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  • Publication: Pandemonium: Lost SoulsPublication Record # 397765
  • Editors: Anne C. Perry, Jared Shurin
  • Date: 2012-08-01
  • ISBN: 978-0-9570392-8-5 [0-9570392-8-X]
  • Publisher: Jurassic London
  • Price:
    £14.99?£: UK pound
  • Pages: 276
  • Format:
    hc?Hardcover. Used for all hardbacks of any size.
  • Type: ANTHOLOGY
  • Notes:
    • First Edition.
    • A limited edition of 100 copies.
    • Publish date from Amazon.com
    • From the copyright page: "First published 2012 by Jurassic London".
    • This edition issued without a dust jacket.
    • The printed page number stops at page 276 but there is a final quotation by O.Henry on page 277 which is unnumbered.
    • Only speculative stories have been listed in the contents here.
    • The non-speculative stories in this volume are as follows:
      • 17 • An Experiment in Misery • short story by Stephen Crane [Significantly revised version of an 1894 story; this version was first published in in The Open Boat and Other Stories (1898).] Two days in the life of a man who has become destitute and must find lodgings in a flophouse.
      • 29 • Quality • short story by John Galsworthy [First published in Scribner's, March 1912.] The narrator always orders boots from the Gessler brothers who makes the very best. The brothers grow old and one of them dies. The narrator orders another pair from the elderly Mr. Gessler, and picks them up, finding them splendid, but is shocked to hear just a week later that Gessler died -- he is told that Gessler had such a single-minded devotion to making shoes that he didn't advertise, didn't make money, hardly slept, and starved to death over that final pair.
      • 37 • Amanda Todd • short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman [From The People of Our Neighborhood (Philadelphia: Curtis Publishing, 1898).] A lonely woman lives in isolation with many cats. She tries to adopt a girl from an orphanage, but is refused when the board learns that she expects the girl to shun society as much as she does. She is left wondering who will take care of her cats after she dies.
      • 45 • The Professor • short story by Calista Halsey Patchin [First published in the Midland Monthly, November 1894.] People attending the auction of a dead professor's belongings reflect on his life.
      • 61 • P'r'aps • short story by Charles Bayly, Jr. [First published in The Best College Short Stories: 1917-18, edited by Henry T. Schnittkind, Ph.D. (The Stratford Company, 1919).] The narrator is a factory manager; his attention is drawn to one of the employees who works fanatically hard. It turns out the man needs the pay (he is paid by the piece) because his wife is sick. This man can't get out of the pit that poverty and working conditions have dug for him.
      • 103 • The Outcasts of Poker Flat • short story by Bret Harte [First published in the Overland Monthly, January 1859.] The town of Poker Flat banishes its unwanted citizens: a gambler, a thief, and two prostitutes. After the thief absconds with the horses, the others take shelter in a cabin along with two newlyweds they've encountered, and try to survive a snowstorm.
      • 115 • Miranda Higgins • short story by William Atwell Cheney [First published in Short Stories by California Authors (San Francisco: Golden Era Company, 1885).] A story of California life, in the mode of Bret Harte.
      • 123 • Christopherson • short story by George Gissing [First published in the Illustrated London News, 20 September 1902.] Christopherson is a book enthusiast; he buys them without reading them, while his wife drudges in a shop. But when Mrs. Christopherson falls ill, her husband sells his books and changes his life.
      • 137 • Emperor Norton • juvenile • short story by May Wentworth [From Fairy Tales from Gold Lands (A. Roman & Company, 1868).] Fictionalized account of a famous real-life San Francisco eccentric.
      • 167 • A Butterfly in the Fog • short story by Latrobe Carroll [First published in The Best College Short Stories: 1917-18, edited by Henry T. Schnittkind, Ph.D. (The Stratford Company, 1919)] Phebe intends to marry Graham. When he volunteers for the army, she can't understand why he wants to risk his life and tries desperately to first persuade, then trick him into staying behind.
      • 179 • Marooned • short story by Robert W. Chambers [A chapter from Barbarians (D. Appleton & Co., 1917).] Soldiers stationed at a remote mountain outpost suffer from isolation and boredom, ultimately leading to one of them's mental breakdown.
      • 193 • Hepaticas • short story by Anne Douglas Sedgwick [First published in the Atlantic Monthly, August 1915.] A woman lives in a lovely country house with her son; she considers it idyllic. He goes away to war, during which time he gets entangled with a dancer and marries her. The girl comes to live with the mother who is appalled by her frivolity and thinks the marriage will be a disaster. She is therefore almost relieved to hear her son has been killed, feeling this preserves him in innocence.
      • 213 • The Prisoners • short story by John Reynolds [Abridged by Osgood Vance from A Kansas Hell; or, Life in the Kansas Penitentiary (1889).] A memoir by a prisoner.
      • 255 • The Parrot • short story by Mary Wilkins Freeman [First published in Harper's, September 1900.] Martha is a New England spinster whose greatest companion is a parrot; she debates with herself whether the bird has a soul, although such an idea is against her religious upbringing. She takes the parrot's apparent understanding and empathy with her feelings as signs of a soul. She particularly needs empathy when she is first courted, then abandoned without a word by a minister.
      • 265 • A Double-Dyed Deceiver • short story by O. Henry [First published in Everybody's Magazine, December 1905.] A man impersonates a lost heir meaning to make a getaway with cash but decides he wants to stay.
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Anthology Title: Pandemonium: Lost Souls • [Pandemonium] • anthology by Anne C. Perry and Jared Shurin

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