INCOMING

It's been a pretty busy book week, with a lot of hefty anthologies, the new Harlan Ellison GN, and more mysteries that you can shake a stick at.  Not mentioned are the 46 books Kitty picked up (for free!); most of those will be going to good homes over the next few weeks.

• Kathy Acker, Blood and Guts in High School  Novel.
• Alexander, Blind Justice.  Historical mystery featuring Sir John Fielding, founder of the Bow Street Runners.
• J. R. L. Anderson, A Sprig of Sea Lavender.  Mystery.  One of the Dell "Scene of the Crime" paperbacks.
• Kevin J. Anderson, Janet Berliner, Matthew J. Costello, & F. Paul Wilson, Artifact.  Thriller with SF/F/horror overtones.
• Kelley Armstrong, The Summoning.  YA horror, Book One in the Darkest Power series.
• "Jonathan Aycliffe" (Denis MacEoin), The Matrix.  Horror.  The author also writes very intelligent thrillers as "Daniel Easterman."
• Clive Barker, Mister B. Gone.  Horror.
• "John Benteen" (Ben Haas), Fargo #3:  Alaska Steel, Sundance:  Manhunt, and Sundance:  Riding Shotgun.  Westerns.
• E. F. Bleiler, editor, Five Victorian Ghost Novels.  Calling them all novels may be stretching it a bit.  They are:  The Phantom Lover by "Vernon Lee", The Uninhabited House by Mrs. J. H. Riddell, Monsieur Maurice, by Amelia B. Edwards, The Ghost of Guir House by Charles Willing Beale, and The Amber Witch by Wilhelm Meinhold.
• J. L. Bourne, Day by Day Armageddon:  Beyond Exile.  Zombie apocalypse novel, the second in a series.
• Gary Brandner, Doomstalker.  Horror.
• Kevin Brockmeier, editor, Real Unreal:  Best American Fantasy Vol. 3.  Fantasy anthology with 20 stories from 2008.
• Walter R. Brooks, Freddy and the Bean Home News.  Children's book featuring everybody's favorite pig.  (Sorry, Babe.  Sorry, Wilbur.)  This time Freddy and his friends start a newspaper.
• John Burdett, Bangkok Haunts and Bangkok Tattoo.  Sonchai Jitpleecheep mysteries.
• Peter Carey, Jack Maggs.  A novel of mesmerism, possession, and 1837 London by a Booker Prize winner.
• James Hadley Chase, We'll Share a Double Funeral.  Mystery.
• "Francis Clifford" (Arthur Bell Thompson), The Naked Runner.  Thriller.  It was filmed in 1967 with Frank Sinatra in the lead role.
• Nancy Collins, Final Destination:  Looks Could Kill.  Movie franchise tie-in novel.
• Merle Constiner, Two Pistols South of Deadwood and No Man's Brand by William Vance.  An Ace double western.
• "E. J. Copperman" (Jeff Cohen), Night of the Living Deed.  The first in the Haunted Guesthouse series.
• Deborah Crombie, A Share in Death.  The first Duncan Kincaid/Gemma Jones mystery.
• Ellen Datlow, editor, Tails of Wonder and Imagination.  Mainly fantasy collection of 40 cat stories.
• "Robert Doherty" (Robert Mayer), Area 51: The Reply and Area 51:  The Grail.  The second and the fifth novels in this SFnal thriller series.
• Garneer Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction:  Fourteenth Annual Collection.  SF anthology with 27 stories from 1996 and Dozois' usually in-depth summary of the year in SF.
• "D. B. Drumm" (John Shirley), Traveler #3:  The Stalkers.  Post-apocalyptic men's adventure.
• Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, & Martin H. Greenberg, editors, Nursery Crimes.  Horror anthology with 30 stories.
• Harlan Ellison, Paul Chadwick, & Ken Steacy, Harlan Ellison's 7 Against Chaos.  SF novel.  Ellison has been working on this for ten years and is very proud of it.
• Gherbod Fleming, Nosferatu.  Gaming (Dark Ages: Vampire) tie-in novel.
• John L. French, editor, Bad Cop...No Donut.  Anthology.  Fifteen stories of cops behaving badly.
• John G. Fuller, The Ghost of 29 Megacycles.  I really hate calling this stuff nonfiction.  This one goes into the experiments of Dr. George Meek, who developed "Spiritcom," which electronically crossed the boundary between life and death -- or something.
• Ray Garton, Ravenous and Scissors.  Horror novels.
• Ed Gorman, The Poker Club.  Mystery.  Picked up to replace the copy that went walkabout at a hotel off the NJ Turnpike earlier this month.
• Jonathan Green, Crusade for Armageddon.  Gaming (Warhammer 40,000) tie-in novel.
• Roland Green & John F. Carr, Great King's War.  SF continuing the adventures begun by H. Beam Piper in Lord Kalvan of Otherwhen.
• "Rohmer Zane Grey," Beyond the Mogollon Rim, Gun Trouble in Tonto Basin, King of the Range, and Siege at Forlorn River.  Collections of two, two, three, and three novellas, respectively of western stories featuring heroes (Nevada Jim Lacy, Arizona Ames, Buck Duane, and Yaqui, respectively) created by Zane Grey.  All the stories were lead features in Zane Grey's Western Magazine from 1969 through 1974.  The conceit was that RZG was the son of Zane Grey, while the reality was that this was a house name used at various times by Gary Brandner, Tom Curry, Clayton Matthews, and Bill Pronzini and the Girl who Jeffrey Wallman.
• Christopher Golden, editor, The New Dead.  Zombie anthology with 19 stories.
• Christopher Golden & Jeff Mariotte, Gen 13:  Netherwar.  Comic book tie-in novel.
• Martin H. Greenberg, editor, The End of the World.  SF anthology with 19 stories.
• Gary Gygax, The Anubis Murders.  Gaming (Dangerous Journeys) tie-in novel.
• "Matthew S. Hart" (James Reasoner), Cody's Law #1:  Gunmetal Justice.  Western.
• Andrew Kaplan, Dragon Fire.  Thriller.
• "Lars Kepler" (Alexandra and Alexander Ahndoril), The Hypnotist.  Mystery novel from Sweden.  Translated by Ann Long.
• William King, Ragnar's Claw.  Gaming (Warhammer 40,000) tie-in novel featuring Ragnar of the Imperial Space Marines.
• Louis L'Amour, Borden Chantry, a western novel, and Buckskin Run, a collection of eight western stories and seven "Historical Notes."
• Robert Lory, A Harvest of Hoodwinks (twelve stories) and Masters of the Lamp (novel).  An Ace SF double.
• George R. R. Martin & Gardner Dozois, editors, Songs of Love and Death.  Cross-genre anthology with 17 stories.
• Anne McCaffrey, The Girl Who Heard Dragons.  SF collection with fifteen stories.
• Sandy Mitchell, Cain's Last Stand and Caves of Ice.  Gaming (Washammer 40,000) tie-in novels, both featuring Ciaphas Cain.
• Andre Norton, The Hands of Lyr.  Fantasy.
• Yei Theodore Ozaki, compiler, The Japanese Fairy Book.  Twenty-two fairy tales collected and first published in 1903.
• Edith Pargeter, Reluctant Odyssey.  The second book in the author's World War II trilogy, written "almost contemporaneously with the action."
• Louise Penny, A Fatal Grace.  A Chief Inspector Gamache mystery.
• Otto Penzler, editor, Murderers' Row.  Anthology with 14 mystery stories.
• Anne Perry, editor, A Century of British Mystery and Suspense.  Mystery anthology with 30 stories.
• William L. Pohoresky, A Day to Day.  Civil War novel self-published in 1984 and signed by the author.
• Robert Rankin, The Witches of Cheswick.  Humorous fantasy by a master of the genre.
• Steven Saville & Althea Konis, editors, Elemental:  The Tsunami Relief Anthology.  SF/F anthology with 23 stories with all proceeds going to Save the Children Foundation in response to the 205 tsunami.
•  Wilbur Schramm, editor, Great Short Stories.  A 1950 textbook anthology with 28 mostly familiar stories.  What sealed the deal for me is that the editor used the introduction explaining how he wrote his popular short story "Windwagon Smith," which I admired.
• John Shirley, Predator:  Forever Midnight.  Movie franchise tie-in novel.
• Dan Simmons, Olympos.  Epic fantasy, the concluding volume in the Ilium duology.
• D. A. Stern, The Punisher.  Movie-based-on-the-comic-book tie-in novel.
• Jonanthan Straham, editor, Eclipse Three:  New Science Fiction and Fantasy.  Anthology with 15 stories.
• Peter Straub, The Throat.  Horror, part of the Blue Rose trilogy.
• Richard Stevenson, Third Man Out.  A Donald Strachey mystery.
• Keith Francis Strohm, The Tomb of Horrors.  Gaming (Greyhawk) tie-in novel.
• David Thompson, Wilderness #41:  By Duty Bound.  Western.
• Peter Tomasi, Green Lantern Corps:  Blackest Night.  Graphic novel.  Artwork by Patrick Gleason.
• Hank Wagner, Christopher Golden, & Stephen R. Bissette, Prince of Stories:  The Many Worlds of Neil Gaiman.  Nonfiction, an in-depth look at Gaiman's work through 2008.  And, yes, I'm a big Gaiman fan-boy.
• Robert Weinberg, The Web of Arachnos.  Gaming (City of Heroes) tie-in novel.
• Kate Wilhelm, A Sense of Shadow.  SF edging into horror territory.
• Jane Yolen, Sword of the Rightful King.  YA Arthurian novel.
• Roger Zelazny, editor, Warriors of Blood and Dream.   Fantasy collection with fifteen stories.