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Anthony Boucher (1911–1968)

Author of A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 1

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Also wrote under the names Herman W. Mudgett and H. H. Holmes.

Series

Works by Anthony Boucher

A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 1 (1959) — Editor — 338 copies
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction, Volume 2 (1959) — Editor — 316 copies
A Treasury of Great Science Fiction [2-volume set] (1959) — Editor — 292 copies
Rocket to the Morgue (1942) 194 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 5th Series (1956) — Editor; Contributor — 121 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 3rd Series (1954) — Editor; Contributor — 93 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction: 4th Series (1955) — Editor; Contributor — 82 copies
Nine Times Nine (1940) 68 copies
Far and Away (1943) 51 copies
4 Novels (1984) 45 copies
Merry Murder (1994) 40 copies
The Case of the Solid Key (1941) 33 copies
Murder Most Merry (2002) 30 copies
The Best from Fantasy and Science Fiction (1952) — Editor — 29 copies
Four and Twenty Bloodhounds (1950) — Editor; Contributor — 17 copies
Great American Detective Stories (1945) — Editor; Contributor — 12 copies
The Quality of Murder (1962) — Editor — 6 copies
The Pocket Book of True Crime Stories (1943) — Editor — 5 copies
Nellthu 3 copies
Public eye 3 copies
A Magnum of Mysteries (1963) — Editor — 2 copies
Best Detective Stories of the Year (1966) — Editor — 1 copy

Associated Works

Unnatural Creatures (2013) — Contributor — 1,228 copies
The Mugger (1956) — Introduction, some editions — 555 copies
Adventures in Time and Space (1946) — Contributor, some editions — 546 copies
Fifty Short Science Fiction Tales (1963) — Contributor — 455 copies
100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories (1978) — Contributor — 407 copies
Science Fiction Omnibus (1952) — Contributor — 340 copies
The Lost Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1989) — Contributor — 322 copies
Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves (1991) — Contributor — 293 copies
Weird Tales (1988) — Contributor — 271 copies
Masterpieces of Fantasy and Enchantment (1988) — Contributor — 260 copies
The Fantasy Hall of Fame (1998) — Contributor — 192 copies
The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories (1996) — Contributor — 176 copies
9th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1964) — Book reviewer — 160 copies
A Century of Great Suspense Stories (2001) — Contributor — 152 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 3 (1941) (1980) — Contributor — 152 copies
A Decade of Fantasy and Science Fiction (1960) — Contributor — 147 copies
Far Out (1949) — Introduction, some editions — 143 copies
Microcosmic Tales (1944) — Contributor — 143 copies
The Big Book of Sherlock Holmes Stories (2015) — Contributor — 137 copies
A Treasury of Modern Fantasy (1981) — Contributor — 129 copies
New Tales of Space and Time (1951) — Contributor; Introduction, some editions — 127 copies
Analog: The Best of Science Fiction (1982) — Author — 127 copies
6th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1961) — Reviewer — 124 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Month of Mystery (1968) — Contributor — 120 copies
Alfred Hitchcock Presents: My Favorites in Suspense (1959) — Contributor — 118 copies
Other Worlds, Other Gods (1971) — Contributor — 116 copies
8th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1963) — Contributor — 116 copies
The Reminiscences of Solar Pons (1961) — Introduction, some editions — 114 copies
The Worlds of Science Fiction (1963) — Contributor — 112 copies
Spectrum 4 (1965) — Contributor — 112 copies
Haunted America: Star-Spangled Supernatural Stories (1990) — Contributor — 111 copies
Mars, We Love You (1971) — Contributor — 109 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 5 (1943) (1981) — Contributor — 107 copies
Star Science Fiction Stories No. 2 (1953) — Contributor — 102 copies
Science Fiction Terror Tales (1955) — Contributor — 100 copies
The Unknown (1963) — Contributor — 98 copies
American Fantastic Tales: Boxed Set (2009) — Contributor — 92 copies
The Wall Around the World (1962) — Introduction, some editions — 92 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 16 (1954) (1987) — Contributor — 90 copies
7th Annual Edition: The Year's Best S-F (1962) — Book reviewer — 90 copies
Unknown Worlds : Tales from Beyond (1988) — Contributor — 90 copies
The Misadventures of Sherlock Holmes (1989) — Contributor — 89 copies
Invaders of Earth (1953) — Contributor — 89 copies
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 13 (1951) (1985) — Contributor — 81 copies
The Best of All Possible Worlds (1980) — Contributor — 81 copies
The Mammoth Book of Fantasy All-Time Greats (1983) — Contributor — 81 copies
The Dark Side (1965) — Contributor — 80 copies
The Big Book of Female Detectives (2018) — Contributor — 79 copies
14 of My Favorites in Suspense (1959) — Contributor — 77 copies
Lady on the Case: 22 Female Detective Stories (1988) — Contributor — 76 copies
Wolf's Complete Book of Terror (1979) — Contributor — 76 copies
Zombies! Zombies! Zombies! (2011) — Contributor — 73 copies
Demons! (1941) — Contributor — 71 copies
Fifty Best Mysteries (1991) — Contributor — 71 copies
The Spear of Mars (1980) — Contributor — 70 copies
Best SF Four (1961) — Contributor — 65 copies
6 Great Short Novels of Science Fiction (1954) — Contributor — 65 copies
Space Mail II (1982) — Contributor — 64 copies
Demons (2011) — Contributor — 64 copies
Masters of Fantasy (1992) — Contributor — 63 copies
Psychogeist (1966) — some editions — 58 copies
Beyond Human Ken (1952) — Contributor — 55 copies
Murder for Halloween: Tales of Suspense (1994) — Contributor — 53 copies
One Hundred Years of Science Fiction : Book Two (1950) — Author — 52 copies
Space, Time & Crime (1964) — Contributor — 52 copies
The Century's Best Horror Fiction Volume 1 (2011) — Contributor — 51 copies
Alpha 7 (1977) — Contributor — 46 copies
Unknown (1988) — Contributor — 44 copies
Realms of Darkness (1985) — Contributor — 44 copies
Tales for a Rainy Night (1961) — Contributor — 42 copies
The Young Oxford Book of Nasty Endings (1997) — Contributor — 42 copies
The Unexpected (1961) — Contributor — 41 copies
The Shape of Things (1965) — Contributor — 41 copies
Strange Bedfellows (1973) — Contributor — 40 copies
100 Tiny Tales of Terror (1996) — Contributor — 33 copies
Ten Adventures of Father Brown (1961) — Introduction, some editions — 31 copies
Best SF Five (1963) — Contributor — 31 copies
Sense of Wonder: A Century of Science Fiction (2011) — Contributor — 30 copies
Famous Stories of Code and Cipher (1965) — Contributor — 30 copies
Analog Anthology #9: From Mind to Mind (1984) — Contributor — 29 copies
100 Years of Science Fiction (1968) — Contributor — 29 copies
Dark of the Moon: Poems of Fantasy and the Macabre (1947) — Contributor — 26 copies
Shot in the Dark (1950) — Contributor — 24 copies
Murder Most Divine: Ecclesiastical Tales of Unholy Crimes (2000) — Contributor — 24 copies
Golden Age Bibliomysteries (2023) — Contributor — 23 copies
Future Crimes (2021) — Contributor — 22 copies
The Young Oxford Book of Aliens (1998) — Contributor — 20 copies
Shared tomorrows: Science fiction in collaboration (1979) — Contributor — 18 copies
Devil Worshipers (1990) — Contributor — 16 copies
Galaxy Science Fiction 1950 November, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1950) — Contributor — 14 copies
Ellery Queen's Crookbook (1974) — Contributor — 13 copies
Cream of the Crime (1962) — Contributor — 12 copies
The Haunted and the Haunters (1975) — Contributor — 10 copies
The Harlot Killer (1953) 9 copies
Jack the Knife: Tales of Jack the Ripper (1975) — Contributor — 9 copies
Dark Lessons: Crime and Detection on Campus (1984) — Contributor — 8 copies
The Black Cabinet (1989) — Contributor — 7 copies
20 Great Tales of Murder (1951) — Contributor — 6 copies
The Sleeping and the Dead (1963) — Contributor — 5 copies
Astounding Science Fiction 1943 12 (1943) — Contributor — 5 copies
Some Like Them Dead (1960) — Contributor — 5 copies
Holmes' Own Story: Confessed 27 Murders, Lied Then Died (2016) — some editions — 5 copies
Murder Cavalcade (1946) — Contributor — 5 copies
The Unquiet Grave (1964) — Contributor — 4 copies
ULLSTEIN 2000 SF STORIES 20 (1963) — Contributor — 4 copies
The Science-Fictional Sherlock Holmes — Contributor — 3 copies
Best Detective Stories of the Year - 1953 (1953) — Contributor — 3 copies
Planned Departures (1958) — Contributor — 3 copies
150 anni in Giallo (1989) — Contributor — 2 copies
The 87th Precinct: The Cop Hater, The Mugger, The Pusher (1959) — Introduction — 2 copies
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - 1958/08 — Contributor — 1 copy

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The titular Irregulars are serving as advisors on a new Hollywood adaptation of Sherlock Holmes’s work, a movie project that has their hackles up because it’s a hard-boiled story and the screenwriter is an ass with no respect for the source material. Plenty seem to share the negative opinion of the screenwriter: warnings with references to Holmes start coming in, and then, murder! Now the Irregulars test their detective mettle to solve the crime, with or without help from the police. I enjoyed this a great deal; I don’t know everything about Sherlock, probably just the more obvious references presented here, but I did find all of the clues fair when they were explained. Worth reading if you like Holmes or Holmes-adjacent fiction.

This book was recommended to me by a browse on the American Mystery Classics website.
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rabbitprincess | 10 other reviews | Jul 30, 2023 |
This is an essential collection of truly great science fiction from the 1940s and 50s. It includes works by familiar names like Bradbury, Heinlein, Dick, Sturgeon, Kornbluth, Van Vogt (my personal favorite), and others. All of the selections demonstrate why science fiction is such a special genre.
 
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jwhenderson | 5 other reviews | Jun 13, 2023 |
This was one of the free books I acquired when I first joined the SFBC back in 1960 (or so). And, after all these years, it's still one of the best compilations I've ever read. While only one of the stories is mediocre the rest are well in the range of exceptional sociological studies on the human condition. ‘Re-Birth’ by John Wyndham has been published in other collects since then, but is still a concise answer to how/why mankind can hope to survive Armageddon. ‘The Shape of Things That Came’—by Richard Derming--shames us in our failure to appreciate what humanity has accomplished in just a few years. And only ‘The Weapon Shops of Isher’ by van Vogt could end the book by providing a reasonable solution to the Creation Story.

For all of the woe in the world today—and especially taking into account Ray Bradbury’s elegy to the loss of all our fears : ‘Pillar of fire’—this is one “feel-good” collection.
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majackson | 3 other reviews | Apr 16, 2023 |
Well, it’s the usual: old man dies in locked room. Suicide? Murder? Was there a new will? Which of the suspects are not at all who they seem to be?
This is the first book in the Fergus O’Breen series by Boucher, a prolific critic and author.Two well-developed main characters help the rather standard plot move along. Some humor, good dialogue, and a sweet surprise at the end. This is a private detective novel, but certainly not of the hard-boiled kind. It reads much more like a British mystery than an American one.… (more)
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