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Monsters from Memphis

Beecher Smith

First published 1997
Publisher Zapizdat Publications
Format Trade Paperback
Type Anthology
Cover art Judith Wagner Hanson
Pages xiii+345
Price $12.95
ISBN 188096421X

  • Data from Internet Archive scan
  • This is a limited edition of 1,000
  • "Special Limited First Edition"
  • Only date is 1997 copyright
  • Record had an unsourced 1997-01-00 date, but this could not be substantiated. Amazon has the typical January 01 date when it does not know a date so this may be where it was from. Locus 1 has 1997 date with first seen date of 1997-11-00.
  • No printing statement or number line
  • Copyrighted by Hot Biscuit Productions, Inc.; copyright page also says the book was published "in cooperation with" them but only Zapizdat is on title page.
  • Cover artist credit per copyright page. Copyright notices and acknowledgments say 'from the painting "Monsters from Memphis" by Judith Wagner Hanson'.
  • LCCN per copyright page
  • Hancock's story is incorrectly on p. 67 in contents and the author is credited as Richard Hancock.
  • Blalock's story is incorrectly on p. 82 in contents.
  • Eakin is credited as Bill Eakin in contents.
  • Mesler's story is incorrectly on p. 144 in contents and the title is Swift Peter.
  • Vassar W. Smith is credited as Vassar Smith in contents.
  • Cowden is credited as Frances Cowden in contents.
  • Gilbreath's story is incorrectly on p. 265 in contents.
  • Stuart's story is incorrectly titled Nifty, Tough an' Bitchen in contents.

Searching by ISBN: 188096421X

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 The Shadow Knows Brent Monahan Short Story
15 Bridge of Brothers Tom Piccirilli Short Story
20 The Heart of the Matter Don Webb Short Story
36 Ms. Adams Beecher Smith Short Story
52 Number One with a Bullet Scott Sigler Short Story
69 The Ghost of East Shelby Gales J. Richard Hancock, Jr. Short Story
75 Floods James S. Dorr Short Story
83 Inner Enemies H. David Blalock Short Story
90 By Any Name a Devil Steven Lee Climer Short Story
102 Dance in Crimson Trey R. Barker Short Story
115 The Lizard Queen William R. Eakin Short Story
130 Eucharist Richard Parks Short Story
143 Swift Peter, the Beast of Cooper-Young Corey Mesler Short Story
152 Hunt's End Tim Waggoner Short Story
161 People Change H. R. Williams Short Story
174 The Dark Gift Will Drayton Short Story
190 Nurse Bann Will Drayton Short Story
201 Snare of the Fowler Lance Carney Short Story
213 Tokhtamysh Vassar W. Smith Short Story
228 Jim Beecher Smith Short Story
238 A Time for Crosses Frances Brinkley Cowden Short Story
243 The Big Chill Cynthia Ward Short Story
248 The Sound of Fury Mark Sutton Short Story
259 The Camping Trip Incident Stanley T. Evans Short Story
267 My House Allan Gilbreath Short Story
278 Swan Song Charlee Jacob Short Story
290 Killing Softly Angela Wolfe Short Story
295 Nifty, Tuff an' Bitchen Kiel Stuart Short Story
306 Rendezvous with Fear Del Tinsley Short Story
309 The Frequency of Violets Lou Kemp Short Story
314 Peace Plan Billy Bob Patterson Novelette
341 About the Authors—Meet the Memphis Monster-Makers uncredited Essay
xi Introduction (Monsters from Memphis) Beecher Smith Essay