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Zenna Henderson is best known for her stories of The People, published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction from the early 1950s to the mid-1970s. The People, a group of human-appearing aliens, escaped the destruction of their home world only to be shipwrecked on Earth, where they struggled to hide their extra abilities. These stories were collected into one volume in 1995 when NESFA Press published Ingathering: The Complete People Stories of Zenna Henderson.

During the same period, Henderson published an equal number of non-People stories. Like the stories of The People, they range from comforting to unnerving. Fans of The People will recognize the same underlying belief in the goodness of people and other beings as they struggle for a chance at a better future.

These stories have a common theme -- belief. A girl believes that the hills are lost beasts and leads them home; a boy believes he can fight evil with a pocket piece made from Popsicle sticks; a boy believes he can build a noise-eating machine -- with fatal results.

Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson contains every non-People story, all long out of print. Thirty-three of the stories in this volume are from her collections, The Anything Box and Holding Wonder. The remaining five stories and three poems were previously published in other magazines and anthologies. Welcome to Zenna Henderson's world.

Table of Contents:

• 9 - The Universal Conversation - essay by Sharon Lee
• 13 - Belief in Zenna Henderson - essay by Brother Guy Consolmagn, SJ
• 19 - The Anything Box - (1956) - short story
• 31 - Subcommittee - (1962) - novelette
• 49 - Something Bright - (1960) - short story
• 63 - Hush! - (1953) - short story
• 73 - Food to All Flesh - (1953) - short story
• 81 - Come On, Wagon! - (1951) - short story
• 89 - Walking Aunt Daid - (1955) - short story
• 97 - The Substitute - (1953) - short story
• 109 - The Grunder - (1953) - short story
• 127 - Things - (1960) - short story
• 135 - Turn the Page - (1957) - short story
• 141 - Stevie and the Dark - (1952) - short story
• 151 - And a Little Child... - (1959) - short story
• 167 - The Last Step - (1958) - short story
• 181 - J-Line to Nowhere - (1969) - novelette
• 197 - You Know What, Teacher? - non-genre - (1954) - short story
• 207 - The Effectives - (1965) - short story
• 221 - Loo Ree - (1953) - short story
• 233 - The Closest School - (1960) - short story
• 243 - Three-Cornered and Secure - (1971) - short story
• 257 - The Taste of Aunt Sophronia - (1971) - short story
• 273 - The Believing Child - (1970) - short story
• 285 - Through a Glass--Darkly - (1970) - novelette
• 305 - As Simple as That - (1971) - short story
• 315 - Swept and Garnished - (1971) - short story
• 321 - One of Them - (1971) - short story
• 339 - Sharing Time - (1971) - short story
• 357 - Ad Astra - (1971) - short story
• 367 - Incident After - [The People] - (1971) - short story
• 373 - The Walls - [The People] - (1971) - short story
• 381 - Crowning Glory - (1971) - short story
• 391 - Boona on Scancia - (1971) - short story
• 397 - Love Every Third Stir - (1971) - short story
• 409 - Realize - (1957) - poem
• 409 - Afternoon Rain - (1957) - poem
• 410 - Gray - (1957) - poem
• 411 - Before the Fact - (1955) - short story
• 419 - Thrumthing and Out - (1972) - novelette
• 447 - The First Stroke - (1977) - short story
• 453 - There Was a Garden - (1978) - short story
• 459 - ...Old...As a Garment - (1982) - short story
• 467 - Acknowledgement (Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson) - essay by Patricia Morgan Lang
• 469 - Sources, or First Appearances (Believing: The Other Stories of Zenna Henderson) - essay by uncredited

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