by Marvin Kaye
TERRY MCGARRY works for The New Yorker, has written dark fantasy tales such as “Cadenza,” “Loophole” and “Red Heart,” and was a 1992 runner-up for the Gryphon Award. Another Sherlock Holmes story that she “edited” is “Victor Lynch the Forger” in The Resurrected Holmes.
EDWARD D. HOCH, a former president of the Mystery Writers of America, is one of the most prolific writers in the history of mystery fiction. His bibliography numbers more short stories than Ed can remember; the current tally is somewhere over eight hundred. He “edited” “The Manor House Case” for The Resurrected Holmes.
CAROLE BUGGÉ has “edited” several nigh-perfect Sherlock Holmes pastiches for St. Martin’s Press, which soon will publish her first Holmesian novel, The Star of India. She wears many hats: improvisational comedy teacher and performer, playwright-composer, poet, writing instructor. She has written several excellent fantasy stories and two earlier Holmes short stories, “The Case of the Tongue-Tied Tenor” (in The Game Is Afoot) and “The Madness of Colonel Warburton” (in The Resurrected Holmes).
CRAIG SHAW GARDNER writes both horror and slapstick fantasy, notably a series of Arabian Nights spoofs and the hilarious Ebenezum sorcery novels. His earlier Sherlock Holmes forays include “The Politician, the Lighthouse and the Trained Cormorant” (in The Resurrected Holmes) and “The Sinister Cheesecake” (in The Game Is Afoot).
ALINE MYETTE-VOLSKY is a resident of Fanwood, New Jersey, and mother of the esteemed fantasy novelist Paula Volsky. Her genteel horror story “The Bear Garden” appears in Marvin Kaye’s GuildAmerica anthology Don’t Open This Book.
PATRICK LOBRUTTO is cofounder of the Foundation science-fiction imprint, and is now an editorial director at Bantam Doubleday Dell. He is the recipient of the coveted Best Editor Award at the World Fantasy Convention. His comic stories “Vision Quest” and “Genesis for Dummies” appear, respectively, in the GuildAmerica anthologies Masterpieces of Terror and the Unknown and Don’t Open This Book.
P. C. HODGELL has written several well-regarded fantasy novels, including Godstalk, Dark of the Moon, and Seeker’s Mask, as well as a collection of short fiction, Blood and Ivory. She is currently working on a fantasy sequel to Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe. A teacher at the University of Wisconsin, she lives in a wind-swept mansion with her mother, three cats and 1,600 balls of yarn, “because I’m an art knitter.”
ROBERTA ROGOW is a New Jersey children’s librarian who contributes to science-fantasy periodicals, the Merovingen Nights anthologies and three collections of new Sherlock Holmes tales published by St. Martin’s Press, which is also slated to publish her first mystery novel. Paragon published her study Futurespeak: A Fan’s Guide to the Language of Science Fiction.
SHARIANN LEWITT is usually a hard-science-fiction writer with eight books to her credit, the most recent being Interface Masque from Tor. She is originally from New York, studied in France before completing graduate work at Yale, and then spent two years working with a group of Saudis. When not on the road she lives in Washington, D.C., in a mixed human-avian flock.
JAY SHECKLEY has worked as a newspaper editor, mistletoe distributor, writing instructor, hot-tub (women only) hypnotherapist, book publicist, artist and designer of humorous bumper stickers (“Gefilte” and forty other fish), was top earner at the 1992 San Francisco AIDS Dance-A-Thon and is co-owner of the Dark Carnival Bookstore in Berkeley, California. Her work has appeared in Gallery, Heavy Metal, National Lampoon, Night Cry, Pulpsmith, Twilight Zone, Weird Tales and the anthologies Devils and Demons, Don’t Open This Book, Fantasy and Terror and Total Abandon.
Acknowledgments
“The Darlington Substitution Scandal” copyright © 1998 by Henry Slesar. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Adventure of the Old Russian Woman” copyright © 1998 by H. Paul Jeffers. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Adventure of the Noble Husband” copyright © 1998 by Peter Cannon. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Case of the Woman in the Cellar” copyright © 1998 by Pat Mullen. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Adventure of the Boulevard Assassin” copyright © 1998 by Kathleen Brady. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Case of the Ancient British Barrow” copyright © 1998 by Terry McGarry. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Adventure of the Dying Ship” copyright © 1998 by Edward D. Hoch. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Revenge of the Fenian Brotherhood” copyright © 1998 by Carole Buggé. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Affair of the Counterfeit Countess” copyright © 1998 by Craig Shaw Gardner. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Woman” copyright © 1998 by Aline Myette-Volsky. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Little Problem of the Grosvenor Square Furniture Van” copyright © 1998 by Patrick LoBrutto. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“A Ballad of the White Plague” copyright © 1998 by P. C. Hodgell. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Adventure of Vanderbilt and the Yeggman” copyright © 1998 by Roberta Rogow. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Secret Marriage of Sherlock Holmes” copyright © 1998 by Shariann Lewitt. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
“The Case of Vittoria the Circus Belle” copyright © 1998 by Jay Sheckley. All rights reserved. Printed by special arrangement with the author.
