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Cover of 100 Menacing Little Murder Stories

100 Menacing Little Murder Stories

Robert Weinberg & Stefan Dziemianowicz & Martin H. Greenberg

First published 1998
Series 100 Stories / Barnes & Noble
Publisher Barnes & Noble Books
Format Hardcover
Type Anthology
Cover art Lucy Corvino
Pages x+596
ISBN 0760708541

  • First printing per the numberline (9—1) that is found on this book's copyright page.
  • No price listed anywhere in or on this book. This was an instant remainder book published by Barnes & Noble and the price was determined by a sticker pasted on the book at the bookstore.
  • This is a basically non-genre book. Only stories by authors more or less noted for their speculative fiction, and stories that appear to be speculative, are included in the contents recorded here. (DES May 2008)
  • Cover designed by Lynn Binder.

Page Title Author(s) Type
1 40 Detectives Later Henry Slesar Short Fiction
8 600 W Basil Wells Short Story
12 Action David J. Schow Short Story
23 All the Angles Basil Wells Short Story
30 Art Is Anything You Can Get Away With Stefan Jackson Short Story
39 Aunt Dolly Ardath Mayhar Short Story
47 The Backslider John Metcalfe Short Story
55 Blank ... Harlan Ellison Short Story
61 Bless Us O Lord Ed Gorman Short Story
65 The Blind Spot Saki Short Story
69 Boomerang Hugh B. Cave Short Story
76 Close Calls John Lutz Short Story
80 The Cobblestones of Saratoga Street Avram Davidson Short Story
89 Come Clean Donald Wandrei Short Story
97 A Considerable Murder Barry Pain Short Story
113 The Creek, It Done Riz Ardath Mayhar Short Story
130 Damp Sheets H. Russell Wakefield Short Story
145 The Dead Woman David H. Keller Short Story
156 Death Double William F. Nolan Short Story
159 Desert Pickup Richard Laymon Short Story
165 Dramatic Touch Donald Wandrei Short Story
189 Fixing Mr. Foucher's Fence Todd Mecklem Short Story
194 Footsteps of Fear Vincent Starrett Short Story
201 Four-in-Hand William Relling, Jr. Short Story
220 Hi, Mom! William F. Nolan Short Story
228 Hiding Place Basil Wells Short Story
246 Homesick Richard T. Chizmar Short Story
260 I Could Kill You! Judith Merril Short Story
264 Johnny Halloween Norman Partridge Short Story
289 The Last Pin Howard Wandrei Short Story
295 Like Father, Like Son Richard T. Chizmar Short Story
301 Listen Joe R. Lansdale Short Story
311 Locking Up John Maclay Short Story
314 The Longest Pleasure C. J. Henderson Short Story
317 The Man Who Was Everywhere Edward D. Hoch Short Story
331 Moon-Face Jack London Short Story
336 Murder Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
348 Murder in the Fourth Dimension Clark Ashton Smith Short Story
376 Old Charlie Joe R. Lansdale Short Story
395 Ormond Always Pays His Bills Harlan Ellison Short Story
400 The Pattern Bill Pronzini Short Story
408 The Phone Call Roman A. Ranieri Short Story
411 Posthumous Joyce Carol Oates Short Story
413 The Price of the Devil J. L. French Short Story
421 The Queen of Corpses Costa Carousso Short Story
429 Remains to Be Seen Jack Ritchie Short Story
437 The Right Kind of House Henry Slesar Short Story
444 The Rod and the Staff Donald Wandrei Short Story
450 The Shill Stephen Marlowe Short Story
463 The Stocking Ramsey Campbell Short Story
488 The Test Maurice Level Short Story
491 The Tin Ear Ron Goulart Short Story
499 Today's Special Dennis Etchison Short Story
519 Two Inches in Tomorrow's Column Harlan Ellison Short Story
524 Tyrannosaurus Norman Partridge Short Story
528 Unwinding William Fryer Harvey Short Story
541 Walks Joe R. Lansdale Short Story
562 Will Lunch Be Ready on Time? Elizabeth Engstrom Short Story
577 The Woman at the Pond Hugh B. Cave Short Story
584 Woodland Burial Frank Belknap Long Short Story
ix Introduction (100 Menacing Little Murder Stories) Stefan Dziemianowicz Essay