Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links to the reviews and more: 22 August 2025

Patti Abbott: The Dramatist by Ken Bruen

Tony Baer: Lady Sings the Blues by Billie Holiday (with William Duffy)

Frank Babics: Paingod and Other Delusions by Harlan Ellison

grouped presentations (audio links): Pacificon II, September, 1964:"Anthony Boucher" (William White): "Use of Crime and Suspense Fiction Ideas in Science Fiction"; Karen Anderson, Poul Anderson, Bruce Pelz, Dian Pelz, George Scithers: "The World of Sword and Sorcery"; Richard Lupoff, Ron Ellik, Wally Weber, Arthur Thomson, Joe Gibson: "Ideas and Imagination in Fanzines"

Ben Boulden: The Wolf in the Clouds by Ron Faust

Randal S. Brandt: Plunder of the Sun by David Dodge, and the film adapted from it

Brian Busby: A Japanese Nightingale by "Onoto Watanna" [Winnifred Eaton]

Bill Crider: Among the Gently Mad by Nicholas Basbanes

"DforDoom": Murder on the Way! by Theodore Roscoe

Martin Edwards: Dream of Fair Women by Charlotte Armstrong

Will Errickson: Moths by Rosalind Ashe

Curtis Evans: The Cavalier's Cup by "Carter Dickson"/John Dickson Carr

Jose Ignacio Escribano Garcia-Bosque: Murder, M.D. by John Street

Aubrey Hamilton: The Tunnel Mystery by J. Lenehan

Bev Hankins: Murder in the Caravan and Murder in the Grave by Irina Shapiro

grouped reviews: Maureen Hogan: Hour of the Horde by Gordon Dickson; Victoria Silverwolf: Gateway to Hell by Dennis Wheatley; Amber Dubin: The Star Virus by Barrington J. Bayley and Mask of Chaos by John Jakes

Lesa Holstine: Of All Sad Words by Bill Crider

Rich Horton: Hidden Folk by Eleanor Arnason

Jerry House: Cadaver in Chief: A Special Report from the Dawn of the Zombie Apocalypse by Steve Hockensmith

Kate Jackson: Death of a Stray Cat by Jean Potts; my top 5 mysteries of the 1920s

Tracy K: Death by Accident by Bill Crider

Kaggsy: The Reader and the Writer by Christa Wolf

George Kelley: Space Ships! Ray Guns! Martian Octopods!: Interviews with Science Fiction Legends transcribed and edited by Richard Wolinsky

B. V. Lawson: Murder Among Friends by Elizabeth Ferrars

Steve Lewis: The House of Blue Lights by Robert J. Bowman

Todd Mason: You're All Alone (and variant version, The Sinful Ones) by Fritz Leiber (and some other 1950 fantasy-magazine fiction)

Marcia Muller: The Case of the Moth-Eaten Mink by Erle Stanley Gardner

Neeru: Frame-Up by Andrew Garve

J. F. Norris: The Croaking Raven by Gladys Mitchell

Jim Noy: Sorceror's House by Gerald Verner

"Paperback Warrior": the Mac Bolan series, created by Don Pendleton

"Puzzle Doctor": The Judas Window by "Carter Dickson" (John Dickson Carr)

James Reasoner: The Fast Buck by Ross Laurence

Kevin Tipple: At What Cost by James L'Etoile

A Detective Penley Mystery

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https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/25/the-otherworldly-ambitions-of-r-f-kuang

Jack Seabrook: the complete Alfred Hitchcock Presents:/Hour Project

Robert Bloch: "The Clown At Midnight", ROGUE, March 1960; collected in ROBERT BLOCH: APPRECIATIONS OF THE MASTER, edited by Richard Matheson and Ricia Mainhardt (Tor Books, 1995)

As reprinted in this fine anthology: (<a link to the essay in this volume online)

the paperback edition, 1995

Meanwhile, Ted White (writer and editor) notes that while Hamling credited himself as editor as well as publisher, he wasn't the one doing the editing, in his experience as a contributor:

Hamling was ROGUE's *publisher* but not its editor. In 1960 Frank Robinson was ROGUE's editor.  I know this because I sold my first article ("Riot at Newport") to ROGUE that year, and Frank whipped it into much better shape than I'd written it. Easily the best editor I've ever worked with. ("They're all your words, Ted. I just rearranged them.")  In 1959 Harlan Ellison was also an editor, but I think Frank was his superior. (In 1960 Harlan left ROGUE and moved back to NYC.)

As one can see below, the masthead of the magazine labeled Robinson and Ellison as "associate editors"...Hamling and Ms. Hamling were given supervisory titles...

Some folks, such as Eric Jamborsky, first saw the essay as reprinted in Forrest J Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine, apparently broken into two parts (over two issues?) in 1962, which "Garson O'Toole" notes at his Quote Investigator site.

Late Friday's "Forgotten" Books: On ORBIT 6 edited by Damon Knight (Putnam, 1970) a discussion on Facebook initiated by Gregory Feeley

Gregory Feeley (link here) August 7

The anthology begins with “The Second Inquisition” by Joanna Russ and ends with “The Asian Shore” by Thomas M. Disch. In between are “Goslin Day” by Avram Davidson, “Entire and Perfect Chrysolite” by R.A. Lafferty, “The End” by Ursula K. Le Guin, “Where No Sun Shines” by Gardner R. Dozois, and “Debut” by Carol Emshwiller.

Neither of the two short stories by Gene Wolfe are among his classics (that began with the next volume), and I don’t remember anything about the story by Kate Wilhelm—I will try reading it next week when the present project is finished.

In terms of sheer quality, this may be one of the very best original anthologies ever published, Harlan Ellison’s not excepted.

Anthology Title: Orbit 6 • [Orbit • 6] • anthology by Damon Knight

Contents (view Concise Listing)

• 1 • The Second Inquisition • [Alyx] • novelette by Joanna Russ
• 40 • Remembrance to Come • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 55 • How the Whip Came Back • (1970) • short story by Gene Wolfe
• 75 • Goslin Day • (1970) • short story by Avram Davidson
• 83 • Maybe Jean-Baptiste Pierre Antoine de Monet, Chevalier de Lamarck, Was a Little Bit Right • (1970) • short story by Robin Scott Wilson [as by Robin S. Scott]
• 92 • The Chosen • (1970) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 115 • Entire and Perfect Chrysolite • (1970) • short story by R. A. Lafferty
• 131 • Sunburst • (1970) • short story by Roderick Thorp
• 142 • The Creation of Bennie Good • short story by James Sallis
• 146 • The End • (1970) • short story by Ursula K. Le Guin (variant of Things)
• 158 • A Cold Dark Night with Snow • (1970) • short story by Kate Wilhelm
• 171 • Fame • (1970) • short story by Arthur Jean Cox [as by Jean Cox]
• 184 • Debut • (1970) • short story by Carol Emshwiller
• 191 • Where No Sun Shines • (1970) • short story by Gardner Dozois
• 203 • The Asian Shore • (1970) • novelette by Thomas M. Disch

Rich Horton

"The Creation of Bennie Good" isn't my favorite early Sallis story, when he was at his weirdest, but I think it's at least intriguing. And of the two Wolfe stories, I think "How the Whip Came Back" is pretty good -- for me it's the earliest of his stories to really make an impression (though I do like "Trip Trap".)

Definitely a remarkable original anthology. The next issue is pretty strong too, with two of Lafferty's best stories, one of Wolfe's very best and another good one, one of the best early Sallis stories, a strong Wilhelm novella, very good stories from Disch, Emshwiller, and Dozois, and probably the only Laumer story that stands out in my memory.

Knight really knew what he was doing. And so of course the old farts in SF got really ticked off at him, and pulled stunts liking voting for No Award in the Nebulas to keep Gene Wolfe from winning.

[in response to a Brett Cox conjecture on the No Award "winner" in a Hugo ballot at the height of New Wave/Old Guard hostility in SF; at the 1971 SFWA Nebula Awards ceremony, MC Isaac Asimov, reading from the list of various nominees and winners, assumed that "No Award" getting the most votes in the short fiction category must be a transcription error, and read off Gene Wolfe, whose story "The Island of Doctor Death and Other Stories" received the second-highest number of votes, as the winner:]

Rich Horton:

Brett Cox For Jo Walton's "Revisiting the Hugos" project, I made a comment about that particular controversy repeating the "confusing ballot instructions" explanation, and Gardner Dozois, who was there, responded as follows:

'There’s no “supposedly” about it, Rich. I was there, sitting at Gene Wolfe’s table, in fact. He’d actually stood up, and was starting to walk toward the podium, when Isaac was told about his mistake. Gene shrugged and sat down quietly, like the gentleman he is, while Isaac stammered an explanation of what had happened. It was the one time I ever saw Isaac totally flustered, and, in fact, he felt guilty about the incident to the end of his days.

'It’s bullshit that this was the result of confusing ballot instructions. This was the height of the War of the New Wave, and passions between the New Wave camp and the conservative Old Guard camp were running high. (The same year, Michael Moorcock said in a review that the only way SFWA could have found a worse thing than RINGWORLD to give the Nebula to was to give it to a comic book). The fact that the short story ballot was almost completely made up of stuff from ORBIT had outraged the Old Guard, particularly James Sallis’s surreal “The Creation of Benny Hill”, and they block-voted for No Award as a protest against “non-functional word patterns” making the ballot. Judy-Lynn del Rey told me as much immediately after the banquet, when she was exuberantly gloating about how they’d “put ORBIT in its place” with the voting results, and actually said “We won!”

'All this passion and choler seems far away now, as if we were arguing over which end of the egg to break.' 

 Michael A. Armstrong

Damon’s story selection model made him open to getting great stories from not just established writers but new voices. He took unsolicited submissions (I have the rejection slips!), but I’m guessing he also invited Milford [Writer's Workshop] and other writers to submit.

If he stumbled upon a good story he also grabbed it, as when he bought Kim Stanley Robinson’s Clarion [Writer's Workshop] application story. I think it was Damon who suggested Stan use his full name so as to not be confused with Spider Robinson.

Buggerly Otherly

(aka Michael Moorcock, among other tasks editor of New Worlds magazine in the latter '60s/early '70s)

ORBIT & NEW WORLDS were publishing similar authors sometimes almost simultaneously -- Sallis and Wolfe for instance -- and occasionally even taking stories which for some reason were not quite suitable for our respective markets. I think ORBIT was, indeed, the best original anthology series. 

Steve Rhodes

Orbit 6 & 13 others in the series can be checked out at Internet Archive

https://archive.org/details/orbit60000damo

Ian McDowell notes that the Roderick Thorp listed on the cover is the same Thorp who might be best-remembered for such novels as THE DETECTIVE (adapted to a Frank Sinatra film) and NOTHING LASTS FOREVER (the novel source for the film DIE HARD).

SSW: Spring 1992: US fantasy fiction magazines: CONJUNCTIONS (Spring), THE MAGAZINE OF FANTASY & SF (March), WEIRD TALES (Spring), CEMETERY DANCE (Spring) (and the 1993 annuals which drew from them)

33 years ago. It seems odd that I gathered all these a third of a century ago. More specific comments to follow...indexing the Conjunctions issue was more time-consuming than I expected, to say the least.

Please see Patti Abbott's blog for more, and more promptly finished!, Short Story Wednesday reviews.

Conjunctions [#18, Spring 1992] [] "Biannual volumes of New Writing," edited by Bradford Morrow, published by Bard College (distributed by Random House). 376 pp plus covers. $10. This issue titled "Fables, Yarns, Fairy Tales." Cover illustration by Bill Traylor.
A few items from this issue can be read at this online archive. An anonymous comment below notes one can read this issue on JSTOR if one has access there, and these days, one can gain a personal account there with a reasonably generous access to documents limit, as I've just discovered.

7 *  Editor's Note * Bradford Morrow * ed (issue dedicated to the memory of Angela Carter, 1940-1992)

9 * Three Tales from Puerto Rico * translated and retold from Spanish by Rosario Ferré * gp

  9 * The Three Hunchbacks * ss 

  12 * The Monkey Whose Tail was Stepped On * ss

  15 * The Little Half Chicken * ss

18 * Tale of the Enchanted Pig * Norman Manea; translated from Romanian by Marguerite Dorian and Elliott Urdang * ss

24 * Kitty Blue * James Purdy * ss

42 * Five Dark Tales * Lydia Davis* gp

  42 * The Cedar Trees * vi

  43 * A Natural Disaster * vi

  44 * The Cats in the Prison Recreation Hall * vi

  45 * Love * vi

  46 * The Rape of the Tanuk Women * vi

47 * The Child Who Raised Poisonous Snakes · Can Xue; translated by Ronald R. Janssen & Jian Zhang · ss * translated from the Chinese (Harvest Jun ’91) 

59 * Zho-Jan * John Ash * vi in translation from Tarim, translated by Ash 

  59 * A Note on the Text * John Ash * in

  62 * Zho-Jan * vi  (translated by John Ash from an uncredited Tarim document)

67 * The Bewitched Burr  and Other Tales * Grozdana Olujic * translated from Serbo-Croatian by Jascha Kessler and the author * gp

  67 * The Man Who Went Looking for His Face * Grozdana Olujic * ss

  71 * Parrots and Sheep * Grozdana Olujic * ss

  75 * The Bewitched Burr * Grozdana Olujic * ss

79 * Fish Story * Diana Hartog * ex P0lite to Bees (a prose bestiary, published as poetry by Coach House Books)

81 * Three Tales from the Tale Known as Princess Hoppy or the Labrador Tale * Jacques Roubaud; translated from the French by Bernard Hoepffner * nt

115 * The Black Angel * Gary Indiana * ss

121 * Complaint on Her Cat * Diane Ackerman * pm

122 * How I Became One of the Invisible * David Rattray * ss (illustrated by Rattray)

131 * Three Folktales from India * collected and translated from Tamil and Malayalam by * A. K. Ramanujan * gp

  131 * Crossing A River, Losing a Self * vi

  133 * A Friend in Need * vi

  133 * Shall I Show You My Real Face? * ss

138 * Four Bear Poems * Kurt Schwitters * gp (translated from the German by Jerome Rothenberg)

140 * Kuzma and the Worm * Forrest Gander * vi

142 * Convicta et Combusta * Joanna Scott * ss

153 * The Parakeet and the Cat * Scott Bradfield * ss

166 *  The Reduction of the Nativity * Fanny Howe * pm

168 * The Rose and Other Fairy Tales * Ludmilla Petrushevskaya * gp * translated from the Russian by Jamie Gambrell

   168 * The Rose * vi

   170 * Once Upon a Time There Was an Alarm Clock * vi

   170 * Uncle Well and Aunt Ah * vi

173 * James Laughlin * Eight Parables and Poems * gp * adapted from the Tawney/Penzler translation from the Sanskrit of Somadeva's Katha Sarit Sagara) 

   173 * Story of a Snake Who Told His Secret to a Woman * pm

   174 * Story of the Fool and the Cakes * pm

   174* The Transformation * pm (based on Richard Burton's translation                              of the Koran)

   175 * An Attestation * pm

   175 * The Old Indian * pm

   176 * The Sultan's Justice * pm

   176 * The Inscription * pm

   177 * The Enchanted BirchTree * pm

178 * Lynne Tillman * Madame Realism: A Fairy Tale * illustrated by                                     Silvia Kolbowski

187 * Sally Pont * Ich Liebe Dich and Other Lies Too Hideous to Utter * ss

198 * Jerome Rothenberg * The Lorca Variations: "Lunar Grapefruits" * ss

203 * Dennis Tedlock * Three Maidens at the Bath * ss/pm

217 * Two Lithuanian Fairy Tales: * gp

223 * Alvyta *  O. V. de L. Milosz; translated by Edouard Roditi * vi

223 * Green Beard * O. V. de L. Milosz; translated by Edouard Roditi * ss

228 * The Children of Montjoie * Wendy Walker * ss

236 * Two Tales * Mary Egan * gp

236 * Valter the Wall-Builder * vi 

238 * Jonah *  vi 

239 * The Woman of Stone * Paola Capriolo * ss; translated by Lawrence Venuti

257 * O'Malley and Schwartz * Patrick McGrath * ss

261 * The Butterfly Girl * William T. Vollmann  * ss

267 * Rupert Killamarsh's Other Life * Paul West * ss; illustrated by Joe Servello

275 * The Pig Story * Russell Edson * vi 

277 * Snowbird and Other Tales * Yannick Murphy * gp

  277 * The Forest That Had No Trees * vi

  278 * Saddy Wampus * vi

  280 * Snowbird * vi

281 * My Grandmother's Story of the Buried Treasure and How She Defeated the King of Chacachacari and the Entire American Army with Her Venus Fly-Traps * Robert Antoni * nt

301 * Mété * Theodore Enslin * ss

316 * The [a Pictogram Resembling a Short Flight of Stairs] * Armand Schwerner * ss * illustrated by Schwerner

323 * Four Folktales from Nigeria * collected and translated from the Igbo by Romanus Egudu * gp [Egudu's first name given as "Romanos" on the back cover of the issue, and nowhere else...online sources confirm Romanus is correct]

   323 * Debtor and Creditors *vi

   325 * Monkey, Man and God * vi

   326 * Trusted Wife * vi

   328 * Three Brothers and a Half * vi

332 * Daughter * Mei-mei Berssenbrugge  * pm

333 * Papa Will * Charles Wartts, Jr. * ss

339 * R'ha-l'a R'a-H'oum * Patricia Eakins * ss

345 * The Channah Tales * Bradford Morrow * gp

   345 * Claro * ss

   351 * Tale of a Tub * vi

   352 * The Man Who Didn't Know Any Better * vi

   353 * The Seven Sheiks * vi

   356 * Cowboy * vi

   356 * Obadiah and Them Ilk * vi

   359 * The Faithless * vi

   360 * Chili Pepper Man * vi

   362 * The Tale of Ahmed, and His Ear * vi

   365 * The Bridge Song * vi

367 * Notes on Contributors

The following indices taken from the FictionMags Index:

The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction [v82 #3, No. 490, March 1992] ed. Kristine Kathryn Rusch (Mercury Press, $2.50, 164pp, digest, cover by Ron Walotsky) []   Can be read here.
• 6 · Editorial · Kristine Kathryn Rusch · ed
• 9 · Tree of Life, Book of Death · Grania Davis · nv
• 30 · [cartoon] · Joseph Farris · ct
• 31 · The Resurrection of Alonso Quijana · Marcos Donnelly · ss
• 47 · Books · Algis Budrys · rc
• _47 · The Wild Blue and the Gray · Algis Budrys · br [Ref. William Sanders]
• _50 · Universe 2 · Algis Budrys · br [Ref. Robert Silverberg & Karen Haber]
• 52 · [cartoon] · Frank Hauser · ct
• 53 · Books to Look For · Orson Scott Card · rc
• 60 · Tapeworm · Kit Reed · ss
• 70 · [cartoon] · S. Harris · ct
• 71 · Calculating Love · Rick Wilber · ss
• 86 · Country Mouse · Edward Bryant · ss Copper Star ed. Bruce D. Arthurs, 1991 World Fantasy Convention, 1991
• 95 · [cartoon] · Henry Martin · ct
• 96 · Films: The Whine of a 50 Ft. Woman · Kathi Maio · mr
• 101 · Origami Mountain · Nancy Farmer · ss
• 113 · The Love Farmer · Ray Aldridge · na
• 163 · [cartoon] · Andrew Struthers · 

Weird Tales [Vol. 53 No. 3, Whole No. 304, Spring 1992] ed. Darrell Schweitzer (Terminus Publishing Company, Inc., $4.95, 132pp, 6½″ x 9″, cover by Jill Bauman) []
Special John Brunner Issue. Can be read online here.

• 4 · The Eyrie · The Editor · ed
• _6 · [letter from Redmond, WA] · Pete Miller · lt
• _7 · [letter from McAlester, OK] · Frank D. McSherry · lt
• _7 · [letter] · R. Thompson · lt
• _8 · [letter] · Lee Prosser · lt
• _8 · [letter from Andover, MA] · Tom Draheim · lt
• _9 · [letter] · Ryan Lambrecht · lt
• 11 · The Den · Gahan Wilson · rc
• _11 · Vampires, Burial, and Death · Gahan Wilson · br [Ref. Paul Barber]
• _12 · American Vampires · Gahan Wilson · br [Ref. Norine Dresser]
• _12 · Vampires Among Us · Gahan Wilson · br [Ref. Rosemary Ellen Guiley]
• _12 · The Ultimate Dracula · Gahan Wilson · br [Ref. Byron Preiss]
• _14 · A Whisper of Blood · Gahan Wilson · br [Ref. Ellen Datlow]
• 15 · Dream Boat · Fred Olen Ray · pm; given as “Dreamboat” in the Table of Contents.
• 16 · Who Lies Beneath a Spell · John Brunner · ss; illustrated by Jill Bauman
• 30 · Moot Question · Ann K. Schwader · pm
• 31 · Concerning the Forthcoming Inexpensive Paperback Translation of the Necronomicon of Abdul Alhazred · John Brunner · nv; illustrated by Jill Bauman
• 50 · Ameriquest · Nancy Springer · pm
• 51 · Welcomeland · Ramsey Campbell · ss Words International February 1988; illustrated by Jill Bauman
• 60 · Alfred Vale: A Cautionary Tale · John Brunner · pm; given as by John Brunner and H*la*re B*ll*c.
• 61 · Bewitching Lessons · Lynne Armstrong-Jones · pm
• 61 · Continuing Saga · Darrell Schweitzer · pm
• 62 · The Lily Garden · Tanith Lee · ss; illustrated by Jill Bauman
• 70 · Little Boy Black and Blue · Robert J. Howe · ss; illustrated by Jill Bauman
• 80 · Behind the Realities: The Fantasies of John Brunner · Mike Ashley · ar [Ref. John Brunner]
• 85 · Up to No Good · Sue Robinson · ss; illustrated by Jill Bauman
• 92 · Fear · Nancy Springer · pm
• 93 · Dropping Ghyll · John Brunner · ss Dark Fantasies ed. Chris Morgan, Legend, 1989
• 103 · The Classic Horrors: The Black Destroyer · Allen Koszowski · il [Ref. A. E. van Vogt]
• 104 · Hunting the Lion · S. P. Somtow · nv; illustrated by Jill Bauman

Cemetery Dance [#12, v4 #2, Spring 1992] ed. Richard T. Chizmar (Richard T. Chizmar, $4.00, 104pp+, quarto, cover by Charles Lang) [] Can be read at the Internet Archive
• 3 · Words from the Editor · Richard T. Chizmar · ed
• 4 · By Civilized Means · Gary A. Braunbeck · ss
• 12 · Ramblings from the Dark #15 · Charles L. Grant · ar
• 16 · Candy Bars for Elvis · Norman Partridge · ss
• 20 · Gormania · Ed Gorman · cl
• 22 · A Conversation with Dean R. Koontz · Tyson Blue · iv [Ref. Dean R. Koontz]
• 29 · Less Than Human · Gary Raisor · ex
• 34 · The Mothers and Fathers Italian Association · Thomas F. Monteleone · cl
• 37 · Nightmare Alley · Matthew J. Costello · cl
• 40 · The Exclusive · Sidney Williams · ss
• 45 · Terra ex Anima · T. Liam McDonald · ar
• 48 · Mama’s Boy · C. S. Fuqua · ss
• 52 · A Conversation with Richard Matheson & R. C. Matheson · Stanley Wiater · iv [Ref. Richard & Richard Christian Matheson]
• 58 · Book Reviews · Edward Bryant · rc
• 65 · The “Heeere’s Johnny” or The Villians of Stephen King Films Quiz · A. R. Morlan · qz
• 66 · Trash Theatre: Human Tornado · Joe R. Lansdale & David E. Webb · cl
• 70 · The Animal · Robert Petitt · ss
• 73 · Spotlight on Publishing: Donald Grant · Bob Morrish · iv [Ref. Donald M. Grant]
• 78 · Anthology Attic · Kathryn Ptacek · cl
• 81 · Rough Cuts · Paul Sammon · cl
• 88 · A Bargain at Any Cost · F. J. Matozzo · ss
• 91 · Needful Kings & Other Things · Tyson Blue · cl
• 95 · Deathgrip · Brian Hodge · ex
• 98 · CD Book Reviews · Various · rc

Best New Horror 4 ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell (Robinson, November 1993, 1-85487-182-X, £6.99, 481pp, tp, an)     Anthology of the 24 best horror stories of 1992. Simultaneous with the U.S. (Carroll & Graf) edition. xiii · Horror in 1992 · Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell · in 1 · The Suicide Artist · Scott Edelman · ss Suicide Art by Scott Edelman, Necronomicon Press, 1992 13 · Dancing on a Blade of Dreams · Roberta Lannes · nv Pulphouse: A Fiction Magazine November 1992 39 · The Departed · Clive Barker · ss The New York Times Magazine October 30 1992, as “Hermione and the Moon” 47 · How to Get Ahead in New York [Steve Finn & Ghost] · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Gauntlet #4, 1992 65 · They Take · John Brunner · nv Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 91 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 109 · Under the Pylon · Graham Joyce · ss Darklands 2 ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1992 123 · The Glamour · Thomas Ligotti · ss Grimscribe by Thomas Ligotti, Carroll & Graf, 1991 135 · Under the Ice · John Gordon · nv The Burning Baby and Other Ghosts by John Gordon, Walker, 1992 151 · And Some Are Missing · Joel Lane · ss The Sun Rises Red ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1992 161 · The Little Green Ones · Les Daniels · ss Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 169 · Mirror Man · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Decoded Mirrors by Steve Rasnic Tem, Necronomicon Press, 1992 185 · Mothmusic · Sarah Ash · ss Interzone #62, August 1992 201 · Did They Get You to Trade? · Karl Edward Wagner · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 221 · Night Shift Sister · Nicholas Royle · ss In Dreams ed. Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman, Gollancz, 1992 237 · The Dead · Simon Ings & M. John Harrison · ss The Sun Rises Red ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1992 249 · Norman Wisdom and the Angel of Death · Christopher Fowler · nv Sharper Knives by Christopher Fowler, Warner UK, 1992 269 · Red Reign · Kim Newman · na The Mammoth Book of Vampires ed. Stephen Jones, Carroll & Graf, 1992; revised. 333 · Aviatrix · Peter Atkins · ss Demons and Deviants ed. Michael Brown, Phantom Press/Fantaco, 1992 345 · Afterword to “Aviatrix” · Peter Atkins · as (r) 347 · Snodgrass · Ian R. MacLeod · nv In Dreams ed. Paul J. McAuley & Kim Newman, Gollancz, 1992 375 · The Day of the Sharks · Kate Wilhelm · ss And the Angels Sing by Kate Wilhelm, St. Martin's, 1992 391 · Anima · M. John Harrison · ss Interzone #58, April 1992 413 · Bright Lights, Big Zombie · Douglas E. Winter · nv Still Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1992 437 · The Ghost Village [Blue Rose] · Peter Straub · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 471 · Necrology: 1992 · Stephen Jones & Kim Newman · ob The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XXI ed. Karl Edward Wagner (DAW, October 1993, 0-88677-572-8, $5.50, 352pp, pb, an, cover by Les Edwards)     Best-of-the-year anthology of 26 horror stories, with an introduction by the editor on the state of the horror field. 15 · Coming of Age · Karl Edward Wagner · in 18 · The Limits of Fantasy · Ramsey Campbell · ss Gauntlet #3, 1992 36 · China Rose · Ron Weighell · ss Vampire Stories ed. Richard Dalby, Michael O'Mara, 1992 58 · The Outsider [Ernie Pine] · Rick Kennett · nv Ghosts & Scholars #14, 1992 86 · Briar Rose · Kim Antieau · ss MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 99 · Mom School · Rand Soellner · ss Gathering Darkness November 1992 106 · The Hyacinth Girl · Mary Ann Mitchell · ss Just a Moment Summer 1992 115 · Mind Games · Adam Meyer · ss 121 · Mama’s Boy · C. S. Fuqua · ss Cemetery Dance #12, Spring 1992 127 · The Shabbie People · Jeffrey Osier · ss Souls in Pawn ed. George Hatch, Horror's Head Press, 1992 149 · The Ugly File · Ed Gorman · ss Prisoners and Other Stories by Ed Gorman, Cemetery Dance, 1992 158 · Eyes Like a Ghost’s · Simon Clark · ss Darklands 2 ed. Nicholas Royle, Egerton Press, 1992 172 · Fallen Idol · Lillian Csernica · ss After Hours Winter 1992 187 · And Some Are Missing · Joel Lane · ss The Sun Rises Red ed. Chris Kenworthy, Barrington, 1992 196 · Welsh Pepper · D. F. Lewis · ss Vandeloecht’s Fiction Magazine Spring 1992 202 · Tracks · Nicholas Royle · ss Interzone #55, January 1992 214 · Largesse · Mark McLaughlin · ss The Bone Marrow Review #3, 1992 225 · City in the Torrid Waste · t. Winter-Damon · ss Bizarre Sex and Other Crimes of Passion #1, 1992 235 · Haunting Me Softly · H. Andrew Lynch · ss Grue #14, Summer 1992 241 · Spring Ahead, Fall Back · Michael A. Arnzen · ss Palace Corbie v1 #2, 1992 254 · Apotheosis · Carrie Richerson · ss Souls in Pawn ed. George Hatch, Horror's Head Press, 1992 262 · Defining the Commonplace Sliver · Wayne Allen Sallee · ss Expressions of Dread #2, Spring 1992 267 · Feeding the Masses · Yvonne Navarro · ss Eldritch Tales #27, Summer 1992 274 · Sanctuary · Jeffrey Osier · ss The Silver Web #8, Spring/Summer 1992 295 · The Devil’s Advocate · Andrew C. Ferguson · ss Dementia 13 #7, 1992 309 · Week Woman · Kim Newman · ss Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 323 · A Father’s Gift · W. M. Shockley · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine April 1992 The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Sixth Annual Collection      ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling (St. Martin’s, August 1993, 0-312-09422-1, $16.95, 529pp, tp, an, cover by Thomas Canty)                              Can be read online at Archive.org here.     Best-of-the-year anthology of 49 stories and three poems, plus a summation of the year in horror and fantasy by the editors, a survey of fantasy and sf in the media, and a necrology. This edition has several errors in the front matter, including the second page of the table of contents being without page numbers. A hardcover edition (-09421-1, $27.95) was announced but not seen. xiii · Summation 1992: Fantasy · Terri Windling · ar xxxi · Summation 1992: Horror · Ellen Datlow · ar lxxii · Horror and Fantasy in the Media: 1992 · Edward Bryant · ar lxxxvii · Obituaries: 1992 · [uncredited] · ob 1 · Silver or Gold · Emma Bull · nv After the King ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1992 28 · Tinker · Jack Cady · ss Glimmer Train #2, Spring 1992 35 · Queequeg · Craig Curtis · ss Chicago Review v37 #4, 1992 42 · Anima · M. John Harrison · ss Interzone #58, April 1992 57 · Skin · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm Psychos: An Anthology of Psychological Horror in Verse ed. Michael A. Arnzen, Mastication Publications, 1992 58 · The Homunculus: A Novel in One Chapter · Reginald McKnight · ss The Colorado College Magazine 1992 taken from the collection The Kind of Light That Shines on Texas (Little, Brown, 1992). 66 · The Annunciation · Cristina Peri Rossi; translated by Mary Jane Tracy · ss The Secret Weavers ed. Marjorie Agosin, White Pine Press, 1991 76 · The Bone Woman [Newford] · Charles de Lint · ss Triskell Press, 1992 84 · The Story of the Eldest Princess · A. S. Byatt · nv Caught in a Story ed. Christine Park & Caroline Heaton, Vintage UK, 1992 95 · Calcutta, Lord of Nerves · Poppy Z. Brite · ss Still Dead ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam, 1992 104 · In the Looking Glass, Life Is Death · Jessica Amanda Salmonson · pm Deathrealm #17, Fall/Winter 1992 106 · The Parakeet and the Cat · Scott Bradfield · ss Conjunctions #18, 1992 116 · Glory · Nicholas Royle · ss Narrow Houses: Volume I ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1992 124 · Murder Mysteries · Neil Gaiman · nv Midnight Graffiti ed. Jessica Horsting & James Van Hise, Warner, 1992 144 · Hungry · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Borderlands 3 ed. Thomas F. Monteleone, Borderlands Press, 1993 151 · Playing With · M. R. Scofidio · ss The Urbanite #2, 1992 156 · Human Remains · Edward Bryant · ss Darker Passions by Edward Bryant, Roadkill Press, 1992 168 · It Comes and Goes · Robert Silverberg · ss Playboy January 1992 181 · The Bewitched Burr · Grozdana Olujic; translated by Jascha Kessler · vi Conjunctions #18, 1992 184 · Swimming Lesson · Charlotte Watson Sherman · ss Killing Color by Charlotte Watson Sherman, Calyx Books, 1992 188 · Memories of the Flying Ball Bike Shop · Garry Kilworth · nv Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine June 1992 202 · Bats · Diane de Avalle-Arce · ss Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction Magazine August 1992 208 · Origami Mountain · Nancy Farmer · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 1992 217 · Ruby Laughter, Tears of Pearl [Fantasy and Fable] · James Powell · ss Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine mid December 1992 225 · I Sing of a Maiden · Judith Tarr · nv The Magic of Christmas, Roc, 1992 237 · Also Starring · Cliff Burns · vi Tesseracts4 ed. Lorna Toolis & Michael Skeet, Beach Holme Books, 1992 239 · On Edge · Christopher Fowler · ss Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 247 · Martyrdom · Joyce Carol Oates · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 259 · The Second Bakery Attack · Haruki Murakami; translated by Jay Rubin · ss Playboy January 1992 268 · A Little Night Music · Lucius Shepard · ss Omni March 1992 280 · Tom and Jerry Visit England · Jo Shapcott · pm The Southern Review Spring 1992 taken from Phrase Book, Oxford University Press, 1992. 282 · The Sluice · Stephen Gallagher · ss Narrow Houses: Volume I ed. Peter Crowther, Little, Brown UK, 1992 294 · Ratbird · Brian W. Aldiss · nv New Worlds 2 ed. David S. Garnett, Gollancz, 1992 308 · The Sailor Who Sailed After the Sun · Gene Wolfe · ss Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Unnameable Press, 1992 319 · On Death and the Deuce [Kevin Grierson] · Rick Bowes · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction May 1992 328 · The Man Who Rowed Christopher Columbus Ashore · Harlan Ellison · ss World Fantasy Convention Program Book, 1991 340 · Graves · Joe Haldeman · ss The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction October/November 1992 346 · The Ugly File · Ed Gorman · ss Prisoners and Other Stories by Ed Gorman, Cemetery Dance, 1992 353 · Elfhouses · Midori Snyder · ss Mothering Summer 1992 360 · Candles on the Pond · Sue Ellen Sloca · ss Pulphouse, 1992 375 · Tree of Life, Book of Death · Grania Davis · nv The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction March 1992 391 · Puja · D. R. McBride · ss Grue #14, Summer 1992 401 · Hermione and the Moon · Clive Barker · ss The New York Times October 30 1992 407 · Absence of Beast · Graham Masterton · ss Dark Voices 4 ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, Pan, 1992 418 · Rat Catcher · Steve Rasnic Tem · ss Dark at Heart ed. Joe R. & Karen Lansdale, Dark Harvest, 1992 432 · Will · Jane Yolen · pm The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Spring 1992 433 · The Question of the Grail · Jane Yolen · pm Grails: Quests, Visitations and Other Occurrences ed. Richard Gilliam, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Unnameable Press, 1992 434 · In the Season of the Dressing of the Wells · John Brunner · na After the King ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Tor, 1992 468 · The Blue Stone Emperor’s Thirty-Three Wives · Sara Gallardo; translated by Elizabeth Rhodes · ss The Secret Weavers ed. Marjorie Agosin, White Pine Press, 1991 476 · Alice in Prague, or The Curious Room · Angela Carter · ss SPELL (Swiss Papers in English Language and Literature) Volume 5, 1990 486 · Replacements · Lisa Tuttle · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 497 · The Ghost Village [Blue Rose] · Peter Straub · nv MetaHorror ed. Dennis Etchison, Dell Abyss, 1992 520 · Honorable Mentions: 1992 · [uncredited] · bi