The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998

Stories, Listed by Author

SANSOM, WILLIAM (1912-1976)

• * A Woman Seldom Found, (ss) A Contest of Ladies and Other Stories, London: Hogarth Press 1956
  • Chamber of Horrors, ed. Anon., Octopus 1984
  • Black Water 2, ed. Alberto Manguel, Random House/Clarkson & Potter 1991
  • Great Vampires & Other Horrors, ed. Anon., London: Chancellor Press 1992
  • The Oxford Book of Twentieth-Century Ghost Stories, ed. Michael Cox, Oxford University Press 1996

SAN SOUCI, ROBERT D(aniel) (1946- ) (books)

• * The Accursed House, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted and expanded from an account in Myths & Legends of Our Own Land: Volume II by Charles M. Skinner, Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott 1896.
• * The Adventure of the German Student, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; from Tales of a Traveller (1824) by Washington Irving.
• * Billy Mosby’s Night Ride, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on “Francis Woolcott” from Charles M. Skinner’s Myths and Tales of Our Own Land.
• * Boneless, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987
• * Brother and Sister, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on a traditional African tale.
• * The Cegua, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; original story based on “La Cegua” by Maximo Soto Hall.
• * The Croglin Grange Vampire, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; from an account in In My Solitary Life by Augustus Hare, London: Allen 1896-1901.
• * The Deacon’s Ghost, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; a retelling of “The Deacon of Myrka” from Icelandic Legends by Jon Arnason.
• * The Dead Mother, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from Russian Folk Tales by William R. Shedden-Ralston, London 1973.
• * The Death Waltz, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; retold from Charles M. Skinner’s Myths and Tales of Our Own Land.
• * The Devil and Tom Walker, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from the story in Tales of a Traveller by Washington Irving, New York 1825.
• * The Draug, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from various accounts in Phantoms and Fairies from Norwegian Folklore by Tor Age Bringsvaerd, Oslo: Johan Grundt Tanum Forlag, n.d.
• * The Duppy, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; Carribbean folklore.
• * Escape Up the Tree, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; Nigerian version of an African folktale.
• * Gallery:
  ___ Out of Misty Dreams, (pi) Realms of Fantasy Oct 1995
• * The Ghost of Misery Hill, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; expanded from “The Spook of Misery Hill” in Charles M. Skinner’s Myths and Tales of Our Own Land.
  • A Treasury of Ghost Stories, ed. Kenneth Ireland, Kingfisher 1996
• * The Ghostly Little Girl, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; expanded from an account in Ghostly Tales of Old Monterey by Randall A. Reinstedt.
• * The Ghost’s Cap, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on an Icelandic folktale (1864).
• * The Goblin Spider, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; a traditional Japanese story.
• * The Golden Arm, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted and expanded from English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, London 1890.
• * The Golem, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987
• * The Greedy Daughter, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from the story in The Folk-Lore of Rome by R.H. Busk.
• * The Green Mist, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; derived from Legends of the Lincolnshire Cars (1891) by M. C. Balfour.
• * The Halloween Pony, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on “The Goblin Pony”, a French folktale.
• * The Haunted Inn, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; classical Chinese tale.
• * The Headrest, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from Papuan Fairy Tales by Annie Ker, c. 1912.
• * “Hold Him, Tabb!”, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; African-American ghost story from Virginia originally published in the Southern Workman and Hampton School Record v.26 #6, June 1897.
• * The Hunter in the Haunted Forest, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; from three Teton Sioux tales in Myths and Legends of the Great Plains by Katharine Berry Judson.
  • Supernatural Stories, ed. William Mayne, Kingfisher 1995
• * Introduction, (in)
  • Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987
  • More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994
• * Island of Fear, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from “The Island of the Cannibal” in Seneca Myths & Folk Tales by Arthur C. Parker, Buffalo, NY: Buffalo Historical Society 1923.
• * Jack Frost, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; adapted from the Russian.
• * King of the Cats, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from More English Fairy Tales by Joseph Jacobs, London 1894.
• * Knock... Knock... Knock, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from The Vanishing Hitchhiker: American Urban Legends & Their Meaning by Jan Harold Brunvand, New York: W.W. Norton & Co. 1981.
• * Lady Eleanor’s Mantle, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on the story by Nathaniel Hawthorne (Democratic Review, Dec ’1838).
• * Lavender, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on an American urban legend.
• * Loft the Enchanter, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from accounts in Ghosts, Witchcraft and the Other World: Icelandic Folktales I translated by Alan Boucher, Reykjavik, Iceland: Iceland Review Library 1977.
• * The Loup-Garou, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on a French-Canadian legend.
• * The Lovers of Dismal Swamp, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on an American folktale from colonial times.
• * “Me, Myself”, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from Popular Tales of the West Highlands, Orally Collected: New Edition by J.F. Campbell, London: Alexander Gardner Publisher 1890.
• * The Midnight Mass of the Dead, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on Norse folklore.
• * The Mouse Tower, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from accounts in Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by Sabine Baring-Gould, London: Rivingtons 1866.
• * Nuckelavee, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; adapted from Orkney Folklore and Traditions by Walter Traill Dennison.
• * The Pirate, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from the poem “The Buccaneer” by Richard H. Dana.
• * The Robber Bridegroom, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on a tale from the Brothers Grimm.
• * The Rolling Head, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; American Indian legend.
• * Scared To Death, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on “The Leaning Tombstone” by Margaret Rhett Martin.
• * The Serpent Woman, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; condensed and rewritten from the story in Spanish Legendary Tales by Mrs. Middlemore.
• * Sister Death and the Healer, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; Hispanic tale from the Mexican-American border.
• * The Skeleton’s Dance, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on a Japanese folktale.
• * The Soldier and the Vampire, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on a traditional Russian folktale.
• * The Stolen Prince, (ss) Weirdbook #23 1988
• * Swallowed Alive, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on an account by John Bunyan (1680).
• * Tailypo, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on a classic American tale.
• * The Thing in the Woods, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from an account in Gumbo Ya-Ya: A Collection of Louisiana Folk Tales by Lyle Saxon, Robert Tallant, and Edward Dryer, Louisiana Writers Project Publications 1945.
• * Three Who Sought Death, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from “The Pardoner’s Tale” in The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer.
• * Twice Surprised, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from the version in Ancient Tales in Modern Japan: An Antholohy of Japanese Folk Tales by Fanny Hagin Mayer, Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1984.
• * Two Snakes, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retord from “Two Snakes” in 100 Chinese Myths and Fantasies by Ding Wangdao, Beijing: Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press, n.d.
• * The Vampire Cat, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from an account in Tales of Old Japan by A.B. Mitford, London 1871.
• * The Waterfall of Ghosts, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on “Yurei-Daki” (1902) by Lafcadio Hearn.
• * Windigo Island, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; retold from the poem “The Wendigo” by William Henry Drummond.
• * The Witch Cat, (ss) Short & Shivery, Garden City, NY: Doubleday 1987; based on an American folktale.
• * The Witches’ Eyes, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; folktale from the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
• * The Yara, (ss) More Short & Shivery, Delacorte Press 1994; adapted from “The Yara” by Brazilian journalist and historian Affonso Arinhos de Melo Franco.

SANTELLA, EDWARD J.

• * Scratch Thief Falling, (ss) Mage Sum 1988

SANTIAGO, JOAQUIN

• * Flames of Tomorrow, (ss) Once Upon a World #7 1996

SANTORO, LAWRENCE P.

• * A Word from the World, (ss) Twilight Tales Presents #4 1998

SANTOS, WAYNE

• * Empty Interiors, (ss) On Spec Win 1996

SANTOS-FEBRES, MAYRA

• * Marina’s Fragrance, (ss) Urban Oracles, Lumen Editions/Brookline Books 1997
  • The Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror: Eleventh Annual Collection, ed. Ellen Datlow & Terri Windling, St. Martin’s 1998

SAPLAK, CHARLES M(ichael) (chron.)

• * Afternoon at Pop’s, (ss) Tales of the Unanticipated #12 1993
• * At the Fair, (pm) Star*Line v16 #6/7 1993
• * Autumn, (pm) Gaslight Apr 1993
• * Backstage, (vi) The Urbanite #5 1995
• * Backwater by the Time Stream, (ss) Manifest Destiny Win 1993
• * Brain Artist: A Romance, (ss) Science Fiction Age Mar 1996
• * Captain Bain: Reflections in Maroon and Starlight, (pm) Tales of the Unanticipated #11 1993
• * Carver in the City of Ghosts, (ss) Mindsparks #4 1994
• * Castle, Cathedral, Soldier, Saint, (nv) The Leading Edge #26 1992
• * Catechism for Granma, (ss) AHMM mid-Dec 1990
  • Alfred Hitchcock’s Tales of the Supernatural and the Fantastic, ed. Cathleen Jordan, Smithmark 1993
• * Celebrated Skeleton, (ss) Proud Flesh Fll 1994
  • The Year’s Best Fantastic Fiction #3 1998
• * Cemetery Seven, (ss) Terminal Fright Nov/Dec 1993
• * Creeper in the Shroud, (ss) The Urbanite #9 1997
• * The Crux, (ss) Terminal Fright Spr 1996
• * Demon Rum, (ss) Pirate Writings Spr 1995
• * Desert Flower’s Story, (ss) The Argonaut #18 1993
• * Discourse on Post-Modern ’Maters, (pm) The Argonaut #19 1994
• * Dropscout Becomes Matrix, (ss) Expanse #1 1993
• * Dry Skin, (vi) 100 Wicked Little Witch Stories, ed. Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1995
• * Earlier Today in the Park, (pm) Space & Time #81 1993
• * An Evening at the Brunnion Home, (ss) The End #4 1996
• * Fisherman, (pm) The Magazine of Speculative Poetry Spr 1997
• * God of the Lower Level, (ss) The Urbanite #4 1994
• * Happy Little Land of Autumn, (ss) Palace Corbie v2 #2 1993
• * In a Revision Once I See, (ss) TransVersions #2 1995
• * Lady’s Portrait, Executed in Archaic Colors, (nv) L. Ron Hubbard Presents Writers of the Future Volume IX, ed. Dave Wolverton, Bridge 1993
  • The Year’s Best Horror Stories: XXII, ed. Karl Edward Wagner, DAW 1994
• * Many Goodnights of Mennagin and Son, (vi) Rare Constellations #2 1993
• * Maybe Angel, (ss) Aberrations #24 1994
• * Meatman, (ss) Vicious Circle Win/Spr 1993
• * Melancholy of Human Reflection, (vi) Dead of Night Fll/Win 1993
• * Minio (The Magnificent) and the Marvelous Wishing Vest, (ss) Vision #14 1992
• * Nineteen Years and Seven Months, (ss) Tomorrow Feb 1996
• * Nostalgia on the Mindgrid, (vi) Midnight Zoo v3 #1 1993
• * The Numismatist, (ss) The Urbanite #6 1995
• * A Page from Your Book, (ss) The Zone #1 1994
• * Pegasus Lament, (pm) Dreams & Nightmares #40 1993
• * Practical Problems in Temporal Navigation, (ss) Vision #15 1992
• * Reunion, (ss) Tomorrow Jun 1995
• * Robotsville, (pm) Vision #17 1993
• * The Scourge, (ss) Cthulhu’s Heirs, ed. Thomas M. K. Stratman, Chaosium 1994
• * Screamer, Stillness, and Sunshine, (ss) A Theater of Blood #4 1992
• * The Sin Eater, (ss) Nightstalker
  • New Altars, ed. Dawn Albright & Sandra J. Hutchinson, Angelus Press 1997
• * So Spin a Tale of Dick and Jane, (ss) Sinistre, ed. George Hatch, Horror’s Head Press 1993
• * Solace, (pm) Rare Constellations #2 1993
• * Spider’s Offer, (nv) Sword and Sorceress #13, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW 1996
• * The Storyteller Syndrome, (ss) Prisoners of the Night #5 1991
• * Sunday Visits, (ss) Terminal Fright Fll 1995
• * The Syncretic Priest’s Confession, (ss) Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction #2 1995
• * Think Tank, (vi) Premonitions #4 1995
• * The Unintentional Riddle and the Creature of Wit, (ss) Fortress #2 1996
• * untitled (“The one word the time traveler...”), (vi) Rare Constellations #2 1993
• * Violet Twilight, (ss) Tales of the Unanticipated #15 1995
• * Visanna, (ss) TransVersions #4 1995
• * Why We Shun Reflection, Why We Fear the Light, (vi) Prisoners of the Night #6 1992; given as by Charles A. Saplak in toc.
• * Window of Opportunity, (ss) Fantastic Worlds v1 #0 1995
• * Words in Water, (ss) Magic Realism Spr 1992
• * Xeroderma (And Its Tragic Effect on Modern Communities), (ss) The Urbanite #3 1993
• * You Can Go in Now, (vi) Space & Time #83 1994

SAPPER; pseudonym of H. C. McNeile, (1888-1937); see under McNeile, H. C.

• * The Old Dining-Room, (ss) Hutchinson’s Magazine Dec 1920
  • The Mammoth Book of Ghost Stories, ed. Richard Dalby, Robinson 1990
• * Touch and Go, (ss) The Strand Feb 1926
  • Strange Tales from the Strand, ed. Jack Adrian, Oxford University Press 1991

SARA, SHANNON M.

• * Traffic Cop, (ss) Haunts #27 1994

SARA, SHANON M.

• * Beachcoming, (pm) Talebones Sum 1998

SARAFIN, JAMES

• * In the Furnace of the Night, (na) Asimov’s May 1997
• * One Good Juror (with Mary Rosenblum), (nv) Asimov’s Feb 1997
• * Shadows on the Mountain, (nv) Asimov’s Oct/Nov 1997

SARANG, VILAS

• * An Interview with M. Chakko, (ss) The London Magazine Dec 1982
  • The Penguin Book of Horror Stories, ed. J. A. Cuddon, Penguin 1984

SARBAN; pseudonym of John W. Wall, (1910-1989)

• * A Christmas Story, (ss) Ringstones and Other Stories, London: Davies 1951
  • Chillers for Christmas, ed. Richard Dalby, O’Mara 1989
• * The Doll Maker, (n.) The Doll Maker and Other Tales of the Uncanny, London: Davies 1953
  • Nursery Crimes, ed. Stefan R. Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg & Martin H. Greenberg, Barnes & Noble 1993

SARDAN, ZUCA (1933- )

• * This Book [from Os Mysterios, 1981], (vi) The Dedalus Book of Surrealism, ed. Michael Richardson, Dedalus 1993; tr. by Margaret Jull Costa

SARET, RIMA; pseudonym of Mary Ann Landers

• * The Ever-Sounding Harp, (ss) MZBFM Spr 1991
• * The Last Bard, (ss) Once Upon a World #3 1990
• * The Life-Nut, (ss) Amazing Experiences Dec 1990
• * Marayd’s Escape, (ss) Sword and Sorceress #8, ed. Marion Zimmer Bradley, DAW 1991
• * Market Day: Information for Writers, (cl) Midnight Zoo v1 #6 1991, v2 #1 1992
• * Nymphs of the World Forest, (ss) The Magic Within, ed. Emily Alward, Diane Holmes & Alicia Rasley, WorldEdge Press 1994