Most were collections of folk tales, legends and creation stories gathered during research trips.
Staying with short fiction, Bernard Ashley's The Way It Is (Troika, £6.99) collects four earlier Ashley stories, gathered together for the first time.
On the one hand, there are the Bascombe books and the short stories gathered in "Men Without Women" and "A Multitude of Sins".
These stories, gathered from Trevor's last four collections, are frequently melancholy, concerned with loss and disappointment, but warmed with radiant moments of grace or acceptance.
Drawing on the 640 stories gathered together in eight volumes by Alexander Afanasyev between 1855 and 1867, he retold Russian folk tales in two books.
The piece is a puppet mash-up of Dante's "Inferno" and real-life subway stories gathered by Ms. Healey and a half-dozen student volunteers at Queens College, where she is an assistant professor of costume and scenic design.
Schönwerth's tales have a compositional fierceness and energy rarely seen in stories gathered by the Brothers Grimm or Charles Perrault, collectors who gave us relatively tame versions of "Little Red Riding Hood," "Snow White," "Cinderella," and "Rapunzel".
But the magazine is less a how-to guide than a collection of stories gathered by hackers on their adventures on and offline, reflecting the bulletin-board systems (B.B.S.s) that inspired Goldstein to start the magazine in the early eighties.
All but one of the 13 stories gathered here appeared in earlier collections, now available in paperback: "Mosby's Memoirs" (1968), "Him With His Foot in His Mouth" (1984) and "Something to Remember Me By" (1991).
A 30-minute radio programme titled 'Majboor Kisko Bola' (Who are you calling helpless?) is then produced in our New Delhi office, containing drama based on the stories gathered, along with expert interviews and folk music.
But in the 11 stories gathered here (set mostly in Beattie's own home territories, coastal Maine and Key West), there's an increasing tendency for things -- sometimes bizarre things -- to actually happen.
