Author: J. M. Smith

By J. M. Smith

By David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, Montague Rhodes James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H.P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, Edith Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Smythe Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood and Philip K. Dick

By Kirby McCauley, Dennis Etchison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Edward Bryant, Davis Grubb, Robert Aickman, Karl Edward Wagner, Joyce Carol Oates, T. E. D. Klein, Gene Wolfe, Theodore Sturgeon, Ramsey Campbell, Clifford D. Simak, Russell Kirk, Lisa Tuttle, Robert Bloch, Edward Gorey, Ray Bradbury, Joe Haldeman, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Richard Matheson, Richard Christian Matheson, Grahan Wilson and Stephen King

By Nancy A. Collins, Edward E. Kramer, Martin H. Greenberg, Stephen King, Michael O'Donoghue, Kathe Koja, Basil Cooper, John Lutz, David J. Schow, Robert Weinberg, Ramsey Campbell, Stuart M. Kaminsky, Wendy Webb, Richard Laymon, Bob Burden, George Chesbro, John Peyton Cooke, Kathryn Ptacek, John Shirley, Michael Blumlein, Edward Gorman, Lucy Taylor, Karl Edward Wagner, Douglas E. Winter, Nancy A Collins and Martin Harry Greenberg

By Andrew F. Gulli, Lamia Gulli, Jeff Abbott, Lori Armstrong, Sandra Brown, Thomas Cook, Jeffery Deaver, Diana Gabaldon, Tess Gerritsen, Peter James, J. A. Jance, Jonathan Kellerman, Raymond Khoury, John T. Lescroart, Jeffry P. Lindsay, Gayle Lynds, Phillip Margolin, Alexander McCall Smith, Michael Palmer, T. Jefferson Parker, Matthew Pearl, Kathy Reichs, Marcus Sakey, Jonathan Santlofer, Lisa Scottoline, Robert Lawrence Stine, Marcia Talley, David Baldacci, Andrew Gulli, Jeff Abbott, Lamia J. Gulli, Ed van Eeden and James, Peter

By Chris Baldick, Anna Laetitia Aiken, Richard Cumberland, Anonymous, Juvenis., Isaac Crookenden, Petrus Borel, John Wadham, Edgar Allan Poe, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Bret Harte, George Washington Cable, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Marcel Schwob, Charlotte Perkins Stetson, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edith Nesbit, Ambrose Bierce, Ellen Glasgow, H.P. Lovecraft, William Faulkner, Clark Ashton Smith, Isak Dinesen, F.M. Mayor, Frederick Ignatius Cowles, Eudora Welty, Ray Russell, Alejandra Pizarnik, Jorge Luis Borges, Angela Carter, Joyce Carol Oates, Patrick McGrath and Isabel Allende

By Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Cyril M. Kornbluth, Larry Niven, Charles E. Fritch, Bill Pronzini, George R. R. Martin, Jerome Bixby, Ambrose Bierce, Edward D. Hoch, Alexei Panshin, Martin Gardner, Steven Utley, Gregory Benford, Richard Wilson, Robert Sheckley, Roger Zelazny, Damon Knight, Reginald Bretnor, Frederik Pohl, Laurence M. Janifer, James Blish, Joanna Russ, Ray Russell, Edward Wellen, Donald E. Westlake, Ben Bova, Barry N. Malzberg, Fred Saberhagen, Fritz Leiber, Karen Anderson, Bob Shaw, William F. Nolan, Henry Slesar, Dannie Plachta, Edward Rager, Hayford Peirce, Jeffrey S. Hudson, Walter S. Tevis, James Edward Sutherland, Joe L. Hensley, Duane Ackerson, Stephen Goldin, Robert Emmett Toomey Jr., Alfred Bester, Anthony Boucher, Nelson Slade Bond, F. M. Busby, Maggie Nadler, Grant Carrington, Keith Laumer, E. Michael Blake, James E. Gunn, Paul Dellinger, Lee Killough, Thomas F. Monteleone, Robert T. Kurosaka, James E. Thompson, Robert L. Fish, Bruce McAllister, Paul Bond, Mildred Downey Broxon, Alan Edward Nourse, David Bischoff, Ralph Milne Farley, Daniel A. Darlington, Walt Liebscher and K. W. MacAnn

By Kate Kinsella, Abigail Adams Smith, Edward Albee, Amos Bronson Alcott, Julia Alvarez, A. R. Ammons, Sherwood Anderson, W. H. Auden, James Baldwin, Ambrose Bierce, Arna Bontemps, William Bradford, Anne Bradstreet, Gwendolyn Brooks, Joseph Bruchac, William Cullen Bryant, Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca, Michael J. Caduto, Willa Cather, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Diana Chang, Mary Chesnut, Chief Joseph, Kate Chopin, Sandra Cisneros, Miriam Davis Colt, George Cooper, Stephen Crane, J. Hector St. John de Crèvecoeur, Countee Cullen, E. E. Cummings, Emily Dickinson, Annie Dillard, E. L. Doctorow, H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), Frederick Douglass, Rita Dove, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jonathan Edwards, T. S. Eliot, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Olaudah Equiano, Louise Erdrich, Erdoes, Richard, Martín Espada, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Stephen Foster, Benjamin Franklin, Ian Frazier, Robert Frost, Margaret Fuller, Goss, Warren Lee, Alex Haley, Lorraine Hansberry, Joy Harjo, Bret Harte, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Hayden, Lillian Hellman, Ernest Hemingway, Patrick Henry, John Richard Hersey, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Garrett Hongo, Langston Hughes, Zora Neale Hurston, Washington Irving, Stonewall Jackson, Randall Jarrell, Thomas Jefferson, John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Maxine Hong Kingston, Yusef Komunyakaa, Robert E. Lee, Meriwether Lewis, Abraham Lincoln, Jack London, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Garcia Lopez de Cardenas, James Russell Lowell, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Bernard Malamud, Edgar Lee Masters, Washington Matthews, Carson McCullers, Colleen McElroy, Claude McKay, McKim, Randolph H., Larry McMurtry, Herman Melville, Arthur Miller, N. Scott Momaday, Marianne Moore, Molly Moore, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Tim O'Brien, Flannery O'Connor, Eugene O'Neill, Alfonso Ortiz, Simon J. Ortiz, Thomas Paine, Grace Paley, Arthur C. Parker, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, Katherine Anne Porter, Ezra Pound, John Wesley Powell, Anna Quindlen, Adrienne Rich, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Theodore Roethke, William Safire, Ricardo Sanchez, Carl Sandburg, John Smith, William Stafford, John Steinbeck, Wallace Stevens, Amy Tan, Edward Taylor, Henry David Thoreau, James Thurber, Jean Toomer, Sojourner Truth, Rev. Henry M. Turner, Mark Twain, Anne Tyler, John Updike, Alice Walker, Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, Edith Wharton, Phillis Wheatley, E. B. White, Walt Whitman, John Greenleaf Whittier, Thornton Wilder, Tennessee Williams, William Carlos Williams, Darryl Babe Wilson, Thomas Wolfe, Amy K. Duer, Richard Lederer, Christopher Columbus, Joni Mitchell, John Smith, Tom Wolfe, Steve Wulf, Abigail Adams, Michel-guillaume Jean De Crevecoeur, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Bailey White, Emily Saliers, Angela De Hoyos, Robert E. Lee, Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut, James Cloyd Bowman, Anonymous, Joel, Billy., Flannery Oconnor, Martin Espada and Garret Hongo

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By Editors of Readers Digest, Arthur Conan Doyle, C. S. Forester, Shirley Jackson, Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, Evelyn Waugh, Guy de Maupassant, John Russell, Algernon Blackwood, John Collier, Gilbert Keith Chesterton, Truman Capote, Alfred Noyes, Montague Rhodes James, Roald Dahl, Ray Bradbury, Leslie Charteris, Lord Dunsany, Ellery Queen, Ambrose Bierce, Daphne du Maurier, Thomas Burke, Robert Barr, John Dickson Carr, André Maurois, Richard Middleton, H.P. Lovecraft, Cornell Woolrich, Gilbert Highet, Alfred McLelland Burrage, Ian Fleming, Gertrude Atherton, Carl Stephenson, W. W. Jacobs, George Hitchcock, William Hope Hodgson, Kenneth Millar, Rudyard Kipling, Georges Simenon, Robert Bloch, Stanley Ellin, H. G. Wells, Erle Stanley Gardner, Saki and Arthur C. Clarke

100 Wondrous Science Fiction Short-Short Stories

By Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Joseph D. Olander, Donald Franson, Norman E. Hartman, Jack Ritchie, Charles E. Fritch, Phyllis Eisenstein, Fredric Brown, Robert Mattingly, Barry N. Malzberg, Jack Dann, George Zebrowski, Charles Sheffield, George H. Smith, Robert F. Decker, Harry Harrison, Richard Wilson, T. E. D. Klein, Richard K. Lyon, Arthur C. Clarke, Patricia Matthews, Alan Brennert, James Tiptree, Jr., Anthony Boucher, Bob Shaw, Walt Liebscher, Mack Reynolds, A. E. van Vogt, Paul Dellinger, Harlan Ellison, Henry Slesar, Ron Montana, Joanna Russ, Theodore Cogswell, Marcia Martin, Eric Vinicoff, Edward Bryant, Garen Drussaï, William F. Nolan, Helen M. Urban, Robert Silverberg, Alice Laurance, Robert Sheckley, Charles A. Spano Jr., Craig Strete, Rick Conley, Manly Wade Wellman, Dennis R. Caro, Eric Frank Russell, Robert Payes, Fritz Leiber, Ray Russell, Roberta Ghidalia, Sherwood Springer, Joseph F. Patrouch, Roland J. Green, H. L. Gold, Jan Howard Finder, Ruth Berman, James E. Gunn, Philip José Farmer, Bill Pronzini, Arthur Tofte, F. M. Busby, Paul J. Nahin, James A. Stevens, Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Juleen Brantingham, Maggie Nadler, Lester del Rey, Larry Niven and Edward Wellen

By Henri J. M. Nouwen and Paul Smith

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By Mary Danby, Joan Aiken, Ambrose Bierce, Ramsey Campbell, Roald Dahl, Arthur Conan Doyle, Stephen King, Richard Matheson and Edgar Allan Poe

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By J. M. Powis Smith

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By Cleanth Brooks, Robert Penn Warren, Francis Parkman, Christopher Sykes, Mark Twain, Peter Quennell, Hanson Baldwin, Rudyard Kipling, James Thurber, Shirley Jackson, Irwin Shaw, O. Henry, John Collier, Guy de Maupassant, Ambrose Bierce, Eudora Welty, Ray Bradbury, Ring Lardner, Isaac Babel, Luigi Pirandello, Stephen Crane, Bret Harte, James Joyce, Frank O'Connor, Антон Павлович Чехов, D. H. Lawrence, James Purdy - undifferentiated, Caroline Gordon, Mary Mc Carthy, Carson McCullers, Honoré de Balzac, Jesse Stuart, Ernest Hemingway, Katherine Mansfield, Sherwood Anderson, Albert Camus, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Franz Kafka, William Sansom, Colette, Saul Bellow, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Truman Capote, Angus Wilson, Isak Dinesen, Joseph Conrad, Dino Buzzati, Marcel Aymé, Thomas Mann, John Cheever and Katherine Anne Porter

By J. M Smith

A Reader for Writers

By Mary Lynch Kennedy, William J. Kennedy, Hadley M. Smith and William J Kennedy

By Otto Penzler, W. B. Seabrook, David A. Riley, Hugh B. Cave, Chet Williamson, Arthur Leo Zagat, Lisa Tuttle, Karen Haber, Michael Marshall Smith, Vivian Meik, Guy de Maupassant, Steve Rasnic Tem, Dale Bailey, Henry Kuttner, Edgar Allan Poe, Yvonne Navarro, Charles Birkin, Geoffrey A. Landis, Graham Masterton, Jack Darcy, H.P. Lovecraft, Robert Bloch, Kevin J. Anderson, Richard Laymon, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Thorp McClusky, Mary A. Turzillo, Mort Castle, Henry S. Whitehead, Peter Berresford Ellis, Thomas Burke, Anthony Boucher, Gahan Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, R. Chetwynd-Hayes, Seabury Quinn, Francis Marion Crawford, Ralston Shields, Harlan Ellison, Robert Silverberg, John H. Knox, Uel Key, Theodore Sturgeon, Day Keene, Kilworth, Garry, Edith Jacobson, Ejler Jacobson, Richard Matheson, Christian Matheson, Michael Swanwick, Manly Wade Wellman, Robert McCammon, Joe R. Lansdale, Robert E. Howard, Scott Edelman, August Derleth, Mark Schorer, Stephen King, Arthur J Burks and Theodore Roscoe

By Steven S. Smith, Jason M. Roberts and Ryan J. Vander Wielen

By Derek Gregory, R. J. Johnston, David M. Smith, Peter Haggett and D. R. Stoddart

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By J. M. Powis Smith

By Margaret Jane Smith

By Isaac Asimov, Charles G. Waugh, Martin H. Greenberg, Ramsey Campbell, Robert Louis Stevenson, Robert Bloch, H.P. Lovecraft, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Sabine Baring-Gould, H. G. Wells, Ron Goulart, Grant Allen, J. T. McIntosh, James McConnell and Arthur C. Clarke

By J. M. Powis Smith

By J. M. Powis Smith

By J. M. Powis Smith

By Isaac Asimov, Martin H. Greenberg, Charles Waugh, Tom Godwin, Roger Zelazny, Alan Dean Foster, Richard Matheson, Fredric Brown, L. Sprague De Camp, Fritz Leiber, Robert Sheckley, Poul Anderson, Arthur C. Clarke, Christopher Anvil, Paul Myron Anthony Linebarger, Brian W. Aldiss, G. Harry Stine, Andre Norton, Gordon R. Dickson, Evan Hunter, William F. Nolan, Eric Frank Russell, Robert F. Young, Katherine MacLean, Joseph Willard Schutz, Anne McCaffrey, Jack Sharkey, Ray Bradbury, Piers Anthony, H. G. Wells, Steven Utley, Howard Waldrop, Rog Phillips, Harlan Ellison, Charles L. Fontenay, Alexei Panshin, H. L. Gold, Raymond E. Banks, James E. Gunn, Fred Saberhagen, Bob Shaw, Richard E. Peck, Theodore Sturgeon, Chad Oliver, George H. Smith, Jerome Bixby, Suzette Haden Elgin, Clifford D. Simak, William Sambrot, Harry Harrison, A. Bertram Chandler, L. J. Stecher Jr. and Theodore Cogswell

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