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Short Story Wednesday: Carol Emshwiller and Bobbie Ann Mason select favorite...
SF: Authors' Choice 4Editor: Harry HarrisonDate: 1974-01-00ISBN: 0-399-11188-3 [978-0-399-11188-4]Publisher: PutnamPrice: $5.95Pages: 248Format: hcType: ANTHOLOGYCover: SF: Authors' Choice 4 by Paul...
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Short Story Wednesday: stories from Dorothy Parker, Janet Flanner, Kay Boyle,...
Eight years apart, two anthologies drawn from two roughly comparable gendered magazines, mixtures of fiction, essays and reportage (of a sort), both rather similarly divided into thematic subsections,...
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Kit Reed: "Winter" (1969); Barry N. Malzberg: "Barbarians? Sure" (2020):...
Kit Reed saw "Winter" first published in the 1969 15th volume of Winter's Tales, the annual then edited by A. D. MacLean (as it would be for all its long original run, 28 annual volumes), and she...
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WANDERING STARS, edited by Jack Dann (Harper & Row, 1974, several editions...
Wandering Stars ed. Jack M. Dann (Harper & Row, 1974, hc) mixture of original and reprinted fiction, with two nonfictional pieces.1 * Why Me? · Isaac Asimov · in *7 * On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi...
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William Campbell Gault; Jack Ritchie; Talmage Powell: football fiction from...
Players' Choice: Great Tales of the Gridironselected by Dave Robinson, Howard Mudd, Gale Sayers, and Charley Gogolak; illustrated by Ken ShieldsContents:The Gravy Game / Harry Stuhldreher and Pete...
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Stephen Gallagher: "The Governess: A Professor Challenger Story as told by...
Stephen Gallagher is a deft hand in at least two media, prose and scriptwriting (primarily for television drama), and his Brooligan Press has republished his own work and offered volumes by others,...
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Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Bloch, Fritz Leiber, Avram Davidson, Rosel George...
Off the shelf--from six decades ago, and featuring some of the more-admired stories of Vonnegut and Bloch, and "rare" stories by similarly notable writers...Fantastic [v9 #8, August 1960] (35¢, 132pp,...
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short stories by Eudora Welty, Robert M. Coates, James Still, and Edita...
Foreword: The wing of madness / Mary Louise Aswell --Introduction: The dreams that heal / Frederic Wertham --The story of serapion / E.T.A. Hoffman --Notes from the Underground (excerpt) / Feodor...
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Mathew Paust, RIP
Matt's Blog: Crime TimeHere's the obit he wrote for himself, as he could see the end, with bladder cancer:Mathew David Paust has at last slipped quietly away from the furiously whirling social...
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"Dog Stories" by Francine Prose, SPECIAL REPORT: FICTION November...
Francine Prose's "Dog Stories" is, perhaps after Rick Bass's "Antlers", the-best-known new story to be published in the 11/90 quarterly issue of Special Report: Fiction, one of a set of eight magazines...
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Diane Monroe:"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" Lenny and Carl: "Screamo" Dracula's Miniskirt: "Slaughter Beach" Bob Malach Band: "The Philly Blues" 3 Divas: "I Mean You"Andrea Nardello,...
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Short Story Wednesdays: Wilma Shore stories (a redux review): stories from...
On Wilma Shore on Sweet Freedom.Wilma Shore: "The Butcher"Story, November/December 1940; can be read online in Women Working, edited by Nancy Hoffman and Florence Howe (The Feminist Press/McGraw-Hill...
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novels by Dorothy B. Hughes, Barry N. Malzberg, Murray Morgan, P. J. Wolfson:...
Reviews by Tony Baer:Fire, Barry N. Malzberg (Stark House)Coleman is on the front lines in Vietnam, on a 3-day leave, dreaming of his fiancé, can only remember the feel of flesh from the slap of a foot...
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FFB: THE 1965 ANNUALS of fiction and drama, further augmented...some more...
The Best American Short Stories 1965 edited by Martha Foley and David Burnett The 10th Annual of the Year’s Best S-F edited by Judith Merril Best Detective Stories of the Year, 20th Annual Collection...
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Short Story Wednesday: Robert Arthur, editor: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS:...
With indices courtesy William Contento, 13 April 1947-13 December 2021.The celebration among my film-oriented friends and acquaintances and blogging colleagues of Alfred Hitchcock's 117th birthday...
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Short Story Wednesday: "It Could Be You" by Frank Roberts, THE BULLETIN...
"It Could Be You" by Australian reporter and short story writer Frank Roberts, is perhaps his best-remembered story, and was first included in a fairly typical issue of the public affairs magazine The...
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Tony Baer: Recent Reads (a guest post): Anna Kavan, Ted Lewis, W.L. Heath,...
Ice, Anna Kavan. A waifish, opiate-addled writer’s last breath: a translucent bone thin blond heroine. An obsessive pursuer, racing through a glacial earth, hallucinations and reality colliding like...
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Short Story Wednesday: THE SUPERNATURAL READER edited by Lucy and Groff...
The Supernatural Reader edited by Lucy & Groff Conklin(Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1953, $3.95, 349pp, hc)11 · Introduction · Lucy and Groff Conklin · in19 · The Angel with Purple Hair · Herb Paul ·...
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FRIDAY'S "FORGOTTEN" BOOKS AND MORE: the links to reviews, texts, etc. 31...
The latter fortnight's cycle of books and more, unfairly (or sometimes fairly) neglected, or simply those the reviewers below think you might find of some interest (or, infrequently, you should be...
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Short Story Wednesday: ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: STORIES FOR LATE AT NIGHT...
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Stories for Late at Night "ed. Alfred Hitchcock" (ghost edited by Robert Arthur) (Random House, 1961, $5.95, 469pp, hc)Derivative anthologies: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: 12...
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