Showing posts with label suspense-fiction anthologies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label suspense-fiction anthologies. Show all posts

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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Wednesday, August 30, 2023

Short Story Wednesday: the preliminary TOC for a Best Suspense Stories anthology...

Almost eleven years ago now, I mentioned here, in a review of notable mostly suspense-fiction anthologies having had a promising nibble from a small press publisher, an anthology I'd been mulling seemed close to happening, but no...and I might still go ahead, but part of what has been holding me up was whether to go the Poll Route, and give a ballot to various excellent writers in the field of what I call suspense fiction, and knowledgeable readers/fans, and see what they might like among my suggestions, and follow (or not) their own--many so-called Hall of Fame (and similar labels) volumes in various fields have been following that path over the decades. But the proposal has gone, in the way of many spec submissions to publishers, by the wayside or has at least been hanging fire.

Perhaps the most obscure of the volumes I reviewed...

So might still, and so here's some easily revisable preliminary thoughts for such a volume...one which might try not to include Too many all but inevitable chestnut stories, but it'd be hard to put together such an anthology and leave out, say, "The Lottery" or "The Most Dangerous Game" or "Leiningen versus the ants" or "An Occurence at Owl Creek Bridge"...I had a long list of possibilities in one or another file, on one or another computer...

Edward D. Hoch: "The Oblong Room"
Patricia Highsmith: "The Snail-Watcher"
Daphne du Maurier: "The Birds"
Joan Aiken: "Marmalade Wine" and/or Evelyn Waugh: "The Man Who Loved Dickens"
Jorge Luis Borges: "The Other Death"
John Collier: "Evening Primrose"
Bill Pronzini: "Strangers in the Fog"
Joe R. Lansdale: "The Night They Missed the Horror Show"
Joe Gores: "Watch for It"
"Saki": "The Reticence of Lady Anne"
Robert Bloch: "The Final Performance"
Ray Bradbury: "The October Game" 
Barry N. Malzberg: "Agony Column"
Fredric Brown: "Don't Look Behind You"
Cornell Woolrich: "Papa Benjamin" aka "Dark Melody of Madness" (though I should reread it, as I remember it verging on the supernatural without going all the way there, which is what I'm aiming at in this context)
Avram Davidson: (several possibilities I should review!)
Jack Ritchie: (likewise; provisionally:) "For All the Rude People"
Stanley Ellin: "Specialty of the House"
Richard Matheson: "The Distributor"
Kit Reed: "To Be Taken in a Strange Country"
Dennis Etchison: "The Pitch"
Robert Arthur: (several to parse)
Graham Greene: (likewise)
Roald Dahl: "Man from the South"
David Ely: "The Academy"
Joyce Carol Oates: "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?"
Brian Garfield: "Checkpoint Charlie"
Algis Budrys: "The Master of the Hounds"
E. A. Poe: "The Cask of Amontillado" (as chestnutty as a story can be...)
...and so many more I should be recalling, and have read since I last updated my list...

Any particular favorites of yours you might suggest?

For more of today's Short Story Wednesday reviews, 

And the TOC of the Pronzini and Malzberg anthology, omitted from the post that this one links to at top:
Great Tales of Mystery and Suspense ed. Bill Pronzini, Martin H. Greenberg & Barry N. Malzberg (A&W/Galahad 0-88365-700-7, 1985 [Jan ’86], $8.98, 601pp, hc) Reprint (Arbor House 1981 as The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense) anthology. This edition omits one story, “Crime Wave in Pinhole” by Julie Smith, which makes it an abridgement of the original. This is an instant remainder book.

11 · Introduction · John D. MacDonald · in
17 · The Gold-Bug · Edgar Allan Poe · nv Philadelphia Dollar Newspaper Jun 21-28, 1843
48 · Hunted Down · Charles Dickens · nv New York Ledger Aug 20-Sep 3, 1859; EQMM Jan ’47
67 · The Stolen White Elephant · Mark Twain · nv The Stolen White Elephant, Webster, 1882; EQMM Jul ’43
85 · Ransom · Pearl S. Buck · nv Cosmopolitan Oct ’38; EQMM Jun ’55
108 · The Adventure of the Glass-Domed Clock [Ellery Queen] · Ellery Queen · ss Mystery League Oct ’33
126 · The Arrow of God [Simon Templar] · Leslie Charteris · nv EQMM Sep ’49; The Saint Detective Magazine (UK) Nov ’62; The Saint Detective Magazine Jan ’63
147 · A Passage to Benares [Prof. Henry Poggioli] · T. S. Stribling · nv Adventure Feb 20 ’26
174 · The Case of the Emerald Sky [Dr. Jan Czissar] · Eric Ambler · ss The Sketch Jul 10 ’40; EQMM Mar ’45
183 · The Other Hangman · John Dickson Carr · ss A Century of Detective Stories, ed. Anon., London: Hutchinson, 1935; EQMM Jan ’65
196 · The Couple Next Door [Inspector Sands] · Margaret Millar · ss EQMM Jul ’54
211 · Danger Out of the Past [“Protection”] · Erle Stanley Gardner · ss Manhunt May ’55; EQMM Mar ’61
223 · A Matter of Public Notice · Dorothy Salisbury Davis · nv EQMM Jul ’57
239 · The Cat’s-Paw · Stanley Ellin · ss EQMM Jun ’49
254 · The Road to Damascus [Daniel John Calder; Samuel Behrens] · Michael Gilbert · ss Argosy (UK) Jun ’66; EQMM May ’67
272 · Midnight Blue [Lew Archer] · Ross Macdonald · nv Ed McBain’s Mystery Book #1 ’60; EQMM Jul ’71
299 · I’ll Die Tomorrow · Mickey Spillane · ss Cavalier Mar ’60
310 · For All the Rude People · Jack Ritchie · ss AHMM Jun ’61
323 · Hangover · John D. MacDonald · ss Cosmopolitan Jul ’56
333 · The Santa Claus Club [Francis Quarles] · Julian Symons · ss Suspense (UK) Dec ’60; EQMM Jan ’67
344 · The Wager [Kek Huuygens] · Robert L. Fish · ss Playboy Jul ’73; EQMM Nov ’78
353 · A Fool About Money · Ngaio Marsh · ss EQMM Dec ’74
358 · And Three to Get Ready... · Horace L. Gold · ss Fantastic Sum ’52
368 · “J” [87th Precinct] · Ed McBain · nv, 1961
414 · Burial Monuments Three · Edward D. Hoch · ss AHMM May ’72
425 · The Murder · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Night-Side, 1977
434 · Fatal Woman · Joyce Carol Oates · ss Night-Side, 1977
439 · Agony Column · Barry N. Malzberg · ss EQMM Dec ’71
446 · Last Rendezvous · Jean L. Backus · ss EQMM Sep ’77
453 · The Real Shape of the Coast · John Lutz · ss EQMM Jun ’71
464 · Hercule Poirot in the Year 2010 [Hercule Poirot] · Jon L. Breen · ss EQMM Mar ’75
472 · Merrill-Go-Round [Sharon McCone] · Marcia Muller · ss The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House, 1981
484 · A Craving for Originality · Bill Pronzini · ss EQMM Dec 17 ’79
491 · Tranquility Base · Asa Baber · ss, 1979
506 · The Cabin in the Hollow · Joyce Harrington · ss EQMM Oct ’74
519 · Peckerman · Robert S. Phillips · ss The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House, 1981
531 · A Simple, Willing Attempt · Elizabeth Morton · ss The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House, 1981
535 · Watching Marcia · Mike Resnick · ss The Arbor House Treasury of Mystery and Suspense, ed. Bill Pronzini, Barry N. Malzberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Arbor House, 1981
545 · Somebody Cares · Talmage Powell · ss EQMM Dec ’62
555 · Jode’s Last Hunt · Brian Garfield · ss EQMM Jan ’77
572 · Many Mansions · Robert Silverberg · nv Universe 3, ed. Terry Carr, Random House, 1973
596 · My Son the Murderer · Bernard Malamud · ss Esquire Nov ’68
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Wednesday, February 2, 2022

Short Story Wednesday: In tribute to Shirley Jackson and Cornell Woolrich: Anthologies of new fiction: WHEN THINGS GET DARK edited by Ellen Datlow (Titan/Penguin 2021); BLACK AS THE NIGHT edited by Maxim Jakubowski (Titan/Penguin 2022)


4 October 2022
Black as the Night: Stories Inspired by Cornell Woolrich 
edited by Maxim Jakubowski * 448 pp.
Introduction/Maxim Jakubowski
Neil Gaiman/A Woolrich Appreciation
Joel Lane/The Black Window (poem)
stories
Joseph S. Walker/A Shade Darker Than Gray
Vaseem Khan/A Thin Slice of Heaven
Charles Ardai/Sleep! Sleep! Beauty Bright
Kim Newman/Black Window
O'Neil De Noux/Blue Moon Over Burgundy
Paul Di Filippo/The Bride Hated Champagne
James Grady/Eyes Without a Face
Donna Moore/First You Dream, Then You Die
M. W. Craven/Institutional Memory
Ana Teresa Pereira/Looking For You Through the Gray Rain
Joe R. Lansdale/Missing Sister
William Boyle/New York Blues Redux
Kristine Kathryn Rusch/Our Opera Singer
Mason Cross/People You May Know
David Quantick/Red
Lavie Tidhar/The Case of Baby X
Tara Moss/The Husband Machine
Warren Moore/The Jacket
A.K. Benedict/The Lake, the Moon, and the Murder
Bill Pronzini/The Long Way Down
Nick Mamatas/The Man in the Sailor Suit
Max Décharné/The Woman at the Late Show
Martin Edwards/The Woman Who Never Was
Samantha Lee Howe/Trophy Wife
Brandon Barrows/Two Wrongs
Maxim Jakubowski/What Happens After the End
Susi Holliday/The Invitation
James Sallis/Parkview
and, in comments, Maxim Jakubowski notes that another story has been added:
Barry N. Malzberg/Phantom Gentleman
...and the further good news that he's contracted with Titan for a tribute anthology in honor of J.G. Ballard to be published in 2023...


• anthology edited by Ellen Datlow
Titan Books, a line from Penguin/Random House, is clearly in the tributes business, and one could only wish these two were published more closely together, as the overlap in audience between those who love the work of Jackson and of Woolrich is not one of unanimity, but it can't be too far from it. Both are best remembered for their work in the outré, suspense and horror and simply charged narratives full of emotion usually in full disarray in Woolrich's fiction, in incompletely controlled cloaking frequently in Jackson's. Even the work they are less well-remembered for, "Jazz Age" stories in The Smart Set for Woolrich and book-length collections of humorous accounts of family life for Jackson, can be seen to have some similar spirit...and similar undertones. 

So, a heads-up for the forthcoming Jakubowski anthology (I suspect [incorrectly...see comments] there are advance readers copies about) and a brief review of some of the stories in the Datlow, a book I've had on hand for on a busy few weeks.

M. Rickert's "Funeral Birds" leads off the fiction, and certainly seeks to fulfill what Datlow describes as called for in her introduction, stories which are not pastiches of Jackson but which incorporate her interest in how the mundane details of daily life and behavior can both mask and drive madness and despair. A thoroughly unlikable home health aide attends the funeral of her recent client, and an after-funeral get-together at her former charge's daughter's house. She finds that perhaps her relation with the departed isn't finished. Rickert does revel in the physical details of the aide's life and eccentric passage through it.

Elizabeth Hand's "For Sale by Owner" digs even more deeply into  Jacksonian exploration of the notion of the invasion of the houses of others, and how the domiciles can return the "favor". Elegant prose, including some that verges on "real-estate porn", as well as an engaging exploration of the friendship of the middle-aged women protagonists, who find over the course of the story a shared attraction to wandering into and through the New England summer houses belonging to others...and what might make that more dangerous than a lark, quite aside from random police checks and the like. How many of us have first read Jackson via "The Summer People", "The Lovely House" or The Haunting of Hill House? Probably relatively few compared to those who first encountered "The Lottery", but I was finding her work in explicitly supernatural horror anthologies first, and "The Lottery" came a year or so later, not too long before such lighter stories as "One Ordinary Day, With Peanuts" in my first Best from [the Magazine of] Fantasy and Science Fiction volume. 

Carmen Maria Machado's "A Hundred Miles and a Mile" is an allusive story about the passing on of what might be secret wisdom, and certainly is at least important...how we can be the bearers of such without fully knowing it, and how carrying it with us doesn't necessarily make our lives easier. 

Joyce Carol Oates's "Take Me, I am Free" is also allusive, but in a more emotionally brutal manner, unrelenting as it limns a certain kind of too-common child abuse as well as drawing in some implications of something beyond that quotidian evil. I suspect Andrew Vachss would've admired if not also loved this one, and he would be correct.

The design of the book as a whole is handsome, and the custom endpapers, fetishizing the style of eyeglass frames Jackson wore in her photographs even more than the jacket/cover art does (as do the story headers), are an amusing touch. Sadly, the copy I first received from a certain Bad Place to Work was rather less-well-"built", as was the replacement I ordered--both had warped boards, and not the firmest binding I've found on a hardcover; I hope a certain source got a bad batch or treated it roughly, rather than all the first printing sharing the same flaws. (In comments below, Ellen Datlow notes she hasn't heard this plaint till now, which I take to be a good sign...and an argument for picking up a copy through an independent or other brick and mortar store, if practical and safe. I do prefer seeing the condition of my copies before I buy them.)

Definitely a book worth having. 

More to come...


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Friday, May 10, 2019

FFB: THE MYSTERY COMPANION and THE ARMCHAIR COMPANION edited by A. L. Furman (Gold Label Books, 1943 and 1944) and their sequels.

A. L. or Abraham Loew (or Louis) Furman, is apparently a man largely lost to time...William Contento's Index to SF Anthologies and Collections notes that he was "Manager of a publishing firm (Amour Press); lawyer; editor of juvenile [and adult -TM] books and anthologies"; his years are give as 1902-1972.  Ray Betzner on Facebook yesterday brought A. L. Furman back to mind for the first time in years; I remembered him for his YA anthologies mostly published around the turn of the 1960s with titles  (originally) given as Teen-Age ____ Stories or Young Readers' _____ Stories...which were notable, when I was sampling them as a reader of ten or twelve years old, for the utter mediocrity, at best, of nearly all the stories included (I think I missed Teen-Age Party Time Stories at that time, but can only imagine what camp value it currently has, for that matter instantly had). A(lice). M. Lightner was one of the better and more frequent contributors to his juvenile sf anthologies; no one as notable was included in his youngster's horror anthologies; Robert Arthur did a much better job, as did most other YA editors. But Betzner cited the first of his Mystery Companion annual series in his query for details about Furman, and this four-volume annual series looks far more promising, as one of the earlier US bugcrusher mystery/suspense/horror anthologies drawing most if not all its contents from the slick and pulp magazines. As there are (as far as I can find online) no full indices for any of the Mystery or the slightly later duo of Armchair Companions (there isn't even a complete contents of the Second Armchair Companion that I've found in searches over the last dozen hours or so), I figured I'd draw together what I could find. The earlier volumes of the series were published by Gold Seal Books, which as far as I can tell became Lantern Press in 1946, his primary publisher for the many later young readers' books as well (and their softcover line Lantern Pocket Books would reprint a number of those in paperback in the latter '60s and '70s; ISFDB currently mistakes the LPB line for Pocket Books reprints, as did I at first before a note by Steven Rowe--though that by the 1970s, YA line Archway/Pocket Books was the publisher of the Furman juvenile anthologies might have driven some confusion), as well as of the fourth Mystery and second Armchair volumes.

 Index information brought together from WorldCat, The FictionMags Index and JG Mallard.









438 pages ; 21 cm
New York : Gold Label Books, ©1943.
Active Duty · Richard Sale · ss  The Blue Book Magazine [v77 #1, May 1943]
The Body in the Ostrich Cage [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · ss  Mystery [v9 #5, May 1934]
The Sword of God  Hal Hode  
The Greek, Poropulos · Edgar Wallace · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller [#81, November 19, 1910]
Bond of Reunion  Carl Carmer  Saturday Review
Believe It or Die · Philip Ketchum · nv The Blue Book Magazine [v76 #5, March 1943]
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales [v36 #12, July 1943]
The Street of the Little Candles  James Francis Cooke
The Blackout Murder · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss Short Stories [v182 #4, #892, February 25th, 1943]
“You’re Killing Me!” · "Dale Clark"  (Ronal Kayser) · nv Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v166 #2, June 1943]
If the Dead Could Talk · Cornell Woolrich · ss Black Mask [v25 #10, February 1943] 
America’s Most Famous Murder · George L. Porter · ar (Lincoln assassination) Star Magazine [v2 #3, July 1931]
The Judge Finds the Body "Geoffrey Homes" (Daniel Manwaring) Maclean's
The Phantom Slayer · Fritz Leiber, Jr. · ss Weird Tales [v36 #3, January 1942
Tears of the Virgin Thomas Grant Springer
Me and His Majesty and Trouble  Joseph C. Stacy (hu)
Death in a Gray Mist · Frank Owen · ss  Weird Tales [v37 #1, September 1943]
A Pair of Gloves Carl Carmer
The Man in the Cask · Vincent Starrett · nv Real Detective Tales and Mystery Stories [v11 #2, June/July 1927]


The Mystery Companion: abridged paperback (missing five items from the original selection)  Popular Library (Canada) 1943; 192 pp.

Active Duty · Richard Sale · ss  The Blue Book Magazine [v77 #1, May 1943]
The Body in the Ostrich Cage [Jimmie Lavender] · Vincent Starrett · ss  Mystery [v9 #5, May 1934]
The Sword of God  Hal Hode  
The Greek, Poropulos · Edgar Wallace · ss The Weekly Tale-Teller [#81, November 19, 1910]
Bond of Reunion  Carl Carmer  Saturday Review
Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales [v36 #12, July 1943]
The Street of the Little Candles  James Francis Cooke
The Blackout Murder · Allan Vaughan Elston · ss Short Stories [v182 #4, #892, February 25th, 1943]
“You’re Killing Me!” · "Dale Clark"  (Ronal Kayser) · nv Street & Smith’s Detective Story Magazine [v166 #2, June 1943]
If the Dead Could Talk · Cornell Woolrich · ss Black Mask [v25 #10, February 1943] 
The Judge Finds the Body "Geoffrey Homes" (Daniel Manwaring) Maclean's
The Phantom Slayer · Fritz Leiber, Jr. · ss Weird Tales [v36 #3, January 1942
Tears of the Virgin Thomas Grant Springer
Me and His Majesty and Trouble  Joseph C. Stacy (hu)
Death in a Gray Mist · Frank Owen · ss  Weird Tales [v37 #1, September 1943]
Second Mystery Companion (Gold Label Books 1944)  410pp

 The bedchamber mystery / C.S. Forester --
Delayed verdict / Allan Vaughan Elston --
The question mark / Margery Allingham --
Ghosts don't make no noise / Richard Sale --
Post-mortem / Cornell Woolrich --
The chopsticks of Confucius / Vincent Starrett --
The master of the murder castle / John Bartlow Martin --
The riddle of the whirling lights / Stuart Palmer --
Death by accident / Francis Cockrell --
The man who amazed fish / Frank Owen --
There are more to die / Philip Ketchum --
Radio patrol / Leslie T. White --
Scoundrels by night / Richard Kent --
The fluted arrow / William Byron Mowery --
Steve takes a hand / Hugh B. Cave --
Connoisseur of murder / Joseph C. Stacey --
Biographies. 

Third Mystery Companion (Gold Label Books 1945) 395pp

The calling card of Mr. Engle / Louis Paul --
The unloaded gun / Allan Vaughan Elston --
The experts / Mindret Lord --
The Kiskadee bird / Elisabeth Sanxay Holding --
Face in the dark / High Pentecost --
Wet Saturday / John Collier --
One chance in a million / Will Payne --
Death had a pencil / Richard Sale --
The phantom of the Subway / Cornell Woolrich --
The mark of Maat / Sax Rohmer --
The third ladder / Philip Ketchum --
Hangin' crazy Benny / Leslie White --
The old man in the window / Margery Allingham --
The long still streets of evening / Frank Owen --
Crystal evidence / Donald Barr Chidsey --
The simple art of murder / Raymond Chandler --
The riddle of the blueblood murders / Stuart Palmer --
Ways that are dark / Thomas Grant Springer --
The case on Turkey Point / Howard Bloomfield --
The witness / William Brandon --
Murder at the opera / Vincent Starrett --
Biographies. 

Fourth Mystery Companion  (Lantern Press 1946) 396 pp

 White carnations / Q. Patrick --
The painted nail / George Harmon Coxe --
Traitors trail / Hugh Pentecost --
The unbelievable baroness / Elizabeth Sanxay Holding --
A triumph in theory / Louis Paul --
The tenth clue / Dashiell Hammett --
The saint sits in / Leslie Charteris --
The white cat / Richard Kent --
The level crossing / Freeman Wills Crofts --
The case of the Calico dog / Mignon Eberhart --
Prelude to murder / Walter C. Brown --
Fog over Hong Kong / Vincent Starrett --
The adventure of the bearded lady / Ellery Queen --
Twice-trod path / William Irish --
Tomorrow we die / Frank Owen --
The important point / William MacHarg --
The secret of the ruins / Sax Rohmer --
Halloween assassin / Frederick Skerry --
Library book / Cornell Woolrich

 The Armchair Companions:
The Armchair Companion (Gold Label Books, 1944)  367pp

Set the wild echoes flying / by James Street --
A man's mother / by Gladys H. Carroll --
Afternoon of a faun / by Vincent Starrett --
The red sash / by Ketti Frings --
The good neighbors / by Conrad Richter --
The Empire City angel / by Eustace Cockrell --
Remember this day / by Arch Whitehouse --
Wild Bill Hiccup / by Cornell Woolrich --
The night gown / by Camilla Holland --
Sharp work at the Duck and Egg / by F.L. Smith --
Lady square / by Richard English --
The street of faces / by Frank Owen --
Flight of the wawkus bird / by Richard Sale --
Penthouse for Nellie / by Florence B. Alexander --
A big day for Mr. Vane / by Edward Stevenson --
Red wine / by T.G. Springer --
The deceiving husband / by Margaret A. Barnes --
The last charge / by Edison Marshall --
Camp follower / by Robert Carson --
A kiss for Mr. Lincoln / by Louise K. Mabie --
Biographies.

Second Armchair Companion (Lantern Press 1946) 351pp

Contributing authors include Beryl Markham, James Street, Richard Wright,
Libbie Block, R.H. Newman
Stories include:
"The Splendid Outcast" by Beryl Markham,
"One Day Late" by Dorothy Canfield,
 "Saturday at Ten" by Vincent Starrett










































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