The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 1984-1998
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Down Among the Dead Men Simon R. Green (Gollancz 0-575-05620-7, Jun ’94 [Aug ’94], £4.99, 221pp, pb, cover by David Farren) [Forest Kingdom] Reprint (Gollancz 1993) fantasy novel. Volume three in the “Forest Kingdom” series.
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Shadows Fall Simon R. Green (Gollancz 0-575-05711-4, Mar ’94, £5.99, 506pp, pb, cover by Peter Mennim) Fantasy novel.
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The Dean Koontz Companion ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bill Munster & Ed Gorman (Headline 0-7472-0830-1, Jan ’94, £18.99, 314pp, hc, cover by Lee Gibbons) Collection of articles on, and by, Dean Koontz. [Dean R. Koontz]
- 1 · Interview with Dean Koontz · Ed Gorman · iv * [Dean R. Koontz]
- 57 · Keeping Pace with the Master · David B. Silva · ar *
- 73 · The Heart of the Tick Tock Man · Charles de Lint · ar *
- 97 · Films, Television and Dean Koontz · Matt Costello · ar *
- 135 · An Unusual Collection · Dean Koontz · si *
- 137 · Koontzramble · Dean Koontz · ar *
- 142 · Oh, To Be in Cedar Rapids When the Hog Blood Flows · Dean Koontz · in The Prisoners and Other Stories, CD Publications, 1992
- 151 · The Man Who Knows All About Hippodurkees · Dean Koontz · in The Stress of Her Regard, Tim Powers, Charnel House, 1989
- 155 · Rex Stout and Nero Wolfe · Dean Koontz · in Where There’s a Will, Rex Stout, Bantam, 1992
- 161 · Tater Baron · Dean Koontz · in The Nightrunners, Joe Lansdale, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1987
- 164 · The Coming Babylonian Age · Dean Koontz · in Two Views of a Cave Painting, James P. Blaylock, Axolotl Press, 1987
- 167 · The Truth About Christmas · Dean Koontz · in, 1988; introduction to short story by Charles de Lint distributed as a Xmas card.
- 169 · Mr Bizarro · Dean Koontz · in Blood Test, Jonathan Kellerman, Arlington Heights, IL: Dark Harvest, 1993
- 174 · My First Short Story · Dean Koontz · is *
- 179 · “Kittens” · Dean Koontz · ss Readers and Writers, 1966
- 184 · Koontz, Will You Just Shut Up Already! · Dean Koontz · si *
- 187 · Ghost Stories · Dean Koontz · ar Post Mortem: New Tales of Ghastly Horror, ed. Paul F. Olson & David B. Silva, St. Martin’s, 1988
- 191 · A Genre in Crisis · Dean Koontz · ar Proteus, 1989; revised from introduction to Night Visions 6, Dark Harvest, 1988.
- 201 · How To · Dean Koontz · si *
- 204 · Keeping the Reader on the Edge of His Seat · Dean Koontz · ar How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, ed. J. N. Williamson, Writer’s Digest Books, 1987
- 210 · Why Novels of Fear Must Do More than Frighten · Dean Koontz · ar How to Write Tales of Horror, Fantasy & Science Fiction, ed. J. N. Williamson, Writer’s Digest Books, 1987
- 215 · You’ll Either Love It or Hate It - or Just Be Indifferent to It · Dean Koontz · si *
- 217 · Weird World: The Introduction · Dean Koontz · fa, 1986
- 220 · The Day It Rained Frogs · Dean Koontz · fa, 1986
- 224 · The Man Who Does Not Always Mean What He Says · Dean Koontz · fa *
- 231 · Tweetie, the Parakeet from Hell · Dean Koontz · fa *
- 247 · No One Can Talk to a Horse, of Course · Dean Koontz · fa *
- 249 · The Miracle Tree of Burbank · Dean Koontz · fa *
- 254 · The Unluckiest Man in the World · Dean Koontz · fa *
- 263 · The 10 Questions Readers Most Often Ask Dean Koontz · Dean Koontz · ms *
- 271 · Annotated Bibliography · Misc. · bi
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The Dean Koontz Companion ed. Martin H. Greenberg, Bill Munster & Ed Gorman (Headline 0-7472-4529-0, Oct ’94 [Dec ’94], £5.99, 406pp, pb, cover by Lee Gibbons) Reprint (Headline 1994) collection of articles on, and by, Dean Koontz. [Dean R. Koontz]
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Harm’s Way Colin Greenland (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21490-9, Feb ’94, £4.99, 378pp, pb) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) fantasy novel.
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Utopia 2000 Elizabeth Greenwood (The Book Guild 0-86332-934-9, Aug ’94 [Oct ’94], £14.95, 218pp, hc) SF novel about a successful military takeover of Britain.
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Plex Philip Gross (Scholastic UK 0-590-54176-5, Jul ’94, £5.99, 106pp, tp, cover by David Wyatt) Young-adult SF novel. Mr Multiplex amuses himself by plexing—merging two animals into one—then one of the creatures escapes... Engrossing and original. (IC)
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Rhinegold Stephan Grundy (Michael Joseph 0-7181-3743-4, Mar ’94, £9.99, 870pp, tp, cover by Angus Gray Burbridge) [Rhinegold] Epic re-telling of the Siegfried the Dragonslayer legend. A hardcover edition (-3742-6, £16.99) was announced but not seen. Simultaneous with the US (Bantam) edition.
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Cristobel Diane Guest (Severn House 0-7278-4576-4, Jan ’94 [Feb ’94], £14.99, 300pp, hc, cover by Derek Colligan) Reprint (Fontana 1992) horror novel.
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The Nightwalker Diane Guest (HarperCollins UK 0-00-637781-5, Feb ’94, £4.99, 270pp, pb) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1993) horror novel.
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She H. Rider Haggard (Penguin/Godfrey Cave 0-14-062112-1, Aug ’94 [Sep ’94], £1.00, 301pp, pb, cover by William James Muller) [She] Reprint (Harper 1886) fantasy novel. Thrift paperback edition.
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The Armchair Horror Collection ed. Peter Haining (Orion 1-85797-411-5, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], £4.99, 673pp, pb) Reprint (Orion 1993 as Television Late Night Horror Omnibus) anthology of 32 stories used as a basis for late-night horror shows on television.
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The Frankenstein Omnibus ed. Peter Haining (Orion 1-85797-551-0, Mar ’94 [Apr ’94], £9.99, 645pp, tp) Horror anthology, with an introduction and notes by Haining. A hardcover edition (-550-2, £15.99) was announced but not seen.
- 1 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- 4 · The Creature Lives! [from Frankenstein; Frankenstein] · Mary W. Shelley · ex London: Lackington, Hughes, Harding, Mavor & Jones, 1818
- · I: The Prototypes
- 11 · The Reanimated Englishman [“Roger Dodsworth, the Re-Animated Englishman”, written 1826] · Mary W. Shelley · ss, 1863
- 21 · The Mummy · Jane Webb · ex London: Henry Colburn, 1827
- 39 · The New Frankenstein · William Maginn · ss Fraser’s Magazine Jan, 1837
- 55 · The Bell-Tower · Herman Melville · ss Putnam’s Monthly Aug, 1855
- 69 · The Vivisector Vivisected · Sir Ronald Ross · ss Strange Assembly, ed. John Gawsworth, London: Unicorn Press, 1932
- 83 · The Future Eve [L’Eve future, 1886] · Villiers de l’Isle-Adam & Florence Crewe-Jones · n. Argosy All-Story Weekly Dec 18 ’26-Jan 22 ’27; originally serialised in La vie moderne, 1884.; this translation is heavily edited and abridged.
- 197 · The Incubated Girl (2 excerpts) · Fred T. Jane · ex London: Tower, 1896
- 213 · The Surgeon’s Experiment · W. C. Morrow · ss The Argonaut Oct 15, 1887
- 229 · Some Experiments with a Head · Dick Donovan · ss The Cornhill Magazine, 1889
- 239 · The New Frankenstein · E. E. Kellett · ss Pearson’s Magazine May, 1899
- 262 · The Man Who Made a Man · Harle Oren Cummins · ss McClure’s Dec ’01
- 267 · Frankenstein II · Leonard Merrick · ss
- 277 · The Composite Brain · Robert S. Carr · ss Weird Tales Mar ’25
- 287 · Demons of the Film Colony · Theodore Le Berthon · ar Weird Tales Oct ’32
- · II: The Films
- 297 · Frankenstein; or, The Man and the Monster [Frankenstein] · H. M. Milner · pl, 1823; credited by Haining as the original 1823 stage adaptation, although ; that was called Presumption, or the Fate of Frankenstein and is not attributed to Milner.
- 320 · Frankenstein: The Man Who Made a Monster [Frankenstein] · Garrett Ford & Francis Faragoh · sa, 1931; original scenario for the 1931 film adaptation.
- 340 · The Bride of Frankenstein [Frankenstein] · Guy Preston · nv Pearson’s Weekly Sep 28-Oct 12 ’35; credited here to John L. Balderston & William Hurlbut who wrote the original screenplay.
- 368 · Heirs or the Workshop of Filthy Creation · Robert Muller & Brian Hayles, adapt. · nv Supernatural, ed. Robert Muller, London: Fontana Books, 1977
- 389 · The Dead Man · Fritz Leiber · nv Weird Tales Nov ’50
- 415 · The Curse of Frankenstein [Frankenstein] · Jimmy Sangster · sa, 1957; adaptation of the script for the 1957 film.
- 476 · Herbert West—Reanimator [“Grewsome Tales”] · H. P. Lovecraft · gp Home Brew Feb-Jul ’22
- 504 · Transformation · Mary W. Shelley · ss The Keepsake, 1831, 1830
- · III: The Archetypes
- 523 · The Golem · Gustav Meyrink; trans. by Madge Pemberton · ex, 1915; Chapter 4, “Punch”, extracted from the novel The Golem.
- 535 · Death of a Professor · Michael Hervey · ss, 1946
- 543 · Frankenstein—Unlimited · H. A. Highstone · ss Astounding Dec ’36
- 555 · It · Theodore Sturgeon · nv Unknown Aug ’40
- 578 · Wednesday’s Child · William Tenn · ss Fantastic Universe Jan ’56
- 597 · Dial “F” for Frankenstein · Arthur C. Clarke · ss Playboy Jan ’65
- 605 · The Plot Is the Thing · Robert Bloch · ss F&SF Jul ’66
- 612 · Fortitude · Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. · pl Playboy Sep ’68
- 629 · Summertime Was Nearly Over · Brian W. Aldiss · ss The Ultimate Frankenstein, ed. Byron Preiss, David Kellor, Megan Miller & John Gregory Betancourt, Dell, 1991
- 640 · At Last, the True Story of Frankenstein [Frankenstein] · Harry Harrison · ss Science-Fantasy #76 ’65
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Great Irish Tales of the Unimaginable ed. Peter Haining (Souvenir Press 0-285-63206-X, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], £14.99, 309pp, hc, cover by Charles Bentley) Anthology of 24 fantasy stories based on Irish myths and legends.
- 9 · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- · I: Gods and Heroes
- 17 · The Hound of Ulster [from Finn and His Companions] · Standish James O’Grady · ex, 1892
- 22 · The Wisdom of the King · W. B. Yeats · ss The Celtic Twilight, Lawrence & Bullen, 1893
- 29 · The Call of Oisin [from Gods and Fighting Men] · Lady Gregory · ss London: John Murray, 1904
- 37 · Laughing Stranger · James Stephens · ss Irish Fairy Tales, London: Macmillan, 1920
- 44 · Balor and the Wonder-Smith · Ella Young · ss The Dublin Magazine Aug ’23
- 61 · The Death of Macha Gold-Hair · Dermot O’Byrne · ss The Irish Review, 1917
- 72 · The Outlaw · Joseph O’Neill · ss The Dublin Magazine, 1934
- 103 · Earth-Bound · Dorothy Macardle · ss The Dublin Magazine, 1922
- · II: The Romantic Sagas
- 91 · Flight of Angels [from The Sun Dances at Easter] · Austin Clarke · ex, 1952
- 109 · Midir and Etain · Shane Leslie · ss Masquerades, John Long, 1924
- 116 · A Prince in Disguise · Sinéad de Valera · ss
- 122 · Legend for a Painting · Julia O’Faolain · ss
- 126 · The Kiss · Michael Scott · ss
- 135 · The Woman Without Mercy · Maurice Walsh · ss The Dublin Magazine Dec ’23
- 145 · The Bewitching of Fursey [from The Unfortunate Fursey] · Mervyn Wall · ex, 1946
- 159 · A Fable · Mary Lavin · ss Tales from Bective Bridge, Little, Brown, 1942
- · III: The Wonder-Quests
- 173 · The Voyage of Maeldun · P. W. Joyce · nv, 1894; adapted from Ancient Book of the Dun Cow (c.1100).
- 207 · The Hero of Michan [from Ulysses] · James Joyce · ex, 1921
- 212 · The Return of Cuchulain [from King Goshawk and the Birds] · Eimar O’Duffy · ex, 1926
- 231 · The End of the Rainbow [chapters 22-24 of The Curse of the Wise Woman] · Lord Dunsany · ex London: Heinemann, 1933
- 247 · Crotty Shinkwin · A. E. Coppard · ss Golden Cockerell Press: Berkshire, 1932
- 257 · The Ark of Cashelmore [from The Elephant and the Kangaroo] · T. H. White · ex New York: Putnam, 1947
- 266 · The Devil and Democracy [Devil] · Brian Cleeve · ss Argosy (UK) Oct ’66
- 281 · The Last Warrior Quest · Peter Tremayne · nv *
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Tales from the Rogues’ Gallery ed. Peter Haining (Little, Brown UK 0-316-90923-8, Aug ’94 [Sep ’94], £15.99, 338pp, hc) Fictions, fantasies, and documentary studies of some murderers from history.
- ix · Introduction · Peter Haining · in
- · I: The Roll of Infamy
- 3 · Down, Satan! · Clive Barker · ss Clive Barker’s Books of Blood v4, Sphere, 1985
- 8 · A Story of Don Juan · V. S. Pritchett · ss The Second Ghost Book, ed. Cynthia Asquith, James Barrie, 1952
- 14 · The Philosophers’ Stone · August W. Derleth · vi Weird Tales Jun ’28
- 18 · The Proof · John Cecil Moore · ss, 1953
- 25 · The Unnamable · H. P. Lovecraft · ss Weird Tales Jul ’25
- 33 · Martin’s Close · M. R. James · ss More Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Arnold, 1911
- 52 · Cold-Blooded Tigress of London · Anthony Shaffer · ar London Mystery Magazine #16 ’53
- 59 · The Body Snatcher · Robert Louis Stevenson · ss Pall Mall Christmas Extra, 1884
- 77 · The Black Cabinet · John Dickson Carr · ss Twenty Great Tales of Murder, ed. Helen McCloy & Brett Halliday, Random, 1951
- 96 · A Kind of Madness · Anthony Boucher · ss EQMM Aug ’72
- 103 · The Fall River Axe Murders [“Mis-en-Scene for Parricide”] · Angela Carter · ss The London Review of Books, 1981
- 123 · The Fiend · F. Scott Fitzgerald · ss Esquire Jan ’35
- 130 · At the Fork of the Roads · Aleister Crowley · ss The Equinox
- 136 · The Moors Murders · Miriam Allen deFord · ar The Saint Magazine Aug ’67
- · II: The Evil Lives On
- 147 · Monsieur de Néron · William Waldorf Astor · ss The Pall Mall Magazine Aug, 1895
- 164 · Herodes Redivivus · A. N. L. Munby · ss The Alabaster Hand and Other Ghost Stories, Dennis Dobson, 1949; attributed to H.N.L. Munby on story and contents page.
- 176 · The Borgia Heirloom · Julian Symons · ss EQMM Nov ’87
- 181 · The Silver Mirror · Arthur Conan Doyle · ss The Strand Aug ’08
- 190 · The Late Eugene Aram · Henry A. Hering · ss Adventures and Fantasies, Wright & Brown, 1930
- 202 · The Mirror of Cagliostro · Robert Arthur · nv Fantastic Jun ’63
- 231 · The Skull of the Marquis de Sade · Robert Bloch · ss Weird Tales Sep ’45
- 249 · The Sword of Jean Lafitte · Kirk Mashburn · ss Weird Tales Dec ’27
- 266 · Jack’s Little Friend · Ramsey Campbell · ss Jack the Knife, ed. Michel Parry, Mayflower, 1975
- 276 · Was Crippen a Murderer? · Anthony Berkeley · ar, 1937
- 284 · Darling Adolf · Ray Bradbury · ss Long After Midnight, Knopf, 1976
- 299 · A Bride in the Bath [“The Bathroom”] · Peter Lovesey · ss Winter’s Crimes 5, ed. Virginia Whitaker, London: Macmillan, 1973
- 308 · Forget-Me-Not · Bernard Taylor · nv The Year’s Best Horror Stories: Series III, ed. Richard Davis, DAW, 1975
- 326 · A Case of Coincidence · Ruth Rendell · ss EQMM Jun 30 ’80
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The Television Late Night Horror Omnibus ed. Peter Haining (Artus 1-898799-03-2, Jul ’94, £4.99, 578pp, tp) Reprint (Orion 1993) anthology of 32 stories used as a basis for late-night horror shows on television. This is an instant remainder edition.
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The Haunting of Jessica Raven Ann Halam (Orion 1-85881-050-7, Jul ’94, £8.99, 124pp, hc, cover by Paul Young) Young-adult fantasy novel. The search for a cure to a fatal illness leads a teenage girl down dark and haunted paths. Halam is a pseudonym for Gwyneth Jones.
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Star Trek: Perry’s Planet Jack C. Haldeman (Titan 1-85286-509-1, Mar ’94 [Feb ’94], £4.59, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Star Trek] Reprint (Bantam 1980) sf novelization. [First U.K. edition]
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1968 Joe Haldeman (Hodder & Stoughton 0-450-61004-7, Dec ’94, £16.99, 348pp, hc) Associational work that Haldeman began in 1974, and put aside for nearly two decades. The parallel stories of a young man drafted into the nightmare chaos of Vietnam, and his ex-girlfriend, left in the increasingly polarised and fragmented America of 1968. Both are damaged and radicalised (the girl being close to the strange murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy) in this painful, intimate and contentious vision of two wars - each with ongoing psychological and political effects (IC).
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Planet of Judgement Joe Haldeman (Titan 1-85286-531-8, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], £4.50, 151pp, pb, cover by Alister Pearson) [Star Trek] Reprint (Bantam 1977) Star Trek novelization.
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These Fallen Angels Wendy Haley (Headline 0-7472-1109-4, Dec ’94 [Nov ’94], £16.99, 250pp, hc, cover by Larry Rostant) [Alex Danilov] Reprint (Diamond 1994) Vampire Dynasty in the American South. Book Two of the “Alex Danilov” series, set two years after This Dark Paradise. [First U.K. edition]
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This Dark Paradise Wendy Haley (Headline 0-7472-1108-6, Jul ’94, £16.99, 249pp, hc) [Alex Danilov] Reprint (Diamond 1994) horror novel about a vampire family on a Southern plantation. Volume one in the “Alex Danilov” series. [First U.K. edition]
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This Dark Paradise Wendy Haley (Headline 0-7472-4569-X, Dec ’94, £4.99, 342pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Alex Danilov] Reprint (Diamond 1994) horror novel. Volume one in the “Alex Danilov” series.
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The Armies of Daylight Barbara Hambly (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648008-X, Apr ’94, £4.99, 311pp, pb) [Darwath] Reprint (Del Rey 1983) fantasy novel. Book three of “The Darwath Trilogy.”
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Sorcerer’s Ward Barbara Hambly (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21781-9, Apr ’94, £4.99, 348pp, pb, cover by Don Maitz) [Windrose] Fantasy novel. Simultaneous with US (Del Rey as Stranger at the Wedding).
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The Time of the Dark Barbara Hambly (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648006-3, Apr ’94, £4.99, 284pp, pb) [Darwath] Reprint (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel. Book one of “The Darwath Trilogy.”
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The Walls of Air Barbara Hambly (HarperCollins UK 0-00-648007-1, Apr ’94, £4.99, 314pp, pb) [Darwath] Reprint (Del Rey 1982) fantasy novel. Book two of “The Darwath Trilogy.”
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Drop the Dead Donkey 2000 Andy Hamilton & Alistair Beaton (Little, Brown UK 0-316-91236-0, Sep ’94 [Oct ’94], £9.99, 249pp, hc) The last days of 1999 observed by the news team of the award-winning TV situation comedy: including a Swiss civil war, pirates in the English Channel, and the biggest government cover-up in history.
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The Laughing Corpse Laurell K. Hamilton (NEL 0-450-59561-7, May ’94, £4.99, 374pp, pb) [Anita Blake] Horror novel. Sequel to Guilty Pleasures.
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A Quantum Murder Peter F. Hamilton (Pan 0-330-33045-4, Apr ’94, £4.99, 376pp, pb, cover by Larry Rostant) [Greg Mandel] Sf novel. Volume two in the “Greg Mandel” series. Murder mystery in a superbly realised future. Recommended (IC).
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Waking the Moon Elizabeth Hand (HarperCollins UK 0-586-21747-9, Sep ’94 [Aug ’94], £5.99, 598pp, pb, cover by Ian Miller) Fantasy novel.
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Inception: Projekt Saucer: Book One W. A. Harbinson (NEL 0-450-61750-5, Nov ’94, £5.99, 490pp, pb, cover by Mark Harrison) [Projekt Saucer] Reprint (Dell 1991) SF novel. [First U.K. edition]
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Streamskelter Simon Harding (Pan 0-330-33210-4, Apr ’94, £4.99, 248pp, tp, cover by Brian Froud) [Streamskelter] Fantasy/horror novel.
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The Frogs of War Andrew Harman (Legend 0-09-928481-2, Jan ’94 [Dec ’93], £3.99, 295pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Firkin] Humorous fantasy novel. Volume two in the “Firkin” series.
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The Tome Tunnel Andrew Harman (Legend 0-09-928491-X, Aug ’94 [Jul ’94], £4.99, 278pp, pb, cover by Mick Posen) [Firkin] Humorous fantasy novel. Volume three in a series.
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Vampire Twins #1: Bloodlines Janice Harrell (Lions 0-00-675087-7, Nov ’94, £2.99, 231pp, pb) [Vampire Twins] Reprint (Harper 1994) young-adult horror novel. [First U.K. edition]
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Time of the Wolf Elizabeth Harris (HarperCollins UK 0-00-224129-3, Mar ’94, £15.99, 383pp, hc, cover by Kevin Tweddell) Occult novel. Star-crossed lovers find their lives entwined with a Dark Ages tragedy.
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Time of the Wolf Elizabeth Harris (HarperCollins UK 0-00-647731-3, Sep ’94, £4.99, 490pp, pb, cover by Kevin Tweddell) Reprint (HarperCollins UK 1994) occult novel. Star-crossed lovers find their lives entwined with a dark ages tragedy.
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