, #760, December 2004] ed. Janet Hutchings 
Scrogged: A Cyber-Christmas Carol / Carole Nelson Douglas
The Widow of Slane / Terence Faherty --
Tricks / Steve Hockensmith
A Tale of One City / Anne Perry.

Seventh: (see abridged reprint at list's end)
2006:
The mystery in 2005 and 2006 / Jon L. Breen --
A 2005 yearbook of crime and mystery / Edward D. Hoch --
Online mystery fiction in 2005 and 2006 / Sarah Weinman --
The catch / James W. Hall --
There is no crime on Easter Island / Nancy Pickard --
Born bad / Jeffery Deaver --
The deadly bride / Sharan Newman --
Highest, best use / J.A. Jance --
Interlude at Duane's / F. Paul Wilson --
The adeland sanction / David Morrell --
Lightning rider /Rick Mofina --
Driven to distraction / Marcia Talley --
Little sins / Mike MacLean --
Dust up / Wendy Hornsby --
Why'd you bring me here? / Stanley Cohen --
Chapter 82: Myrna Lloyd is missing / Robert S. Levinson --
Down and out in Brentwood / Neal Marks --
Cain was innocent / Simon Brett --
A temporary crown / Sue Pike --
Sanctuary! / Peter Tremayne --
A matter of honor / Jeremiah Healy --
Low drama / Kim Harrington --
Jury duty / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
The last interview / Craig McDonald --
Lost causes / Anne Perry.

The novellas volume from 2005/2006 publications: 2007

Honor code / Joyce Carol Oates --
Junior partner in crime / Carole Nelson Douglas --
Grieving Las Vegas / Jeremiah Healy --
Resurrection man / Sharyn McCrumb --
Temptation of King David / Brendan DuBois --
Gustav Amlingmeyer, Holmes of the range / Steve Hockensmith --
Wolf Woman Bay / Doug Allyn --
Merely hate / Ed McBain --
Diamond dog / Dick Lochte --
Arizona heat / Clark Howard Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine [v128 #2, #780, August 2006] ed. Janet Hutchings

Eighth: 2008
The mystery in 2007 / Jon L. Breen --
Obituaries in 2007 / Edward D. Hoch --
Mulholland dive / Michael Connelly --
Everybody loves somebody / Sandra Scoppettone --
Making amends / Jeffery Deaver --
A vision in white / Lawrence Block --
Pony girl / Laura Lippman --
Prayers for the dying / Jeremiah Healy --
Devil dog / Dick Lochte --
A prisoner of memory / Robert S. Levinson --
A saving grace / Patricia Abbott --
Cadaver dog / Bryon Quertermous --
Anniversary / Hilary Davidson --
Something out of the ordinary / Kerry Ashwin --
Dead as a dog / Doug Allyn --
Dies irae / Dorothy Salisbury Davis --
Blues in the Kabul night / Clark Howard --
The profane angel / Loren D. Estleman --
Bereavement / Tom Piccirilli --
Country manners / Brendan DuBois --
And then she was gone / Christine Matthews --
The guardians / Jim Fusilli --
I killed / Nancy Pickard --
Substitutions / Kristine Kathryn Rusch --
Pickpocket / Marcia Muller --
The winning ticket / Bill Pronzini --
Valentine, July heat wave / Joyce Carol Oates --
Online mystery fiction in 2007 / Sarah Weinman.

Ninth: 2009
The year in mystery: 2008 / Jon L. Breen --
Father's day / Michael Connelly --
Walking the dog / Peter Robinson --
Lucky / Charlaine Harris --
A sleep not unlike death / Sean Chercover
Joyce Carol Oates, 
Laura Lippman, 
Tom Piccirilli, 
John Harvey, 
Skinhead Central/T. Jefferson Parker, 
Patricia Abbott [story on Table of Contents, but missing from book], 
Megan Abbott, 
Kristine Kathryn Rusch, 
Robert S. Levinson, 
Doug Allyn, 
Noreen Ayres, 
Charles Ardai, 
Martin Edwards, 
Bill Pronzini, 
Steve Hockensmith, 
Dominique Mainard, 
Brett Battles, 
David Edgerly Gates, 
Nancy Pickard, 
Scott Phillips, 
Bill Crider, 
Gary Phillips, 
Norman Partridge, 
Martin Limon, 
Jeremiah Healy

Tenth: 2010
The mystery in 2009 / Jon L. Breen --
Animal rescue / Dennis LeHane --
Family Affair : a Smokey Dalton story / Kris Nelscott 
Survival instincts / Sandra Seamans --
Julius Katz / Dave Zeltserman --
Seeing the moon / S.J. Rozan --
Dark chocolate / Nancy Pickard --
Telegraphing / Marcia Muller --
The Valhalla verdict / Doug Allyn --
Pure pulp / Bill Crider --
Blood sacrifices and the catatonic kid / Tom Picirrilli
Patterns / Richard Lupoff --
The tell-tale purr / Mary Higgins Clark --
The big switch: a Mike Hammer story / Mickey Spillane and Max Allan Collins --
Crazy Larry smells bacon / Greg Bardsley --
Femme Sole / Dana Cameron --
The dark island / Brendan Dubois --
The Caretaker / Terence Faherty --
The case of the Colonel Crockett's violin / Gillian Linscott --
The case of Colonel Warburton's madness / Lyndsay Faye --
Time will tell / Twist Phelan --
By hook or by crook / Charlie Dress --
The final nail: A Val O'Farrell story / Bob Randisi --
Amapola / Luis Alberto Urrea --
Cougar / Laura Lippman --
Digby, attorney at law / Jim Fusilli --
The way they limp / Clark Howard --
O'Nelligan's glory / Michael Nethercott --
Between sins / Robert Levinson.

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 And this is the apparent phantom version of The Deadly Bride:

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