Wednesday/Xmas Short Stories: reviews and more: 25/27 December 2024

John Boston: Amazing Stories, January 1970, edited by Ted White

Ben Boulden: Flint Kill Creek: Stories of Mystery and Suspense by Joyce Carol Oates; The Stark House Anthology edited by Rick Ollerman and Gregory Shepard; Christmas Crimes at the Mysterious Bookshop edited by Otto Penzler; Safe Enough and Other Stories by "Lee Child"

Curtis Evans: on Fredric Brown 

David Alan Green: "Twelfth Night Till Candlemass" and "How Nip Spent the Winter" by Ruth C. Paine

Mario Guslandi: This Haunted Heaven by Reggie Oliver

Rich Horton: Three Eight One by Aliyah Whiteley

Jerry House: "The Story of the Other Wise Man" by Henry van Dyke (Harper’s New Monthly Magazine January 1893); "Casting the Runes" by M. R. James (and the 1957 film adaptation), (More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold, 1911)

Tracy K: Mom Meets Her Maker by James Yaffe; A Bird in the House by Margaret Laurance

K. A. Laity: Christmas Ghost Stories

Steve Lewis: Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September 1967, edited by Frederic Dannay as "Ellery Queen"

Todd Mason: Final War and Other Fantasies (Ace 1969) and In the Pocket and Other Science Fiction Stories (Ace 1971) by Barry N. Malzberg: newly offered together; The Hanging Man and Other Western Stories by Bill Pronzini, including one in collaboration with Marcia Muller; Stark House 2024

Sheila M. Merritt: The Best Horror of the Year: Volume 16 edited by Ellen Datlow

Joyce Carol Oates: "Happy Christmas"

Kevin Tipple: Treacherous: Grifters, Ruffians and Killers by Gary Phillips

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