Trojan Horses
Short Stories by Andrew Vachss
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Some of the stories listed below have been collected in Everybody Pays, (Vintage, 1999), or Born Bad, (Vintage, 1994). Many of the stories from Born Bad have also been adapted in the Hard Looks graphic novels and other prose anthologies. Note: this is not a complete listing. |
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Short Stories are listed in alphabetical order.
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A Flash of White
Crossroads Press (chapbook), 1993, contains original short story plus graphic adaptation (adapted by Rose Dawn Scott, art by David Lloyd).
Graphic adaptation reprinted in Hard Looks (see Graphic Novels).
Short story reprinted in The Orion Book of Murder (Orion), 1996.
A Piece of The City
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, February 2003.
Alibi
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April 1995
Anytime I Want *
Invitation to Murder (Dark Harvest), 1991
Big Sister
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, July 1999
reprinted in Crème de la Crime -
Winners of the World's Top Mystery Awards (Carroll and Graf, 2000)
Blood Test
Playboy, December 2001
Born Bad
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, June 1992
reprinted in The Deadliest Games (Carroll & Graf), 1993
Cain
The New Mystery, (Dutton) 1993
reprinted in The Killing Spirit (Overlook Press), 1996
Cough
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, August 1989
reprinted in Kingpins (Carroll & Graf), 1992
Cripple
Hardboiled Detective #10, 1990
reprinted in Gauntlet #2, 1991, and in
Tense Moments #5, 1992
Date Rape *
Drive By *
Crossroads Press (chapbook), 1993.
Contains original short story plus graphic adaptation (adapted by Joe R. Lansdale, art by Gary Gianni)
Graphic adaptation reprinted in Hard Looks (see Graphic Novels)
Dumping Ground
A Matter of Crime 186, 1988
Escort Service *
Carpe Noctem, 1999
Exit
New Crimes (Robinson Publishing, U.K.), 1989
reprinted in Dark Crimes (Carroll & Graf), 1991,
813, les amis de la litterature policire (France), December 1990, and
Hayakawa's Mystery Magazine #423, 1991
Family Resemblance
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, January 1990
Fireman *
Borders.com (1999)
Goin' Down Slow
Esquire (June, 1999)
Going Home *
Good for the Soul
Hitman
Homeless
Unusual Suspects, Vintage, 1996
reprinted in Frontier, Spring 1995
Hostage
New Crimes #2 (Robinson Publishing, U.K.), 1990
reprinted in Hayakawa's Mystery Magazine #423, 1991,
and Playboy (Germany), April 1996
It's a Hard World *
A Matter of Crime Vol. 1 (HBJ), 1987.
reprinted in Hard-Boiled (Oxford University Press), 1995,
.38 Special (Ullstein Krimi), 1988,
Mysteries 90 (Librairie des Champs Elysees), 1990,
Cemetery Dance, Summer 1991,
Hayakawa's Mystery Magazine #423, 1991,
Detective Stories (Kingfisher), 1998, and
Mean Streets (KCRW Broadcast and Audio CD), 2005
Joyride
Cemetery Dance #7, Winter 1991
reprinted in Hardboiled #13, 1992
Just The Ticket
Cups Magazine (1999)
Last Date *
Lynch Law *
Cold Blood (Ziesing), 1991
Mad Dog
The Armchair Detective, Winter 1990
reprinted in The Scream Factory #11, Spring 1993
Mission *
Hardboiled (1999)
Perp Walk
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, December 1996
Anthology: The Cutting Edge (Carroll & Graf, 1998)
Piecework
Placebo *
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, March 1989
reprinted in Great Tales of Madness & the Macabre (Galahad Books), 1990,
Mysteries 91 (Librairie des Champs Ellyses), 1991,
Mean Streets #2 (Australia), February 1991,
Dark Horse Presents 5th Anniversary Special (graphic novel, Dark Horse),
1991,
Cemetery Dance, Fall 1991
Blood, Threat and Fears (Barnes and Noble Books, 1993)
Plan B *
Proving It *
Amazon.com (1999)
Reaching Back
Safe House CD
reprinted in Enigmatic Tales (U.K.) Summer, 1999
Searcher *
Outside (December, 1998)
Seeding the Ground
Year of The Lizard (Black Lizard Special), 2003
Slow Motion *
Frightnet.com (1999)
Stepping Stone
Stunt Man
Summer Girl *
Tag
Bare Bones Magazine (1999)
The Promise
A Matter of Crime 189, 1988
The Real Thing *
The Crow: Shattered Lives & Broken Dreams (Del Ray), 1998
The Real World *
BarnesandNoble.com (1999)
They're All Alike
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, September/October 2001
Time Share
Treatment *
Dark at Heart (Dark Harvest), 1992
reprinted in Hardboiled (Allen & Uniwn, Australia), 1992,
Das Grosse Horror-Lesebuch II (Goldmann, Germany), 1993
True Colors *
Blue Murder Magazine #7
Unwritten Law
Ten Tales (Cahill Press), 1993
Value Received
10 Hardboiled 49, 1989
White Alligator *
Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, April, 1990
reprinted in The Year's Finest Crime & Mystery Stories (Carroll & Graf), 1992,
and in Diplopie #1 (France), 1992
Witch Hunt *
Borderlands 3, 1993
Word Play
Working Roots *
The Underground series:
Bum's Rush
Tunnel of Love
Bad Babies
Into the Light
appearing in Born Bad
Charmed Life
Curtains
Gamblers
Safe Sex (Cyber-Psychos AOD, Summer, 1999)
The Writing on the Wall
appearing in Everybody Pays
The Cross series:
Bandit
Cripple
Crossfire
Head Case
Kidnap
Mad Dog
Statute of Limitations
Stone Magic * (Narrow Houses, Little, Brown, U.K., 1992)
Value Received
appearing in Born Bad
Harvest Time
Pigeon Drop (Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, September, 1999)
The Concrete Puppy
Two-Way Radio (Das Magazin, Switzerland, 1996)
Everybody Pays (novella)
appearing in Everybody Pays
