Bonham, Frank

The phantom bandit: stories; edited by Bill Pronzini. Five Star 2005 250p $25.95

ISBN 1-59414-136-3; LC 2004-28108

Fenway fiction: short stories from Red Sox nation; edited by Adam Emerson Pachter. Rounder Books 2005 231p pa $14.95

ISBN 1-57940-119-8; LC 2005-541300

Ghosts of Baker Street: new tales of Sherlock Holmes; edited by Martin H. Greenberg and Jon L. Lellenberg. Carroll & Graf Publishers 2006 320p pa $16.95

ISBN 0-7867-1400-X

Harrison, William

Texas heat and other stories. Texas Review Press 2005 145p pa $16.95

ISBN 1-881515-84-2; LC 2005-13636

Hodgson, William Hope

Adrift on the haunted seas: the best short stories of William Hope Hodgson; edited and with an introduction by Douglas A. Anderson. Cold Spring Press 2005 243p pa $11

ISBN 1-59360-049-6; LC 2005-925490

Li, Yiyun

A thousand years of good prayers: stories. Random House 2005 205p $21.95

ISBN 1-4000-6312-4; LC 2004-62891

Lynn, David H.

Year of fire: stories. Harcourt, Inc. 2006 262p pa $14

ISBN 0-15-603077-2; LC 2005-2399

"A Harvest original"

Mahfouz, Naguib

The seventh heaven: stories of the supernatural; translated by Raymond Stock. The American University in Cairo Press 2005 151p $19.95

ISBN 977-424-940-2

Masud, Naiyer

Snake catcher; translated from the Urdu by Muhammad Umar Memon. Interlink Books 2006 276p $24.95

ISBN 1-56656-629-0; LC 2005-13183

Oates, Joyce Carol

The female of the species: tales of mystery and suspense. Harcourt, Inc. 2006 c2005 275p $24

ISBN 0-15-101179-6; LC 2005-5068

"An Otto Penzler book"

Pushcart Prize XXX; best of the small presses 2006: an annual small press reader; edited by Bill Henderson with the Pushcart Prize editors. Thirtieth anniversary edition. Pushcart 2006 539p $35, pa $16.95

ISBN 1-888889-42-X; 1-888889-41-1

Raphael, Lev

Secret anniversaries of the heart: new & selected stories. Leapfrog Press 2006 242p pa $15.95

ISBN 0-9728984-7-6; LC 2005-27524

Rust, Elissa Minor

The prisoner pear: stories from the lake. Swallow Press/Ohio University Press 2005 193p $28.95, pa $16.95

ISBN 0-8040-1083-8; 0-8040-1078-1; LC 2005-18721

Tokyo fragments [by] Ryuji Morita . . . [et al.]; translated by Giles Murray. IBC Publishing 2005 c2004 206p $19.95

ISBN 4-925080-88-1

Upadhyay, Samrat

The royal ghosts: stories. Houghton Mifflin 2006 207p pa $12

ISBN 0-618-51749-9; LC 2005-16737

"A Mariner original"