Nina Kiriki Hoffman
Chapel Hollow Plus |
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 The Thread that Binds the Bones Bram Stoker Award: First Novel: 1992 Includes "Lost Lives" & "Caretaking" Cover art for US edition by Richard Bober |
 The Silent Strength of Stones See Cover LARGE New story "Words of Farewell" Cover art by Matt Stawicki |
 Spirits That Walk in Shadow Cover art by Dan Dos Santos |
 The Spirit in the Clay |
 Common Threads [see collections] |
 The Other Side Secret |
LaZelle Family |
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 A Fistful of Sky |
 Fall of Light |
 Fairy Infestation |
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Two LaZelle Family Short Stories |
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"LaZelle Family Christmas"
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"Transitions"Appears almost word-for-word in A Fistful of Sky |
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The Magic Next Door |
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 #1 Thresholds |
 #2 Meeting |
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Haunted Pacific Northwest / Spores Ferry, OR |
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 A Stir of Bones
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 A Red Heart of Memories nominee for World Fantasy Award: Best Novel, 2000 |
 Past the Size of Dreaming |
UnmaskingFinalist for World Fantasy Award: BEST NOVELLA |
"The Trouble With Big Brothers"
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"Sourheart" |
"Airborn"Original award-winning cover by Bob Eggeton |
"Inner Child"
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"Home for Christmas"
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"Anger Management"
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"Trees Perpetual of Sleep"
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"Hostile Takeover"
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"Here We Come A'Wandering" |
Ghosts of Fear Street |
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 R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street #30: I Was a Sixth Grade Zombie |
 R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street #23: Why I'm Not Afraid of Ghosts |
 R.L. Stine's Ghosts of Fear Street #14: Body Switchers From Outer Space |
 Sweet Valley Junior High Third Wheel as Jamie Suzanne |
 Catalyst |
 How I Got Here |
 Star Trek Voyager #15 Echoes with DW Smith & KK Rusch |
 Child of an Ancient City With Tad Williams |
written as Robin Aurelian |
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"Bait" |
"Foreign Exchange"
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 Stories My Pseudonym Wrote |
"A Choice of Graces" |
"Answering Machines"
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"Jelly Bones" |
"Proxies" |
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"The Near Side of Never" |
"The Santa Trap" |
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Short, Sharp Snacks:
ALL of these were originally published at DailyScienceFiction.com |
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"While Memory Holds a Seat" |
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"What Remains" |
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"A Hundred Babies" |
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"Simon Says" |
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"The God of Rugs" |
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"Spring Again" |
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"Boy Seeds" |
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"Test Drive" |
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"The Key to Everything" |
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"First Faces" |
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"Don't Answer" |
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"Just Today" |
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"The Power of the Cocoon" |
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"Company for the Holidays" |
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"Wishmas (2)" |
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"Solstice Cakes" |
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"Friendship is Magic" |
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"Out of the Box" |
Short, Sharp Snacks Volume 2: Eighteen Very Short StoriesALL of these were originally published at DailyScienceFiction.com |
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"A Stranger at the Door" |
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"In the Enchanted Forest" |
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"Rummage Sale Finds" |
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"Depature" |
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"Banquet" |
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"Real Enough" |
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"Just Try It" |
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"Trash Fairies" |
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"Just Below My Heart" |
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"Vacation Station" |
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"Passed Down" |
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"Group Dynamics" |
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"It Came from the Bottom of the Pool" |
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"The Friendly Beasts" |
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"Child of Snow" |
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"Leaf Piles" |
One Day at the Central Convenience Mall |
Rags, Riches and a Dragon"Chambers of the Heart" |
Meet in Fear and Wonder: Four Science Fiction Stories"Mud"
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What Bit You?: Four Shifter Stories"Unleashed"
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"A Wolf In Holy Places" |
Antiquities: Five Stories Set in Ancient Worlds |
"The Problem With Dating Shapeshifters"
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 Wild Talents: Three short Stories |
"Mallificent"
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"The Skeleton Key" |
 The Skelton Key / Bright Streets of Air |
"Faint Heart Foul Lady" |
 Faint Heart, Foul Lady |
"Zombies for Jesus"
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"Haunted Humans"*Finalist for Nebula, Best Novella |
"The Dangers of Touch"
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"Surreal Estate"
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The Ghosts of Strangers |
Fast Wedded to the Ground |
Invasive Species |
Escapes |
Trophy WivesWINNER: 2009 NEBULA FOR BEST SHORT STORY |
Family Tree |
Ghost Hedgehog |
"The Power of Waking" |
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WLOP/Wang Ling Online Painter - Digital Artist: new background image
Non-Collected Short Stories |
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2023 |
"Changing the Rules" |
Winding Paths |
"Growths" |
The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, Sept/Oct 2023 | ||
"Shifters" |
Wyldblood Press | ||
| 2022 |
"Small Packages" |
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"Trapping Fairies" |
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"Traveler's Unrest" |
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"Wave Forms" |
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| 2021 |
"Bad Roommate" |
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"Crooked House" |
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"Mystery of the Deep" |
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"Selfies" |
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"Spirit Thread" |
The Land Beyond the World | ||
"Girlfriend Experience" |
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 Michael Whelan for Elementals |
2020 |
"Cuckoo's Nest"[podcast/audio file] |
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"Dinos On Your Doorstep" |
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"Music Hath Charms" |
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"What Fits" |
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 Kinuko Y. Craft for Perchance to Dream |
2019 |
"Baby and Me" |
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"Changes" |
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"Good as Dead" |
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 Keith Parkinson for Black Gate |
2018 |
"Ancestor Night" |
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"Communion"[POEM] |
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"Dragon Toast" |
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"Other People's Dreams" |
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"The Properties of Shadow" |
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| 2017 |
"Rings" |
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"Vinegar & Cinnamon" |
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 Charles Vess for Coyote Road |
2016 |
"A Molten Metal Thread" |
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"Words of Farewell" |
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| 2015 |
"Where I'm Bound" |
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| 2014 |
"Close Knit" |
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"Multimart" |
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"Where Our Edges Lie" |
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| 2013 |
"Truck Stop Luck" |
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 Todd Lockwood for Wings of Fire: Dragon Stories |
2012 |
"Distressed Travelers" |
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"Firebugs" |
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"Monster, Finder, Shifter" |
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"The Up" |
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| 2011 |
"Under the Surface" |
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"Anwari"later published asGoodwill Objects |
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 Frank Frazetta for L. Ron Hubbard's Writers of the Future 21 |
2010 |
"Daycare of the Damned" |
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"Futures in the Memories Market" |
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"Growth Spurt" |
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| 2009 |
"Pranks" |
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"Twilight Animals" |
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 Les Edwards for Battle Magic |
2008 |
"Dream Seed" |
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"The Jewel of Abandon" |
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"My Tears Have Been My Meat" |
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| 2007 |
"Art Therapy" |
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"Neighbors" |
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"Things With the Same Name" |
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 Charles Vess for Dark of the Woods |
2006 |
"I Can't Touch Them" |
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"Marrow Wood" |
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"Sea Air" |
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"Seasonal Work" |
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"Unwrapping" |
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"Wanderers" |
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 Charles Vess For Faerie Reel |
2005 |
"Harvesting" |
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"Seven Keys to Writing Success"[Essay] |
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| 2004 |
"The Fear that Kills"[poem] |
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"Hearts' Desires" |
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| "When offered our heart's desire, how many of us would be brave enough to reach out and take it? Don't answer too quickly..." | |||
"Immersed in Matter" |
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"Relations" |
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 Thomas Canty for Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 17 |
2003 |
"A Bite of Bird"/"Feasts" |
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| Just what, exactly, is the secret to hunting these huge birds with a flimsy, undersized spear -- the once-in-a-lifetime ritual that makes a boy a man? A Hunt from which you either retuen with your quarry or don't come back? | |||
"Christmas Treats"/"Treats" |
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| Lisa's crush on Peter takes a weird turn when she has some chocolate. | |||
"The Devil You Know" |
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"Flotsam" |
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"Larger Than Life" |
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"Spring Invades"[POEM] |
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"Time Bombs" |
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 Rowena Morrill for Weird Tales #338 |
2002 |
"Cookies for Mr. Carson" |
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"Gifts" |
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"Gone" |
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"Grounded" |
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"Scenes From a Marriage" |
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"A Soul Cake" |
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"Summer Camp Blues" |
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"To Grandmother's House" |
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 Thomas Canty for Year's Best Fantasy & Horror 4 |
2001 |
"Between Disappearances" |
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"The Mouse's Soul"[poem] |
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"Sensitives" |
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"Star Song" |
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 Larry Elmore for The Chick Is In The Mail |
2000 |
"Chain of Command"with Leslie What |
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"Night Stuff" |
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"Shaped Stones"a kind of prequel to the Matt & Edmund stories |
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"A Spatter of Later Stars" |
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"Suspended Animation" |
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"The Whole of the Wideness of Night" |
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 Tristan Elwell for Warrior Princesses |
1999 |
"The Giant's Love" |
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"Radiance" |
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"Salvage Efforts" |
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"Voyage of Discovery" |
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 Thomas Canty For Black Swan, White Raven |
1998 |
"Caretaking"[Chapel Hollow] |
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"Drown Night With Hope of Day" |
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"The Somehow Not Yet Dead" |
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"Sweet Nothings" |
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| "Nina Hoffman's stories often have a musical component to them, as we saw most recently in "Gone to Heaven Shouting" in January. This poignant new one doesn't feature any outright music, but if you listen up, you'll hear a symphony within a whisper." | |||
 Barclay Shaw For Fantasy & Science Fiction, Apr 1997 |
1997 |
"Articles of Faith" |
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"The Breadcrumb Trail"[poem] |
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"Heavenly Host" |
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"Manna" |
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| “"Manna" the third of our cover stories, marks the return of Hoffman to her horror roots -- and a welcome return it is.” | |||
"The Packet" |
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"Survivals" |
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"Visible Breath" |
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"The World Within" |
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 Victoria Lisi-Poyser for In Celebration of Lammas Night |
1996 |
"Cookies With a Killer" |
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"The Demon Servant"Takes place in Spores Ferry |
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"The First Excuse" |
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"The Fourth Wish" |
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"The Handwriting on the Floor" |
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"I Was A Teenage Boycrazy Blob" |
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"Incidental Cats" |
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"Vegetation & Denial" |
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"A Wanderer of Wizard-Kind" |
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"Water Everywhere" |
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"Wonder Never Land" |
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 Jon Sullivan For Sorceries |
1995 |
"Between Me and the Hope of My Heart" |
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"The Biting-a-Hologram Blues" |
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"But Now Am Found" |
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"Butterfly Wings" |
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"Family History" |
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"Fast Seeds" |
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"Food Chain" |
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"For Richer, For Stranger" |
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| New grounds for divorce: death of personality. | |||
 John Jude Palencar For Sisters of the Night |
"On Reflection" |
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"Part-Singing" |
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"Picking Up Hitchhikers" |
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"Snow on Snow" |
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"To Summon a Fiend-Spirit"Thanks to Risa for sending me the story and Nina (of course) for writing it and giving me permission to post it. |
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"Waging Peace" |
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"War Zone" |
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"Weatherbones" |
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 John Howe Wizard Fantastic |
1994 |
"Animal Crackers" |
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"The Buddy System" |
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"A Dark Wind in the Whisper Tree"Thanks to Risa for sending me the story and Nina (of course) for writing it and giving me permission to post it. |
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"Face Value" |
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 Bob Eggleton For Weird Tales #306, 305-306, & Best of Weird Tales |
1993 |
"Ceciley in the Supermarket" |
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| What would Blackbeard or Chernevog's wife bring home from the grocers? | |||
"Deal with the Devil" |
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"God Rest Ye Merry, Gentle Ghosts" |
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"Icecream & Tombstones" |
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"The Pulse of the Machine" |
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| A shapeshifter (from "A Night Out"?) gets drunk with a friend, and encounters another hunter -- but what is it? | |||
 Bob Eggleton For Weird Tales: Seven Decades of Terror |
"A Séance" |
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| When a "puffy-headed featherbrain" of a high school reporter sets out to expose a medium as a fraud, she gains a new relative. | |||
"The Silver Stalking"Thanks to Risa for sending me the story and Nina (of course) for writing it and giving me permission to post it. |
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"The Third Dead Body" |
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"Valentines" |
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| This story makes me hum the tune to "Last Christmas I gave you my heart..." | |||
"Where the Sun Stays for the Winter" |
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| When you get a riddle for a gift, a wrong answer can earn you an extra present. | |||
 Bob Eggleton For Amazing Stories January 1991 (Volume 65, No. 5) (whole number 556) |
1992 |
"Homeless" |
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| "Until death do us part; some people don't ever let go!" | |||
"Messages Left on a Two-Way Mirror" |
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"The Third Sex" |
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 Nicholas Jainschigg For Weird Tales #305 |
1991 |
"The Coming of the Newest Messiah" |
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"Floor in Landida"with Jerry Oltion |
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"Heart of Gold" |
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"Heavy Still Sky" |
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"Memory Preserves" |
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"Moving Sale" |
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"A Painting Lesson" |
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"Visitors" |
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"Zits" |
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 Brom For 13 Horrors: A Devil's Dozen |
1990 |
"Broken Things" |
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"Imprint" |
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"Life Sentences" |
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"Pouring the Foundations of a Nightmare"takes place in Spores Ferry |
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"Reflected Light" |
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"Stillborn" |
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"A Touch of the Old Lilith" |
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 Don Maitz For 1996 World Horror ConventionBook |
1989 |
"Chrysalis" |
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"Dreamwalking Solo" |
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"Piggin' Waivers" |
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| 1988 |
"Laundry" |
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| 1987 |
"Delicacies" |
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| The writer's exercise in response to the opening line "There were rats in the souffle again." | |||
"An Invasion of Angels"
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| [the following short-short stories resulted from a challenge issued by Alan Bard Newcomer in a Pulphouse Gang workshop. He challenged everyone to write a short-short story with a Christmas song title as the story title...] | |||
 Jill Bauman For Tales by Moonlight 2 |
1986 |
"Social Worker" |
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"Ants" |
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| 1985 |
"Hiding From the Sun" |
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"The Shadow of a Hawk" |
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| 1984 |
"What Used to Be Audrey" |
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| 1983 |
"Petrified" |
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| 1977 |
"Cross My Heart" |
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| 1975 |
"The Magic Piano" |
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