Best of
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1978

The Best of Roald Dahl


Roald Dahl - 1978
    This collection brings together Dahl’s finest work, illustrating his genius for the horrific and grotesque which is unparalleled.Contents- Madame Rosette- Man from the South- The Sound Machine- Taste- Dip in the Pool- Skin- Edward the Conqueror- Lamb to the Slaughter- Galloping Foxley- The Way Up to Heaven- Parson's Pleasure- The Landlady- William and Mary- Mrs. Bixby and the Colonel's Coat- Royal Jelly- Georgy Porgy- Genesis and Catastrophe- Pig- The Visitor- Claud's Dog (The Ratcatcher, Rummins, Mr. Hoddy, Mr. Feasy, Champion of the World)- The Great Switcheroo- The Boy Who Talked with Animals- The Hitchhiker- The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar- The Bookseller

The Complete Works of H.P. Lovecraft


H.P. Lovecraft - 1978
    Lovecraft from 1917-1935. Excludes collaborations.The eBook’s table of contents is listed below. It includes the year each story was written.The Tomb (1917)Dagon (1917)Polaris (1918)Beyond the Wall of Sleep (1919)Memory (1919)Old Bugs (1919)The Transition of Juan Romero (1919)The White Ship (1919)The Doom That Came to Sarnath (1919)The Statement of Randolph Carter (1919)The Terrible Old Man (1920)The Tree (1920)The Cats of Ulthar (1920)The Temple (1920)Facts Concerning the Late Arthur Jermyn and His Family (1920)The Street (1920)Celephaïs (1920)From Beyond (1920)Nyarlathotep (1920)The Picture in the House (1920)Ex Oblivione (1921)The Nameless City (1921)The Quest of Iranon (1921)The Moon-Bog (1921)The Outsider (1921)The Other Gods (1921)The Music of Erich Zann (1921)Herbert West — Reanimator (1922)Hypnos (1922)What the Moon Brings (1922)Azathoth (1922)The Hound (1922)The Lurking Fear (1922)The Rats in the Walls (1923)The Unnamable (1923)The Festival (1923)The Shunned House (1924)The Horror at Red Hook (1925)He (1925)In the Vault (1925)The Descendant (1926)Cool Air (1926)The Call of Cthulhu (1926)Pickman’s Model (1926)The Silver Key (1926)The Strange High House in the Mist (1926)The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath (1927)The Case of Charles Dexter Ward (1927)The Colour Out of Space (1927)The Very Old Folk (1927)The Thing in the Moonlight (1927)The History of the Necronomicon (1927)Ibid (1928)The Dunwich Horror (1928)The Whisperer in Darkness (1930)At the Mountains of Madness (1931)The Shadow Over Innsmouth (1931)The Dreams in the Witch House (1932)The Thing on the Doorstep (1933)The Evil Clergyman (1933)The Book (1933)The Shadow out of Time (1934)The Haunter of the Dark (1935)

The Stories of John Cheever


John Cheever - 1978
    James's --The worm in the apple --The trouble of Marcie Flint --The bella lingua --The Wrysons --The country husband --The duchess --The scarlet moving van --Just tell me who it was --Brimmer --The golden age --The lowboy --The music teacher --A woman without a country --The death of Justina --Clementina --Boy in Rome --A miscellany of characters that will not appear --The chimera --The seaside houses --The angel of the bridge --The brigadier and the golf widow --A vision of the world --Reunion --An educated American woman --Metamorphoses --Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin --Montraldo --The ocean --Marito in città --The geometry of love --The swimmer --The world of apples --Another story --Percy --The fourth alarm --Artemis, the honest well digger --Three stories --The jewels of the Cabots.

Shatterday


Harlan Ellison - 1978
    In these and other thought-provoking stories, legendary author Harlan Ellison dissects the primal fears and inherent frailties common to all people and gives voice to the thoughts and feelings human beings bury deep within their souls. Unflinching and unapologetic, Ellison depicts men and women in all their ugliness and beauty, and humanity in all its fury and glory. Stories include “Introduction: Mortal Dreads,” “Jeffty Is Five,” “How’s the Night Life on Cissalda?,” “Flop Sweat,” “Would You Do it For a Penny?” (written in collaboration with Haskell Barkin), “The Man Who Was Heavily Into Revenge,” “Shoppe Keeper,” “All the Lies That Are My Life,” “Django,” “Count the Clock That Tells the Time,” “In the Fourth Year of the War,” “Alive and Well on a Friendless Voyage,” “All the Birds Come Home to Roost,” “Opium,” “The Other Eye of Polyphemus,” “The Executioner of the Malformed Children,” and “Shatterday.”

The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard


J.G. Ballard - 1978
    His tales of the human psyche and its relationship to nature and technology, as viewed through a strong microscope, were eerily prescient and now provide greater perspective on our computer-dominated culture. Ballard's voice and vision have long served as a font of inspiration for today's cyber-punks, the authors and futurist who brought the information age into the mainstream.

Strange Wine


Harlan Ellison - 1978
    D'arque Angel, who deals her patients doses of death...Contents:· Introduction: Revealed at Last! What Killed the Dinosaurs! And You Don’t Look So Terrific Yourself · in · Croatoan · ss F&SF May ’75 · Working with the Little People · ss F&SF Jul ’77 · Killing Bernstein · ss Mystery Monthly Jun ’76 · Mom · nv Silver Foxes Aug ’76 · In Fear of K · ss Vertex Jun ’75 · Hitler Painted Roses · ss Penthouse Apr ’77 · The Wine Has Been Left Open Too Long and the Memory Has Gone Flat · ss Universe 6, ed. Terry Carr, Doubleday, 1976 · From A to Z, In the Chocolate Alphabet · ss F&SF Oct ’76 · Lonely Women Are the Vessels of Time · ss MidAmeriCon Program Book, Kansas City, MO., 1976 · Emissary from Hamelin · ss 2076: The American Tricentennial, ed. Edward Bryant, Pyramid, 1977 · The New York Review of Bird [original version] · nv * · Seeing · nv Andromeda 1, ed. Peter Weston, London: Futura, 1976 · The Boulevard of Broken Dreams · vi Los Angeles Review #1 ’75 · Strange Wine · ss Amazing Jun ’76 · The Diagnosis of Dr. D’arqueAngel [“Doctor D’arqueAngel”] · ss Viva Jan ’77

Tatterhood and Other Tales


Ethel Johnston Phelps - 1978
    All the central characters are spirited females—decisive heroes of extraordinary courage, wit, and achievement who set out to determine their own fate. Some of their stories are comic, some adventurous, some eerie, and some magical. The Chicago Sun-Times writes: "A sparkling gathering of traditional, yet little-known, tales from all parts of the globe. The female characters. . . manage to outsmart, outdo, and over-power the villains with nerves of steel, cunning minds, and disarming senses of humor."

The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction


Richard Bausch - 1978
    The classroom standard for readers and aspiring writers of fiction, The Norton Anthology of Short Fiction offers the most comprehensive, engaging selection of classic and contemporary stories in the field.

Quitters, Inc


Stephen King - 1978
    When an old friend tells him about a surefire way to quit, he's more than willing to give it a shot. But what Dick doesn?t know is that Quitters, Inc. demands a high price from anyone who strays from their rigid rules? Forced to choose between his desperate need for cigarettes and the dire consequences of giving in to his addiction, Dick must decide just how important another drag really is.

Collected Stories


Ivan Alekseyevich Bunin - 1978
    But Bunin's other stories and novellas are not to be missed. Over the last several years a great many of them have been freshly and brilliantly translated by Graham Hettlinger. Together, along with four new pieces, they are now published in a one-volume paperback collection of Bunin's greatest writings. In Mr. Hettlinger's renderings readers will see why Bunin was regarded by many of his contemporaries as the rightful successor to Tolstoy and Chekhov as a master of Russian letters.

The Fantasy Worlds of Peter Beagle


Peter S. Beagle - 1978
    Each story is illustrated with a single, but intricate, black-and-white drawing by Darrell K. Sweet.

Night Shift


Stephen King - 1978
    Especially with an anthology that features the classic stories "Children of the Corn," "The Lawnmower Man," "Graveyard Shift," "The Mangler," and "Sometimes They Come Back"-which were all made into hit horror films.From the depths of darkness, where hideous rats defend their empire, to dizzying heights, where a beautiful girl hangs by a hair above a hellish fate, this chilling collection of twenty short stories will plunge readers into the subterranean labyrinth of the most spine-tingling, eerie imagination of our time.Contents:· Introduction · John D. MacDonald · in · Foreword · fw · Jerusalem’s Lot · nv Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 · Graveyard Shift · ss Cavalier Oct ’70 · Night Surf · ss Cavalier Aug ’74 · I Am the Doorway · ss Cavalier Mar ’71 · The Mangler · nv Cavalier Dec ’72 · The Boogeyman · ss Cavalier Mar ’73 · Gray Matter · ss Cavalier Oct ’73 · Battleground · ss Cavalier Sep ’72 · Trucks · ss Cavalier Jun ’73 · Sometimes They Come Back · nv Cavalier Mar ’74 · Strawberry Spring · ss Ubris Fll ’68; Cavalier Nov ’75 · The Ledge · ss Penthouse Jul ’76 · The Lawnmower Man · ss Cavalier May ’75 · Quitters, Inc. · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 · I Know What You Need · nv Cosmopolitan Sep ’76 · Children of the Corn · nv Penthouse Mar ’77 · The Last Rung on the Ladder · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978 · The Man Who Loved Flowers · ss Gallery Aug ’77 · One for the Road · ss Maine Mar ’77 · The Woman in the Room · ss Night Shift, Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1978Librarian's Note: Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780450042683

Girl


Jamaica Kincaid - 1978
    Girl was originally published in the June 26, 1978 issue of The New Yorker and subsequently included in the short story collection At the Bottom of the River in 1983.

Airships


Barry Hannah - 1978
    The twenty stories in this collection are a fresh, exuberant celebration of the new American South — a land of high school band contests, where good old boys from Vicksurg are reunited in Vietnam and petty nostalgia and the constant pain of disappointed love prevail. Airships is a striking demonstration of Barry Hannah's mature and original talent.

The Best of Roald Dahl


Roald Dahl - 1978
    Perfect bedtime stories for those who relish sleepless nights.Twenty tales to curdle your blood and scorch your soul, chosen from his bestsellers—Over to You, Someone Like You, Kiss Kiss and Switch Bitch.Hypnotized from the first sentence, you will remain spellbound as Roald Dahl unravels his fiendish fictions with their satisfying twist-in-the-tale finales, as he leads you through the dangers of gambling for high stakes over wine, the perils of being vegetarian and the macabre consequences of a night-time seduction.

Short Stories: Five Decades


Irwin Shaw - 1978
    Featuring sixty-three stories spanning five decades, this superb collection-including "Girls in Their Summer Dresses," "Sailor Off the Bremen," and "The Eighty-Yard Run"-clearly illustrates why Shaw is considered one of America's finest short-story writers.

Stories


Doris Lessing - 1978
    Set in London, Paris, the south of France, the English countryside, these thirty-five stories reflect the themes that have always characterized Lessing’s work: the bedrock realities of marriage and other relationships between men and women; the crisis of the individual whose very psyche is threatened by a society unattuned to its own most dangerous qualities; the fate of women.The stories in this book were taken from the following previously published anthologies:Five (1953)The Habit of Loving (1957)A Man and Two Women (1963)The Temptation of Jack Orkney and Other Stories (1972)

The Golden Key and Other Stories


George MacDonald - 1978
    S. Lewis but also such literary masters as Charles Williams and J. R. R. Tolkien. Though his longer fairy tales Lilith and Phantastes are particularly famous, much of MacDonald’s best fantasy writing is found in his shorter stories. In this volume editor Glenn Sadler has compiled some of MacDonald’s finest short works—marvelous fairy tales and stories certain to delight readers familiar with MacDonald and those about to meet him for the first time.

Where the Rivers Flow North


Howard Frank Mosher - 1978
    Fox. These six stories, available again in this new edition, continue Mosher’s career-long exploration of Kingdom County, Vermont. “Within the borders of his fictional kingdom,” the Providence Journal has noted, “Mosher has created mountains and rivers, timber forests and crossroads villages, history and language. And he has peopled the landscape with some of the truest, most memorable characters in contemporary literature.”

Scent of Apples


Bienvenido N. Santos - 1978
    Bienvenido N. Santos first came to the United States in 1941, and since then, he has lived intermittently here and in the Philippines, writing in English about his experiences.Replaced by ISBN 9780295995113

Peake's Progress: Selected Writings and Drawings


Mervyn Peake - 1978
    For the aficionado and for the first-time reader, this selection of his less well-known works offers a treasure trove. It includes a wealth of short stories, poems, nonsense verse and drawings - all of them adding new perspectives on this prolific and astonishingly original writer.

Collected Stories


O. Henry - 1978
    Henry's acerbic wit, inventive plots, salty language & memorable characters."One of the most prolific and widely read short-story writers of our time, O. Henry transformed the mundane occurrences of everyday life into hundreds of stories so popular that they have never gone out of print.From "The Gift of the Magi," the heartwarming classic of selfless love, to "The Last Leaf," the unforgettable story of the twist of fate that renews one woman's will to live, O. Henry's finest work is collected here in one volume. These expertly plotted tales reveal the humorous complexities of hope and destiny, and demonstrate O. Henry's indisputable storytelling genius. His bittersweet insight and trademark surprise endings make for timeless tales that continue to delight readers throughout the world." ~from the back cover of this book~

The House of Hunger


Dambudzo Marechera - 1978
    They are about the brutalization of the individual's mental processes, until madness, violence and despair become the normal state of affairs for families in black urban areas.

The Illustrated Harlan Ellison


Harlan Ellison - 1978
    Featuring the stories "Deeper Than The Darkness", "Croatoan", "Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman" - (formatted in 3-D and includes the 3-D glasses!), "The Discarded", "An Ellison Tapestry", "Riding the Dark Train Out", and "I'm Looking For Kadak"

Lovers of Their Time and Other Stories


William Trevor - 1978
    

Secrets & Surprises


Ann Beattie - 1978
    Today these stories -- "A Vintage Thunderbird;" "The Lawn Party, " " La Petite Danseuse de Quatorze Ans," to name a few -- seem even more powerful, and are read and studied as classics of the short-story form. Spare and elegant, yet charged with feeling and with the tension of things their characters cannot say, they are masterly portraits of improvised lives.

The Monkey's Paw and Other Tales of Mystery and Macabre


W.W. Jacobs - 1978
    Most do not know, however, that its author, W.W. Jacobs, was an immensely popular writer from the 1890s through the Second World War, selling many tens of thousands of copies of his 13 short story collections. His craftsmanship was admired by such authors as G.K. Chesterton and Evelyn Waugh. Jacobs mostly wrote humorous short stories about humble seafaring folk, but "The Monkey's Paw" is by no means his only tale of the macabre. This collection contains 18 stories with subjects including haunted houses, vengeful ghosts, guilty murderers and people faking supernatural phenomena. "The Monkey's Paw" is, of course, a moral tale about how there's always a price to pay if you interfere with what's natural. It's not a mere object lesson, though: the powerful mood of mourning and despair is what makes it so memorable. Jacobs also emphasizes the dangers of mocking the supernatural. In the superb tale "The Toll House," for example, four men pull the familiar stunt of staying in a supposedly haunted house overnight. They tease each other while drinking whiskey and playing cards to while away the time, and one of them tugs on the servants' bell as a joke. Later on the man who pulled the bell is all alone in the dark, pursued by ominous footsteps, rushing about in a panicky search for the stairs. And in "Jerry Bundler," an actor tries to pull a prank on a man who is fearful of ghosts by dressing up as a renowned local spirit. He pays for his impudence in a way that is not supernatural, but the reader's left wondering what forces contrived the tragic chain of events. It's a delightful collection of stories, distinguished by Jacobs's ability to infuse horror into the simplest, most prosaic of situations, his excellent sense of pacing in the short story form, and his sardonic sense of humor. --Fiona Webster

Odd Jobs


Tony Duvert - 1978
    A catalog of job descriptions that range from the disgusting functions of “The Snot-Remover” and “The Wiper” to the shockingly cruel dramas enacted by “The Skinner” and “The Snowman,” Odd Jobs offers an outrageous, uncomfortable, and savage sense of humor. Through these narratives somewhere between parody and prose poem, Tony Duvert assaults parenthood, priesthood, and neighborhood in this mock handbook to suburban living: a Sadean Leave it to Beaver as written by William Burroughs.

The Spiteful Planet and Other Stories


Shinichi Hoshi - 1978
    Collection of 30 science fiction short shorts from Shinichi Hoshi.

Counting


Jayne Anne Phillips - 1978
    

Tales and Sketches, vol. 1: 1831-1842


Edgar Allan Poe - 1978
    He transformed the short story from anecdote to art, virtually created the detective story, and perfected the psychological thriller. In these two volumes, edited by the consummate Poe scholar, Thomas Ollive Mabbott, are collected all the tales of this master of the uncanny, the unnerving, and the terrifying. Marrying grotesque inventiveness with superb plot construction, Poe's strikingly original tales often use only one main character and one main incident. In many of them, horror and suspense, revenge and torture are laced with hilarious satire. Each volume is enriched with Mabbott's detailed and authoritative notes on sources, the history and collation of all known texts authorized by Poe, and variants of Poe's "final" versions. The stories collected in volume 1 include "Ms. Found in a Bottle," "Ligeia," "The Murders in the Rue Morgue," and "The Fall of the House of Usher." Volume 2 includes "The Tell-Tale Heart," "The Purloined Letter," and "The Cask of Amontillado." Promising spine-tingling delights and sleepless nights, this annotated edition of Tales and Sketches is a treasure trove for scholars and general readers alike, confirming Poe's status as one of literary art's "most brilliant but erratic stars." About the Authors:Edgar Allan Poe (1809-49), preeminent American writer and literary critic, exerted a worldwide influence on literature through his short fiction and his theoretical statements on poetry and the short story. Thomas Ollive Mabbott, a faculty member of Hunter College, New York, for nearly forty years, worked on Poe's writings from the 1920s until his death in 1968.

The Best of L. Sprague de Camp


L. Sprague de Camp - 1978
    This contains: Hyperpilosity; Language for Time Travelers; The Command; The Merman; Employment; The Gnarly Man; Reward of Virtue; Nothing in the Rules; The Hardwood Pile; The Reluctant Shaman; The Inspector's Teeth; The Ameba; The Guided Man; Judgment Day; A Gun for Dinosaur; The Emperor's Fan; Two Yards of Dragon; and The Little Green Men.

Collected Short Stories


Michael McLaverty - 1978
    Focusing on moments of passion, wonder or bitter disenchantment in lives that are a continuous struggle towards the light, these stories, in the compassion of the tone and the spare purity of the language, are nothing short of masterly.

Out of the Mouths of Graves


Robert Bloch - 1978
    LIMITED EDITION. Out of the Mouths of Graves. New York: Mysterious Press, 1979. First edition, limited to 250 numbered copies. Signed by Bloch. Octavo. 193 pages. This collection contains: Night School; The Model Wife; The Beautiful People; All in the Family; Double Cross; Crime in Rhyme; His and Hearse; The Man Who Looked Like Napoleon; Lucy Comes to Stay; A Most Unusual Murder; The Warm Farewell; Man With a Hobby; A Matter of Life; Hobo; The Living Bracelet; and The Closer of the Way.

The Rawhide Knot and Other Stories


Conrad Richter - 1978
    The rawhide knot symbolizes the rough exigencies binding the lives of Conrad Richter's pioneer couples. The title story portrays the death of Sayward Hewett Wheeler and, by long flashback, her marriage in the Ohio wilderness to a shy, bookish, outcast easterner. From "The Rawhide Knot" Richter developed his trilogy The Awakening Land. Entanglements no less curious, courtly, and consequential are seen in "As It Was in the Beginning," "Smoke over the Prairie," "The Simple Life," "The Iron Shrine," "The Dower Chest," "Early Americana," and "The Flood." This posthumous collection shows Conrad Richter to be a prose stylist who borrowed the techniques of the ballad and cinema in compressing and fusing brilliant visual images. In a foreword, Harvena Richter notes her father's ability to create "tight mythic struc-tures." His work contains "a vastness of time and space which, however compacted on the page, expands in the reader's mind."

The Birthday of the Infanta and Other Tales


Oscar Wilde - 1978
    This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Stephen Crane to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Simon Van Booy's forthcoming collection, LOVE BEGINS IN WINTER, will be printed at the back of this volume.

Early Americana and other stories (The Gregg Press western fiction series)


Conrad Richter - 1978
    

The Dark Princess


Richard Kennedy - 1978
    A princess whose radiant beauty blinds her and all who look upon her finds only one man willing to submit to her test for suitors--the court fool.

Masterpieces of Mystery: The Fifties


Ellery Queen - 1978
    

Old Witch Boneyleg


Ruth Manning-Sanders - 1978
    Old Witch Boneyleg (Russia) 2. The Bunyip (Australia) 3. The Farmer and the Water Fairies (Iceland) 4. Iron Hans (Transylvania) 5. Two Minutes (Russia) 6. The Broken Pitcher (France) 7. Natasha Most Lovely (Russia) 8. The King's Beard (Greece) 9. The Gold Stag (German soldier story) 10. The Dancing Pigs (Germany) 11. Giant Babolna (Hungary) 12. The Cauld Lad of Hilton (England) 13. Tossen the Fool (Denmark)

Fireside Reader: A Treasury of Outstanding Short Stories


Reader's Digest Association - 1978
    W. Jacobs The Foster portfolio by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. The poor relations story by Charles Dickens The real thing by Henry James The hostage by C. S. Forster Rip Van Winkle by Washington Irving The girls in their summer dresses by Irving Shaw The street that got mislaid by Patrick Waddington A piece of steak by Jack London The secret ingredient by Paul Gallico The hawk by Liam O'Flaherty The apprentice by Dorothy Canfeld Fisher A sick call by Morley Callaghan A terribly strange bed by Wilkie Collins The loss by Gillian Tindall The mouse by Saki (H. H. Munro) Tickets, please by D. H. Lawrence The country of the blind by H. G. Wells The gifts of war by Margaret Drabble The skedule by H. H. Wilson "Well I'm - !" by G. E. M. Skues The weather breeder by Merrill Dennison In and out the houses by Elizabeth Taylor A rose for Emily by William Faulkner The test by Brendan Gill The hammer of God by G. K. Chesterton The pocketbook game by Alice Childress The wedding gift by Thomas Raddell The adventures of the speckled band by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle The pit and the pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe The boy who drew cats by Lafcadio Hern The little governess by Katharine Mansfield Running wolf by Algernon Blackwood The peach stone by Paul Horgan Red by W. Somerset Maugham The firey wooing of Mordred by P. G. Wodehouse A sunrise on the veld by Doris Lessing The ghost by Richard Hughes The birds by Daphne du Maurier The story of the widow's son by Mary Lavin The train from Rhodesia by Nadine Gordimer Dygartsbush by Walter D. Edmonds The jilting of Granny Weatherall by Katherine Anne Porter Winter's morning by Len Deighton The lady on the gray by John Collier The wind and the snow of winter by Walter Van Tilburg Clark.

Nothing Missing But The Samovar, And Other Stories


Penelope Lively - 1978
    

Why the North Star Stands Still


Ursula Koering - 1978
    

UP WHERE I USED TO LIVE: Stories


Max Schott - 1978
    Schott focuses with superb grace and accuracy on precisely those hours and weeks and months of a rancher's life that i the usual mythology occur offstage between lynchings and Indian raids. In the best sense, he is an old-fashioned realist...There is a concreteness, a poetry, an authority and authenticity in these stories of the real Wild West that makes them a pleasure to read." — Robert Kiely, New York Times Book ReviewMAX SCHOTT, a former horse trainer and rancher, teaches fiction writing and literature in the college of creative studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Several of the stories in this collection have been anthologized — "The Old Flame" in the Best American Short Stories of 1978, "Early Winter" in the Pushcart Prizes IV (1980), and "The Horsebreaker" in the Norton Anthology of Short Stories. In addition, Schott is the author of Murphy's Romance, a novel that has been made into a Martin Ritt film starring Sally Field and James Garner.

A Wind From Nowhere


Nicholas Stuart Gray - 1978
    

Bittersweet Country


Ellen Gray Massey - 1978
    These are first hand recollections, most of the people recorded in this work are no longer with us. This is a story of wisdom, how-to-do-it on nothing and more.

The Apprentices


Leon Garfield - 1978
    From chilly October, through Christmas, Valentine's Day, May Day and midsummer, a story for each month is included in this book.

The Thefts of Nick Velvet


Edward D. Hoch - 1978
    

Making It All Right: Modern English Short Stories


Stan BarstowAngus Wilson - 1978
    Somerset Maugham "The Force of Circumstance"Victor Sawdon Pritchett "The Sailor"William Sansom "The Vertical Ladder"Muriel Spark "Curtain Blown by the Breeze"William Trevor "The Day We Got Drunk on Cake"John Wain "The Life Guard" Angus Wilson "A Bit Off the Map"

Nothing So Monstrous: A Story


John Steinbeck - 1978
    

Masterpieces of Mystery: Amateurs and Professionals


Ellery Queen - 1978
    

Stone Giants and Flying Heads: Adventure Stories of the Iroquois


Joseph Bruchac - 1978
    A collection of tales, including: I Will Now Tell a Story / The Creation / The Two Brothers / The Gifts of the Little People / Skunny-Wundy and the Stone Giant / The Brave Women and the Flying Head / The Story of Okteondon or The Workers of Evil / The girl Who Was Not Satisfied With Simple Things / The Two Daughters / Naho.

Asylum and Other Stories


Aidan Higgins - 1978
    

The Phantom Carousel, and Other Ghostly Tales


Ruth Ainsworth - 1978
    

German Women Writers of the Twentieth Century


Elizabeth R. Herrmann - 1978
    These short stories provide an insight into their creators' literary achievement and give some impression of the great variety and scope of their work.Comprised of 16 chapters, this volume begins with a short story by Ricarda Huch (1864-1947) entitled "Love," followed by another story entitled "The Wife of Pilate," by Gertrud von Le Fort (1876-1971). The remaining chapters present short stories by Elisabeth Langgässer (1899-1950), Anna Seghers (1900- ), Marie Luise Kaschnitz (1901-1974), Luise Rinser (1911- ), Ilse Aichinger (1921- ), Barbara König (1925- ), Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-1973), Christa Reinig (1926- ), Christa Wolf (1929- ), Gabriele Wohmann (1932- ), Helga Novak (1935- ), Gisela Elsner (1937- ), Elisabeth Meylan (1937- ), and Angelika Mechtel (1943- ).

Blue Evenings in Berlin: Nabokov's Short Stories of the 1920s


Marina Turkevich Naumann - 1978
    

OMNI Magazine October 1978


Ben Bova - 1978
    Chartrand, IIILife: Endangered Species / essay by Dr. Bernard DixonUFO Update: The Science Conflict / essay by James ObergThe Arts: Books/Film/TV (Omni, October 1978) / essay by James DelsonReview: The High Frontier by Gerard K. O'Neill / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Space Colonies by Stewart Brand / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Colonies in Space by T. A. Heppenheimer / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: The Third Industrial Revolution by G. Harry Stine / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Optimism One by F. M. Esfandiary / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Upwingers by F. M. Esfandiary / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Telespheres by F. M. Esfandiary / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Consequences of Growth by Gerald Feinberg / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: The Hunger of Eve by Barbara Marx Hubbard / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Exo-Psychology by Dr. Timothy Leary / review by Robert Anton WilsonReview: Colony by Ben Bova / review by Robert Anton WilsonContinuum / essaySome of Us May Never Die / essay by Kathleen Stein; interior artwork by Rudolf HausnerValley of the Kilns / short story by James B. Hall; interior artwork by Bob VenosaListening for Life / essay by Alton BlakesleeInvisible Stripes / short story by Ron GoulartInvisible Stripes ; interior artwork by Ernst FuchsRoman Vishniac / essay by Francene Sabin; interior artwork by Roman VishniacNobel Prize / essay by William K. StuckeyThe Turin Shroud / essay by Barbara J. CullitonTime Warp / novelette by Theodore Sturgeon; interior artwork by Cliff McReynoldsInterview: Freeman Dyson / interview of Freeman Dyson by Monte DavisRobots (Excerpt from Mechanismo) • (1978) / essay by Harry HarrisonFound! / short story by Isaac Asimov; interior artwork by H. R. GigerZen / essay by Thomas Hoover; interior artwork by De Es SchwertbergerFuture Drugs / essay by Gene Bylinsky; interior artwork by Mati Klarwein (as Abdul Mati Klarwein)Explorations: The Last Eclipse / essay by Joseph RaoStars / essay by Patrick MooreGames / essay by Scot MorrisThe Delphic Poll / essay by Dr. Christopher Evans