User talk:Mhhutchins

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PREFERENCES FOR NOTIFICATION OF CHANGES TO PRIMARY VERIFIED RECORDS I will no longer be responding to messages posted on this talk page. For urgent matters and other important issues concerning my verified records, I will respond to emails sent through the ISFDB. Click on this link. If you've come here to inform me that you wish to make a submission to add a COVER IMAGE or NOTES to any of my primary verified records, notification is not necessary. Just do it. If you've come here to inform me that you wish to either 1) add a publication series to a primary verified publication record, or 2) add the stated price for Canada or other countries to the publication record, notification is not necessary. Just do it. If you've come here to inform me that you wish to make a submission that would change any major field of a publication record for which I am the only primary verifier, please use the ISFDB email system. Otherwise, contact any other primary verifier or post a message on the Moderator noticeboard. Thanks. MHHutchins

Alfred Hitchcock Presents Stories To Be Read with the Door Locked

I guess you're leaving the site, if so, good luck on your further endeavors. Anyway, I added an image and some notes to this book. Again, good luck. MLB 08:38, 19 July 2016 (UTC)

Question about "The Mysterious Stranger"

In an anthology you verified, The Penguin Book of Vampire Stories, there's a story called "The Mysterious Stranger" which has the date in the database of 1823. Now, the editor of Dracula's Precursors says that this story was "originally published in German in 1823 and translated into English soon after" and Michael Sims, editor of Dracula's Guest, says it was first published in English in 1860. If this is true, then the story should have the date of 1860 in the database (and should be merged with this record). By the way, according to Douglas A. Anderson, this story is a translation of Karl von Wachsmann's "Der Fremde", whose earliest known publication date is 1844, but that doesn't affect the question of its earliest publication in English.

Anyhow, my point is, could you take a look at Vampire Stories and see if it gives any reason to think this story was published in English earlier than 1860? After I collect replies from other verifiers, I'll either merge these records or not. Thanks! --Vasha 18:54, 3 March 2017 (UTC)

Vasha, you should read the note at the top of this page. Mike does not look here anymore. Chavey 23:59, 21 April 2017 (UTC)

2020 Vision (1980 edition)

Changes: Made page numbers consistently be for the introductions to the stories rather than the start of the stories, and added a note about that; capitalization fix and moving external identifiers. --Vasha 12:54, 4 July 2017 (EDT)

Nemonymous Night

A quick note about this submission, which you created on 2019-04-29. The ISBN is already in the database with the same data that the submission would have added. Since the submission has been in the queue for 3 weeks and the data is already on file, I have hard-rejected it. Ahasuerus 14:03, 19 May 2019 (EDT)

The system duplicated my single submission (look at the numbers), and I only accepted one. I didn't think it was necessary to go to the moderator queue to see if there were duplicates. Mhhutchins|talk 13:30, 20 May 2019 (EDT)

I see. Thanks for the explanation. Ahasuerus 13:40, 20 May 2019 (EDT)

Moonstar Odyssey

Re: this book - I have been messaged on Twitter by Diane Duane the creator of the map, thus I have made changes. --Mavmaramis 12:21, 18 June 2019 (EDT)

The Acquaintance by Kealan Patrick Burke

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?1006755 -- can you verify that this is really not a simple short story? Susan O'Fearna 04:31, 25 June 2019 (EDT)

New Worlds 6

Cover artist for this has been identified as Mati Klarwein. --Mavmaramis 12:56, 2 July 2019 (EDT)

Slap-on-the-Wrist Stories

Another quick FYI -- this was a duplicate submission, presumably created by the system behind the scenes. I have changed its status to "Rejected". Ahasuerus 19:59, 7 October 2019 (EDT)

Zelde M'Tana

Cover art for this edition is by Barclay Shaw. Credit here --Mavmaramis 15:16, 30 October 2019 (EDT)

Coraline

Coraline -- I don't know if this needs to be retitled: Coraline The Graphic Novel or Illustrated version, but it definitely needs to be set as a variant as it was adapted by P. Craig Russell and about 15% of the text has been dropped or changed b/c of the illustrations... Susan O'Fearna 12:23, 19 February 2020 (EST)

Why ask me? I didn't merge it with the novel version, nor have I verified it. Please do as you please with it. Mhhutchins|talk 19:12, 19 February 2020 (EST)

Suspected typo

Hello, Michael! I changed the author name to Thomas F. Bertonneau (from Thomas F. Bertonnaeu) here, and hope that it really was a typo. Christian Stonecreek 00:11, 7 May 2020 (EDT)

A War of Shadows

Cover artist of this is Davis Meltzer, his signature is in the middle at the very bottom of the front cover, see this scan. Horzel 17:30, 27 September 2020 (EDT)

Thanks. Record has been updated. Mhhutchins|talk 04:07, 30 September 2020 (EDT)

Hackenfeller's Ape

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/pl.cgi?265980

Seeing that you have verified this publication with Tuck, all the data seems to be in order (price, page no, etc.), except the one im holding in my hand is a paperback, not hardcover. This one [1] --Spacecow 19:06, 11 October 2020 (EDT)

It's a pb according to Tuck. I've corrected the listing. Thanks. Mhhutchins|talk 00:48, 22 October 2020 (EDT)

Thanks. --Spacecow 02:24, 15 December 2020 (EST)

New Worlds 9

Cover art for this is Mike Little. Credired on p.165 of this publication. Almost certainly the same artists responsible for the cover of this as well. --Mavmaramis 08:21, 24 December 2020 (EST)

"Martyr Without Canon" title type + original publishing info change

Hi. This affects your (and Don Erickson's) verified The Year's Best Horror Stories: XVI. I will leave this same note for Don.

I accepted a submission changing Martyr Without Canon from short story to poem and removing the note about original publication in The Horror Show, Winter 1987. The editor's submission stated the note was in error and that the original publication was in Grue #4 (still 1987).

I did a little research and could not find anything definitive, but Homeville/Locus do list it as a poem in that anthology and cite Grue #4 as the original publication, and I found some secondary review references also describing it as a poem. So I decided to go ahead and accept the change. I also replaced the note about the original publication source in the title record.

If you see this, please check if that's correct (and I apologize if it's not) -- we don't have an active primary verifier. Thanks. --MartyD 12:44, 1 January 2021 (EST)

It's a narrative poem, so it could be considered either a story or poem. I'm fine with its entry as a poem. Mhhutchins|talk 19:44, 12 February 2021 (EST)

Immortals of Science Fiction

Cover art for this is credited to Tony Roberts on page 5 of Heroic Dreams --Mavmaramis 11:35, 16 January 2021 (EST)

Ariel: The Book of Fantasy, Volume Three

Hello. Could you check if your copy of this has a UK price £3.95 printed on the bottom right back cover please ? --Mavmaramis 01:32, 9 February 2021 (EST)

Cemetery Dance

I found a 2004 anthology on Fantlab, Quietly Now, which has an interview with Charles L. Grant by Hank Wagner. Cemetery Dance #58, [2], has tributes to Grant by various authors and 1 of them is listed as by Hank Wanger on ISFDB. Is it misspelled inside the magazine, or should it be changed to Wagner? --Username 23:54, 9 February 2021 (EST)