The case of the sulky girl -- The case of the careless kitten -- The case of the fiery fingers.

    Reginald Harlan, M.A. Of course Archer generally didn't like people whose names started with a single syllable. Harlan hired Lew to find his sister. A respectable school mistress that has run off with a bohemian artist type. But he finds more than what he expected when he has a corpse literally dumped on him!

    Tinged with a taste of terror!"Collector's Items:" A lot of people want to get Augie Kolodney, the fattest, toughest racketeer in America; but no one wants to get and keep him the way Dr. Glendon, connoisseur of precious "one-of-a-kinds," does..."The Messiah on Mott Street:" As his grandfather lies dying, a little boy searches the ghetto for a miracle maker and finds a black mailman who is the true Messiah - or the Angel of Death..."The Different Ones:" Poor Victor, born helpless and deformed, tormented by children and adults alike... until he finds peace on a horror-filled planet."Lindemann's Catch:" The hardest fishing captain out of Boston ran his ship and his men with an iron hand; right up until the day he netted a monster..."Suggestion:" Harvey Hemple always wanted to be the life of the party - until he became the death of it...Tune in to more great tales of terror on Rod Serling's Night Gallery!

    THE LAST SPIN is a diverse and brilliant exposition of his multi-faceted talents, with the diamond-hard prose, the vivid characterisation that pulsates through his best-selling novels: THE BLACKBOARD JUNGLE - SECOND ENDING - STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET - A MATTER OF CONVICTION Contents: First Offence, The Fallen Angel; Silent Partner; Small Homicide; The Girl With The Pretty Eyes; See Him Die; Escape; Kid Kill; Alive Again; The Innocent One; Robert; The Prisoner; ...Or Leave It Alone; Kiss Me, Dudley; The Last Spin

    MacDonald, the beloved author of Cape Fear and the Travis McGee series, is now available as an eBook.   As prolific a novelist as John D. MacDonald was in his time, his output as a short-story writer is simply astonishing. All told, just a fraction of the five hundred pieces he produced as a working writer were anthologized, and End of the Tiger and Other Stories is the first of just a few such collections. Although renowned primarily as a noir author, these fifteen handpicked gems showcase MacDonald’s tremendous range. Written between 1947 and 1966, during the golden age of short fiction in America, and appearing in such national magazines as Cosmopolitan, The Saturday Evening Post, Collier’s, and Ladies’ Home Journal, these stories are a timeless testament to a writer at the top of his craft.   This collection includes “Hangover,” “The Big Blue,” “The Trouble with Erica,” “Long Shot,” “Looie Follows Me,” “Blurred View,” “The Loveliest Girl in the World,” “Triangle,” “The Bear Trap,” “A Romantic Courtesy,” “The Fast Loose Money,” “The Straw Witch,” “End of the Tiger,” “The Trap of Solid Gold,” and “Afternoon of the Hero.”   Features a new Introduction by Dean Koontz   Praise for John D. MacDonald   “The great entertainer of our age, and a mesmerizing storyteller.”—Stephen King   “My favorite novelist of all time.”—Dean Koontz   “To diggers a thousand years from now, the works of John D. MacDonald would be a treasure on the order of the tomb of Tutankhamen.”—Kurt Vonnegut   “A master storyteller, a masterful suspense writer . . . John D. MacDonald is a shining example for all of us in the field. Talk about the best.”—Mary Higgins Clark

    The only kind of fairy tales that brought a smile to his childish lips had the ogres and dragons winning, and instead of wanting to know about the birds and the bees, he kept asking about the vipers and the vultures. Since then, Hitchcock's taste for terror and appetite for evil has more than made his parents' nightmares come true. And now he's out to share his satanic knowledge and pleasure with you in these thirteen super-shivery spellbinders by:John Collier - Gerald Kersh - F. Scott Fitzgerald - Andrew Benedict - Grace Amundson - Robert Arthur - Shirley Jackson - George Hitchcock - George Mandel - Jane Rice - Don Stanford - Richard Matheson - Richard Edward Wormser

    It's even more savage inside the twisted minds of murderers who conceal their malevolence behind smiling masks and strike out without pity. This spine-tingling collection contains 23 new stories of suspense from some of the bestselling authors in the genre. Authors include Clive Barker, Lawrence Block, David Morrell, Ray Bradbury, and many more.CONTENTSThe dripping / David Morrell --The wringer / F. Paul Wilson --A season of change / Richard T. Chizmar --Good vibrations / Richard Laymon --The Tulsa experience / Lawrence Block --Trolls / Christopher Fahy --Small deaths / Charles de Lint --White lightning / Al Sarrantonio --Hitman / Rick Hautala --Vympyre / William F. Nolan --And eight rabid pigs / David Gerrold.Bringing it along / A.R. Morlan --Redemption / Jack Ketchum --The graveyard ghoul / Edward D. Hoch --The rings of Cocytus / Katherine Ramsland --Late last night / John Maclay --Beasts in buildings, turning 'round / J.N. Williamson --Dark side of the moon / Babara Collins --Honor bound / J.M. Morgan --The instrumentalist / William Relling Jr. --Corpse carnival / Ray Bradbury --The book of blood / Clive Barker.

    The Tuesday Night Club read by Joan Hickson The Fourth Man read by Christopher Lee The Affair at the Victory Ball read by David Suchet The Case of the Discontented Soldier read by Hugh Fraser

    McCammon, Whitley Strieber, Michael McDowell, Robert Bloch, Ramsey Campbell, Charles L. Grant and others. Edited by Alan Ryan, author of The Kill and Dead White.

    Lovecraft's classic stories, among them some of the greatest works of horror fiction ever written, including:

    Hijack by Robert L. Fish 2. Tomorrow and ... Tomorrow by Adobe James 3. Funeral in Another Town by Jerry Jacobson 4. A Case for Quiet by William Jeffrey 5. A Good Head for Murder by Charles W. Runyon 6. The Invisible Cat by Betty Ren Wright 7. Royal Jelly novelette by Roald Dahl 8. Light Verse by Isaac Asimov 9. The Distributor by Richard Matheson 10. How Henry J. Littlefinger Licked the Hippies' Scheme to Take Over the Country by Tossing Pot in Postage Stamp Glue by John Keefauver 11. The Leak by Jacques Futrelle 12. All the Sounds of Fear by Harlan Ellison 13. Little Foxes Sleep Warm by Waldo Carlton Wright 14. The Graft Is Green novelette by Harold Q. Masur (This is volume 1 of Stories to Be Read with the Door Locked. It should not be combined with volume 2, or with the complete work.)

     Featuring stories by Amy Cross, Mike Duke, Matthew Brockmeyer, Lex H. Jones, J.C. Michael and Kevin J. Kennedy.

    In this volume, best-selling writers such as Mary Higgins Clark, Walter Mosley, Lawrence Block, Jay McInerney, and Donald E. Westlake stand alongside an impressive array of new talent. As Grafton writes in her introduction, "Nowhere is iniquity, wrongdoing, and reparation more satisfying to behold than in the well-crafted yarns spun by the writers represented here." Already a bestseller in its first year, this year's collection of The Best American Mystery Stories promises to keep readers intrigued and coming back for more.

    A dark ritual turns a woman obsessed with supernatural powers against the people who love her most. A possessed TV proves that old B-Movie monsters can still terrify an unsuspecting audience…Scare Street’s roster of authors brings you eleven new tales of supernatural horror, in one blood-chilling volume. This macabre collection of short stories is guaranteed to get your pulse racing, and send shivers down your spine.Each deliciously dark tale will haunt your dreams, and keep you reading long past the witching hour. But wait…What was that noise? Did something move in the shadows?Just keep telling yourself… it’s only a story.

    He was sabotaging the Wrightsville production of The Death of Don Juan, turning it into a farce. When the curtain rose on the second act, Benedict was dead. There were plenty of suspects--it seemed Foster Benedict had upstaged everyone in town. Ellery Queen's job was a little like a casting director's--there was plenty of talent, but no one was right for the part of killer! * The Death of Don Juan * (Argosy, 5/62 reprinted in EQMM, 8/64) The Wrightsville Heirs * (Better Living, 1/56 reprinted in EQMM, 11/57) The Case Against Carroll * (Argosy, 8/58 reprinted in Suspense 04/59 and in EQMM, 9/60) E = Murder * (This Week, 8/14/60 reprinted in EQMM, 5/61) Diamonds in Paradise (EQMM, 9/54)