Anthologies
Short stories about mermaids. 1 The Prevalence of Mermaids [Adventures in Unhistory] (1986) essay by Avram Davidson 29 Nothing in the Rules (1939) novelette by L. Sprague de Camp 58 She Sells Sea Shells (1983) shortstory by Paul Darcy Boles 72 The Soul Cages (1825) shortstory by Thomas Crofton Croker [as by T. Crofton Croker ] 85 Sweetly the Waves Call to Me (1981) shortstory by Pat Murphy 99 Driftglass (1967) shortstory by Samuel R. Delany 118 Mrs. Pigafetta Swims Well (1959) shortstory by Reginald Bretnor 125 The Nebraskan and the Nereid (1985) shortstory by Gene Wolfe 134 The Lady and the Merman (1976) shortstory by Jane Yolen 138 The White Seal Maid (1977) shortstory by Jane Yolen 143 The Fisherman's Wife (1982) shortstory by Jane Yolen 150 Till Human Voices Wake Us (1984) shortstory by Lewis Shiner 163 A Touch of Strange (1958) shortstory by Theodore Sturgeon 177 Something Rich and Strange (1961) shortstory by Randall Garrett and Avram Davidson 200 The Crest of Thirty-six (1980) shortstory by Davis Grubb 212 The Shannon Merrow (1982) shortstory by Cooper McLaughlin 230 Fish Story (1953) shortstory by Leslie Charteris 242 In the Islands (1983) shortstory by Pat Murphy 256 Recommended Reading List (Mermaids!) (1986) essay by Jack Dann and Gardner Dozois
From award-winning editor Bill Pronzini comes The Mammoth Book of Short Spy Novelsa classic book updated for spymasters. Thirteen outstanding spy and espionage novellas, complete and unabridged, are gathered here in one terrific volume. They represent a specially chosen collection from the most accomplished writers in the field, including W. Somerset Maugham on Ashenden, his operative in World War I and Ian Fleming on 007 in the Caribbean, as well as Leslie Charteris, Erle Stanley Gardner, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and John Jakes, among others. These works span more than seventy-five years of espionage writing in the United States and England, and feature secret agents, counterspies, and double agents in settings from Japan to the former Eastern Bloc, and from World War I onward.
The Bounty Thriller Collection with stories from Agatha Christie, Elmore Leonard, Ken Follet, Maeve Binchy, Roald Dahl, Ruth Rendell and many more...All in 484 pages.
Part XI: 1880-1891 includes contributions from Jayantika Ganguly, Will Murray, Tracy Revels, Hugh Ashton, Matthew Simmonds, David Ruffle, Paul W. Nash, Mike Hogan, Craig Stephen Copland, Gayle Lange Puhl, Deanna Baran, Leslie Charteris and Denis Green, Roger Riccard, Robert Perret, Kevin P. Thornton, Stephen Herczeg, and M.A. Wilson and Richard Dean Starr, and a poem by Arlene Mantin Levy and Mark Levy. 34 new traditional Holmes adventures in two simultaneously published volumes “Somewhere in the vaults of the bank of Cox and Co., at Charing Cross, there is a travel-worn and battered tin dispatch box with my name, John H. Watson, M.D., Late Indian Army , painted upon the lid. It is crammed with papers, nearly all of which are records of cases to illustrate the curious problems which Mr. Sherlock Holmes had at various times to examine . . . .” – Dr. John H. Watson So wrote Dr. Watson in “The Problem of Thor Bridge” – and ever since, Sherlockians have been bringing us new adventures from this legendary tin dispatch box. While his original Literary Agent only edited the pitifully few sixty stories that make up the original Canon, there have since been literally thousands of traditional adventures about the true Sherlock Holmes – and there will never be enough! Throughout the original Holmes Canon, there were hints and teases of other intriguing cases – The Giant Rat of Sumatra . . . The Abernetty Tragedy . . . The Manor House Case. Watson mentions well over one-hundred of these, which have collectively come to be known as The Untold Cases. Now, the latest MX anthologies present thirty-four of those adventures in two simultaneously published volumes, with all royalties going to support the Stepping Stones School at Undershaw, one of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s former homes. Join us as we return to Baker Street and discover more authentic adventures of Sherlock Holmes, described by the estimable Dr. Watson as “ the best and wisest . . . whom I have ever known .” Each volume contains forwards by Lyndsay Faye, Roger Johnson, Melissa Grigsby, Steve Emecz, and David Marcum.