INCOMING

• Ace Atkins, The Lost Ones.  A Quinn Colson mystery.
• Steven Barnes, Gorgon Child.  SF.
• Laurien Berenson, Hush Puppies.  A Melanie Travis mystery.  The cover depicted four pug puppies, so I said "Aaw!" and bought the book.
• Carl Bowen, Predator & Prey:  Vampire.  Horror novel, Book One in a six-volume multi-author series.  See also Gherbod Fleming, below.
• Jay Brandon, Loose Among the Lions.  Legal thriller.
• "Hamilton Caine" (Stephen Smoke), Carpenter, Detective.  Mystery.
• Lin Carter, Sky Pirates of Callisto.  Fantasy, the third in the Callisto series.
• Joelle Charbonneau, Skating on the Edge.  A Rebecca Robbins mystery.
• Sean Chercover, Big City, Bad Blood.  The first Ray Dudgeon PI novel.
• Martha deMay Clow, Starbreed.  SF.  A first novel.
• Ned Collier, editor, Great Stories of the West.  Western anthology of fourteen pulp stories from West, collected by a former editor of the magazine.
• Michael Coney, Mirror Image.  SF.  This was Coney's first novel.
• Barnaby Conrad & Nico Mastorakis, Keepers of the Secret.  Thriller.  "After two thousand years, it was about to be revealed -- and it could blow the Vatican wide open!"  I think I've seen this plot before...
• N. J. Crisp, The Gotland Deal.  Mystery.  Another first novel.
• Freeman Wills Crofts, Crime at Guildford.  An Inspector French mystery.
• "Peter Dawson" (Jonathan Hurff Glidden), A Pride of Men.  Western.
• Gardner Dozois, editor, The Year's Best Science Fiction, Sixteenth Annual Collection. SF anthologyof 25 stories from 1998.
• Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine, Vol. 2, No, 6, January 1965.
• Barry Eisler, Rain Storm.  Thriller featuring samarai assassin John Rain.
• Walter Ernsting & Kurt Mahr, Perry Rhodan #4:  Invasion from Space.  SF.  English translation by Wendayne Ackerman of two novellas (the title novella and "Base on Venus").
• Gherbod Fleming, Predator & Prey:  Judge and Predator & Prey:  Jury.  Horror.  Books Two and Four in a six-volume multi-author series.  See also Carl Bowen, above.
• "James M. Fox" (Johannes Matthijs Willem Knipscheer), A Shroud for Mr. Bundy.  A Johnny and Suzy Marshall mystery.  This is a Raven House (a short-lived mystery line from Harlequin) paperback with a copyright date of 1981, but according to the Thrilling Detective website, the book is dated 1952 and is the thirteenth of fourteen books in the series.
• "George G. Gilman" (Terry Harkness), Adam Steele #21:  Wagons East.  Adult western.
• Christopher Golden, Snowblind.  Horror.
• "Berkeley Gray" (Edwy Searles Brooks), Countdown for Conquest.  A Norman Conquest thriller.  (Norman Conquest as in the character, not the event.)
• Robert Greer, The Devil's Hatband.  The first C. J. Floyd mystery.
• "Brett Halliday" (probably Robert Terrall this time; can anyone verify?), Lady, Be Bad.  a Mike Shayne mystery.
• "Cyril Hare" (C. P. Gordon Clark), Tragedy at Law.  a Francis Pettigrew mystery.
• Rick Hautala, Beyond the Shroud.  Horror.  A Wraith:  The Oblivion novel.
• Simon Hawke, A Mystery of Errors.  A Shakespeare and Smythe Elizabethan mystery.
• Ernest Haycox, The Wild Bunch.  Western.
• James Hilton, Lost Horizon,  The classic fantasy of Shangri-La.
• Del Howinson & Jeff Gelb, editors, Dark Delicasies II:  Fear.  Horror anthology with 19 stories.
• Dean Ing, Firefight 2000.  SF collection with ten stories.
• "Michael Innes" (J. I. M. Stewart), Appleby and Honeybath.  Mystery mash-up of the author's two detectives:  Sir John Appleby and artist Charles Honeybath.
• Captain W. E. Johns, Biggles in the South Seas and Spitfire Parade.  Two novels in the British boys series about air ace Major James Bigglesworth.
• Will C. Knott, Golden Hawk #7:  The Eyes of the Cat.  Western.
• Kelly Link, Pretty Monsters.  YA fantasy collection with nine stories.
• C. S. Lewis, On Stories and Other Essays on Literature.  Collection of 20 essays.
• "Jake Logan" (house name; don't know who did these), Slocum and the Lakota Lady and Hot on the Trail.  Numbers 279 and 264 in the long-running adult western series.
• John J. Marcatante & Robert R. Potter, American Folklore and Legends.  A popularization of various folklore stories, designed for school use.
• John McPartland, Tokyo Doll.  Spy adventure.
• David Mercer, Stillborn:  A Story About Reincarnation.  Fantasy novel.  My expectations for this one are fairly low.  I have never heard of this author (have you?) and it's a British paperback from a company I have never heard of.  The book announces three forthcoming fantasy/horror novels from the same author; no other books or authors are promoted, (This book has a copyright date -- not a printing date -- of 1991 and the three promoted books are said to be released in 1995 and 1996.  Neither the author nor the publishers are listed in ISFDb.  All of which leads me to believe this may be a self-published vanity item.  **sigh**
• Mary Ann Mitchell, Quenched.  Horror.  The Marquis de Sade as a vampire in San Francisco.
• "Robert Morgan" (C. J. Henderson), All Things Under the Moon.  A Teddy London supernatural mystery.
• Andre Norton, Ralestone Luck and Stand & Deliver.  Two adenture novels.  The first was Norton second published book and this edition (the first paperback) has deceptive cover art that screams "Fantasy!!!"  (It's not.)  The second is a Regency novel.
• Kevin O'Brien, Make Them Cry.  Thriller.
• Rebecca Ore, The Illegal Rebirth of Billy the Kid.  SF.
• James Patterson, Cross My Heart and Kill Alex Cross.  Alex Cross thrillers from the man responsible for more trees being destroyed than Agent Orange.
• Eliot Pattison, Water Touching Stone.  Mystery featuring Beijing Inspector Shan Tao Yun.
• John Passarella, Kindred Spirit.  Horror.
• Tom Paxton, The Story of the Tooth Fairy.  Children's picture book by one of America's musical treasures.
• Ralph Rambo, Lady of Mystery (Sarah Winchester).  16-page booklet about one of the great eccentrics of California -- the woman responsible for the famous (or infamous) "Winchester House."  This booklet is No. 1 in the Pioneer Series, covering the Santa Clara Valley in its "Pioneer Era."  It's hand-lettered and illustrated by the author, who has written at least a dozen books(? pamphlets? brochures?) about the Santa Clara area and history.  A major drawback (to my mind, anyway) is that this booklet (as well as the eleven others Rambo produced) is published by the Rosicrucian Press, LTD.  Go figure.
• Trina Robbins, Tender Murderers:  Women Who Kill.  True crime.  22 women you do not want to get mad at you.
• "Marilyn Ross" (W. E. D. Ross), The Aquarius Curse.  Paperback gothic, complete with young girl running from dark house that has only one window lighted,
• Alan Ryan, Dead White.  Horror.
• Fred Saberhagan, A Century of Progress.  Time travel SF.
• Darrell Schweitzer, We Are All Legends.  Fantasy collection of twelve stories.  Signed.
• "Luke Short"  (Frederick D. Glidden), Ambush.  Western.
• Robert Silverberg, editor, Between Worlds.  SF anthology with six stories.
• "Grant Stockbridge," The Spider, Master of Men! #2.  Omnibus of two pulp novels from The Spider Magazine:  Dictator of the Damned (January 1937) and The Mill-Town Massacres (February 1937).  I presume the author is Norville Page, but I haven't checked.  This book is from the Carroll & Graf series of Spider reprints.
• Julian  Symons, The Man Who Lost His Wife.  Mystery.  And, as editor, Penguin Classic Crime.  Mystery anthology with 25 stories.
• Paul Theroux, Chicago Loop.  Thriller.
• Jessamyn West, The Friendly Persuasion.  The noted novel of Quakers during the Civil War.  West was a cousin of Richard Nixon, but I won't hold that against her.  In fact, we named our first daughter Jessamyn.
• Colin Wilson, Mysteries:  An Investigation into the Occult, the Paranormal & the Supernatural.  What the title says.  One of Wilson's major interests.
• Charles Willeford, The Shark-Infested Custard.  Crime novel.
• Terri Windling, editor, The Armless Maiden and Other Tales for Childhood's Survivors.  A mainly fantasy anthology with 22 stories, 17 poems, and seven memoirs and essays about survivving childhood abuse.  Some strong stuff here.