Small House of Everything

Small House of Everything

Monday, October 10, 2011

INCOMING

A lot of horror this week.  What can I say?  they were a quarter a pop.
  • Michael Falconer Anderson, The Unholy.  Horror.
  • Greg Benford and George Zebrowski, editors, Skylife:  Space Habitats in Story and Science.  SF anthology with 14 stories and articles, along with an informative introduction.
  • Lynn Biederstadt, Sleep.  Horror.
  • Lisa W. Cantrell, The Manse and Torments.  Horror.  A Stoker Award winning novel and its sequel.
  • Nick Carter, Checkmate in Rio.  Number three in the Nick Carter, Killmaster series.
  • Michael Cecilione, Deathscape.  Horror.
  • Matthew J. Costello, Wurm.  Horror.
  • Sean Costello, Captain Quad.  Horror
  • Dorothy Salisbury Davis, editor, Crime Without Murder.  Anthology with 25 stories; the 25th anthology from the Mystery Writers of America.
  • L. Sprague de Camp and Catherine Crook de Camp, editors, 3000 Years of Fantasy and Science Fiction.  YA anthology with eleven stories, excepts, and an abridgement.
  • Giancarlo De Cataldo, editor, Crimini.  Italian crime fiction anthology with nine stories.  Translated by Andrew Brown.
  • [Detective Book Club] Another Woman's House by Mignon Eberhart, Cheer for the Dead by Eli Colter, and Shadow for a Lady by J. Lane Linklater.  Another one of their 3-in-1 editions.  I picked this up because I remembered the name Eli Colter from the old Weird Tales.
  • "Jean DeWeese" (Gene DeWeese), The Doll with Opal Eyes.  Horror.
  • Gregory A. Douglas, The Unholy Smile.  Horror.
  • Elizabeth Ergas, Devil's Gate.  Horror.
  • Margaret Erskine, The Silver Ladies.  Mystery.  Ah, the whim of the marketplace...this paperback (from Ace) is labeled "An Inspector Finch Gothic."
  • Ken Eulo, The House of Caine.  Horror.
  • "Tabor Evans" (house name, but all of these were written by James Reasoner), Longarm and the Six-Gun Senorita (#272), Longarm and the Yukon Queen (#277), Longarm and the Bank Robber's Daughter (#301), Longarm and the Hell Riders (345), and Longarm and the Outlaw Empress (Longarm Giant Novel).  Adult westerns.
  • Keith Ferrario, Deadly Friend.  Horror.
  • Eric Flint, editor, The Best of Jim Baen's Universe 2006.  SF anthology with 25 stories from the online magazine, along with four articles in remembrance of Baen who had dies that year.  (I remember Baen as the young, eager, smiling,  newly-appointed editor of Galaxy, running around a convention floor lining up authors and artists for the magazine.)  A CD is included in this edition.
  • Steven Ray Fulgham, A Whisper of Wings.  Horror
  • Liz Fulton, The Palm Dome. Horror.
  • Roland Green, Wandor's Flight.  Sword and Sorcery novel.  Number 4 in the series.
  • Kathryn Meyer Griffith, Witches.  Horror.
  • Charlaine Harris and Toni L. P. Kelner, editors, Many Bloody Returns.  Vampires and birthdays, oh my!  Thirteen stories.
  • Marilyn Harris, The Conjurers.  Horror.
  • Steve Harris, The Eyes of the Beast.  Horror.
  • John Hart, Down River.  An Edgar winner.
  • Rick Hautala, Cold Whispers, Moondeath, and Winter Wake.  Horror.
  • James Herbert, The Secret of Crickley Hall.  Horror.
  • Dale Hoover, 65mm.  Horror.
  • Robert Hoskins, editor, Infinity 5.  The final book in this SF anthology series.
  • Paul Huson, The Keepsake.  Horror.
  • Shaun Hutson, Slugs.  Horror.
  • "William Irish", Waltz Into Darkness.  Mystery.
  • Ruby Jean Jensen, Pendulum.  Horror.
  • Richard Jessup, Threat.  Thriller.
  • William W. Johnstone, The Devil's Kiss.  Horror.
  • Stephen Jones, editor, The Dead That Walk.  Zombie anthology.  Twenty-four stories.
  • Nick Kamin, The Herod Men, bound with John Rackham, Dark Planet.  Ace SF Double.
  • Paul Kane and Marie O'Regan, editors, Hellbound Hearts.  Horror anthology of 21 stories based on Clive Barker's The Hellbound Heart, which was the basis of the Hellraiser films.
  • Ronald Kelly, Moon of the Werewolf.  Horror.
  • Harry Adam Knight, Carnosaur.  Horror.  The other Jurassic Park.
  • Robert N. Lee and David T. Wilbanks, editors, Damned Nation.  Horror anthology.  Twenty-two stories.
  • J.-M. & Randy L'Officier, editors, Tales of the Shadowmen:  Volume 1:  The Modern Babylon, Volume 2:  Gentlemen of the Night, Volume 3:  Danse Macabre, Volume 4:  Lords of Terror, Volume 5:  The Vampires of Paris, Volume 6:  Grand Guignol, and Volume 7:  Femmes Fetales.  Annual literary horror/SF/mystery mash-ups featuring heroes, villains, and bit players from pulp stories, comics, movies, and television.   This is the complete series to date.
  • C. C. MacApp, Prisoners of the Sky.  SF.
  • Graham Masterton, Trauma.  Horror.
  • Abigail McDaniels, The Uprising.  Horror.
  • Clare McNally, Ghost House Revenge and What About the Baby?  Horror. 
  • Catherine Montrose, The Wendigo Border.  Horror.
  • Billie Sue Mosiman, Malachi's Moon and Craven Moon.  Numbers two and three in the Vampire Nations series.  Copyright pages also list Marty Greenberg's Tekno Books.
  • Warren Murphy & Richard Sapir (and vice versa), The Destroyer #3:  Chinese Puzzle and #89:  Dark Horse.  Men's adventure.
  • Michael O'Rourke, The Undine.  Horror.
  • Alexei Panshin, Masque World.  The third in Panshin's Anthony Villiers series.  SF with a Georgette Heyer influence.
  • Maureen Pusti, Neighbors.  Horror.
  • Stanley Richards, editor, Best Mystery and Suspense Plays of the Modern Theatre.  Ten noted plays.
  • David Robbins, The Wrath.  Horror.
  • Garyn G. Roberts, editor, The Prentice Hall Anthology of Science Fiction and Fantasy.  Doorstopper textbook (over 1100 pages) with 87 stories, one article, and seven appendices.  One appendix is a 26 page (small type listing) of  cornerstone studies and anthologies; a casual glance had me scratching my head.  According to this, the good Marty Greenberg and the bad one are the same person, books are credited to the wrong people, co-editors are both listed and missing in the same section, renamed paperback derivatives of anthologies are considered as completely different books, important books are missing, many listings of series anthologies are cut short while others are complete, and single-author collections are considered as anthologies while some anthologies are not.  Based on this, get the book for the stories and take everything else with a grain of salt.
  • Clarissa Ross, Satan's Whispers.  Horror.
  • Kristine Kathryn Rusch, Facade.  Horror.
  • Alan K. Russell, editor, Rivals of Sherlock Holmes Two.  Forty-six mystery stories from the original illustrated magazines.
  • Hank Phillippi Ryan, Face Time.  A charlotte McNally mystery.
  • Robert D. San Souci, Emergence.  Horror.
  • Al Sarrantonio, House Haunted.  Horror.
  • John Saul, Shadows and When the Wind Blows.  Horror novels from a master of the children-in danger school.
  • Darrell Schweitzer and Martin H. Greenberg (the good Marty), editors, Full Moon City.  Werewolf anthology.  Fifteen stories.
  • Carol Serling, editor, Return to the Twilight Zone.  Eighteen original stories and one "classic" (by Rod Serling) in this SF/fantasy anthology.
  • Richard Setlowe, The Experiment.  Thriller.
  • Sarah R. Shaber, editor, Tar Heel Dead:  Tales of Mystery and Mayhem from North Carolina.  Eighteen stories.
  • Alan Ross Shrader, Satan's Chance.  Horror.
  • David J. Skal, Antibodies.  SF.  An "Isaac Asimov Presents" book.
  • David Vanmeter Smith, Trinity Grove.  Horror.
  • George Harmon Smith, Bayou Boy.  Juvenile.  Smith (not to be confused with SF's George O. Smith) was a prolific writer who produced a lot of science fiction, adult novels, romances, and "swamp novels".
  • Duffy Stein, The Owlsfane Horror.  Horror.
  • J. I. M. Stewart, The Gaudy.  The first novel in the Oxford quintet by an author better known by some as "Michael Innes", classic mystery author.
  • Peter Straub, editor, American Fantastic Tales:  Volume 2, Terror and the Uncanny from the 1940 to Now.  Forty-two stories.  A Library of America edition.
  • Bernard Taylor, The Godsend.  Horror.  A classic.
  • Melanie Tem, Prodigal.  Horror.
  • John Tigges, The Curse.  Horror.
  • Peter Tremayne, Zombies!  Horror.
  • Lisa Tuttle, Familiar Spirit.  Horror.
  • Steve Vance, Shapes.  Horror.
  • Patricia Wallace, Thrills.  Horror.
  • Tim Waggoner, Dead Street.  A Matt Richter, Private Eye/Zombie novel.
  • Melvin Weiser, The Trespasser.  Horror.
  • James White, The Aliens Among Us.  Collection of seven SF stories, many set in Sector General universe.
  • Jay Williams and Raymond Abrashkin, Danny Dunn on the Ocean Floor.  Juvenile SF.
  • Philip Wylie, Generation of Vipers.  Nonfiction.  It was controversial at one time.
  • Anthony E. Zuiker with Duane Swierczynski, Level 26:  Dark Origins.  Interactive thriller.  Zuiker is the creator of the CSI television franchise; Swierczynski is a well-known crime and comic book writer.

1 comment:

  1. Just talking about Generation of Vipers yesterday. And remembering THE DISAPPEARANCE.

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