The Locus Index to Science Fiction: 2000
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Secret Windows: Essays and Fiction on the Craft of Writing Stephen King (Book-of-the-Month Club 0-965-00643-9, 2000, no price, xxvi+431pp, hc, cover by Tony Vevers) Collection of King fiction and non-fiction, some previously uncollected.
- vii · Introduction · Peter Straub · in
- 1 · Jumper · ss Dave’s Rag, 1959
- 6 · Rush Call · ss Dave’s Rag, 1959
- 11 · The Horror Market Writer and the Ten Bears: A True Story · ar Writer’s Digest Nov ’73
- 23 · Foreword to Night Shift · fw Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1996
- 39 · On Becoming a Brand Name · ar Adelina Feb ’80
- 71 · Horror Fiction [from Danse Macabre] · ex Everest House, 1981
- 231 · An Evening at the Billerica [Massachusetts] Library · ar Bare Bones: Conversations on Terror with Stephen King, ed. Tim Underwood & Chuck Miller, Underwood-Miller, 1988
- 261 · The Ballad of the Flexible Bullet · na F&SF Jun ’84
- 321 · How It Happened · ar Book-of-the-Month Club News Oct ’86
- 325 · Banned Books and Other Concerns: The Virginia Beach Lecture · ar; lecture at Virginia Beach Public Library, 22-Sep-86
- 331 · Turning the Thumbscrews on the Reader · ar Book-of-the-Month Club News Jun ’87
- 333 · “Ever Et Raw Meat?” and Other Weird Questions · ar New York Times Book Review Dec 6 ’87
- 339 · A New Introduction to John Fowles’s The Collector · in, 1989
- 353 · What Stephen King Does for Love · ar Seventeen Apr ’90
- 361 · Two Past Midnight: A Note on ‘Secret Window, Secret Garden’ · is New York: Viking, 1990
- 365 · Introduction to Jack Ketchum’s The Girl Next Door · in, 1995
- 373 · Great Hookers I Have Known · ar *
- 381 · A Night at the Royal Festival Hall · Muriel Gray · iv * [Stephen King]
- 387 · An Evening with Stephen King · ar *
- 403 · In the Deathroom · nv *; previously available only on the audio recording Blood and Smoke, 1999
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Results of a Preliminary Investigation of Electrochemical Properties of Some Organic Matrices David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Eraserhead Press, 2000, $2.25, 20pp, ph)
- · Introduction · W. Gregory Stewart · in
- · Let Them Go · pm
- · A Winter’s Night · pm
- · Billy Never Noticed · pm
- · Valley of Years · pm *
- · Sky Whales · pm Dreams & Nightmares #41 ’93
- · Inside the Cloud · pm
- · The Fine Art of Recursion · pm
- · Shy Moon · pm *
- · Anniversary · pm
- · Some of the Windows of My House · pm Midnight Zoo calendar, 1993
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The 2000 Rhysling Anthology ed. David C. Kopaska-Merkel (Science Fiction Poetry Assiciation, Apr 2000, no price, 56pp, ph) Anthology of 23 poems. Subtitled “The Best Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror Poetry of 1999”, this serves as the ballot for the SFPA’s Rhysling Awards. For information write M.B. Simon, SFPA President, 1412 NE 35th St, Ocala FL 34479.
- 4 · The Rhysling Awards · Misc. · in; adapted from Star*Line, 12/5-6, 1989.
- 5 · Voting Procedures · Misc. · ms
- 5 · Words from the Rhysling Chair · Deborah Shepard · pr
- · Short Poems first published in 1999
- 8 · umbilicle · Michael A. Arnzen · pm Frisson #14 ’99
- 9 · Silicon Trade Agreement · Ruth Berman · pm Tales of the Unanticipated #20 ’99
- 10 · Another Short Horror Story · Bruce Boston · pm Asimov’s Oct/Nov ’99
- 11 · What If the Aliens Have Come? · Bruce Boston · pm Handshake #38 ’99
- 12 · The Unfinished Map of the Sky · G. O. Clark · pm Fantasque #2 ’99
- 13 · Clark the Ripper · David C. Kopaska-Merkel · pm Dreams & Nightmares #53 ’99
- 14 · A Picture Postcard of the Cerne Abbas Giant · David Lunde · pm Asimov’s May ’99
- 15 · Grimoire · Rebecca Marjesdatter · pm Tales of the Unanticipated #20 ’99
- 16 · The Language of Rain · Wendy Rathbone · pm Dreams & Nightmares #54 ’99
- 17 · Badges of Either’s Woe · Michelle Scalise & Tom Piccirilli · pm Edgar: Digested Verse v4 ’99
- 18 · The Au Pair from Out There · Ann K. Schwader · pm Star*Line v22 #5 ’99
- 19 · song of a last duckbill · W. Gregory Stewart · pm Star*Line v22 #2 ’99
- 20 · Brigit · Peggy J. Taylor · pm Calyx Sum ’99
- 22 · When an Alien Is Inhabiting Your Body · Laurel Winter · pm Asimov’s Oct/Nov ’99
- · Long Poems first published in 1999
- 24 · Renounce the Emerald Piety · Lee Ballentine · pm Talisman #19 ’99
- 28 · Salem Town · Corrine De Winter · pm Gathering Darkness Oct ’99
- 30 · Impressions from Giger’s Necronomicons · Charlee Jacob · pm Dreams & Nightmares #53 ’99
- 36 · The Whole Behold · Charlee Jacob · pm Star*Line v22 #4 ’99
- 38 · Christmas (after we all get time machines) · Geoffrey A. Landis · pm Asimov’s Dec ’99
- 41 · Handwork · Rebecca Marjesdatter · pm Women of Other Worlds, ed. Helen Merrick & Tess Williams, University of Western Australia Press, 1999
- 44 · The VR Screen · Carol D. Page · pm Star*Line v22 #2 ’99
- 47 · Safeguard · Scott Urban · pm Skull Job, Hatchet Job Press, 1999
- 50 · Ode to My Screen Saver · Ian Watson · pm Weird Tales Spr ’99
- 53 · The Rhysling Winners · Misc. · ms
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Dark Matters Terry Lamsley (Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-002-6, Mar 2000, C$56.00, xi+245pp, hc, cover by Douglas Walters) Collection of ghost and horror stories, by the World Fantasy Award winning writer. “Evening with Harrod” is new to this book. This is a limited edition of 600 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $41.50 and in the UK for £26.00.
- ix · Introduction · in (*), 2000
- 3 · Back in the Dunes · nv Lethal Kisses, ed. Ellen Datlow, Millennium, 1996
- 25 · The Power of the Primitive · ss Cemetery Dance Spr ’97
- 36 · The Lost Boy Found · nv Dark Terrors 3, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1997
- 68 · The Walls · ss Ghosts & Scholars #22 ’96
- 83 · Suburban Blight · nv Dark Terrors 4: The Gollancz Book of Horror, ed. Stephen Jones & David Sutton, London: Gollancz, 1998
- 116 · An Evening with Harrod · nv *
- 147 · The Stunted House · ss Subterranean Gallery, ed. Richard T. Chizmar & William K. Schafer, Subterranean Press, 1999
- 159 · The Snug · ss Midnight Never Comes, ed. Barbara Roden & Christopher Roden, Ash-Tree Press, 1997
- 179 · Climbing Down from Heaven · nv *
- 208 · Volunteers · ss The Mammoth Book of Dracula, ed. Stephen Jones, Robinson, 1997
- 223 · Getting a Life · nv White of the Moon, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1999
- 245 · Sources · Misc. · bi (*), 2000
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After Shocks: An Anthology of So-Cal Horror ed. Jeremy Lassen (Night Shade Books 0-9700097-0-4, 2000, $21.00, 221pp, hc) Original horror/magic realism anthology with all stories set in California.
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Midnight Man Stephen Laws (Silver Salamander Press, 2000, $35.00, 263pp, hc, cover by Fredrik King) Horror collection. Limited to 300 signed copies. Also available in a signed and numbered leatherbound edition of 50 copies for $65.00, and in a trade paperback edition of 500 copies for $15.00.
- · He Who Laughs · nv Dark Voices 3, ed. David Sutton & Stephen Jones, London: Pan, 1991
- · Black Cab · ss Dark Asylum #1 ’95
- · Man Beast · ss Peeping Tom #17 ’95
- · The Song My Sister Sang · ss Scaremongers 2: Redbrick Eden, ed. Steve Savile, Tanjen, 1998
- · Yesterday I Flew with the Birds · vi Beyond Fantasy & Science Fiction #1 ’95
- · The Fractured Man · ss Cold Cuts III, ed. Paul Lewis & Steve Lockley, Wales: Alun Books, 1995
- · The Crawl · nv Dark of the Night, ed. Stephen Jones, Pumpkin Books, 1997
- · Deep Blue · ss Kimota #1 ’94
- · Guilty Party · ss Fear! Sep/Oct ’88
- · Gordy’s A-Okay · ss Dark Horizons #32 ’91
- · The Secret · ss British Fantasy Convention Souvenir Programme, 1989
- · Pot Luck · ss Voyages into Darkness, ed. Anon., Bump in the Night Books, 1993
- · Junk · nv Scare Care, ed. Graham Masterton, Tor, 1989
- · Bleeding Dry · nv Narrow Houses, ed. Peter Crowther, Little Brown UK, 1992
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Bad News ed. Richard Layman (CD Publications 1-881475-95-6, May 2000, $100.00, 340pp, hc) Slipcased Limited Edition of 500 signed copies.
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Dreams of a Diseased Mind Steve Lines (BJM Press, 2000, £3.50, 68pp, tp) Collection of 25 Cthulhu Mythos sonnets by the fictional poet Haydon Atwood Prescott. Details taken from Steve Lines’ website (which also includes the text of the poems). [Not seen]
- · The Gathering · pm *
- · The Comptonbury Horror · pm *
- · The Ghoul · pm *
- · The Feaster in the Tomb · pm *
- · Monolith · pm *
- · The Severnford Seals · pm *
- · Black Flame · pm *
- · The Mad Poet · pm *
- · Beyond · pm *
- · Strange Aeons · pm *
- · The Tind’losi Hounds · pm *
- · The Black Pharaoh · pm *
- · Nctosa and Nctolhu · pm *
- · Down to a Sunless Sea · pm Imelod #15 ’99
- · The Black Stone · pm *
- · Pickman’s Painting · pm *
- · Innsmouth Jewellery · pm *
- · The Delirium of Nish · pm *
- · Flower Woman · pm *
- · Dreamhound · pm *
- · The Nightmares of Nebb · pm *
- · Shul’nar Thak · pm *
- · The Silent Sea · pm *
- · R’lyeh Rising · pm *
- · When They Return · pm *
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Naughty Kids ed. Angela D. Manning (Italy: ELI 88-8148-468-4, 2000, 116pp, tp) Textbook anthology of four stories.
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Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Weird Fiction Magazine Index (1890-1999) Stephen T. Miller & William G. Contento (Locus Press, Apr 2000, $49.95, 2,752pp, CD-ROM) Non-fiction, reference. An index to magazines published from 1890 through 1999. Includes listings by author, title, cover artist, and issue.
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Technology in American Literature ed. Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan (University Press of America 0-7618-1709-3, 2000, hc)
- vii · Preface · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · pr
- · Chapter One -- The 1880’s to the 1920’s
- 1 · Introduction · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · si
- 4 · from The Great Stone of Sardis · Frank Stockton · ex Harper’s Monthly Jun-Nov, 1897
- 9 · from Through the Earth · Clement Fezandié · ex The Century Company, 1898; first published in shorter form: S. Nicholas Magazine, Jan-Apr 1898.
- 18 · from The Causes of American Nervousness · George M. Beard · ex
- 25 · from Edison’s Conquest of Mars · Garrett Serviss · ex New York Evening Journal Jan 12-Feb 11, 1898
- 45 · from Looking Backward and Equality · Edward Bellamy · ex
- 57 · from Colonel Sellers as a Scientist · Mark Twain & William Dean Howells · ex
- 85 · Mannahatta · Walt Whitman · pm
- 87 · As I Walk These Broad Majestic Days · Walt Whitman · pm
- 88 · Orange Buds by Mail from Florida · Walt Whitman · pm
- 89 · Years of the Modern · Walt Whitman · pm
- 91 · In the Sleeper · Walt Whitman · pm
- 92 · from The Octopus · Frank Norris · ex
- 98 · Factory Windows Are Always Broken · Vachel Lindsay · pm
- 99 · In the Station of the Metro · Ezra Pound · pm
- 100 · from The Man Who Ended War · Hollis Godfrey · ex
- 113 · The Dynamo and the Virgin · Henry Adams · ss
- · Chapter Two -- The 1920’s to the 1960’s
- 123 · Introduction · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · si
- 125 · Progress · E. B. White · ss
- 127 · Lift Up Thine Eyes · Sherwood Anderson · ar The Nation May 28 ’30
- 133 · Mr. Murphy of New York · Thomas McMorrow · ss The Saturday Evening Post Mar 22 ’30
- 148 · from Maza of the Moon · Otis Adelbert Kline · ex Argosy Dec 21 ’29 (+3)
- 152 · The Sunless Sea · Rachel Carson · ss
- 166 · pity this busy monster, manunkind · e. e. cummings · pm, 1944
- 167 · from The Illustrated Man · Ray Bradbury · ex The Illustrated Man, Doubleday, 1951
- 180 · Merritt Parkway · Denise Levertov · pm
- 182 · from “Chicago Poem” · Lew Welch · ex
- 184 · from Visit to a Small Planet · Gore Vidal · ex, 1956
- · Chapter Three -- The 1960’s to 2000
- 205 · Introduction · Kathleen N. Monahan & James S. Nolan · si
- 208 · Beer Can · John Updike · pm
- 209 · The Mouth of the Hudson · Robert Lowell · pm
- 211 · Eco-Catastrophe! · Paul Ehrlich · ss Ramparts Sep ’69
- 222 · The Filling Station · Elizabeth Bishop · ss
- 224 · from I, Robot · Isaac Asimov · ex Gnome Press, 1950
- 249 · Resisting Big Brother · Samuel Florman · ar
- 254 · from He, She and It · Marge Piercy · ex New York: Knopf, 1991
- 262 · Interstellar Tract · Bruce Boston · pm Nuclear Futures, Velocities Chapbook Series, 1987
- 265 · Anatomical Transparencies · Robert Frazier · pm Poly: New Speculative Writing, ed. Lee Ballentine, Ocean View Books, 1989
- 267 · Looking Back at Apollo · Steve Rasnic Tem · pm Poly: New Speculative Writing, ed. Lee Ballentine, Ocean View Books, 1989
- 269 · My Mother and the Wheel of Fire · Al Zolynas · pm Poly: New Speculative Writing, ed. Lee Ballentine, Ocean View Books, 1989
- 272 · A Clean Escape · John Kessel · ss IASFM May ’85
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The Monster Maker and Other Stories W. C. Morrow (Seattle: Midnight House, 2000, $40.00, hc, cover by Allen Koszowski) Complete supernatural stories of this lesser known contemporary of Ambrose Bierce, edited with an introduction by S.T. Joshi and Stefan Dziemianowicz.
- · Introduction · S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemianowicz · in
- · The Monster-Maker [“The Surgeon’s Experiment”] · ss The Argonaut Oct 15, 1887
- · The Haunted Automaton · ss
- · The Resurrection of Little Wang Tai · ss
- · The Wrong Door · ss The San Francisco Argonaut
- · The Permanent Stiletto [“A Peculiar Case of Surgery”] · ss The Argonaut Feb 4, 1889
- · Over an Absinthe Bottle [“The Pale Dice-Thrower”] · ss The Argonaut Jan 2, 1893
- · The Red Strangler · ss
- · A Glimpse of the Unusual · ss
- · The Gloomy Shadow · ss
- · A Night with Death · ss
- · A Story Told By the Sea [“A Cry For Help”] · ss The Argonaut May 10, 1890
- · His Unconquerable Enemy [“The Rajah’s Nemesis”] · ss The Argonaut Mar 11, 1889
- · Two Singular Men · ss
- · The Removal Company · ss
- · The Haunted Burglar · ss Lippincott’s Jul, 1897
- · A Mystery of South Park · ss
- · The Faithful Amulet · ss
- · The Woman of the Inner Room · ss The San Francisco Argonaut
- · An Original Revenge · ss The Ape, the Idiot, and Other People, Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1897
- · In a Dark Room · ss
- · The Unfaithful Clock · ss
- · Some Queer Experiences · ss
- · Bibliography · S. T. Joshi & Stefan Dziemianowicz · bi
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In the Dark E. Nesbit (Ash-Tree Press 1-55310-005-0, Jun 2000, C$56.00, xv+223pp, hc, cover by Richard Lamb) Collection of ghost and horror fiction, edited by Hugh Lamb, adding a further seven stories to the previous collection of the same title (Equation Chillers, 1988). This is a limited edition of 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $41.50 and in the UK for £26.00.
- ix · Introduction · Hugh Lamb · in (*), 2000
- 3 · Man-Size in Marble [1886] · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 15 · Uncle Abraham’s Romance · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 18 · From the Dead · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 30 · The Haunted Inheritance · ss The Saturday Evening Post Feb 17 ’00
- 44 · The Three Drugs [“The Third Drug”] · ss The Strand Feb ’08
- 60 · The Letter in Brown Ink · ss The Windsor Magazine Aug, 1899
- 66 · The Violet Car · ss Fear, London: S. Paul, 1910
- 78 · John Charrington’s Wedding · ss Temple Bar Sep, 1891
- 85 · No. 17 · ss The Strand Jun ’10
- 92 · The Pavilion · ss The Strand Nov ’15
- 106 · The House of Silence · ss The Windsor Magazine Mar ’06
- 115 · The Mystery of the Semi-Detached · ss Grim Tales, London: Innes, 1893
- 118 · In the Dark · ss Fear, London: S. Paul, 1910
- 128 · The Head · ss The Strand May ’07
- 142 · The Ebony Frame · ss Longman’s Oct, 1891
- 152 · Hurst of Hurstcote · ss Temple Bar Jun, 1893
- 162 · The Five Senses · ss The London Magazine Dec ’09
- 177 · The Haunted House [as by E. Bland] · ss The Strand Dec ’13
- 188 · The Shadow [“The Portent of the Shadow”] · ss Black and White Dec 23 ’05
- 197 · The Detective · ss The Christmas Spirit, ed. Anon., Toc. H Society, 1920
- 208 · The Power of Darkness · ss The Strand Apr ’05
- 221 · Acknowledgements · Misc. · ms (*), 2000
- 222 · Bibliography · Anon. · bi (*), 2000
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Nemeton / A Fables Anthology ed. Megan Powell (Silver Lake Publishing, Oct 2000, vi+211pp, tp, cover by Megan Powell)
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The Song of the Book Christopher Priest (Birmingham Science Fiction Group, Nov 2000, no price, 17pp, ph, cover by David A. Hardy) Original short article, with foreword and afterword by Rog Peyton, issued in a limited edition of 300 numbered copies, to coincide with Priest’s Guest of Honour appearance at Novacon 30.
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The Horror on the Stair and Other Weird Tales Arthur Quiller-Couch (Ash-Tree Press 1-899562-90-7, Feb 2000, C$58.00, xiii+263pp, hc, cover by Paul Lowe) Collection of the finest of Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch’s weird tales, edited by S.T. Joshi. This is a limited edition of 500 copies. A world-wide edition available in the US for $42.50 and in the UK for £26.50.
- ix · Introduction · S. T. Joshi · in (*), 2000
- 3 · Psyche · ss The Speaker Oct 18, 1890
- 7 · ‘Doubles’ and Quits [as by Q] · ss Noughts and Crosses, Cassell, 1891
- 10 · Old Aeson · ss The Speaker Oct 25, 1890
- 14 · A Dark Mirror · ss The Speaker Mar 29, 1890
- 17 · The Magic Shadow · ss The Speaker Jan 3, 1891
- 21 · The Haunted Dragoon [as by Q] · ss I Saw Three Ships and Other Winter’s Tales, Cassell, 1892
- 30 · A Blue Pantomime [“The Haunted Glass”] · ss The Speaker Nov 7, 1891 (+2)
- 42 · The Roll-Call of the Reef [as by Q] · ss The Idler Jun, 1895
- 54 · My Grandfather, Hendry Watty · ss The Speaker Dec 2, 1892
- 59 · Widdershins · ss The Speaker Sep 28, 1895
- 64 · The Legend of Sir Dinar · ss The Speaker Dec 19, 1891
- 68 · Oceanus · ss The Speaker Feb 13, 1897 (+1)
- 77 · The Seventh Man · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, Scribner’s, 1900
- 87 · The Room of Mirrors · ss Old Fires and Profitable Ghosts, Scribner’s, 1900
- 100 · A Pair of Hands · ss The Cornish Magazine Dec, 1898
- 110 · The Lady of the Ship · ss Cosmopolitan Jan ’00
- 131 · The Mystery of Joseph Laquedem · ss The Cornish Magazine Jul, 1898
- 146 · The Laird’s Luck · nv The Laird’s Luck, London, 1901
- 174 · Phoebus on Halzaphron · ss Scribner’s Aug ’01
- 186 · The Haunted Yacht [as by Q] · ss The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, Methuen, 1902
- 200 · John and the Ghosts [as by Q] · ss The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, Methuen, 1902
- 206 · The Talking Ships [as by Q] · ss The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales, Methuen, 1902
- 213 · The Horror on the Stair · ss Two Sides of the Face: Midwinter Tales, Arrowsmith, 1903
- 226 · The Bend of the Road [as by Q] · ss The Illustrated London News Nov 27 ’05
- 243 · Mutual Exchange, Limited [as by Q] · ss Corporal Sam and Other Stories, Smith Elder, 1910
- 254 · Not Here, O Apollo! · ss News from the Duchy, Arrowsmith, 1913
- 262 · Bibliography · Anon. · bi (*), 2000
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