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Post by noose on Jul 14, 2010 14:10:57 GMT
After 2 years of working with John and continuing on from his list of novels, I think this list of short stories might be as complete as it gets but John says there may be a few more that he half remembers but can't find at the moment. Most of the horror stories were reprinted in John's collection We've Been Waiting For You (ATP 2000) and the dates of original publication only for the collected tales can also be found there.
SCIENCE FICTION
Chessboard - New Worlds - Jan'53 Time to go Home - Science Fantasy 6 - Spring '53 Golden Slumbers - New Worlds - March '53 Cancel Tomorrow - Authentic Science Fiction 34 - June '53 The Loneliest World - Authentic Science Fiction 36 - Aug '53 Old Man of the Stars - Authentic Science Fiction 38 - Oct '53 For You, The Possessed - Authentic Science Fiction 40 - Dec '53 The Censors - Authentic Science Fiction 41 - Jan '54 Stand-In - Authentic Science Fiction 43 - March '54 Detective Story - Science Fantasy 7 - March '54 The Gamble - New Worlds 23 - May '54 Once Upon a Time - Science Fantasy 8 - May '54 Asteroid Crusoe - Authentic Science Fiction 49 - Sept '54 The Perfect Secretary - New Words 27 - Sept '54 Free Treatment - British Science Fiction Mag 8 - Dec '54 Personal Call - Authentic Science Fiction 56 - Apr '55 An Apple for the Teacher - Nebula 12 - Apr '55 The Adjusters - Science Fantasy 13 - Apr '55 Desirable Residence - Authentic Science Fiction 58 - June '55 Let There be Rain - Authentic Science Fiction 60 - Aug 55 Private Satellite (2 part serial) - Authentic Science Fiction 61 - 62 - Sept - Oct '55 Job Analysis - Authentic Science Fiction 64 - Dec '55 The Eve of Waterloo - Authentic Science Fiction 69 - May '56 Fashion Me a Dream - Authentic Science Fiction 76 - Jan '57 The Rescuants - Authentic Science Fiction 77 - Feb '57 Peter Preserved - Science Fantasy 24 - Aug '57 Colour Bar - Nebula 27 - Feb '58 The New Folks at Home - Science Fantasy 30 - Aug '58 When I come Back - New Worlds 137 - Dec '63
HORROR STORIES
The Lost Child - Magpie (pbk) - Nov 1952. (Reprinted in van Thal's Lie Ten Nights Awake '67 and Young Oxford Book of Nightmares '00) A Game of Consequence - Shell Magazine - Dec 1960 Party Games - 6th Pan Book of Horror - Dec '65. (Reprinted in Hitchcock: Stories that Scared Even Me Hbk and Pb '67 and TV play on BBC 2 c.'65/'66) Don't You Dare - Splinters (hbk) - 1968 - (reprinted in 65 Great Tales of the Supernatural '79 and Great Vampires and Other Horrors '92.) A Comedy of Terrors - 9th Pan Book of Horror Stories - 1968 Miss Mouse and Mrs Mouse - Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine - Nov '68 (also TV play in LWT's Tales of Unease) Casualty - 6th Ghost Book - '69 - pbk in '72 Be Our Guest - More Tales of Unease - '69 The Tourists - Tandem Horror 3 - '69 Flitting Tennant - 7th Ghost Book - hbk in '71 and pbk in '73 The Loiterers - 8th Ghost Book - hbk in '72 and pbk in '74 False Harmonic - 9th Ghost Book - hbk in '73 and pbk in '75 Leave of Absence - 10th Ghost Book - '74 The Custodian - 11th Ghost Book - '75 And Cannot Come Again - New Tales of Unease - '76 Lucille Would Have Known - New Terrors - '80 (also in New Terrors 2 as published by Pocket Books in '84) One Day You'll Learn - Darklands 2 - '92 (reprinted by NEL in '94) The Right Ending - Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 9 - '98 A Habit of Hating - New Terrors 6 - 2002 The Devil's Tritone - Mammoth Book of Vampires - 2004 The Bite of the Tawse - Don't Put Out the Light - 2005 Acute Rehab - Back From the Dead - 2010 The Stare - Back From the Dead - 2010 Corrected Proofs - Brighton Shock WHC 2010 - 2010
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Post by jamesdoig on Jul 14, 2010 21:53:40 GMT
I've got this sf novel by him in the Australian Horwitz edition. Jonathan Burke on the cover, but John Burke on the inside! Space ships I'm afraid.
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Post by noose on Jul 14, 2010 21:59:05 GMT
Other Short Stories
(as John.F Burke)
Jam - Holt School Magazine - March '35 The Island - Seven Magazine - April 1944 Welcome Home - The Convoy File - 1945
(As J.F Burke)
Poor Cora - Magpie - '51 The Camber Tram - Sussex County Magazine - '52 The Silver Lining - A Symposium on Sex and Sadism in Current SF - '53 Here Comes a Train - Everbody's - '54 Fine Feathers - Home Chat - Aug '56 The Calculated Nightmare - Edgar Wallace Mystery Magazine - Sept '66 (reprinted in John Creasey's Mystery Bedside Book in '67)
The Doomed Conspirator, The Synagogue of Satan, The Heart Offerers, Two Views of the Scaffold, The Ruthless Pursuit, Tapu and The Killers in the Signal Box - 50 True Tales of Terror - '72
(As Jonathan George)
The Provoker - Winter Crimes 2 - '70
(As Harriet Esmond)
Starlight Tower - Womans Weekly - '80 The Echoing Village - Womans Weekly - '81
(Unattributed)
The Phantom of Copenhagen - The Wizard - '55
(As J Burke)
A Novel Railway in Sussex - Meccano Magazine - '35
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Post by helrunar on May 15, 2021 12:07:30 GMT
I read "Don't you dare" in the 1968 anthology Splinters, edited by Alex Hamilton, a few days ago on my commute. "Don't you dare" could be described as a revisiting of the main theme of Poe's story "Ligeia" with elements of du Maurier's Rebecca, but feels fresh because of how Burke composes his tale.
The ending, while it came more or less out of left field, had a logic that wasn't present for the similar ending of Anthony Burgess's little tale "An American Organ." I suppose the point of the latter story was to let the reader feel what it would be like to live as a psychotic with an obsession for classical music and organs. Fun while it lasts and then it comes to what could only be described as a dead end.
I thought Burke's contribution was a bright spot in an otherwise rather dull anthology. Would like to read more of Burke's short stories.
H.
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