The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Stories, Listed by Author

LAY, KATHRYN

• * The Healing Truth, (ss) A Glory of Unicorns, ed. Bruce Coville, Scholastic 1998
• * Mirrored Dreams, (vi) MZBFM Fll 1993

LAYBERRY, WARREN

• * Discovery, (pm) Northern Fusion Sum 1998
• * ON the Edge, (ct) On Spec Fll, Win 1997
• * The Sundance Kid First Impressions, (pm) Northern Fusion Sum 1998

LAYDEN, IAIN R.

• * On the Bridge, (vi) Auguries #17 1993

LAYLOR, LUCY

• * Scars, (ss) Darkside, ed. John Pelan, Darkside Press 1996

LAYMAN, JOHN

• * Cannibal Outlaw Eskimo, (ss) Into the Darkness #3 1995

LAYMON, RICHARD (Carl) (1947-2001) (books) (chron.) (assoc.)

• * Bad News, (ss) Night Visions 7, ed. Stanley J. Wiater, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989
  • Best New Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell, Robinson 1990
  • The Giant Book of Best New Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & Ramsey Campbell, Magpie 1993
  • Out Are the Lights and Other Tales, Headline 1993
• * Barney’s Bigfoot Museum, (ss) Creature!, ed. Bill Pronzini, Arbor 1981
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Blarney, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Sep 1981
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * The Bleeder, (ss) New Blood Win 1989
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • The Vampire Omnibus, ed. Peter Haining, Orion 1995
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * The Champion, (ss) Cavalier Oct 1978
  • Modern Masters of Horror, ed. Frank Coffey, Berkley 1988
  • Cemetery Dance Sum 1990
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • 100 Fiendish Little Frightmares, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1997
• * Desert Pickup, (ss) EQMM Nov 1970
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • Cemetery Dance Spr 1994
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
  • The Best of Cemetery Dance, ed. Richard Chizmar, Cemetery Dance 1998
• * Dinker’s Pond, (ss) Razored Saddles, ed. Joe R. Lansdale & Pat LoBrutto, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989
  • Out Are the Lights and Other Tales, Headline 1993
• * The Direct Approach, (ss) AHMM Jan 1977
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Dracuson’s Driver, (nv) Dracula: Prince of Darkness, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1992
• * Eats, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Jul 1985
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * Eats [Mike Shayne’s Mystery Magazine Jul ’85], (gs) The Bank Street Book of Mystery, ed. Howard Zimmerman, Seymour Reit & Barbara Brenner, Pocket 1989; Adapted by Mark Borax, illustrated by Lee Moyer.
• * Fiends, (n.) Fiends, Headline 1997
• * First Date, (nv) Love in Vein II, ed. Poppy Z. Brite & Martin H. Greenberg, HarperPrism 1997
• * The Fur Coat, (ss) Earth Strikes Back, ed. Richard Chizmar, Ziesing 1994
• * A Good Cigar Is a Smoke, (ss) EQMM Feb 1976
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * The Good Deed, (nv) A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Good Vibrations, (ss) Night Screams, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc 1996
• * A Good, Secret Place, (nv) A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * The Grab, (ss) Gallery Jan 1982
  • Horrorstory: Volume 4, ed. Karl Edward Wagner, Underwood-Miller 1990
  • 100 Hair-Raising Little Horror Stories, ed. Al Sarrantonio & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Herman, (ss) Cemetery Dance Fll 1996
• * The Hunt, (ss) Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989
  • Stalkers, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1990
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * The Hunted, (pl) Screamplays, ed. Richard Chizmar & Martin H. Greenberg, Ballantine Del Rey 1997
• * I’m Not a Criminal, (ss) After the Darkness, ed. Stanley Wiater, Baltimore, MD: Maclay & Associates 1993
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Murmurous Haunts 1997
  • The Exit at Toledo Blade Boulevard, Obsidian Books 1998
• * Invitation to Murder, (ss) Invitation to Murder, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1991
• * The Job, (ss) The Unexplained: Stories of the Paranormal, ed. Ric Alexander, Orion 1998
• * Joyce, (ss) A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * Kitty Litter, (ss) Cat Crimes II, ed. Martin H. Greenberg & Ed Gorman, Fine 1992
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * The Longest Day, (ms) Midnight Graffiti Win 1990
• * Madman Stan, (ss) Night Visions 7, ed. Stanley J. Wiater, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989
  • Out Are the Lights and Other Tales, Headline 1993
• * The Maiden, (nv) Dark Love, ed. Nancy Collins, Martin H. Greenberg & Edward E. Kramer, Penguin/Roc 1995
• * The Mask, (nv) A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * Mess Hall, (nv) Book of the Dead, ed. John M. Skipp & Craig Spector, Bantam 1989
  • Out Are the Lights and Other Tales, Headline 1993
• * Mop-Up, (na) Night Visions 7, ed. Stanley J. Wiater, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989
• * Night Show, (ex) 1984
  • Tor Horror Sampler, ed. Anon., Tor 1986
• * Oscar’s Audition [as by Dick Kelly], (ss) The Executioner Mystery Magazine Jun 1975
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Out Are the Lights, (n.) Sevenoaks: New English Library 1982
  • Out Are the Lights and Other Tales, Headline 1993
• * Out of the Woods, (vi) EQMM Dec 1975
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
  • 100 Twisted Little Tales of Torment, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1998
• * Paying Joe Back, (ss) EQMM Sep 1975
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Phil the Vampire, (ss) Vampire Detectives, ed. Martin H. Greenberg, DAW 1995
• * Roadside Pickup, (ss) EQMM Dec 1974
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • 100 Tiny Tales of Terror, ed. Robert Weinberg, Stefan R. Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1996
• * Saving Grace, (nv) Cold Blood, ed. Richard T. Chizmar, Ziesing 1991
• * Slit, (ss) Predators, ed. Ed Gorman & Martin H. Greenberg, Roc 1993
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * Special, (nv) Under the Fang, ed. Robert R. McCammon, Pocket 1991
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * Spooked, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Oct 1981
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Stickman, (ss) A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
• * Stiff Intruders, (ss) Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine Mar 1980
  • A Good, Secret Place, Deadline Press 1993
  • Fiends, Headline 1997
• * The Tub, (ss) Hotter Blood, ed. Jeff Gelb & Michael Garrett, Pocket 1991
  • Out Are the Lights and Other Tales, Headline 1993
  • Ten Tales, ed. James Cahill (uncredited), James Cahill 1994
• * The Wilds, (na) CD Publications 1998
• * Wishbone, (ss) Night Visions 7, ed. Stanley J. Wiater, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest 1989

LAYTON, LEE ANN

• * Ogrespeak, (nv) The Leading Edge #27 1993

LAYTON, PETER

• * Bermuda Gulf, (pm) Midnight Zoo v2 #5 1992
• * Even, (pm) Midnight Zoo v2 #5 1992
• * Marker for a Geophysicist’s Unknown Grave, (pm) Pablo Lennis Feb 1994
  • The 1995 Rhysling Anthology, ed. Anon., Figment Press 1995
• * scarabs, (pm) Midnight Zoo v3 #2 1993
  • Midnight Zoo v3 #7 1993

LAZARUS, RICHARD (books)

• * Carrion, (ss) Journey Into Mystery, University Editions 1992
• * Dark Retribution, (ss) Journey Into Mystery, University Editions 1992
• * The Incinerator, (ss) Journey Into Mystery, University Editions 1992
• * The Intrusion, (ss) Journey Into Mystery, University Editions 1992
• * Now You See Him..., (nv) Journey Into Mystery, University Editions 1992
• * Origami, (nv) Journey Into Mystery, University Editions 1992
• * Radio Active, (ss) Journey Into Mystery, University Editions 1992

LAZELL, DAVID

• * Lost Treasures of the Departed, (ar) Skeleton Crew Apr 1991

LAZENBY, DONI A.

• * A Dog’s Life, (ss) Midnight Zoo v1 #1 1991
• * Memories of Home, (pm) Not One of Us Jan 1991
• * Of Reds and Blues, (vi) After Hours Sum 1990
• * The Shack, (ss) The Tome #6 1990
• * The South Field, (ss) The Sterling Web Spr 1990

_____, reviews:

• * Book Review, (br) Midnight Zoo v1 #3, v1 #5 1991

LAZENBY, NORMAN (Austin) (1914-2003)

• * The Designers, (ss) Terror-Trap!, Shenstone 1949
  • Gryphon Science Fiction and Fantasy Reader #1, ed. Philip Harbottle, Gryphon Books 1999
• * Regression, (ss) Fantasy Booklet #2 1991

LAZURE, MICHELE

• * A Night Alone, (vi) Amazing Experiences Jul 1990

LAZZARO, JOSEPH J.

• * Ben Franklin’s Spaceship (with Peter L. Manly), (ss) Analog Sep 1995
• * Building an Accessible Future, (ar) Absolute Magnitude Sum 1998

LEABHART, SUSAN A.

• * Medicine Man, (ss) Zero Gravity Freefall Feb 1995
• * Stopping for a Bite at the New Frontier Cafe, (ss) Dark Iowa, Bright Iowa, ed. James P. Roberts, White Hawk Press 1994

LEACH, CHRISTOPHER (Joseph?) (1925-2004?) (books)

• * Afternoon School, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * The Anniversary Dinner, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * Enemies, (nv) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * The Hockey-Player, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * In a Ship Called Darkness, (ss) Out of Time, ed. Aidan Chambers, Bodley Head 1984
• * Last Instruction, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * Private Meadows, (ss) The Tenth Ghost Book, ed. Aidan Chambers, Barrie & Jenkins 1974
  • Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * Relations, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * The Second Mrs. Day, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * The Smallest Man in the World, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * Strangers, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * The Trouble with Nathan, (ss) The Eleventh Ghost Book, ed. Aidan Chambers, Barrie & Jenkins 1975
  • Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986
• * The White Horses of the Sea, (ss) Enemies and Other Strangers, Dent 1986

LEACH, MARIA (1891-1977)

• * The Big Black Umbrella, (vi) 1958
  • The Oxford Book of Scary Tales, ed. Dennis Pepper, Oxford University Press 1992
• * The Ghostly Spools, (vi) Whistle in the Graveyard, Viking Penguin 1974
  • The Unseen, ed. Janet Lunn, Penguin/Puffin 1997
• * ’Tain’t So, (vi) Whistle in the Graveyard, Viking Penguin 1974; based on “The Man Who Wouldn’t Believe He Was Dead” by John Bennett (Doctor to the Dead, Rinehart, 1946).
  • The Young Oxford Book of Ghost Stories, ed. Dennis Pepper, Oxford University Press 1994

_____, retold by

• * Wait Till Martin Comes, (vi) The Thing at the Foot of the Bed and Other Scary Tales, Cleveland: World 1959
  • Spooky Stories for a Dark and Stormy Night, ed. Alice Low, Hyperion 1994

LEACOCK, DINA; see pseudonym Diane Arrelle (chron.)

LEACOCK, STEPHEN (Butler) (1869-1944)

• * Buggam Grange, (ss) Winsome Winnie and Other New Nonsense Novels, London: John Lane 1920
  • The Oxford Book of Canadian Ghost Stories, ed. Alberto Manguel, Toronto: Oxford University Press 1990
• * The Man in Asbestos: An Allegory of the Future, (ss) Nonsense Novels, London: Lane 1911
  • The Flying Sorcerers, ed. Peter Haining, Souvenir Press 1997

LEADBEATER, WENDY CORRINA; pseudonym of Jim Bauer

• * Blonde Angel, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * City of Dreams, (pm) Midnight Zoo v2 #1 1992
• * Dada, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * The Day His Doggie Died, (ss) Midnight Zoo v3 #2 1993
• * Devastate, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * Heart of Philosopher’s Stone, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * I Fell in Love w/ the Highway, (pm) The Tome Spr 1992
• * Judy Snooty, (pm) Midnight Zoo v2 #1 1992
• * Machines of Love, (pm) The Tome Spr 1992
• * Mind-Stranded on the Ocean of Being, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * Ms Rosencruertz, (pm) Midnight Zoo v2 #2 1992
• * NeoPlatonism’s Funeral Pyre, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * The Nova Express, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * Ocean of Being, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * Ooga-Chugga Religion, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * Really Big Monster, (vi) Aberations #1 1991
• * RUI-480 in the Cosmic Circus, (ss) Abortion Stories, ed. Rick Lawler, MinRef Press 1992
• * Set the Clock Back, (pm) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991
• * Technocracy in Cyborgs, Androids, & Robots, (pm) Midnight Zoo v2 #2 1992
• * A Triptych of Salamanders, (pm) The Tome Spr 1992

LEAF, APOLLONIA

• * Duende, (ss) On Spec Spr 1998

LEAF, HORACE (1896-?)

• * I Am a Psychic Detective, (ar) Liberty Mar 18 1939 (+4)
  • The Third Target Book of Horror, ed. Kurt Singer, Target 1985

LEAHY, MARCUS

• * Genesis (with Lynn Abbey & Richard Pini) [*Elfquest], (na) Wolfsong, ed. Richard Pini, Robert Asprin & Lynn Abbey, Tor 1988

LEAN, FLORENCE MARRYAT CHURCH (1833-1899); see under Marryat, Florence

LEANDER, RICHARD; pseudonym of Richard von Volkmann, (1830-1889)

• * The Invisible Kingdom, (ss) The Strand Mar 1896
  • Fantasy Stories, ed. Mike Ashley, Robinson Children’s Books 1996

LEAR, ALAN W(ebster) (1953- ) (books)

• * 666 Styx Street, (ss) Spirits of Another Sort, Haunted Library 1992
• * Crueller than God, (ss) Aklo Win 1990
• * Dance! Dance! The Shaking of the Sheets, (ss) The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories 2, ed. Richard Dalby, Carroll & Graf 1991
• * Dead Letter, (ss) Nightmares 3, ed. Mary Danby, London: Armada 1985
• * Do Bats Eat Cats?, (ss) Tales from Tartarus, ed. R. B. Russell & Rosalie Parker, Tartarus Press 1995
• * Fatal Bellman, (ss) Fantasy Tales, v.11 #3, ed. Stephen Jones & David A. Sutton, Robinson 1989
• * Full of Perfume and Sad Sound, (ss) Aklo #3 1992
• * Gruesome, (ss) Nightmares 2, ed. Mary Danby, London: Armada 1984
• * Introduction, (lk) Spirits of Another Sort, Haunted Library 1992
• * Let’s Do Something Naughty, (ss) The 25th Pan Book of Horror Stories, ed. Herbert van Thal, London: Pan 1984
• * “A Little, Little Grave”, (ss) Ghosts & Scholars #14 1992
• * Mo Meets the Magus, (ss) Spirits of Another Sort, Haunted Library 1992
• * ...Saith the Preacher..., (ss) All Hallows #3 1991; winner of the GSS Ghost Story Competition.