The author of sixty-two books, more than forty of them published commercially, Ardath Mayhar (1930-2012) began her career in the early 1980s with science fiction novels from Doubleday and TSR. Atheneum published several of her young adult and children’s novels. Changing focus, she wrote westerns (as Frank Cannon) and mountain man novels (as John Killdeer), four prehistoric Indian books under her own name, and historical western High Mountain Winter under the byline Frances Hurst.<P> This collection – which features 27 fantasy & science fiction stories – was originally published in paperback as «The Methodist Bobcat and Other Tales.» Included are:<P> THE METHODIST BOBCAT<BR> THE LYCH ROAD<BR> THE VEAULES<BR> MAY BANKED FIRES RISE ANEW<BR> THE GUARDIANS OF THE SHRINE<BR> ARPEGGIA'S DEATHSONG<BR> THE PLACE OF THE ANCIENTS<BR> OLD MAN, BAD SCENE<BR> THE SWAMP RUNNER<BR> FATE HAS THREE FACES<BR> MINDBEND<BR> IN THE LONE GRAY<BR> THE DAY OF THE DRUM<BR> DEEP WOODS LADY<BR> WELCOME TO SHIARA<BR> THE LAST PAS SEUL<BR> MY FRIEND EDDY<BR> THE FACE IN THE FOG<BR> NORTHER<BR> PER CASTANEA<BR> THE BLUE-FIRED COW-KILLING CRAZIES<BR> PURSUIT<BR> LALIQUE<BR> THIS IS THE NIGHT!<BR> STONE CIRCLES<BR> CONFLICT<BR> NIGHT SONG<P> If you enjoy this ebook, don't forget to search your favorite ebook store for «Wildside Press Megapack» to see more of the 300+ volumes in this series, covering adventure, historical fiction, mysteries, westerns, ghost stories, science fiction – and much, much more!